Joan Miro Volume II by Queneau, Raymond - 1975

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).

Maeght, 1962. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. VG 1962 issue number 132 of DLM, with 2 color lithographs (one double-page) and further illustrations - minor lower corner crease only, binding very secure, illustrations bright, very well-preserved and unmarked. 496 pages. Text is in French. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Art & Design; French Language; The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 083956..

Spain Arte Ediciones. 1992. Original gilt decorated and lettered green cloth. Thick 4tos. Illustrated with full page colour reproductions. In dustwrapper, As New.

London, 1807. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 2581 Folio. containing two hundred and forty-six engravings of topographical objects, of which one hundred and twenty-two no longer remain. This work contains copies of manuscripts which throw new and unexpected lights on the ancient history of the arts in England." This copy has tipped in to the front free end paper a note from (presumably) the original owner noting that the un-numbered copies of this first edition, which were to be sold at six guineas, had been completely destroyed in a fire which happened at the premises of Mr Bradley in Fleet Street- "the coloured plates all lost, the six years hard labour of Mr and Mrs Smith. The copper plates were saved. But it must be some years before another edition can be published.". A pencil note in the top margin of the 'stone plate' says "this is an engraving on stone by Mr Smith, which he showed me about six months ago in Newman Street." The copper plate… Read More

Rovereto (Trentino): Mutilati e Invalidi, 1947. 4to. 174 pp. Paper wraps. Very Good. 1/4" tear and small crease to top left corner of front wrap, wraps mildly toned. Signed by Depero.. Signed by Author. Paperback. Very Good.

1687 RARE John Smith ART of Oil Painting Painters English Horology GOLD
'The Art of Painting' is a rare 17th-century treatise on painting with oils by English clockmaker John Smith. This work was an immensely popular work throughout the end of the 17th-century into the mid-1700s. In fact, it went through a number of editions through the end of Smith's lifetime.

While the title would suggest this is merely a work from an artistic view, it covers a variety of topics including how to work with gold and silver gilding. Other topics include
How to mix oils
Achieving correct color
Oil paint preservation
Proper use of tools
Item number: #5322
Price: $950
SMITH, John
The art of painting in oyl : wherein is included each particular circumstance relating to that art and mystery, containing the best and most approved rules for preparing, mixing, and working of oyl-colours : the whole treatise being so full compleat, and so exactly fitted to the meanest capacity, that all persons whatsoever, may be able by these… Read More

1690 Nicolas de FER French Fortification Atlas Military Illustrated Star Forts

Nicolas de Fer was a 17th-century French cartographer known for his abundance of artistic illustrations. One of his most popular atlases was his 'Introduction to Fortification'. This work is an illustrated treatise on military forts and weapons and the varieties used by the French military and royalty. Printed in 1690, this edition includes views of star forts, hexagonal forts, and various designs of fortification architecture.

Item number: #8286
Price: $950
DE FER, Nicolas
Introduction a la fortification : dediée a Monseigneur le duc de Bourgogne
A Paris : Chez l'autheur dans l'Isle du Palais sur le quay de l'Orloge a la Sphere royale, [1690].

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Size: ~9.75in X 13in (24.5cm x 32.5cm)
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