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., Loose as issued in the original cardboard.....
Item nr. 168538
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GREGOIRE, Gaspard. Théorie des Couleurs: contenant Explication de la Table des Couleurs. Moyen de produire soi-même les Couleurs. Méthode de noter les Couleurs et de les exprimer par les Nombres. Title-page, iv, 88 pp. Illustrated with 9 small hand-coloured swatches in text. 8vo., bound in original buff wrappers in a......
Item nr. 167436
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CHEVREUL, M.E. Des Couleurs et de leurs Applications aux Arts Industriels à l'Aide des Cercles Chromatiques. 27 pp. Illustrated with 27 colour-printed steel engravings, 1 folded. Folio, bound in publisher's blue pebbled cloth. Paris: J.B. Ballière et fils, 1864.
A separately published atlas of plates for colour matching, according to Chevreul's.....
Item nr. 167431
Price: $2,500.00
ROUGET de LISLE, [Amédée]. Notice sur les Machines et Procédés relatifs à la Composition, à l'Impression des Dessins, et à la Fabrication des Tapisseries, présentée à la Société d'Encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale. ... Suivie de la Chromagraphie, ou l'Art de composer sans Peine des Dessins et des belles Tapisseries et.....
Item nr. 166816
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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
LE PILEUR D'APLIGNY. Traité des couleurs matérielles et de la maniere de colorer, relativement aux différens Arts et Métiers. xii, 342, [4] pp. 12mo., bound in modern half morocco over tan boards. Paris: Saugrain et Lamy, 1779.
Treatise on the chemical and physical processes of colouring, including the preparation of various.....
Item nr. 147442
Price: $525.00
BOUTET, Claude. Traite De Mignature pour apprendre aisement a peindre sans maitre. Avec le secret de faire les plus belles couleurs, l'or bruni & l'or en coquille. Frontispiece, [14], 269, [19] pp. Illustrated with 2 leaves of plates. 8vo., bound in contemporary boards. The Hague: Louis and Henry van Dole.....
Item nr. 147182
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CASTEL, Louis B. L'Optique des Couleurs, Fondée Sur Les Simples Observations, & Tournée Surtout À La Pratique De La Peinture, De La Teinture & Des Autres Arts Coloristes. [2], xviij, 487, [9] pp. Illustrated with 2 leaves of plates. 12mo., 165 x 92 mm, bound in contemporary speckled calf, gilt.....
Item nr. 147167
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WURTZ, Charles Adolphe. Progrès de l'Industrie des Matières Colorantes Artificielles. Extrait des Rapports du Jury de l'Exposition Universelle de 1873. [vi], [2], 192 pp. Illustrated with 5 double-page plates and 29 mounted textile samples, plus numerous diagrams in text. 8vo., 247 x 155 mm, bound in original wrappers. Paris: G......
Item nr. 143835
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HAREUX, Ernest. Le mélange des couleurs enseigné par l'exemple. Leçons données sur les fac-similés des oeuvres et des palettes. Illustrated with 14 colour plates printed by Engelmann in Paris. Folio, 304 x 230 mm, bound loose as issued in publisher's portfolio of blue cloth-backed printed boards with ties. Paris: Librairie.....
Item nr. 141833
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COWLEY, John Lodge. An Illustration and Mensuration of solid Geometry in seven Books: containing forty-two moveable Copper-plate Schemes for forming the various Kinds of Solids and their Sections... 32 pp. Illustrated with 42 full-page geometric engravings printed on heavy paper which cut-out to demonstrate solid forms London: printed by S......
Item nr. 168577
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ALBRECHT, Andreas. Zwey Bücher, das erste von der ohne und durch die Arithmetica gefundenen Perspectiva, das andere von dem dartzu gehörigen Schatten. 2 parts in 1 volume. Part 1: Title-page, dedication, 75 pp., illustrated with 6 fold-out engraved plates. Part 2, Title-page, 1 page to the reader, pp. 77-125. Illustrated.....
Item nr. 168571
Price: $7,500.00
DORÉ, Gustave. La Ménagerie Parisienne. Comprised of a printed title and 24 lithographic plates. 4to., 243 x 325 mm, disbound, in a new cloth folding box. Paris: Journal Pour Rire, 1854
First Edition of this very early work by Dore. Created as a social satire of French culture, La Ménagerie Parisienne.....
Item nr. 168152
Price: $4,750.00
LORIS, Daniel. Le thresor des parterres de l'univers, contenant les figures et pourtraits des plus beaux Compartimens, Cabanes et Labyrinthes des Jardinages, tant à l'Allemande qu'à la Françoise. Avec la manière de les construire, compasser et former dextrement. Descripts en Latin, François, Allemand et Anglais et distingué en trois livres.....
Item nr. 167290
Price: $35,000.00
FOSSATI, Giorgio. Raccolta di Varie Favole delineate, ed incise in Rame. Six volumes in two. [16], 44; [16], 48; [8], 76; [8], 59; [8], 59; [8], 36 pp. Title-pages in vol. I with engraved ornamental borders printed in red. Illustrated with 3 engraved headpieces and 216 engraved plates, printed in.....
Item nr. 116357
Price: $47,500.00
NAPIER, James. A Manual of Dyeing Receipts for General Use. iv, 83, [1], 4 pp. Illustrated with 56 mounted textile samples. 8vo., 188 x 115 mm, bound in publisher's navy cloth, title gilt on front cover. London and Glasgow: Richard Griffin & Company, 1855.
First Edition, a sequel to the same.....
Item nr. 148564
Price: $450.00
LOVIBOND, Joseph W. Measurement of light and colour sensations. A new method of investigating the phenomena of light and colour by means of the selective absorption in coloured glass, graded into scales of equivalent colour value. 132 pp. Illustrated with 13 text illustrations, 23 tables, 9 colour charts and 13.....
Item nr. 142456
Price: $850.00
PFINZING VON HENFENFELD, Paul. Optica, das ist Gründtliche doch kurtze Anzeigung wie nothwendig die löbliche Kunst der Geometriae seye inn der Perspectiv. Sambt einem nutzlichen Extract dreyerley Sorten und Wege darauff die Perspectiva zu verstehen und zugebrauchen. 18 ff. Engraved title-page border by L. Kilian, illustrated with 14 full-page woodcuts.....
Item nr. 168582
Price: $3,850.00
PLANELLA y COROMINA, José. Esposicion completa y elemental del arte de la perspectiva y aplicacion de ella al palco escénico. [4], 94 pp. Illustrated with 100 engraved plates. 8vo., 220 x 145 mm, bound in full contemporary calf, professionally rebacked. Barcelona, J. Verdaguer, 1840.
A fine copy of the first edition.....
Item nr. 168579
Price: $3,500.00
HEINEKEN, Paul. Lucidum prospectivae speculum: das ist ein heller Spiegel der Perspective. in welchem so wohl der Grund dieser Kunst als auch die in Praxi täglich vorfallende mannigfältige Application derselben durch viele behörige Exempel klar gezeiget wird ; wozu noch beygefügt sind achtzehen Plafonds oder Decken-Stücke von diversen Sorten ;.....
Item nr. 168575
Price: $7,500.00
HAMILTON, John. Stereography, or, A compleat body of perspective, in all its branches. Teaching to describe, by mathematical rules, the appearances of lines, plain figures, and solid bodies rectilinear, curvilinear, and mixed in all manner of positions. [9], 400, [36] pp. Illustrated with 130 engraved folding plates. Folio, 395 x......
Item nr. 168574
Price: $3,500.00
KIRBY, John Joshua. Dr. Brook Taylor's method of perspective made easy, both in theory and practice. In two books. Illustrated with fifty copper plates; most of which are engrav'd by the author. [4], iv, xvi, 78; [2], 84, [18] pp. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece by W. Hogarth, plus 51 full.....
Item nr. 168573
Price: $5,750.00
GARCIA BERRUGUILLA, Juan. Verdadera Práctica de las Resoluciones de la Geometría sobre las tres Dimensiones para un perfecto Architecto: con una total Resolución para medir y dividir la Planimetría para los Agrimensores. Title, [30], 135 pp. Illustrated with 18 folding engraved plates. 8vo., 225 x 150 mm, bound in contemporary.....
Item nr. 168572
Price: $3,750.00
RINGELBERG, Ioachim Fortius. Ioachimi Fortii Ringelbergii Andoverpiani opera, quae proxima pagina enumerantur. 664, [2] pp. Profusely illustrated with Woodcuts. Small 8vo., 165 x 100, bound in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin with a Roman goddess on the front cover, and a portrait of Luther on the back cover. Lyon: M. Sylvius for.....
Item nr. 168537
Price: $4,950.00
SARAYNA, Torelli. De Origine et amplitudine civitatis Veronae. 70 leaves including illustrations, erratic pagination (see below). Illustrated with woodcut printer's device on the title, woodcut portrait of the author and 26 woodcut plates, many double-page or fold-out plates, with several in-text woodcuts designed by Giovanni Caroto. Verona: Ex Officina Antonii.....
Item nr. 168506
Price: $12,500.00