LE SPECTACLE EST DANS LA RUE by (CASSANDRE, A. M.) CENDRARS, BLAISE - 1933

Milano: Dalla tipografia dell'autore, 1824. First edition. Modern quarter leather over marbled paper covered boards. Leather attached a bit awkwardly at spine ends, marbled boards rubbed and worn, edges of front board discolored from old tape removal, but binding solid, edges nicked on a few leaves, scattered foxing mainly affecting the margins, plates sharp, colors bright, a quite useful copy.. [x], [3]-224 pp., + 31 (ie 32) col. plates. Illus. with 32 plates incl. 1 engraved plan, 31 aquatints of which 7 are nicely hand-colored + handcolored engraved title page. Folio (41 cm). Plate 4* and 4 unnumbered pages inserted after p. 40. To illustrate this volume with aquatints, Ferrario chose many fine Milanese artists and engravers including V. Rainieri, Bramati, G. Alluisetti, D.K. Bonatti, Giuseppe Castellini, and A. Biasoli. Aside from the later two, the most prominent was the highly regarded theatrical set designer Alessandro Sanquirico (1774-1849) who produced 3 plates, one of the nave of the… Read More

Strasbourg : D'Emil Simon Fils , 1834. This is a very good hardcover copy in the original binding of brown marbled paper boards with an all-over green design. There is a large printed paper label with the title inset in an elaborately lithographed Gothic style frame. Tan paper covered spine of dark green cloth. The edges of the covers have a little wear. Inside there is an elaborately detailed title-page followed by 32 of 40 numbered plates. No evidence of plates being removed, as binding still very tight, but normally with 40 plates. All plates are black & white lithographs showing an amazing variety of typefaces and alphabets. Many are composed out of very imaginatively worked animals, plants, people or inventions forming the letters. A classic of this genre, here an incomplete copy with various faults, such as browning, tiny foxing, and 2 instances of later careful coloring of initials on different plates. Quite rare in the original binding. Large oblong folio, 11" high X 13 1/2"… Read More

Paris: Éditions Mayer, 1978. Hardcover. Fine condition in a Good dust jacket. The jacket would be Near Fine but for yellowing to the spine and along the upper edge of the front panel (see photos). Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. All pages are fresh, crisp, and unmarked. Hardcover. 22 cm wide by 25.5 cm tall. Text in French. Illustrated throughout with art reproductions, many in full-color, as well as old portraits/photographs and letter facsimiles. Title given above is from the title page. The title on the Dust Jacket is different. It reads: NORBERT GOENEUTTE SA VIE ET SON OEUVRE OU L'ART LIBRE AU XIXe SIÈCLE (1854-1894). Bound in the original green cloth, stamped in shiny gold on front cover. Includes dust jacket.. First Edition (première édition). Hardcover. Fine condition/Good dust jacket. Illus. by Goeneutte, Norbert. 195pp.

Paradou Writing Ltd., London, 2010 Book. New. Hardcover. English text; Title and captions in English and Chinese; Hardcover (cloth in slipcase); limited edition of 700 copies, 2 volumes, 480 pages with colour illustrations throughout.; 27 x 37 cm; 6 kg; STILL WRAPPED IN PLASTIC.; The Meiyintang collection represents one of the finest private collections of Chinese ceramics ever assembled. Volume Three of the collection catalogue, consisting of two books in a slip case, discusses and illustrates nearly 600 Chinese ceramics from the Neolithic period to the Yuan (1279-1368), many of which are today on display in the Rietberg Museum, Zurich. Volume Four, also consisting of two books in a slip case, covers China's porcelain production from the Yuan to the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) with some 250 entries. This collection is now dispersed. The 1994 publication of Volumes One and Two of the catalogue, which presented earlier acquisitions, is currently out of print..

Verona: Editiones Officinae Bodoni, 1952. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Quarter vellum over patterned paper-covered boards; vellum ruled in gilt with gilt lettering at spine. Top edge trimmed and gilt, other edges untrimmed. Housed in cream paper-covered slipcase. Special edition printed by hand-press in Griffo type on hand-made Fabriano paper, limited to 225 numbered copies, of which this is 106. Octavo. xi, [1, blank], 127, [1, colophon] pages. Illustrated with in-text woodcuts, made by Bartolommeo di Giovanni for a lost quattrocento edition, which were used to illustrate various later texts and have now been reassembled and recut. One full-page facsimile from the English version printed in 1597. Slightest toning and shelf wear to binding and slipcase. About fine. .

Spain Arte Ediciones. 1992. Original gilt decorated and lettered green cloth. Thick 4tos. Illustrated with full page colour reproductions. In dustwrapper, As New.

New York: Aperture, 2000. Signed by Salgado and rare thus. First edition / First printing. Black cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

1717 Life of Saint Bruno Eustache le SUEUR Painting Art HUGE FOLIO Engravings
Eustache le Sueur was a well-known 17th-century French artist known for his paintings of saints and church fathers. His most famous works was his series of paintings on the life of Saint Bruno aptly titled 'La Vie de St. Bruno'. After Sueur completed these paintings, they were sold to Louis XVI and were later placed in the Louvre where they still reside today.
These enormous, elephant-folio sized engravings of 'St. Bruno' were engraved by Francois Chauveau who is known to be one of the most desirable engravers for collectors.
Item number: #14806
Price: $950
Le SUEUR, Eustache
La vie de St. Bruno fondateur de l'ordre des Chartreux peinte au Cloistre de la Chartreuse de Paris
A Paris : Chez la Veuve de F. Chereau, (ca.1660-1717)
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o 18 engravings
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Language: French
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Binding: Leather; tight & secure
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Size: ~18in X 12.75in (45.5cm x 32cm)
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Northhampton, MA; (1980): Pennyroyal. Limited Edition. Oblong Octavo. Limited to 100 copies. Of the one hundred numbered copies this is number 32. Signed by both Paul Smyth and Barry Moser on the limitation page. Seven ottava rima (poems) by Paul Smyth, seven wood engravings by Barry Moser. "This book was printed at Pennyroyal by Harold McGrath and bound at the workshop of Gray Parrot. The paper is Arches. The types are Georg Trump's Medieval and John Peters' Castellar. The work was completed in Northampton during the late summer of 1980. Bound in 1/4 red leather over marbled paper covered boards, spine lettering gilt. A fine copy of a very scarce book.

1803 1ed ART of Raphael Italian Renaissance Painting Landon 4v SET 463 PLATES!
Charles Paul London was an early 19th-century French painter best-known, however, for his writings on art history and eminent painters. One such work was 'Life and Works of Most Famous Painters'
– a collection of impressive tomes on the most famous artists. These four tomes from the early 19th-century first edition focuses on the life and work of Raphael, perhaps the most important Italian painter of the Renaissance. It contains hundreds of illustrations of the sketches and art of Raphael.
Item number: #18778
Price: $950
LANDON, Charles Paul

Vies et œuvres des peintres les plus célèbres de toutes les écoles : recueil classique
Paris : Chez l'auteur, an XI, 1803-1805. First edition.

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Collation: 4 volumes
o Vol. I – 40, [2]
Plates 1-124
o Vol. II – [4]
Plates 125-236
o Vol. III – [4]
Plates 237-349
o Vol. IV – [4], 34
Plates 351-475
o 463 engravings!
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