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19881324783Cape Town: Struik Winchester 1988. Limited Edition 1220/2000. Hardcover. Quarto Pages; VG/VG; spine is beige with gold lettering; dust jacket has minimal shelf wear; binding has minimal shelf wear and minor bumping on the fore edge corners; pages clear; signed by the photographer on the ffep; housed in beige publisher's slipcase; shelved front table. 1324783. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Struik Winchester hardcover books
2006172864Girona: Museu D' Art de Girona 2006. Paperback. VG. Color-illustrated wraps with mint and white lettering. 349 pp. Color and BW illustrations. Catalogue of an exhibition from July 15 to December 10 2006. Text in Catalan. Museu D' Art de Girona paperback books
5357Madrid: Por les Heredos de Antonio Gonzalez de Reyes 1724. 8vo. 2 vols. 3661014;126186pp. With the half-titles. Vol. I with a copper engraved frontispiece and a full-page woodcut coat-of-arms. Large woodcut device on each of 3 section titles. Later 19th century full mottled calf brown calf spine labels foot of spine of Vol. II with minor darkening. Palau 33431. Por les Heredos de Antonio Gonzalez de Reyes unknown books
2016GA817-001Wienfelden Germany: Wolfau-Druck AG 2016. First Edition thus. Paperback. Like New. Miniature Book. 2 11/16 x 2 1/16 inches. 23 ff. 54 cooper engraved illustrations 53 color throughout 3 per page; text clean unmarked. Decorative wrappers printed paper label on front cover; binding square and tight. Housed in a red paper slipcase. SCARCE. Fine. Facsimile Reproduction of 250 copies of a rare copy of an early nineteenth-century chapbook printed in Germany. The text is a "dream book" written by "Joseph aus Egypten" a "professor of dream interpretation." This lovely miniature book features humorous illustrations and instructions for the interpretation of dream symbols. Examples include: fruit in a dream indicates bouncing children; an armband in a dream indicates an unnecessary expenditure; letters indicate marriage to an academic with a doctoral degree. The original edition had a lithographed illustration of a harlequin on the front cover and on the rear was a small envelope not present here. These types of chapbooks were peddled by traveling merchants chapmen who offered cheap wares in remote villages where the inexpensive chapbooks were passed hand to hand and were worn out from use; this title otherwise unknown other than a copy of the original that was offered at the Olympia Fair in London in 2017 by Antiquariat-Kunsthandlung Johannes Muller for 1550 GBP. Wolfau-Druck AG paperback books
198152218Chicago: The Oriental Institute Museum University of Chicago 1981. sewn stiff paper wrappers. Bookbinding. small 4to. sewn stiff paper wrappers. xii 235 pages. The German orientalist and Arabic scholar Bernard Moritz acquired a large number of Islamic manuscripts books and other items many of which he sold to the Univ. of Chicago Oriental Institute in the late 1920's. This exhibition catalogue of Moritz Islamic bindings mostly resident in the Oriental Inst. collection lists 95 bindings and 5 manuscript items. Each binding is illustrated often with additional illustrations of details and extensively described often with references. A few illustrations are in color most are black-and-white. Extensive introductory matter discusses history materials techniques and structures of Islamic bindings with notes references. Minor shelf-wear else fine. The Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago unknown books
1650283c.1650. Engraving. Hollstein 32. 8 x 9¾. With ½" margins. In good condition other than a center fold not showing in the image. books
1883276241883. 450 x 325 mm. wide margins. A fine impression on laid paper with printed titling below image. Signed in ink by the artist at lower right just below platemark. <br/><br/>Slightly browned; margins slightly soiled with a few chips and small tears; lower outer corner creased; remnants of hinges to upper corners of verso. Béraldi: Les Graveurs du XIX Siècle 18 iv/iv. <br/><br/>Bosch born in Barcelona settled in Paris in 1853 and became known as "Le Roi de la Guitarre."<br/><br/>"He was a close friend of the painter Édouard Manet and posed for him many times one portrait being used as illustration for one of Bosch's publications Plainte Moresque op. 85 which is also dedicated to Manet. Besides many original compositions he wrote a Méthode de guitare 1891. and an opera Roger de Flor 1868. In Paris Bosch was much praised at the aristocratic salons and had a large number of pupils including the brothers Alfred and Jules Cottin. His best-known piece was to be his song collection Dix Mélodies which was praised by Felipe Pedrell as a "true model of what a composer's inspiration may create in this genre." Wikipedia. <br/><br/>Bracquemond was a prolific printmaker active in Paris in the latter part of the 19th century in the circle of Manet Degas Fantin-Latour and Auguste Rodin. He received the "Grande Medaille d'Honneur" at the Universal Exhibition in 1900. unknown books
