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Exquisite unpag. example of Art Deco book design, detailing a 3-month journey the artist undertook with Jean Dunand aboard the schooner Peau-Brune, sailing from St. Nazaire in Brittany, around the Iberian Peninsula and through the Strait of Gibraltar, to the town of La Ciotat on the coast of Provence, fashioned as a logbook with chronological entries related to specific… Read more about this item

Unpag. (8 pp.) booklet with title, introductory text, and descriptions, accompanying 11 woodcuts printed from original old woodblocks in the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett, the Germanische Museum in Nuremberg, and the Maihingen Collection, mounted on 9 leaves with passepartouts. Folio. Boards portfolio, front cover damaged. Munich (Munchner Drucke) 1925. One of only 110 copies.

Unpaginated (ca. 17 pp., printed recto only) preface and descriptive inventory by Gustav Pauli accompanying a presentation of 30 mat-mounted photogravures faithfully reproducing a selection of Italian old master drawings in the museum's holdings, including works by Bartolommeo, Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, Lippi, Piranesi, Raphael, Da Vinci, Zoppo, and others. Plates folio; text 4to. Items housed loose as issued in cloth-backed… Read more about this item

Slevogt. 146 pp. popular German text of one of the 1001 Arabian Nights' tales, 56 original lithographic illus. by Slevogt. Folio. Modern cloth, cover illustration (frayed and soiled) mounted on front cover. Berlin (Bruno Cassirer) 1922. One of 360 copies, signed in pencil by the artist on the colophon page. The Artist and the Book, 289. Ex-library copy, internally… Read more about this item

Mejers. 3 vols., 25, 7, VI pp. text on the comprehensive work of Mejers, who was the first person to completely map the country of Denmark, with bibliographic notes, text tables, indices, and 291 color plates (some folding) showing maps of regions throughout the country. Folio. 1/2 cloth and boards, embossed seal, spines very sl. rubbed, some covers sl.… Read more about this item

Bernini. 2 vols., 205, 23 pp. text on various aspects of the master's drawings, extensive scholarly notes, bibliography, concordances, indices, 198 fine plates showing preparatory works for sculptures, architectural sketches and plans, figure drawings, caricatures, etc. Large 4to. Cloth, spine of Vol. 2 slightly torn. Berlin (Heinrich Keller) 1931. (Romische Forschungen der Bibliotheca Hertziana, 9). The beautifully produced scholarly… Read more about this item