November 2024

Book Arts:(Bindings, Book Plates, Calligraphy, Drawing, Etching, Eric Gill, Lithography, Printing), Classics, Modern Art, Travel

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[BOOK ARTS]

1. Alastair [Hans Henning von Voight] (Illustrator).

Manon Lescaut Translated From The French Of The Abbe Prevost by D.C. Moylan With Eleven Illustrations By Alastair And An Introduction By Arthur Symons.

London & New York: John Lane & Dodd, Mead, 1928. 197 pages. 32 x 26 cm. Limited edition, copy 1120 of 1850. The 11 full-page illustrations are color lithographs with lettered tissue guards. Illustrated endpapers are also color lithographs, but with separate designs. Title page in red and black. Covers dusty with some soil. Orig. cloth rebacked. Very good. $325.00

[ETCHING/PAINTING]

2. Album Boileau.

Album Boileau de 23 Eaux Fortes d'apres les tableaux de Cabanal Bonnat Ch DeLort Fr. Flameng Gerome Vilbert etc. etc.

Paris: Np, 1891. Unpaginated. 32.5 x 25 cm. Original watercolor title page by J. Ostolle, text lettered in gilt. Twenty three full page etchings with lettered tissue guards by French academic painters. Frontispiece by Edmond Lechevallier-Chevignard with additional full page contributions by Alexander Cabanel, Leon Bonnat, Charles De Lort, Francoise Flameng, Jean-Leon Gerome, Jehan Georges Vibert et al. Leon Bonnat won a medal of honour in Paris in 1869, going on to become one of the leading artists of his day. Bonnat went on to win the Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur and became a professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1882. OCLC data:Boileau: ce volume contient de nombreuses reproductions de la Bibliothèque nationale. Author: Morillot, Paul. Paris : Lecène, Oudin et cie, 1891. Bound by P. Ruban, raised bands, spine panels lettered in gilt, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, slight nicks to corners. Full black morocco. Aeg. Near fine. $395.00

[BOOK BINDING]

3. Bosquet, E.

Traite Theorique Et Pratique De L'Art Du Relieur.

Paris: Librairie Polytechnique, Baudry et Cie, 1890. First edition. 324 pages. 25 x 16 cm. Sixteen plates hors texte and seventeen text figures. Glossary. Index. Authoritative treatise on bookbinding by a prominent expert. Illustrations of bindings and binding equipment. Minor age-toning mostly marginal, light extremity rubbing, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, book label, marbled endpapers, tight copy. Text in French. Contemporary half navy morocco and marbled boards, backstrip uniformly faded to brown. Very good. $425.00

[BLACK & WHITE LITHOGRAPHS: ORIGINAL ART ]

3A,. Bourgeois, Louise.

Two Lithographs -- INNER LIFE & MID CENTURY MODERN.

NP: NP, ND. 30.5 X 21.3 EACH. Two black and white lithographs on white stock and both signed by Bourgeois. "Sheaves" lithograph at left [Mid Century Modern] signed Bourgeois lower right margin -- one of 16 and on the right [Inner Life] signed in script Louise Bourgeois lower right margin -- one of 11. Both unframed. Born in France, she spent most of her adult life in the USA. She married Robert Goldwater, art historian, African arts scholar and the first director of the Museum of Primitive Art, New York. Lithographs clean, bright and fresh. Both in fine condition. $450.00

[POETRY]

3B. Brooke, Rupert.

The Collected Poems Of Rupert Brooke The Title-Page And Portrait Cut On The Wood by C. Raverat.

London: Philip Lee Warner, Publisher To The Medici Society, Ltd, 1929. 156 pages. 23 x 16.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 811 of 1000, printed in the Ricciardi fount on handmade Riccardi Paper. Interior contents clean and bright, slight toning to front cover, backstrip darkened. Orig. gray cloth and boards, front cover paper label. Very good. $225.00

[ POCHOIR]

4. Brunelleschi, Umberto (Illustrator).

Le Malheureux Petit Voyage by Gabriel Soulages.

Paris: L'Estampe Moderne, 1926. 208 pages. 22 x 17 Twenty-six pochoir plates, including fifteen color engravings, copies on Velin Arches. Brunelleschi's polite, décolleté nudity, romantic rather than hard core, paints a style popular in its day. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Fine in patterned chemise portfolio, spine worn and evenly faded to brown. In matching, edgeworn slipcase. $750.00

[SCIENCE/MATHEMATICS]

5. Cotes, Roger.

Hydrostatical And Pneumatical Lectures Published With Notes By his Successor Robert Smith LL.D.

London: S. Austin printed for the Editor, 1738. First edition. 243 pages, [A8-Q8, R7]. 20 X 13 cm. Preface (12), Index (6), and four pages of publisher adverts. Five copper engraved fold-out plates, plate four in photocopy. Errata list. Cotes, an English mathematician who edited the second edition of Newton's PRINCIPIA, made advances in the theory of logarithms, the integral calculus and in numerical methods, particularly interpolation. His quadrature formulas known as Newton-Cotes formulas and first introduced what is known today as Euler's formula. He was the first Plumian Professor and Cambridge University from 1707 until his death at the age of thirty-three. This work was held in great estimation. Cotes genius earned encomiums from his contemporaries and successors; Sir Isaac Newton said, "If Mr. Cotes had lived, we should have known something." Two inked signatures at title page; two ownership stamps, text and plates clean, slight loss back cover upper corner. Contemporary full brown calf, double gilt border panels, rebacked, red leather spine label printed in gilt. Very good. $750.00

[POETRY]

6. Crosby, Harry.

Sonnets For Caresse.

Paris: Herbert Clark Printer, 1926. Second Impression. Unpaginated. 21 x 15.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 27 copies. Thirty seven poems in this printing, probably intended for a select group of friends for commentary and review, most were evidently inscribed by Crosby, but this copy is not. Bound by Lafon. "Sonnets For Caresse" was Crosby's first poetry attempt, and there were a number of editions printed by a number of printers. Wide text margins, backstrip with slight loss head and foot. Full tree marbled calf, red leather spine label printed in gilt. Very good. (#20417) $995.00

[PRINTING ARTS]

7. De Vinne, Theodore Low.

Historic Printing Types A Lecture Read Before The Grolier Club Of New-York, January 25, 1885, With Additions And New Illustrations.

New York: Grolier Club, 1886. First edition. 110 pages. 26 x 21 cm. Limited edition, one of 200 on Holland Paper and two copies on vellum. Elegantly printed, wide text margins with 24 text illustrations. Bright, clean text, laid-in Grolier Club card announcing "An Exhibition Of Books And Miniatures From Persia And The Levant, December 8, 1917, to January 13, 1918. Also laid-in pamphlet, "History of the Book," by Margaret N. Hincks, with illustrations by W.A. Dwiggins in the original envelope. Orig. gilt lettered cloth backed beige boards. Teg. Near fine. $250.00

[DRAWING]

8 Duncan, Robert.

A Selection of 65 Drawings from one drawing book 1952-1956.

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. First edition. 22 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 299 of 300 signed by Duncan. A series of sixty-five numbered, folio plates in black and white, some of which are fold-outs from their original size. The remarkable drawings are housed in an elegant, paneled portfolio with two compartments, each containing half the plates. The portfolio itself is crafted in brown, black and white linen in an non-representational design, and in turn is matched with a slipcase in the same pattern. The portfolio with a brown leather spine label completes a singular, arresting design for Duncan's drawings. Fine in fine portfolio. . $195.00

[EARLY LITHOGRAPHY]

9. Durer, Albrecht.

Albert Durers Designs Of The Prayer Book.

London: R. Ackermann, 1817. First edition. 8 pages in text. Folio, 38 x 28 cm. Portrait, title in red and black, forty-three lithographic plates of borders printed in various colors. An important printing milestone, the first book printed by lithography in England. ABBEY LIFE 202. "Attempts had been made earlier at lithography, as witness Forbes's Oriental Memoirs,' which contain a few specimens engraved in 1811, but this book is the first serious attempt to popularize the new method. Books from Ackermann's Lithographic Press' are scanty....." Bookplate, contents fresh and clean, light dampstain to a few leaves at hinge head, slight rubbing to joints, front cover rehinged. Orig. front cover laid-in at rear. Recased in quarter brown morocco and maroon boards. Very good. $1,200.00

[MODERN ART]

10. Erni, Hans.

Schritte in Reich de Mitte [aquarelles et dessins].

Genf: Promedi, SA, 1986. First edition. Unpaginated. 24 x 32 cm. Limited edition Luxe, copy 46 of 145 (total edition of 165) signed by Erni. Text in German. Erni steps into the Middle Kingdom of China presenting color and black and white drawings. Plus an original pencil drawing by Erni inscribed and signed on the title page. The latter reflects his image on the front cover. Orig. red/brown velvet, front cover decorated in blind. Fine. $200.00

[TRAVEL/AFRICA]

11. Gardiner, Allen Francis.

Narrative Of A Journey To The Zoolu Country, In South Africa.

London: William Crofts, 1836. First edition. 412 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Two folding maps with outline coloring, 26 plates, two in color. Gardiner attended the Royal Naval College at Portsmouth, serving at sea from 1810-1826, rising to rank of Commander. He then devoted the remainder of his life to missionary work, founding the first missionary station at Port Natal. From 1834 to 1838 he attempted to establish Christian churches in Zululand without success. Color plates clean, a few black and white engravings toned at margins, some text toning, last thirty leaves one half centimeter stain at lower fore-edge. Modern ruby cloth, black leather spine label printed in gilt. Very good. $750.00

[IMPRESSIONISM]

12. Gasquet, Joachim.

Cezanne.

Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921. First edition. 125 pages. Folio, 39 x 29.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 214 of 250 on papier d'Arches. Black and white and tipped-in color plates, Original brown stiff wrappers laid-in. French text very bright and fresh as is the entire production. The author, also a poet and art critic is best known for his writing about the artists of his era, particularly Cezanne whom he befriended during an 1895 exhibition at Aix-en-Provence. Bookplate from the Library of Mari Lyons. Text in French. FREITAG 1525. Black cloth, lettered in gilt. Fine.$350.00

[CHRISTMAS]

13. Gill, Eric (Illustrator).

Nine Assorted Christmas Theme Wood Cuts.

A Happy Christmas. 11 x 9 cm. Skelton P158 (After a drawing by Elizabeth Gill). Happy Christmas. 9.5 x 7 cm. Skelton P82. Christmas Greetings. 10.5 x 7.3 cm. Skelton P76 with same image, without Christmas type: 5.8 x 5 cm. Merry Christmas. 10.2 x 7 cm. Skelton P70. Who Were The First To Cry Nowell Animals All As it Befell. 8 x 8 cm. Skelton P50. A Happy Christmas. 10.5 x 7 cm. Skelton P79 with the same image without Christmas type: 7 x 5.8 cm. Ergo Qui Natus Die Hodierna, Jesu Tibi Sit Gloria: Patris Aeterni Verbum Caro Factum Venite, Adoremus Venite, Adoremus Venite Adoremus Dominum. 12.8 x 9 cm. Skelton P113. All on white card stock sold as a lot. Fine. $495.00

[SIGNED TWICE BY GILL]

13A._____. (Engravings).

The Holy Sonnets Of John Donne Introduction by Hugh I'A, Fausset.

London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd for Hague & Gill Ltd, 1938. First edition. xiv, 17 pages. 23.5 x 15 cm. Limited edition on of 550 signed on the colophon by Eric Gill. and also signed of front free endpaper, "with love from E.g. Christmas 1938." together with Christmas card illustrated by Gill and signed by him. The first book to be published in England printed from Gill's Bunyan type. GILL 298. Binding mildly frayed, small abrasions front and back cover, corner and backstrip wear. Orig. black cloth lettered in gilt, gilt clover leaf front cover. Very good. $395.00

[ST. DOMINIC'S PRESS]

14. _____.

The Mistress Of Vision by Francis Thompson Together With A Commentary By The Rev. John O'Connor S.T.P. And With A Preface By Father Vincent McNabb. O.P.

Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1918. First edition. 23 pages in text. 26 x 20 cm. No. 24 of St. Dominic's Press Publications. Contains Gill's red cross on title, Paschal Lamb and Spray of Leaves. Two pages of St. Dominic Press adverts at rear. GILL 366. "This was also published in black paper wrappers lettered on front cover in gilt (our copy)." Fresh, almost as new copy. Orig. black wrappers. Fine. $300.00

[BOOK-PLATES]

15. Hamilton, Walter.

French Book-plates.

London: George Bell, 1896. Second edition. 360 pages. 23 1/2 x 15 cm. Illustrated with numerous black and white reproductions of bookplates. Originally published 1892. Limited edition, 24 of 38 copies on Japanese vellum printed by the Chiswick Press. From the Ex-Libris Series edited by Gleeson White. Includes chapters on identification and classification, several chapters of examples, ecclesiastical and scholastic bookplates, medical bookplates, canting arms and punning plates. Lists of artists and engravers. Bibliography. Internally clean. Orig buff self wrappers, backstrip nicked, covers lightly soiled. Very good. Stiff Wraps. $175.00

[BRITISH ROYALTY & PALACES]

16. Hall, Mrs. S.C. [Anna Maria].

The Book Of Royalty. Characteristics Of British Palaces The Drawings By W. Perring And J. Brown.

London: Ackermann and Company, 1839. First edition. 42 pages in text. Folio, 37 x 27.5 cm. Twelve full-page chromolithographs, plus half-title chromolithograph (Coronation of Queen Elizabeth printed by C. Hullmandel) -- all printed recto only. Plates are clean save for the first three with light marginal toning only, plate 4 (The Summons) lacks one centimeter at lower corner, affecting neither text or image. ABBEY LIFE 297. TOOLEY 242. Orig. publisher's crimson russia, sides elaborately gilt with armorial and floral ornaments, front cover center piece inlaid with blue morocco. Aeg. Near fine. $525.00

[ENGLISH ANTIQUITIES]

17. Horsfield, Thomas Walker.

The History, Antiquities And Topography Of The County Of Sussex.

Lewes: Baxter, 1835. First edition. 592 [15] & 274 [90] [XV] [VIII]. 33 x 26 cm. The Subscriber's Copy with label, priced at 4 pounds, 4 shillings, inside front cover paste down of Vol.I. Profusely illustrated: fifty-six copperplate engravings with tissue guards, eighty wood engravings, plus two folding maps. List of Subscribers, Indices and publisher adverts. Comprehensive review of the history of Sussex: presenting towns, parishes, manor houses and biographies. Text generally clean, toning to plates mostly in the margins, moderate wear tips and edges. Contemporary half brown leather and marbled boards. Very good. 2 vols. $650.00

[NATURAL HISTORY]

17A. Jefferies, Richard.  (6 November 1848 – 14 August 1887)

Meadow Thoughts.

Market Drayton, Salop: Tern Press, 1977. First edition. Unpaginated. 14 leaves. 24 x 16 cm. "Meadow Thoughts was first printed in Graphic and included in The Life of the fields in 1884." "Printed in 12 pt. Centaur on Maidstone paper and bound by Nicholas and Mary Parry. No. 61 of 80 copies." Jefferies was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. With five engravings by Nicholas Parry, and signed by him.. Quarter brown calf spine and marbled boards with matching endpapers. Fine.     $125.00

[LITERATURE]

18. Le Sage (Alain Rene).

The Adventures Of Gil Blas Of Santillana Translated By Henri Van Laun With Introduction, Life and Notes.

London & Philadelphia: Gibbings & Company & J.B. Lippincott Company, 1896. 237, 281, 273, 248 pages. 17.5 x 11.5 cm. Twenty photogravures from the original etchings By Ad. Laluze. Picaresque novel of the humbly born rising to heights unforseen. The theme of a rogue life connecting to glory was used by a host of authors including Wilkie Collins, Mark Twain and Edgar Allan Poe. Title pages printed in red, interior contents clean and fresh. Bookplates of A.E.W. Painter. Three quarter navy morocco, marbled boards, matching marbled endpapers. Teg. Fine. 4 Vols. $250.00

[QUAKER HISTORY]

19. London. Samuel Clark.

Epistles From The Yearly Meeting Of the People called Quakers, Held in London, To The Quarterly and Monthly Meetings in Great Britain, Ireland, and Elsewhere; From the Year 1675, to 1759, inclusive. With an Index to the Principal Subjects of Advice.

London: Samuel Clark, 1760. First edition. 275 (2) pages. Folio, 12 1/2" x 8". Early ink owner inscription head of title of Benjamin Grubb. Britain even today remains the most prominent grouping of Quakers in Europe. Covers the yearly meetings from Epistle I, 1675 through Epistle LXXXII, 1759. Many of the accounts also cover Friends in New Jersey, Long-Island, Virginia, Maryland, North-Carolina, and Barbadoes. Entire interior contents clean and fresh printed on wove paper, raised bands, maroon leather spine label printed in gilt, wear to lower corners and spine, chips to backstrip extremities with some loss, leather repair to lower front cover corner, binding tight and firm. Half calf and marbled boards. Very good. $1,200.00

[CATALOGUE RAISONNE]

20. Maison, Karl E.

Honore Daumier Catalogue Raisonne of The Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings. Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1968. First edition. 446 & 619 pages. 28.5 x 22.5 cm. 208 plates in Vol.I, and 325 plates in Vol.II. Concordance. List of Owners. Errata slip. Limited edition, copy B70 of 800 American copies of a total edition of 1500. FREITAG 2084. Excellent copy, almost as new with backstrips in navy and red, lettered in gilt. Orig. navy cloth. Fine in near fine slipcase with printed paper spine label. Teg. 2 vols. $525.00

[MODERN ART]

21. Matisse, Henri (Illustrator).

Matisse In The Barnes Collection by Yve-Alain Bois.

London: Thames and Hudson, 2015. First edition. 200, 364, 330 pages. 33.5 x 26 cm. An extensive review of fifty-nine works from the various stages of Matisse's career, Contributions by Barbara Buckley and Jennifer Mass. Extensive Index. Printed on multi-colored stock. A sumptuous production with decorated covers in green, orange and blue. Bookplates from the Library of Mari Lyons. Orig. decorated cloth. Fine in fine matching yellow slipcase. 3 vols. $250.00

[DRAWING]

22. Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Drawings In the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1969. First edition. Landscape folio, 45 x 61 cm. Introduction and Notes to the Plates by Ludwig Glaeser. 31 full page plates in color and black and white. " All the drawings in this selection represent projects, since with few exceptions only drawings of unrealized works found their way into the Museum or any other collection. Orig. gold stiff wrappers lettered in black. Fine in original publisher's shipping box. Spiral Bound. $750.00

[MODERN ART]

23. Miller, Henry.

Insomnia or the Devil at Large.

New York: Doubleday, 1974. 33 text pages. 28.5 x 22 cm. with a limited edition lithograph signed and dated by Henry Miller -- copy #3 9/6/66 with signature and date in orange, printed on hand-made Japanese paper with a tissue guard. Special edition designed by Bradley Smith of Gemini Smith, Inc. Full black morocco, Japanese style endpapers colored thistle. Fine in fine black cloth slipcase. $550.00

[MODERN ART]

23A. Paris. Societe Internationale D'Art XXe Siecle.

XXe Siecle Nouvelle Series * XXX1 Annee * No. 32 * June 1969.

Paris: XXe Siecle, 1969. First edition. Approx. 180 pages. 31 x 25 cm. Two full page original lithographs: Sonia Delaunay and Andre Masson -- both in color. Front cover illustrated by Debuffet. Plus. a plethora of black and white and color plates. Articles on Will Grohmann, Yvon Taillandier, Dubuffet et al. Text in French. Bright, very clean copy. Orig. illustrated boards. Fine. $350.00

[PICASSO ENGRAVING]

23B. Picasso, Pablo.

Picasso Engraving (Carmen).

Oslo: Galleri Kunst-Invest Salg A/S, 1989. Framed white board: black and white Picasso portrait engraving. copy 188 of 300 unsigned. Frame is 45 x 35 cm. Portrait area 34 x 24 cm. Accompanied by publisher explanation in French noting the complete limitation for the image as well as limitations for other copies of the image by Picasso. With signed certificate 81/2 x 12 inch letter head covering additional engravings by Picasso for Carmen. White board and illustration in fine condition. Boards. $250.00

[GREEK LYRIC POET]

24. Pindari. Opera.

Olimpia, Nemea, Pythia, Isthmia Una cum Latina omium Versione Carmine Lyrico per Nicolaum Sudorium.

Oxford: Etheatro Sheldoniano, 1697. Folio,*6, A4-Ppp4, Qqq-Pppp, Qqqq2-Zzzz2, Aaaaa-Mmmmm. The first English edition of the Greek text edited by Richard West & Robert Welsted. Engraved portrait of Pindar by M. Burghers facing the title page. DIBDIN II, 289. "a beautiful and celebrated edition... on the whole, we must allow that the editors of this magnificent work have taken infinite pains to bring together every thing which could illustrate and improve the reading of the poet". The editors compared the Mss held by the Bodleian with that of the Biblioteca Palatina. Engraved portrait of Pindar and large title page vignette by M. Burghers. Pindar (c. 522 c. 443 BC) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet of the classical period from Thebes and the first Greek poet to reflect on the nature of poetry and on the poet's role. Errata. BRUNET IV p.659. Armorial bookplate. Raised bands, spines richly gilt, small front cover nick, scrape lower front cover corner, binding tight with leaves at end of text of Pindari Opera Omnia, leaves Oooo-Mmmm toned. Contemporary cambridge style binding in full brown calf. Very good. $990.00

ALDINE EDITION]

25. Plinius Secundas, Gaius.

Epistolarum Libri X. Eiusdem Panegyricus Traiano Principi Dictus.

Venice: Aldi, et Andreae Asulani (Aldus), 1518. Second Aldine Edition. 525 pages. 8vo, 14 1/2 x 9 cm. [*8-****2,a8-z8,aa8-kk8]. DIBDIN notes, "Containing ten books, with many Epistles never before published: it has also the "Panegyric." These are the only editions of Pliny's Epistles that ever issued from the Aldine press......The edition of 1508 [the first edition] is curious from being the first work in which the subscription announces the partnership of Aldus with his father-in-law Asulanus. It is compiled from some MSS. which Mocenigo brought from France to Italy, and which Aldus says are not only very correct, but which one would suppose to be as ancient as the time of Pliny himself".........The edition of of 1518 is merely a reimpression of the first of 1508, with a few typographical errors corrected." [see: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF RARE AND VALUABLE EDITIONS OF THE GREEK AND ROMAN CLASSICS, Vol.II, p.158]. ADAMS P1538. RENOUARD 82. Marginal stains at lower fore-edge not affecting text, a few minor paper flaws and repairs with slight loss at leaf *5, some old underscoring and penned marginalia. 19th century and earlier owner signatures. Firm copy in bright binding, little or no text age-toning. Later full vellum. Very good. $1,250.00

[AMERICAN PRINT MAKER]

26. Soyer, Raphael.

Raphael Soyer fifty years of printmaking 1917-1967 Edited by Sylvan Cole, Jr. With A Foreword By Jacob Kainen.

New York: Da Capo Press, 1967. First edition. 257 pages. 28 x 22 cm. Frontispiece is an original lithograph entitled "Boy With Recorder," signed in pencil by Soyer and inscribed to Ethel and Alf. Also laid-in a Price List of his prints from the Associated American Artists. 125 prints with media data. Index of Prints. Clean, fresh copy. Orig. black cloth. Fine in very good dust wrapper. $100.00

[AMERICAN ARTS & CRAFTS]

27. Stickley, L & J.G.

The Work Of L & J.G. Stickley.

Fayetteville, NY : L & J.G. Stickley, 1910. First edition. 28 leaves. 23 x 18 cm. Gustave Stickley, an American furniture manufacturer was a leading voice in the American Arts and Crafts movement. Stickley's design philosophy was a major influence on American Craftsman architecture. The movement’s aesthetics and ideas, however, reached a large, middle-class audience mainly through the skilled self-promotion of two men: Elbert Hubbard and Gustav Stickley. Stickley experimented with design trends ranging from the sinuous lines and vegetal motifs of European Art Nouveau to the exquisite forms and decorative inlays of British designers like Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott. A fresh, very bright copy, interior contents clean and fresh. The only flaw, some nicks to the yapp edge covers, foot and front cover. Orig. tan illustrated front cover. Near fine. Wraps.      $250.00

[COLOR WOOD-CUTS]

28. Sussan, Ben R. (Illustrator).

Le Voyageur Sur La Terre by Julien Green.

Paris: Chez J.E. Pouterman, 1929. First edition thus. 125 pages. 25 x 18 cm. Twelve full-page color wood-cuts by Ben Sussan. Limited edition, copy 136 of 205. Text in French. Clean, fresh interior, wide text margins, slight chipping to extremities in remnants of original glassine overwrapper. Orig. blue wrappers over plain stiff wrappers. Very good. $150.00

[COLOR PHOTOS OF JAPAN]

29. Tokyo. Photo Album.

Tokyo Meisho Shashincho [Photograph Album of Famous Sites in Tokyo].

Tokyo: Np, ca. 1905-1910. 12 x 9.5 cm. Accordion fold album, 64 subtly colored or tinted photographs, each with caption in English and Japanese, depicting notable sites in Tokyo -- Yoshiwara, Ueno Buddha, Hibiya Park, the University of Tokyo et al. An untitled album with no publishing information within, save for previous owner title in Japanese. Photographs fresh and bright. Orig. brown boards. Very good in fine recent cloth case with Japanese style bone ties. $650.00

[CALLIGRAPHIC STUDY]

30. Tschichold, Jan.

Schatzkammer Der Schreibkunst Meisterwerke Der Kalligraphie Aus Vier Jahrhunderen Auf Zweihundert Tafeln.

Basel: Birkhauser, 1945. First printing. 13 pages in text. Landscape 4to, 24 x 33 cm. Comprehensive calligraphic study with 199 plates illustrating styles and interpretations spanning 400 years, some capturing human and animal forms. Clean, fresh copy. Orig. decorated boards and white cloth spine. Fine in nicked dust wrapper in original publisher's shipping box. $325.00

[BOOK ARTS]

31. Walker, R.A,.

Some Unknown Drawings of Aubrey Beardsley.

London: R.A. Walker, 1923. First edition. Unpaginated. 26 x 19.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 198 of 500, signed by R.A. Walker. Collected and Annotated by R.A. Walker (Georges Derry). Walker claims to have uncovered sixty drawings hitherto unrecorded and presents thirty two illustrations herein; not all are Beardsley illustrations (memorabilia's also included). One is a charming, keen caricature of Whistler pointing at a butterfly. Bookplate of Adrian Homer Goldstone, bibliophile and author of John Steinbeck bibliography. Some finger smudging to extremities, mostly unopened, spine slightly darkened. Orig. cream linen cloth with gilt lettering front cover and spine. Very good. $275.00

[HIS FIRST WOODCUT NOVEL]

32. Ward, Lynd.

Gods' Man.

New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1929. First edition. Unpaginated. 24.5 x 16.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 19 of 409 signed by Ward, printed by Aldus and bound by the Tapley Company. Ward's first woodcut novel. A remarkably fresh copy, almost as new, black endpapers. Front cover and backstrip labels. Orig. black cloth. Teg. Fine in matching black slipcase lacking bottom panel. (#23912)       $1,250.00

[GERMAN SURREALISM]

33. Wunderlich, Paul.

Paul Wunderlich Lithographies 1959-1973 Texte De Fritz J. Raddatz.

Fribourg & Paris: Office Du Livre & Editions Vilo, 1974. First edition. 158 pages. 36 x 30 cm. Limited edition, copy 43 of 60 with extra suite of five original lithographs numbered and signed in pencil by Wunderlich, and housed in a separate red silk portfolio with cloth ties. The book contains 3 original lithographs, and 50 full page color plates. Text in French. A German Surrealist known for his paintings and erotic sculptures whose paintings often referenced mythological themes. Orig. red cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper with fine additional portfolio, the latter in near fine matching slipcase. $595.00

[RESTORATION DRAMA]

34. Wycherley, William.

The Plain-Dealer A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal.

London: R. Bentley, 1691. Fifth edition. 21 1/2 x 16 cm. A classic work of Restoration drama first published 1677, but first acted with acclamation and success three years earlier. CBEL, Vol. VIII, p.145 notes, "....Wycherley's last and best comedy.....Wychereley's masterpiece cannot but be regarded as an admirably bold, effective and original piece of dramatic satire........a notable work, compactly written, carefully planned and effectively executed, and, in its honest purpose to castigate vice, not unworthy of the ideals of Ben Jonson himself." WING W-3754. Text embrowned and slightly cut down, a few heads shaved. Quarter brown calf and dark beige boards. Very good.    $250.00

[GREEK ARCHITECTURE]

35. Wycherley, R.E.

The Greeks Built Cities.

London: Macmillan, 1962. Second edition. 235 pages. Sixteen plates and fifty-two text figures. Index. Originally published 1949; this edition with revisions, improved plans and some new photographs. Ex-library. Orig. blue cloth. Very good in rubbed dust wrapper.     $55.00