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: $675.00
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
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
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
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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: $4,750.00
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Addresses Delivered in the Year Nineteen Hundred and Forty to the People of Great Britain, of France, and to the Members of the House of Commons. 66, [2] pp., large woodcut of the Union Jack on title, colophon in red with large printer's device of the Grabhorn...
Item nr. 42323
Price: $975.00
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 pail blue wrappers in a recent brown chitsu case. NP. ND. [Japan, 1930's].
An eclectic collection of food and drink labels mostly of Japanese...
Item nr. 159825
Price: $3,500.00
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
MAZING, B and N.P.AKIMOVA. Akter Germanskogo Kino. 50pp. 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: $675.00
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
TAKEGUCHI, Shuzo and Tiroux YAMANAKA. Album Surrealiste. Mizue Special Number. 112 pp. Profusely illustrated. 4to., bound in publisher's wrappers illustrated by Max Ernst, in a new cloth folding box. Tokyo: Shuncho-Kai, 1937.
A fine copy of the rare catalogue of the first exhibition of European Surrealism in Japan, with an original...
Item nr. 165550
Price: $2,750.00
CHICAGO. All About Chicago. By John & Ruth L. Ashenhurst. [6], 268 pp. With frontispiece plus three illustrations by C. Turzak. Small 8vo., bound in original red cloth stamped in black in publisher's art deco dust-jacket. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1933.
A fine copy of this book on...
Item nr. 139736
Price: $550.00
ALMANAC. Almanac Americain pour l'Annee 1802. [24], 224 pp. Illustrated with an engraved black and white frontispiece and 7 engraved plates of which 4 are coloured by hand. 12mo., 143 x 90 mm, bound in publisher's hand-coloured engraved boards with ornamental border, with antique vases (different on each cover) within...
Item nr. 145400
Price: $1,850.00
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
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. 163071
Price: $9,750.00
MARCHAND, D. Alphabet Militaire. 8 leaves folded accordion style. Colour-printed illustrations. 12mo., bound in light blue wrappers, title and decorations in gilt. Paris: R. De Saintonge, n.d.
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
WILSON, Alexander. American Ornithology; Or, The Natural History Of The Birds Of The United States. By Alexander Wilson; With A Continuation By Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Prince Of Musignano. The Illustrative Notes, And Life Of Wilson, By Sir William Jardine. Three volumes. Illustrated with an engraved portrait frontispiece of Wilson in...
Item nr. 142681
Price: $3,500.00
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, 397...
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