Deyá A Portfolio Of Five Poems And Lithographs by Robert Graves; Paul Hogarth - 1972

New York. Woodbine Books. 1980. Folio. Limited english edition of 1250, of which this is #192. Full plate color illustrations. Fine.Featured Art.

Rome: Desclee, Lefebvre & C., 1903. Testo only. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth and boards. Published Rome: Desclee, Lefebvre & C., 1903. Folio, 12" x 16", xix+549pp., illustrated with 54 reproductions within the text. Text in Italian. Libro Primo, Libro Secondo, Supplemento Primo, Supplemento Secondo. Splitting to the outer cloth along the hinges, some scuffing to rear cover, light foxing along front edge of portion of page block, else very good. Text clean, bright, unmarked, binding tight. Not ex-library. Scarce. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. Folio.

Shanghai: The Commercial Press, Limited, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. SIGNED by author to flyleaf. Chinese dust jacket. Facing translations of Chinese and English. [8 prelim leaves], iii, iii, 22-323, [1], ii, ii, 74, [1]. Supplement Illustrating a Few Interesting Pieces of Bronze, Ceramics and Jade. Many colour and b/w illustrations on plates with tissue guards. Covers Chinese paintings, bronzes, ceramic art and jade. Bound in the original publisher's turquoise silk-covered boards with floral pattern, upper board richly illustrated in gilt, and with gilt lettering. Cord tassel decoration to front at joint. Some discolouration to silk, wear to spine ends and edges, foxing to edges and some interior pages. Green dust jacket with black lettering and decoration matching boards. Chips to spine ends (with loss) and foot of front cover and corners, a few perforations and small damp stains. A rare and beautiful find.

Kyoto: Yamada Unsodo, 1903. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Furuya Korin. Exceptionally scarce Japanese design publication from the early 20th century. This issue from early 1903, the third year of publication, features 20 full-page designs, all in colour and some with additional silver overprinting. One illustration is ink marked, appears to be printing fault. Front cover (Japanese script) is toned. English language cover has (filing?) label attached and is dulled. Stock is occasionally lightly marked, a little toned but in general good order. Stab binding with silk thread. Bibliographic information from best available translation (see photo of imprint, etc). 8vo. 24pp

Scarce first German combined edition of Goeree's manuals for painting, drawing and watercolouringWillem Goeree (1635-1711).
Anweisung zu der Mahler-Kunst, worinnen nebst derselben Fürtrefflichkeit und Nutzen gezeiget wird, was einer zum gründlichen Verstand der Mahler-Kunst wissen, und wie er sich durch Ubung darinnen perfectioniren soll; nebst einem gründlichen Unterricht von der Reiß- und Zeichen- wie auch Illuminir-Kunst, oder dem rechten Gebrauch der Wasser-Farben.
Leipzig, Friedrich Lanckischens Erben, 1744.
3 parts in 1 volume. 8°. [8], 132, [4], 120, [2], 98 pp. With a woodcut vignette on title-page, several woodcut head- and tailpieces.
Modern half calf with marbled sides.
Very rare (WorldCat: 1 copy) first German edition of the collected artists' manuals by the Dutch author Willem Goeree. It combines the manuals by Willem Goeree on oil painting, drawing and watercolouring. These were originally published in Dutch as:
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Wien, Jugend und Volk, (1967). . Nr 42 von 200 Exemplaren der Luxusausgabe, die neben der dreiteiligen Original-Radierung mit Aquatinta (Werknummer 116/III), die allen Exemplaren beigebunden und in allen drei Teilen vom Künstler SIGNIERT wurde, zusätzlich enthält: den I. Zustand des Blattes (Werknummer 116/I, SIGNIERT) und drei zusätzliche, jeweils SIGNIERTE Original-Radierungen (Werknummer 113, 114, 115) auf aufgewalztem indischen Papier. Unserem Exemplar liegt außerdem noch eine weitere Original-Radierung (10 x 13 cm, mit einem Stempel der Galerie Commeter, Hamburg, zur Ernst Fuchs-Ausstellung März - April 1971) bei. - Schuber mit wenigen winzigen Fleckchen. Buch in sehr guter Erhaltung

Various publishers, various places 1973-2009. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. An archive of over 100 items, from the collection of the late Julian Andrews, a long-term supporter and enthusiast of the artist, Head of the Fine Arts Department of the British Council and the author of the primary reference source 'The Sculpture of David Nash'. The collection comprises over forty (primarily solo) exhibition catalogues from shows all round the UK, Europe, the US, Japan, Korea and Australia, and includes the catalogues for his first three solo shows, each written and designed by Nash; various studies and monographs; circa forty exhibition handbills and private viewing invitation cards; plus several books by Nash himself and various ephemeral bits and pieces. Seven of the items bear the artist's signature or inscription. A signed copy of Julian Andrews' exhaustive reference work is also included. A fascinating and wide-ranging archive which would now be virtually impossible to… Read More

Kyoto: Yamada Unsodo, 1903. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Furuya Korin. Exceptionally scarce Japanese design publication from the early 20th century. This issue from early 1903, the third year of publication, features 20 full-page designs, all in colour and some with additional silver overprinting. One illustration is ink marked, appears to be printing fault. Front cover (Japanese script) is toned. English language cover has (filing?) label attached and is dulled. Stock is occasionally lightly marked, a little toned but in general good order. Stab binding with silk thread. Bibliographic information from best available translation (see photo of imprint, etc). 8vo. 24pp

1841 Herculaneum & Pompeii ART Paintings Sculptures VESUVIUS 6v SET 718 PLATES!
Henri Roux and Louis Barre's "Herculanum and Pompeii" is a rare, fascinating 19th-century history of the antiquities of the Italian cities Herculaneum and Pompeii which were destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79A.D. This work is devoted to the study of the paintings and bronze statues found in the ruins documenting each notable piece of art discovered.
This impressive set contains more than 700 illustrations – easily one of the most heavily 19th-century illustrated works of Vesuvian history.
Item number: #20092
Price: $950
BARRE, Louis; Henri Roux
Herculanum und Pompeji : Vollständige Sammlung der daselbst entdeckten, zum Theil noch unedirten Malereien, Mosaiken und Bronzen
Hamburg : Meissner, 1841.

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Collation: Complete with all pages; 6 volumes
o 718 plates
· Language: German
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~10.25in X 6.75in (26cm x 17cm)
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Kyoto Shoin Co., Ltd., Japan, 1977 Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Japanese and English text.; Hardcover (cloth without dust jacket - as issued) in slipcase with carton box.; 23 x 32 cm; 3.5 Kg; Colour illustrations throughout, each with caption in Japanese and English.; Used with signs of wear on the card box. Signs of wear on the hardcover cloth and slipcase. The characters on the spine of the slipcase spine and also on the spines of the hardcover cloth are faded. Interior in very good condition.; HARD TO FIND.; Two volume set comprising Color Section (217 pages) and Monochrome Section (238 pages).; With texts by the noted ceramic scholar Masahiko Kawahara, this two-volume publication illustrates a vast selection of Ko-sometsuke ('old blue and white') porcelain presented in 934 catalogue entries. A thorough introduction in Japanese and English outlines the most relevant features of this porcelain ware produced in China for the Japanese market during the late Ming dynasty (1368-1644),… Read More