ITALIENISCHE MAJOLICA-FLIESEN AUS DEM ENDE DES FUFFZEHNTEN UND ANFANG DES SECHSZEHNTEN JAHRHUNDERTS. by MEURER, M - 1881

Milan: Electa Architecture, 2005. Signed by Waro Kishi. First edition / First printing. Black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

Dust jacket has wear along the edges with small tears. There is a piece of tape on the spine along with reinforcement tape inside of dust jacket. Bottem edge of HC is bent. Dust jacket has some scratches and some creasing. Reinforcement binding was added inside front end page and next page. Dust jacket and pages of book have some discoloration from age. Delivery confirmation is provided where available. BOOK IS COMPLETE WITH ALL 44 ILLUSTRATIONS.

Hermann, 1966. Book. Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. In-4, relié, jaquette, Bon Etat, Les constituantes - liants, solvants, plastifiants, pigments, colorants, charges, adjuvants.

Stuttgart: Hauswedell & Co. Thick folio. 611pp., prof. illus. Catalogue Raisonné of the prints. German text. Cloth. Thick Folio. As New.
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Privately Printed, 1924. Softcover. Very Good. Original exhibition catalog issued on the occasion of an exhibition of books containing illustrations by celebrated painter, engraver, publisher and illustrator Jean-Gabriel Daragnes - specifically, woodcuts. Illustrated with an original portrait etching of Daragnes by Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, 11 black-and-white Daragnes plates, three depicting lesbian scenes, and an original Daragnes hand-colored engraving laid in showing a husband walking in on his wife in bed with her lover - a scene from Fielding's Tom Jones. Signed and inscribed on front free endpaper thus: "Pour Madame Legat | Ce registre d'etat und des infants | qu'un pere demature confie a | l'assistance publingier | le pere indigne | Daragnes." Translation: "For Mrs. Legat: This register of state and children that a father has entrusted with the assistant publisher. The unworthy father, Daragnes." Also signed and inscribed on front free endpaper by an… Read More

Bordeaux, ACTAR arc en reve / centre d'architecture, 2000. Signed by Rem Koolhaas. First edition / First printing. Includes CD in back pocket. Black wrappers in yellow printed vinyl jacket. Very fine in fine jacket. Rem Koolhaas is the Pritzker Prize Winner for 2000.

Good complete collection of the heraldry section from Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopedia. Complete with all 29 copperplate engravings (one triple folding plate counted as three) and 26 pages of explanatory text.With over 750 heraldic shields comprising:650 examples of heraldic motifs (Pl. I to XII)21 coats of arms of religious ranks, helms of aristocracy (Pl. XIII to XIV)36 coats of arms of kings and rulers of Europe, Russia, Ethiopia, Persia, China, etc. (Pl. XV to XVIII)24 coats of arms of French nobility (Pl. XIX to XX)63 coats of arms within a genealogical tree of the kings of France going back five generations from Louis XVI, beheaded in the French Revolution, to Louis XIII (Triple folding plate, Pl. XXI)12 coats of arms with supporting mermaids, bears, tigers, hounds, gryphons, eagles, etc. (Pl. XXII)95 coats of arms of military and religious orders with their names neatly written in pencil (Pl. XXIII-XXVII)Half leather, spine with five raised bands, gilt fleurs-de-lys, blue cloth title label… Read More

Good copy of a suite of 24 finely hand-coloured lithographs depicting the people of the worldComplete with all 24 illustrations by Felix Fossey and Auguste Leloir, richly hand-coloured figures on sepia-tinted backgrounds (it was also issued in sepia only)The plates depict people from five continents, with 11 from Europe, three of Asia, three of Africa, three of America and three of Oceania. Frontispiece shows the dispersion of people from the Tower of Babel. The plates show traditional inhabitants of the regions: flamenco dancers in Spain, kilted highlanders in Britain, Berbers and Arabs in Algeria, Sami people in Norway, etc. The backgrounds are atmospheric locations such as street markets, a Chinese palace courtyard with pagoda, Indian temples, Dutch windmills, Senatskaia Square in St. Petersburg, Russia, etc. Many of the scenes include fascinating vignettes. A lazaroni (leper) prostrating himself on the ground in Italy, aborigines in Australia examining flotsam from a European shipwreck, a man from… Read More

Fair copy only of a rare collection of lithographic portraits of famous artists.Impressive set of 18 large, bold portraits of the Old MastersSix numbers with 18 plates and text biographies only (it ran to 20 numbers with 60 plates), lacking title pagePlates drawn by HvH, mostly after self-portraits by the original artistsPrinted by Godefroy Engelmann, 1788-1839, the pioneer Franco-German lithographerThe subjects include:Sir Anthony Van Dyck, Flemish Baroque artist, 1599-1641Bartolome Esteban Murillo, Spanish Baroque painter, 1618-1682Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance artist, 1452-1519David Teniers the Younger, Flemish painter, 1610 -1690Michelangelo, Italian Renaissance painter, 1475-1564 Frans Snyders, Flemish painter 1579-1657Salvator Rosa, Italian Baroque painter, 1615-1673Nicolas Poussin, French Baroque artist, 1594-1665. Albrecht Durer, German Renaissance painter, 1471-1528Hans Holbein the younger, German Renaissance artist,1497-1543Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Dutch painter,… Read More

London: Christopher Sandford [The Golden Cockerel Press], 1949. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Red and yellow buckram with red and gilt cover illustration and gilt title on spine. Engraved title page and 10 (8 full-page.) engravings by John Buckland Wright, all protected by tissue guards. The book was designed, produced and published by Christopher Sandiford [for the Golden Cockerel Press]. Number 224 of a limited edition of 500 copies. Spine trifle faded. 48 pp., 23,2 x 15 cm. .