Books and manuscripts

Chagall. – C. U. Y. Goll.

Dix milles aubes. Paris, Falaize, 1951. 91 p., 1 sheet, with 8 illustrations by Marc Chagall, each on plate. OU. Monod 5555 Cover design and typography by Hermine Chastanet (1919 2009). Very good, unbound copy.

Dada, Surrealismus. – S. Dalí.

Métamorphose de Narcisse. Paris, Editions surréalistes, 1937. 18 sheets, 3 (1 color.) plates. Obtuse. Bibliothèque Matarasso 294. One of 500 numbers. Ex. Of the french. Printed dedication to Paul Eluard, cover photograph…

BUCHWESEN. – Einbände. – E. Ph. Goldschmidt.

Gothic & Renaissance Bookbindings. Text and plate ills. London and others 1928. 4°. 369 p. And 2 plates, VIII p. And numerous ills. In collotype on 110 plates. 2 Olwd. Vol. With OU. Krepl 290th In the noble equipment of …

BUCHWESEN. – Einbände. – P. Kersten.

The exact book cover. 2. Verm. And verb. Aufl. With contribution by L. Sütterlin: The design of the book cover. Hall 1912. VII, 184 p. And 136 ills., 48 plates and 80 mont. Paper sample. Master binding in Hmaroquin, iron…

Folkwangschule. – Konvolut,

30 mostly illustrated writings on the activities, exhibitions and programme of the Folkwang Schule für Gestaltung and its later integration into the Gesamthochschule Essen, 1958 90. Original bindings, also handmade slipc…

Janthur, Richard

(1883-1956). Icarus. Lith. on laid paper. 15.1 : 8.3 cm. Rifkind 1334 - From: F. Gurlitt, Almanac to the year 1919, frontispiece.

Japan. – Hiromachi Saburo.

Sketchbook. Leporello, original cardboard cover, handwritten title Konohagomoru (Hidden in the Foliage), 100 sheets, 2 inscriptions and 49 double leaf sized drawings, 1st half 19th century ink brush, coloured inks. Sheet…

EXLIBRIS. – Österreichische Exlibris Gesellschaft.

Jahrbuch (later: Austrian Yearbook for Exlibris and Commercial Art). Volumes 9, 11 15, 17, 18, 21 25, 33 62, 48 volumes in total. Vienna 1911 2001. 5 h. And 11 uniform Hlwd. Bde. With margin, coloured paper cover. Prause…

Knoth, Werner

(1895 1981). Girls, nude drawings. (portfolio). Hbg., W. Teigeler, 1946. Fol. 4 p., text by V. Veltheim, and 6 signed or monogr. Original lithographs, laid paper. Lots in Ohlwd. Folder. One of 250 num. Copies, "Handabgez…

Louÿs, P.

Aphrodite. Mœrs antiques. Brussels 1944. 284 p., 3 sheets and 18 watercoloured lithographs by Renée Ringel, 16 of them on plates. Hmaroquinbd. By Goix et Suénin (label), Paris, okart. Num. Ex. For the bookbinder see Flét…

Monte Verità. – Osthaus Archiv. – Verzeichnis

The photographs of the Karl Ernst Osthaus Archive, Modern Art (19th and 20th century). Mchn., Gg. Müller, 1929. 30 p. Obrosch. Lists approx. 1500 photographs of pictorial works, often after the von der Heydt Collection a…

Ornament. – Vasen, Prunkgefäße. – (Auguste) Péquég…

(1819 1878). Vases Céramique et Orfèvrerie d'après des Maïtres. Paris, Ducher, c. 1870. Kl. Fol. Title, 1 sheet and 125 wheels. Plates: Vases and magnificent vessels after historical ornamental engraving. Hlwd. Folder wi…

Picasso. – P. Merimée.

Carmen. Lausanne, Mermod, 1953. 187 p., 2 sheets, with 4 (1 doubleblg.) illustrations by P. Picasso, plus cover illustration. Okart. - num. ex., unbound.

Raffael. – Auswahl aus Raphael Sanzio’s Werken

In 236 copper engravings of Landon's plates. Col., Voelcker, 1885. Cl. Vol. 14 pp. And 236 tls. Double page plates. Hldr. D. Zt., bookbinding label Carl Ewald. Summary of Raphael's work from the numerous documents of the…

Rostosky, Gertraud

(1876 1959). 10 original lithographs, printed on the hand press. (Villingen Schwenningen, Lori's press), July 1947. Fol. 10 lith. Sheet, each signed and dated with pencil, partly inscribed as proof, loose sheet in lith. …

Stradanus

(Jan van der Straet), Johannes (1523 1605). Hare hunt. Engraving, probably by Jan Collaert, without publisher's address. 21.5 : 30 cm. New Hollstein 416 (Stradanus). To the margin of the picture, with text, French transl…

Alfonso Garcia Tellez

(born 1934). Historia de una curacion de antigua de San Pablito Pahuatlan Pue(bla). (History of traditional medicine in San Pablito). Manuscript, Spanish, 28 sheets with 30 muñecos (dolls in silhouette), another on front…

Chagall. – J. Cain und F. Mourlot.

Chagall lithographs. Volume I (Monte Carlo), Sauret, (1960). Gr. 4°. 220 p., 1 sheet, completely illustrated catalogue raisonné (until 1957) with 12 (10 color) lithographs, sheet size and cover. Olwd., dust cover. Cramer…

Bosshard. – Italienische Lyrik

Of the present. Zurich, Janus Presse, 1958. 5 colour woodcuts signed by Hans Rudolf Bosshard (born 1929), each with double blind signature, each with own date. Loose sheets and sheets in Ohpgmt. Cover, slipcase. To the f…

BUCHWESEN. – Einbände. – Blaizot. – Halbmaroquinba…

Signed by Robert Blaizot. Chestnut brown, spine over raised bands, inlaid factory view (halls and chimneys) and embossing in between, gilded front and back cover with birch wood veneer, gilding, okart. 23 : 18 cm. Fléty,…

BUCHWESEN. – Einbände. – Bozerian. – Langnarbiger …

Signed by François Bozerian, gen. Le Jeune. Double strike line with gilded. Corner motifs on front and back cover, gilded. Double lines on the back, standing and inner edge verg., mirror and endpapers with ornamental gil…

Fröhlich, Boris

(born 1947). A book. 42 sheets and 39 tls. Coloured Etchings on plates. Lwd., screwed binding with mounted copper plate on front cover. 20,5 : 27 cm. Private print at the Folkwangschule, about 1968, one of 12 (plus 4 épr…

Japan. – Album, Japan.

5 erotic woodblock prints, 18th/19th century, print on silk, mounted over cardboard in later leporello double leaf, browned. Cover with red leather, handwritten label of three characters, readable the last two: Miyaoka .…

Koch, Rud.

Das Blumenbuch. 80 (actually 60) drawings, cut in wood by Fritz Kredel (1900 1973), on 60 num. Plates. Lpz., Island, 1942. Gr. 4°. Very good copy of the edition in full vellum, string iron verg. U. Rverg., continuous fre…

Neureuther, Eugen Napoleon

(1806 1882). Marginal drawings to newer German poems. Stgt., E. Hallberger, 1853. 6 Bll. Etchings of the edition on larger paper, tls. In the plate dat. 1848 52. Loose sheets, sheet size c. 33 : 25 cm. Schubert II, 74, 7…

Porträt. – Miniaturen. – L’Exposition de la Miniat…

À Bruxelles en 1912, Recueil des œuvres les plus remarquables des miniaturistes de toutes les Ecoles, du XVIe au XIXe siècle. Brussels and Paris 1913. Fol. XVII, 141 p. And c. 300 ills. In collotype on 66 plates. Sign. H…

Rußland. – A. Kruchenykh.

Apokalipsis v russkoj literature. (Apocalypse of Russian Literature). Moscow 1923. 46 p., 1 sheet and 1 original lith. By Natalja Nagorskaja Obrosch. Serija teorii, no. 3 (missing from Bowlt/Hernad, there only nos. 1 u 2…

Slevogt, Max

(1868 1932). The king's son who fears nothing. Bln., B. Cassirer, 1923. Fol. 20 p. "18 lithographs are printed on the text with the hand press" (Cassirer, Max Slevogt, Ein Verzeichnis, p. 40) , Handbütten. Opgmt. Rümann …

Alfonso Garcia Tellez

(born 1934). Alfonso Garcia Tellez. Tratamiento de una ofrenda para pedir la lluvia. (Treatise on the ritual with request for rain). Manuscript, Spanish, 28 sheets with 21 muñecos (dolls in silhouette), two more on front…

OFFICE DES MORTS, for the use of Bayeux, fragment of a Book of Hours, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Normandy, last quarter of the 15th century]. Important fragment of a Norman Book of Hours containing the O…

ALBINUS, Bernard Siegfried (1697 1770). Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body. London: John and Paul Knapton, 1749 A Compleat System of the Blood Vessels and Nerves. London: John and Paul Knapton, 1750. Fi…

Prophetae Minores, Libri Machabaeorum. Rome: sumptibus Andreae Brugiotti: apud Haeredem Barthol. Zannetti, 1624. Beautiful 17th century mosaic binding. In 12 (115 x 72 mm). Adjusted copy (small lack in the upper right co…

[AUBIGNé, Theodore Agrippa d' (1552 1630)]. Les Avantures du Baron de Fæneste, comprises four parts... Au Dezert, imprimé aux despens de l'autheur [Geneva: Pierre Aubert], 1630. Copy of André Masséna, prince d'Essling, b…

SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX (1090 1153). Opera omnia. Lyon: Jean Clein, 1520. 1520. A copy in contemporary embossed binding of this rare and beautiful Lyon edition. Baudrier, XII, 303. 3 parts in 1 vol. In folio (285 x 18…

[GERMAN BIBLE]. Catholische Bibell. Cologne: G. Calenium and Erben Johan Quentels, 1575. Richly illustrated Bible, with all the hand colored engravings in its contemporary stamped binding. In folio (380 x 235 mm). 140 wo…

BOCCACE, Jean (1313 1375). Il Decamerone... È varie figure nuovamente stampato et ricorretto per messer Antoni Brucioli... Venice: Gabriele Giolito di Ferrari, 1542. Very beautiful binding from the workshop of the Fugger…

CALLOT, Jacques (1592 1635) BIGRES or BIGLIS, P.L. The Winner of Death, or Dying Jesus. Poem by P.L.B., enriched with figures. Paris: Charles de Sercy, 1652. Famous edition decorated with engravings by Callot. The major …

CASTIGLIONE, Baldassare (1478 1529). The first [quarter] book of the Courtesan of Count Baltazar of Castillon. Reduyct of Ytalicque language in Françoys. S.L.N.D. Lyon: Denis de Harsy, circa 1537]. Rare edition, printed …

COLONNA, Francesco (1433 1527). Hypnerotomachy or Discourse from Poliphile's Dream, Deduisant comme Amour le combat à l'occasion de Polia. Paris: Jacques Kerver, 1561. Last of the three Parisian editions of the French tr…

COMMYNES, Philippe de (1447 1511). Cronic and hystory fake and composed by the late messier Philippe de Commines, knight, lord of Argenton, containing things that happened during the reign of the king Loys unziesme ... N…

COWPER, William (1666 1709). Anatomia Corporum Humanorum Centum et Viginti Tabulis... Ad Vivum expressis. Utrecht: Nicolaus Muntendam, 1750. Second edition of the Latin translation given by Guillaume Dundass of The Anato…

[CRONICA CRONICARUM]. The Registry of the years passes then the creation of the world until the present year Million five cens XXXII. Paris: Anthoine Couteau pour Galliot du Pré, 1532. Copy in contemporary binding, with …

[MACABLE DANCE] RUSTING, Salomon van (1652 c. 1713). Het Schouw Toneel des Doods waar op na't leeven vertoont word De Dood op den Throon des Aard Bodems: Heerschende over alle Staaten en Volkeren... Amsterdam: Johannes R…

DESCARTES, René (1596 1650). De homine figuris, et latinitate donatus a Florentio Schuyl. Leiden: Hack, 1664. Second Latin edition, published two years after the original, of the first work on physiology. A complete copy…

DIDEROT, Denis (1713 1784). Jacques the Fatalist and his master. Paris : Buisson, An Cinquième de la République [1796]. Original edition, in contemporary binding. Tchemerzine, II, p. 965 , Cioranescu, I, 24099. 2 vols. I…

DU FAIL, Christmas (circa 1520 1591). The Tales and Speeches of Eutrapel, by the late lord of La Hérissaye, a Breton nobleman. Rennes [Paris] : for Noël Glamet, by Quinpercorentin [Jean Richer], 1585. Rare first edition …

ERASMUS, Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1467 1536). In Praise of Folly. Translated from the Latin of Erasmus by M. Gueudeville. New edition, revised and corrected on the text of Basle's edition. S.L. [Paris], 1751. Copy on large…

FROISSART, Jean (circa 1337 circa 1410). The first [ quart] volume of Froissart, of the cronicles of France, England, Escoce, Espaigne, Bretaigne, Gascongne, Flanders and neighbouring places. Paris: François Regnault and…

GREGORY IX (1170 1241). Decretalium copiosum argumentum. Divisiones glosarum ex Johanis andree novella diligenter deprompte: hic diligenter annotantur. Lyon: François Fradin, January 26, 1515. Lyon edition of the "decree…

GUYSE, Jacques de (c. 1340 1399). The First (Second/Third) Volume of the Illustrations of Gaul Belgium, antiquitez of the Countries of Haynnau and of the gra(n)d city of the Belgians has now dictated Bavay from which pro…