Decorative Arts from Bernett Penka Rare Books LLC

Two volumes: 191 pp. text volume with 20 reproductions from photographs, together with plate volume with secondary title page "Papers and Monographs of the American Academy in Rome, Volume XIV", comprising list of plates and 32 32 full-page plates displaying outlines of Greek moulding designs. Text volume: 8vo., cloth boards. Plate volume: loose as issued in red cardstock portfolio,… Read more

Unpaginated (circa 18 pp.) sample from the prominent French printer, displaying samples of his capabilities in phototype or photolithography printing, including work produced for postcards, souvenir viewbooks, trade catalogues, menus, and other items, including images of landscape views, building façades, decorative tiles, sculpture, a church interior, and light fixtures. Folio. Original four-color Art Nouveau wrpps., some minor toning and… Read more

Group of approximately 100 assorted original early to mid-20th century color-printed and embossed labels for a variety of French chocolate manufacturers and shops, most or all printed by the St. Etienne, France firm of A. Mulcey, a firm which specialized in commercial printing, especially producing labels for food and wine products, the majority of the labels bearing the Mulcey… Read more

Vienna: Wilhelm Melzer, 1909. Oblong octavo (14.7 × 17 cm). Original white leather with gold, red, and black armorial stamping; all edges gilt; [2] pp., title, 1 pp. poem by Harmann Hangoo, followed by 11 fine chromolithographic plates showing an illustrated score by Haydn and scenes commemorating events in Vienna during the Napoleonic War of 1809. Housed in… Read more

The first volume from a three-volume set on the art of Brazil, 296 pp., edited and with an introduction by Rodrigo M. F. de Andrade, this volume containing essays on archaeology, indigenous art, Portuguese antecedents, furniture, goldsmithing, ceramics, and other topics, contributors include Frederico Barata, Gastão Cruls, Cecilia Meireles, Reinaldo dos Santos, J. Wasth Rodrigues, José Gisella Valladares, and… Read more

Wien und Leipzig: Gerlach & Co., [1900-1902]. Quarto (25.5 × 30 cm). Oblong portfolio housing thirty chromolithographed plates, including title, with monochrome design to versos. The portfolio (often damaged or lacking entirely) only with the most minor wear and scratches; the plates very good or better. One of the most desirable collection of patterns of the Wiener Moderne, Flächenschmuck… Read more

[Bohemia]: ca. 1900. Leporello comprising forty-seven leaves of plaited paper patterns, with between one and three patterns per plate, of white and brown paper strips, in original lettered boards, leaf size 19.5 × 17 cm. Boards a bit rubbed; first leaf with very light damage and soil; else about very good. This hand-made leporello contains forty-seven woven patterns… Read more

Paris: Tanais, 1966. Octavo (25 × 16.5 cm). Original decorative boards; 227, [5] pp. Illustrations throughout. Some hand coloring of medals (likely by Pavel Pashkov) on pp. 29-33, 45, and 199. Very good. First edition of Serge Andolenko's work on Russian medals. The introduction to the text indicates that the book is printed on special stock intended for coloration,… Read more

A complete collection of 4 volumes comprising this set by Moussinac, which provides an important documentation of furniture and interiors by notable French Art Deco designers, each volume with an introduction by Moussinac followed by a large number of plates (58, 52, 53, and 50), many of which are done in pochoir, depicting a variety of interiors and associated… Read more

Antique Italian bingo-type game set, likely late 19th or early 20th century, comprised of cardboard game board with 90 gold-numbered spaces on red ground with embossed gold paper frame, 90 hand-numbered wooden game tokens, and 15 sets of 87 total individual cards, housed in 8 colored cardstock sleeves, the cards hand-numbered and with hand-colored empty spaces. Some light age-appropriate… Read more

139 pp. text on high medieval Swiss stained glass in 7 churches and museums, detailed descriptions, extensive scholarly notes, bibliography, index, 28 text illustrations, 78 photographic plates (9 in color), 56 small photographic illustrations. Lg. 4to. Cloth, d.j. Basel (Birkhauser) 1956. (Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi, Schweiz I).

2 vols., 36 pp. text on 18th-century furniture and decorative pieces from Venice, notes, bibliography, hundreds of illustrations on 550 plates (23 in color) showing bracketed and freestanding tables, bureaus, desks, doors, chairs, couches, small sculptures and other decorative objects. Large 4to. Cloth, .dj. Milan (Gorlich) 1964. A fundamental work on 18th century Venetian furniture.

Unpaginated (circa 240 pp.), 99 pp. reproduction of the classic text by Chippendale and a supplement containing a brief history of the impact of the master furniture maker's designs on later furniture design, including a substantial advertising section for both Chippendale-style furniture and more modern pieces, heavily illustrated throughout with hundreds of text illustrations, 199 plates. Small tall… Read more

On half title: Akademiia Arkhitektury SSSR. Otdel Khudozhestvennoi Promyshlennosti i Interera). 18 pp. introductory text on 18th- and 19th-century Russian furniture, including seating, chests, desks, tables, armoires, etc., bibliographic notes, list of works, and 53 fine folding plates showing photographs and measured drawings of classic pieces. 4to. Text stapled wrpps., plate loose as issued, all housed in boards portfolio.… Read more

Comerio. 172 pp. monograph and detailed, fully documented catalogue raisonné of the paintings, drawings and maiolica by the 18th-century Bolognese artist, biography, bibliography, indices, over 300 illus. (some in color). Large 4to. Cloth, d.j. Bergamo 1978. (Monumenta Bergomensia, 50). Previous owner's ex-libris plate on fly-leaf.

278 pp. compendium of essays by noted scholars discussing various aspects of textile fabrication in Pre-Columbia Latin America, including painted cloths, textile structures, and tools, notes, bibliography, illustrated throughout, 2 charts analyzing textile composition laid-in. 4to. Cloth. Washington D.C. (The Textile Museum & Dumbarton Oaks) 1979.

238 pp. inventory of art, architecture and other cultural artifacts, indices, inscriptions transcribed throughout, frontispiece, a few text illus. from plans, 220 fine plates from photographs showing textiles, polychrome ceramics, freestanding and architectural sculpture, paintings, churches, mosques, fortified structures, etc. 4to. Wrpps., a bit soiled. Lisbon (Academia Nacional de Belas Artes) 1947.

CXXIV, 632 pp. text on lasting elements in African costumes and masks, ext. notes, bibliography, index, text illus., numerous illus. on 62 plates from line drawings. Large 8vo. Wrpps. Paris (Maisonneuve) 1966.

36 pp. booklet on the clubhouse of the German coffee firm KaffeeHag based in Bremen, designed by architects and designers Alfred Runge and Eduard Scotland, containing an essay by Heymel on the benefits of exercise and sport, and two shorter essays on the Internatioal Hygiene Exhibition in Dresden and decaffeinated coffee, illustrated with floor plans and 7 full-page plates… Read more

103 pp. text promoting a jewelry press, demonstrating its uses for molding metal, making rings, etc., 68 text illustrations, 6 color plates. 8to. Wrpps., spine sl. chipped. Paris/Madrid (C. Ash, Sons & Co.) n.d. (ca. early 20th century).