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Von Bonsdorff, Annika. PhNot in perfect condition. unknown
1964013371London: Hutchinson 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG/Very Good. First title of Beckwith's first Hebridean omnibus autobiographically based on her life on the Isle of Skye. 14th impression 1964 after the first 1959. Clean text and endpapers in unclipped dustjacket moderately worn about edges. Hutchinson hardcover
194034034San Francisco: Windsor Press 1940 Cloth-backed boards spine lettered in red deckled edges inscription at ffep faint spotting at cloth a nearly fine copy; Second edition limited to 200 numbered copies first issued the previous year for the Book Club of California pochoir title vignette and headpiece illuminated initials; with a 100-word dedication to Carl Livingston Jr. "from the Printer / with kindest regards" by the illustrator/printer and founder of the Windsor Press James Johnson dated 1940. "This letter of Costanso in MS. was discovered in a rare print of the Costanso Diary that once had formed part of the Ramirez collection and later came into the possession of Edward E. Ayer. Translation is the hand of Mrs. Ayer" from the Introductory Note; 12mo; iv 22 2pp. Sabin 17020. Signed by Artist. Hard Cover. [San Francisco]: Windsor Press hardcover
1905227961905. A series of national flags designed to be decoration for a patriotic event. The flags included are those for Japan the Imperial Japanese Navy Great Britain Denmark Turkey and the US flag with 30 stars. Many are not identifiable. What seems to be an early iteration of the Brazilian flag including the words "Ordem I Proesso" sic across a blue globe with constellations within a diamond shape. Nicely preserved in pristine condition within the original box which is decorated with Japanese children waving the string of flags. The box flattened missing one edge otherwise in very nice condition. unknown
1995TH219641Archetype Publications London 1995. 1st Edition. HARDCOVER. Tall 4to. in blue faux cloth gilt lettering to spine and front cover 155pp on stiff paper numerous photo and line illustrations in text bibliography etc. Text mainly in French 'Compositional Analysis of Painted Decoration' is in English __CONDITION : An extremely well preserved AS NEW unread and unmarked copy in an AS NEW complete Dust Jacket. An excellent copy. . NOTE: Depending on destination this item may require an extra payment for insurance. If so orders made by card will be completed only after you have approved any such extra cost. __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS Archetype Publications, London hardcover
1990173961Italy: c.1990. An attractive Italian wooden ribbon pattern wall decoration. Wood finished in gold leaf; 13 x 41 cm Very good condition. unknown
191036740Reading Michigan: Acme Chair Company 1910. Wraps. Very good. Oblong staple wraps. Illustrated. 48 pages. contents include depections of folding chairs lawn seats and camp chairs along with folding tables all using maple beech and oak woods. Small chip front cover. Contents clean. Acme Chair Company unknown
193063176New York: Funk and Wagnalls 1930. Second printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover titled in gilt on spine and front cover; blue-green top-stain; xvi5215pp; illus. Tight square Near Fine copy lacking the dustwrapper. <br /> <br /> A guide to stylish domesticity for the new upwardly-mobile American woman a follow-up to her epochal Etiquette: the Blue Book of Social Usage 1927 and one of those tragic Depression-era publishing mis-fires - written at the apex of the Roaring Twenties published in the immediate aftermath of the Wall Street crash. A particularly bright and attractive copy sadly lacking the dustwrapper. Funk and Wagnalls unknown
1929028522Los Angeles: Jake Zeitlin 1929. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine/Near Fine. One Of 500 Copies Printed By The Mayers Company. Black Card Wrappers With Black Dj With Printed White Cover Label. This Example Inscribed By Armitage For His Friend And Illustrator Of Many Of Armitage's Books Pasquale Giovanni Napolitano About Whom Armitage Later Wrote A 1935 Book "Badly Written Its Meaning Still Holds. Inscribed To Napolitano / Merle Armitage". Book Is Fine Dj Clean But With A Few Minor Edge Tears And Nicks. A Controversial Address Rare When Signed Or Inscribed. <br/> <br/> Jake Zeitlin paperback
1929039396Los Angeles: Jake Zeitlin 1929. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine/Near Fine. One Of 500 Copies Printed By The Mayers Company Published By Jake Zeitlin. Black Card Wrappers With Black Dj With Printed White Cover Label. This Example With The Bookplate Of Merle Armitage Signed By Him. In A Specially Made Folding Case Red Cloth Red Morocco Spine With Armitage's Name Title And Date In Gilt. Book Very Clean Spine Split At Ends. <br/> <br/> Jake Zeitlin paperback
190525940Henry Altemus Phil. 1905 HARDBACK NODustJacket 1905 1st Edition GOOD/VG- AS-IS NOJACKET Small Brown & Light green Cloth cvr with Man in Window Fishing with small Elephant as Lure for Dragon onFront Cvr Cvr light rub wear 4 1/2 X 6 In. Interior nicetight clean light wear FOX Stains 101 PGS Very Slight Lean Cvr has rub wear scuff edges & extremitis is Titled in Gold Gilt Light stains Back Cvr. TINY mended pg Tear spine cock moderate wear to edges corners spine and rear. couple closed tears small brown spots on many pages . also has some red titles & embellishments in bk Red illustrated frontispiece. First Edition. Hard Cover. Henry Altemus Phil. hardcover
Bertelsen, JensIn Pristine Condition. unknown
1964013372London: Hutchinson 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine -/Very Good. Third title of Beckwith's first Hebridean omnibus autobiographically based on her life on the Isle of Skye. Uncommon first printing. Clean text and endpapers in unclipped dustjacket moderately worn about edges. Hutchinson hardcover
ST17060RFrance probably Besançon 3rd quarter of 15th century. 239 x 165 mm. 9 3/8 x 6 1/2". Single column 15 lines in an elegant gothic book hand. <br/> Rubrics in dark pink line enders in pink and blue with white tracery and gold bezant several one-line initials and one two-line initial in burnished gold on dark pink and blue ground with white tracery each side with a panel border composed of hairline vines with gold ivy and bezants a few colorful flowers and EACH FEATURING THE FACE OF A MAN EMITTING ACANTHUS LEAVES FROM HIS MOUTH. ◆A few tiny marginal spots one of the faces slightly rubbed otherwise IN BEAUTIFUL CONDITION.<br/> <br/> In addition to the floral decoration and vines often found in the borders of Books of Hours this leaf features a duo of delightful inhabitants in the form of faces emitting colorful acanthus from their mouths. Each figure is individualized the face on the recto with dark hair flushed cheeks and a prominent nose; on the verso is a face with a much paler complexion a tonsured hairstyle a large but very short nose and fine gray whiskers. This kind of imaginative work together with luxurious touches such as the many gilt initials several dozen gilt bezants and ivy leaves in each panel border and the unusually wide margins point to this manuscript having been a costly production. For additional leaves from this same manuscript at different price points please check our website. unknown
27913London: 1891 . London 1891. Quarter-Leather. Condition: Good. First Edition. London presumed published by the Plastic Decoration and Paper Mache Company 1891. Folio. 2 4pp. Illustrated with a lithographed frontispiece and 124 other full page plates mostly lithographed with a few photographic examples. The first few pages list the projects they have been involved in and the architects they have worked with. There is an extensive list of Frank Matcham theatres as well as theatres designed by other architects. Throughout the catalogue it is possible to recognise motifs from Matcham's theatres. This is a really comprehensive catalogue of decorative mouldings friezes rosettes and ornaments supplied by this company for use in interior design and decoration. Most plates illustrate multiple examples. The plate numbering follows no obvious sequence and some are noted as Volume 1 2 or 3 with a plate number whilst others are not. The catalogue is presumed complete but this is impossible to verify. A scarce architectural reference work with Worldcat locating only one copy held at the University of Queensland Australia. Bound in the original quarter Morocco with cloth sides. Title page a little creased browned and very slightly chipped at its lower edge. Otherwise a clean copy of a scarce work with the text block sound and the binding in good condition. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall London: 1891 hardcover
19301668761930. VIACROZE DECORATION. Aphorismes sur la décoration. Numbers 1-10 all published. 8vo. in publisher's wrappers and cardboard folding case. Paris: Viacroze décoration 1930-1931. A complete set of this scarce and little known Art Deco design periodical. Cardboard with some wear otherwise immaculate. OCLC lists sets at Columbia Metropolitan Museum University of Illinois and Bibliotheque Nationale. unknown
1933054125John Henry Nash 1928 1933 1933. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. 238 155 Pp. Matching Full Vellum 5 Bands Very Thick Boards Top Edge Gilt Gilt Rules Very Heavy Paper Each #25 Of 1000 Copies. George Hearst Book With Compliments Slip From William Randolph Hearst; Phoebe Apperson Hearst Slip With Errata Slip. Both In Custom Slipcase With Two Compartments. Very Near Fine No Marks No Warping To Covers. Per Wikipedia George Hearst September 3 1820 - February 28 1891 Was An American Businessman Miner And Politician. After Growing Up On A Small Farm In Missouri He Founded Many Mining Operations And Is Particularly Known For Developing And Expanding The Homestake Mine In The Late 1870S In The Black Hills Of South Dakota. In 1879 He Listed It On The New York Stock Exchange And Went On To Other Pursuits. The Mine Operated Continuously Producing Gold Until 2001. His Company Grew To Be The Largest Private Mining Firm In The United States And Had Huge Investments In Mexico And Peru Mines. Hearst Acquired The Reputation Of Being The Most Expert Prospector And Judge Of Mining Property On The Pacific Coast. He Contributed To The Development Of The Modern Processes Of Quartz And OtherVague Kinds Of Mining. George Hearst Acquired The San Francisco Examiner Newspaper As A Sign Of Loyalty To His Friends By Accepting It As Payment For A Gambling Debt Owed To Him. He Primarily Used The Examiner To Promote The Interests Of The Democratic Party And To Laud The Party's Initiatives Especially When They Were Under Public Attack. After Settling In San Francisco In The Early 1860S Hearst Became A Politician First Representing San Francisco In The State Legislature For One Term. He Also Maintained Mining Interests Through His Company. Hearst Was Appointed As A United States Senator In 1886 To Fill A Vacancy And Was Elected As A Democrat Later That Year On His Own Account. He Served In The Senate From 1887 To His Death In 1891. His Only Child From His Late Marriage At Age 40 Was His Son William Randolph Hearst Who Became Internationally Known As A Newspaperman And Publisher And Was A Primary Inspiration For Orson Welles' 1941 Film Citizen Kane. As Quoted In The Book On His Vote In The Senate "If People Can't Afford To Buy Butter Let Them Buy Oleomargarine". His Lifelong Focus On The Physical Basis Of Money Silver And Gold Rather Than The Manufacture Of Useful Items And His Lifelong Concern With Politicking Made Him One Of The Most Successful Admired And Richest Americans And Financed The Career Of His Son William Randolph Hearst Producer Of The Worthless Imperialist And Sometimes Successfully War-Mongering New York Journalism Of His Son Who Is Also Not Known To Have Ever Produced Anything Original And Of Value. <br/> <br/> John Henry Nash 1928, 1933 hardcover
1950224867N.p. 1950. Watercolor on paper. Approximately 15-3/4 x 10 inches each. Very good a few with cello-tape residue on verso. Watercolor on paper. Approximately 15-3/4 x 10 inches each. Finely executed conceptual drawings in watercolor for contemporary and period curtains and window draperies. unknown
189911386AB1899. 12 volumes. Paris Levy 1899 - 1913. 29 : 215 cm. Richly illustated with many partly coloured plates. Original half-cloth. Important French arts periodical on modern art and architecture with many partly half tone plates on architecture decorative arts painting graphic design sculpture furniture textiles gardens etc. The present volumes covering mainly the art nouveau period. The illustrationas are by Walter Crane Eugene Grasset Alphonse Mucha William Nicholson Auguste Rodin Theo van Rysselkberghe Carlos Schwabe M.P. Verneuil. Present are the following volumes: V. Janvier-Juin 1899 - VII. Janvier-Juin 1900 - VIII. Juillet-Décembre 1900 - IX. Janvier-Juin 1901 XIII. Janvier-Juin 1903 - XVII. Janvier-Juin 1905 missing page 59/60 and 173-176 - XX. Juillet-Decembre 1906 missing pages 141-172 - XXV. Janvier-Juin 1909 - XXVI. Juillet-Décembre 1909 missing page 1/2 and 37-69 - XXVIII. Juillet-Décembre 1910 missing page 115-120 and 143/144 - XXXII. Juillet-Décembre 1912 missing page 17-20 - XXXIII. Janvier-Juin 1913 missing page 177/178. - Also some pages and plates are missing it is still an extensive overview of the arts movements in Europe and overseas containing articles and illustrations of the most important artists of that time. - Binding a bit rubbed some pages in two volumes with menor tears otherwise a good copy. hardcover
17402420Augsburg: Johann Jacob Haid & son 1740. Six tall narrow folio-sized engravings with etching platemarks 400 x 207 mm. sheets 435 x 277 mm. deckle edges unsigned but by Jacop Wangner after Watteau numbered 1-6 in the plate at lower right imprint at lower right I. Haid et filius excudit A. V. Augustae Vindelicorum. Upper edges archivally tipped to mats. Fine.<br/> <br/> A perfectly preserved suite of six large rococo engravings reproducing Watteau's paintings for a folding screen intended to be cut out by ladies for use in furniture decoration. <br /> <br /> Watteau's influence on 18th-century decorative arts throughout Europe by way of the many engravings after his work published by Gersaint has long been recognized but the use of the engravings as actual sheets to be cut up and applied to household objects has garnered little attention until recently. The vogue for decoupage probably first appeared in the late seventeenth century and by the 1720s the hobby of cutting out colored prints for application to various household objects and pieces of furniture was all the rage in France Germany and beyond. The process which remained a favorite pastime throughout the eighteenth century was known as la découpure in French as Ausschneidekunst in German and as lacca contrafatta or lacca povera in Italian although "the latter term appears to be a true misnomer considering the amount of minute work involved" Kisluk-Grosheide p. 83. It consisted of neatly cutting out hand-colored engraved or woodcut motifs or figures applying them to a textile or sometimes cardboard ground and varnishing them. These creations were applied to furniture as well as to "screens folding screens wall hangings ceilings the tops of coaches and sedan chairs" loc. cit. affording a passable imitation of Asian lacquer. The craze which created a goldmine for certain print publishers reached the point that bibliophiles and collectors were warned to keep a vigilant eye on their most precious books prints and paintings lest eager young ladies attack them with scissors. <br /> <br /> In 1728 six engravings after Watteau's paintings for a folding screen were commissioned by the art collector Jean de Julienne as part of a vast program of reproductions of Watteau's painted oeuvre. They were engraved by Louis Crépy fils and published by the Paris marchand-mercier art dealer and print publisher Edmé-François Gersaint. An announcement of their upcoming publication in the November 1727 Mercure de France explicitly described them and two other Crépy-Watteau engravings as "marvelously appropriate for decoupages with which ladies these days make such pretty furniture" Crépy grave actuellement six morceaux en hauteur . d'après un Paravant peint par Watau dont les compositions sont très-galantes. De pareils sujets peints sur des fonds blancs conviennent à merveille aux découpures dont les Dames font aujourd'hui de si jolis meubles Mercure de France 1 Novembre 1727 p. 2492 digitized on Gallica. Indeed the publisher himself highlighted this usage in his own note in a later issue of the Mercure cited by Glorieux p. 212: pointing out that all of the decorative motifs in the Watteau engravings were "most useful for painters fan-makers sculptors goldsmiths tapestry-weavers embroiderers etc." he added that "all these ornaments can be perfectly used in decoupage" tous ces ornements réussissent parfaitement en découpure. <br /> <br /> These and other rococo engravings were quickly taken up by German publishers especially in Augsburg Metken p. 102. This paravent folding screen suite was one of the first of the Watteau engravings to be copied in Germany. The present very close reverse copies of Crépy's six plates appeared in Augsburg only a few months after their publication in June 1728 in Paris: engraved by Jacob Wangner or Wagner ca. 1703-1781 they were published by the heirs of Jeremias Wolff in 1729. This set is an otherwise unrecorded reissue of the Wangner copperplates. A lavishly decoupage-decorated secretary in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art includes cutouts that were almost certainly from these Augsburg plates as they are from "reverse copies of the prints by Crépy" Kisluk-Grosheide p. 88 noting other examples of Augsburg copies of Watteau prints used on the same secretary. Her assertion that "it has not been shown that these engravings were actually used for this purpose" p. 84 is only applicable to the French plates. Indeed other examples of lacca povera objects described in her article point to the German production of copies of French rococo prints as the main source for decoupage at this time on pieces produced throughout Europe including in Italy and in France itself. <br /> <br /> The general title appears at the foot of the first plate. Each engraving presents a central figure or scene set within a frame of delicate rococo arabesques and ornaments. Three show the Comédie italienne figures of Pierrot Harlequin and Colombine a woman playing the lute on a rug-bedecked stage a pair of allegorical figures flanking an awning above and at bottom the smiling visage of a Commedia dell'Arte character of the opposite sex. The remaining pastoral scenes of courtship or douceur de vie are set within naturalistic elements two with streams flowing over a dripping shell-shaped basin or ledge under which a ghostly face can be dimly discerned. Watteau's designs were based on earlier designs by Claude III Audran decorative painter for Louis XIV at Versailles and Fontainebleau to whom Watteau had apprenticed. "After joining forces with ornamentalist Claude III Audran about 1708 he Watteau began inserting figures in Comédie-Italienne costumes into Audran's trademark arabesques" Judy Sund "Watteau's Pierrots Why so Sad" The Art Bulletin vol. 98 no. 3 2016 p. 325 reproducing the Pierrot panel from the present series. <br /> <br /> OCLC locates a single copy of the Wolff issue at the Bibliothèque nationale de France reproduced in Gallica. In the present issue of which I locate no other copies the engraver's signatures were removed. <br /> <br /> On the Wolff issue cf. W. Augustyn "Augsburger Buchillustration im 18. Jahrhundert" in Augsburger Buchdruck und Verlagswesen von den Anfangen bis zur Gegegenwart 1997 p. 820 citing E. Isphording Gottfried Bernhard Göz 1708-1774 1997 pp. 35 ff.; Thieme Becker 35:150. On the Crépy engravings cf. Guilmard Maitres ornemanistes p.145; Dacier & Vauflart Jean de Julienne et les graveurs de Watteau au XVIII. siècle 159-163; E. de Goncourt Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre . d'Antoine Watteau 1875 p. 224 nos. 309-314; G. Glorieux À l'enseigne de Gersaint: Edme-François Gersaint marchand d'art sur le Pont Notre Dame Paris 2002 pp. 189-192; Mark Millard Collection: French Books no. 170.35 5 of the 6 plates. On the use of these engravings for decoupage see: D. O. Kisluk-Grosheide "'Cutting up Berchems Watteaus and Audrans': A Lacca Povera Secretary at The Metropolitan Museum of Art" Metropolitan Museum Journal 31 1996 pp. 81-97; and S. Metken Geschnittenes Papier Munich 1978 pp. 101-2 & 113. Johann Jacob Haid & son unknown
