CZECH AVANT-GARDE. 11. Celostatni Spartakiada. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout with photomontage. Small oblong 8vo., bound in original wrappers with photomontage illustration. Prague: 1960.
A handsome pamphlet promoting the second Spartakiad, used by the regime as a tool of massive propaganda and were thus attended by large numbers of people. At the 1960.....
Item nr. 143456
Price: $375.00
AUTOMOBILES. Chevrolet for 54. America's first choice car. [Dealer's showroom sample catalogue]. Two parts in one volume. 101, [1] pp. many of them large double-page fold-outs, some with mylar overlays. Over 200 colour illustrations, colour plates (some folding), text illustrations, diagrams, several mylar overlays, 1 paper-engineered illustration with shifter for.....
Item nr. 155565
Price: $1,500.00
TESTI, Carlo Vittorio. 1° Mostra Nazionale delle Bonifiche. 109 pp. Illustrated throughout. 8vo., bound in original illustrated wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. Rome: Ministero dell'agricoltura e delle foreste, 1932.
A scarce Italian fascist photobook, which combines typical agricultural propaganda for the regime together with a surprising sense of design.....
Item nr. 167106
Price: $1,500.00
SCHUITEMA, Paul. 25 Jaar Oorlog aan den Oorlog. With contributions by L.J. Bot, A. de Jong, and Arthur Müller Lehning. Illustrated throughout with photographs and political cartoons. Folio, bound in publisher's typographically designed wrappers. The Hague: Internationale Antimilitaristische Vereeniging, 1929.
This is a special number of "De Wapens Neder", a Dutch.....
Item nr. 149756
Price: $575.00
[SEJIRO, Miyake]. 4th Kimono Obi Belt Design Competition...volume 6 Kyoto Meiji 40 1907. 106 original gouache designs mounted back to back ranging in size from 330 x 275 to 475 x 320 mm. Folio, 535 x 385 mm, bound in a contemporary light blue Japanese block book cloth binding with.....
Item nr. 164052
Price: $15,000.00
BETTI, Giovanni Battista. A' Dilettanti delle Bell'Arti. Contents includes illustrated engraved title and 24 engraved plates. Oblong folio, 220 x 300 mm, bound in contemporary paste-paper wrappers. Florence: 1779.
First Edition of Betti's imaginative illustrated alphabet-book, containing 24 full-page oblong plates of richly ornamented capital letters, each letter standing in a......
Item nr. 165360
Price: $12,500.00
BRUNHOFF, Jean de. A.B.C. de Babar. [48] pp. Illustrated throughout in colour. 8vo., 210 x 162 mm, bound in original publisher's decorated boards, decorated endpapers, in a new yellow cloth folding box. Paris: Editions du Jardin des Modes, 1934.
First Edition. A number of Babar's friends may be seen herein among.....
Item nr. 145089
Price: $2,500.00
MITCHELL, Samuel Augustus. Accompaniment to Mitchell's New Map of Texas, Oregon, and California, with the Regions Adjoining. 46 pp. text, with hand coloured lithographic folding map, 580 x 530 mm. 16mo., bound in original publisher's blind stamped morocco gilt. Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1846.
An unusually fine copy of this important.....
Item nr. 164625
Price: $9,500.00
AUTOMOBILES. ACME Production Colors. WITH Rogers Automotive Color Mixing. 2 volumes. Thick 4to., 270 x 210 mm, bound in original embossed black and maroon expandable binders, respectively, with company logos. Detroit: Acme White Lead & Color Works, 1939-48.
First Edition of two scarce automotive colour sample books recording automobile colours in.....
Item nr. 159494
Price: $3,500.00
MANSFIELD, Comins. Adventures in Composition: The Art of the Two-Move Chess Problem. Edited by Alain White. xiii, 216pp. 8vo., 247 x 170 mm, bound in recent red half morocco, black leather spine label gilt. Stamford, CT: Overbrook Press, 1948.
From a total edition of four hundred copies printed in Centaur and.....
Item nr. 154152
Price: $375.00
JAPANESE COMMERCIAL DESIGN. A Collection of approximately 200 labels for food and drink products. Various sizes, mounted in an album. Small folio, 305 x 225mm, bound in pale blue wrappers in a recent brown chitsu case. NP. ND. [Japan, 1930's].
An eclectic collection of Japanese food and drink labels from the.....
Item nr. 159825
Price: $1,500.00
AVIATION. Aeroplanes d'Artois. Monoplans, Aero-Torpilles, Aero-Marins. One large fold-out plate with 6 photographs of planes. Small 4to., 165 x 190 mm, bound in publisher's gray printed wrappers with a tipped on photograph in a new blue cloth folding box. Paris: Emile Dubonnet, 1910.
$1250.00
A promotional brochure for the d'Artois aviation company.....
Item nr. 145056
Price: $1,250.00
SCHENK, Petrus. Afbeeldinge der voornaamste Gebouwen van Amsterdam. Contents include: title-page, index and 100 fine engraved views with captions in Latin and Dutch. Small oblong folio, 210 x 265 mm, bound in contemporary full English calf with red morocco spine label. Amsterdam: 1700.
A rare complete copy of this engraved survey.....
Item nr. 164542
Price: $12,500.00
KORNERUP, Andreas. AIMS Advanced Ink Mixing System. 16 pp. of text. Illustrated with 132 plates. 4to., bound in publisher's boards. Copenhagen: Danish Paint and Ink Laboratory, 1968.
A spectacular work published to demonstrate AIMS, a system in which colours are arranged in accordance with modern colorimetric principles.
Kuehni and Schwartz, pp. 273-274.....
Item nr. 147193
Price: $750.00
KORNERUP, Andreas. AIMS: Advanced Ink Mixing System. 16 pp. of text. Illustrated with 132 plates and cut-out overlays, isolating colours in the spectra. 4to., 298 x 210 mm, bound in publisher's cream-coloured plastic-covered printed boards. Copenhagen: The Danish Paint and Ink Research Laboratory, 1968.
Only Edition of this colour atlas. Kornerup.....
Item nr. 159903
Price: $495.00
MAZING, B and N.P.AKIMOVA. Akter Germanskogo Kino. 50 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Original illustrated wrappers. Leningrad: Academia, 1926.
An early Russian work on German film with a dramatic contructivist cover. A fine copy of this fragile pamphlet. Very rare. OCLC lists only 2 copies, in the British Library and Berlin...
Item nr. 145634
Price: $495.00
KIMONO DESIGNS. Album of hand-painted Japanese Kimono Designs. Comprising 100 leaves with more than 500 hand-painted samples of patterns for Japanese kimonos, most of them pasted in. A few are painted on cloth. Oblong folio, 410 x 310 mm, bound in original printed wrapppers, preserved in a new blue cloth.....
Item nr. 164751
Price: $5,850.00
SUNQUA. Album of Ornithological Paintings. 12 watercolours on pith paper, 345 x 215 mm surrounded by blue silk borders and mounted in an album bound in nineteenth-century Chinese silk. [Canton?]: [ca.1850].
A decorative hand-painted suite of ornithological watercolours by Sunqua - with all but one of the watercolours signed by the.....
Item nr. 148769
Price: $22,500.00
CHINESE EXPORT GOUACHES. Album of Seventeen Chinese Gouaches on pith paper. Illustrated with 17 gouaches on pith paper ranging in size from 145 x 244 mm to 174 x 300 mm, each with tissue guard and ornamental gold foil border, mounted on thick paper stock. Oblong folio, 260 x 355.....
Item nr. 146488
Price: $50,000.00
KATAGAMI STENCIL DESIGNS. A Collection of Meiji Period Original Kimono Stencil Plates. With 20 stencil plates. Stencil paper was constructed from the bark of mulberry trees then treated with persimmon juice; the sheets measure ca. 220 x 400 mm and the largest measuring 350 x 450 mm. Each in individual.....
Item nr. 168446
Price: $7,500.00
MIRÓ, Joan. Almario. By José-Miguel Ullán. Illustrated with 5 drypoints and an etching with aquatint printed in colours. Folio, loose as issued in the original wrappers and cloth slipcase. Paris: R.L.D. [Robert Lydie Dutrou], 1985.
An imaginative piece of book-making. Printed on beautiful Auvergne paper, this represents one of the rare.....
Item nr. 129079
Price: $9,750.00
MARCHAND, D. Alphabet 41 Militaire. 8 leaves folded accordion style. Colour-printed illustrations. 12mo., bound in light blue wrappers, title and decorations in gilt. Paris: R. De Saintonge,(1835).
Primer of the alphabet with a military theme. Colour-printed illustrations in red, blue and gilt depicting military images such as fanfare, Hussars, infantry, new.....
Item nr. 88652
Price: $375.00
McMAHON, Bernard. The American Gardener's Calendar. Adapted to the Climates and Seasons of the United States. Containing a Complete Account of All the Work Necessary to Be Done in the Kitch-Garden, Fruit-Garden, Orchard, Vineyard, Nursery, etc. [1], 648 pp. plus folding table and [18] pp. index. 8vo., bound in contemporary.....
Item nr. 142664
Price: $2,750.00
BONAPARTE, Charles Lucien. American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of Birds Inhabiting the United States, not given by Wilson. Four volumes . Illustrated with 27 hand- coloured engraved plates after T.R. Peale, A. Rider, and J.J. Audubon (one figure of plate 4) by A. Lawson, all hand-coloured by Rider. Folio.....
Item nr. 162271
Price: $9,750.00
MENDELSOHN, Erich. Amerika. Bilderbuch eines Architekten. Illustrated with 100 photographs by Erich Mendelsohn. Folio, bound in publisher's cloth-backed boards. Berlin: Rudolf Mosse Buchverlag, 1928.
An unusually fine copy of this classic homage to early twentieth-century American architecture by the celebrated German modernist architect Erich Mendelsohn. Rarely found thus.
Parr 74-75. Fotografia Publica.....
Item nr. 166890
Price: $1,500.00