Search Results: Authors starting with U from Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc.

Printed on both sides. Card. Aachen: Gegenverkehr Zentrum für aktuelle Kunst, 1969. Card announcement for Uecker's solo show at the arts club managed by Klaus Honnef, Rune Mields, et al. In fine condition.

Black & white silkscreened illus. & text. Square poster (498 x 481 mm.), horizontal & vertical folds. Bremerhaven: 1970. Rare Uecker poster, silkscreened by gallerist Jürgen Wesseler (1938-2023). In very good condition; folded and tape-marks to corners. ❧ Not recorded in E. Kleimann, ed., 50 Jahre Avantgarde: Das Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst Bremerhaven (2018).

Numerous woodcuts (some full-page & some half-page) in the text. 6, 3, 40 folding leaves. 8vo, old, possibly orig. wrappers (with several repairs, one of which touches but does not obscure the text), orig. block-printed label on upper cover, new stitching. [Beijing: 2nd Preface dated 1614]. First edition, and very rare, of this work on the gnomon, one of the first astronomical measuring instruments, and its uses in astronomy and surveying. This work is important in the history of astronomy as it states here for the first time in China the doctrine that "the earth is spherical" (di ben yuanti 地本圓體). Ursis is also the first to state in China, in the present work, that the earth is divided into spaces separated by meridians and parallels. He uses geometrical analysis of planetary motions and the Euclidean geometry necessary for applying it to gnomonics, stereographic projections of the astrolabe, and in surveying. The beginning of the text discusses the five questions regarding latitude. In… Read More

21 double-page (one with a "trick" fold-out) & four full-page color-printed woodblock illus. 17; 12; 15 folding leaves. Three vols. 8vo, orig. semi-stiff wrappers (rubbed), orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers (not present on the first vol.), orig. stitching. [Japan]: Preface dated 1826. A remarkable and unusual shunga, which depicts a hermaphrodite (three scenes), a ménage à trois, scenes of voyeurism and masturbation, a childbirth scene, a deity with the face of a vagina, and a nun having sex with a man (two scenes). The color printing and embossing are exquisite throughout, fresh and highly detailed. The third volume begins with two extremely rare images. The first depicts a husband praying for a baby girl, while his wife prays for a male child. The following scene depicts a midwife assisting the wife, who is bearing a hermaphroditic baby. There is much to be studied in this book; we have only suggested some of the complex subjects. There is some debate regarding the… Read More

Black & white illus. [15] leaves. Oblong 8vo, metal binder clip. Utrecht: [1972]. Rare Keith Milow (b. 1945) exhibition catalogue; WorldCat locates no example in North America. Texts in Dutch by Jeroen Grosfeld and the artist. Installation photographs, artist's biography, and exhibition history in-fine. In fine condition.

One black & white illus. [31] leaves. Oblong 8vo, metal binder clip. Utrecht: 1972. An excellent and early catalogue concerning collectors of conceptual art; WorldCat locates no example in North America. It contains interviews with Martin and Mia Visser and Herman and Henriette Van-Eelen, in Dutch. The present exhibition was organized by Eveline Grosfeld and Henk van de Schoor. Near fine.