DAVIS, Alexander Jackson. Rural Residences, etc. Consisting of Designs, Original and Selected, for Cottages, Farm Houses, Villas, and Village Churches... Unpaginated. Content includes: Title-page, advertising leaf, 8 leaves of descriptive text, [16] pp of "Specification of the Material and Work Required for Building a Dwelling House." Illustrated with 11 hand-coloured.....

Item nr. 170506

Price: $25,000.00

ROUGET DE LISLE, A. Chromagraphie. Four parts in one volume. 8; 8; 16; 12, 8 pp. Illustrated with four wood-engraved vignettes, 10 folding hand-coloured lithographed plates showing over 100 pairs of colour arrangements numbered figs. 1-74; three engraved folding diagrams of weaving designs by Durau fils; one plate of weaving.....

Item nr. 170387

Price: $12,500.00

FUTURISTIC WORLD. The World of To-Morrow. A Junior Book of Forecasts. By Idrisyn Oliver Evans. 163 pp. Illustrated with 24 transparent "Diophane" photo-mechanical plates. 8vo., bound in original publisher's translucent "Rhodoid" boards over original wrappers, yellow cloth spine. London: D. Archer, 1933.

First and Only Edition of this visionary work in.....

Item nr. 170367

Price: $3,750.00

ACCOLTI, Pietro. Lo Inganno de gl'occhi, prospettiva pratica. Trattato in acconcio della pittura. [12], 152, [4] pp. Illustrated throughout, woodcut diagrams, illustrations. Folio, 303 x 217 mm, bound in contemporary mottled calf. Florence: Pietro Cecconcelli, 1625.

First Edition of the practical manual of perspective, of special interst to painters. Contains the.....

Item nr. 170104

Price: $5,000.00

PIAZZETTA, Giambattista. Studi di Pittura già dissegnati da Giambatista Piazzetta ed ora con l'intaglio di Marco Pitteri. [6], 11, [3] ff. Engraved title, Title Illustrated with an engraved title-page vignette, head- and tailpieces, one of the latter with an etched self-portrait of Piazzetta dated 1738, plus 48 engraved plates after.....

Item nr. 169973

Price: $25,000.00

VIRGIL. Les Eclogues de Virgile. Texte Latin et Traduction Francaise de Marc Laforgue imprimees par Harry de Kessler. With 43 woodcut engravings by Aristide Maillol, initials and title-page designed by Eric Gill. Large 4to. Loose in the original wrappers and publisher's vellum-bacled folding case. Leipzig: Cranach Presse, 1926.

First Edition, one.....

Item nr. 169584

Price: $7,500.00

DECKER, Paul. Chinese Architecture Civil and Ornamental. Title-page + 24 plates. London: For the Author, 1759. BOUND WITH:

-----. Chinese Architecture. Part the Second. Title-page + 12 plates. London: For the Author, 1759. BOUND WITH:

-----. Gothic Architecture Decorated. Title-page + 12 plates. London: For the Author, 1759. BOUND WITH:

-----. Gothic Architecture.....

Item nr. 170368

Price: $22,500.00

HELMAN, Isidore Stanislas. Suite des seize estampes repreìsentant les Conque?tes de l'empereur de la Chine:avec leur explication. Engraved description of the plates followed by 24 full page engraved plates of which three are joined together for one large folding plate. [Paris], 1783-1788. WITH:

Abrege historique des principaux traits de la vie.....

Item nr. 169163

Price: $50,000.00

COOK, G.D. & Co. Illustrated Catalog of Carriages and Special Business Advertiser, New Haven, Ct. [iv], 226 pp. Oblong 8vo., 170 x 245 mm, bound in original embossed brown cloth, rebacked in tan calf, spine gilt. New York: Baker & Godwin, 1860.

This illustrated catalog is a wonderful study of mid-nineteenth-century.....

Item nr. 170108

Price: $3,750.00

HOSHINO, Tatsuo.(Editor). Shina Jihen Shashin Zenshu [China Incident Photograph Album]. 6 volumes. Illustrated throuhout with photographs and photo montage. Small folio, bound in publisher's decorated cloth in original decorated cardboard slipcases. Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1937-1940.

A rare complete set of these important and extensive propaganda books published by the newspaper Asahi.....

Item nr. 169728

Price: $7,500.00

CELMINS, Vija. The View. Poems by Czeslaw Milosz. Unpaginated. Illustrated with four mezzotints by Celmins. Tall 4to., 377 x 280 mm, bound in original publisher's black morocco spine, grey paper over boards in matching slipcase. Uncut. New York: Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1985.

Considered to be.....

Item nr. 169440

Price: $18,500.00

TELINGATER, Solomon. Kachestvennaya Stal' SSSR. [The Quality Steel of the USSR]. 164 pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs, photomontage, graphs, charts etc., 30 of which are full page some folding. Small folio, 250 x 180 mm, bound in publisher's etched steel covers. Housed in archival red box. Moscow-Leningrad: Glavnaia redaktsiia lit-ry.....

Item nr. 169405

Price: $25,000.00

KAPOOR, Anish. Blackness From Her Womb. [10] pp. Illustrated with 13 etchings with whiteground aquatints. Folio, 430 x 380 mm, bound by Klaus-Ulrich Rötzscher in full orange-brown vellum in a red stained vellum-covered slipcase. Santa Monica: Edition Jacob Samuel, [published date: 2001].

A handsome example of contemporary bookmaking by one of.....

Item nr. 169441

Price: $18,500.00