Tegel Boek
by van Beek, Toon
Half Calf. Cloth on boards. Very Good. Compilation of 460 original watercolors of Delftware tiles, with a wide cross-section of the styles associated with Delftware and in total, representing in excess of 150 designs (since most, but not all designs, are achieved by a combination of tiles, generally four but sometimes more, and here each individual tile is a separate mounted paper). Designs include geometrics, flowers, foliage, fruits, animals (especially birds), people, castles and other buildings, ships, landscapes,... Read More
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Rondes et Chansons
by Van De Velde, Ernest
Paris: Maison Mame, 1938. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus. Franc-Nohain, Marie-Madeleine. Oblong 11 By 9 Inches. Book. 47 pp., charmingly illustrated throughout. But for light soilage on front board, copy is fine and tight.
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Vorsteliicke Warande der Dieren. De Helden Godes des Ouwden Verbonds. De Heerlyckheyd van Salomon. Hierusalem Verwoest. De Vernieuwde Gulden Winckel der Kunstlievende Nederlands. (Five works bound in one)
by Van den Vondel, Joost. Emblems by Marcus Gheeraerts, G. de Jode, etc.
Amsterdam: D. Pietersz, 1622. First Edition (except the last work which is a second). Full Calf. Very Good. Vorsteliicke Warande with 125 half-page copper engraved emblem plates; De Helden Godes, with vignette title and 38 copper engraved biblical emblems; De Wiernieuwde Gulden Winckel with vignette title and 73 half-page copper engraved biblical emblems. The two other works with vignett title and letterpieces. Emblems of Vorteliicke Warande especially charming, with most portraying animals with anthropomorphic brio. Landwehr 886, 877.... Read More
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Magazijn van Tuin-Sieraden; of Verzameling van Modellen van Aanleg en Sieraad, voor Groote en Kleine Lust-Hoven, Voorn Amelijk van Dezulke die, Met Weinig Kosten, Te Maken Zijn. Gewtrokken Uit de Voornaamste Buitenlandsche Werken, Naar de Gelegenheid en Gronden van Dit Koningrijk Gewijzigd, en Met Vele Nieuwe Platte Gronden en Sieraden Vermeerderd. Nieuwe Uitgave
by Van Laar, Gijsbert
Zalt-Bommel: Johannes Noman en Zoon, 1819. Second Edition. Quarter Mottled Calf. Cloth boards. Near Fine. A visual feast of Rococo garden design, its pleasure pavilions, bridges, lay-outs and appurtenances such as even gondolas. Thus the title translates proximately as "A Repository of Garden Ornaments; or Collection of Models of Construction and Ornament, for Large and Small Pleasure Gardens, Chiefly such as can be made at Low Cost." N.d., but Second Edition issued in 1819. If only ..... 4to.... Read More
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Cinglantes Épreuves
by van Rowel, Désiré. Illustrations by de Carlo
Paris: Librairie Artistique et Édition Parisienne Réunies, 1930. First Edition. Half Morocco. Very Good. Sado-masochistic erotica from the capital of illicit raunch publications, Paris. N.d., 1930. 8vo. 22 by 13.5 cm. 220, [1] pp. Nine b/w illustrated plates. Only institutional copy found on OCLC First Search at BNF. Condition: brown/tan morocco rubbed along edges and joints. Some scratches on spine. Interior is tight and clean, with to be expected age toning.
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Green "Art Deco" Pocket Square (or Handkerchief) of Carl Van Vechten, with His Nickname "Carlo" Stitched In
by Van Vechten, Carl
Near Fine. An "Association Copy" of Clothing, this is, once having belonged to the noted American novelist, photographer and chronicler of the Harlem Renaissance. While we have not commissioned a DNA analysis of the hankie to confirm that what was represented to us by the last owner as to the Van Vechten connection, nor have we gone through the scoured all the photos publicly available to see whether this particular handkerchief or pocket square was somehow visible in... Read More
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The Tattooed Countess: A Romantic Novel with a Happy Ending
by Van Vechten, Carl
New York: Alfred A. Knoft, 1924. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First printing. 246 pp. Book plate of George Cukor (Hollywood movie director of note). Novel about Indiana born countess returning to her small town American birthplace, the cultural divide between her and the townsmen and her affair there with a much younger man. Cocking to binding. Otherwise, generally clean and tight.
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French Costumes [together with eight hand-colored cards of French costume pasted onto the endpapers]
by Varagnac, Andre, preface; Designed by E. Lepage-Medvey; Translated by Mary Chamot
London, Paris, New York: The Hyperion Press, 1939. First Edition thus. Cloth. Very Good/very good. 16 pp of text (pp 7 to 23) followed by 40 brightly colored plates (13 by 9 inches, or 31 by 23 cm) on hard card stock showing traditional dress of the various regions of France. Each plate is accompanied with a separate sheet of light paper with a caption. As an extra bonus a prior owner pasted (lightly) eight cards with hand-colored... Read More
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French Costumes [together with eight hand-colored cards of French costume pasted onto the endpapers]
by Varagnac, Andre, preface; Designed by E. Lepage-Medvey; Translated by Mary Chamot
London, Paris, New York: The Hyperion Press, 1939. First Edition thus. Wraps. Fine/very good. 16 pp of text (pp 7 to 23) followed by 40 brightly colored plates (13 by 9 inches, or 31 by 23 cm) on hard card stock showing traditional dress of the various regions of France. Each plate is accompanied with a separate sheet of light paper with a caption. Clean and tight copy, with only the lightest of soiling of the wraps. ... Read More
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Les Papillons Métamorphoses Terrestres des Peuples de l'Air
by Varin, Amédée. Text by Eug. Nus and Antony Meray
Paris: Gabriel de Gonet. Quarter Morocco. Pebbled cloth boards. Very Good. Two volumes in one. N.d., circa 1852. 4to. 27.5 by 18.5 cm. 232, [4], 258, [3] pp. 35 whimsical anthropomorphic hand-colored plates, including two frontises. Scattered light foxing and soiling. Still, a tight and attractive copy.
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Poesie all'Eccellenze Loro Il Marchese Anton Giulio Brignole Sale Patrizio Genovese e Anna Maria Pieri Patrizia Sanese
by Various. Ticofilo Cimerio, Anton Maria Borgognini, Francesco Zacchiroli, Isidea Egirena, Francesco Carcano, Duca di Belforte, Gio. Vincenzo Pomarici
Siena: Presso Vincenzo Pazzini Carli e Figli, 1783. First Edition Presumed. Hardcover. (Half patterned paper.). Very Good. Scarce, with no copies located on OCLC First Search. (Given ambiguity of the title, search terms were broadly "Pazzini Carli" and "Poesie", which should have picked up any copies. We have found copies of a collection of sonnets relating to the same event, but this work, issued in octavo format, is clearly different than the one on offer here.) 4to. 30.5... Read More
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Le Vite De Piu Eccellenti Pittori, Scultori e Architetti Di Giorgio Vasari
by Vasari, Giorgio; Gaetano Milanesi, Ed
Firenze (Florence): G. Barbera, 1889. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo. vii + 267 pp., with biographies of Cimabue, di Lapo, Giotto, Orgagna, Ghiberti, Brunelleschi, Niccola e Giovanni, Donato, Frate Giovanni da Fiesole, Perugino, da Vinci, Raffaello da Urbino, Andrea del Sarto. Binding very tight. Pages toned, clean. Light soilage on cream colored cloth, which is over marbled boards. Very good overall.
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Vingt Masques
by Vaucaire, Maurice; Dessins de Louis Morin
Paris: Librairie A. Rouquette, 1895. First Limited Edition. Half Morocco. Near Fine. One of 100 copies issued on Japon paper, with extra suite of illustrated plates on chine paper. 8vo (21 by 14 cm), 41 pp, not counting the extra suite. With superb vignette color illustrations by Morin depicting characters at a masque described by Vaucaire's witty verse. Many of the characters derive from the Commedia dell'Arte (Pantalon, Arlequin). The entirety of the production captures the spirit of... Read More
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Try Back: A Huntsman's Reminiscences
by Higginson A. Henry; Forword By Henry Goodwin Vaughan
New York: Huntington Press, 1931. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine. 4to. First regular edition. Fading to green cloth spine and part of perimeter of boards. Otherwise, fine.
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Vier Bucher Der Ritterschafft. Zu Dem Aller Durchleuchtigesten Grossmachtigesten Fursten Und Herzen Herrn Maximilian Romischen Kaiser Loblicher Gedactnus . .
by Vegetius, Renatus Flavius
Augsburg: Steiner, 1529. First Edition Thus. Vellum. Fine. 4to. 121 full-page woodcut illustrations, plus two half-page woodcuts and title page illustration, for a total of 124. 100 unnumbered leaves (leaves Miii & Miiii apparently provided from another edition) + 3 leaves from an unrelated work bound in at the end. Lipperheide 2043. Not in Adams. Extra leaves appear to be from 1527 Steiner edition. Cf Adams V339. Later vellum by Bouillet, gilt spine. Yapp edges. All edges gilt.... Read More
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Bal des Petits Lits Blancs 1947
by Vercons (Jean Bruller), Brayer, Yves; Mac Avoy; Philippe Noyer;
Paris assumed: Aljanvic Publicité pour le Bal des Petits Lits Blancs, 1947. Wraps. Very Good. Spectacular souvenir of annual ball just as Paris was rapidly regaining its footing following the hardships and scarcities of the Second World War. No. 2455 of unspecified number of copies in "Limitation". Contributors include a good number of t he most distinguished men of French letters of the day, including Camus, Jean Cocteau, 4to. 28 by 24 cm. Unpaginated, 192 pages. With four... Read More
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Alphabet Pour les tout petits
by Vérité, Marcelle
Bruges: Desclée de Brouwer, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Paper pastedown. Very Good Plus. Josette Boland. ABC with a pietistic overtone. Notwithstanding the adherence to Roman Catholic Church sensibilities, the illustrations have a charm that can touch anyone, and few, even atheists and anti-Papists, won't find this a lovely ABC. 8vo. 22.5 by 19.5 cm. Unpaginated, 28 pages. Title, copyright page, then one page per letter, with color printed illustrations on every page with a letter. Examples of the... Read More
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Emblemes d'Amour en Quatre Langue. Emblemata Amatoria
by Vianen, Jan van, illustrator. Philip Ayres, engraver
Londe (London): Chez l'Amoureux. Vellum. Very Good. 14.5 by 10 cm. With 45 copper engraved plates, including title plate. Text rendered in French, Latin, Dutch and Italian on facing pages to plates. Title written in ink on spine. A bit of grime on the spine's vellum, and less so on the boards. Moderate age toning to the leaves' perimeters. Vellum edges exposed on inside of boards. Soiling to the page edges. Some finger smudges in margins. Inscription dated... Read More
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Ballets Africains de Keita Fodeba
by Vichey, Luben, President of National Artists Association and Promoter or Producer for U.S. tour of the African Dance Company. Edited by Samuel J. Friedman, Lou Dunetz and Paul Lovett
New York: National Artists Corporation, 1958. Wraps. Near Fine. Many photos, short explanations of the many dances performed by the company on its program, etc. etc. N.d. explicitly given, but 1958. 4to. 30.5 by 23 cm. Unpaginated, 16 pages, plus semi-stiff wrap covers. Ballets Africains was formed by Keita Fodeba in 1952. In 1958, the year of this program's publication, it became the national company of Guinea. The company remains active to this day. Throughout its existence it... Read More
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The History of the Theatres of London and Dublin, from the Year 1730 to the Present Time (Three Volumes); To which is added, An Annual Register of all the Plays, &C. performed at the Theatres-Royal in London, from the Year 1712. With Occasional Notes and Anecdotes. Third Volume: Being a Continuation of the Annual Register . .
by Victor, Benjamin
London: T. Davies, R. Griffiths, T. Becket, P. A. de Hondt, G. Woodfall, J. Coote, G. Kearsly, 1771. First edition. Full Calf. Very Good. 12mo. 17 by 11 cm. Calf spines dry, chipped, chewed. Interiors clean.
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Paris Qui Crie. Petits Métiers
by Vidal, Pierre, artist. Preface by Henri Baraldi. Short pieces by eleven different authors, including Alber Arnal, Henry Spencer Ashbee, Jules Claretie, Able Giraudeau, Henry Houssaye, etc.
Paris: Georges Chamerot (Pour les Amis du Livre), 1890. Limited First Edition. Full Morocco. Near Fine. No. 109 of 125 limitation. Original wraps bound in. Charming color illustrations of the colorful habitues of the Paris streets -- of those who ply their trade on the streets -- merchants, food vendors, dog walkers, etc. etc. Many of these might be living in the margins of society, but they have an outsized role in the theatre that is the city... Read More
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Histoire Naturelle des Plus Beaux Oiseaux Changeurs de la Zone Torride
by Vieillot, L[ouis] P[ierre]. Engraver: L. Bouquet. After artwork by J. G. Pretre. Plates printed by Langlois
Paris: Chez J. E. Gabriel Dufour. Printer: L'Imprimerie de Crapelet, 1805. First Edition. Full Calf. Very Good. Large paper copy! Elephantine Folio, 52 by 33 cm. 112 pp. With 72 engraved plates of tropical birds. Plates were actually printed in color, with hand-coloring then augmenting that color, to create exquisitely beautiful depictions of birds. Light scattered foxing, a bit more on the text leaves than the plates. Generally, though, the plates read quite clean, and they are always... Read More
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Thurnau 13.Lehrgang/4.-11.April 37
by Vierster, Werner
1937. Custom-made half leather folder. Fine. A most unusual, bizarre, comical home-made book of a Nazi training camp for the SA! 20 pp., plus wraps. 29 by 25 cm. If one could overlook the sinister associations, much of the satire could apply to any military boot camp, but of course one can not escape the invidious context. In a way, this might be viewed as a pity, because the illustrations and accompanying light verse are superb, and this... Read More
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Histoire de la Coiffure Feminine
by Villermont, Comptesse Marie de
Paris: Librairie Renouard. Henri Laurens, 1892. Half Morocco. Marbled pastedown on boards. Very Good. 4to. 30.5 by 21.5 cm. xiii, [1], 822 pp. Well over 500 illustrations, including many full page plates, and chromolithographic frontis plate. Original wrap cover was bound in, but front wrap now detached, along with frontis -- rear remains firmly attached. Small oval library stamp on title. This surrounded by ugly remnants of tape. Otherwise, no evidence of ex-lib. Age toning, deeper along edges.... Read More
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Album de Cinelandia. Biografias y retratos autenticos
by Villegas, Lucio A., editor
Hollywood, CA: Mac Printing Company, 1928. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good Plus. An oversized Hollywood facebook album from when they had faces, issued less than a year after the release of "The Jazz Singer", when silent movies was in its last gasp. Folio-sized, 14 by 10 inches, 35 by 26 cm. 201 pp. Photos of leading Hollywood stars on rectos, with biographical information on the facing page. Among the hundred stars are the giants, many whose names are... Read More
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