LÖNBERG-HOLM, Knud and Ladislav SUTNAR. Catalog Design. 72 pp. Illustrated throughout. 8vo., bound in publisher's spiral; bound boards, in a new light blue cloth folding box, New York: Sweet's Catalog Service, a division of F. W. Dodge Corporation, 1944.
An immaculate copy of a fragile work rarely found thus. This is.....
Item nr. 168823
Price: $2,500.00
BLOCK, L.A. Soviet Travel No. 5. Folio. Publisher's illustrated Wrappers. Moscow: United Magazines and Newspapers, 1933.
A fine copy of an issue of this rare Soviet exercise in propaganda devoted to the Ukraine. Profusely illustrated with photographs.
Item nr. 145675
Price: $375.00
MAZING, B and N.P.AKIMOVA. Akter Germanskogo Kino. 50 pp. With black-&-white illustrations throughout. 8vo., bound in 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.....
Item nr. 145634
Price: $495.00
TUTTLE, Richard. Early Auden. By W.H. Auden. Illustrated title-page and 10 accordion-folded panels of translucent paper wrapped around white bristol paper containing colour aquatints by Richard Tuttle. Folio, 350 x 215 mm, bound in smooth white vellum-covered boards, tan reversed calf spine in a new cloth folding box. San Francisco.....
Item nr. 167358
Price: $12,500.00
QIANLONG, EMPEROR OF CHINA (1736-1796). Suite of four engravings depicting the conquests of the Qianlong Emperor. From the suite of sixteen engraved plates. Printed in Paris under the direction of Charles-Nicholas Cochin. Broadsheets, image size: 515 x 890 mm. Preserved in the contemporary French green paper mounts with black ink.....
Item nr. 169181
Price: $100,000.00
LE BRUN, Charles. Dissertation sur un Traité de Charles Le Brun. With text by Morel d'Arleux. [1] f., xxii pp. Illustrated with an engraved portrait and 37 engraved plates. Large folio, 605 x 430 mm, bound in original publisher's blue boards, paper label on spine, entirely uncut. Paris: Chalcographie du.....
Item nr. 169162
Price: $17,500.00
MARTY, André. L'Imprimerie et les Procédés de Gravure au Vingtième Siécle: étude accompagnée de quarante planches hors texte. 81 pp. Illustrated with 40 plates of various printing processes by different artists. 4to., 270 x 210 mm, bound in contemporary crushed black morocoo by Samslanx & Weckesser. Paris: Chez L'Auteur, 1906.
A.....
Item nr. 169189
Price: $4,750.00
DU HALDE, Jean Baptiste. Description géographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie Chinoise. Enrichie des Cartes générales et particulières de ces Pays, de la Carte générale et des Cartes particulières du Thibet et de la Corée. Four volumes. I: [2] ff., viii.....
Item nr. 169180
Price: $35,000.00
CONFUCIUS. Confucius Sinarum Sive Scientia Sinensis Latine Exposita. cxxiv, 108, 160, xx, 20, 8, [2], 23-108, [2] pp. Illustrated with engraved portrait of Confucius and a map of China engraved by François de Louvemont from a drawing by the Belgian missionary Philippe Couplet. Folio, 335 x 225 mm, bound in.....
Item nr. 169179
Price: $12,500.00
WATELET, Claude-Henri. Essai sur les Jardins. [4], 160, [4] pp. Illustrated with 15 ornamental woodcuts throughout. 8vo., 218 x 140 mm, full contemporary red morocco. Paris: Prault, etc., 1774.
First Edition of this extremely rare treatise on character and taste in gardens by the French painter Watelet (1718-1786). Watelet was a......
Item nr. 169172
Price: $3,250.00
RUBENS, P.P. Palazzi moderni di Genova. Title, dedication 67 engraved plates, some folding. In Anversa: Appresso Enrico e Cornelio Verdussen, 1708. BOUND WITH:
Palalazzi antichi di Genova. Title, 72 engraved plates, some folding. Folio, 550 x 400 mm, bound in later sheep over marbled boards. In Anversa: Appresso Enrico e Cornelio.....
Item nr. 169171
Price: $4,750.00
GALIMARD, P.-J. Architecture des Jardins. With Engraved title and 68 engraved plates on stubs. Folio, bound in nineteenth century half calf over marbled boards. A Paris, Chez Mond-hare Rue St. Jacques a l'Hotel de Saumur, Ca.1760.
A fine copy of this scarce collection of garden designs by a seemingly little-known French.....
Item nr. 169170
Price: $4,950.00
TACCHINI, Pietro. Eclissi totali di Sole del Dicembre 1870, del Maggio 1882 e 1883, e dell' Agosto 1886 e 1887. Relazioni e Note. [8], 236 pp. Illustrated with 24 plates, e.g. three heliogravure plates and 21 plates in lithography,chromolithography & heliogravure at the end. Large 8vo., 235 x 160 mm.....
Item nr. 169169
Price: $3,500.00
KIRCHER, Athanasius. China Monumentis, quà Sacris quà Profanis. [14], 237, [11] pp. With an added engraved title-page, engraved portrait of Kircher, 2 folding maps, 23 leaves of plates (some folding) and 59 half-page engravings illustrating the text (2 repeated). Folio, 380 x 240 mm, bound in contemporary Dutch calf. Amsterdam.....
Item nr. 169166
Price: $15,000.00
GUIGNES, Chretien-Louis-Joseph de. Le Chou-King, un des Livres Sacres des Chinois.qui renferme les Fondements de leur ancienne Histoire, les Principes de leur Gouvernement & de leur Morale. [4], cxliv, 474, [2] pp. Illustrated with 4 fold-out engraved plates. 4to., 250 x 190 mm, bound in contemporary cats-paw calf, red morocco.....
Item nr. 169165
Price: $3,500.00
NIEUHOFF, Johan. L'Ambassade de la Compagnie orientale des Provinces Unies vers l'empereur de la Chine, ou grand cam de Tartarie, faite par les Srs. Pierre de Goyer, & Jacob de Keyser. Two parts in one volume. [14], 290; [2], 134, [2] pp. With an engraved title/frontispiece, engraved portrait of Colbert.....
Item nr. 169164
Price: $7,500.00
EARHART, John. The Color Printer. A Treatise on the Use of Colors in Typographic Printing. 137, [1] pp. Illustrated with a photographic frontispiece portrait of the author and 90 plates. 4to., 270 x 205 mm, bound in green publisher's cloth stamped in gold and colour, with emblem of three ink.....
Item nr. 169128
Price: $2,850.00
LE BLON, Jacques-Christophe. Coloritto; or the Harmony of Colouring in Painting. [4], viii, [5]-28; 8 pp. Illustrated with 5 mezzotints. 4to., 280 x 210 mm, bound in contemporary French cats paw calf, red morocco spine label. NP, ND, [London: 1720's].
A fine copy of the black tulip of colour printing, a......
Item nr. 169080
Price: $50,000.00
BENSON, William. Principles of the Science of Colour concisely stated to aid and promote their useful Application in the Decorative Arts. x, 48 pp. Illustrated with 6 uncoloured lithographs, 4 text illustrations of which 2 are hand-coloured and 5 plates with mounted coloured circle patterns. 4to., 275 x 210 mm.....
Item nr. 168987
Price: $4,500.00
GAUTIER D'AGOTY. Mercure de France, dédié au Roi, Juillet 1749. 228; 213, [3] pp. Illustrated with a four-colour folding mezzotint (149 x 206 mm) showing an artist's palette. 12mo., 160 x 97 mm, bound in contemporary mottled armorial calf. Paris: Andre Cailleau, 1749.
First Edition of the volume of Mercure de.....
Item nr. 168968
Price: $7,500.00
CHINESE EASTERN RAILWAY. Severnaia Manchzhuriia i Kitaiskaia Vostochnaia Zheleznaia Doroga [Northern Manchuria and the Chinese Eastern Railway]. IX, 692, XXIII, III [2] pp. With photo-Illustrations, maps, charts and graphs throughout. 4to, bound in publisher's blue cloth. Harbin: Tipografiia Kitaiskoi Vostochnoi Zheleznoi Dorogi, 1922.
A splendid account of this railway whose interest.....
Item nr. 168904
Price: $5,750.00
PICIARELLI, Camillo. Epistola di Camillo Piciarelli, Professore di Belle Lettere, sul Antico Naso di Fozio, pubblicato per almanacco dell'anno 1820. [xii], 39, [1] pp. Illustrated with an alligorical aquatint frontispiece. 8vo., 205 x 140 mm, bound in contemporary pattern wrappers, preserved in a new red half morocco box. Milan: Manini.....
Item nr. 168844
Price: $2,250.00
CALDER, Alexander. A Bestiary. Compiled by Richard Wilbur. [8], 74, [4] pp. Illustrated with 56 original line drawings by Alexander Calder. Small folio, bound in publisher's cloth in a new blue cloth folding box. New York: Printed at the Spiral Press for Pantheon Books, 1955.
$2250.00
Illustrated with 56 of Calder's animated.....
Item nr. 165617
Price: $2,250.00
LUPA. Manifestazioni Agricole del Decennale. 426 pp. Photographically illustrated throughout. Folio, bound in publisher's silver decorated wrappers, in a new grey cloth folding box. Rome: 1932.
A superb example of the disconnect often present in books published by the totalitarian countries before the War, with the painstaking and splendid design at.....
Item nr. 165416
Price: $2,500.00
ALBERS, Josef. Interaction of Color. Folder and pamphlet. 80, 48 pp. With eighty colour screenprint plates. Folio, loose as issued in the original cloth folders and cloth box. With a folio volume, 346 x 263 mm, bound in full cloth. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963.
A major twentieth-century American illustrated.....
Item nr. 169034
Price: $9,500.00