Books & manuscripts
Sammlung deutscher Ansichtskarten im Album / A collection of German postcards
Extent: collection of approx. 170 picture postcards, emphasis German city views and Landschften, maps are mostly used, postcard album with art nouveau binding, technology: different printing techniques, many lithographs, dating: mostly approx. 1900 1…
Sammlung deutscher Ansichtskarten im Album / A collection of German postcards
Extent: collection of approx. 250 picture postcards, emphasis German city views and Landschften, maps are mostly used, postcard album with art nouveau cover, technology: different printing techniques, many lithographs, dating: mostly approx. 1900 193…
Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973), 'La comédie humaine I', 1954
Technique: Colour lithograph on wove paper, after a drawing by Picasso, probably printed by Charles Sorlier at Mourlot in Paris, Edition Verve 1954, former bookbinding visible, behind passepartout and glass, framed ,Signature: in the stone dated '3.2…
Ritterich, Fachbuch-Erstausgabe 'Lehre von den blutigen Augenoperationen am menschlichen Körper' / Literature 'Bloody ophtalmic surgery..'
Full title: 'Doctrine of the bloody eye operations on the human body. In illustrations with explanatory text. For use by students and practicing physicians by Dr. Friedr. Phil. Ritterich, Sechste Abtheilung'; Edition: C.F. Winter'sche Verlagshandlung…
Henneberg: 'Il Pizzo Antico - Stile e Tecnica' (Fachbuch über Spitzen)
Extent: numerous black and white illustrations, foreword by G. Pinder, black cover, partially gold embossed ,Publisher: Sperling & Kupfer, Milan, 1931, Dimensions: 32,5 x 25 cm (cover), Condition: good, partially somewhat stained
Jesurum: 'Essemplari di Merletti Moderni' (Fachbuch über Spitzen)
Extent: 84 plates with numerous illustrations: Model examples for laces of the Jesurum manufactory ,Publisher: Carlo Jacobi, Venice, 1910, Dimensions: 36,5 x 28 cm (cover), Condition: good, partially somewhat stained and yellowed
Ricci: 'Antiche Trine Italiane -Trine a Fusseli' (Fachbuch für Spitzen)
Extent: numerous illustrations, blue cover, partially gold embossed ,Comment: publication deals with antique Italian lace, Publisher: Officine dell' Instituto Italiano d'Arti Grafice, Bergamo, 1911, Dimensions: 36,5 x 28 cm (cover), Condition: good, …
Schuette: 'Spitzen von der Renaissance bis zum Empire'
Extent: 108 collotype prints for the Helene Vieweg-Brockhaus collection,Publisher: Karl W. Hiersemann, Leipzig,Dimensions: 44, 5 x 36 cm (cover),Condition: good, partly yellowed edges of leaves
DEL BON ANGELO [Milano 12/04/1898 - Desio (MI) 02/04/1952]
Vele veneziane (Venetian Sails), 1925, oil on canvas 40x50 cm, signed lower right, label of Galleria Annunciata (MI) on the back, work registered in the Angelo Del Bon archive as per certification on photo. Bibliography: "Del Bon, all the works" edit…
Saturday 16 Jan at - 14:00
Meeting Art
Vercelli, Italie
SCHIFANO MARIO [Homs (Libia) 1934 - Roma 26/01/1998]
Untitled, 1973 78 enamel on emulsified canvas 74x104 cm, signature of the artist and label of Studio D'Arte A2 on the back, label with signature of Finarte (Rome) 1992 on photo, work registered at the Archives of the Fondazione Mario Schifano (Rome) …
Saturday 16 Jan at - 14:00
Meeting Art
Vercelli, Italie
Books & manuscripts
"A book is alive. Don't trust it. A book sucks you into it," wrote Victor Hugo.
Thus libraries came into being, and in their wake Books and Manuscripts auctions, bringing together antique and modern books, letters, autograph documents, maps and postcards.
From Books of Hours – manuscripts richly illuminated in blue and gold – to works by the Surrealists André Breton and Paul Eluard, the jewels of auctions are first editions on "fine paper" possessing the three cardinal virtues: a period binding, an outstanding provenance and an "envoi", in other words a dedication by the author.
Collectors fight over the manuscripts and letters of the Accursed Poets (Baudelaire, Verlaine and Rimbaud), autograph pages by Proust, travel books and maps.
But with online auctions also pay homage to literature, the "ninth art", with deluxe editions and first prints of strip cartoons by the glorious trio: Hergé, Franquin, and Uderzo & Goscinny. You will also find albums and original pages by cartoonists of the younger generation: Hugo Pratt, Moebius and Enki Bilal…
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