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20081327929Sydney: University of New South Wales 2008. First Edition. Softcover. Thin octavo; pp 128; VG/paperback; covers clean; text block clean; profusely illustrated; frontispiece; tight binding; arts - Scandinavian;. 1327929. FP New Rockville Stock. University of New South Wales unknown books
004923Wraps. Very Good. Scarce with no copies located on OCLC FirstServe. N.d. circa 1914 when the fragrance "Un Air Embaume" was first introduced. 8vo. 24 by 21 cm. Unpaginated 12 leaves plus tissue guards and wraps with nine of those being color plates. Rigaud as a parfumier dates back to 1852. At the turn of the century it created and marketed fragrances associated with celebrities of the day -- one fragrance was named after the opera star "Mary Garden" -- and the company might well have been a pioneer in such tie-ins. The company also consciously pursued the Anglo market and capitalized on the Gallic vogue at the time for things English by naming a number of its products in English. The company remains in business today but its emphasis it now on home or ambient fragrances. In this glossy marketing brochure intended as much to build the exotic luxurious mystique of the companies fragrances as to peddle its specific products the color plates capture perfectly the sinewy rich aesthetic of the day with equal amounts of Art Nouveau elegance; the overripe almost lurid colors and styles of the Jugendstil or the Teutonic version of Art Nouveau; and the softer Rococo frivolity and flirty lightness epitomized by a Fragonard or Boucher. The Richepin poem that serves as a preface evokes the hedonistic possibly decadent sensuality that is the mood or mix of moods of the illustrations that follow. And so the names of perfumes are Prince Igor Marthe Chenal a French opera singer who like Mary Garden was particularly associated with Jules Massenet Pres de Vous Muses des Bois l'heure charmante lilas de Rigaud Oeillet d'Andalousie Mary Garden and des Roses. The cream cover has foxing. Within the brochure is clean. <br/><br/> paperback books
1975280806New York: Grove Press Inc 1975. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Near Fine dust jacket. A modernist as well as Uranian novel winner and of the 1973 Prix Medicis and translated from the French for this Grove Press Edition. Uncommon. The text block has browned a bit and there is minor toning to the endpapers. The dustjacket is reasonably bright; it has not been price-clipped and is now protected with a new mylar cover. Very Good binding / Near Fine dust jacket. Grove Press, Inc unknown books
187738076Stuttgart 1877. 58 of 60 Chromolithographic plates some folding missing Plate #7 of 1866 and Plate #2 of 1873. 1 vols. 4to 10 1/2 x 7 1/2 Inches. Original yellow printed wrappers. Plates Fine. 58 of 60 Chromolithographic plates some folding missing Plate #7 of 1866 and Plate #2 of 1873. 1 vols. 4to 10 1/2 x 7 1/2 Inches. unknown books
1878104083<p>4to original printed wrappers 27 separate installments incomplete and 108 full-page chromolithograph plates. Wrappers are a little soiled and have a few chips and tears one top cover is missing a few corner folds some aging and browning plates are generally clean and bright but sometimes show some browning along margins; overall a decent set of plates. Meehan 1826-1901 was a noted botanist of his day. While he wrote a number of serious scholarly works on the subject this book was an attempt to reach a wider more popular audience. Meehan goal for this work was to improve popular comprehension of the subject without sacrificing good science and by the way at a price people could afford. The concept of bringing more sophisticated botanical knowledge to a wider audience was rare. However Meehan received a lot of critical success for this effort at that time Nissen Botany 1331. Although incomplete this format of Meehan's work is somewhat scarce. It includes installments from the first and second series and was published by the Prang and Robson firms. Sold as a set of plates. Nissen Botany 1331.</p> L. Prang & Co./Chas.Robson & Co., books
89765FLOWERS. SHINSHIN MEIKA KACHÔ SEN Vol. 1. Kyoto MARIA Gabo N.D. c.1935 30.0 x 41.6 cm. 12 color woodblock prints of flowers and birds. Maria Gabo was a very skillful woodblock printing house in the 1930s. Their aesthetic sense differs from others of the period the pallette is subtler the printing more "boneless" - overall a more painterly effect is achieved in this group of prints by some of the most celebrated Kyoto artists of the day. MARIA has here created 24.5 33.0 cm size prints embellished with all the effects of a deluxe production bokashi overprinting etc. etc. The portfolio covers are worn but the prints themselves are very good. Very unusual collection almost never found complete. unknown books
1933895941933. FLOWERS. KANJI SHÔHIN GASHÛ Kyoto MARIA Gabo Showa 8 1933 29.5 x 41.6 cm. 15 oblong color woodblock prints of flowers many in fan format. Maria Gabo was a very skillful woodblock printing house in the 1930s. Their aesthetic sense differs from others of the period the pallette is subtler the printing more "boneless" - overall a more painterly effect is achieved in this group of prints by two of the most celebrated Kyoto artists of the day Kobayashi Kanji 1892-1974 and Matsumura Suiho. Here MARIA has created prints embellished with all the effects of a deluxe production bokashi mica overprinting etc. etc. The original ribbon-bound boards with printed papertitle label are worn the prints themselves are very good. Very unusual collection MARIA Gabo productions have almost always been broken up for the prints. Complete. unknown books
1925868921925. BIRDS & FLOWERS Tsuchida EISHO Takeuchi SEIHO artists. EISHO HYAKUCHO GAFU. 4 vols. complete 22.7 X 33.1 cm. Kyoto Unsodo Taisho 3 3 12 14 1914 14 23 25. Profusely illustrated set of images of birds often quite surreal renderings ostensibly after design by Tsuchida Eisho the mid-19th century painter here re-interpreted by Seiho the 20th century master and subtly printed by the Unsodo. Very unusual work complete in a clasped chitsu case. Very good colors impressions condition. A brief notice can be seen at Mitchell p. 249 referencing Brown p.202. unknown books
165528459First or early editions. Various places and publishers 1655-1897 1655. See Beverly Seaton The Language of Flowers A History. University Press of Virginia 1995. A detailed description of the collection is available via pdf on our website at www.brickrow.com on the catalogues page. The Language of Flowers phenomenon flourished for almost eighty years beginning in France in the early 19th century. As both potent and subtle symbols in Western culture flowers are found in religious texts poetry heraldic and emblematic literature from the classical period and early Christianity through medieval literature and the enlightenment. In the early 19th century books were written and published for the first time under titles such as Abécédaire de Flore ou Langage des Fleurs 1811 Oracles de Flore 1816 Emblemes de Flore et des Végéaux 1819 and Le Langage des Fleurs 1819. With those publications the language of flowers and its exploration of floral symbolism in communication - usually as a language of love and romance - gained acceptance and popularity. During its nascent years in France the language of flowers had a relatively limited affluent audience but once publishers saw the potential for profit and obtained the ability to print and illustrate books on a large scale they began to publish language of flowers texts in the popular formats of literary annuals gift books and almanacs. By 1830 the genre was widely available to a new world of fervent book buyers and readers in the working and middle classes. The vogue for language of flowers books was so prevalent that it became the subject of parodies and satires by among others Frederick Marryat and J. J. Grandville. Herman Melville was a devotee of symbolic flower language and referred to it in Mardi and Pierre and poems written to his wife Lizzie. The core of this collection of language of flowers titles was assembled by Doris Ann Elmore a French teacher in San Francisco and lifelong Francophile. The collection is unusual for its scope. The collection is for sale en bloc. <br/><br/> First or early editions. Various places and publishers, 1655-1897 unknown books
