[Costume] F. Depech / Hippolyte LeComteCostumes Civil et Militaires de la Monarchie Francaise depuis 1200 jusqu'a 1820 [Civil and Military Costumes of the French Monarch from 1200 to 1820]An incomplete set of 80 lithographs depicting the robes and costumes worn by French aristocracy, clergy, and judiciary from the 13th - 19th centuries. From a series of 380 lithographs executed by Hippolyte Le Comte and published 1820-21 by Francois Delpech. Delpech operated the most popular lithographic print shop in Paris; LeComte was a French painter best known for his large scale historical paintings and... 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...
8vo, blue-grey wrappers. A short-lived periodical [4 issues] "devoted exclusively to new poems" by the four contributors, this issue containing pp. 109-152 of the series. 4 poems by Brooke. ##### CONDITION: Fair; Covers toned; 1/2" chip top of spine, corners bumped, several edge nicks. Interior is good; a reasonably tight copy but with occasional light foxing. View More...
1st ed. 8vo, brown boards, 109 pp, No. 53 of 3000 numbered copies. With an inscription by Hartmann to Paul Jordan Smith -- “from [as Bernard Shaw expressed it] ‘the man who writes about the last 30 days of Christ when the first day Him has not yet dawned upon Earth.” Smith was an American Universalist minister who also worked as a writer, lecturer and editor. However, he is most well known for originating the hoax art movement Disumbrationism. Giving himself the Russian-sounding pseudonym Pavel Jerdanowitch, Jordan-Smith painted a small group of crudely Postimpressionist canvases that he then ... View More...