Copper engraving. B/w. Overall size approx 19-1/4”x15-1/4”; image size 12-1/2”x9”. An earthquake and erupting volcano in Japan ("Jedo"). A temple falls in ruins while men and women lament in the foreground and are drowned in the raging flood.
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This print is from the scarce 'La Galerie Agreable du Monde (...). Tome premier des Indes Orientales.', published by Pieter van der Aa, Leyden, c. 1725; reworked from an original plate first published by Arnoldus Montanus in1669.
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Condition: Very good; a clean and crisp image with wide margins. View More...
The scarce four-page prospectus for Charlot's first "Picture Book: 32 Original Lithographs" published in 1933. Containing an original lithograph of plate 25 - "La Malinche", although with a few design and color differences than the image in the book. The prospectus is unusually signed in pencil by Charlot, making it a doubly scarce find. Fine condition. View More...
20 b/w printed plates, 8-1/2x11, each pencil signed by the artist. Limited to 25 sets in decorated portfolio.
Dr. Friedrich “Fritz” Kocher (1904 - 1973), was a German born painter who relocated to Los Angeles in 1929. He received a number of awards both in his native Germany and from California arts groups. Group exhibitions included the California Arts Club [1935-1937); Society for Sanity in Art; California Palace of the Legion of Honor [San Francisco, 1945]; Painters & Sculptors of Los Angeles [1947, 1954]. Early European exhibitions were held in Dresden - 1925, Karlsruhe - 1928, and Freib... View More...
Hand-colored copper engraving “Geography”, World Map, 1686
#####Size: approx. 9.3 x 15 inches #####
This unusual illustration of the science of geography centers on a simple double-hemisphere map of the world depicting California as an island. The surrounding oval contains engravings showing how the land is measured and divided; The Earth is divided into Realmes, Realmes into Provinces, Provinces into Regions, Regions into Countreys, Countreys into Territories, Territories into Lands, Lands into Acres, Acres into Rodds, Rodds into Paces, Paces into Feet, Feet into Inches and Inches into Bar... View More...
Folio, cloth backed portfolio. Limited to 259 signed copies, 250 of which for sale. This copy no. 109. A memoir of Salzburg, told through twenty large b/w lithographs by Lucie Sayler. One page intro by theater and film producer Reinhardt, signed at bottom. He is regarded as one of the most prominent directors of German-language theatre in the early 20th century.
Also signed by the artist Lucie Sayler. Title page browned from flap transfer with numerous edge tears; plates near fine overall -- but several with minor edge-nicks, several with light soiling at bottom edge; others with some damp-s... View More...
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