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
SCHWITTERS, Kurt. Die Kathedrale. Text by Kurt Schwitters. Illustrated with 7 lithographs by Schwitters. 8vo., bound in original illustrated wrappers and label, preserved in half morocco sleeve and matching slipcase. Hannover: Paul Steegemann, 1920.
A superb copy of this rare, important and fragile Dada pamphlet, issued in an unspecified edition, issued.....
Item nr. 168624
Price: $17,500.00
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
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
KATAGAMI STENCIL DESIGNS. A Collection of Meiji Period Original Kimono Stencil Plates. With 20 stencil plates. Stencil paper was constructed from the bark of mulberry trees then treated with persimmon juice; the sheets measure ca. 220 x 400 mm and the largest measuring 350 x 450 mm. Each in individual.....
Item nr. 168446
Price: $7,500.00
CRANE, Hart. The Bridge. Illustrated by Joel Shapiro, with an essay by Langdon Hammer. Scroll format, 13-1/2" x 50', with seven woodblock prints by Joel Shapiro, an introduction by Langdon Hammer, and two photographs by Michael Kenna. In a linen box. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2017.
The Bridge was conceived.....
Item nr. 165458
Price: $2,500.00
BOURGEOIS, Louise. Homely Girl, A Life. By Arthur Miller. With 10 drypoints by Bourgeois. Two volumes. Folio, original beige half morocco over grey cloth, preserved in a grey cloth slipcase. New York: Peter Blum, 1992.
A fine copy of this highly effective example of contemporary bookmaking. The playwright Arthur Miller gave.....
Item nr. 168500
Price: $12,500.00
DUNHAM, Carroll. Shadows. Ten original full sheet drypoints, with justification, title- leaf, and tissue interleaves. Oblong folio, 350 x 584 mm, the whole enclosed in publisher's cloth chemise and titled clamshell box. West Islip, NY: Universal Limited Art Editions, Inc 1989.
One of two copies designated as Printer's Proofs, in addition.....
Item nr. 168503
Price: $12,500.00
GRIGORIEW, Boris. Intimite. 88 pp. Illustrated with mounted colour frontispiece and numerous full-page and in text illustrations. Small folio, 295 x 230 mm, bound in contemporary patterned silk over boards. St. Petersburg, Edition de V. M. Yasny, 1918.
A fine copy of this rare illustrated book illustrated with Grigoriew's Intimité series.....
Item nr. 168420
Price: $3,500.00
SASSON, Renee. Esmaltes. With text by Walmir Ayala. Containing six different enameled pieces by Sasson, each on a linen mount signed and numbered on the verso by the artist, with a small paper pamphlet containing Ayala's poem. 4to., 215 x 215 mm, housed in publisher's linen chemise and slipcase. Sao.....
Item nr. 168169
Price: $3,500.00
CENDRARS, Blaise. Profond aujourd'hui, Prose par Monsieur Blaise Cendrars, et 5 Dessins de Monsieur A. Zarraga. [20] pp. Illustrated with 5 illustrations by Angel Zarraga. 12mo., bound in original wrappers, preserved in an new light brown cloth folding box. Paris: La Belle Édition, 1917.
A fine copy of this curious book.....
Item nr. 167433
Price: $2,500.00