Stuttgart: 1927. Illustrated with photos. Foldout flyer for the exhibition. 4 p. The Deutsche Werkbund, a forward–looking association of manufacturers, designers, and architects that included Grete Schütte–Lihotzky, Lilly Reich, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, helped position Germany at the forefront of the development of the rational modern interior. An..... More
Lodz: AR. 1931. Book design by Władyslaw Strzeminski. In original illustrated paper. 79 p. 46 illustration. The extremely rare iconic book by Kobro and Strzeminski where they presented the theory of Unism and referred to key Europen artists (Van Doesburg,Vamtongerloo, Moholy, Archipenko, Lipchitz etc.). More
Budapest: Palladis, (1940). First Hungarian edition. Illustrated, original, hardcover binding. 63 p. First edition in Hungarian. More
Hungary: 1935. 65 hand-numbered pages, beautiful, lettered work decorated with realistic drawings. In contemporary half cloth. Károly Andretti (1878-1949) ws an architect, and student of Frigyes Schulek. At the age of 37 he became a teacher at the Hungarian College of Fine Arts, and in 1930 he was appointed rector..... More
Budapest: 1940. 16 p. A collection of Hungarian laws about spies and saboteurs. More
Milano: Vecchi, 1927. First edition. In original illustrated paper. 182 p. First edition of this theatrical drama from the founder of the futurist movement, all in a Sicilian atmosphere, with 4 music pages by Italian composer Franco Casavola and 4 color plates inset of Prampolini's compositions. Enrico Prampolini color cover..... More
Paris: Les Marges, 1933. First edition. In original paper. 15 p. illustrated with a photo of Apollinaire. Inscribed to Apollinaire's wife, More
Hungarian Railways, 1947. Illustrated with Mihály Biró’s (1886–1948) famous image of the “Red Man with Hammer”. More
Budapest: Népszava, 1946. In original paper. 142 p. First separate edition in Hungarian. More
Budapest: Trattner, 1818. In contemporary paper. 384 p. First Hungarian edition of account of Lord Macartney's voyage and embassy to China. More
Bekescsaba: Tevan, 1947. Portfolio housed in printed wraps over boards. Portfolio of sixteen tipped in reproductions of charcoal drawings about the holocaust by Tibor Jankay. Edited by Bela Zsolt 1895–1949) , Hungarian Jewish author of one of the earliest Holocaust memoirs, Nine Suitcases (Kilenc koffer) Drawings by Tibor Jankay..... More
1. Sheet music "Second-Concerto pour le piano avec orchester ou un 2d Piano compose par S. Rachmaninoff Opus 18" with handwritten pencil notes 2. Notes "Preludio in remore by Stanisław Kazuro" with a dedication: 'W. Dear colleague | Władysław Szpilman | in a heartfelt gift | Author | 19 12..... More
Paris: 1936. Editions Ars. In original paper. 23 plates. Edition of 415 numbered copies. One of the 100 on Arches, containing the original litograph numbered and signed by Tihanyi. This print inserted in the work - self-portrait of the artist - is very often absent. More
A Paris: chez Jean le Clerc, rue S. Jean de Latran, à la Salemandre Royale, [November 28, 1603]. Early edition (3rd?). In later half vellum, panels covered with marbled paper. Coll.: A–K4; [80] p. A rare and early edition of one of the most famous artistic anatomy books, Jean Cousin..... More
Paris: Chez Prault, Imprimeur du Roi, quai des Augustins, à l’Immortalité, 1786. First edition in French. Text in French and English. In later cardboard. Tinted edges. Printed on thick paper. 66 p. First French translation of Humphreys’ A poem, addressed to the armies of the United States of America. First..... More
A Offenbach: sur le Mein chez Jean André, [1796]. PN 997;. First edition of this piano arrangement for four hands of Mozart’s String Quintet No. 6. Oblong. Engraved throughout. Inscription on printed page “Nürinberg aus Winterschmid's Musikal. Niederlage, am Obstmarkt No. 982”. 25 [1] p. Mozart finished his last major..... More
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Wien - Leipzig: bey Tobias Haslinger Musikverleges im Hause der ersten österr: Sparkasse am Graben No. 572, [1828]. (PN 5101–5112). First edition. First part only. . In publisher’s green wrappers with engraved title vignette. [2] 49 [1] p. First part of Schubert’s famous song cycle for voice and piano, the..... More
Paris: Galerie Simon, 1923. In original paper. 8 p. Illustrated with two compositions by Juan Gris. Introductory text by Maurice Raynal. Catalog of 56 works dated between 1911 and 1923, from the collections of: Maurice Raynal, Waldemar George, Léonce Rosenberg, Miss G. Stein, H. K., M. Rupf and Madame Harris. More
Constance: 1509. 01. 25. Payment order sent to Ulric Meringer, master of the Emperor's chamber at Innsbruck; half-page oblong in-4, address on the back, with two paper seals, one of which has his coat of arms; in Latin. Bianca-Maria Sforza was the queen of Germany and Italy, and empress..... More
![Norse colonization of North America.] [Voyages et découvertes des Normands ou Scandinaves. 1ére...](/pictures/thumb/2374.jpg?v=1631023336)
[France]: [Undated, first half of the 19th century]. Manuscript in French. Written in brown ink, by a neat hand. ff. [38]. (ms. on 72 pages). Near contemporary abstract of the first eighteen books of Malte-Brun’s Précis de géographie universelle, including the chapter on the Norse colonization of North America (pp..... More
around 1901. In the letters Rodin and Floury are communicates about businesses and publishing. Mentoning Druet, Courbet and others Henri Floury was a French bookseller and art publisher. In December 1896, he launched the art review L'Image, a monthly magazine entirely illustrated with wood engraving, founded with the..... More
Paris? probably 1946. En dix lignes quoi dire aux artistes . ... Je suis heureux d’être là. Hélas, à ma grande joie du retour, se mêle l’amertume de ne pas trouver tous ceux, proches et lointains, qui ne sont plus. Ils ont donné leurs vies pour que nous puissions vivre..... More
London: Darton, Harvey & Darton, J Harris, 1814- 1815. In original binding with the original box. 96p +47 xf. , 96p +47 gr., 96p +48 gr., More
Paris: : Aux bureaux du Progrès médical, Ve. Adrien Delahaye & Cie, Libraires-Éditeurs, 1876–1877. First edition.12 livraisons in 11 parts [Vol. I]. With 40 carte-de-visite-size mounted albumen print portraits by by Paul Regnard, with printed captions, and a title-page vignette, a mounted albumen print of La Salpêtrière. Title page printed..... More
Budapest: Taltos, 1913. Illustrated by Sandor Nagy. First edition. 79 p. One of the nicest Hungarian art nouveau book. The title page, the 14 and then full-page illustrations in the volume, and the complete typographic layout of the book were made by Sándor Nagy. The three tales of the volume..... More