Joan Miro Lithographs Volume IV 1969 - 1972 by Calas, Nicolas and Elena - 1981

Paris: Firmin Didot Freres, 1877. First edition. Quarterbound red morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, raised bans with gilt rules, gilt titles,top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Spines and boards rubbed, extremities worn with loss of paper to the corners of two boards, some minor splits at the hinges, scattered foxing, bindings tight, leaves crisp, overall a very good set.. 332 pp.; viii, 350 pp.; xiv, 294 pp.; xi, 351 pp., plates (6). Illustrated with 32 copper-plate and 1212 wood engravings, some colored. Folio (36 cm). "Noveaux melanges d'archeologie, d'histoire, et de litterature sur le moyen-age" was preceded nearly two decades earlier by the equally valuable "Melanges d'archeologie" also containing four quarto volumes of illustrated dissertations on gold and silver church-plate, enameled ware, carved ivories, tapestries, bas-reliefs, and paintings belonging to the Carlovingian and Romanesque periods (ninth to twelfth century). Contains: 1: Curiosities mysterieuses 2: Ivoires,… Read More

Paris: A. Ferroud, Benezit-Constant, Harry C. Dickens. Good+. 1891. Limited/Numbered Edition. Hardcover. Bound in a special leather binding, raised bands with gilt titles. Gilt floral & foliage decorated panels. Both covers have triple ruled gilt border. Top edge gilt. Gilt dentelles & marbled endpapers. Limited edition, #27/50 copies printed on heavy stock pages "papier du Japon". Text tight, clean without foxing and intact. B/W etching illustrations. French text. Front joint-hinge cracked with cover firmly attached. Art; B/W Plates; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 163 pages .

Very good in stiff boards with plastic comb binding designed by the artist.Lecture given at the University of Oslo. Illustrated. One of 350 copies, numbered and signed by Pannaggi. Presentation to Professor Reginald Issacs who was a longtime friend of Walter Gropius and wrote the definitive biography of the architect.Pannaggi was an Italian painter & architect of the Futurist movement and was later associated with the Bauhaus. Laid in are 3 postcards depicting Pannaggi's work as well as a printed clipping description of a modernist house in Norway. Scarce signed copy of this monograph and a nice association copy.

Vibrantly hand-colored caricature of Elizabeth Billington during her performance in the role of Mandane for the opera Artaxerxes by Thomas Augustine Arne. Gillray here is satirizing Billington for the use of placing her hand on her bossom during moments that require more effort than others. (The British Museum, Curator M. Dorothy George's comments in object description, 1851,0901.1073.) This print is framed together with an advertisement bill for Arne's Artaxerxes to be performed Wednesday, 7th September, 1803. This performance was followed by a "new grand national pantomime" entitled Magic of the British Liberty; or the Desegregation of Bonaparte. This advertisement was printed for Knott and Lloyd, Birmingham. Housed in gilt wooden frame with warm grey mat boards and black trim around window. Frame: 28.25 x 22 inches; Windows: 9.25 x 14 inches // 10.25 x 14 inches. 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VIII, 1947)Mrs. Billington's return to London, in 1801, caused a… Read More

Monterrey: Grupo Vitro [968-6258-62-0] 1997, 1st edition. (Folio hardcover) 351pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Color illustrated endpapers, color maps, color photographs and illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index. Edited by Lydia Sada De Gonzalez. Introduction by Guillermo Tovar De Teresa. Photography by Jose Ignacio Gonzalez Manterola. Locale: Portugal; Spain. (Art, Carving, Icons, Ivory).

Paris: Firmin Didot Freres, 1877. First edition. Quarterbound red morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, raised bans with gilt rules, gilt titles,top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Spines and boards rubbed, extremities worn with loss of paper to the corners of two boards, some minor splits at the hinges, scattered foxing, bindings tight, leaves crisp, overall a very good set.. 332 pp.; viii, 350 pp.; xiv, 294 pp.; xi, 351 pp., plates (6). Illustrated with 32 copper-plate and 1212 wood engravings, some colored. Folio (36 cm). "Noveaux melanges d'archeologie, d'histoire, et de litterature sur le moyen-age" was preceded nearly two decades earlier by the equally valuable "Melanges d'archeologie" also containing four quarto volumes of illustrated dissertations on gold and silver church-plate, enameled ware, carved ivories, tapestries, bas-reliefs, and paintings belonging to the Carlovingian and Romanesque periods (ninth to twelfth century). Contains: 1: Curiosities mysterieuses 2: Ivoires,… Read More

Paris: A. Ferroud, Benezit-Constant, Harry C. Dickens. Good+. 1891. Limited/Numbered Edition. Hardcover. Bound in a special leather binding, raised bands with gilt titles. Gilt floral & foliage decorated panels. Both covers have triple ruled gilt border. Top edge gilt. Gilt dentelles & marbled endpapers. Limited edition, #27/50 copies printed on heavy stock pages "papier du Japon". Text tight, clean without foxing and intact. B/W etching illustrations. French text. Front joint-hinge cracked with cover firmly attached. Art; B/W Plates; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 163 pages .

Very good in stiff boards with plastic comb binding designed by the artist.Lecture given at the University of Oslo. Illustrated. One of 350 copies, numbered and signed by Pannaggi. Presentation to Professor Reginald Issacs who was a longtime friend of Walter Gropius and wrote the definitive biography of the architect.Pannaggi was an Italian painter & architect of the Futurist movement and was later associated with the Bauhaus. Laid in are 3 postcards depicting Pannaggi's work as well as a printed clipping description of a modernist house in Norway. Scarce signed copy of this monograph and a nice association copy.

Vibrantly hand-colored caricature of Elizabeth Billington during her performance in the role of Mandane for the opera Artaxerxes by Thomas Augustine Arne. Gillray here is satirizing Billington for the use of placing her hand on her bossom during moments that require more effort than others. (The British Museum, Curator M. Dorothy George's comments in object description, 1851,0901.1073.) This print is framed together with an advertisement bill for Arne's Artaxerxes to be performed Wednesday, 7th September, 1803. This performance was followed by a "new grand national pantomime" entitled Magic of the British Liberty; or the Desegregation of Bonaparte. This advertisement was printed for Knott and Lloyd, Birmingham. Housed in gilt wooden frame with warm grey mat boards and black trim around window. Frame: 28.25 x 22 inches; Windows: 9.25 x 14 inches // 10.25 x 14 inches. 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VIII, 1947)Mrs. Billington's return to London, in 1801, caused a… Read More

Monterrey: Grupo Vitro [968-6258-62-0] 1997, 1st edition. (Folio hardcover) 351pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Color illustrated endpapers, color maps, color photographs and illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index. Edited by Lydia Sada De Gonzalez. Introduction by Guillermo Tovar De Teresa. Photography by Jose Ignacio Gonzalez Manterola. Locale: Portugal; Spain. (Art, Carving, Icons, Ivory).