MATISSE, Henri. Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé. [2], 153, [8] pp. Illustrated by Henri Matisse with 29 etchings printed in black. Small folio, 330 mm. x 250 mm., bound in original printed wrappers, and housed in the original calf-backed chemise and slipcase. Lausanne: Albert Skira & Cie., 1932.
A superb copy of.....
Item nr. 170087
Price: $50,000.00
PARIS, Ministere de Travaux Publics. Album de statistique graphique. 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1885, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890-1891, 1892, 1893, 1895-1896. Each volume contains 12-26 colored plates of informational graphics, many folding. Folio, 330 x 255 mm., publisher's boards. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1879-1896.
These splendid volumes were published by the.....
Item nr. 169396
Price: $15,000.00
RIDGWAY, Robert. A Nomenclature of Colours for Naturalists, and Compendium of Useful Knowledge for Ornithologists. 129, [1] pp. Illustrated with 17 plates, 10 of which are hand-coloured. 8vo., bound in publisher's green cloth. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1886.
A fine copy of Ridyway's extremely scarce first book on colour. Ridgway.....
Item nr. 143787
Price: $4,750.00
WITH AN UNRECORDED 31st MAP
TOMATSU Masanori, Muneyasu KAGEYAMA et al. Edo Kiriezu. A complete set of 31 Coloured Woodblock Maps of Tokyo. 12mo, 165 x 90 folded, 490 x 535 unfolded, each bound in original pale blue wrappers, preserved in a contemporary wooden box. Edo: Owariya Seishichi, 1852-1864.
A very special.....
Item nr. 171513
Price: $25,000.00
WELLS, H.G. Les premiers Hommes dans la Lune. Translation by Henry-D. Davray. Illustrations by Martin van Maële. 8vo, 270 x 172 mm., in publisher's polychrome binding. Paris: Félix Juven, [1901].
First edition in French. A superb copy of the French edition of The First Men in the Moon, in the spectacular.....
Item nr. 171347
Price: $7,500.00
CAHUN, Claude. Aveux Non Avenus. With a preface by Pierre Mac Orlan. 237 pp., illustrated with 10 heliographs executed by Moore after designs by Cahun. 8vo, 220 x 169 mm., bound in original publisher's wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. Paris: Éditions Du Carrefour, 1930.
A much sought-after book, the.....
Item nr. 171303
Price: $8,500.00
LE CORBUSIER. Salubra, Colour Keyboards. Loose introductory text leaf in English. 62 single-page monochrome wallpaper samples, and 12 pages of "Clavier de Couleurs", each with 28 colour samples, and 2 cardboard screens in pocket. Oblong folio, 285 x 220 mm., bound in original publisher's boards, in a new cloth folding.....
Item nr. 171203
Price: $22,500.00
STRADA, Jacopo. Imperatorum romanorum omnium orientalium et occidentalium verissimae imagines. [5], 118, [1] ff., illustrated with a large woodcut title composed of a Renaissance frame of garlands and festoons of fruit and putti, attributed by van Elck to Jos Murer, cut by Christoph Schweitzer, and with 118 full-page woodcut portraits.....
Item nr. 171155
Price: $75,000.00
DANFLOU, Alfred. Les Grands Crus Bordelais. Monographies et Photographies des Chateaux et Vignobles. Two volumes. 110; 106 pp. With 55 photographic plates (albumen prints, each 130 x 170 mm), mounted on thick paper, surrounded by a red ornamental border, captions in red, titles printed in red & black. Folio, 357.....
Item nr. 170551
Price: $8,500.00
NORMAN, John. The Town and Country Builder's Assistant. [3], 4-13, [1] pp. text, with an engraved allegorical frontispiece and 60 engraved plates. Folio, 312 x 185 mm., bound in contemporary sheep (rebacked, corners repaired). Boston: John Norman, 1786.
First edition of the first contribution to the field of architecture compiled.....
Item nr. 170503
Price: $25,000.00
de FORNARO, Carlo. Millionaires of America. Unpaginated, [4] pp. text, illustrated with 12 full-page chromolithographic caricatures. Folio, 360 x 275 mm., loose in publisher's illustrated folded boards. New York: "Medusa" Pub. co., 1902.
A complete set of these scarce caricatures of prominent millionaires: J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, Russell Sage, Alfred Gwynne.....
Item nr. 170003
Price: $4,250.00
DUCHAMP, Marcel. Le Surréalisme en 1947. 142 pp., including 139 illustrated pages, with 44 plates. 4to, 240 x 205 mm., a copy of the catalogue bound in publisher's wrappers with a photographic reproduction of the chemise design, enclosed in the publisher's pink paper covered chemise mounted with the female foam.....
Item nr. 169707
Price: $100,000.00
LISSITZKY, El. Dlya Golosa. [For Reading Out Loud]. By Vladimir Mayakovsky. 61, [3] pp., illustrated throughout by Lizzitzky. 8vo, 187 x 132 mm., bound in original publisher's thick orange wrappers designed by Lissitzky, housed in a new cloth box. Berlin: Gosizdat, 1923.
One of the cornerstones of any collection of Russian.....
Item nr. 169675
Price: $17,500.00
PURYEAR, Martin. Cane. By Jean Toomer. 141, [3] pp., illustrated with 10 woodcuts by Martin Puryear, and an afterword by Leon LF. Litwack. Oblong folio, 291 x 352 mm., bound in original tan cloth. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2000.
An immaculate copy of this important book, first published in 1923.....
Item nr. 170994
Price: $4,750.00
Smith, Patti. Woolgathering. 64 pages, including 13 unnumbered color plates. 4to, 256 mm. x 203 mm., in original cloth binding. San Francisco, Arion Press, 2022.
One of 250 numbered copies.
Woolgathering is a collaboration between two contemporary creative masters: author and singer-songwriter Patti Smith and visual and sound artist Christian Marclay. Smith's.....
Item nr. 171592
Price: $1,400.00
SUGIHARA, Jiro (editor). Dai Toa kensetsu gaho: Ajia no mamori, Teikoku Kaigun. 60 pp., iIllustrated throughout with photomontages. Folio, 420 x 295 mm., bound in original illustrated wrappers. Tokyo: Nihon Denpo Tsushinsha Shuppanbu, 1942.
This is the Japanese language edition of the great propaganda magazine Front, which appeared in some 15.....
Item nr. 165015
Price: $1,500.00
LORY, Gabriel, Pere et Fils. Principes de Paysages pour apprendre a dessiner et colorer a l'Aquarelle. Four parts, folio, plates ca. 410 x 270 mm., in original printed wrappers with explanatory text on the inner front wrapper and containing 9 or 10 aquatint plates with a total of 37 variations.....
Item nr. 171597
Price: $27,500.00
![Item nr. 171571 Landwirtschaftliche Tafeln. XII. Forstwirtschaft (Holzzucht). [and] XIII....](https://ursusbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/171571_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1679070263)
FREIH. VON BABO, A. et al. Landwirtschaftliche Tafeln. I. Obst-bau.; V. Dünger-lehre.; WITH: Otto Schmidt. VI. Wiesenbewässerung.; WITH: L.J. Melicher. VII. Die Bienenzucht.; WITH: Rudolf Abel. IIX. Gemüsebau.; WITH: Franz Willhem Hofmann. IX. Hopfenbau., X. Seidenraupenzucht.; WITH: J. Pitasch. XII Forstwirtschaft (Holzzucht).; WITH: J. Zenker. XIII. Forstwirtschaft (Forstbenützung). Each contains.....
Item nr. 171571
Price: $4,750.00
[VEVEY]. [Fête des Vignerons, 1833]. Continuous panorama scroll, containing 30 consecutive lithographs (numbered 1-30) from the 1833 Festival of the Vignerons at Vevey, hand-coloured at the time of publication, backed with linen and conjoined to form a continuous scroll of 14.4 meters long. Plate size: oblong folio, 170 x 470.....
Item nr. 171428
Price: $15,000.00
CHILDREN's DRAWING MANUAL. Cahier de Dessin representant les Jeux de l'Enfance & de la Jeunesse avec une Explication & une Devise Morale. Premier Cahier. Title leaf and 10 numbered leaves of letterpress, accompanied by 10 hand coloured plates. Oblong 8vo, 167 x 253 mm., contemporary boards. Paris: Chez N. Shenker.....
Item nr. 171418
Price: $3,250.00
GRANDVILLE, J.J. Voyages de Gulliver dans des Contrées Lointaines par Swift. Four parts in one. 448 pp., with a frontispiece of the gigantic Gulliver above an arch, 6 section-titles, and numerous wood-engraved vignettes by Grandville throughout. 8vo, 212 x 125 mm., in the publisher's polychrome binding. Paris: Garnier Freres, 1856
$.....
Item nr. 171345
Price: $2,850.00
GRANDVILLE, J.J. L'Ingénieux chevalier Don Quichotte de la Manche... Traduction nouvelle, illustrée par J.J. Granville. By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Two volumes in one. viii, 552 pp., with steel engraved frontispiece, 6 steel engraved plates, and 24 woodcut engravings, all executed after designs by Grandville. 8vo, 2350 x 150 mm......
Item nr. 171344
Price: $3,500.00
LANDELLE, Gabriel, de la. Pigeon Vole. Aventures en l'Air. 414 pp., profusely illustrated. 8vo, 185 x 116 mm., bound in publisher's wrappers in a new red cloth folding box with a blue label. Paris: P. Brunet, 1868.
A sound copy of a scarce little jewel of a book, which anticipates the.....
Item nr. 171297
Price: $3,850.00
GAITTE, Antoine Joseph. Recueil des plus belles Maisons et des plus belles Edifices de la Ville de Paris. 24 numbered leaves with 136 engraved oval or circular views, the whole surrounded by an engraved neoclassical frame. Oblong folio, 401 x 280 mm., contemporary half green vellum over paste paper boards.....
Item nr. 171217
Price: $8,500.00
FECHNER, F. Neuer Bildersaal. Nouvelles Galerie de Tableaux. New Picture-Gallery. [18] leaves (including title-page), printed on one side only, with 106 lithographs in contemporary colour, heightened with gum arabic. 12mo, 140 x 91 mm., original dark green publisher's illustrated boards, in a modern cloth folding box. Guben: Bei F. Fechner.....
Item nr. 171149
Price: $2,500.00