TOWLE, H. Ledyard. Styling with Color. 28 pp. Colourfully illustrated throughout. Oblong 4to., bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers preserved in a new orange cloth box. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Paint Company, 1939.
A brilliant cover design for this paint trade catalogue, fully illustrated with colourful pages of interior and exterior paint jobs...
Item nr. 165320
Price: $475.00
KORNERUP, Andreas. AIMS: Advanced Ink Mixing System. 16 pp. of text. Illustrated with 132 plates and cut-out overlays, isolating colours in the spectra. 4to., 298 x 210 mm, bound in publisher's cream-coloured plastic-covered printed boards. Copenhagen: The Danish Paint and Ink Research Laboratory, 1968.
Only Edition of this colour atlas. Kornerup.....
Item nr. 159903
Price: $495.00
AUTOMOBILES. ACME Production Colors. WITH Rogers Automotive Color Mixing. 2 volumes. Thick 4to., 270 x 210 mm, bound in original embossed black and maroon expandable binders, respectively, with company logos. Detroit: Acme White Lead & Color Works, 1939-48.
First Edition of two scarce automotive colour sample books recording automobile colours in.....
Item nr. 159494
Price: $3,500.00
BRITISH COLOUR COUNCIL. The British Colour Council Dictionary of Colours for Interior Decoration. 3 volumes (2 of colour samples and a third volume of text). III: xxi, [1], 28, [6, memoranda] pp. Two sample volumes, 255 x 200 mm, bound in matching red cloth bolted binders, together in a matching.....
Item nr. 154464
Price: $1,250.00
BOSTON VARNISH COMPANY. Kyanize: the highest grade varnishes and enamels in the World. 40 pp. Illustrated with 75 paint and varnish samples, 8 varnished wood samples on one leaf, and colour illustrations throughout. Oblong 4to., 155 x 245 mm, bound in original embossed black and gold post binder. Boston, Chicago.....
Item nr. 151111
Price: $850.00
AUTOMOBILES - COLOUR. Ditzler Production Color Book. Ring binder with brochures containing 126 plates with 1430 colour chips. 4to., 270 x 210 mm, bound in publisher's black paper ring binder. Detroit: Ditzler Color Company, 1947-1958.
A comprehensive colour sample catalogue arranged by car model for paints produced by the Ditzler Color.....
Item nr. 150769
Price: $2,500.00
WADA, Senzo. Shikisai Haigo-ban. 8vo. 250 x 175 mm bound in publisher's colour illustrated boards which open to three panels with some explanatory text; a framed panel with eight colour strips which holds eight separate coloured cellophane filters in card frames; and a rotating volvelle with cellophane colour filters. In.....
Item nr. 165377
Price: $1,500.00
[SEJIRO, Miyake]. 4th Kimono Obi Belt Design Competition...volume 6 Kyoto Meiji 40 1907. 106 original gouache designs mounted back to back ranging in size from 330 x 275 to 475 x 320 mm. Folio, 535 x 385 mm, bound in a contemporary light blue Japanese block book cloth binding with.....
Item nr. 164052
Price: $15,000.00
KYOKARAKAMI, [JAPANESE PATTERN PAPER]. Kara nagatezuri mokuhan monyo [Kara-cho Designs for Hand-Printed Woodcut Pattern Paper.] Edited by Ansou Hisao. Preface by Osaragi Jiro. Two volumes. Contents includes: 2 ff. prefaces, 102 sheets of decorated papers, printed in colours from the original woodblocks on Kurotani paper, sheet size 390 x 510.....
Item nr. 163891
Price: $12,500.00
FASHION. Presage: Paris Fashion Forecast. Numbers 1 & 2 in 6 numbers and 55 additional issues. Illustrated throughout with colour plates, fabric swatches and photographs. Small folio preserved in publisher's decorative board folders as issued. Paris: Société d'éditions de Mode, 1962-1987.
A superb collection of issues of this visionary periodical which.....
Item nr. 162711
Price: $17,500.00
PATTERSON-SARGENT COMPANY. Color plates. Suggestions for Exterior House Painting. 28 pp. Illustrated title with birds-eye view of the Cleveland factory, and 106 paint and varnish samples, 12 stained wood samples on one leaf, all with explanatory text printed on the sides of the samples. With 10 pp. "Suggestions" stapled pamphlet.....
Item nr. 151062
Price: $1,500.00
ANDERSEN, Hendrik Christian. Creation d'un Centre mondial de Communication. Two parts in one volume. [6], xv, 128, 102 pp. Recto of dedication leaf in heliogravure. 25 heliogravure plates (9 double-page and 5 double-page and folding), including the plate 'A World Centre' at the beginning of part I not called for.....
Item nr. 167123
Price: $7,500.00
KORZHEV, M.P. & M.I. PROKHOROVA. Arkhitektura parkov SSSR. [Architecture of Parks of the USSR]. 140 pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs and plans. 4to., 265 x 200 mm, bound in publisher's grey cloth. [Moscow]: Izd-vo Akademii arkhitektury SSSR, 1940.
First edition. One of 4000 copies. A rare photographic survey of parks across.....
Item nr. 166616
Price: $1,500.00
BELOUSOV, G.N. Teoriya I praktika primeneniya probnih stekol [i.e. The theory and practice of the usage of test glasses]. 19 pp. Illustrated with 18 colour plates. 8vo., bound in original light blue wrappers, preserved in a new grey cloth folding box. Moscow: GIZ Legkoi promyshlennosti, 1933.
In this work, dedicated to.....
Item nr. 167405
Price: $3,750.00
ALEKSEEV, S.S. Elementarnyi kurs tsvetovedeniya. [Basics of Colour Science]. 238, [2] pp. Illustrated throughout with black-&-white plates and 4 colour plates at the end and one large folding diagram. Tall 8vo., bound in publisher's blue printed boards. Moscow, Leningrad: Izogiz, 1937.
First Edition. One of 5000 copies. One of the earliest.....
Item nr. 166629
Price: $975.00
SHESTAKOV, F.K. Soglasovanie tsvetov dlia koloristov, khudozhnikov, khudozhnikov-prikladistov i dlia studentov i uchashchikhsya spetsial'nykhuchebnykh zavedenii. [Colour matching for Colourists, Artists, Applied Artists and for Students of Special Educational Institutions]. 79 pp. Illustrated throughout with diagrams. Tall 8vo., bound in publisher's green and blue printed wrappers in new green cloth folding.....
Item nr. 166628
Price: $1,500.00
PORTUGALOV, P.A. Parki kul'tury i otdykha Moskvy: Putevoditel'... [Parks of
Culture and Recreation: Guidebook]. 113, [11] pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs and plans. 8vo., 190 x 135 mm, bound in publisher's decorated wrappers and dust-wrapper by Buev and Iordansky. Preserved in a new light blue cloth folding box. Moscow: Moskovsky rabochii.....
Item nr. 166612
Price: $1,500.00
TYML, Jan. Domovem jdem, v svet se berem vlakem, lodí, autem, aerem. 4 parts, each with 8 leaves, illustrated throughout. Oblong 8vo., loose in original illustrated wrappers in a new light blue cloth folding box. Praha: Cs. grafická Unie, 1936.
A beautifully designed childrens' book showing various modes of transport on.....
Item nr. 166048
Price: $1,750.00
ABERCROMBIE, Patrick. Greater London Plan 1944. A Report prepared on behalf of the Standing Committee on London Regional Planning at the Request of the Minister of Town and Country Planning. X, 220, [1] pp. Illustrated with 89 photographs & 33 illustrations from drawings, diagrams, & maps (some in colour, 9.....
Item nr. 164739
Price: $495.00
GUTSCHOW, Konstanty. Elbufergestaltung Hamburg. Architekt Konstanty Gutschow. 6 pp. text leaves and 17 leaves with mounted photographs showing models, plans, and architectural details, together with an otherwise unknown large architectural map of the area from Gutschow's office. 4to., 310 x 280 mm, bound in contemporary brown half cloth, inner cover.....
Item nr. 163832
Price: $7,500.00
COUDER, M -L. Tout au Carreau. Suite documentaire pour l'Enseignement du Dessin dans les Classes élémentaires et la Direction des Loisirs. 4 pp. text. Illustrated with 32 colour plates. Small folio, bound in publisher's decorated wrappers. Paris: Librairie Hachette, [1939].
A charming drawing book for children, remarkable for the exquisite colouring.....
Item nr. 163809
Price: $1,500.00
CZECH COLOUR THEORY. POTRAVINOPROJEKT - PRAHA. Barevné vybavení interiérù v závodech resortu MPPV. 50 ff. comprising 34 single-sided mimeographed sheets and 16 hand-drawn illustrations pasted onto black paper and tables including numerous painted colour samples. Small folio, 295 x 195 mm, bound in original pale blue cloth covered boards, title.....
Item nr. 159075
Price: $975.00
DETMER, BRUNER & MASON, Inc. World's best Tailors Trimmings. Book No. 100 A. Complete assortment -- superior qualities -- lowest prices. [6], 28 pp., 30-62 leaves, 63-65 pp. containing 299 mounted silk, wool-blend, linen, muslin, felt, jacquard silk, and other fabrics, and advertisements printed in red. Oblong folio, 185 x......
Item nr. 154485
Price: $1,250.00
FUTURISTIC WORLD. The World of To-Morrow. A Junior Book of Forecasts. By Idrisyn Oliver Evans. 163 pp. Illustrated with 24 transparent "Diophane" photo-mechanical plates. 8vo., bound in original publisher's translucent "Rhodoid" boards over original wrappers, yellow cloth spine, in mylar jacket. London: D. Archer, 1933.
First and Only Edition of this.....
Item nr. 149577
Price: $1,750.00
ABNEY, William. Researches in Colour Vision and the Trichromatic Theory. xiv, 418 pp. Illustrated with four colour plates, and diagrams throughout. 8vo., 220 x 135 mm, bound in publisher's green cloth stamped in blind on front cover and gilt on spine. London: Longmans, 1913.
First Edition. This is the culmination of.....
Item nr. 148961
Price: $200.00