36 pp. printer's salesman sample-type album of approximately 270 elaborate and gold-embossed cigar bands of varying dimensions, printed chiefly for the Spanish and French markets. Tall narrow 4to. Original publisher's cloth. Rheydt, Germany (Hermann Schött Actiengesellschaft) n.d. (circa 1900). A visually arresting collection of cigar bands. Based on the text..... More

134 pp. text describing 45 plates (4 fold-out, 4 color) showing reproductions of lithographs and engravings of scenes around the city, the works date from the 19th and 20th centuries, bibliography, index. Folio. Cloth, covers slightly stained. Trieste (Edizioni Lint) 1967. More

Erevan: Editions de l’Academie des Sciences de la R.S.S. de l'Arménie, 1969. Large octavo. Original brown cloth with title to spine and front cover; 468, [4] pp. Hinges lightly shaken; else about very good. Extensive bibliographical reference of publications on Armenia in languages other than Armenian and Russian, including English..... More

24 pp. catalogue of the printing exhibitions at the 1931 International Colonial Exposition in Paris, comprised of a list of the organizational committee members, a brief essay on the history of printing, a detailed description of the exhibitors in the French section including photogravure and music, and a separate segregated..... More

London: Sotheby, 1938. Octavos (23 × 17.7 cm). Contemporary buckram boards with gilt spine label; front and rear wrappers preserved; 152, [6], 308, [8], 554, [10] pp. Copiously annotated in the margins with buyers' names and sales prices by an unknown prior owner; lacking the plates; else about very good..... More

5 volume study and presentation (in English) of the history of Ukiyoye painting and woodblock printmaking, defined in the preface as genre pictures and popular works depicting manners and customs of the time as opposed to classical works, including an altogether 211 pp. text distributed throughout the volumes, 156 fine..... 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

126 pp. volume documenting a year's literary and visual art contributions from the landmark artistic movement, the volume edited by Max Mell, with literary contributions by Peter Altenberg, Franz Blei, Max Brod, Franz Theodor Czokor, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Arthur Roessler, and with graphic contributions from Josef..... More

[Kaunas]: ERa (Klaipėda: "Ryto" B-vė), 1931. Octavo (23.5 × 15.4 cm). Original decorative wrappers with a constructivist design by V. K. Jonynas in red and blue; 40 pp. A very good copy; light foxing to wrappers; tiny hole to rear wrapper affecting last two pages. First edition of the author’s..... More

2 vols., VIII, 403, XII, 432 pp. inventory of over 8000 Swiss bookplates from the late medieval period to around 1900, brief introductory material, indices of artists, initials, monograms, mottos, heraldry, etc., bibliography, glossary, 135 photographic plates, 38 plates showing heraldric outlines. 4to. Cloth. Zurich (Schweizer Bibliophilen Gesellschaft) 1933-1937. One..... More

2 continuously paginated vols., 359 pp., providing an annotated scholarly account of the political career of John III, "the Pitiless," bishop of Liège from 1389 to 1418 and duke of Bavaria-Straubing and count of Holland and Hainaut from 1418 until his assassination by poisoning in 1425, including bibliographic notes, an..... More