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One of a rare pre-publication copy of the elaborately produced edition of "De la terre à la lune", published by de Tartas in 1970. These "handmade" editions were given in a few copies to selected collectors and dealers to promote the printed edition.
Description: Cardboard portfolio, wrapped in an original colour lithograph. Folio: 38 × 28 cm; 8 folded leaves (2 blank), loose as issued. With 6 original colour lithographs: 2 full-page and 1 double-page and 3 within text; 2 b/w photos tipped in. The lithographs protected with tissue guards. All full-page lithographs marked with a perforation stamp "Specimen", the double-page lithograph additionally marked "Epreuve d'état non corrigée par l'artiste".
Condition: Minor signs of wear to covers. Contents and prints in excellent condition.
Notes: Jean Carzou (born Karnik Zouloumian, 1907–2000) was an Armenian-French painter and illustrator. He was educated in Cairo before moving to Paris in 1924, where he studied art and architecture. He started… Read More

First edition of the first published lecture by William Morris. Scarce in this exemplary state.
Description: Sewn as issued in publisher's printed light blue paper wrappers. Duodecimo: 18 × 12 cm; pp. 32.
Condition: Light age toning to edges of covers. Internally clean and free of marks. According to its age a near fine copy.
Notes: In 'The Decorative Arts' Morris first formulated his guiding principle that the decline in the artistic quality of the things around us was the result of the separation of art and craft, and that only a reunion of art and craft could lead to better design. Morris repeated and refined this idea in various lectures he gave between 1877 and 1885. It was also this principle that eventually led to the founding of the Kelmscott Press.

First edition. The careful decoration and the expressive design make "Die Fischer" a book-artistic gem from the time of the early Art Nouveau.
Description: vellum spine with Art Nouveau decorated paper boards, upper board with paper lettering label printed in black. Endpapers in the same decor as the cover. In original light brown cardboard slipcase. Octavo: 18 × 12 cm; pp. 94. All edges gilt.
Ref.: Schauer: i, 28; ii, 5. Wilpert; Gühring: 698, 3
Condition: A couple of gatherings with cords visible at gutter, but still unbroken. Apart from that, a very good copy, complete, in the rare original cardboard slipcase.

First edition of Woelfflin's first major work.
Description: Original cloth with red embossed cover and spine titles. Octavo: 25 × 18 cm: pp. xii, 279. With 110 black and white illustrations.
Condition: Binding slightly bumped, the front cover a little stained. Slight toning to pages due to age. despite the occasional minor blemish, an excellent copy.
Notes: Woelfflin's 'Klassische Kunst' analyses and describes the great Italian masters of the Renaissance, including Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Fra Bartolomeo and Andrea del Sarto.

Limited edition of 630 copies, this being no. 615. With 24 drawings by Alfred Kubin.
Description: Red cloth, boards with gilt Art Deco centerpiece within gilt filleted frame. Quarto: 29 × 19 cm; pp. 61 [2]. Top edge gilt.
Condition: Binding somewhat dusty, a small stain on the back cover. Else a near fine copy.