Authors starting with Z from marilyn braiterman rare books

Moscow: Moscow: I.N.Knebel, 1913. 1913. 4to. S Color Pictorial Wrappers. Fine.. Fine. Illustrated by Dmitri Mitrokhin. Moscow: I. N. Knebel (1913). 4to, color pictorial stiff wrappers. Extremely nice copy of this translation of the medieval French epic poem "La Chanson de Roland". Four full page color illustrations and color vignettes on text pages. Mitrokhin was a member of the Mir Isskustva (World of Art) movement and lived a long life in Paris and in the Soviet Union as an illustrator and decor... more information

Bielefeld & Leipzig: Velhagen & Klafing,. 1897. Small 4to. H Cloth, Gilt.. Fine.. Fine. Small 4to, white cloth with swirling gilt art nouveau decoration. Fine. In series: Kunstlermonographien 28. Monograph on the major German architect and painter, Karl Friedrich Schinkel with 127 photographs, drawings and plans. Schinkel adapted classical forms in his structures. Hitchcock, Architecture 19th and 20th centuries compares him to John Soane in stature; "the great international master of two succes... more information

Bielefeld & Leipzig: Velgagen & Klafing. 1897. Small 4to. H Cloth. Fine. Architecture & Landscape Design Bielefeld & Leipzig: Velhagen & Klafing, 1897. In series: Kunstlermonographien 28. Small 4to, white cloth with swirling gilt art nouveau decoration. Fine. Monograph wit h 127 photographs, drawings and plans on a major German architect and painter (1781-1841) who adapted classical forms in his structures. Hitchcock, Architecture 19th and 20th Centuries, deems Schinkel the only architec... more information