MIRÓ, Joan. Makemono. Lithograph Scroll in colours, on natural Canton silk. 415 x 9847 mm. In the original carved and lacquered wooden box. Paris: Maeght 1956.
A fine copy of this splendid, rare and unusual piece by Miró in the form of a 32 foot long Chinese-style scroll. The scroll took.....
Item nr. 168276
Price: $35,000.00
ZHITOMIRSKY, Alexander. Five political photomontage pamphlets designed by A. Zhitomirsky. 8vo. Original wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. Moscow: Gos. izdat. politicheskoi literatury, 1962.
A complete set of these rare pamphlets with their drammatic covers designed by Alexander Zhitomirsky. Zhitomirsky who somehow managed to survive from 1907 to 1003 was.....
Item nr. 168818
Price: $4,750.00
DEPERO, Fortunato. I Dopolavoro Aziendali in Italia. 1410 pp. Illustrated with 96 colour plates and 1 folding map and photomontages throughout. Small folio, 296 x 274, bound in publisher's blue cloth stamped in gilt. Novara: istituto Geografico De Agostini, 1938.
A fine copy of a virtually unknown work. Fortunato Depero (1892.....
Item nr. 168790
Price: $27,500.00
KOKOSCHKA, Oskar. Die Träumenden Knaben. 10 ff. Illustrated with 10 lithographs (8 in colour and 2 in black & white), by Oscar Kokoschka. 4to., 240 x 275 mm, bound in original publisher's tan cloth with lithographic label, in a protective cloth box. Vienna: Wiener Werkstätte, 1908.
Earliest Issue of this remarkable.....
Item nr. 168745
Price: $50,000.00
VERDINI, Raoul. Il Capo Squadra Balilla. 96 pp. Illustrated throughout. 8vo., bound in original illustrated wrappers in a new cloth folding box. Roma anno XII [1934]. Milan: Pizi & Pizio, 1934.
A small masterpiece of book illustration of great rarity. As is typical of books produced under Mussolini, the subject matter.....
Item nr. 168740
Price: $3,500.00
ROTH, Dieter. Kinderbuch. 28 pp. With colour illustrations throughout. 4to., 320 x 320 mm, in publisher's ring-bound illustrated boards, in a new cloth folding box. Reykjavik, Iceland: Forlag Ed, 1957
Dieter Roth's first book, Kinderbuch [Children's Book], which he designed himself, was initially produced as a unique work, made in 1954.....
Item nr. 167932
Price: $12,500.00
ARP, Hans. Vingt-cinq Poemes. By Tristan Tzara. Illustrated with 10 woodcuts by Arp. 8vo., 205 x 145 mm, bound in original printed boards with a design by Arp. In a new slipcase. Zurich: Heuberger, 1918.
First Edition. A superb association copy of this rare and important early Dada work, inscribed by.....
Item nr. 168746
Price: $12,500.00
CRAIG, Edward Gordon. The Mask. A Monthly Journal of the Art of the Theatre. A complete set of eighty-seven issues (bound in seventy-one parts) in sixteen volumes (fifteen volumes of magazines, and an additional volume of covers and inserts from 1911-1915). Volumes I to III have title-pages and index pages.....
Item nr. 168494
Price: $15,000.00
ANTOLINI, Giovanni Antonio. Projetto sul Foro Bonaparte che doveva Eseguirsi in Milano in 24 Gran Tavole. Title-page and suite of twenty-four plates, comprising 14 magnificent double-page aquatint views printed in shades of sepia ink and 10 double-page engraved floor-plans and scaled architectural drawings. Large folio, 572 x 440 mm, bound.....
Item nr. 168399
Price: $35,000.00
BOOM, Irma and Johan PIJNAPPEL. SHV 1896-1996. [Centennial Album / Jubileumboek]. AKA Thinkbook. 2136 pp. Thick 8vo., 230 x 180 x 120 mm, bound in publisher's boards and cardboard box. Utrecht: SHV Holdings, 1996.
An immaculate copy of the chef d'oeuvre of the Dutch designer Irma Boom. Commissioned to commemorate the.....
Item nr. 166812
Price: $7,500.00
ALBRECHT, Andreas. Zwey Bücher, das erste von der ohne und durch die Arithmetica gefundenen Perspectiva, das andere von dem dartzu gehörigen Schatten. 2 parts in 1 volume. Part 1: Title-page, dedication, 75 pp., illustrated with 6 fold-out engraved plates. Part 2, Title-page, 1 page to the reader, pp. 77-125. Illustrated.....
Item nr. 168571
Price: $7,500.00
LORIS, Daniel. Le thresor des parterres de l'univers, contenant les figures et pourtraits des plus beaux Compartimens, Cabanes et Labyrinthes des Jardinages, tant à l'Allemande qu'à la Françoise. Avec la manière de les construire, compasser et former dextrement. Descripts en Latin, François, Allemand et Anglais et distingué en trois livres.....
Item nr. 167290
Price: $35,000.00
ANDERSEN, Hendrik Christian. Creation d'un Centre mondial de Communication. Two parts in one volume. [6], xv, 128, 102 pp. Recto of dedication leaf in heliogravure. 25 heliogravure plates (9 double-page and 5 double-page and folding), including the plate 'A World Centre' at the beginning of part I not called for.....
Item nr. 167123
Price: $7,500.00
With an unrecorded 31st Map
TOMATSU Masanori, Muneyasu KAGEYAMA et al. Edo Kiriezu. A complete set of 31 Coloured Woodblock Maps of Tokyo. 12mo., each bound in original pale blue wrappers, preserved in a contemporary wooden box. Edo: Owariya Seishichi, 1852-1864.
A possibly unique set of these Tokyo maps consisting of a......
Item nr. 168611
Price: $25,000.00
PLANELLA y COROMINA, José. Esposicion completa y elemental del arte de la perspectiva y aplicacion de ella al palco escénico. [4], 94 pp. Illustrated with 100 engraved plates. 8vo., 220 x 145 mm, bound in full contemporary calf, professionally rebacked. Barcelona, J. Verdaguer, 1840.
A fine copy of the first edition.....
Item nr. 168579
Price: $3,500.00
HEINEKEN, Paul. Lucidum prospectivae speculum: das ist ein heller Spiegel der Perspective. in welchem so wohl der Grund dieser Kunst als auch die in Praxi täglich vorfallende mannigfältige Application derselben durch viele behörige Exempel klar gezeiget wird ; wozu noch beygefügt sind achtzehen Plafonds oder Decken-Stücke von diversen Sorten ;.....
Item nr. 168575
Price: $7,500.00
HAMILTON, John. Stereography, or, A compleat body of perspective, in all its branches. Teaching to describe, by mathematical rules, the appearances of lines, plain figures, and solid bodies rectilinear, curvilinear, and mixed in all manner of positions. [9], 400, [36] pp. Illustrated with 130 engraved folding plates. Folio, 395 x......
Item nr. 168574
Price: $3,500.00
KIRBY, John Joshua. Dr. Brook Taylor's method of perspective made easy, both in theory and practice. In two books. Illustrated with fifty copper plates; most of which are engrav'd by the author. [4], iv, xvi, 78; [2], 84, [18] pp. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece by W. Hogarth, plus 51 full.....
Item nr. 168573
Price: $5,750.00
GARCIA BERRUGUILLA, Juan. Verdadera Práctica de las Resoluciones de la Geometría sobre las tres Dimensiones para un perfecto Architecto: con una total Resolución para medir y dividir la Planimetría para los Agrimensores. Title, [30], 135 pp. Illustrated with 18 folding engraved plates. 8vo., 225 x 150 mm, bound in contemporary.....
Item nr. 168572
Price: $3,750.00
RINGELBERG, Ioachim Fortius. Ioachimi Fortii Ringelbergii Andoverpiani opera, quae proxima pagina enumerantur. 664, [2] pp. Profusely illustrated with Woodcuts. Small 8vo., 165 x 100, bound in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin with a Roman goddess on the front cover, and a portrait of Luther on the back cover. Lyon: M. Sylvius for.....
Item nr. 168537
Price: $4,950.00
FRANCIS, Sam. Wanted Female. By Pierre Guyotat. Illustrated with 7 coloured aquatints by Sam Francis. Folio, bound in publisher's full red morocco in cloth-covered slipcase. Los Angeles: The Lapis Press, 1993.
The splendid coloured aquatints which Francis produced to illustrate Guyotat's text were among the last things he did before his.....
Item nr. 168520
Price: $5,500.00
SARAYNA, Torelli. De Origine et amplitudine civitatis Veronae. 70 leaves including illustrations, erratic pagination (see below). Illustrated with woodcut printer's device on the title, woodcut portrait of the author and 26 woodcut plates, many double-page or fold-out plates, with several in-text woodcuts designed by Giovanni Caroto. Verona: Ex Officina Antonii.....
Item nr. 168506
Price: $12,500.00
ERNST, Max. Mr. Knife and Mrs. Fork. Text by René Crevel, translated by Kay Boyle. With 19 photograms of frottages by Max Ernst. 8vo., bound in the original full black cloth, elaborately gilt and embossed designed by Ernst on covers, in a sleeve and slipcase by Leroux. Paris: The Black.....
Item nr. 168623
Price: $20,000.00
COWLEY, John Lodge. The Theory of Perspective Demonstrated; in a Method Entirely New. By which the Several Planes, Lines, and Points, used in this Art, are shewn by Moveable Schemes, in the True Positions in which they are to be Considered. [8], xi, [1], 117, [1] pp. With 11 full-page.....
Item nr. 168576
Price: $12,500.00
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CONDO, George. Ghost of Chance. By William S. Burroughs. Unpaginated. Illustrated with three etchings by Condo with several tipped-in color illustrations. Folio: Bound in publisher's black cloth in a matching slipcase. New York: Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of Art, 1991.
$2500.00
Frequent collaborators, George Condo and William Burroughs, combine their.....
Item nr. 168610
Price: $2,500.00