Authors starting with J from Ars Libri Ltd

New York (Van Nostrand Reinhold Company), 1979.. ix, (1), 127, (1)pp. 146 illus. 4to. Cloth. D.j. Reprint of the 1972 edition. ... more information

Paris, 1896.. 13ff. pink and turquoise stocks, hinged onto stubs, mounted with 17 clippings from the periodic press, most of them titled and dated in pen or pencil by Jarry on the mounts. 4to. Fine modern green-brown polished boards with subdued embossed floral decoration, gilt morocco supralibros, with matching slipcase (Ateliers Laurenchet). Dated between 11 and 14 December 1896, the reviews, supplied by the clippings agency L’Argus de la Presse, have been carefully mounted by Jarry on album leave... more information

Toronto (Macmillan), 1936.. xvi, 298, (2)pp. 120 plates. 4to. Cloth. ... more information

Nagoya (Kajita Kansuke), after 1805.. 3 vols. in 1. 28ff., with 24 illus. (all but 1 double-page). 4to. Orange wraps., stitched as issued, with embossed designs on both covers. The first edition of the work is traditionally given as Osaka, 1805, but Hillier suggests that it may have been earlier; this later Nagoya issue combines the three volumes in one. Ehon Kotozugai (‘A Picture Book of Counterparts’) is one of Jichosai’s two masterpieces. “Jichosai was, in fact, an artist of exceptio... more information

München (Edition Galerie van de Loo), n.d.. 314, (6)pp. Illus. Sm. 4to. Boards. ... more information

Chicago (Henry Regnery Company), 1967.. (112)pp. Prof. illus. 4to. Cloth. D.j. ... more information

Berlin (Cosmos), n.d. [1893].. (12)pp., 25 superb heliogravure plates after platinum prints, mounted on boards with tissue guards. Lrg. folio. Orig. dec. maroon cloth. This rare folio by Max Junghaendel, a Berlin architect with a deep interest in world architecture, gathers together images which are “highly descriptive but several are also suprisingly romantic for the work of an architect. Local people are carefully composed amongst the ruins to make ‘pictures’” (Ken Jacobson). A few of... more information

New York (Bonanza Books), n.d.. x, (2), 308pp. Prof. illus. Lrg. 4to. Cloth. D.j. Reprint of the 1947 edition. Stamp on t.p. ... more information

Leipzig (E.A. Seemann), 1982.. 223pp. 221 illus. Lrg. 4to. Cloth. D.j. ... more information

Hildesheim (August Lax), 1963.. vii, (1), (186)pp., 14 plates. 185 illus. Sm. 4to. Wraps. ... more information

München (F.A. Bruckmann), 1923.. vii, (1), 136pp., 6 color plates. 64 text illus. Boards, 1/4 cloth. ... more information

Zürich (Rascher Verlag), 1952.. (4), 212pp. 4to. Cloth. D.j. ... more information

Paris (Firmin-Didot et Cie.), 1982.. 10pp., 1 plate. Lrg. 4to. Wraps. ... more information

Venezia (A spese Remondini), 1781.. 390pp. Contemporary pastepaper boards, 3/4 bellum (worn). Some light foxing. The second of two Italian editions of “the first ‘portable’ dictionary of art” (Arntzen/Rainwater), originally published in Paris in 1752, and first translated into Italian in 1768. “Opera utilissima agli artisti per la riunione di molte buone cognizioni” (Cicognara). ... more information

Milano (“Modernissima”), 1919.. 40pp. 4to. Dec. wraps., with cover portrait of Marinetti. Light wear. ... more information

Zürich (Atlantis Verlag), 1939.. 151pp. Prof. illus. Lrg. 4to. Cloth. ... more information

New York (Harry N. Abrams), [1964].. 158, (2)pp. 133 illus. (48 tipped-in color). Lrg. 4to. Cloth. D.j. ... more information

Leipzig (E.A. Seemann), 1958.. 438, (2)pp., 10 color plates. 189 illus. Text figs. Lrg. 4to. Cloth. Texts by 48 contributors, including E. Neubert, H. Koch, F.H. Wichmann, J. Widmann, H. Ladendorf, H.-C. v.d. Gabelentz, H. Bethe, M. Prause, W. Schmidt, B. Stein. Bibliography ... more information

Leipzig (E.A. Seemann), [1924].. 10, (2)pp., 20 plates. Marbled boards. ... more information

Stuttgart (Alfred Kröner Verlag), 1962.. vii, (1), 765, (1)pp. 213 illus. Cloth. ... more information