![Partizani. 20 crteža Đ. Andrejevića-Kuna [Partisans. 20 drawings by Đ. Andrejević-Kuna]....](/pictures/thumb/51146_1.jpg?v=1610543192)
[Belgrade-Zagreb]: Kultura, 1946. Oblong quarto (21.5 × 28.5 cm). Original pictorial card portfolio with three folding flaps; contains twenty leaves of plates reproducing drawings by the artist. Light wear and one partial tear to flaps; else very good. Twenty striking photozincographic reproductions of drawings reflecting the Yugoslav Partisan experience during..... More
1957. 4 vols.: Venetian School. 2 vols., XIV, 206 pp. text, 46 pp. topographical index, 1336 illustrations on plates (2 plates in color); and Florentine School. 2 vols., XIV, 222 pp. text, 39 pp. topographical index, 1480 illustrations on plates (2 plates in color). Small 4to. Cloth. London/New York (Phaidon)..... More
Beyaert. 2 vols., titles and lists of contents, 240 excellent plates from engravings by Joseph and Franz Neirynck showing plans, elevations, and views of the Belgian architect's works, incl. many superb details of architectural ornament. Folio. Cloth-backed boards. Brussels (Lyon-Claesen) 1880-1892. Placzek I, p. 206. A rare set documenting the..... More
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
158-pp. volume with preface by Leon Bourgeois describing the social misery of women, with texts from a variety of contributors, including Paul Adam, Léonce Benedite, Eugene Brieux, Léon Frapié, Camille Lemonnier, Pierre Louÿs, Paul Margueritte, Victor Margueritte, Jean Richepin, and Gabriel Séailles, and original prints from Charles Cottet, André Devambez..... More
Group of approximately 80 original black and white photographs of West Berlin movie theaters, circa 1949 to 1955, including foyers, screening rooms, posters, and exterior views, along with architectural details such as stairways and seating, most lacking any sort of caption or label. Images are curled, likely from being housed..... More
Detailed early 19th century hand-colored engraved map of Paris and its environs, covering the area from La Ferté-Alais in the south to Blincourt in the north, and from Gressey in the west to Coulommiers in the east, with four small inset maps of St. Germain en Laye, St. Cloud, Versailles..... More
(xvi), 101 pp. text regarding the Basilica San Martino ai Monti, officially known as Santi Silvestro e Martino ai Monti, including the history of Pope Sylvester, information on the construction and restoration or reconstruction of the church over time, and some descriptions of the church interior, including inscriptions, ornament, and..... More
783 pp. volume in Italian, translated from the German, on how to be an "ultra-modern" housewife, covering topics such as the kitchen and its furnishings, vitamins, how to set a table, electricity in the house, cooking as medicine, nutrition and diet, laundry, natural beauty, kitchen gardens, conserving and canning, plus..... More
Leporello-style artist’s book, printed recto and verso, from Iannone’s exhibition of the same name at Haus am Lützowplatz in Berlin, containing an introductory essay by Karl Ruhrberg, a poem by Ben, quotes and blurbs from Mary Harding, Dr. Wolfgang Becker, Dr. Franz Meyer, Dr. Dieter Koepplin, Konrad Klapheck, Robert Filliou..... More
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
Petrograd: Zhizn' i znanie, 1917. First Edition. Octavo (21.2 × 14.6 cm). Original printed wrappers; 104 pp. Signature of Sigizmund Valk to title (and his annotation in pencil to front wrapper?); a very good, uncut and unopened copy; tiny Soviet bookstore mark inside rear wrapper. First edition of Lenin's in..... More
![Sergeiu Eseninu [To Sergei Esenin]. Vladimir Maiakovskii, Aleksandr Rodchenko](/pictures/thumb/50495_1.jpg?v=1585082139)
Tbilisi: Zakkniga, 1926. Octavo (17.5 × 12.8 cm). Original staple-stitched photo-illustrated wrappers (front and back); 15, [1] pp. Two full-page photomontage illustrations by Rodchenko. Faint crease to wrappers, but still very good; overall a rather well-preserved copy. First printing of Mayakovsky’s poem on the death by suicide of Sergei Esenin..... 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
Moscow: Fizkultura i Sport, 1928. Oblong quarto. Original cloth-backed boards with decorative covers affixed to front and back; [86] leaves of texts and photo-montage to rectos and versos. Album published in conjunction with the first Winter and Summer Spartakiads held in Oslo and Moscow in February and August, 1928, with..... More
Two works of concrete poetry from the late 1960s by Jean-Claude Moineau, comprising an undated 12-page unrecorded work of Concrete Poetry done in collaboration with Christiane Frougny, "Textes à tester (Texts to Test)", and a 1968 work "Orléans mai-juin 1968 / La Bibliotheque Universitaire est occupee". Typed and mimeographed pages..... More
Unpaginated (approx. 123 pp.) typescript document comprising Moreno's theoretical essay on the OCI [Organización Comunista Internacionalista (unificada)] and Pierre Lambert and the French Trotskyists, first published publicly in Panorama Internacional, Año VI, No. 19, January 1982, divided into eleven chapters with titles such as "La teorìa de los campos burgueses..... More
![Shikisai shogyo zuan-shu [Commercial design in color]. Ryoji Naito](/pictures/thumb/51180_002.jpg?v=1616002683)
84 total leaves including 80 numbered full-colored plates, each plate with multiple Art Deco-style commercial images on various themes including travel, liquor, coffe, tea ceremony, dancing, music, furniture and interior design, bicycles, fashion, makeup and perfume, hygiene, smoking, food, transportation, sports, animals, and plants. Some minor scattered toning and foxing..... More
Two parts in one volume, xxiv, 264, xxiv, 166 pp. volume in Latin on the ancient Roman Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo al Celio and the Casamari Abbey, including the history and architecture of the buildings, indices. Illustrated with two engraved folding plates in Part I, including the façade..... More
2 vols., unpaginated (circa 6 pp.) introduction to a presentation of 296 plates outlining a color system by the master of modern Dutch typography, each of the plates showing a 10 x 10 grid of colored blocks, each volume with a transparent overlay with a numbered grid printed on it..... More
![Pallas: Almanach estnischer Dichtung und Kunst [Pallas: an almanach of Estonian poetry and art]....](/pictures/thumb/P5183_001.jpg?v=1580327088)
1927. Tartu: Pallas-Verlag, 1927. Octavo (21.5 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (front and back), and one title vignette, by Jaan Vahtra; 120, [2] pp. Numerous reproductions, many full-page, and smaller vignettes. Light abrasions to overlapping wrapper edges; front wrapper with light creases and profesionally repaired tear; still about very..... More
![Bol'shaia svekla [The big beet]. V. Shurygin, F. Tikhomirov](/pictures/thumb/51326_001.jpg?v=1625751183)
Moscow: OGIZ “Molodaia gvardiia”, 1931. Octavo (16 × 13.5 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 15 pp. Chromolithograph illustrations throughout. Light overall wear; small nick to upper spine extremity; still about very good. Richly illustrated with chromolithograph prints, this children’s book describes an agricultural exhibition at the local collectivized farm, where..... More
1930. Kharkiv: "Proletaryi", 1930. Octavo (25 × 18.2 cm). Original decorative wrappers with a constructivist design by Adol'f Strakhov; [4], 47 pp. and [15] leaves of photogravures on better stock, of the one fold-out. Very light wear; else a very good copy, preserving the bright colors of the wrappers. Scarce..... More
Photograph album containing a list of plates followed by 20 mounted photographic prints of buildings or locations which were presumably damaged during the defeat of the Commune, including the Tuileries, the Hôtel de Ville, Rue de Rivoli, and the Palais Royal. Oblong folio, images approx. 14.5 x 21.5 cm. Original..... More