L'Harmonie des Couleurs
by GUICHARD, Edouard; KREBS, Georg
1882. GUICHARD, Edouard and Georg KREBS. L'Harmonie des Couleurs. [12] pp. of text, illustrated with 165 colour plates, 8 of which are double-page. Folio, 352 x 262 mm, contemporary half morocco. Paris: Ad. Goubaud et fils 1880. A spectacular book, profusely illustrated with exquisite designs in stunning colours which were used in the decorative arts such as wallpaper, panels, doors, shelves, molding, curtains, and textiles and costumes. There is a total of 1,300 combinations on 165 (8... Read More
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Dictionnaire chinois, francais et latin
by GUIGNES, Chretien-Louis-Joseph de; BOLLO, Basilio
1813. GUIGNES, Chretien-Louis-Joseph de. Dictionnaire chinois, français et latin. Publié d'après l'ordre de sa majesté L'Emperuer et Roi Napoléon le Grand par M. de Guignes, résident de France à La Chine, Attaché au Ministère des Relations Extérieures, Correspondant de la Première et de la Troisieme Classe de L'Institut. [8], lvi, 1112, [4] pp. Thick folio, 475 x 310 mm, bound in contemporary French brown-stained pigskin, raised bands, tan morocco spine label stamped in gilt. Paris: l'Imprimerie Imperiale, 1813. First Edition.... Read More
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Le Chou-King, un des Livres Sacres des Chinois
by GUIGNES, Joseph de
1770. GUIGNES, Joseph de. Le Chou-King, un des Livres Sacres des Chinois qui renferme les Fondements de leur ancienne Histoire, les Principes de leur Gouvernement & de leur Morale. [4], cxliv, 474, [2] pp. Illustrated with 4 fold-out engraved plates. 4to., 250 x 190 mm, bound in contemporary cats-paw calf, red morocco spine label. Paris: Chez N.M. Tilliard, 1770. A fine copy of the first published translation of the Chou-King (the Book... Read More
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Les Murs, Lithographies Originales de Jean Dubuffet.
by Guillevic, E; JEAN DUBUFFET
1950. DUBUFFET, Jean. Les Murs. By Eugène Guillevic. 29 ff. Illustrated with 14 original lithographs printed in black. Folio, loose as issued in the original wrappers with Dubuffet's lithographed design and original cardboard slipcase, with some repairs. Paris: Les Éditions des Livres, 1950. Les Murs is unquestionably among the most important illustrated books to appear since the end of the Second World War. It is mentioned and referred to as such in nearly every list... Read More
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Specimens of Penmanship from Gundry's Business College Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A
by GUNDRY, John
1873. GUNDRY, John. Specimens of Penmanship from Gundry's Business College Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A. Comprises 22 full page calligraphic designs in black, white and metallic inks on bright blue [13], black [7] and white [2] grounds, one of which incorporates an albumen portrait of Gundry; 41 smaller designs arranged on three sheets; mounted engraved diploma for the College, interleaves with multiple copies of a large, illustrated broadside advertising the College; a 4-page leaflet, repeated. Broadsheet folio, 635 x 530 mm.,... Read More
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Trudnaia zagadka [i.e. Complicated Riddle]
by GURIAN, Olga and O. TRUDNAIA; GURIAN, Olga
1930. GURIAN, Olga and Elena FRADKINA. Trudnaia zagadka [Complicated Riddle]. By K.T. Chukovsky. 16 pp. 4to, publisher's illustrated wrappers in a new cloth folding box. [Moscow]: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, 1930. A Constructivist lithographic book by a well-known children's writer Olga Gurian (1899-1973) who wrote over 50 books about different crafts. The main structure of the book is a dialogue: a mother asks her son a riddle: "What is warm in the winter but cold in the summer?" The... Read More
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Ha-Oniyah Ve-Ha'Arbah(The Ship and the Barge)
by GUSTAFSSON, Richard
1922. GUSTAFSSON, Richard. Ha-Oniyah Ve-Ha'Arbah [The Ship and the Barge]. 8 ff., illustrated throughout by Dimitry Mitrohin. 4to, 274 x 227 mm., publisher's illustrated wrappers. Moscow, Odessa, Frankfurt: Omanut, 1922. The publishing huse Omanut was established in 1917 in Moscow, which at that time was a flourishing center for Jewish literature, art and culture. However, it was doomed by the October Revolution, since it printed in Hebrew, and due to the repression of Jewish culture its presses... Read More
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Elbufergestaltung Hamburg. Architekt Konstanty Gutschow.
by GUTSCHOW, Konstanty
1939. GUTSCHOW, Konstanty. Elbufergestaltung Hamburg. Architekt Konstanty Gutschow. 6 pp. text leaves and 17 leaves with mounted photographs showing models, plans, and architectural details, together with an otherwise unknown large architectural map of the area from Gutschow's office. 4to., 310 x 280 mm, bound in contemporary brown half cloth, inner cover stamped: "Nur für den Dienstgebrauch" and "Der Reichsstatthalter in Hamburg Der Architekt des Elbufers" [Konstanty Gutschow]. Hamburg: Gustav Petermann, [ca. 1939]. ... Read More
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Voyage Litteraire de la Grece, ou Lettres sur les Grecs, Anciens et Modernes...
by GUYS, Pierre-Augustin
1771. GREECE - Literary Voyage. Voyage Litteraire de la Grèce, ou Lettres sur les Grecs anciens et modernes, avec un parallèle de leurs moeurs. By Pierre-Augustin Guys. Two volumes. xvi, 420; iv, 244 pp. 12mo., 160 x 95 mm, bound in French contemporary beige half calf, light brown and pale green spine labels. Paris: chez la veuve Duchesne, 1771. Scarce First Edition of this unusual "literary" travel book to Greece,... Read More
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Tama kagami
by GYOKUNEN, Kobayashi
1901. GYOKUNEN, Kobayashi. Tama kagami. [Jewel Mirror.] 2 volumes. Volume 1[Heaven]:Unpaginated, 1 folding colour plate, [1] pp. text, 24 single page colour plates. Volume 2 [Earth]: 1 folding colour plate, 25 single page colour plates, [2] pp. text. 255 x 170 mm, stab bound in publisher's wraps. Kyoto: Fujisawa Shuppanbu, Meiji 34 [1901]. An exceptionally beautiful example of a so-called "sample book", which is divided into two volumes: Heaven and Earth. Of the greatest rarity with... Read More
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Hannart Freres Dyers and Finishers of all Fabrics, Exhibition Saint-Louis 1904
by HABERT-DYS, J,; Hannart Freres
1904. HABERT-DYS, J. Hannart Freres, Dyers and Finishers of all Fabrics, Exhibition Saint-Louis 1904. Unpaginated, illustrated throughout. Folio, 365 x 340 mm., publisher's decorated cloth. Paris: O. Beauchamp, 1904. An extraordinary catalogue issued in conjunction with the 1904 World's Fair. The catalogue contains 4 leaves each with 4 large, mounted samples and 2 leaves each with 2 large, mounted samples. Everything from the design of the binding to the splendid typography, borders, and layout were the work... Read More
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Wholesale Hardware.
by HACKETT, WALTHER, GATES Hardware Co.; HARDWARE
1910. HACKETT, WALTHER, GATES Hardware Co. Wholesale Hardware. XL. 1637 illustrated pp., including 32 plates in colour and 10 pages with paint samples. Folio, bound in publisher's light blue cloth. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Hackett, Walther, Gates Hardware Co., (ND). A monumental trade catalog, and a symbol of American commercial and manufacturing prowess at the beginning of the twentieth century. Among the plethora of articles given substantial display space are guns, sporting goods,... Read More
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Farbenlehre
by HAENZI, Erich; ANONYMOUS
1930. HAENZI, Erich. Farbenlehre. 23 Original watercolour plates, some with multiple images. Folio, 340 x 240 mm., original cloth. N.p.: n.d., ca. 1930. A wonderfully executed manuscript on colour theory by a Swiss commercial artist whose objective was to enhance the work of decorators, fashion designers, graphic artists and set designers. Divided into ten sections comprising colour and achromatic antagonism, colour values, light-dark antagonism, cold-warm antagonism, quality contrast, intensity contrast, quantity contrast, complementary contrast, simultaneous contrast and... Read More
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Ocima: Svet Kolem Nas.
by HAK, Miroslav
1947. HAK, Miroslav. Ocima: Svet Kolem Nas. Introduction by Lubomir Linhart. 15 pp. Illustrated with 46 full-page reproductions of Hák's photographs. 4to., original wrappers with photo reproduction on front and back cover. [Praha]: Ceskoslovenske Filmove Nakladatelstvi, 1947. First edition. A fine copy of this scarce and important Czech photobook with an introduction by Linhart in Czech and English. Birgus, Tschechische Avantgarde-Fotografie 1918-1948, page 285.
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Barva vladne svetem
by HALEIZOVU
1928. HALEIZOVU. Barva vladne svetem. 216 pp., illustrated with 6 full page plates, 5 of which are in colour. 8vo, 192 x 140 mm, bound in publisher's colourfully designed wrappers. Prague: Zmatlik a Palicka, 1928. A scarce little book on the basics of spectrology and the effects of colour on human life. A rare book, with OCLC listing only one copy worldwide, in the Czech National Library. The Book of Colour Concepts 470.
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Stereography,or, A compleat body of perspective, in all its branches. Teaching to describe, by mathematical rules, the appearances of lines, plain figures, and solid bodies rectilinear, curvilinear, and mixed in all manner of positions.
by HAMILTON, John
1738. HAMILTON, John. Stereography, or, A compleat body of perspective, in all its branches. Teaching to describe, by mathematical rules, the appearances of lines, plain figures, and solid bodies rectilinear, curvilinear, and mixed in all manner of positions. [9], 400, [36] pp. Illustrated with 130 engraved folding plates. Folio, 395 x 258 mm, bound in modern calf over boards. London: printed for the author by W. Bowyer, 1738. Rare First Edition of this... Read More
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The painter's manual: containing the best methods of, and the latest improvements in, house painting, sign painting, graining, varnishing, polishing, staining, gilding, glazing, silvering, Grecian oil painting, Chinese painting, oriental painting, &c.
by HANEY, J. & Co.,
1868. HANEY, J. & Co., The painter's manual: containing the best methods of, and the latest improvements in, house painting, sign painting, graining, varnishing, polishing, staining, gilding, glazing, silvering, Grecian oil painting, Chinese painting, oriental painting, & c. 93 pp. 4to, 195 x 120 mm., publisher's wrappers. New York: Jesse Haney, 1868. A fine copy of this rare nineteenth-century American painter's manual, with just a little wear to the wrappers. OCLC lists Columbia, Getty, Yale, Michigan. ... Read More
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Salute
by HARTIGAN, Grace; SCHUYLER, James
1960. HARTIGAN, Grace. Salute, by James Schuyler. Illustrated with 5 silkscreen prints by Grace Hartigan. Folio. New York: Tiber Press1960. A mint copy of this outstanding post-war American artist's book, featuring a collaboration between one of the most influential American poets of the second half of the twentieth century, and an important second generation New York School artist. The collaborators "lived in New York City where they knew one another well for a number... Read More
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Ein Anatomischer Totentanz.
by Hasselwander, Albert
1926. HASSELWANDER, Albert. Ein Anatomischer Totentanz. 27, [1] pp. Illustrated with 50 collotype plates. Small 4to., 220 x 175 mm, bound in original publisher's half vellum over brown boards. Munich: J.F. Bergmann, 1926. Only Edition of this photographic anomaly, offering an "Anatomical Dance of Death," prepared for the use of artists, with a long preface on the illustrated history of the "Dance of Death" by Hasselwander. There are 25... Read More
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Chugai Sangyo Hakurankai.
by HATSUSABURO, Yoshida
1928. HATSUSABURO, Yoshida. Chugai Sangyo Hakurankai. Colour illustrated card cover 190 x 120 mm with a 750 mm long folding colour birds-eye view by Hatsusubaro on one side and text and photo illustrations on the other. Cover also by Hatsusubaro. Kyoto(?): 1928 [Showa 3]. An attractive panorama of, and brief guide, to the Chugai Industrial Expo held in Beppu in 1928. The panorama by Hatsusaburo Yoshida is one of some 3000... Read More
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Tanglewood Tales
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
1938. HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. Tanglewood Tales. Illustrated with 14 tipped-in colour plates by Edmund Dulac. 4to., original vellum-backed boards. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938. The celebrated collection of mythological tales retold by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and illustrated with magnificent reproductions of Dulac's magical illustrations. Limited to 500 copies signed by Dulac.
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The Principles of Beauty in Colouring Systematized
by HAY, D. R.
1845. HAY, D. R. [David Ramsay]. The Principles of Beauty in Colouring Systematized. iv, 72, 8 pp. of advertisements, including 14 color plates of colour samples, with a total of 86 paint samples. 8vo, 201 x 140 mm., cloth, professionally rebound and rebacked into original boards, with piece of the original spine laid in. Text is bound to the front board, the plates to that back, so one can view the plates and read the text at the same... Read More
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Collection of Works with covers by John Heartfield.
by Heartfield; JOHN HEARTFIELD
1946. HEARTFIELD'S PHOTOMONTAGE "TURNED THE BOOK COVER INTO A POLITICAL INSTUMENT" HEARTFIELD, John. A collection of 80 volumes, all of which are preserved in the original publisher's bindings designed and illustrated by John Heartfield. Various sizes, Berlin,Vienna, Paris, London, 1922-1946. A comprehensive collection of material designed by John Heartfield most of which were designed for his brother's firm, Malik-Verlag, for works by such authors as Upton Sinclair and Ilya Ehrenburg. Heartfield... Read More
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An elementary treatise on descriptive geometry with a theory of shadows and of perspective: extracted from the French of G. Monge.
by HEATHER, J.F
1851. HEATHER, J.F. An elementary Treatise on descriptive Geometry with a Theory of Shadows and of Perspective. extracted from the French of G. Monge. To which is added, a description of the principles and practice of isometrical projection. The whole being intended as an introduction to the application of descriptive geometry to various branches of the arts. iv, 137 pp., XIV double-page plates, 1 f. cat. 12mo, 174 x 102 mm., bound in modern half morocco. London: John Weale,... Read More
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American Commercial Specimens. Second Series.
by HEIM, Josef
1898. HEIM, Josef. American Commercial Specimens, Second Series. 24 ff., printed on one side only of which 17 are all or partly in colour. Folio, 320 x 240 mm., publisher's illustrated cloth-backed boards, Vienna: Josef Heim, 1898. A stunning and somewhat mysterious piece of Americana. The album was published in Vienna, but the plates were printed in Milwaukee by the Gugler Litho. Co. The work consists almost completely of reproductions of calling cards of American businesses.... Read More
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