Titles starting with N from marilyn braiterman rare books

Rome: Giovanni Scudellari. 1817. Oblong 8vo. H Morocco and Boards. Near Fine.. Rome: Giovanni Scudellari, 1817. Oblong 8vo, half morocco and boards, neatly repaired. Gilt lettered and ornamented banded spine. Large contemporary leather title label laid down on front board. Good bit of mostly marginal foxing. Etched title page and fifty charming etchings of genre scenes, including dances, carnival, harvest, punishment, dancing bear, puppet show, bull hunting and other festivals, amusements , costume plates a... more information

North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press .. 1979. 4to. H Morocco and Boards. Fine.. Fine. Japan North Hills, PA, 1979. 4to, quarter morocco and decorated Japanese paper coverd boards by E.G. Parrot. Fine copy with prospectus. One of 300 copies signed by the printer and printed on the press' s own handma de Nagashizuki paper. With fourteen paper specimens tipped in, of which five were made by Timothy Barrett during his stay in Japan, and 24 line illustrations by Richard Flavin. "The most detailed desc... more information

Paris: Hachette,. 1895. Large Thick 4to. H Morocco and Cloth.. Fine.. Fine. Large thick 4to, 3/4 red morocco and cloth; spine banded and gilt. Near fine (small scrape at upper joint). With 499 pp., chapters on his life and hundreds of illustrations of art works about him, including 22 gravures out of the text. Included are specimens of his writings and signatures. ... more information

New York: National Aniline & Chemical Co.. H Boards.. Fine.. 8vo, black boards. Six fold-out board pages with 76 samples of beautiful colors of dyed kid; glassine guards. ... more information

London: T. Bensley for B. White and Son. 1789. 4to. H Full Morocco. Fine. 4to, full crushed dark green morocco by Birdsall with a Grolieresque gilt design of arabesque triple gilt fillets and concentric vines. The spine, pleasantly sunned to brown, is banded and gilt-ornamented with lettering in gilt. All edges gilt. Inner gilt fillets and ornaments and moire silk endpapers. Plates with minor spotting. Imprints on the frontispiece and one engraving have been trimmed in binding. With the errata leaf, hee app... more information

Paris: H. Piazza,. 1899. Large 4to. H Pictorial Boards. About Fine. Paris: H. Piazza, 1899. Large 4to, original gray-blue pictorial wrappers with leafy design in green and beige, laid down on boards, gilt-lettered white spine. Mode st soil, some internal cracks but sou nd. One of 330 copies on vélin with 22 full page plates, 22 borders and 24 vignettes, initials and culs-de-lampe engraved in color. Translation of the Sixth Rhaps ody of the Odyssey by Leconte de Lisle , leader of the Parnassian poets.... more information

Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann. 1910. Large Oblong 4to. H Portfolio. Very Good. Large oblong 4to, decorated portfolio, darkened and rubbed, with decorated paper flaps. Plates fine. Twenty-four lithographic plates in pale green tint, each showing a number of brooches, necklaces, combs, earrings, et. Maurice Dufrène was a founding member of the Société des Artistes Decorateurs and worked on Meier-Graefe's "La Maison Moderne". He designed furniture, ceramics and interiors as well... more information

Paris: La Revue Blanche,. 1899. Folio. S Stiff WRAPPERS.. Fine.. Fine. Paris: Editions de la Revue Blanche, 1899. Folio, stiff wrappers. Inner hinge cracked else a fine copy. One of 40 on japon imperial (not to be compared with the ordinary edition). An early work by Cappiello, the famous poster artist, with 18 marvelous , richly colored pochoir plates of contemporary actresses in their roles. They include two of Sarah Bernhardt, one in her role as Medea. Other actresses are Lavallière, Lucienne Br&e... more information

Paris: Albert Levy. 1929. Folio. H Illustrated Board Portfolio. Fine. Folio, cloth and illustrated board portfolio with spectacular modernist design by Jean Carlu; ties. Diagonal typography in red and black and a laid-down photographic illustration printed on silver paper.Perfect copy, as new. Fine collection of 48 halftone plates of commercial facades and interirors by Ruhlmann, Mallet-Stevens, Maurice Dufrene, Rene Herbst, Maurice Jallot, and others. They include Mallet-Stevens' design for the Peugeot... more information

New York: Crown. 1984. Square 4to. H Cloth. Fine. Square 4to, navy cloth lettered in silver on cover and spine; matching cloth slipcase. As new. One of 250 signed copies with a signed and numbered lithograph by Maurice Sendak. Color pictorial endpapers and color double page and vignette illustrations throughout. The book was inspired by the performance of the Pacific Northwest Ballet Company of the classic ballet set to the music of Tchaikovsky with costumes and sets by Sendak. The print, "Faithful N... more information