Two volumes, 180, 152 pp. total, published in conjunction with the International Congress of Architects held in Budapest in 1930, the first volume collecting essays and lectures on historical and contemporary design with a special focus on 20th century architecture in Central Europe and especially Hungary, the second volume published... More
1925. Brno: [Grafický klub pro Moravu], 1925. Folio (44 × 32 cm). Recent gray portfolio with gilt-tooled title to front board; letterpress-printed title, introductory text, and seven plates of dry point etchings (one duplicate leaf!), some signed in the plate, and six prints signed in pencil by the artist (only... More
Set of twenty-five late 19th century stereoview cards depicting street scenes from Cleveland, Ohio, each card captioned within the negative at lower right, views include the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Public Square, the Central Viaduct, City Hall, the New England and Garfield Buildings, the YMCA Building, the State Asylum... More
Oversized portfolio containing title card, two hand-numbered and signed typographic etchings (zincogravures); a third signed typographic etching with black silhouette effect, numbered to verso; numbered colophon page; and a smaller matted and signed typewriter poem. Large folio. Cardstock folder within heavy cardstock portfolio, tie-bound with red cloth ribbon, contents loose... More
A compendium of original works by Finkelstein including one 8-minute video cassette, one photo screened canvas (27 cm x 27 cm), nine black and white photographic prints 30 cm x 40 cm each, one b&w print 15 cm x 22 cm, and a photo-grid consisting of ten identical photographic prints... More
London: Free German Youth, c/o. B.Y.P.A. (British Youth Peace Assembly), [1942]. Octavo (20.3 × 16.5 cm). Original staple-stitched blind wrappers; [28] leaves of mimeographed typescript and drawn headers to rectos and versos, along with hand-colored mimeographed illustrations and vignettes. Wrappers professionally restored with light paper repair; else very good. Scarce... More
![Zheleznye Puteshestvenniki [Steel Travelers]. Ivanter, Kupreianov, eniamin Abramovich, ikolai...](/pictures/thumb/48986_001.jpg?v=1559208932)
31 pg. booklet for children documenting the donation of twenty-five tractors to the Soviet Union by American workers, and their journey from the United States to a Soviet collective farm. Illustrated profusely throughout with thirty black-and-white illustrations. 8vo. Original illustrated stapled wrpps., some light soiling to covers, minor rubbing along... More
6 vols., with approx. 390 superb plates (30 in color, the others in photogravure on fine paper) accompanied by interleaved commentary on the objects, documenting the major collection of mostly Japanese, with some Chinese, art including paintings, lacquerwork, sculpture, ceramics, etc. Large folio. Silk-covered boards, elaborately tie-bound in the Japanese... More
[ca. 1890]. [Prague]: Pražský soukromý ústav pro vzd lání hluchon mých, [ca. 1890]. Contemporary green card boards; 130 pp. of lithographed illustrations. Boards worn; hinges somewhat weak; internally very good. [Czech Bible for Deaf Mutes]. A very uncommon edition for deaf-mutes, which presents the Old and New Testament on 130..... More
3 parts in one volume, with 153 total engraved plates, including title, dedication, three title pages dated 1612, a613, and 1615, respectively, and 148 fine etched and numbered plates by Lauro showing a wide array of images of the city of Rome, including monuments and ruins from the Roman era... More
28-leaf portfolio of art prints made from the Culture Hero special issue, "Jill Johnston Exposed", each page of the issue enlarged and reproduced on heavy paper stock lithographed by aluminum plates and split fountain rainbow rolled over in over 150 colors. Illustrated throughout. Large folio, each individual page measures approx... More
The first and only published volume of a proposed series, presenting the evolution of architecture as shown through domestic and civic structures including homes, schools, hôtels, churches, restaurants, and other buildings, single-page preface preceding the portfolio divided into four sections: Avant Propos, Architecture Privée, Architecture Religieuse, and Architecture Publique, with..... More
Important 17th century work on the Tiber River and its main tributary, the Nera, comprised of 58 pp. of text with inscriptions, engraved frontispiece featuring a portrait of Pope Innocent XI, engraved illustration at the back of putti, and 21 engraved plates (19 of which are folding), primarily views of... More
xvi, 447 pp. volume on the history and architecture of ancient Rome, divided into seven sections and covering topics including the origins and foundation of the ancient city of Rome, topography, domestic architecture, temples, sepulchres, forums, basilicas, and other aspects of ancient Roman architecture. Not illustrated aside from tailpieces and... More
A beautiful and rare album comprising title page, a map showing the location of the naval battle of Kil-Bouroun (Kinburn), and 15 chromolithographic plates depicting mostly maritime scenes after the battle along the ice-bound Dnieper River, including inside the fort, disembarking onto the ice, and ruined fortifications, lithographed and colored... More
Unpaginated (ca. 116 pp.) artist's book pairing enigmatic prose poems with the author's translations of the same into highly imaginative rebus-like compositions incorporating mathematical symbols, the Hebrew alphabet, musical notation, erotic doodles, sign language and other figurative and non-figurative characters. Paper a bit browned, some minor scattered soiling. 4to. Illustrated... More
A complete subscription portfolio of 20 chromolithographs, each 22" x 28", issued in ten monthly installments of 2 prints reproducing orig. watercolors of American birds by Pope with captioned guard leaves reprinting descriptive texts from a variety of sources incl. Alexander Wilson's "American Ornithology" and Audubon's "Birds of America". Each... More
Portfolio of 12 full-paged plates from original photographs of members of the native Maori community, with a thirteenth image affixed to the front cover, each image with brief caption such as "Mairie The Arawa Beauty", "A Tribal Belle", "Poi Dancer, Whakarewarewa", and "Maori Woman Weaving Taniko". Images mounted along top... More
10 original albumen photographs, each 10 x 13 in., joined to form a foldout view of the old city of Constantinople and of the Golden Horn inlet of the Bosporus, seen from a tower on the Asian side. Some scattered foxing, staining, and soiling. Oblong folio. Orig. textured boards with... More
36 original large format gelatin prints backed with linen of the Swedish American cruise ship the MS Kungsholm, all but one depicting interior views with tabs delineating the first, second, and third class sections of the ship, including the first class promenade garden lounge, aviary, foyer and staircase, smoking salon... More
Prague: Odeon, 1927-1931. Octavos (ca. 21.8 × 17.3 cm). Later full calf with titles to spines; in cloth-covered card slipcase; preserving all front and rear wrappers; approx. 32–40 pp. per issue. Numerous photographs and illustrations per issue. Wrappers resized with very slight loss to right and lower margin of wrappers... More
Portfolio with 8 original color woodcut prints (each approx. 15" x 22") by Vennekamp, in his own original Pop style with Surrealist undertones, showing erotic imagery in bold, densely colored and compositionally striking formats, including stylized abstractions of genitalia, playfully seductive vignettes, the integration of numbers and letters into the... More
7 vols. bound in 15 parts, comprising a complete set of the monumental catalogue of manuscripts in the Austrian National Library, copiously annotated, with bibliographic references throughout, each volume containing its own registers and indexes, profusely illustrated with collotype reproductions of manuscript texts and illuminations, some in color. Large 4to... More
Original multiple pertaining to a conceptual art piece by the noted avant-garde German artist, comprised of a cardboard box housing 319 printed 3" x 5" note cards, including 310 sequentially numbered "Idea Cards" with measured readings of physical elements such as temperature or barometric pressure; two cards comprising the title... More
2 pp. of introductory text followed by 18 pages of plates, printed recto only, each sheet containing a single image printed in two states side by side, primarily views of trees with several other landscape scenes. Very good overall, some spotting to title page, old ink stain to text sheet... More
