Search Results: Authors starting with V from Ursus Books

1921. NAVEZ, Géo. Miousic. Sept Poemes a la Louange de la Musique Baroque. By Paul-Gustave Van Hecke. 46, [2] pp., illustrated with 7 pochoir plates by Géo Navez. Folio, 325 x 235 mm., bound in publisher's light brown printed wrappers in a new red cloth folding box. Brussels: Editions Selection, 1921. This is one of 25 copies on Holland hors commerce and lettered O of a total 132 copies printed. Inscribed by the author to the secretary of the Comedie Française, Jean Valmy-Baisse. A collection of 7 poems by the polymath Paul-Gustave Van Hecke (1887-1967), a Belgian poet and art patron, who was associated with the surrealists, especially Magritte, Ernst and Man Ray. The poems are accompanied by 7 striking hand-coloured pochoir plates by Géo Navez (1890-1975), a central figure in the artistic avant-garde in 1920s Belgium. The printed wrappers have an unusual design using advertisements. Edges of the covers a little worn as true in most copies, overall a near… Read More

1852. VARIN, Amédée. Papillons Metamorphoses Terrestres des Peuples de L'Air. Two volumes. [4], 232, [4]; [4], 258, [4] pp., illustrated with 35 hand-coloured engraved plates, including frontispieces and title-page plates, and with the portrait Cazotte opposite vol. II, p. 152, not included in the list of plates. 8vo, 262 x 175 mm., bound in publisher's polychrome bindings depicting Varin decorations and illustrated vignettes. Paris: Gabriel de Gonet, 1852. First edition, with points: "1852" on next to the printer's name "De Soye" at the end of both volumes. One of the most marvelously surreal butterfly books, Varin's Papillons is a potpourri of fantasy, imagination and humour. The 35 hand-coloured plates of anthropomorphic butterflies, rendered in the vein of Grandville by Amédée Varin (1818-1883) are brilliantly conceived and executed. The text by Nus and Meray includes a chapter entitled "La Vestale du Rio… Read More

1945. Venturi, Lionello. MARC CHAGALL. 47 pp. text includes 2 tipped-in, color plates, 25 drawings in b&w, and is followed by 64 b&w plates. 4to., cloth. New York, Pierre Matisse Editions, 1945. Edition limited to 1500 copies.

1966. VENTURI, Robert. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. Introduction by Vincent Scully. 143 pp. Illustrated with 350 black and white plates. 8vo., 200 x 145 mm, bound in publisher's cloth and printed dust wrapper. New York: Museum of Modern Art in association with The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago, 1966. First edition of this landmark publication, translated into 16 languages since its first appearance in 1966. "...This remarkable book has become an essential document in architectural literature. A 'gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward architecture,' Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture expresses in the most compelling and original terms the postmodern rebellion against the purism of modernism. Three hundred and fifty architectural photographs serve as historical comparisons and illuminate the author's ideas on creating and experiencing… Read More

1938. VILENSKII, E.S. Shestnadtsat' dnei na poliuse. [Sixteen Days at North Pole]. 127 pp., illustrated with 39 photographic plates, of which 9 are portraits. 4to, bound in publisher's illustrated cloth. Moscow, Leningrad: Tsentral'nyi komitet vsesoiuznogo leninskogo kommunisticheskogo soiuza molodezhi, izdat. detskoi literatury, 1938. A fine copy of this rare account, made for young people, of the celebrated Russian expedition to the North Pole of 1937-38. OCLC lists only three copies.

1947. VILLALOBOS-DOMINGUEZ, C. and Julio VILLALOBOS. Atlas de los Colores. (Colour Atlas). With 7,279 illustrations on 38 colour plates. Oblong 4to., bound in publisher's cloth. Buenos Aires: El Ateneo, 1947. This is one of the most extensive colour atlases. This massive and elaborate work was an attempt to create a complete colour order system to satisfy most or all practical needs. The 7,279 colour samples each have an off-center hole of 4mm in diameter to aid in visually comparing them to other colour materials. A scarce book, published in a numbered and stamped-signed edition. A light waterstain to the right hand margin of the preliminary text plates affecting the margin of the first colour plate, otherwise very good.

1952. VIRGIL. The Georgics. 174 pp. Translated by John Dryden; Introduction by George F. Whicher. Illustrated and signed by Bruno Bramanti and the designer, Giovanni Mardersteig. 8vo., bound in deluxe half brown morocco. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1952. Virgil's passionate message to care for the land and for the crops and animals that it sustains, could hardly be more topical two millenia after he wrote it. One of 1500 copies, printed and bound by the Officina Bodoni. Set in monotype Bembo, printed on Maslianico special paper in a handsome new binding. LEC 229.

1876. VON BEZOLD, Wilhelm. The Theory of Color in its Relation to Art and Art-Industry...Translated from the German by S.R. Koehler...with an introduction and notes by Edward C. Pickering...Authorized American Edition. Revised and enlarged by the author. xxxiii, [1], 274 pp. Illustrated with chromolithographic frontispiece, 13 chromolithographic plates, plus numerous in-text illustrations. 8vo., 205 x 140 mm, bound in publisher's brick red cloth, spine gilt. Boston: L. Prang, 1876. First American Edition. An important work on colour theory written by the German professor of Meteorology Wilhelm von Bezold (1837-1907), originally published in German in 1874. As became exceedingly popular since the time of Michel-Eugène Chevruel's famous De la loi du contraste simultané des couleurs published in 1839, von Bezold's work combines the science of colour with its practical application to the booming dyeing industry plus the decorative and ornamental arts. The… Read More