RUBENS, Peter Paul. Théorie de la Figure Humaine: considérée dans ses principes, soit en repos ou en mouvement. Ouvrage traduit du Latin de Pierre-Paul Rubens, avec XLIV planches gravées par Pierre Aveline, d'après les desseins de ce célebre artiste. xi, [1], 55, [1] pp. With an engraved full-page self-portrait of.....
Item nr. 167421
Price: $3,750.00
LISSITZKY, El. Dlya Golosa. [For Reading Out Loud]. By Vladimir Mayakovsky. 61, [3] pp. Illustrated throughout by Lizzitzky. 8vo., 187 x 132 mm, bound in original publisher's thick orange wrappers designed by Lissitzky, housed in a new folding orange cloth box . Berlin: Gosizdat, 1923.
One of the cornerstones of any...
Item nr. 167281
Price: $16,500.00
LE BLON, Jacques-Christophe and Antoine GAUTIER DE MONTDORGE. L'Art d'Imprimer les Tableaux. Traité d'après les Ecrits, les Opérations & les Instructions verbales, de J.C. Le Blon. xi, vi, [2], [xiii]-xxv, [26]-180, [4] pp. Illustrated with 1 hand coloured sepia mezzotint and two black and white folding plates. 8vo., 195 x....
Item nr. 166681
Price: $15,000.00
ECKERSBERG, C.W. Linearperspectiven, anvendt paa Malerkunsten, en Række af perspectiviske Studier af C. W. Eckersberg, med tilhörende Forklaringer. One Page Introduction by G.F.Ursin and 11 Plates, numbered 1-10, with 9a and 9b, accompanied by 9 Text Leaves (the Texts accompanying Plates 7a and 8, and 9a and 9b are each.....
Item nr. 166374
Price: $12,500.00
DEPERO, Fortunato. 96 Tavole a Colori per 'I Dopolavoro Aziendali in Italia'. [97 leaves]. Leaf with calligraphic title (repeat of the front board of the binding) in pink, copy number and signature verso, leaf with explanatory text recto and 95 colour plates, each with guard leaf, recto only. Small folio...
Item nr. 167349
Price: $22,500.00
BOLLERY, Nicolas. Livre de portraiture, contenant par une facille instruction plusieurs plans et figures de toutes les parties sépareés du corps humain, recueillies des plus excellens paintres de toutte l'Istallye, pour bien aprendre les vrais fondemens de la painture et sculpture. Engraved title-page. Illustrated with 35 engraved plates. Paris: Jean.....
Item nr. 167372
Price: $22,500.00
FIRST EDITION -- EXCESSIVELY RARE
AMMAN, Jost. Enchiridion artis pingendi, fingendi & sculpendi. [112] leaves. Collation: (:)4, A-Z4, a-d4. Title-page within a woodcut border, 3 ff. (dedication to Hieronymus August von Holtzhusen, with woodcut arms), plus 107 woodcuts by Jost Amman, and with the final letterpress leaf (colophon). Small 4to., 168...
Item nr. 167311
Price: $27,500.00
DALÍ, Salvador. Dalí Paints the Invisible straight from Nature. Exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery. One sheet laid in a new black cloth folding box. New York: The Julien Levy Gallery, 1936.
A magnificent Surrealist object consisting of a card illustrated by Dalí with the torso of a nude woman. The...
Item nr. 167142
Price: $4,250.00
SCHUITEMA, Paul. Syst-o-colour. Vier Kleurensysteem. Two volumes. [9], 152 plates with one transparency preceding plate 1; [3], 144 plates, with one transparency preceding plate 153. Folio, bound in cloth loose-leaf binders, in the publisher's cardboard boxes. The Hague: Mouton, 1965.
Containing 10,000 different colours on 28,000 fields in many combinations. Paul...
Item nr. 167126
Price: $3,500.00
PATCH, Thomas. The Life of Frá Bartolommeo della Porta, a Tuscan Painter, with his Works engraved from the original Pictures, dedicated to the Honorable Horace Walpole. [2] pp, illustrated with 24 etched and engraved plates printed in black, red or ochre. [Florence: Thomas Patch, 1772]. BOUND WITH:
Al Nobil uomo il...
Item nr. 167025
Price: $13,500.00
CORTONA, Pietro da. Tabulae Anatomicae a Celeberrimo Pictore Petro Berrettino Cortonesi. Text by Cajetano Petrioli. [4], 84 pp. Illustrated with an engraved plate on title and 27 full-page engraved anatomical plates after Pietro da Cortona. Folio, 405 x 285 mm, bound in contemporary Italian calf. Rome: Antonii de Rubeis, 1741.
First...
Item nr. 167017
Price: $25,000.00
LANDELLE, Gabriel, de la. Pigeon Vole. Aventures en l'Air. 414 pp. Profusely illustrated. 8vo., bound in contemporary brown morocco over matching pebbled boards. Paris: P. Brunet, 1868.
A fine copy of a scarce little jewel of a book, which anticipates the books created by artists such as Max Ernst and Joseph...
Item nr. 128078
Price: $3,850.00
GARATTI, Celso Maria. Italiani di Mussolini in A.O. 569 pp. Profusely illustrated. Large folio, bound in publisher's cloth with spine made from copper tubes, and onlaid metal axe on the front cover. Bologna: L. Cappelli, 1937.
A stupendous object, in a binding that is completely over the top. Fascist bombast at...
Item nr. 167196
Price: $8,500.00
TILLY. Gammes de Couleurs d'après les grands Maîtres de l'Art Italien. 1 leaf text, illustrated with 21 plates consisting of three or four tipped in colour samples each with four different gouache coloured strips. Oblong 4to., loose as issued in the original wrappers preserved in a new red cloth folding...
Item nr. 165822
Price: $3,500.00
MITCHELL, Joan. Abstract Expressionism. 4 Volumes. 1. John Ashbery. The Poems. With 4 prints by Joan Mitchell. 2. Frank O'Hara. Odes. With 4 prints by Michael Goldberg. 3. Kenneth Koch. Permanently. With 4 prints by Alfred Leslie. 4. James Schuyler. Salute. With 4 prints by Grace Hartigan. Folio, bound in...
Item nr. 167063
Price: $15,000.00
GRIS, Juan. A Book Concluding With As A Wife Has A Cow. By Gertrude Stein. [27] pp. Illustrated with 4 lithographs by Gris, including one in colour. In original wrappers. In a recent half morocco folding box. Paris: Galerie Simon, 1926.
Gertrude Stein's first work published in France, featuring four soft-toned...
Item nr. 167369
Price: $9,750.00
CORNELL, Joseph. A Joseph Cornell Pop-Up Book for All Ages. With text by Sandra Leonard Starr. 103 pp. Includes a 3D Viewer, 6 pop ups and a folding panorama. Oblong folio, bound in publisher's blue cloth and paper label preserved in a new blue cloth folding box. Tokyo: Tokyo Publishing...
Item nr. 166704
Price: $3,850.00
KERLIN, I. N., J. PARRISH and F. GUTEKUNST. The Mind Unveiled; Or: A Brief History Of Twenty-two Imbecile Children. 147 pp. Frontispiece, 1 black and white plate and 5 tipped-in hand cut salt-prints from glass plates. 8vo., bound in publisher's cloth, in a new red cloth folding box. Philadelphia: U....
Item nr. 165704
Price: $8,500.00
JARRY, Alfred. Les Minutes de Sable, Memorial. [6], X, 5-210, [4] pp. Illustrated with 9 coloured (blue and maroon) woodcuts by Alfred Jarry. Small 8vo., 139 x 115 pp, bound in later binding using old paper over boards, preserving the original glossy black wrappers, Paris: Mercure de France, 1894.
First Edition...
Item nr. 167222
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 cloth folding box. Zurich: Heuberger, 1918.
First Edition. A superb association copy of this rare and important early Dada work...
Item nr. 167207
Price: $15,000.00
ARP, Hans. Der Pyramidenrock. 70 pp. Illustrated with a portrait of Arp by Amadeo Modigliani. Small 4to., bound in original printed boards, in a dark blue cloth box. Zurich & Munich: Eugen Rentsch Verlag, [1924].
A fine copy of this key Dada book, in the rare hard-bound version, and bearing the...
Item nr. 167119
Price: $4,750.00
ERNST, Max. La Femme 100 Têtes. With 147 illustrations by Max Ernst. With an introduction by André Breton. 8vo., bound in original wrappers, in a new grey cloth box. Paris: Éditions du Carrefour, 1929.
An unusually fine copy of La Femme 100 Têtes, Ernst's first collage novel, which was also the...
Item nr. 167104
Price: $5,850.00
CHERNYKOV, Iakov. Arkhitekturniie Fantazii [Architectural Fictions]. 102 pp. Illustrated with numerous textual illustrations and 101 colour plates. Small folio, 300 x 200 mm, bound in original blue embossed cloth. Leningrad: "Meshdunarodnaja Kniga" (Leningrad Section), 1933.
First Edition of this landmark work of Soviet architectural fantasies, lavishly illustrated with dramatic designs of...
Item nr. 166889
Price: $12,500.00
CAHUN, Claude. Le Coeur de Pic. By Lise DeHarme. With a preface by Paul Eluard. Unpaginated. Illustrated with 20 photographs by Claude Cahun. Small folio, 270 x 200 mm, bound in publisher's grey cloth over red boards with colour photographs on front and back cover by Cahun, preserved in a....
Item nr. 166567
Price: $12,500.00
MARINETTI, F.T. Les Mots en Liberté Futuristes. 107, [5] pp., including four folding plates of typographic compositions by the author. The final two illustrations are comprised of advertisements. 8vo., 195 x 130 mm, bound in original red and black typographic wrappers in a new grey cloth folding box. Milano: Edizioni...
Item nr. 166366
Price: $3,850.00