Search Results: Drawings and Prints from Bernett Penka Rare Books LLC

Slevogt. 146 pp. popular German text of one of the 1001 Arabian Nights' tales, 56 original lithographic illus. by Slevogt. Folio. Modern cloth, cover illustration (frayed and soiled) mounted on front cover. Berlin (Bruno Cassirer) 1922. One of 360 copies, signed in pencil by the artist on the colophon page. The Artist and the Book, 289. Ex-library copy, internally in good condition, of one of the outstanding examples of book illustration by a German Impressionist.

2 vols., 405 pp. critical catalogue, ed. by Elfried Bock, of 1666 drawings, concordances, index, 29 text illus., 613 excellent facsimile illus. on 302 plates. 4to. Vellum-backed boards. Frankfurt (Prestel) 1929. (Kataloge der Prestel-Gesellschaft, I). The splendid Prestel Gesellschaft catalogue of the drawings at Erlangen, originally in the possession of the Dukes of Ansbach. The emphasis of the collection is on early German masters, Durer, Altdorfer, Grunewald, Baldung, Flotner, and their 15th-century predecessors.

Bernini. 2 vols., 205, 23 pp. text on various aspects of the master's drawings, extensive scholarly notes, bibliography, concordances, indices, 198 fine plates showing preparatory works for sculptures, architectural sketches and plans, figure drawings, caricatures, etc. Large 4to. Cloth, spine of Vol. 2 slightly torn. Berlin (Heinrich Keller) 1931. (Romische Forschungen der Bibliotheca Hertziana, 9). The beautifully produced scholarly work has become increasingly scarce.

Unpag. (8 pp.) booklet with title, introductory text, and descriptions, accompanying 11 woodcuts printed from original old woodblocks in the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett, the Germanische Museum in Nuremberg, and the Maihingen Collection, mounted on 9 leaves with passepartouts. Folio. Boards portfolio, front cover damaged. Munich (Munchner Drucke) 1925. One of only 110 copies.

Mejers. 3 vols., 25, 7, VI pp. text on the comprehensive work of Mejers, who was the first person to completely map the country of Denmark, with bibliographic notes, text tables, indices, and 291 color plates (some folding) showing maps of regions throughout the country. Folio. 1/2 cloth and boards, embossed seal, spines very sl. rubbed, some covers sl. warped. Copenhagen (Ejnar Munksgaard) 1942. (Geodaetisk Instituts Publikationer, I-III).

Paris: Devambez, 1910. Small folio (40.3 x 30 cm). Original boards with paper dust jacket and boards portfolio; 158 pp. Some dust-staining and splitting along spine of portfolio, minor dust-staining and light soiling to dust jacket, scattered light toning to pages with artwork, overall very good. From a limited edition of 250 total copies, one of 220 copies on Arches paper. 158-pp. volume with preface by Leon Bourgeois describing the social misery of women, with texts from a variety of contributors, including Paul Adam, Léonce Benedite, Eugene Brieux, Léon Frapié, Camille Lemonnier, Pierre Louÿs, Paul Margueritte, Victor Margueritte, Jean Richepin, and Gabriel Séailles. The highlight of the volume is the 10 original works by Charles Cottet, André Devambez, Abel Faivre, Gaston La Touche, Charles Léandre, Auguste Lepère, Bernard Naudin, Alfred Roll, Steinlen, and Jean Veber. There are also 25 reproductions of works from well-known artists including Carpaccio, Callot, Watteau, Hogarth, Goya,… Read More

Exquisite unpag. example of Art Deco book design, detailing a 3-month journey the artist undertook with Jean Dunand aboard the schooner Peau-Brune, sailing from St. Nazaire in Brittany, around the Iberian Peninsula and through the Strait of Gibraltar, to the town of La Ciotat on the coast of Provence, fashioned as a logbook with chronological entries related to specific dates, table of contents. Illustrated throughout with approximately 100 beautiful engravings in brilliant colors from various points along the trip, including two full-page plates depicting the ship under sail, both signed by Schmied. Large 4to. Full leather with raised spine, gilt and polychrome wave decoration to front and rear covers, gilt tooling to inside covers with laid blue silk "endpapers", fitted slipcase. Spine slightly shaken, first signature loose in places. N.p. (Lyon) (Société des XXX de Lyon) 1931. From a limited edition of 135 copies, signed by Schmied in several places. Schmied was an important Art Deco painter,… Read More

Unpaginated (ca. 17 pp., printed recto only) preface and descriptive inventory by Gustav Pauli accompanying a presentation of 30 mat-mounted photogravures faithfully reproducing a selection of Italian old master drawings in the museum's holdings, including works by Bartolommeo, Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, Lippi, Piranesi, Raphael, Da Vinci, Zoppo, and others. Plates folio; text 4to. Items housed loose as issued in cloth-backed boards portfolio with cloth ties. Frankfurt (Prestel-Verlag) 1927. (Veröffentlichung der Prestel-Gesellschaft, 13). Limited edition, number 63 of 400. Chamberlin 2467.

Antwerp: Ça ira, January 1923. Octavo (22 × 14.1 cm). Original staple-stitched wrappers; pp. 195-210, [4] pp. With full-page linocut print by Lajos Kassák titled "Bildarchitektür" [Image architecture] and 2 small linocut prints by Karel Maes. Rust to staples; wrappers detached, leaves slightly browned, last leaves with crease; else very good. Last published issue of the avant-garde journal, which was published monthly from 1920 to 1923. It is remarkable that the Belgian magazine is concluded with the programmatic linocut "Image architecture" by the Hungarian Constructivist Kassák. In March 1921 he had published his constructivist manifesto under the same title "Image architecture" in the magazine "MA", which he edited in collaboration with Moholy-Nagy in Vienna. Based on this, in the years that followed he produced a series of paintings and prints which he gave the same title. He first used the term for the portfolio of works by Sándor Bortnyik, which he also published and introduced in 1921.… Read More