Category: Art, Design & Architecture

CORPUS ANTIQUITATUM AMERICANENSIUM / MEXICO II / Colecciones Leigh y Museo Frissell de Arte Zapoteca

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Cordoba, Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Mexico. 1966 : 1966

Seller ID: k190719j

Condition: Very good

4to. Unbound sheets in gray board portfolio with string tie. 91 b/w photographic sheets, several with multiple images prefaced by 121 pages of descriptive annotations in both Spanish and English. LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES. The second volume of a series written and illustrated by Boos on the ceramic sculptures which appear on the funerary urns of the Precolumbian Zapotec (Oaxacan ) Culture of southern Mexico. Very good: the photographic plates and descriptive pages are fine. Portfolio overs fully intact but with browning to the fold-overs, slight surface wear to both panels, some spotting and wear...
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MEXICAN HOUSES a book of photographs & measured drawings - 1st ed., signed by Oscar-winning set designer

By: GARRISON,RICHARD AND GEORGE W RUSTAY

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Architectural Book Publishing : 1930

Seller ID: k200312b

Condition: Good

1st ed, folio, black cloth, gilt titles. Xv [3] 173 pp. A look at the architecture and landscape architecture of early Mexico. From 1925-1929, Garrison and Rustay set out to record a select number of examples of the 'minor domestic architecture' of Mexico. They recorded a limited number of individual buildings through a mixed presentation of photographs, perspective and measured drawings, elevations, floor plans and details to produce a highly useful tool for architects designing Hispanic buildings. Profuse photographic plates, line drawings, and plans. While the book is still in print, the fi...
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Image for An Account of the Ceremony in Westminster Hall on Thursday May 9th 1935 on the occasion of the Presentation of Addresses by Both Houses of Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to His Majesty King George V Congratulating Him on the Celebration of the Silver Jubilee of His Most Illustrious Reign

An Account of the Ceremony in Westminster Hall on Thursday May 9th 1935 on the occasion of the Presentation of Addresses by Both Houses of Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to His Majesty King George V Congratulating Him on the Celebration of the Silver Jubilee of His Most Illustrious Reign

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Walter Lewis : 1935

Seller ID: 1940

8vo, unpaginated full blue morocco with gilt lettering on front panel ("Westminster Hall 9 May 1935" ), raised bands on spine, gilt edging, b/w frontispiece, one b/w photograph with tissue guard. Matching d/w and slipcase. Absolutely pristine copy in fine d/w and very good slipcase.
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Dentelles de l'Europe Centrale [Central European Lace]

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Librairie Gründ, Paris : 1926

Seller ID: k200312c

Condition: Very good

Librairie Gründ, Paris n.d. [1926] 4to, 4 page Introduction & 64 black & white loose b/w photographic plates (complete) in a folder with ties; Folder is brown paper over boards, with fabric spine, black titles on front and spine. Photographic plates of lacework [dentelles] from the Exposition des Arts Decoratifs Paris 1925. Librairie Gründ, also known as "Les éditions Gründ " was a French publishing house started in 1880 by Ernest Gründ and Émile Maguet, specialising in works about art. This work is more commonly found in an edition published in 1926 by A. Levy; there is no title or copyr...
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Aberlé Ballet / Fall & Winter / 1942. Aberlé presents SHEER ENDURING RAYON STOCKINGS/ ALLIED BALLET of COLOR

By: ABERLE Inc [RAYON STOCKINGS]. WILLARD B. GOLOVIN CO.

Price: $650.00

Publisher: Aberle Inc., Philadelphia /Willard B. Golovin [Advertising] Co. NY : 1944

Seller ID: k210505u

Condition: Near Fine

4to, heavy card covers with six card leaves [12 pp.]; publisher's coil binding with clear acetate covers. First and only edition, limited to 750 numbered presentation copies, this being no. 36 presented to the M.E. Blatt Co., Atlantic City s Greatest Department Store . World War 2 era manufacturer s catalog for rayon stockings. The catalog adopts the format of a contemporary Ballet Russes program with the stocking colors inspired by four ballets -- each leaf features a large pochoir colored lithograph by Willard Golovin leaf with smaller color lithographic illustrations on the facing pages an...
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Image for [Decorative Tapestries of the French Royal Household] Les Tapisseries Decoratives du Garde-Meuble [mobilier nationale] Choix des Plus Beaux Motifs

[Decorative Tapestries of the French Royal Household] Les Tapisseries Decoratives du Garde-Meuble [mobilier nationale] Choix des Plus Beaux Motifs

By: Alfred Darcel and Edouard Guichard

Price: $550.00

Publisher: Paris, J. Baudry : 1881

Seller ID: k200128j

Binding: Blue board

Condition: Fair

1st ed., 1881. 2 volumes, folio. ¼ morocco, blue pebbled cloth; ribbed spines. ##### 100 full-page lithographic plates of wall tapestries and furniture coverings, mostly in b/w or sepia but including thirteen chromolithographic plates with tapestries or details in color. Each plate accompanied by a sheet of descriptive text. The Mobilier National, formerly the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne was the French department responsible for storing and repairing all movable furnishings and décor from the royal households of the Ancien Regime. [16th-18th centuries]. ##### Condition: Plates very good...
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AMERICAN CITY MAGAZINE Volume 8 January-June 1913

By: AMERICAN CITY MAGAZINE

Price: $125.00

Publisher: NY, AMERICAN CITY MAGAZINE : 1913

Seller ID: k200128d

Binding: Black cloth

Condition: Good

1st ed.,8vo, black cloth. 684 pp. Articles, photographs, diagrams, and advertisements for city planners and municipal managers and buyers. Hundreds of b/w photos depiciting architecture, roads, and vehicles. Ex-libris Warner Brothers Studios research library with its paper seal affixed inside front panel; also ex libris Alfred F. Rosenheim, with his bookplate, -- one of the leading architects in Los Angeles in the early part of the 20th century. His major works include the Hellman Building and Second Church of Christ Scientist. Condition: Good; moderate wear to covers, two large chips at top ...
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Sculpture of Boris Lovet-Lorski

By: Armitage, Merle

Price: $275.00

Publisher: NY, E. Weyhe : 1937

Seller ID: k1707154

8vo, black and gray cloth. 148 pp, illustrations. Bound in black and gray cloth with red titling. In an edition of 500 numbered copies this is number 209, specially inscribed by Armitage to Enid and Earl Stendahl, owners of the Stendahl Galleries in Los Angeles. In very good -near fine condition with some sunning to top and bottom edges and spine. Interior is pristine. In plain mylar cover which appears trimmed, but our understanding is that this is normal and it was not intended to fully cover the book vertically. Ex-libris the Stendahl Art Gallery, Los Angeles, one of America's oldest contin...
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NAPOLITANO - Fifteen Reproductions of His Work in Oil, Sgraffito, Fresco, Drawing and Mechanical Design.

By: Armitage, Merle & Giovanni Napolitano

Price: $140.00

Publisher: E. Weyhe Publisher, New York : 1935

Seller ID: k190212b

Condition: Good

1st ed., limited to 212 signed and numbered copies. Softcover, 50 pp. This brief monograph written and designed by Merle Armitage is still the major work on the Southern California-based artist Pasquale Giovanni Napolitano. An Italian-American figurative modernist, he is best known for his New Deal-era mural commissions for the Los Angeles Museum of Art and other Los Angeles area public works. CONDITION: Good; the text block, plates, and signed lithograph are near fine; the covers are damaged, as usually the case with this notoriously fragile publication: both flaps split at the folds, lacking...
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La Gravure Sur Bois Moderne de L'occident. [The Art of Modern Woodcuts]

By: Avermaete, Roger.

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Paris: Dorbon Aine : 1928

Seller ID: k18028k

8vo, softcovers rebound in gray cloth. Classic reference on the art of the woodcut, with emphasis on the revival of the art in Western Europe during the first quarter of the 20th century. 239 woodblocks, 9 in color. 177 original illustrations. No. 18 of 1000 copies; a prior owner has neatly written in pencil which woodcuts are originals and which previously published; owner's inked name on front flyleaf, otherwise a fine copy in original paper wraps, subsequently rebound in gray cloth.
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Anltigüedades Mejicanas Falsificadas: Falsificacion y Falsificadores [Faked Mexican Antiques: Counterfeit and Counterfeiters]

By: Batres, Leopoldo

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Mexico: Fidencio S. Soria, : n.d. [c. 1900].

Seller ID: k190711d

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

1st ed., small 4to, softcover. 30 pp + 63 b/w photographic plates with tissue guards, including two large folding plates -- the first of which is torn at the attachment. Otherwise a good copy in original wrappers. Covers cracked at spine ends, moderate staining. Except for the damage to the first plate, the text block is very good. A very clean tight copy; prior owner’s name stamp at upper right of title page. with no other noticeable flaws.
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CORPUS ANTIQUITATUM AMERICANENSIUM / MEXICO I / Las Urnas Zapotecas en el Real Museo de Ontario.

By: BOOS, FRANK

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Cordoba, Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia : 1964

Seller ID: k190719i

Condition: Very Good

4to. Unbound sheets in gray board portfolio. 32 b/w photographic sheets, several with multiple images prefaced by approximately 50 pages of descriptive annotations in both Spanish and English. LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES. The first volume of a series written and illustrated by Boos on the ceramic sculptures which appear on the funerary urns of the Precolumbian Zapotec (Oaxacan ) Culture of southern Mexico. Plates and sheets are fine. Very good: the photographic plates are virtually pristine, with just a bit of toning to the binding edge of several of the descriptive pages. Covers fully intact but w...
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Harry Clarke: His Graphic Art - Deluxe Limited Edition

By: Bowe, Nicola Gordon

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Mountrath Ireland/Los Angeles, The Dolmen Press/H. Keith Burns : 1983

Seller ID: g1012

Deluxe edition, limited to 250 numbered copies. 125 for distribution in Ireland, 125 for the U.S. Black cloth with gilt decorations in black slipcase. This special edition, signed by Bowe, contains an extra suite of eight plates reproduced from Clarke's original drawings for "The Ancient Mariner." The gilt decoration on the front cover is from a design by Clarke adapted from the binding of the special copies of the 1922 edition of the Fair Tales of Perrault. This special edition rarely comes on the market. Harry Clarke (1889 –1931) was an Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator. Born ...
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The Life and Work of Harry Clarke

By: Bowe, Nicola Gordon

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Dublin, Irish Academic Press : 1989

Seller ID: 1403

8vo, cloth, 301 pp. The first substantial biography of Clarke and a critical survey of his varied work: stained glass, book illustration, commercial art. 24 color plates and 180 b/w illustrations. A marvelous treatment. Fine; as new in d/w with some very minor shelf-wear. A near pristine copy.
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Nashi Tropiki (Our Tropics)

By: BRUNI, Lev Alexandrovich

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Moskva:, Molodaia Gvardiia : 1931

Seller ID: s220722e

Binding: Stapled wrappers

Condition: Good

7.5x5.75" [19x15cm] 24 pp., original decorative stapled wrappers./////Nashi Tropiki (Our Tropics) is a children's introduction to the geography and agriculture of the Soviet tropics [Batumi, Georgia] made by Russian avant-garde artist Lev Bruni. A masterful work of children's illustration consisting mostly of full-page drawings with limited text./////Our Tropics describes how the fruits eaten by Soviet children are grown in the lush tropics of Batum, in the Soviet state of Georgia. Paintings of Georgian men, women, and children in food production roles such as collecting tea seeds in the stat...
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Early Cemeteries of the City of Los Angeles - Los Angeles Miscellany #2

By: Carpenter, Edwin

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Dawson's Book Shop : 1973

Seller ID: 1409

1st ed., limited to 300 copies. 8vo, illustrated boards, 48 pp. Illustrated with contemporary photographs and graphics - LA cemeteries up to the year 1885. Fine, without d/w -- as issued.
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Livre D’Or du Bibliophile. 3 Volumes: 1925, 1926 – 1927, 1928 – 1929

By: Chambre Syndicale des D’Art; Various

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Paris, : Chambre Syndicale des D’Art : 1925

Seller ID: s200814a

Condition: Good

Première Année 1925, Deuxième Année 1926-1927, Troisième Année 1928-1929. First editions. All three years published. 4to [10”x12.5”], paper wrappers in printed dust-jackets. Unpaginated, but approx.. 200 pp. each volume. The first volume is limited to printing of 2000 copies and the third volume 1800; the second volume has no designation. Plain sewn wrappers, with volume 1 in library binding with original wrappers bound in. A remarkable publication consisting of announcements of limited edition illustrated books to appear between 1925-29, accompanied by samples from the works. More than 20 ...
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Image for The art of painting of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy. Translated into English verse by William Mason, M. A. With annotations by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knt. president of the Royal Academy

The art of painting of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy. Translated into English verse by William Mason, M. A. With annotations by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knt. president of the Royal Academy

By: Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy / William Mason

Price: $225.00

Publisher: York, Printed by A. Ward, and sold by J. Dodsley, T. Cadell, [et al.] : 1783

Seller ID: s200901b

Binding: Vintage rebinding

Condition: Good

1st edition of this translation; 4to, pp. [iii]-xix, [3], 213 [1 Errata sheet]; rebound in modern ¼ leather marbled boards to match contemporary bindings. ##### Du Fresnoy ( 1611-1665) had a modestly successful career as a painter but is best remembered for his Latin poem De arte graphica, first published in Paris in 1684 and containing his observations on the art of painting, including a critical treatise with general advice to students. William Mason (d.1797) spent several years on this new version translated into English couplets. Includes a Preface and a verse Epistle to Sir Joshua Re...
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Original Prospectus for Picture Book: 32 Original Lithographs By Jean Charlot - Signed

By: Charlot,Jean.

Price: $175.00

Publisher: John Becker / Merle Armitage / Will And Lynton R. Kistler. New York : 1933

Seller ID: k180706c

Condition: Fine

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.
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THE PICTURESQUE WORLD OR, SCENES IN MANY LANDS

By: COLANGE, Leo De (editor)

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Estes & Lauriat, Boston : 1878

Seller ID: k200830b

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

1st ed. Folio, (10" x 12-1/2"). Vol 1 only (of two); publisher's decorated morocco leather, gilt titles, raised bands, a.e.g. Illustrated with 48 steel engraved views and hundreds of smaller wood engravings comprising mountain, lake, and river scenery, parks, palaces, cathedrals, churches, castles, abbeys, and other views. Vol I containing chapters on Europe: Italy France Russia Belgium Holland, Greece, Spain, Germany. Condition: Good+; Internally Vg; a clean bright copy with occasional light foxing not affecting the plates. FEP cracked. Covers heavily rubbed at corners, surface wear to b...
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Category: Art, Design & Architecture