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
LE CORBUSIER (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret). Poème de l'Angle Droit. 150, [8] pp. Illustrated throughout with lithograph text in the artist's hand, interspersed with numerous lithographs printed in black and colour. Folio, 430 x 330 mm, bound in original publisher's wrappers and cardboard slipcase. Paris: Tériade, [1955].
A superb copy of this icon...
Item nr. 165812
Price: $35,000.00
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
WARHOL, Andy. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again). 241 pp. 8vo., bound in original cloth, in dust jacket illustrated with a photograph by Philippe Halsmann. In a new cloth folding box. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975.
A fine copy of the first edition of...
Item nr. 165674
Price: $2,500.00
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
TOKYO. Edo Meisho Zue [Famous Sights in and about Edo]. Twenty Volumes. Illustrated with ca. 600 woodcuts by Hasegawa Settan. By Gesshin Saitô et al. Small 4to., 260 x 185 mm, bound in original Japanese pale blue paper with paper title labels on front covers, stitched and bound accordion style...
Item nr. 165084
Price: $25,000.00
GORO, Kumada, Ken DOMON, Masao HORINO et al. Nippon. [Japan: The Nation in Panorama]. 32 double-page back to back photomontages as an accordion fold-out. Oblong folio, 272 x 303 mm, bound in publisher's silver paper covered boards, in a new cloth folding box. Tokyo: Kokusai Bunka, 1937.
A fine copy of...
Item nr. 165558
Price: $20,000.00
PILLEMENT, Jean. Cahier de Six Baraques Chinoises WITH: Recueil de Tentes Chinoises. Two suites each comprised of 6 etchings, professionally matted. Plate size: ca. 242 x 165 mm. Sheet size: ca. 350 x 257 mm. All preserved in a large folio sized modern maroon cloth box. Paris: Leviez, 1770.
First State...
Item nr. 165235
Price: $7,500.00
LOCKS - Trade Catalogue. Door Locks, Knobs, Padlocks, etc., Illustrated and Described. Mallory, Wheeler & Co., Manufacturers, New Haven Conn. iv, 5-292 pp. Illustrated with 227 chromolithographic plates. Folio, 455 x 357 mm, bound in contemporary straight-grained brown morocco, blind-ruled fillets, gilt-lettered title on upper cover, by H. M. Robinson...
Item nr. 165274
Price: $8,500.00
PÉRIN, Rene. Le Voyageur Anglais Autour du Monde Habitable: Nouvelle Méthode Amusante et Instructive pour étudier la Géographie...Orné de 45 Gravures coloriees avec soin, Représentant Les Vues des Principales Villes Capitales du Monde et les Costumes de leurs Habitans. [2], 142 pp. Illustrated with hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and decorative title...
Item nr. 165362
Price: $2,750.00
JI, Yun Fei. Three Gorges Dam Migration. Woodcut scroll, composition (image): 13 3/8 x 120 11/16" (34 x 306.5 cm); sheet (full sheet): 17 5/16 x 337 3/16" (44 x 856.5 cm). New York: Library Council of The Museum of Modern Art, 2009.
The seventh in the series of artist's books...
Item nr. 165161
Price: $12,500.00
WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd. Schumacher's Taliesin line of decorative Fabrics and Wallpapers. 5 leaves of text and 26 Sheets of Wallpaper designed by Wright. Folio, 450 x 345 mm, bound in publisher's illustrated tan cloth. [Chicago: E.W. Bredemeier & Co., ND 1950's].
A scarce salesman's sample book for a line of wallpapers...
Item nr. 164777
Price: $8,500.00
CAULFIELD, Patrick. Some Poems of Jules Laforgue. 60 pp. With 20 artist's proofs and a portfolio of 6 extra prints. Folio, laid into grey calf folder and matching box. London: Petersburg Press, 1973.
The artist accompanies La Forgue's landmark Symbolist poems with screenprints of details from everyday scenes, described as "archetypal...
Item nr. 164407
Price: $8,750.00
HASSELWANDER, Albert. Ein Anatomischer Totentanz. 27, [1] pp. Illustrated with 50 photographic plates. Small 4to., 220 x 175 mm, bound in original publisher's half vellum over brown boards. Munich: J.F. Bergmann, 1926.
Only Edition, an inscribed copy, of this photographic anomaly, offering an "Anatomical Dance of Death," prepared for the use...
Item nr. 164781
Price: $9,500.00