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Brussels: Academie Royale de Belgique, 1956. First edition. Wraps. Orig. gray printed wrappers, plates are laid-in loose as issued. Text near fine, plate volume very good. 2 vols. 381 pages. 25.5 x 16.5 cm. Van Dyck became the leading court painter in England, best known for portraits of the aristocracy, most notably Charles I, his family and associates. He became the dominant influence on English portrait-painting for the next 150 years. This is Tome IX, of the publications of the Academy. Second volume of 190 black and white plates, some with more than one image per plate printed recto only: plus 350 engravings and watermarks. Concordance Table, Table of Plates and Alphabetical Table of Places and Names. Text in French, text mostly unopened, and text condition near fine. Plate volume covers nicked and repaired with archival tape.

Newark: Np, 1891. Hardcover. Orig. brown pebble grained cloth, front cover lettered in gilt. All edges red. Fine. Braun, Max. 2 preliminary leaves, 110 pages illustrations (including music). 30.5 x 23 cm. Hand written text interspersed with drawings by Braun create a comic visual artifice. OCLC: 5109191. Interior contents very clean, fresh and bright. Text in German.

Toulouse: Chez L'Autor, 1897. First edition. Wraps. Orig. tan wrappers printed in black and red. Very good. xxxiii pages. 25.5 x 16 cm. 28 tinted plates (sanguine). Text in French. Presents work of principal Belgian artists of the period. Front cover chipped at fore-edge and lower extremities.

Paris: A. Barbier, 1846. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary quarter brown morocco and brown boards. Very good. 490 pages. 27 x 19 cm. Nine hand-colored plates (with tissue guards) and a host of steel engraved plates -- Philippoteaux, T. Johannot, E. Bellange, Isabey, E. Lamy, K. Girandet, Morel Fatio, C. Nanteuil, H. Baron et al. Six pages at end of text -- Citations A L'Ordre De L'Armee -- military encounters and events in year order, 1830-1845. providing names of officer's in charge and participating. Some scattered, intermittent foxing more pronounced in first leaves, colored plates clean, lower corners bumped, modest extremity rubbing, raised bands, spine panels richly gilt.

Paris: Andre Balland, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. yellow cloth, covers and spine printed in red. Fine in mottled very good dust wrapper. 152 pages. 31 x 31 cm. A cornucopia of color and black and white illustrations on lustrous stock with high quality imagery. Text in French. Post Card subjects cover politics, religion, military, war, women and eroticism. Interior contents very clean and bright. Index.

Paris: Les Editions De La Roseraie, 1926. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. cream wrappers lettered in gilt. Very good. 82 pages in text. 28.5 x 21 cm. Limited edition, copy 61 of 250 on Arches, with an original drawing of Cupid on the half title signed and inscribed by Vertes, and by Hesse -- both to Lucien Bonn. Eleven full page color lithographs by Vertes. The author, a bibliophile, and a lawyer by profession. Vertes, born in Hungary achieved success in Paris during the 1920's: he worked for the satirical magazine, "Rire" and "Gazette Du Bon Ton." His portrayals of women and scenes of Paris street life were arch. Interior contents very fresh, bright and clean, only flaw, slight toning lower portion of front cover.

Paris: Albert Guillot, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. basket weave beige cloth lettered in red. Fine. 148 pages. 31 x 24.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 528 of 1000. 128 photographs, 13 in color. First volume of publisher series, "Les Hauts Lieux De L'Histoire." Text in French. Bright, very fresh copy.

Paris: Le Livre Contemporain, 1925. leather_bound. Full decorated black morocco. Fine in matching fine slipcase. 80 pages. 34 x 26 cm. 22 lithographic illustrations by Raphael Drouart. Limited edition, copy 56 of 120, signed by Paul Valery and Raphael Drouart. This copy dedicated to M.R. Delaine. Rouart was proficient in all the printmaking techniques; etching, engraving, mezzotint, relief and lithography. He worked as a collaborating illustrator for many authors throughout the 1920s -- in 1925 he did aquatints for a livre d' artiste Le Cantique Des Cantiques and 20 wood engravings for Rene Boyleve's Le Meillieur Ami. Art Deco binding by Jacques Anthoine-Legrain, stepson and assistant to Pierre Legrain. The text develops a dialogue and philosophical interpretations of Socrate, Phedre, and Eryximaque as they view a dance performance at a banquet. Covers decorated in ruled gilt and blind, and in pointelles, inner gilt dentelles with gray silk moire endpapers plus original wrappers are bound-in.

Paris: Editions Nilsson, 1920. Paperback. Orig. illustrated pochoir wrappers. Very good. Follet, Edith. 215 pages. 23 x 17 cm. Six tipped-in pochoir plates by Edith Follet. Plates vibrant and brilliant, text clean, and unopened. Nice copy of a fragile production, small nicks backstrip head and foot and front cover joint.

Paris: Printed for the author, 1930. First edition. Wraps. Orig. plain white wrappers, backstrip lettered and illustrated. Very good. 94 pages. Folio, 34 x 25.5. Limited edition copy 63 of 70 on Hollande van Gelder on the presses of Vernant under the direction of Brunel. Illustrated with 25 full-page etchings (including text leaves and the title-page) printed recto only. The gossamer quality of his etchings stood in contrast to the thickly painted surfaces and generally somber color of his oil paintings, which reflected his admiration for Courbet and Cézanne. Segonzac's work is held in the permanent collections of several museums worldwide, including the British Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The play staged Théâtre Grand Guignol, March 3, 1923. Publisher's original glassine and vellum wrappers, paper wrappers, in loose gatherings as issued creasing to glassine, slight soiling to inner wrapper, rear outer wrapper creased at upper corner.

Venetia: Appresso Marc Antonio Brogiollo, 1642. leather_bound. Orig. limp vellum, spine lettered in brown. Very good in fine custom slipcase. quarter vellum spine and marbled boards. Folio, 33 x 22 cm. a2, B-G4, H-I4, AA-KK4, AAA6, BBB-EEE4, 4A-4R4, including title and final blank. Illustrated title page, some margin stains and browning. Initial decorated letters throughout. Not in FOWLER. Palladio's palaces and villas were imitated for 400 years all over the Western world; he was the first architect to systematize the plan of a house and consistently to use the ancient Greco-Roman temple front as a portico, or roofed porch supported by columns.

Paris: Societe Francaise d'Editions d'Art, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter navy morocco and patterned boards. Teg. Very good. 272 pages. 28 x 21 cm. Limited edition, copy 690 of 1000, original wrappers designed by Louis Rhead bound-in. Plethora of color tinted and black white text illustrations. French text treats book decoration and the book arts at the turn of the century at the zenith of Art Nouveau influence -- bindings, cover design, commercial printing. Raised bands, spine panels in floral art nouveau motifs, marbled endpapers, rubbing to lower extremities, interior very clean and fresh.

Paris: Editions Ulusse Boucoiran, 1925. First edition. Original Wraps. Orig. striated buff wrappers. Very good in worn original glassine overwrapper. 123 pages. 25.5 x 16 cm. 16 hand-colored mounted lithograph plates with 80 text figures. The art of make-up with numerous examples, an historic overview of techniques and uses -- last chapter on cinema cosmetics. 10 pages of adverts at rear unopened -- purveyors of beauty products. Text in French. Nicks to backstrip extremities.

Paris: E. Victor, 1909. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Very good. 16 pages. 31 x 24 cm. A satirical journal illustrated frequently by Anarchist and radical socialist artists, founded by Samuel Schwarz, a naturalized Hungarian Jew. Each issue contained 16 full page designs in color and black and white. Backstrip reinforced with archival tape.

Paris: E. Victor, 1903. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Very good. Sancha. 16 pages. 31 x 24 cm. A satirical journal illustrated frequently by Anarchist and radical socialist artists, founded by Samuel Schwarz, a naturalized Hungarian Jew. Each issue contained 16 full page designs in color and black and white. This issue illustrated all in color by Sancha. The anglo visitors spoofed. Backstrip reinforced with archival tape.

Paris: E. Victor, 1903. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Very good. Steinlen, Theophile. 16 pages. 31 x 24 cm. A satirical journal illustrated frequently by Anarchist and radical socialist artists, founded by Samuel Schwarz, a naturalized Hungarian Jew. Each issue contained 16 full page designs in color and black and white. This issue illustrated mostly in color by Steinlen, Van Dongen, et al. Small chips to cover extremities, backstrip reinforced with archival tape.

Paris: E. Victor, 1903. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Very good. Camara. 16 pages. 31 x 24 cm. A satirical journal illustrated frequently by Anarchist and radical socialist artists, founded by Samuel Schwarz, a naturalized Hungarian Jew. Each issue contained 16 full page designs in color and black and white. This issue illustrated mostly in color by Camara. The high and mighty take a pounding, Teddy Roosvelt included for his treatment of blacks. Backstrip reinforced with archival tape.

Paris: H. Piazza, 1919. Hardcover. Three quarter green morocco and marbled boards. Teg. Near fine. 125 pages. 29.8 x 22.4 cm. Limited edition, copy 1303 of 1500. Bound by Vermorel, Paris. The English and American editions of East of the Sun and West of the Moon were issued five years earlier. Illustrated with 24 mounted color plates by Nielsen with lettered tissue guards. Title page printed in red and black with original wrappers bound-in. Each page with border design, and additional black and white illustrations in the text. Interior contents clean and fresh. Text in French. Spine faded evenly to brown, decorated in gilt and blind, marbled endpapers.

Paris: Les Arts et Le Livre, 1927. Stiff wraps. Orig. publisher's decorated and lettered tan stiff wraps. Near fine. Vertes, Marcel. 245 pages. 20 x 15 cm. Limited edition, copy 156 of 1165. 15 black and white lithographs hors-texte by Marcel Vertès. Publisher's decorative paper wrappers. A collection of short stories illustrating life in Europe in the 1920s. Morand was a French author whose short stories and novellas were lauded for their style, wit and descriptive power. His most productive literary period was the interwar period of the 1920s and 1930s. Vertes primarily known for his book illustrations, murals and tapestry designs. Bookplate of Harry S. Goebel. Covers reinforced at backstrip extremities.

Paris: Armand Colin, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter brown morocco and marbled boards, matching endpapers, rebacked. Near fine. Unpaginated. 32.5 x 25 cm. 17 lithographed Art Nouveau illustrations hors texte and a host of decorative floral borders and drawings. Schwabe, a painter and print maker featured allegorical and mythological themes indicating the idealism of the Symbolists. Original wrappers bound-in. Regular edition outside the limited edition of 150. Bound by Blackwell, raised bands, spine panels decorated in gilt, bookplate. CARTERET 73. MONOD 4397.