Paris: Galerie Vignon, 1933. Duodecimo (15.5 x 12.5 cm). Original printed side-stapled wrappers; unpaginated [16 pp.] Very good condition. Small scarce catalogue from the 2nd annual exhibition of modern international architecture, held at Galerie Vignon in Paris from April 1 through April 13, 1933. Exhibitors came from Austria, Spain, Hungary..... More
Vienna: Wien-Progress, 1930. Quarto (29 × 20.6 cm). Original decorative wrappers; [1] leaf of introductory text followed by [12] leaves of letter sets with gummed versos. Entirely unused; near fine. First and only edition of a scarce, pioneering publication of adhesive letter shapes, meant for composing advertising posters and other..... More
Large handcolored lithographed star map in the style of a planisphere, designed by Frank and drawn by Joseph Kaiser, depicting constellations from the North Pole to the 40th latitude, with overlaid volvelle-type component to rotate in order to match up the month, day, and time shown in concentric circles around..... More
82 pp. monograph on Johann Baptist Straub, and his highly expressive Baroque sculptures located in the churches of Vienna, Munich, and elsewhere, lengthy notes, bibl., 129 illus. on plates showing documents, views and details of the figural groups and individual sculptures. Cloth of spine detaching. 4to. Munich (Recht) 1922. More
Pilgram. 119 pp. scholarly text on the works of the 15th-century Viennese sculptor and his contemporaries, careful notes, critical descriptions of 56 works, documentary appendices, indices, 210 good photographic illus. on plates (1 tipped in). Large 4to. Cloth. Vienna (Herold) 1951. More
Vienna: Wilhelm Melzer, 1909. Oblong octavo (14.7 × 17 cm). Original white leather with gold, red, and black armorial stamping; all edges gilt; [2] pp., title, 1 pp. poem by Harmann Hangoo, followed by 11 fine chromolithographic plates showing an illustrated score by Haydn and scenes commemorating events in Vienna..... More
VIII, 278 pp. crit. catalogue, by Leo Planiscig, of 495 bronze statues, busts, and reliefs, all illustrated, bibliography, index of artists. Corners of some pp. bumped. 4to. Cloth-backed bds., extremities worn. Vienna (Schroll) 1924. (Publikationen aus den Sammlungen fur Plastik und Kunstgewerbe, IV). The catalogue of the rich collection is..... 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
Vienna: Wagner, 1912. Tall thin 4to. (40.6 x 30.5 cm). Original self-wrappers; 12 pp. Slight dust-staining, minor browning to edges; overall very good. Otto Wagner was an Austrian architect, furniture designer, and urban planner, as well as a leader of the Vienna Secession and Art Nouveau movements. Through his architectural..... More