Search Results: Titles starting with N from Ursus Books

1830. FECHNER, F. Neuer Bildersaal. Nouvelles Galerie de Tableaux. New Picture-Gallery. [18] leaves (including title-page), printed on one side only, with 106 lithographs in contemporary colour, heightened with gum arabic. 12mo, 140 x 91 mm., original dark green publisher's illustrated boards, in a modern cloth folding box. Guben: Bei F. Fechner, 1830. Extremely rare children's picture book. Each of the leaves contains six or seven hand-coloured images with captions in German, French, and English. The little pictures represent objects which would be familiar to children: a night candlestick, a kettle, a frying pan, wooden shoes. Small tear at bottom of back wrapper not affecting text or image, light spotting to covers, otherwise in very good condition. OCLC lists Indiana, Princeton, NYPL, UCLA, Harvard, Yale, in the US.

1844. VASI, Mariano and Antonio NIBBY. New Guide of Rome, and the Environs Naples and their Environs according to Vasi and Nibby, from the Italian of Vasi and Nibby. Carefully Revised, and Enlarged with an Account of the Latest Antiquarian Researches. xlii, 532 pp., illustrated with 28 engraved plates plus a folded map in pocket, executed by Pernié. 8vo, 170 x 110 mm., bound in contemporary vellum. Rome: L. Piale, 1853. A handsome copy of the mandatory nineteenth-century Guide to Rome. Vasi and Nibby combined their talents to produce a work which presented a day-by-day itinerary lasting eight days, being a Grand Tour through all of Rome illustrated with twenty-five full-page engraved plates, and accompanied by a large folding map. Map with some professional repairs, overall near fine.

1966. [RUSCHA, Edward] Mason WILLIAMS. The Night I Lost My Baby: A Las Vegas Vignette. 64 pp. Illustrated with 20 black and white photographs by Patrick Blackwell. 8vo., bound in gold cloth covered boards. Los Angeles: [self published], 1966. Designed by Ruscha in which he collaborates with Williams, in a similar fashion as he did in Royal Road Test in 1967, this little known book consists of a series of black and white photographs of Las Vegas paired with commentary words. Although the subject is Las Vegas rather than his well known Los Angeles, the tone of the book delivers very much in keeping with his other works. Edition of 500. Inscribed by Mason Williams.

1840. FABRE, Francois. Némésis Médicale Illustrée. Recueil de Satires. Two volumes. xxxii, 278; 360 pp., illustrated throughout with woodcuts by Honoré Daumier. 4to, 245 x 155 mm., marbled boards. Paris: Au Bureau de la Némésis Médicale, 1840. A collection of medical satires written in twenty-five poems, in rhyming couplets. Illustrated with thirty woodcuts and numerous vignettes by Daumier.

1886. RIDGWAY, Robert. A Nomenclature of Colors for Naturalists, and Compendium of Useful Knowledge for Ornithologists. 129, [1] pp. Illustrated with 17 plates, 10 of which are hand-coloured. 8vo, bound in publisher's green cloth. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1886. A fine copy of Ridyway's extremely scarce first book on colour. Ridgway was the first full-time curator of birds at the United States National Museum where he developed his system, which was one of the first and most important colour systems for bird identification. He later expanded it in his classic Color Standards and Nomenclature. Both books are rare, but the early version is extremely so. His works have endured, and everyone from stamp collectors to naturalists to chemists refers to 'Ridgway colors' to identify specific shades. A clipped inscription from Ridgway to Dr. Coues, presumably the ornithologist Elliott Coues, is affixed to the first blank.

1992. MANGOLD, Robert. The Nonconformist's Memorial. Text by Susan Howe and Robert Mangold. Illustrated with 6 woodcuts by Mangold. Folio, bound in original wrappers and publisher's cloth folding box. New York: The Grenfell Press, 1992. A wonderful piece of American bookmaking which combines the imaginative typography and superb craftsmanship of the Grenfell Press with Susan Howe's important lengthy poem, and the accompanying images by the distinguished American minimalist Robert Mangold. One of 65 copies signed by Howe and Mangold.

2021. GOGOL, Nikolai. The Nose. Illustrated by William Kentridge. Oblong 4to., Publisher's cloth-backed boards and clamshell box. San Francisco: Arion Press, 2021. This edition of The Nose is a new original translation by scholar and author Stanislav Shvabrin. William Kentridge provided 16 altered and collaged images for the book, composed on tear sheets of the 19th-century tabloid The Illustrated London News, which have been reproduced in full-color offset lithography on tinted backgrounds. One of an edition of 190 copies.

1965. Not in Schwarz DUCHAMP, Marcel. Not Seen and/or Less Seen of/by Marcel Duchamp/Rrose Selavy 1904-64. Mary Sisler Collection. With a foreword and catalogue texts by Richard Hamilton. Unpaginated, thoroughly illustrated in black and white, and with 3 tipped-in colour plates. 4to., bound in original wrappers designed by Duchamp, with original glassine. No. 21 of 100 copies. In a cloth folding box. New York: Cordier & Ekstrom, 1964. With: The Second Version. With Mary Sisler's name enlarged and in a different position on the title page. No. 5 of 100 copies. With: The Regular Version, without limitation. With the title-page as in the second version. "The Mary Sisler Collection was the most important private collection of works by Duchamp; and the exhibition, a historical event. It was the first and the most inclusive Duchamp retrospective to be held by a private gallery in the United States" (Schwarz). When Mary Sisler saw the first version of the catalogue she… Read More

1972. ORIGINAL PUBLISHER'S MAQUETTE OLDENBURG, Claes. Notes in Hand. 50 archival folders (numbered 1-50), one for each image in the published work (London: Petersburg Press, 1972), consisting of developmental collages, working drafts with annotations, paste-ups, corrections and some drawings in the hand of Claes Oldenburg, accompanied by related imagery and texts for covers, miscellaneous documents, working documents and drafts for two rejected images (nos. "45" and "48") which apparently remain unpublished. Sizes vary: folders measure 405 x 320 mm, and are preserved in two black cloth protective boxes. S.n., n.d. (1969-1970). Original maquette for Notes in Hand, Oldenburg's best-known book and one of the primary examples of Pop Art in book form. The present archive remains the ONLY record of the creation of the book itself. There are as many as ten proposed variations for each page in the published version, with numerous additions, changes and… Read More

1725. [WEBER, Friedrich Christian]. Nouveaux Memoires sur l'Etat Present de la Grand Russie ou Moscovie. Two volumes. With 2 large folding maps, one of the Russian empire and a plan of the town of Saint Petersburg. xxiv, 438; [6], 426, [4] pp. misnumbering throughout. 12mo., 162 x 90 mm, bound in full French contemporary speckled calf, five raised bands, gilt-tooled compartments, edges stained red. Paris: Chez Pissot, 1725. First Edition in French. The work first appeared in a German edition in Frankfurt 1721. Friedrich Christian Weber was an ambassador from the Hanovarian court of Brunswick-Lunebourg at Moscow representing English interests at the time of Czar Peter the Great. Weber was not credited with being a brilliant diplomat during his sojourn in Russia from 1714 to 1720, however, his Memoires are considered to be one of the most important accounts of the period in Russia during the reign of Peter the Great. "While there [Weber] observed city development, improvements… Read More

1781. DEROSSI, Onorato. Nuova guida per la città di Torino. 202 pp., illustrated with an engraved folding map. 8vo, 185 x 100 mm., bound in later wrappers. Torino: Nella Reale stamperia di Torino, 1781. A beautiful uncut copy of this scarce guide to Turin, with a large folding map of the city. It contains a comprehensive list of buildings, in many cases with their contents. OCLC lists only CCA and the Getty in North America.

1822. SIENA. Nuova guida della città di Siena per gli amatori delle belle-arti. viii, 167, [1] pp., illustrated with four large folding engraved plates. 4to, 185 x 140 mm., bound in original blue paper wrappers, with deckled edges. Siena: Nella Stamperia Mucci, 1822. Presumed first edition, with no other edition listed in OCLC. A historical introduction lays the foundation for this detailed tour of the architecture and art of Siena, presented in a comprehensive, handy guide, complete with an index and a very large, very detailed folding engraved map of the city bound-in at the end. The three other plates, in order of appearance, show the facade of the Duomo and the Palazzo Reale; the famous main piazza; and a floor plan of the Duomo. Dedicated to the Sienese nobleman Giulio del Taja, this guide builds on previous publications intended for a foreign audience, readers with little or no knowledge of the city "viv[endo] con estrema vergogna in mezzo a mille bellissimi oggetti senza… Read More

1817. SUBMARINE NAVIGATION. Nuovo trattato sulla vera rettificazione del circolo misurato esattamente con il diametro: utile alla trigonometria, alla misura delle curve, e degli spazj curvilinei... Con una dissertazione sul modo di navigare sott'acqua, inventato dallo stesso autore l'anno 1799. By Gaetano Marchetti Tomassi. 75, [1], 34 pp. Illustrated with 6 etched folding plates. 8vo., 202 x 142 mm, bound in nineteenth-century Italian vellum. Fuglino: Feliciano Campitelli, 1817. Second Edition. Dedicated to Czar Alexander I of Russia. Count Gaetano Marchetti Tomassi (1774-1857), born in Foligno near Perugia, was an amateur mathematician who experimented with various methods of squaring the circle, the results of which are documented in this text. The first part of the book concentrates on circles, the second part contains a discussion on conic sections, and part three elucidates his research on various curves. However, the real… Read More