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
PELLE, Clement and Thomas ALLOM. L'Empire Chinois, illustre d'apres des Dessins pris sur les Lieux. 4 Volumes. [4], 68, 26; 76; 74 pp. Illustrated with 4 engraved added title-pages and 124 full page steel engraved plates. 4to., bound in publisher's elaborately decorated red cloth. Paris: Fisher, 1845.
First Edition in French.....
Item nr. 170092
Price: $8,500.00
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
[ALBUM OF CHINESE WATERCOLOURS]. 635 miniature paintings, each ca. 82 x 46 mm, inserted into a specially designed Russian album consisting of 26 leaves of heavy card stock, each with 24 "windows" revealing miniatures (one miniature missing), plus 1 leaf of heavy card stock with 12 "windows," for a total.....
Item nr. 169965
Price: $75,000.00
GRANDVILLE, J.-J. Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux. Two volumes. [8], 386, [6]; [4], 390, [6] pp. With 201 engraved plates and 120 vignettes illustrating the text. Large 8vo., 261 x 180 mm, uniformly bound in contemporary black half morocco. Paris: Hetzel et Paulin: 1842-1844.
A splendid copy.....
Item nr. 169739
Price: $12,500.00
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
LEWITT, Sol. Piramidi. 10 lithographs, each 222 × 680 mm, in publisher's cardboard box, preserved in a new cloth folding box. Turin: Marco Noire Editore, 1986.
This stunning set of lithographs recall the splendid wall drawings of pyramids that the artist conceived of between 1985 and 1994. These consisted of floor.....
Item nr. 169582
Price: $12,500.00
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
THURNEISSER ZUM THURN, Leonhardt. Historia unnd Beschreibung Influentischer Elementischer un Naturlicher Wirckungen Aller fremden unnd Heimischen Erdgewechssen auch irer Subtiliteten sampt wahrhafftiger und Kunstlicher Conterfeitung dereselbigen auch aller teiler... [12], CLVI, [24] pp. Woodcut title-page, 42 arabesque initials, 12 astrological diagrams, 126 small woodcut figures, 36 botanical woodcuts within figured.....
Item nr. 169436
Price: $12,500.00
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
GARDENS DESIGNED BY LE NOTRE; FOUNTAINS BY LE BRUN AFTER AESOP; ENGRAVINGS BY SEBASTIEN LE CLERC
PERRAULT, Charles. Labyrinte de Versailles. 34, [1], 79, [4] pp. With an engraved title-vignette (arms of France) and 41 full-page engravings by Sébastien Le Clerc. 8vo., 203 x 130 mm, bound in contemporary calf. Paris.....
Item nr. 169397
Price: $8,500.00
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
GELPKE, August Heinrich Christian. Allgemeine Darstellung der Oberflaechen der Weltkoerper unseres Sonnengebietes, besonders der Erde, des Mondes, der Venus und des Merkur's, zur Vergleichung ihrer wundervollen Naturbaue und merkwuerdigen Naturkraefte. VIII, 80 pp. Illustrated with 2 large folded engraved plates coloured by hand.. 4to., 270 x 220 mm, bound in.....
Item nr. 169394
Price: $4,750.00
MALTON, Thomas. A Compleat Treatise on Perspective, in Theory and Practice; on the True Principles of Dr. Brook Taylor. [4], viii, [8], 284 pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and 46 numbered, mostly folding engravings, five with moveable parts. London: Printed for the author, and sold by Messrs. Robson, et.....
Item nr. 169229
Price: $18,500.00
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ALEKSEEV,S. Tsvetovedeniye dlya arkhitektorov [i.e. Color in Architecture]. 157, [2] pp. Illustrated with 12 leaves of plates, some colour. 8vo., bound in original brown cloth. Leningrad: GONTI, 1938.
A very good copy of this work on color in architecture in Russia. Conceived as a textbook for architecture students in two parts.....
Item nr. 169581
Price: $1,850.00
CHERNIKHOV, Yakov. Konstruktsiia arkhitekturnykh i mashinnykh form. [Construction of Architectural Forms and Machines]. 232, [80], [2] pp. Illustrated throughout. 4to., 296 x 210 mm, bound in original boards, with title printed in Russian on cover and spine, in a new green cloth folding box. Leningrad: Edition de la Société des.....
Item nr. 169248
Price: $7,500.00
LALAU, Maurice. Tabubu. By J.H. Rosny Ainé. Illustrated throughout with silver and gold highlighted decorations by Lalau. 12mo., original illustrated wrappers, cover adorned with a Lalau decoration highlighted in gold, in tan cloth chemise and slipcase, futher preserved in a blue half morocco folding box. Paris: Jules Meynial, n.d. [1932].
An.....
Item nr. 169259
Price: $12,500.00
[GEFFROY, Gustave]. La Vie Artistique. Préface d'Edmond de Goncourt. Eight volumes (all published). xvi, 375; 396; xx, 395; xviii, 334; 408; 462; 368; 483 pp. With an original etched frontispiece to each volume (by Carrière, Rodin, Renoir, Raffaelli, Fantin-Latour, Pissarro, Vierge, and Willette). 12mo., 167 x 110 mm, bound contemporary.....
Item nr. 169228
Price: $12,500.00
ARP, Jean. Soleil Recerclé 61 pp. Illustrated with 18 woodcuts by plus a signed colour woodcut frontispiece on Rives. Large folio, 475 x 380 mm, loose as issued in publisher's wrappers with colour woodcut illustration in the publisher's grey slipcase (with one of the 18 woodcuts) and vellum backed chemise.....
Item nr. 169143
Price: $17,500.00
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
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.....
Item nr. 169165
Price: $3,500.00
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
FRASCHETTI, Vincenzo and Carlo TESTI. Italia dall' A alla Z. 88 unnumbered pages. Illustrated throughout. Small 4to., 250 x 230 mm, bound in publisher's illustrated boards. In a new red cloth folding box. Novarra: Officine dell'Istituto Geografico de Agostini, 1936.
A stunning example of fascist book design. Published by the Italian.....
Item nr. 168884
Price: $8,500.00