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MODERN ART - A FAMOUS ARTIST'S BOOK - MAIL ART - POSTCARDS BY 48 INTERNATIONAL LEADING ARTISTS. NANNUCCI, Maurizio (ed.) et ALII. Mèla post card book : a collection of artists' postcards : una raccolta di cartoline d'artista. Firenze, Biancoenero Edizione d'Arte, 1979. FIRST and ONLY LIMITED EDITION. Photomechanical prints published by Maurizio Nannucci and printed in an edition of 1000 copies by Biancoenero, Florence, in original folded card sleeve. Sporadic very light flaws to the sleeve. Excellent condition. The conceptual/performance artist Nannucci's work includes: photography, video, neon installations, sound installation, artist's books, and editions. Also involved with Concrete Poetry. Lives and works in Florence and South Baden, Germany. A complete set of 48 artist postcards by various international leading modern and contemporary artists: Eric Anderson, John Baldessari, Luciano Bartolini, Gianfranco Baruchello, Berd & Hilla Becker, Joseph Beuys, James Lee Byars, Alighiero Boetti, Chris… Read More

THE EARLIEST PRIVATE-LIBRARY CATALOGUE ARRANGED BY SUBJECTSFIRST EDITION. 8vo (ca. 19,5x15,5 cm), [20], 542 pp., Roman and Italic letter. Woodcut initials, large printers device on t-p and Cordes's full-page engraved portrait to verso of a2. Generally, a very pleasant copy, clean and crisp. Very occasional mild waterstaining at blank margins, stronger damp stains to the final 50 leaves. Upper blank corners of the 3 last leaves restored. Bound in contemporary semi-limp vellum, early ms. title to spine. A near-fine, wide-margined and complete copy of an extremely rare and iconic work, preserved in its original binding.The present work "did much to establish the use of catalogues of private libraries as reference works" (Taylor, p. 109; see also p. 238). The Bibliothecae Cordesianae catalogus is perhaps one the earliest major library catalogues to appear in print and surely the first printed catalogue of a French private library arranged by subject. For such reason, it is of greatest relevance for the… Read More

FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. 227, [1], with engraved frontispiece and 4 folding plates. Head and tailpieces, small woodcut on t-p. Marbled endpapers, contemporary mottled leather, gilt decorations to spine, green silk bookmark. Ownership note on t-p: "Du chevalier de Robilant", perhaps Italian engineer Spirito Benedetto Nicolis di Robilant (1724-1801). Some small flaws at spine caps and corners of the boards. A very good copy. A.e.r.Frontispiece engraving by Brunet after Le Sueur, representing an experiment with electricity. Abbé Nollet (1700-1770), who was a pupil of Réaumur and collaborator of du Fay, opened an office in Paris where he performed his experiments "live". The success was unexpected: the whole court thronged there and experimental physics became an amateur's pleasure and a fashionable entertainment to which Nollet contributed doubly since he manufactured and sold the instruments which allowed the beholders to repeat the experiments in their own places.Mottelay, pp. 181-183; Wheeler Gift, 329.