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
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
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
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
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
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
LISSITZKY, El. Ispania & No Pasaran. By Ilya Ehrenburg. Ispania designed Evgenii Goliakhovskii, and No pasaran by El Lisstizky. 2 Volumes. 102, [2]; 152 pp. Illustrated with photographs throughout. Folio, 300 x 225 mm, bound in publisher's grey cloth. Moscow & Leningrad: OGIZ, 1936-1937.
A fine set of these classic photobooks.....
Item nr. 168991
Price: $5,750.00
NOVLIANSKII, N. Iskusstvo grima: Nagliadnoe posobie dlia kruzhkovtsev. [i.e. Art of Makeup. A Visual Handbook for Membersof Art Sections, Drama Schools and Professional Stage Actors]. 24 leaves. Illustrated throughout with colour plates and photographs. Oblong folio, 255 x 360 mm, bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers, preserved in a new green.....
Item nr. 168898
Price: $2,500.00
USHAKOV, G.A. Geroicheskiy poked Chlyuskina. [The heroic crusade of Chelyuskin]. 24 photographs measuring 225 x 285 mm, number 1-23, plus one of map that is unnumered laid into the publisher's red chemise with title printed in white on the cover. Moscow: 1934.
A rare work of which celebrates one of the.....
Item nr. 168482
Price: $12,500.00
EL LISSITZKY. Erste Russische Kunstausstellung Berlin. 32 pp. Illustrated with 52 black-&-white reproductions of paintings. 8vo., bound in publisher's wrappers illustrated by El Lissitzky, preserved in a new grey cloth folding box. Berlin: Galerie Van Diemen, 1922.
An unusually fine copy of the catalogue for this landmark exhibition of Russian art.....
Item nr. 169047
Price: $4,950.00
MASSON, André. Soleils Bas. By Georges Limbour. With 4 etchings by Masson, one of which is on the front wrapper. 4to., bound in original wrappers, preserved in a new cloth folding box. Paris: Editions de la Galerie Simon [Daniel Henry Kahnweiler], 1924.
A fine copy of Masson's rare first book, which.....
Item nr. 169030
Price: $7,500.00
GLEIZES, Albert. Au Pays du Mufle. By Laurent Tailhade. 162 pp. Includes a frontispiece and 10 woodcuts plus a suite of the 11 woodcuts printed in red on Japon bound at the end. Small 8vo., bound in original illustrated wrappers in a new linen cloth folding box. Paris: Edouard-Joseph, 1920.
A.....
Item nr. 169025
Price: $2,750.00
STEIGER, Rudolf, Georg SCHMIDT and Wilhelm HESS. Historical Table for 'The Functional City'. Large folded table, 1790 x 570 mm, mounted on original linen. Amsterdam, 1935.
A major document of the Congress Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM). This is a reduced version of the legendary "Historical Table" designed by Rudolf Steiger, Wilhelm.....
Item nr. 168972
Price: $17,500.00
PALANTI, Mario. "Auditorium" Progetti Roma Anno XIII. 34, [2], [6] pp. Illustrated with 42 full page black-&-white plates. Folio, bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in silver on the cover, preserved in a new matching cloth folding box. [Milan: Rizzoli & Co., 1935].
Handsomely printed documentation for a planned work in.....
Item nr. 168923
Price: $2,750.00
MASSON, André. C'est les bottes de 7 lieues Cette phrase "Je me vois". By Robert Desnos. [13 ff]. Illustrated with 4 etchings by Masson. Folio, bound in publisher's wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. Paris: Galerie Simon [Henri Kahnweiler], 1926.
A fine copy of the most beautiful of the books.....
Item nr. 168915
Price: $8,750.00
LISSITZKY, El. Wendingen. Volume 4, Number 11. Edited by Th. Wijdeveld. Introduction by Dr. H.P. Berlage. 38 pp. Illustrated with 22 images of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings. Square folio, 330 x 330 mm, bound in colour-printed wrappers, with the original Lissitzky lithographic design on both covers, preserved in a linen.....
Item nr. 168905
Price: $7,500.00
MAN RAY. Man Ray: Photographs 1920-1934. By Andre Breton and others. Paris. Illustrations after photographs by Man Ray throughout. 4to., original wrappers, spiral bound, preserved in a recent linen cloth box. Hartford: James Thrall Soby, n.d.
First Edition (stated second edition on title-page, but only one edition was in fact published).....
Item nr. 168896
Price: $8,500.00