Recent Arrivals from Jason Rovito, Bookseller

Lille: L. Danel, 1829. Octavo. Contemporary full leather binding, with gilt tooling and edges. Front endpaper with presentation inscription from author to colleague. Illustrated with coloured engraving as frontispiece, and three samples of administrative forms at rear. Contents: 74 pages; some foxing. A fascinating treatise from J.-T. Lefebure, then Secretary General of the Comité Central de Vaccine du Département du Nord… Read more about this item

Basel / Caracas / Madrid, circa 1975. A group of three black-and-white postcards, with rectos fully-illustrated after photographic image of Charlotte Moorman in performance. Some toning. With stamped captions to blank versos. From 1969 onwards, experimental cellist Charlotte Moorman would perform Nam June Paik's descriptively-titled composition, TV Bra for Living Sculpture, more than any work in her repertoire. A… Read more about this item

Servizio Propaganda della RAI (Radiotelevisione italiana), [1962]. Broadsheet poster (43 x 64 cm., folded down to panels of 21.5 x 16 cm.); recto fully-illustrated after black-and-white photographic design. "With the advent of radio, and above all television, Today's Man is literally a participant in the events of his time..." Something of a manifesto from Italy's national broadcasting agency—designed by… Read more about this item

Paris: Société Anonyme de Television Pirate, 1983. Red-and-blue serigraph, printed to reflective plastic sheet (23.5 x 29 cm.). Share number (000036) perforated to top-right margin. Fine. In early-Winter 1983, the graphic artist/media provocateur Kiki Picasso—i.e. Bazooka member Christian Chapiron—announced the development of a new experimental television station in Paris, to be named Antene 1 (A1). In his inimitable style,… Read more about this item

[Paris], 1790. Quarto. Modern binding, with quarter leather over marbled boards. Contents: [2], viii, 201, [1] pages. Minor foxing to some margins, but a generally well-preserved copy of this uncommon text. A Revolutionary text from the Life Sciences maverick Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, who helped found the Société royale de médecine; becoming its Permanent Secretary at the age of 30. During… Read more about this item

Roma: Fratelli Pallotta, 1856. Octavo. Presentation binding with gilt-stamped design to boards, dedicated to Catholic Cardinal Gaspare Bernardo Pianetti. Contents: 67, [5] pages, with folding lithograph bound at rear, illustrating Masi and Venditti's therapeutic invention. Ostensibly a treatise on the causes and treatment of cholera (as "peste fredda") from the climatological perspective of medical topography, assembled by the Drs.… Read more about this item

New York: WNET, 1975. Hand-made report. Coil-bound plain wrappers, with combination of desktop-published sheets and xerographic copies. Total of 180 leaves, printed rectos-only. Founded in February 1972, thanks to a $150,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, The Television Laboratory at WNET/THIRTEEN provided space and resources for video artists and technicians to expand the potential of the television medium. Under… Read more about this item

Torino: RAI (Radiotelevisione italiana), 1954. Pamphlet. Panoramically-illustrated wrappers (21 cm.); minor creasing to corners, with some tanning. Contents: [16] pages; illustrated throughout in tri-tone colours. A dreamy prospectus for RAI (Radiotelevisione italiana), Italy's national broadcasting service, which first began its television programming on January 1st, 1954, with a network of transmitters servicing 2,800,000 subscribers in a northern region of… Read more about this item

Paris: Mémoires de l'Académie Royale, [1783]. Offprint. Quarto; rebound in modern marbled boards. Contents: [38 pages]; representing pp. 468-504 of the Mémoires de l'Académie Royale; minor foxing. Illustrated by four folding engravings, bound at rear. Both text and plates with detailed annotations from contemporary reader; contemporary cancel to recto of first leaf. Transcript of an early-neurological lecture from the… Read more about this item

Paris: Chez Mequignon l'aîne, Libraire, 1801. Octavo. Quarter-leather over marbled boards. Contents: viii, 139 pages, followed by [5] pp. publisher's catalogue. Boards rubbed, with chip to head of spine; nonetheless, a sound binding. Extra-illustrated with two folding plates at rear, visualizing the progression of pustules following vaccination; these plates originally published and sold separately, as per notice to verso of half-title. Some… Read more about this item

circa 1964. A group of 9 contemporary black-and-white snapshots of The Beatles (9 cm. square), captured off a television set. With child-like manuscript captions to versos. Minor surface wear to a few snaps. A group of truly charming vernacular TV screenshots, captured during a broadcast of The Beatles on tour, with some of the compositions verging on abstraction. Captions read: Paul… Read more about this item

Torino: Stamperia di Giuseppe Favale, 1829. Pamphlet. Bound in contemporary plain wrappers (22 cm.), showing surface wear. Contents: vi, [1], 8-56 pages. Illustrated by impressive folding engraving bound at rear. A psychiatric treatise from Benedetto Trompeo (1797-1872), named the first Medical Director at the restructured Royal Insane Hospital of Turin in 1828, a full century after its founding. Offering… Read more about this item

Roma: Conquiste del Lavoro, circa 1972. Horizontal broadside, measuring 33 x 141 cm. (unfolded), composed into six panels (33 x 23.5 cm. each). Printed in green, orange, and red, recto-only. Text in Italian. Some wear to folds, with an unfortunate tear at second joint, but a nonetheless well-preserved specimen of this street poster (conforming to the graffiti laws of 1956).… Read more about this item

Göttingen: Verlag *) - Udo Breger, 1970. Oblong octavo. Illustrated white wrappers (17 x 22 cm.). One of 1000 copies; this copy signed by Ulrichs to colophon. Contents: [104] pages, printed rectos only. Text in German. Created for his Fall 1970 exhibition at Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, this artist book from Timm Ulrichs offers a "self-portrait of a television… Read more about this item

New York: Living Theatre, 1960. Silkscreen poster (36 x 21.5 cm.); printed cyan and red on pink-flecked yellow sheet. Slight scuff to top left corner; otherwise Fine. Poster for a Living Theatre programme of experimental cinema, as curated by Amos and Marcia Vogel's pioneering film society Cinema 16. Comprised of short films from Kenneth Anger (Fireworks and Inauguration of… Read more about this item