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[EARLY AMERICAN MAP]
1. Atwood John M.
Map Of The United States And Its Territoiries: Also Mexico And The West Indies.
New York: Thayer, Bridgeman & Fanning, 1856. 36 1/2 x 35 inches. Hand-colored engraved map laquered and linen backed. Margins frayed, some creasing and fading. Lower left corner portrays the West Indies with Population of the United States 1850 middle right. New York had three million plus residents. A review of Atwood's work suggests that he was a highly accomplished, stylistically distinct, and detail oriented engraver. Colton seems to have turned to Atwood to engrave some of his most important as well as decorative maps. Very good. Linen. $1,550.00
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[COLOR WOOD ENGRAVINGS]
2. Baldridge, Cyrus Leroy & Singer & Baldridge.
Color Wood Engraving (PEKING) & Turn To The East Portfolio.
New York : Minton, Balch & Company, 1925. First Editions. The Peking color wood engraving, 26 x 39: No. 131 signed in pencil by Baldridge. Bright, fresh and fine copy. The latter is complemented with "Turn To The East" portfolio 41 x 27.5 also numbered 131 by Caroline Singer and C. Le Roy Baldridge housed in stiff tan board portfolio and matching paper covers. The later are six color lithographs also sized 41 x 27.5. The signed color wood engraving and the portfolio are both in fine condition. Fine. $950.00
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[ART DECO CLASSIC]
3. Brassai. Text by Paul Morand.
Paris de Nuit.
Paris: Edition Arts et Metiers Graphiques, (1933). First edition. Unpaginated. Six leaves. 25 x 19 cm. 62 photogravure plates after Brassai. Printed by Draeger with exceptional photogravure plates, this series of nocturnal Parisian views, with its evocative text by Morand, is something of an Art Deco classic. PHOTOBOOK, I, p. 134: a ravishing book object in a purely physical sense. The printing represents arguably the most luscious gravure ever seen, the blacks being so rich and deep that after handling the book one expects to find sooty deposits all over ones fingers. The gradation of tones is wonderfully subtle, describing an apparently infinite range of black and near-black tones. The layout, with its characteristic full-page bleeds, never more felicitously employed, takes us from image to image, from page to page, and across night-time Paris, with effortless panache... One should think of it as amongst the best produced and influential photobooks ever HASSELBLAD. 110. PARR/BADGER. I 134. ROTH. 76. Slight crease front cover. Original spiral binding front cover lettered in red. Very good. $2,450.00
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[UKIYO-YO ILLUSTRATIONS]
4. Brown, Louise Norton.
Block Printing & Book Illustration In Japan With Forty-Three Plates (Eighteen In Colours), And Copious Indexes Of Titles And Artists.
London & New York: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd / E.P. Dutton & Co., 1924. First edition. 261 pages. Folio, 39 x 26 cm. Title page in red and black. Contents include Old-Book Shops In Japan, Glossary, Bibliography and Index. Wide text margins, all color plates with tissue guards. Interior fresh, bright and sharp. Chapters on Ukiyo-Ye Illustrators compelling. Orig. quarter beige spine and green boards with leather backstrip label printed in gilt. Fine in worn dust wrapper. $350.00
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[BOOK ARTS]
5. Colette, Sidonie-Gabrielle.
Gigi Illustre de 15 pointes seches (dry points) de Mariette Lydis.
Paris: Georges Guillot, Editeur, 1948. 96 pages. Folio. 32 x 25 cm. One of 45 copies on Arches paper, with an extra suite of plates, hors commerce for the artist and collaborators -- and numbered XI of a total edition of 325 copies. The extra suite housed in original glassine wrapper. Letterpress printed in black and white and color by Joseph Zichiere with drypoints printed in black & white and color by Georges Leblanc. The author was the talented and prolific chronicler of the female experience in the first half of the twentieth century. She was admired by André Gide and Truman Capote. Gigi title printed in mauve and lavender. Interior contents and images fresh and clean. MONOD 3006 Gray board portfolio, spine lettered in red housed in matching very good nicked slipcase. $650.00
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[SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY]
6. "Creative Writing Workshop".
Poetry By Fred A. Murphy, Cheryl Steets, Mary George, Anthony Verrill, Robin Petro, Barbara Siegel & Stuart Blazer.
Np: Np, Np. 28 leaves. 22.5 x 19 cm. Signed in ink by Cheryl Steets, Mary George & Barbara Siegel. Signed presentation copy to Paul Petrie and signed by Mary George. Poetry printed recto only. Hand-bound in full cream cloth with lavender spine cotton cloth stitching. It may perhaps be the only copy -- product of a creative writing workshop by the literary editors of Perspective Magazine. Cream cloth with front cover circular design and Japanese style lavender apine stiching. Fine. $85.00
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[BOOK ARTS]
7. Cummings, E.E.
Christmas Tree.
New York: American Book Bindery, Inc, 1928. First edition. Five double paged leaves. 20 x 13.5 cm. Frontispiece printed in red and green running length-wise with a silver iridescent accompaniment. Typography by S.A. Jacobs. Light green endpapers. Interior contents sharp, fade to covers at margins and backstrip. Quarter red cloth and green boards with silver stripe lettered in red. Very good in clear mylar dust wrapper. Very good. $450.00
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[NATURAL HISTORY]
8. Darwin Charles.
The Variation Of Animals And Plants Under Domestication.
London: John Murray, 1868. First Edition, second issue. 411, 486 pages. 22 x 14 cm. 43 black and white illustrations. Comprehensive Index. Bound without the advertisements. The book's slow progress towards publication was due not only to its size but the author's ill health. "About half of the eight years that elapsed between its commencement and completion were spent on it. The book did not escape adverse criticism: it was said, for instance, that the public had been patiently waiting for Mr. Darwin's justificatives, and that after eight years of expectation all they got was a mass of detail about pigeons, rabbits and silkworms. The work contains the first appearance of the phrase 'survival of the fittest' in any of Darwin's works (p. 6 of 1st volume). Single erratum in Volume I. FREEMAN, 878. NORMAN. 597. Backstrip decorated with gilt florets and gilt lettered spine labels, lacking Vol. II label. Full tree calf, gilt decorated borders, marbled endpapers and edges. Very good. 2 Vols. leather_bound. $1,250.00
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9. Dibdin, Rev. T.F.
A Most Pleasant, Fruitful, and Witty Work of the Best State of a Public Weal and of the New Isle Called Utopia; Written in Latin by the Right Worthy and Famous Sir THOMAS MOORE, Knight, and translated into English by RAPHE ROBINSON A new Edition; (including the whole of Dr. Warner's) and a Biographical and Literary Introduction.
London: Printed by William Bulmer, at the Shakespeare Press, 1808. New Edition. VIII + CLXXX + 141 p. + 1 h. + 320 pages. 18.5 x 13. Bound by Riviere. Title with elaborate wood-engraved border, engraved frontispiece portrait, 1 engraved plate, wood-engraved head and tailpieces. This "New Edition" is of interest for the many scholarly additions: these include biographical details of More and his family; general bibliographic and informative notes on works written on More; and, more specifically, editions of the Utopia. Also included are sections on the Fool, the Courtier, ale and beer-drinking, hawking, marriage ceremonies, ancient fire-arms and witchcraft. Raised bands, spine panels richly gilt with arabesque, covers with double and triple gilt borders, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. Small book seller and bookplate of Edward Cheney front cover pastedown. Inscription of John Burns dated Oct. 20 1921. Interior contents immaculate. Full red morocco. Aeg. Fine. 2 Vols. $995.00
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10. Dinesen, Isak.
Out Of Africa.
New York: Random House, 1938. First American edition. 389 pages. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. Dinesen's memoir recounting her 17 years in Kenya. Expressed with a reticence and restraint that gives this story of life an African farm a singularly aristocratic quality. Owner inscription free front endpaper. Orig. quarter black decorated and lettered cloth and orange illustrated boards. Near fine. $895.00
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[PRIVATE PRESS]
11. Edward Rayer, Jo Mish, F.S. Pondolfino & Robert Rayer [Interpretations by].
Buson Haiku Graphics by Jon Vlakos & others.
Oneonta: Swamp Press, 1978. First edition. 24 leaves. 20 x 16 cm. Type set in Kennerley mono-type and hand-bound. Published with financial assistance from the National Endowment for the Arts. Illustrated in black and white and color. Multi variegated gray cloth in two designs. Fine. (#24532) $125.00
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[TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]
12. Edwards, Amelia B.
A Thousand Miles Up The Nile With Upwards Of Seventy Illustrations Engraved On Wood By G. Pearson After Drawings Executed On The Spot By The Author.
London: Longman, Green & Co, 1877. First edition. XXV, 732 pages. 26.5 x 19.5 cm. Two large colored folding maps at front and rear of text. Her travels in Egypt made her aware of increasing threats to ancient monuments from tourism and modern development. She set out to hinder these through public awareness and scientific endeavor, becoming an advocate for research and preservation of them. Interior contents fresh and bright. Appendix. Beveled edges. Orig. salmon cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and black with front cover frame symbols. Rebacked with original spine laid-down. Aeg. Very good. (#24547) $550.00
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[ROUND BY RIVIERE]
13. Egan, Pierce.
Life In London; Or, The Day And Night Scenes Of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. And His Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom, Accompanied By Bob Logic, The Oxonian, In Their Rambles And Sprees through the Metropolis.
London: Sherwood, Neely , And Jones, 1821. First edition. 376 pages. 23 1/2 x 15 cm. Second issue,. Thirty-six colored aquatint plates by George and Isaac Robert Cruikshank, host of wood-cuts, three sheets of engraved music. ABBEY LIFE 281. TOOLEY 198. "An enormously popular work translated into French, and a version prepared and acted on the stage." Page 9 of the second & third issues with footnote to lower margin (not present in 1st issue). The first leaf of music is unnumbered in the first and second issues. Page 376 in the second issue has 'good-bies' to the first line. Later issues were altered to 'good-by's' and also 'good-bye's'. Bound by Riviere, Oxford. Generally clean copy, occasional light offsetting to text opposite plates, very minor scattered toning (mostly confined to music leaves), Small brown leather armorial bookplate of Valentine Hollingsworth lettered in gilt inside front cover. Raised bands and inner dentelles. Orig. red leather morocco rebacked with gilt florets, spine labels in black and red. Aeg. Near fine. (#24540) $795.00
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[SIGNED COPY]
14. Faulkner, William.
Notes On A Horsethief Decorations By Elizabeth Calvert.
Greenville, Mississippi: The Levee Press, 1950. First edition. 71 pages. 24 x 15.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 387 of 950 signed by Faulkner in blue ink. Clean, bright copy, owner inscription front free endpaper. A review from Cambridge University Press: "It is April, 1914. A famous imported racehorse, with a leg irreparably injured in a train wreck, is stolen by his English groom, and with the aid of a Negro preacher-stableman is nursed and cared for sufficiently for him to win races in out-of-the-way county seats and country fairs, always eluding the pursuing detectives, police, insurance adjusters, and others interested in his apprehension." Orig. green cloth front cover decorated in silver. Near fine. (#24525) $995.00
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[SPECTACULAR BINDING]
15. Fearnside, William Gray & Wiliam Tombleson.
The Thames & Medway: A Series Of Eighty Splendid Engravings Displaying The Most Picturesque Waterside Scenery Of Ten Counties From Drawings By Tombleson With Interesting Historical Descriptions.
London: Thomas Holmes, ca 1840. First edition. 84 pages. 27.5 x 22 cm. All plates with tissue guards each plate with an individual border. Engravings are clean and bright, Index To The Plates. Text also clean. Frontispiece and half title. In a contemporary spectacular, unsigned binding. Inner dentelles, raised bands, heavily decorated with gilt arabesques. Front and back covers with triple gilt borders a series of rectangular and circular gilt and blind designs.. Some slight rubbing to extremities. Full red morocco. Aeg. Very good. leather_bound. (#24524) $325.00
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[ENGLISH POOR LAWS]
16. Foley, Robert.
Laws Relating to the Poor, From The Forty-third of Queen Elizabeth to the Third of King George II With Cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, upon the several Clauses of them. In a Method entirely New. London: Savoy (printed by F. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling), 1839. First edition. (32), 284, (20). This summary of English poor laws. Index of The Principal Matters. The English Poor Laws were a system of poor relief in England and Wales, primarily developed during the 16th century and lasting until the mid-20th century. These laws established a framework for addressing poverty by providing support to the "impotent" poor (those unable to work) and attempting to address the needs of the "able-bodied" poor through workhouses and other means. Bright, very clean and fresh interior with very slight nick to head. Full tan calf, red leather spine label. Very good. (#24572) $395.00
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[MODERN ART]
17. Goldwater, Robert.
Rufino Tamayo.
New York: Quadrangle, 1947. First edition. 131 pages. With eight color, tipped-in plates, eighty collotype reproductions and twenty-three additional text illustrations. An important monograph by a well recognized scholar. Title page printed in red and black. Table of Illustrations. Dust wrapper frayed at edges. The maroon cloth cover with "Tamayo" lettered in gilt on front cover and spine is near fine. FREITAG 9262. Orig. maroon cloth. Very good in chipped dust wrapper. (#24594) $190.00
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[POETRY]
18. Graves, Robert.
Ten More Poems.
Paris: Hours Press, 1930. First edition. 17 pages. 29 x 20 cm. Limited edition, copy 74 of 200 signed in ink by Graves, printed on a hand press. Covers designed by Len Lye. The latter was a New Zealand artist was at the forefront of experimental film-making in London. He also wrote poetry and designed books. The British poet Nancy Cunard founded the Hours Press in 1928 in Normandy, moving it to Paris in 1929. Wide text margins, interior contents as new. Orig. quarter leather spine and decorated boards. Near fine. (#24576) $295.00
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[ARCHITECTURE]
19. Hall, John.
A New And Concise Method Of Hand-Railing, Upon Correct Principles; Simplified To the Capacity Of Every Practical Carpenter Also, A Full Development Of The Cylindric Sections, As Applied To Niches, Groins, Domes. And All The Most Intricate Parts of Carpentry.
Baltimore: John Murray Printers, 1840. First edition. 23 text pages. 29.5 x 24 cm. 8 pages of plates printed recto only. Hall's treatise which "introduced the concentric ellipsograph, a machine of the author's invention which aided carpenters in laying out compound curves for stair rails and steps." SMITH, JOHN HALL: The Grecian Style in America, p,v. AVERY. p.40. Each plate is completely explained in the text. Text toned less than plates. Light corner and backstrip head and foot wear. Small book label W.S.R. front cover pastedown. Orig. textured black boards, spine labeled in gilt. Very good. (#24530) $1,250.00
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[FLORA]
20. Harrison, Joseph.
The Floricultural Cabinet, And Florists' Magazine January To December, 1853.
London: Whittaker and Co., 1853. First edition. 306 pages. With eleven full page chromolithograph plates, one a large foldout: lacking the August plate. Clean, very fresh copy -- the interior faultless. Marbled endpapers, raised bands, gilt arabesque panels. Front cover slightly rubbed. Three quarter black calf and marbled boards, matching endpapers. Very good. (#24542) $225.00
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[AQUATINTS]
21. Ireland, Samuel.
Picturesque Views, With An Historical Account Of The Inns Of Court, In London And Westminster.
London: R. Faulder And J. Egerton, 1800. First edition. 254 pages. 25 x 18 cm. With half title, and 21 aquatints in sepia. Offsetting of plates to text clean and fresh, wide text margins with armorial bookplate of James Claude Webster, Middle Temple. Marbled endpapers, raised bands, gilt decorated spine panels. Some toning to endpapers. An amiable presentation of architectural examples representative of the Inns of Court in London. His "Picturesque Views Series" was long valued by collectors. ABBEY SCENERY 207. Later three quarter red morocco and matching cloth. Teg. Very good. (#24523) $425.00
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[WOOF]
22. Jelen, Nicolette.
A Dog Story.
New York: Vincent Gerald & Company, 1987. First edition. Unpaginated. 31 x 25.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 18 of 25 signed by the author in pencil. 30 original illustrations by Jelen printed on Toronoko paper using several mediums (mezzotint, aquatint, drypoint, linocut). Calligraphy by Jerry Kelly. The story of dog told in pictures from the perspective of the tree, the pool, the house and the dog. The edition was bound in crepe covers in Japanese style by Zahra Partovi. Matching felt-lined folder, cover interiors in green. Jelen, born and raised in Morocco is best known for her aquatint and mezzotint techniques that she pioneered in the early 1980s -- landscape images, and her iconic palm motifs. Small folio, front cover lettered in gilt and string-tied in matching folding portfolio. Fine. (#24581) $3,000.00
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[PRIVATE PRESS]
23. Kunzer, Reiner [Translation: Lori Fisher].
Zimmerlautstarke with the volume down low.
Oneonta: Swamp Press, 1981. First edition. 28 pages. 23 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy 11 of 100 printed on Franfurt Cream, printed on a Golding letterpress with illustrations by Thomas Makoujy. Errata list. Printed in red, yellow and black. Illustrated title page. The author was a German writer and GDR dissident. He studied media and journalism at the University of Leipzig. In 1968, he left the GDR state party SED. Orig. beige cloth, front cover paper label. Fine. (#24539) $125.00
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[CHROMOS]
24. London. Macmillan & Company.
Twelve Parables Of Our Lord.
London: Macmillan, 1870. First edition. Unpaginated. Folio, 31 x 25 cm. Twelve chromolithograph full page illuminations to the parables by H.R. McEntry. Frontispiece by John Jellicoe, and the illuminated borders are from the Bevario Grimani. The illuminated texts and title-page designed by Lewis Hind. Interior contents generally clean. Beveled edges. Orig. brown cloth, backstrip crudely rebacked, front cover lettered and gilt decorated. Aeg. Very good. (#24545) $295.00
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[PRIVATE PRESS/POETRY]
25. McPhee, John; et al.
Roadkills A Collection of Prose and Poetry by John McPhee, Gillian Conoley, Gary Snyder, Madeline DeFrees, William Stafford, and Richard Eberhart. Etching and wood engravings by Alan James Robinson.
Easthampton: Chelonidae Press, 1981. First edition. Unpaginated. 30.5 x 23 cm. Limited edition, copy 37 of 250 signed in pencil by Alan James Robinson. Printed on hand-made Japanese paper by Harold Patrick McGrath at the Hampshire Typothetae. Hand-set in 18pt. Arrighi and Centaur type by P. Chase Twichell. Roadkill images are titled in pencil and signed in pencil by Robinson under the image. Wide text margins, title page printed in red and black. Green morocco with multi-color leather overlays and patterned plastic onlays including a perforated relief simulating tire treads by Gray Parrot. fine in fine slipcase emulating the latter. (#24590) $950.00
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[PERSPECTIVE]
26. Minifie, William.
A Text Book of Geometrical Drawing, For The Use of Mechanics And Schools, et al With Illustrations For Drawing Plan, Sections And Elevations Of Buildings And Machinery: An Introduction To Isometrical Drawing, And An Essay On Linear Perspective And Shadows.
Baltimore: W.M. Minifie & Co., 1849. First edition. 127 pages 25 x 17 cm. Fifty six plates including the frontispiece. Some slight toning to text and illustrations. Owner inscription free front endpaper. HITCHCOCK 780. Two slight marring spots front cover. Binding solid. Contemporary brown sheep spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpaper. Very good. $150.00 24580
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[LECTURE]
27. Morris, William.
An Address Delivered By William Morris At The Distribution Of Prizes To Students Of The Birmingham Municipal School Of Arts On Feb. 21, 1894. * Art And The Beauty Of The Earth * Some Hints On Pattern-Designing.
London: Longman and Company, 1898-1899. First Editions. 25, 31, 45 pages. 21 x 14 cm. Printed at the Chiswick Press with the Golden type designed by William Morris for the Kelmscott Press. These lectures were published after his death in 1896 of tuberculosis. Bright, fresh and very crisp copy. Raised bands, backstrip lettered in gilt, slight nick to backstrip head. Inner dentelles, binding signed 19 GS 03. Full brown calf in pattern design. Aeg. Near fine. (#23953) $975.00
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[EARLY AMERICAN ART]
28. Neal, Avon & Ann Parker.
Early American Stone Sculpture Found in the Burying Grounds of New England.
New York: Sweetwater Editions, 1981. First edition. 114 pages. Oblong quarto, 30 x 42 cm. Limited edition, copy 288 of 475 signed by Neal and Parker, with an original rubbing, "Pompey Brenton, 1772, Rockport, Rhode Island," also signed by Neal and Parker laid-in. Forty-two plates with the names of the deceased. Glossary of Symbols Illustrated in the Book. Bibliography. Quality printing on glossy stock, plates and text bright and clean, an as new copy in the publisher shipping box. Orig. brown cloth. (#19995) $500.00
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[BIBLIOGRAPHY/BOOK ARTS]
29. Paris * New York.
Editiones Officinae Bodoni. The Officina Bodoni The Operation of a Hand-press during the first six years of its work.
Paris & New York: At The Sign of The Pegasus, 1929. First edition. 80 pages. 30 x 21.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 229 of 500 of the English edition, on Lafuma Rag Paper in the original types of Giambattista Bodoni. Host of tipped-in specimen pages, plus twelve full page woodcuts by Franz Masereel printed recto only which illustrate the operations of the press. Officina Bodoni began operation in April 1925 at Montagnola di Lugano. List of All Book Printed On the Hand-Press. Offsetting from the flaps of the dust jacket onto the endpapers, slight lower corner bumps. Orig. basket weave cream cloth, gilt Bodoni logo front cover. Near fine in worn dust wrapper lacking small portion of lower spine. (#20898) $500.00
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[LINGUISTICS/NATURAL HISTORY]
30. Ray, John.
A Collection Of English Words Not Generally Used; with their Significations and Original, in two Alphabetical Catalogues, The One of such as are proper to the Northern, the other to the Southern Counties, With Catalogues of English Birds and Fishes: An an Account of the preparing and refining such Metals and Minerals as are gotten in England.
London: H. Bruges, 1674. First edition. 15.5 x 10 cm. A4, B8-K8-L2 (without the first and final blanks). Title page printed in red and black. First edition, this issue with comma after "Ray" but not "words" of the title page, without continuous test despite irregular pagination. The "Country Words" portion of the volume notable for the etymological explanations many resting in French and Latin. W.W. Skeat in his introduction to the 1874 edition of Ray's work noted: "It may be very safely be said that on the whole, Ray's is the most important book ever published on the subjects of English dialects with the sole exception of such publications as belong to the present century." Ray was the first person to produce a biological definition of species, in his 1686 History of Plants. His classification of plants in his Historia Plantarum, was an important step towards modern taxonomy. ESTC R5328. A few marginal pencil notations, text generally clean, rubbing to extremities and surfaces. Later half sheep and marbled boards. Very good. (#22403) $1,000.00
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[LITERATURE]
31. Shelley, Percy Bysshe.
Epipsychidion.
Montagnola: Officina Bodoni, 1928. 38 pages. 29 x 20 cm. Limited edition, one of 220 copies printed on vellum with the original types of Giambattista Bodoni. Verses Addressed To The Noble and Unfortunate Lady Emilio V____, This work was inspired by Shelley's meeting, at the end of October 1820 when the author had moved back to Pisa, the beautiful, young Teresa Viviani (1801--1836), who was being kept in a convent awaiting the outcome of marriage arrangements in which she played little part. But it also reflects the difficulties he was facing in his second marriage to Mary Godwin, and looks back to the desolation the poet faced after the suicide of his first wife Harriet Westbrook. Bookplate of Albert Prostel Finkler, a naval avaitor during WWI. Covers and interior fresh and clean. Orig. full vellum, spine lettered in gilt. Near fine. (#21216) $500.00
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[COSTUME/OXFORD]
32. Uwins, Thomas.
The Costume Of The University of Oxford, Illustrated By A Series Of Engravings From Original Drawings To Which Is prefixed A Brief Account Of The Members And Officers Of That University.
London: R. Ackermann, [1815]. First edition. 14 pages in text. Folio, 37.5 x 30 cm. Half title, 17 hand-colored stipple and engraved plates on "JWhatman Turkey Mill/1821" watermarked wove paper (free endpaper watermarked "Whatman Turkey Mill/1821). Armorial bookplate of George Benson Tatum, of Christ Church, Oxford. Explanation of Dependent and Independent Members, the latter being Nobleman, Gentlemen Commoners, Commoners and Fellow Commoners. Text and plates clean and bright. ABBEY SCENERY 278. MARTIN-HARDIE, pp. 104-106. PRIDEAUX p.331. TOOLEY pp.13-18. Boards rubbed. Orig. thick buff boards. rebacked in gray cloth. spine paper label. Very good. (#22213) $1,250.00
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[BOOK ARTS/BINDING]
33. Valery, Paul.
L'Ame Et La Danse.
Paris: Le Livre Contemporain, 1925. 80 pages. 34 x 26 cm. 22 lithographic illustrations by Raphael Drouart. Limited edition, copy 56 of 120, signed by Paul Valery and Raphael Drouart. This copy dedicated to M.R. Delaine. Rouart was proficient in all the printmaking techniques; etching, engraving, mezzotint, relief and lithography. He worked as a collaborating illustrator for many authors throughout the 1920s -- in 1925 he did aquatints for a livre d artiste Le Cantique Des Cantiques and 20 wood engravings for Rene Boyleves Le Meillieur Ami. Art Deco binding by Jacques Anthoine-Legrain, stepson and assistant to Pierre Legrain. The text develops a dialogue and philosophical interpretations of Socrate, Phedre, and Eryximaque as they view a dance performance at a banquet. Covers decorated in ruled gilt and blind, and in pointelles, inner gilt dentelles with gray silk moire endpapers plus original wrappers are bound-in. Full decorated black morocco. Fine in matching fine slipcase. (#22019) $3,250.00
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[PRINT]
34. Van Leyden, Lucas.
Cain Killing Abel.
Np: Np, ca 1524. 12 x 7.5 cm. One copper engraved plate. BARTSCH B13. Lucas van Leyden was among the first Dutch exponents of genre painting and is generally regarded as a very accomplished engraver. Born in 1494, the engravings herein are early efforts by a highly skilled engraver who learned his art at a very early age: the earliest known print by him (Mohammed and the Murdered Monk) dates from 1508, when he was perhaps only 14. 1524 date appears at lower left corner of the engraving at Abel's knee. Tipped onto paper leaf. Fine. (#21854) $500.00
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