Visits to Monasteries in the Levant
by CURZON, Robert, 14th Baron Zouche
Woodcut frontis., woodcut vignette on title, 14 plates, & one folding floor-plan. 2 p.l., [iii]-xxiii, 390 pp. & 36 pp. of ads. Small 8vo, orig. patterned green cloth (corners just a tiny bit worn, minor foxing), sides stamped in gilt with an image of Curzon walking through the desert in Arab clothes in search of manuscripts on upper cover & a view of Jerusalem on lower cover, spine gilt. a.e.g. London: J. Murray, [second title]: New York: G.P. Putnam,... Read More
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“Roku motsu zu” saichaku 六物圖採摘 [Excerpts from “Illustrations of the Six Personal Belongings of Monks Established by the Buddha”]
by [DAIKŌ 大江]
One full-page woodcut diagram & one woodcut in the text. Three vols. 43; 36; 39 folding leaves. Large 8vo, orig. semi-stiff wrappers with two orig. title slips, new stitching. [Japan]: Sōdōan 宗道菴, 1642. First edition of this Buddhist work; it summarizes a book that was published in China in 1246 under the title Fozhi biqiu liu wu tu 佛制比丘六物圖 [Illustrations of the Six Personal Belongings of Monks Established by the Buddha]. Its author was the... Read More
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![Eimyo doseki [or] Yomei doseki [Ch.: Yongming Daoji; The Religious Activities of Yongming Yanshou]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/672/750/1378750672.0.l.jpg)
Eimyo doseki [or] Yomei doseki [Ch.: Yongming Daoji; The Religious Activities of Yongming Yanshou]
by DAHE (J.: DAIEI or DAIKAKU)
32 fine full-page woodcuts. 42 folding leaves. Large 8vo, orig. blue wrappers (wrappers rather rubbed, minor soiling), modern manuscript label on upper cover, new stitching. [Japan]: from the Japanese colophon on the penultimate leaf: “Nakano Zesui had the woodblocks carved & published this book mid-July 1655.” First edition to be published in Japan, printed in Chinese with Japanese reading marks. Yongming Yanshou (J.: Eimei (or Yomei) Enju, 904-75), was a Chan master who had a profound impact... Read More
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Xi Xia ji 西夏紀 [Record of the Western Xia]
by DAI, Xizhang 戴錫章
Ten vols. 8vo, orig. printed wrappers, orig. stitching. [China]: Jing hua yin shu ju 京華印書局, 1924. First edition of this history of the Tangut kingdom. The Tanguts, known as the Xia or Western Xia in Chinese, ruled a powerful state on the northwestern periphery of the Chinese world from the 11th to the 13th century. As Zhao Erxun 趙爾巽 (1844-1927) wrote in his Preface to our book, “even though the Xia occupied a peripheral territory,... Read More
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![[Title-page]: Fang yan shu zheng 方言疏證; title at beginning of text: You xuan shi zhe jue dai yu shi bie guo fang yan [The Imperial Light Carriage Emissary Explaining Discursively the Regional Words in Different States through the Ages]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/096/803/1459803096.0.l.jpg)
[Title-page]: Fang yan shu zheng 方言疏證; title at beginning of text: You xuan shi zhe jue dai yu shi bie guo fang yan [The Imperial Light Carriage Emissary Explaining Discursively the Regional Words in Different States through the Ages]
by DAI, Zhen 戴震
95 (including title printed on purple paper); 99 folding leaves. 13 juan in two vols. 8vo, orig. green wrappers, orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers, new stitching. [China]: Han qing yi, 1882. Philosopher, mathematician, and philologist, Dai (1724-77), was a pivotal figure in Qing intellectual history and the most noted Confucian scholar of the Qing dynasty. The present work is a noteworthy study of the Fangyan [Regional Words] by Yang Xiong (53 B.C.-18 A.D.). Yang Xiong’s... Read More
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Exhibition postcard: Hanne Darboven (1-30 April 1972)
by (DARBOVEN, Hanne)
Printed on both sides. Postcard. Bremerhaven: Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst Bremerhaven, 1972. The postcard invitation for Darboven’s first show at Jürgen Wesseler’s Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst. In fine condition. ❧ Exhibition installation pictured in Vorhut aus dem Hinterland (Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen: 1992).
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Exhibition postcard: Hanne Darboven: Variante 42/59 (opens 4 May [1976])
by (DARBOVEN, Hanne)
Printed on both sides. Postcard, mailed. Paris: Liliane & Michel Durand-Dessert, [1976]. Postcard invitation for a Darboven solo exhibition, mailed to fellow dealer Rolf Preisig. In fine condition.
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Comme Septieme d’une Serie d’Expositions Organisee a Anvers Par MTL/Bruxelles et Art & Project/Amsterdam (12 March-6 April 1974)
by DARBOVEN, Hanne
Manuscript facsimile throughout. [4] pp. Single folded A3 sheet. Amsterdam & Brussels: 1974. A “bulletin” jointly issued by MTL (Fernand Spillemaeckers) and Art & Project for a show by Darboven (1941-2009). Her drawings are reproduced within. In excellent condition. Mailed to Karl Heinemann of Mönchengladbach. ❧ Art & Project. A History (2023) E111.
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Exhibition postcard: Hanne Darboven (23 May-6 June 1972)
by (DARBOVEN, Hanne)
Printed on both sides. Postcard. London: Jack Wendler Gallery, 1972. Postcard invitation for Darboven’s only exhibition with Wendler. In fine condition. ❧ Teresa Gleadowe, curator, Dematerialised: Jack Wendler Gallery, 1971-1974 (CHELSEAspace: 2009), p. [10].
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Exhibition card: Hanne Darboven (opens 13 October 1972)
by (DARBOVEN, Hanne)
Printed on one side. Large card. Milan: Galleria Toselli, 1972. Announcement card for Darboven’s 1972 show with Toselli. In fine condition. ❧ Germano Celant, ed., + spazi, Le gallerie Toselli (2019), p. 233 (installation photograph on pp. 250-51).
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Exhibition postcard: Hanne Darboven (10 June-11 July 1970)
by (DARBOVEN, Hanne)
Facsimile illus. on recto, details on verso. Oblong postcard, mailed. Cologne: Galerie Michael Werner, 1970. Postcard invitation to an early solo Darboven (1941-2009) exhibition. The recto illustration reproduces one of the artist’s drawings. A fine mailed copy. Sent to Galerie Borgmann in Cologne.
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Exhibition card: Hanne Darboven “Das Jahr 1970” Bei Konrad Fischer (3-30 July 1970)
by (DARBOVEN, Hanne)
Facsimile drawing to recto, details on verso. Large illustrated card. Düsseldorf: Konrad Fischer, 1970. The announcement card for Darboven’s third show with Konrad Fischer, it was held at the same time as Donald Judd’s only exhibition with Fischer. Darboven (1941-2009) presented the monumental piece Das Jahr 1970 (1970), which is now at Norway’s National Museum (purchased in 2000). The recto reproduces some of the artist’s handwritten calculations. Fine. ❧ D. Fischer, ed., Ausstellungen bei Konrad... Read More
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Exhibition postcard: Hanne Darboven (18 April-23 May 1998)
by (DARBOVEN, Hanne)
Color illus. on recto, details on verso. Pictorial postcard, mailed. Düsseldorf: Konrad Fischer Galerie, 1998. Postcard invitation to Darboven’s 1998 exhibition with Konrad Fischer Galerie. One of the artist’s works is reproduced on the recto. In fine condition. Mailed to Lily van Ginneken of Amsterdam. ❧ Ausstellungen bei Konrad Fischer / Konrad Fischer Galerie Düsseldorf: November 1992-Oktober 2007 (Navado Press: 2007) 358.
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Catalogue de la Vente qui aura lieu par suite du Décès de C. F. Daubigny (6 May 1878 & subsequent days)
by (DAUBIGNY, Charles François)
xiii, 85 pp. 4to, cont. red morocco-backed marbled boards, collector’s name on spine. Paris: 1878. Scarce fully priced catalogue, dispersing the collection and studio of painter Daubigny (1817-78). Nicely bound and in fine condition. With the invitation card for the sale bound-in. ❧ Lugt 38360.
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Catalogue d’une Collection nombreuse d’Estampes anciennes et modernes…Après le décès de M. D***… 13 novembre 1832, et jours suivans…
by (AUCTION CATALOGUE: D***)
2 p.l., 36 pp. Small 8vo, disbound. Paris: P. Defer, 1832. A scarce Defer catalogue. Presented are 12 lots of paintings and drawings; 225 lots of Italian, German, Flemish, Dutch, English, and French prints; examples of early lithography; and illustrated books. Nice copy. From the library of Jacques Fryszman (1909-98), the great historian of art and collector of drawings, who wrote the Lugt number in the top right corner of the wrappers (or first leaf of text)... Read More
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Ronald Davis: New Lithographs & Etchings
by (DAVIS, Ronald)
Color photographic illus. to recto, details to verso. Photographic postcard, mailed. Los Angeles: Gemini G.E.L., [1983]. Postcard announcement mailed to Van Abbemuseum director Rudi Fuchs. In fine condition.
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Memorie della Mia Vita
by DE CHIRICO, Giorgio
257 pp. 8vo, orig. printed softcover (stained), orig. red dust-jacket with self-portrait of the artist (a little worn). Rome: Astrolabio, 1945. De Chirico’s scarce memoir, a nice copy with the dust-jacket present.
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Two 17th-century manuscript inventories describing the considerable estate of the deceased Damoiselle Agnès de Het, wife of Jacques Lecouvreur, seigneur of Renancourt. Ink on paper, the first dated 11 January 1649, the second 23 November 1649, both in fine secretarial hands
by (DE HET, Agnès)
54; 7 leaves (final blank). Folio (both ca. 300 x 210 mm.), orig. stitching. [Amiens]: 1649. A rare survival on the market, two mid-17th-century inventories describing the estate of Agnès de Het, wife of a feudal lord, who was councillor to the king. They lived on the outskirts of Amiens. We have found a record of de Het’s husband, Lecouvreur, agreeing to rent land in 1688, but we are not able to find any record of de Het’s... Read More
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Two manuscript letters, carefully mounted on a hanging vertical scroll (1350 x 650 mm.), with fabric & decorated paper borders, inner wooden core roller, cord at top for hanging. Dutch manuscript: 5 pp. & one blank (each page: 245 x 178 mm.) & Japanese translation: 3 pp. (each page: 248 x 183 mm.)
by DEJIMA ISLAND 出島
[Dejima]: 2 October 1806. Dejima (or Deshima, lit. “island sticking out [into Nagasaki Bay]” was a small artificial island built a short distance into the harbor of Nagasaki in order to provide warehouse and living facilities for the Portuguese and, later, the Dutch traders. Connected to the mainland by a small bridge, it enabled Japanese authorities to limit the foreigners’ access to the rest of the country, maintaining the Japan’s isolationist policies while facilitating the lucrative trade... Read More
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The Waves
by DE LA TORRE, Claudia
[554] pp. Thick 8vo (194 x 129 mm.), orig. blue screen-printed covers with flaps, Ota-style sewn binding, title screen-printed on spine. Berlin: backbonebooks, 2025. A vibrant homage by Claudia de la Torre (b. 1986) to Virginia Woolf’s 1931 novel, this artist’s book replaces nearly all of the original book’s text with richly printed color pages determined by colors mentioned in the text. The colors and the pages on which they appear are screen-printed on the flaps of... Read More
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castellani, manzoni, schoonhoven (4-25 August 1962)
by GALERIE DELTA
Six black & white illus. [12] pp. 4to, printed wrappers, staple-bound. Rotterdam: 1962. A very rare exhibition catalogue published by Galerie Delta, the avant-garde gallery in Rotterdam run by Hans Sonnenberg (1928-2017); WorldCat records a single copy in North America. Sonnenberg was entwined in the controversial origins of the ZERO artist’s group, and supported Dutch artists internationally by presenting their work at Galerij Orez in The Hague and then Galerie Delta. Enrico Castellani, Jan J. Schoonhoven, and... Read More
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Description des Objets d’arts qui composent le Cabinet de…[12 February 1827 & following days]
by (DENON, Vivant, baron)
Engraved vignette with profile of Denon on title. 2 p.l., vi, 8 pp. price-list, 216, 14, 2nd title-leaf, 26 pp. 2 vols. in one. 8vo (222 x 144 mm.), red sheep maroquiné-backed marbled boards by “L. Hulpiau”, spine gilt. Paris: Duchesne aîné, 1826 & 1827. Scarce and important auction catalogue — complete with the Supplément, printed price-list and rare list of vacations — dispersing the vast cabinet and library of Vivant Denon (1747-1825), first director of the... Read More
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Catalogue Général des Livres composant les Bibliothèques du Département de la Marine et des Colonies
by DÉPARTEMENT DE LA MARINE, FRANCE
1838. Five thick vols, each printed on heavy laid paper. 8vo (230 by 150 mm), uniformly bound ca. 1847 by the atelier of the Imprimerie Royale for the Prince Royal, Louis-Charles-Philippe-Raphaël d’Orléans, Duc de Nemours (1814-1896) in crimson straight-grained morocco (minor & skillful repairs to several joints), sides and smooth spines richly gilt in the style of the “Rocaille Louis-Philippe,” the solid tools on covers connected with curved triple fillets, in centers the initials “LO” surrounded by a laurel... Read More
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Announcement card: New Multiples & Graphics (4-25 September 1971)
by (DE SAINT PHALLE, Niki)
Black & white illus. on recto, exhibition details on verso. Amsterdam: Seriaal, 1971. Rare card produced by Wies Smals’s gallery Seriaal for a Niki de Saint Phalle exhibition. In fine condition.
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L'Atelier d'un Peintre. Scènes de la Vie privée
by DESBORDES-VALMORE, Marceline
viii, 370 pp.; 2 p.l., 314 pp. Two vols. 8vo, cont. half-calf & marbled boards (minor foxing), spines stamped in blind & gilt, green leather lettering pieces on spines. Paris: Charpentier & Dumont, 1833. First edition. Desbordes-Valmore (1786-1859), poet, novelist, actress, and singer, is one of the founders of French romantic poetry. Her friend Balzac used her as the model for the title character of La Cousine Bette. She had a difficult and complicated life which is reflected... Read More
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