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: $17,500.00
VITRUVIUS, Marcus. I Dieci Libri Dell'Architettura. Translated with additional commentary by Daniele Barbaro. 274 (i.e., 284), [18] pp. (erratic pagination throughout). Illustrated with woodcut architectural title-page, full-page woodcut of two men among ruins, 132 woodcuts within the Ten Books of which eight are double-page plates, six have pasted on extensions...
Item nr. 166976
Price: $37,500.00
PIAZZETTA, Giambattista. La Gerusalemme Liberata. By Torquato Tasso. [12], 254 (i.e., 258) ff. Illustrated with an allegorical frontispiece, title vignette, dedicatory portrait of Maria Teresa by Polanzani after Piazzetta, 20 full-page engraved plates surrounded with etched ornamental borders, 20 half-page headpieces containing the "argomenti" to each Canto, 20 culs-de-lampe, 22...
Item nr. 166968
Price: $38,500.00
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 the second issue tan cloth binding by Kurt Wolff with lithographic label designed by Kokoschka on front cover, in a....
Item nr. 166957
Price: $35,000.00
AUGUSTINE, Saint. De Civitate Dei. 305 ff. of 306 (missing final blank). [a-b8 c-z10 A-G10 H10 (-H10, final blank)], with three blanks (ff. 1, 16, 305). 46 lines, gothic type (2:84) printed double-column, roman headline (4:110). Folio, 286 x 202 mm, bound in contemporary Venetian calf over wooden boards paneled...
Item nr. 166923
Price: $87,500.00
ROCHAS, Albert de. Le Livre de Demain. 44 separate fascicles comprising 424 pp. Illustrated with 11 original samples of rare old paper, 4 chromatic circles, 6 silhouettes by P. Konewka and 5 plates of which 3 are etchings and 2 are reproductions. 8vo., bound in a 217 x 140 mm...
Item nr. 165802
Price: $9,500.00
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 with additional hand-painting. In a new black half morocco box...
Item nr. 166800
Price: $27,500.00
ITALY. MISSON, François-Maximilien. Nouveau Voyage D'Italie, Avec un Memoire contenant des avis utiles à ceux qui voudront faire le mesme voyage. Three volumes. [26], 248, [21]; 352, [28]; [18], 413 (i.e., 417), [21] pp. Illustrated with a total of 65 engraved plates of which 39 are folding, plus one folding...
Item nr. 166964
Price: $15,000.00
MENESTRIER, Claude-François. -- LA TOUR D'AUVERGNE, Louis Charles de, Prince de Turenne. Ludovico Magno theses ex universa philosophia dicat et consecrat Ludovicus a Turre-Arverniæ princeps Turennius. [16] pp., (page [4] blank). Engraved throughout: calligraphic title and text engraved by Louis Michault within elaborate emblematic and historiated borders engraved by Louis...
Item nr. 166958
Price: $18,500.00
DE MONTENAY, Georgette. Emblemes, ou devises chrestiennes. [8, including blank], 100, [8] ff. Illustrated with wood engraved title-vignette and 100 engraved plates by Pierre Woeiriot, printed on facing pages. Small 4to., 210 x 150 mm, bound in contemporary vellum, early manuscript title on spine. La Rochelle: Jean Dinet, 1620.
First and...
Item nr. 166944
Price: $25,000.00
![Imagines XXIIII Caesaru[m] a Iulio ad Alexandrum Severu[m] usque, ab antiquis marmoribus excerptae nuper impressae. Donato BERTELLI, Donatum Bertellum, Roman Emperors, Portraits of Roman Emperors.](/pictures/thumb/166926.jpg?v=1544146149)
ROMAN EMPERORS. Imagines XXIIII Caesaru[m] a Iulio ad Alexandrum Severu[m] usque, ab antiquis marmoribus excerptae nuper impressae. Edited and engraved by Donato Bertelli. Engraved title-page and 24 full-page engraved portraits numbered I-XXIV of Roman Emperors from Julius Caesar to Severus Alexander. 4to., 228 x 168 mm, bound in later Italian...
Item nr. 166926
Price: $22,500.00
MENDELSOHN, Erich. Amerika. Bilderbuch eines Architekten. Illustrated with 100 photographs by Erich Mendelsohn. Folio, bound in publisher's cloth-backed boards. Berlin: Rudolf Mosse Buchverlag, 1928.
An unusually fine copy of this classic homage to early twentieth-century American architecture by the celebrated German modernist architect Erich Mendelsohn. Rarely found thus.
Parr 74-75. Fotografia Publica...
Item nr. 166890
Price: $1,500.00
BARBAULT, Jean. Les plus beaux eìdifices de Rome moderne, ou recueil des plus belles vues des principales eìglises, places, palais, fontaines, etc. qui sont dans Rome dessineìes par Jean Barbault ... et graveìes en 44. grandes planches et plusieurs vignettes par d'habiles maitres avec la description historique de chaque eìdifice...
Item nr. 166511
Price: $18,500.00
SIGNAC, Paul. Lithograph for the program of the Théâtre Libre. 155 x 180 mm. Executed in 1888; this program was issued for the performance on 31 January 1889.
One of Signac's most striking graphic works. As a Neo-Impressionist associated with the development of Divisionism or Pointillism, the artist has created a....
Item nr. 164746
Price: $12,500.00
LÉGER, Fernand. Le Cirque. Illustrated with 75 lithographs by Léger, of which 33 are printed in colour and 42 in black (unsigned). Folio, 440 x 340, bound in original illustrated wrappers, in the publisher's box and matching chemise. Paris: Tériade, 1950.
One of the great livres des peintres of the twentieth...
Item nr. 166646
Price: $50,000.00
BENSON, William. Principles of the Science of Colour concisely stated to aid and promote their useful Application in the Decorative Arts. x, 48 pp. Illustrated with 6 uncoloured lithographs, 4 text illustrations of which 2 are hand-coloured and 5 plates with mounted coloured circle patterns. 4to., 275 x 210 mm...
Item nr. 165807
Price: $3,500.00
PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Il Mercurio Errante delle Grandezze di Roma. Text by Giovanni Pietro Rossini, the Elder. Two volumes in one. [10], 192; [2], 146, [8] pp. Illustrated with 19 folding engraved plates by Piranesi, Jean-Laurent Legeay, and Philothée-François Duflos. 16mo., 160 x 86 mm, bound in contemporary Italian vellum...
Item nr. 165603
Price: $7,500.00
BETTI, Giovanni Battista. A' Dilettanti delle Bell'Arti. Contents includes illustrated engraved title and 24 engraved plates. Oblong folio, 220 x 300 mm, bound in contemporary paste-paper wrappers. Florence: 1779.
First Edition of Betti's imaginative illustrated alphabet-book, containing 24 full-page oblong plates of richly ornamented capital letters, each letter standing in a....
Item nr. 165360
Price: $12,500.00
ALABONE, Edwin W. Poly-cyclo-epicycloidal and Other Geometric Curves. 8 ff., one photo plate and 77 colour plates of designs. 8vo., bound in publisher's gilt decorated maroon pebbled cloth. London: Swain, 1910.
First Edition, presentation copy. An eccentric book illustrating a series of elaborate designs printed in a variety of colours, which...
Item nr. 165737
Price: $2,750.00
STEINER, S.E. Wiener Werkstaette Fabrics. 42 Textile Samples. Oblong 4to., bound in publisher's green cloth in a new green cloth folding box. [Vienna: Steiner & Co., ND]
A rare catalogue from S.E. Steiner & Co, which had been producing fabrics for the Wiener Werkstätte before they founded their own textile department...
Item nr. 165736
Price: $15,000.00
ARBEITSGEMEINSCHAFT DER VIER. Der Weg zur Farbe. 138 pp. Illustrated with 25 colour plates. 8vo., bound in publisher's decorated cloth. Hamburg: Verlag Fachblatt der Maler, ND. [ca 1930].
A rare, handsomely illustrated Bauhaus work on colour theory. Part one with chapters on Tobias Mayer, Lambert, Goethe, Runge, Chevreul, and others. No...
Item nr. 165728
Price: $2,500.00
SEKKA, Kamisaka, Furuya KORIN et al. Bijutsu-Kai. 14 Volumes. Illustrated with 1397 woodblock printed plates. 4to., bound in publisher's wrappers in 2 new chitsu cases. Kyoto: Yamada Unsodo, 1935.
$17,500.00
A splendid complete set of this legendary publication, here consisting of the plates from the 70 issues bound up separately by the...
Item nr. 165245
Price: $17,500.00
HORINO, Masao. Kamera me tetsu kosei. [Camera Eye X Steel: Composition]. Illustrated with 44 photographic plates. 4to., bound in publisher's wrappers in a morocco-backed chemise and slipcase. Tokyo: Mokuseisha Shoin, 1932.
A fine copy of Horino's legendary second book, which is considered to be the epitome of Shinko Shashin (Modernist Photography)...
Item nr. 165554
Price: $9,000.00
TOKYO, TEISHITSU HAKUBUTSUKAN. Orimon Ruizan. [Historical textiles compiled by the Imperial Museum]. 10 volumes. Illustrated with 1040 colour woodcuts on 520 leaves. 8vo., 250 x 180 mm, bound in publisher's wrappers, in a new chitsu case. Tokyo: Yurindo, 1892.
A masterpiece of the woodblock maker's art. This collection of 1040 plates...
Item nr. 165215
Price: $25,000.00
WYEDA, B. and T. AOKI. Nihon meisho zue. Gokinai no bu. Illustrated Guide Book for Travellers around Japan. Seven volumes. Illustrated with 794 woodcut illustrations. Small 8vo., bound in original publisher's cloth-backed illustrated paper over boards, and housed in a new chitsu case. Osaka: Sanyodo, 1890.
A fine set of this...
Item nr. 165142
Price: $7,500.00