Altogether 167 issues (of 191 issues published in the complete run) bound in 4 volumes, each issue 8 pp., of the impressive early 20th century Portuguese satirical serial founded by Raphael Bordallo Pinheiro, each issue illustrated by Pinheiro and his son, Manuel Gustavo (1867-1920), almost all of the issues featuring... More
Early 19th century road map of downtown Paris and its immediate surroundings showing the location of the twelve municipal districts and town halls, with a legend including street names, police, hospitals, parishes, markets, bridges, and other sites and landmarks, with hand-drawn colored borders outlining the districts. Some toning, minor soiling... More
1931. A complete run in 13 issues of the rare avant-garde monthly covering political, literary, architectural, and art life of the era, including film, theater, music, etc., edited by Jeanne Walter & Philippe Lamour, with an editorial committee including Hubert Lagardelle, Le Corbusier, François de Pierrefeu, & Pierre Winter, with... More
A rare sequential collection of 172 issues in 5 volumes of the long-running Spanish journal published by the radio station of the same name and founded as the official organ of the Asociación Nacional de Radiodifusión, covering the last months of the Second Republic and the first two years of... More
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264 pp. official bulletin from the exposition inaugurated on May 16, 1896, under the editorial direction of Émile Deshays, containing information on the various facets of the exposition, including the different pavilions, events, and architects. Tables, indices. Illustrated profusely throughout from photographs and drawings, including thirty-five full-page plates. Some toning... More
9 annuals in 7 vols. (all published), 250, 398, 504, 474, 324, 77, 133 pp. magazine annual for the leading Czech review of art and culture, discussing topics in the visual arts, film, music, and literature, with special reference to significant exhibitions and developments in the arts, and including critiques... More
![Take it! Rethinking the Issue at Hand. "Premiere Issue" [vol.1, no. 1] (January 1981) through vol. 1, no. 6 (n.d., 1983?) (all published).](/pictures/thumb/47492_001.jpg?v=1518111946)
[Numbering unconventional, i.e., vol.1, no. 2 called "issue B." Title varies, no. 6 called "The Legendary Take It!", issue dates lacking or inconsistent.] Six issues, ca. 30-46 pp each, comprising a complete run of the post-punk fanzine including a flexi-disc recording in each number, edited by Michael Koenig and Byron... More
A sequential run of 65 issues in 53 fascicules of the long-running Italian journal founded originally in 1932 by the Piemontese division of the Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica, under the initial editorial direction of Adriano Olivetti and later Giovanni Astengo, with the aim of promoting and spreading urban studies and... More
A complete run in 10 issues of the Dutch "scientific entertainment" journal, founded by a group of four architecture students from Delft including Hans Oldewarris, Han Kamphuis, Jan Pesman, and Peter de Winter, containing prose, comics, and essays on a range of topics including television, music, architecture, design, astrology, automobiles... More
A complete run in 189 issues (lacking only 2 issues: Vol. I, No. 8 and Vol. II, No. 37) of the international Trotskyist political journal before its name changed to Intercontinental Press, under the editorial direction of Joseph Hansen, Pierre Frank, Livia Maitan, and George Novack, published under the auspices... More
43 pp. volume of poetry, index, illustrated with four original engravings, each hand-numbered and initialed "L.B." in pencil. Large 8vo. Cloth boards, housed in original illustrated and hand-numbered paper slipcase. Some minor soiling and small tears to slipcase. Ancona (Bucciarelli) 1960. Limited edition no. 139 of 150 copies. Luigi Bartolini... More
2 vols.: I. 207 pp. commentary volume including essays by noted scholars on the manuscript and its illuminations, thought to be a 9th century Latin adaptation, generally ascribed to Germanicus Caesar, of Aratus' Greek poem Phaenomena, incl. detailed descriptions, concordances, bibliographical material, technical considerations, discussion of its cultural context, etc.;... More
184 pp. volume on the construction of the dome of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome and how best to stabilize it, written by a group of scientists consulted in 1742 by Pope Benedict XIV after severe cracks were discovered in the dome. One folding engraved plate at the back of... More
Late 18th century map of Paris, mounted on linen, depicting the city and the augmentations and changes that were undertaken in the second half of the century to embellish and improve the city, with an inset showing the suburbs of Paris, and with tables of street names, libraries, and other... More
48 pp. documentary-style volume in French on the city of Longview, Washington, built specifically to house 14,000 labourers from the lumber industry, each page with modern typography and American flag decorative borders, illustrated throughout with striking Expressionist-style woodcuts by Masereel. Small 4to. Color pictorial wrpps. Some minor age-darkening. Paris (Éditions... More
1931. Unpag. 274 pp. presentation of urban plans, monumental constructions, public and industrial buildings, houses and villas, religious architecture, exhibition pavilions, gardens, etc., including texts by various authors and hundreds of illustrations on plates (1 in color, 40 in "rotocalco"), index. Some pages with very minor dust-staining. Large 4to. Orig... More
32, 612 pp. volume on the seven pilgrim churches of Rome, divided into seven sections including information on the churches, the origins of the Seven-Church Walk, and what can be gained from making the pilgrimage, notes, indices. Scattered small illustrations and decorative capitals, one large engraved folding plate depicting the... More
(7) unpaginated introductory leaves including title, essay by the lithographer Fernand Mourlot in French and English translation, and list of works, accompanying 13 original lithographs in brilliant colors, each approx. 25 3/4" x 19 1/2", each signed in pencil by the artist and numbered 37/200, each housed in a separate... More
Unpag. volume (approx. 120 pages) associated with the legendary avant-garde "language-music composition" (Sprach-Musik Kompositionen), which blurs the line between literature and musical composition, together with 10-leaf booklet "Synchronisationsplan zur Struktur I,1" and 33 1/3 rpm vinyl record. Not illustrated. Square 4to. Main volume original wrpps., 10-leaf booklet stapled self-wrpps., record... More
![Dreyfus Collection. [Alternate subtitle from half-title: Certain of the sculptures from the collection of Gustave Dreyfus, Paris, which was acquired in its entirety from the executors of his estate in MDCCCXXX by Sir Joseph Duveen, bart.]. Clarence Kennedy, Joseph Duveen.](/pictures/thumb/48046.jpg?v=1475263463)
1 pp. intro. to the Dreyfus collection of Renaissance sculpture by Kennedy, professor of art at Smith College, with annotated list of plates, followed by 57 orig. tipped-in photographic plates, also by Kennedy, ranging in size from approx. 11 1/4" x 15" to 8 1/2" x 10", of examples in... More
The French version of Nicholas II's coronation album, with 396 pp. of text, including a survey of the coronations of Nicholas's predecessors and a detailed description of the activities leading up to the coronation, illustrated throughout with portraits, facsimiles, reproductions of engravings, and decorative initials, followed by an unpag. supplement... More
954 pp. volume on the "hidden treasures" of Rome, including a brief treatise on the 1600 Jubliee, its origins, and ceremonies, as well as chapters on the catacombs, the titles, deaconships, and bishoprics of cardinals, relics, and the stations, with a focus on the churches of Rome, indices. Not illustrated... More
Unpaginated (81 plastic sleeves, some filled both recto and verso and some filled recto only, some with several items per sleeve) presentation of letters, drawings, photographs, chronologies, newspaper clippings, flyers, and other ephemeral materials, printed on various types of paper stock so as to best capture the feel of the... More
Unpaginated set of texts (printed recto only on 27 loose-leaf sheets of monogrammed "Fluxus" cardstock) providing a chronological overview of events in Holland from 1960 to 1969 directly linked to George Macunias and the Fluxus organization in New York, housed together with 24 related items, including facsimile reproductions of historical... 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
