European Artists

Paris: Galerie de Seine, 1975. Livre. Illus. by Camille Bryen. Très bon. Couverture souple. Signé par L'auteur et L'illustrateur. Ed. originale. In-8. Paris, Galerie de Seine, 1975. 25 x 17 cm, 26 ff. n. ch., 20 illustrations en couleurs contrecollées, frontispice photographique en noir, broché, couverture beige à rabats. Edition originale. L'un des 120 exemplaires sur Arches signés au colophon par Michel Butor et comportant une gravure originale de Camille Bryen, signée et numérotée. Bien complet du signet biographique. Ombres au premier et au dernier feuillet, pour le reste parfait..

[Paris]: Maeght Editeur, [1957].. Small quarto. Color lithographed pictorial wrapper over stiff wrapper. Plates and photographs. Slight tanning at spine ends, with small nick at crown, otherwise about fine. First edition. Including the wrapper and title-page, illustrated with thirteen original color lithographs and two black & white lithographs by Chagall, all printed by Mourlot. Several are double-panel fold-outs.

Phaidon Press; George Allen & Unwin Ltd: Vienna and London, 1937. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Vienna and London: Phaidon Press; George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1937, first printing (February). 4to., 527pp., illustrated with hundreds of b/w plates, 7 color plates tipped in. Name and date on flyleaf. Very good plus - clean, bright, , cloth near fine, in very good dust jacket with internal repairs and a strip of tape on rear panel. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/Very Good. 4to.

Dark green card covers with a designed 1cm hole in the rear cover for viewing the Rotoreliefs in the exhibition
With 6 beautiful full page colour illutrations to the rear of the book.
Introduction by Richard Hamilton
Bought by me on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition at the Tate Gallery in 1966.

Very good copy of the first volume of Massard's Costumes Francais (French Costumes)
With all 160 hand-coloured lithographs drawn and lithographed by Leopold Massard (one uncoloured)
First volume of a four-volume set that is very hard to find complete
Plates numbered 1-160 in the index, but 1-60, 1-16 of the second series, and 77-160 within the plates.
Very vibrantly hand-coloured plates of 1,000 years of French fashions from the time of Clovis I (5th century) to Charles V (14th century). Subjects include a wide range of society from royalty to peasants, and include kings and queens, dukes and ladies, servants, maids, soldiers, bourgeois, falconer, troubadours, archers, soldiers, crossbowmen, knights, crusaders, executioner, etc. Royal portrait plates include Clovis I, Chlotar I, Charlemagne, Lothair I, Philip the Bold, Henry III, Philip IV, Charles IV, Jean II, Charles V, Louis II, etc.
Leopold Massard (1812-1889) was a French artist, miniaturist, engraver and lithographer. Grandson of the engraver… Read More

Very good copy of the first four volumes of the second edition of this classic of Enlightenment medical botany
4 volumes edited by Francois-Pierre Chaumeton, Jean-Louis Marie Poiret and Jean-Baptiste de Chamberet.
With 339 (of 360) hand-coloured stipple engravings by Pierre Jean Francois Turpin and Anne-Ernestine Panckoucke
Engraved by Lambert Jr., Boutelou, Mme. Benoit, Bignant, Mlle. Coignet, Mlle. Cornu, Dien, Dubois, Forget, Gautier, Giraud, Goulot, Guyard, Mlle. Louvier, Massard, Phelipeau, Plee, Poulet, Rebel and Victor.
Francois-Pierre Chaumeton (1775-1819) was a French physician and botanist. While working as a military surgeon with the French Army, he studied botany at Strasbourg in 1805 and later moved to Paris to continue his work as a botanical writer and editor.
Pierre Jean Francois Turpin (1775-1840) was one of the greatest botanical artists of the Napoleonic era, along with Redoute and Bessa. When serving in the French army in Haiti in 1794, Turpin met botanist Pierre Antoine Poiteau… Read More

Chicago: Radical America / Surrealist Editions / Black Swan Press, 1972. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 48pp, stapled wrappers. Text in English translation. Rare 1972 Radical America / Chicago Surrealist Editions / Black Swan Press version of this classic text. Ownership signature of printer Peter Koch to inside front cover (no other markings), a bit of reading wear and staining.

Limited edition (309/500) and signed by Gaby. Beautiful book of the photography of the artist Gaby Fling. High Quality photo's. Real collectors item.

First edition photobook of famous photographer Erwin Olaf. It presents his own choice which brings together major works since the beginning of his career. A real collectors item. In a very good condition still.

Very good collection of the portrait plates only from the last part of the multi-volume Museum Florentinum
With 218 (of 220) portrait plates of Renaissance and Baroque artists
Variant issue with extra plates of the artists' self-portraits published by Niccolo Pagni and Guiseppe Bardi, Florence (originally published with 220 plates by Francesco Moucke in 1752-62).
With engraved title page and 218 fine copperplates, most under tissue guards
The last part of the Museo Fiorentino, an ambitious catalogue of the Medici collection of artworks published by Antonio Francesco Gori (1691-1757) and Francesco Moucke between 1731 and 1766. The first six volumes published from 1731-42 covered gems I-II, statues III and coins IV-VI. The Serie di Ritratti was issued as volumes VII-X and included superb facsimile engravings of the famous self-portraits now in the Uffizi Gallery.
Plates numbered 1-220, missing 23 numbered plates, several bound out of order, plus 21 unnumbered plates bound in at the rear. Total of 218… Read More

Demy 16mo, pp. xix, 61; original red cloth gilt with a new cover-design by Beardsley; all edges gilt. The 'bijou' edition, with the cover-design to the 1896 edition here reproduced on the third page. - Spine a bit faded; light rubbing at the extreme spine ends; a good copy, one of thousand on art paper. - Gallatin p. 64; Reade and Dickinson 510; Lasner 105A.

4°; cc. (4), 180 [recte: 170], (2) [numerosi errori nella numerazione delle carte]; segnatura: †⁴,A-X⁸,Y⁴. Caratteri gotico e romanico. Al frontespizio, grande silografia a piena pagina raffigurante l'autore inginocchiato nell'atto di offrire la sua opera a Cristo in Croce; capilettera silografici. Splendido colophon calligrammatico in forme di Croce. Legatura del sec. XIX - firmata "M. Lortic" in marocchino rosso, armi al centro dei piatti, dorso a cinque nervi con titolo impresso in oro e monogramma 'MV', taglî dorati. Accurati, piccoli restauri marginali - verosimilmente ottocenteschi - alla prima e ultima carta; alcuni fascicoli leggermente bruniti. Nel complesso, copia molto bella, discretamente lavata come imponeva il canone collezionistico francese del secondo Ottocento.
Provenienza: legatura alle armi di Victor Masséna, Prince d'Essling (1836-1910); su un foglio di guardia, etichetta "Antiquariato Librario [Francesco] Radaeli", Milano; Christie's 16 Jun 2005, Libri e autografi, n.… Read More

This is a 1926 edition of 20 etchings by French artist Charles Meyron (1821–1868). Meryon was celebrated among artists and collectors alike during the nineteenth century for his etched depictions of Paris. This series of his Parisian views were inspired by the novels and poetry of Victor Hugo.
Number 38 out of a limited edition of 636. Includes Meyron's original cover etching for the 1852 edition on the front board. Includes a portrait of Meyron by Félix Bracquemond, and Meyron's well-known etching "Le Stryge," often translated as "The Vampire," which shows the famous chimera perched on the balustrade of the gallery of Notre-Dame Cathedral against an aerial view of the expanding French capital.
An remarkable artistic document of old Paris prior its modernization. With a biographical essay by R. Cantinelli and a separate folder of notes on the etchings, all in French. Overall good condition with etched plates VG (several have moderate foxing). 20 plates are matted and contained in a folder attached… Read More

Book cover like new, very light edge wear - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine solid and undamaged.
Jacket like new, slight shelf wear.
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Jan van Noordt created some of the most flamboyant and expressive paintings of the Dutch Golden Age. David de Witt untangles fact from fiction in this comprehensive study of the life and work of Jan van Noordt, offering a detailed biography based on a thorough review of the documentary evidence.

Very good copy of the Fish and Reptiles part from Cuvier's huge Dictionary of Natural Sciences
Complete with all 125 hand-coloured stipple engraved plates of fish and reptiles
Includes critically endangered species such as the sawfish or carpenter shark, Ganges crocodile or gharial, great crested newt, Mexican axolotl, Martinique lancehead and European eel. Also includes the endangered geometric tortoise and green sea turtle.
All the illustrations by Jean-Gabriel Prêtre, under the direction of Pierre Jean François Turpin, and engraved by Louis Massard, Mlle. Massard, Madame Leroy, Plee, Victor, Joyeau, Louvier, Mlle. Louvier, Forestier, Dion, Prudhon, Guyard, Giraud, etc.
Poissons et Reptiles: Title page, 16pp (tables of plates, index), 85 handcoloured engraved plates of fish, 40 handcoloured engraved plates of reptiles.
Part of Cuvier's massive Dictionary of Natural Sciences that was published in 60 text volumes and 13 plate volumes from 1816 to 1830.
Jean-Gabriel Prêtre (1768-1849) was a… Read More