POLAND. Die durchfuhrung des dreijahrplans des wiederaufbaus der wirtschaft in Polen. 62 pp., illustrated throughout with isotype diagrams, charts and photographs. Small oblong folio, 215 x 300 mm., bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers. Warszawa: Ksiazka i Wiedza, 1950.
An unusual example of avant-garde book design from Communist Poland. The publication was.....
Item nr. 170981
Price: $2,500.00
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: $8,500.00
[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
PELLE, Clement and Thomas ALLOM. L'Empire Chinois, illustre d'apres des Dessins pris sur les Lieux. 4 Volumes. [4], 68, 26; 76; 74; 73, [3] pp., illustrated with 4 engraved added title-pages and 124 full page steel engraved plates. 4to, 275 x 214 mm., bound in publisher's elaborately decorated red cloth.....
Item nr. 170092
Price: $8,500.00
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
WOMEN. Soviet Women. [50] ff., illustrated with photographs throughout. 4to, 250 x 190 mm., bound in publisher's embossed yellow cloth, in publisher's cardboard slipcase. Moscow: State Art Publishers, 1939.
A photographic homage to the role of women in Soviet Russia. Unlike so many of the Soviet propaganda books, where the reality.....
Item nr. 170930
Price: $3,500.00
TELINGATER, Solomon. Slovo Predostaviliaetsia Kirsanovu. By Semen Kirsanov. Small 8vo., bound in original illustrated wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. Moscow: Goslitizdat, 1930.
A fine copy of this rare and spectacular example of avant-garde book design from the complex cover, which combines collage and typography, to the intricate typographical layout.....
Item nr. 170363
Price: $4,950.00
ONCHI, Koshiro. Chu. Gyo. Kai. [Insects, Fish, Shells]. Unpaginated, 14 ff. Illustrated with 10 prints done with a mix of techniques including pochoir and woodcut. 4to., 265 x 210, bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers. Tokyo: Aoi Shobo, Showa 18 [1943].
Onchi was an extremely prolific and gifted artist whose work with.....
Item nr. 169968
Price: $7,500.00
LE CORBUSIER. La Charte d'Athenes, avec un Discours liminaire de Jean Giraudoux. 212 pp. 8vo, 145 x 135 mm., bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers in a new cloth folding box. Paris: Plon, 1943.
First edition of the Athens Charter inscribed by Le Corbusier to the legendary publisher, Christian Zervos.
The Athens Charter.....
Item nr. 169426
Price: $3,750.00
PICASSO, Pablo with André VILLERS. Diurnes. Decoupages et Photographies. By Jacques Prévert. 18 pages text accompanied by 30 loose-leaf collotypes. Folio, in original wrappers in publisher's box with decorative colour design by Picasso. Paris: Berggruen, 1962.
"Picasso made some cut-outs of heads and silhouettes of men, women and animals. Villers mounted.....
Item nr. 169401
Price: $7,500.00
EDEL, Nico. Una visita a Cinzano. 44 pp., illustrated throughout. Folio, 320 x 265 mm., bound in original illustrated wrappers in a new cloth folding box. [Milano, Alfieri & Lacroix]: N.d., [1934 or 1936].
A spectacular and rare piece of Italian book design under fascism, but without the usual heavy hand.....
Item nr. 168738
Price: $3,500.00
DAVIS, Alexander Jackson. Rural Residences, etc. Consisting of Designs, Original and Selected, for Cottages, Farm Houses, Villas, and Village Churches... Unpaginated. Content includes: Title page, advertising leaf, [16] pp. of "Specification of the Material and Work Required for Building a Dwelling House." Illustrated with 11 hand-coloured lithographed plates and 1.....
Item nr. 170506
Price: $25,000.00
GUNDRY, John. Specimens of Penmanship from Gundry's Business College Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A. Comprises 22 full page calligraphic designs in black, white and metallic inks on bright blue [13], black [7] and white [2] grounds, one of which incorporates an albumen portrait of Gundry; 41 smaller designs arranged on three sheets;.....
Item nr. 170502
Price: $35,000.00
ROUGET DE LISLE, A. Chromagraphie. Four parts in one volume. 8; 8; 16; 12, 8 pp., illustrated with four wood-engraved vignettes, 10 folding hand-coloured lithographed plates showing over 100 pairs of colour arrangements numbered figs. 1-74; three engraved folding diagrams of weaving designs by Durau fils; one plate of weaving.....
Item nr. 170387
Price: $12,500.00
ADAMS, Rudolph. Die Farben-Harmonie in ihrer Anwendung auf die Damentoilette. xii, 322, 4 pp. Illustrated with 3 lithographic plates of which two are chromolithographs. 8vo., 213 x 135 mm, bound in publisher's mint green illustrated wrappers in a new cloth folding box. Leipzig: J.J. Weber, 1862.
First Edition of this German.....
Item nr. 170382
Price: $3,500.00
ADAM, Victor. Les Synonymes en Action. Contents include; hand-coloured lithographed title and twenty-four hand-colored lithographed plates, heightened with gum arabic, (W, X & Y on one plate). Folio, 337 x 250 mm, bound in publisher's blind stamped red cloth over boards, front cover decorated and lettered in gilt, expertly rebacked.....
Item nr. 170270
Price: $8,500.00
ACCOLTI, Pietro. Lo Inganno de gl'occhi, prospettiva pratica. Trattato in acconcio della pittura. [12], 152, [4] pp. Illustrated throughout, woodcut diagrams, illustrations. Folio, 303 x 217 mm, bound in contemporary mottled calf. Florence: Pietro Cecconcelli, 1625.
First Edition of the practical manual of perspective, of special interst to painters. Contains the.....
Item nr. 170104
Price: $5,000.00
VIRGIL. Les Eclogues de Virgile. Texte Latin et Traduction Francaise de Marc Laforgue imprimees par Harry de Kessler. With 43 woodcut engravings by Aristide Maillol, initials and title-page designed by Eric Gill. Large 4to. Loose in the original wrappers and publisher's vellum-backed folding case. Leipzig: Cranach Presse, 1926.
First Edition, one.....
Item nr. 169584
Price: $7,500.00
ARMENIA. Hayeri verabnakets'umy HSSH-its' durs. viii, 112 pp., illustrated with 97 full page maps and charts. Large 4to, bound in publisher's maroon cloth. Erevan: Haykakan SSRò Gitut'yunneri Akademia, 1961.
This atlas presents an unusual and stunning example of avant-garde book design from what was then Soviet Armenia.
Item nr. 170979
Price: $2,500.00
DECKER, Paul. Chinese Architecture Civil and Ornamental. Title-page + 24 plates. London: [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. Part.....
Item nr. 170368
Price: $22,500.00
COOK, G.D. & Co. Illustrated Catalog of Carriages and Special Business Advertiser, New Haven, Ct. [iv], 226 pp. Oblong 8vo, 170 x 245 mm., bound in original embossed brown cloth, rebacked in tan calf, spine gilt. New York: Baker & Godwin, 1860.
This illustrated catalog is a wonderful study of mid-nineteenth.....
Item nr. 170108
Price: $3,750.00
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 throughout with photographs and photomontage. Small folio, 330 x 255 mm., 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.....
Item nr. 169728
Price: $7,500.00
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