Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Cole & Contreras

Upsaliae (Uppsala): Prelo Werneriano, 1713. A dissertation on the antiquities of Helsingia (Hälsingland), a province in central Sweden. vi, 27 pp. 12mo. Quarter leather over marbled boards. Wear to extremities, but structurally sound. Internally clean but for a few very old pen marks. Rare.

Barcelona: Agra, 1989. A collection of four photoengravings, one of which (the one by Viladot) with collage (a big rhinestone). Each signed and numbered by the artist. Edition limited to 100 copies printed on fine wove paper. Folio. Loose as issued in folding paper case. Fine and bright.

Paris: Académie des Orateurs, 1665. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of this official account of a "conference" held to determine whether it is better to be a cuckold without that fact being generally known, or to not be a cuckold even though everyone thinks you are one. 16 pp numbered 151-564 (!), complete. Includes five discourses by leading intellectuals, and then the Academy's resolution. Richesource published each of his "Conférences académiques" individually, with the intent that they be ultimately bound up into larger volumes. The printing was totally chaotic, as the pagination and the signatures of this pamphlet demonstrate. Attractively printed on fine laid paper. Disbound. FINE AND BRIGHT. Not in Laporte, Bibliographie jaune (the standard bibliography of French books relating to cuckoldry). Extremely rare.

Paris: Editions Lemarget, 1928. ONE OF ONLY 25 COPIES ON IMPERIAL JAPANESE PAPER. 110 pp. First edition of this collection of four short stories by Lacretelle. From a total edition of 835 numbered copies, this is one of 25 (tête) on Japon Impérial. 8vo. Original wraps. Uncut. FINE AND BRIGHT, WITH NO DEFECTS.

no place (France or Belgium): the artist, 1917. An haunting collection of 10 large folio (45 x 30 cm) meditative chiaroscuro woodcuts by Darcy, each signed and justified by the artist, depicting churches destroyed during World War I. Darcy had made sketches on the spot and executed the woodcuts, employing Japanese techniques, soon afterwards. A manuscript justification, signed by Darcy, is laid in. Edition limited to 25 copies, all printed on fine laid Japanese bamboo paper. Three additional proofs laid in. Large folio. FINE AND BRIGHT. Housed in the original folder, with an additional woodcut affixed to the front cover. Complete sets, like this one, are of the greatest rarity.

Paris?: Chez l'Auteur, 1930s?. ONE OF ONLY 20 COPIES PRINTED of this extremely amusing collection of eighteen joke epitaphs composed by French artist Jacques Nam for his close friends, including several figures of note (such as Julien Arpels, a key player in the Van Cleef & Arpels dynasty). Edition limited to only 20 numbered copies, each signed by Nam, of which this is copy 19. Printed in black and red on fine laid paper. Macabre frontispiece illustration by Nam. This is a presentation copy for Léon Christophe and includes, exceptionally, A LONG MANUSCRIPT "EPITAPH" COMPOSED BY NAM (in purple ink) FOR CHRISTOPHE AND SIGNED AND DATED BY NAM. 8vo. Marbled wraps with printed paper label. Wraps worn at spine by still structurally solid. Otherwise FINE AND BRIGHT. Of the greatest rarity: no copies in BN, WorldCat, NUC, or anywhere else I looked.

San Remo (Sanremo), 1923. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF THIS EXCEPTIONALLY RARE PORTFOLIO OF FIFTEEN BEAUTIFUL AND ELEGANT BOOKPLATES (mainly armorial) BY LOUIS DE MAIER, PRINTED ON FINE PAPER, each tipped onto a sheet of fine black wove paper. Fourteen are heliogravures in different colors, the last is a wood-engraving by the Comte Stelluti after Maier. 4to. Loose as issued in printed wraps, WITH A SIGNED DEDICATION INSCRIPTION BY DE MAIER. Wraps a bit worn at extremities, contents FINE AND BRIGHT. Fuller, p. 73. VERY RARE.