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1949002551Paris: Nicolas. Societe Anonyme au capital de 1 milliard 50 millions. Printed by Draeger Freres a Montrouge. 1949. First Edition. Wraps with spiral. Fine/Very Good. A catalog that is itself a work of art with this issue drawing inspiration from Japanese woodblock imagery. Harada the artist captures the simplicity elegance and understatement of the Japanese aesthetic in his panoramas and images of birds insects flowers etc. 8vo. 33 1 pp. Nicolas a leading French wine distributor that is still very much in business excelled at producing beautiful books and other printed material over the decades. This copy but for light edge toing on the cover made of a heavy card is close to pristine and the original glassine is preserved although it has moderate wear an one inch or so closed tear and a few other trivial closed tears. Also included is a price list insert. <br/><br/> Nicolas. Societe Anonyme au capital de 1 milliard 50 millions. Printed by Draeger Freres a Montrouge. paperback books
19537011London: Privately Printed 1953. First Limited Edition. One of 300 numbered copies. 16mo; quarter linen over printed paper boards; original glassine unprinted jacket; 59pp; 10 gravure plates of Gill's friezes for the Archaeological Museum of Jerusalem commissioned in 1934. Hint of sunning to upper board edges else Fine in original glassine. GILL Bibliography 54a. Privately Printed unknown books
195519947New York: Museum Books 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Metal spiral bound quarto. Cover design by Ronald Clyne. Unpaginated volume on the history and evolution of letterhead typography. Includes 54 actual examples at rear of volume. Black cloth spine over patterned boards. Boards are worn along the edges. Still a very good clean example with wonderfully designed examples of letterhead typography. Uncommon volume. <br/><br/> Museum Books hardcover books
19317431Praha: Druzstevnà práce Orbis 1931. Octavo 19 x 14 cm. 355 4 pages. Stated fourth printing "Ctvrté vydánÃ" one of five hundred copies printed. The colophon states there were cloth and leather binding issues but does not state the number of each. Originally published in 1919 Sup was one of the first works and I believe the first novel of Emil Vachek journalist playwright and novelist and inventor of the Czech detective story. This later edition was issue in the prestigious and design-wise ground breaking Druzstevnà práce by Orbis. The series was overseen by the great Ladislav Sutnar who also contributed the typographical design for each volume. Fine in full cream-colored calf with gilt decorative design by Josef Kaplicky Czech sculptor generally in a social realist style and father of the significant architect Jan Kaplicky. Signed on a preliminary leaf by the author. OCLC locates only one copy of this issue National Library the Czech Republic and five copies with similar pagination but carrying the Sfinx imprint none of either imprint in the U.S. Druzstevnà práce [Orbis] hardcover books
1764KC8048Venice: Remondini 1764. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio 315 x 240mm. 38pp. I-XXXVIII. Finely printed with decorative chapter headings and tail-pieces. Engraved printerÂ’s device of Remondini depicting bishop with putti carrying crozier and miter. Engraved vignette of muses on dedication page. Decorative paper covered boards; some minor soiling or staining joint repaired on title verso lacking first and last blanks otherwise complete and in good form with good wide margins. <br/><br/>Collection of poetic essays in song of Sister Maria Theresa Crocefissa 1645-1699 an Augustinian nun from Venice known for her long orations printed by the Remondini press. In the 16th century Venice was the marketplace of the world. Its location on the lagoon and its unique connections with the sea distinguished it as a cosmopolitan center among the great cities of the Renaissance. In this larger context commerce and trade played a central role in the development and achievements of music printing. The subject of this work is poems written as canzones and sonettoes or songs and little songs of Sister Maria Crocefissa. From an early age Maria Crocefissa was devoted to long poetic orations. Soon she was also engaged in self-punitive actions including wearing a hairshirt. At the age of 23 she experienced her first religious ecstasies. During these periods of trance some lasting well over a week she regressed into a childlike state that left her completely paralyzed. The presence of Maria Crocefissa in her Augustinian convent of San Girolamo brought about a series of supernatural episodes and mysterious sightings which interested the public. While she was still alive her papers were widely published. This particular title of her poems addressed to Girolama Gaudio is of utmost rarity not located in a contemporary library collection or market worldwide. From the Remondini press who by the second half of the 18th century were employing more than a thousand people in the Bassano del Grappa with hundreds of others busy in their local paper mills and selling their products in scores of countries making them perhaps the biggest publishers in Europe. Between 1751 and 1790 Remondini were granted more licenses for books than all the other Venice booksellers put together. Printed matter was a luxury and the Remondini press was known to employ refined typographical features to suit the tastes of buyers. In this work attention is paid to the decorative elements initials and layout of each page. Remondini hardcover books
196619979Geneve: Galerie Motte 1966. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Thick paperbound quarto. 130 numbered pages followed by a Table Des Oeuvres Reproduites. Correct first edition of this extraordinary volume on the influences of modern art movements on the evolution of typography. With essay in French by Jacques Damase and including extensive examples from artists such as Kurt Schwitters Francis Picabia Fernand Leger Man Ray Robert Delaunay Tristan Tzara and Guillaume Apollinaire among many others. Illustrated in color and black and white. Covers worn at edges but a very good copy overall of this uncommon work. Stiff illustrated wrappers. <br/><br/> Galerie Motte paperback books
178827482Avgvstae Vindelicorvm Augsberg Germany: Sumnptibus Fratrum Veith Bibliofolarvm 1788. 1st edition Bigmore & Wyman I p. 79. Period drab boards with printed title to spine. Expected wear & staining to binding. PO bookplate over removal evidence of a prior bookplate. Some light foxing & faint discoloration to lower right quadrant of textblock. Withal a Very Good copy. xvi 207 1 pp. Errata last page which a prior owner has implemented via pen & Ink. Untrimmed. Head- & tailpieces. Illustrated at rear with 8 folding copperplate engraved tables of alphabets used by the early printers. 4to: 4 A - 2C4. <br/><br/>This Part I of an eventual 2-part work the second part being published the year following 1789. No copies at auction these last 30 years. Sumnptibus Fratrum Veith, Bibliofolarvm hardcover books
004987Paris: Agence Générale de Publicité et de PropagandePrinter: E. Desfosses. Wraps. Brochure. Near Fine. N.d. circa 1930. 8vo. 24.5 by 18.5 cm. Unpaginated 31 leaves all of a weighty card stock or over 60 pages about half with color plates we count 31 but one can quibble about whether one or two of them so qualify. Eleven of these are non-product illustrations -- attempts to capture concepts or abstractions -- the balance being exquisite depictions of the company's fine perfume bottles. The catalogue exudes an unalloyed dreamy luxury in every respects as befits high-end perfume marketing. Cassandre a name adopted by the Ukrainian-born Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron 1901-1968 -- his parents were French -- was a highly celebrated commercial artist theatrical designer magazine illustrator and poster artist. He worked heavily with the prestige printer Draeger as well as the couturier Lucien Lelong and others. In time he was awarded the French Legion of Honor. Lelong was a top Parisian couturier from the twenties til his retirement in the late forties. He was himself not a designer but rather relied on a stable of designers and among his proteges was Christian Dior. As this catalogue also shows dress designers were branching out into fragrances for a long time; this catalogue predates the creation of Chanel No. 5 by a few years. Light wear to the wraps -- a minor closed tear along the upper joint and some minor wrinkling or creasing to the cover paper. Otherwise clean and fresh. <br /><br /> Agence Générale de Publicité et de PropagandePrinter: E. Desfosses. paperback books
123156New York: Herald Book and Job Office 97 Nassau Street 1846. Single sheet folio 492 x 628 mm. Printed on recto only title and three columns of verse surrounded by a highly elaborate border composed of printer's ornaments. Very good with old folds slightly toned two 30 mm closed tears to top margin minor loss to right margin at point of fold no loss of image. Together with single issue of the Sacramento Union: Folio 430 x 585 mm 4pp. Very good lightly toned and foxed with evidence of a former binding along left margin. § A New Year's address to the readers of the New York Herald reviewing the events of 1845 in enthusiastic verse the broadsheet is notable for an extraordinarily elaborate decorative border composed primarily of printer's ornaments. The review runs through the highlights of 1845's local national and international events among them the Great Fire of New York the election of Polk and the Irish Potato Famine. Accompanying the broadside is a contemporaneous issue of the Sacramento Union which on its back page bears a similar New Year's address with border composed of printer's ornaments. It is interesting to compare the two both for the news reviewed and for the typographic resources available to the East and West coast printers. Both addresses refer to the imminent statehood of Texas and Oregon; the Sacramento Union alone spends several lines decrying the issue of slavery. Herald Book and Job Office unknown books
