Paris: Simon Du Bois for Geoffroy Tory, 22 October 1527. 4to (196 x 139 mm). Collation: a-r8 s4. 140 leaves, bâtarde type, title printed in red and black, initials and headings printed in red throughout, printer's "pot cassé" device (Bernard, no. 9) on title and on verso of last leaf.....
Venice: Manfredus de Bonellis de Monteferrato, 31 January 1491 [1492?]. 4to (211 x 145 mm). 70 (of 72) leaves, a2.7 supplied in facsimile. Gothic type, 40-41 lines, initial spaces with printed guide letters. 64 (of 66) woodcuts within any of five decorative historiated frames; a single woodcut initial. Modern russet.....
Paris: Israel Silvestre, circa 1645. Complete set of twelve etchings, plates 110 x 255 mm and similar, sheets 220 x 345 mm, including title, in the first state (of two). Fine impressions, wide margins, pale water stain to plates at center of volume, early ink inscription on title. 18th-century half-vellum.....
Paris: Maeght, 1959-62. 4 volumes (of 7, without Peintures 1924-1927, Peintures 1916-1923, and Le cubisme, fin 1907-1914), 4to. Photographic frontispiece of Braque in each volume, numerous black and white and color illustrations throughout. Original decorated buckram ring binders. Some slight darkening to spines, joints starting on a few volumes. Volumes.....
Florence: Amadore Massi and Lorenzo Landi, 1637. Two parts in one volume, 4to (236 x 172 mm). Etched title and seven double-page plates by Stefano della Bella after the set designs of Alfonso Parigi. 19th-century half roan, decorated paper boards. Some minor spotting, generally a fine copy. Provenance: purchased from.....
[New York]: First Day of Locust Song, 1955. Two variant copies: 12mo (6.25 x 4.75 inches; 159 x 121 mm). Identical settings of type and imposition, with varying wrappers, together in a cloth folding case: First volume: [16] pages, including printed wrapper, stapled. On wove paper. No collaged materials tipped-in. Second.....
Vulgarités. Paris: Aubert, n.d. [1841-42]. 10 lithographs, 354 x 262 mm, and smaller. D.905-914. La Chasse. Paris: Aubert for Pannier, n.d. [1843-44]. 12 lithographs, 354 x 267 mm, and smaller. D.1072-1083. Both suites are assembled sets, some prints formerly bound or framed, some with gilt edges. Occasional chipping at edges.....
London: Faber & Faber, 1986. 4to. 144 pages. Color illustrations, diagrams in text. Black cloth lettered in silver; printed board slipcase. SCARCE DELUXE LIMITED ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION, number 51 of 150 copies, signed by Eno and Mills on the half-title, and with Mills' original lithograph "Warm Jets" (1985).....
Rome: Bartholomaei Bonsadini and Titi Diani, 1585. Small folio (315 x 215 mm; 12.5 x 9 inches). [10] leaves; 453; [11] leaf index. Title printed in red and black, large engraved printer's device, woodcut inititials in text. Roman and italic type. Contemporary vellum over pasteboard, gilt-lettered on spine, edges speckled.....
[Basel: Lienhart Ysenhut, circa 1490]. 4to (210 x 155 mm). 29 of 30 leaves (lacks first blank or title, see note above). 32 lines. Gothic types. 2 full-page woodcuts and 51 woodcuts in text (each circa 75-62 mm). Rubricated in red. Blue morocco gilt. Lower blank margin of a2 and.....
Basel: Michael Isengrin, 1543. Folio (377 x 242 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, large Isengrin device on final recto, full-page woodcut portrait of Fuchs on title verso, 517 botanical woodcuts by Viet Rudolph Speckle after Heinrich Füllmaurer and Albert Meyer, woodcut portraits of the three artists at end, woodcut.....
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1981. Square 4to. 347 pages. 190 illustrations, of which 100 in color. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, signed by the artist and dated 1981 on the half-title.
London: British Museum, 1997. Large 4to. 40 color and 500 black-and-white illustrations. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. The most comprehensive single volume ever published on German stoneware.
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1927. Folio. 45 pages. Text in English and Greek. Wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. Original niger-backed hessian boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top edges gilt, others uncut; slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 129 of 275 copies. Introduction by J.S. Phillimore.
Robert Grayson, 1990. Accordion form, 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 in., printed on translucent paper, 32 panels, printed on rectos only. Second edition, number 5 of 250 copies signed by Grayson from an edition of 276 (there were 26 lettered proofs). Grayson had first published his collection of aphorisms as.....
New York: Grenfell Press, in association with The X Press, 1980. 8vo. 3 leaves, 25 pages printed in black, blue, red, and green. Original limp linen. Number 29 of 85 copies printed for Easter 1980. The first book from the Grenfell Press, including a variety of typographic styles and designs.....
New York: Self-published, 1992. 4to. [92] pages. 16 color and 29 tritone images. Original cloth. The third volume of 'ONE OF THE MOST EPIC AND AMBITIOUS OF ARTIST'S BOOKS' (The Photobook). One of 750 copies. This is the third in Horn's ongoing series of books concerning Iceland. Here she collects.....
New York: Peter Blum, 1990. 4to. [36] pages. Original cloth. The first volume of 'ONE OF THE MOST EPIC AND AMBITIOUS OF ARTIST'S BOOKS' (The Photobook). SIGNED by Roni Horn on the title-page. One of 1150 copies of the regular issue (an issue of 150 additional copies contained a signed.....
Cologne: M. DuMont Schauberg, 1970. Text in German. Thick 4to (11.75 x 10.25 inches). 504 pages, errata slip laid-in Plates, some in color and some folding. Original blue cloth gilt; pictorial dust jacket; publisher's board slipcase; publisher's protective outer slipcase. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 975 of 1,500 copies. The.....
Paris: Editions de la Galerie Simon [D. H. Kahnweiler], 1925. 4to (250 x 200 mm). 7 lithographs by Masson, including that for the cover. Original printed wrappers; original glassine. Some wear and a few short tears to glassine, remnants of owner’s label on front free endpaper. LEIRIS’S FIRST BOOK, AND.....
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1979. Square 4to (8 x 8 inches; 203 x 203 mm). [48] pages. Full-page color offset prints. Original cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, inscribed by Lewitt on the front free endpaper in pencil to "Ann." Uncommon in the cloth-bound issue, and especially so when signed.....
Antwerp: Henrick Eckert van Homberch, 1503. Small folio (254 x 184 mm). Collation: A8 a-f6 g4 h-z 8 8 A-Z Aa-Gg6. 336 leaves. 41 lines, double columns. Gothic types. Title in nine lines (the first a xylographic block) over a cut of Salvator Mundi flanked by two blocks of architecture.....
Florence: Ioni Edizioni, 1980. 9.5 x 9.5 inches; 241 x 241 mm. 8 laid-paper folded sheets, each with an abstract geometric design rendered in thick, vibrant, and painterly inks. In original laid-paper wrappers. LIMITED EDITION, number 69 of 200 copies signed in pencil by Masi. Paolo Masi was born in.....
New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2000. 4to (10.5 x 8 inches). 275 pages. Pictorial boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Nam June Paik on the front free endpaper. This catalogue accompanied the exhibition held 11 February to 26 August 2000. A lavishly designed catalogue by Pentagram.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885. 8vo (245 x 165 mm; 9.5 x 6.5 inches). Title printed in red and black. 362, [1] pages. Engraved portrait frontispiece by Goupil & Co. Contemporary green half morocco, top edges gilt, others untrimmed and unopened, silk page marker. LIMITED ISSUE, number 21.....