CAFFECONCERTO/ALFABETO A SORPRESA by CANGIULLO, (FRANCESCO) - 1919: SURPRISING ALPHABET

Parma: In fine: Parma, per Mario Vigna. 1646. [Figurato Architettura-Cortona] (cm. 35) ottimo cartonato originale con nervi in cuoio esterni e tracce di coloritura.-- cc. 4 nn., pp. 119 + 1 p. con il colophon. Frontis inciso + ritratto di Odoardo Farnese + ritratto dell' autore + 3 tavv. f.t. più volte ripiegate. Nel testo molte figure incise in rame con piante di fortificazioni, schemi, figure geometriche, calcoli ecc. Alcune firmate da Camillo Congi, G.B. Zampa, Sodi. Edizione originale ed unica della massima rarità citata da D' Ayala con data errata e Cockle replica l' errore. Choix e Mugnaini hanno esemplari scompleti. L' opera manca a Piantanida, Michel-Michel, Pollak, Graesse, Brunet, Comolli e a molta bibliografia consultata. Alcune notizie sull' autore di Parma, sono in Manzi assieme ad una ampia descrizione dell' opera. un lievissimo alone in alto su alcune carte altrimenti esemplare molto bello e a grandi margini con incisioni in ottima tiratura.… Read More

12 etchings by and after Salomon Gessner, plates numbered 2-12, first plate unnumbered, with imprint in lower right corner (= complete). Cont. plain wrappers. Oblong folio (370 x 250 mm).Leemann-Van Elck p. 267/268 nos. 2-12 ; Lonchamp. Manuel du Bibliophile Suisse 1215 ("Suite de paysages avec le puits sur la première feuille"). First edition, second state, with the number '4' in lower right corner, of this suite of etchings (c. 200 x 150 mm), with classical landscape views, printed on thick laid paper. Excellent impressions on the complete sheet with clear platemark and deep blacks. A few smudges in margins. A wide margined and well preserved set.

Jorge Welsh Research & Publishing Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; VOLUMES I, II and III, 3 hardcover volumes in slipcase; 1204 pages; 927 colour illustrations, 20 black and white illustrations; 26 x 35.5 cm cm; 12 kg; ISBN: 9780955743238; Published by Jorge Welsh Books, 2011.; Limited edition of 900 numbered copies - 500 in English and 400 in Portuguese.; VOLUME IV: Hardcover in slipcase; 504 pages with 404 colour illustrations.; 26 x 35.5 cm; 4.7 kg; ISBN: 9780993506857, Jorge Welsh Research & Publishing, 2019.; Limited edition of 500 numbered copies.; VOLUME V: Hardcover in slipcase; 256 pages with 309 colour illustrations.; 26 x 35.5 cm; 2,9 kg; ISBN: 9781838216313; Limited edition of 400 numbered copies from I to XX and from 21 to 400.; VOLUME VI: Hardcover in slipcase; 392 pages; 312 colour illustrations; 26 x 35.5 cm; 4.1 kg; Limited Edition of 400 numbered copies from I to XX and from 21 to 400.; The RA Collection of Chinese Ceramics: A Collector's Vision is the… Read More

Suite of 2 frontispieces and 61 portraits from Isaac de Larrey's History of England, Scotland and Ireland 1713-1730.

All portraits by Dutch Baroque master Adriaen van der Werff.

Copperplates engraved by Pieter Stevens van Gunst and others including Gerard Valck, Cornelis Vermeulen, Nicholas Pitaut, Benedict Audran, Jean Audran, Charles Simonneau, Pierre Drevet, Etienne Desrochers and Willem van der Gouwen.

Allegorical frontispiece (by Bernard Picart) and 28 portraits from Isaac de Larrey's Histoire d'Angleterre, d'Ecosse et d'Irlande, Reinier Leers, Amsterdam, 1713.

Allegorical frontispiece and 33 portraits from Isaac de Larrey's Histoire d'Angleterre, d'Ecosse et d'Irlande, Johann Covens and Cornelis Mortier, Amsterdam, 1730.

Plates mostly by Pieter Stevens van Gunst, and others including Gerard Valck, Cornelis Vermeulen, Nicholas Pitaut, Benedict Audran, Jean Audran, Charles Simonneau, Pierre Drevet, and Etienne Desrochers.

A sumptuous collection of oval portraits in decorative Baroque frames… Read More

Very good copy of the first edition of Richard Doyle's fantasy masterpiece.

Complete with16 colour woodblock plates printed by Edmund Evans, each with one to four designs, for a total of 36 charming illustrations. Fairies and elves with dragonfly wings flirt and tease, ride snails, fly in the air on butterfly-drawn leaf carriages, sleep under mushrooms, and joust riding on beetles.

"Looking within himself, Doyle found a fantastic but consistently imagined world in which fairies and elves live in the open air among birds, butterflies, snails, and beetles as large as themselves." (Gordon N. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England 1790-1914)

Richard "Dickie" Doyle, 1824-1883, was an English artist and illustrator, son of Irish caricaturist John Doyle and uncle of the writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. His began his career at Punch magazine, drawing the cover of the first issue and the masthead. After his success with the Brothers Grimm'sThe Fairy Ring in 1846, Doyle began to specialize in fantasy… Read More

San Francisco:: Pettingell Book Bindery / Art Hazelwood,, 2011.. Edition of 20. 12 x 13" fold-out boxed opera set with screenprinted covers. Includes miniature stage set, seven two-dimensional puppets that fit into groves in the stage floor, six engravings that act as changeable background drops, and a booklet with libretto. Engravings printed on Hahnemühle Copperplate paper and Lana Gravure paper. Screenprints printed on Hahnemühle Bugra paper and Arches Watercolor Hot Press paper. Booklet (8.5 x 5"; 24 pages) printed on Mohawk Superfine and set in Verlag, Chronicle Text, and Lithos Pro. Signed by Hazelwood. Art Hazelwood: "Tora Bora is a reverse engineered opera. The Seventeenth Century etcher Jacques Callot’s illustrations of scenes from operas inspired the thought—what if all that remained of an opera were etchings from a few scenes? How, for example, would the Magic Flute be reconstructed from that? With this in mind Art Hazelwood and Klaus-Ullrich… Read More

San Francisco:: Pettingell Book Bindery / Art Hazelwood,, 2010.. Edition of 10. 16 x 18"; 72 pages. Sixty woodcuts printed by the artist on Masa paper in editions varying in size from 25 to 50 of which numbers 11 - 20 were bound by the artist in a hand-sewn hardcover book format. Prints tipped onto Arches cover text paper. Each print numbered, titled, and signed. Art Hazelwood: "From 1986 to 1993 I traveled around the world, living in Europe and Asia and in various parts of the States. My primary interest however was traveling in Asia. The intensity of travel lured me on to see more and more. Experiences of people and places left their mark and I have tried to give back some of that feeling. The Tibetan nomads, Vietnamese 'cyclo' drivers, Japanese 'salary man,' Sikhs, Thais, and Uygurs that make up this series are the actors on an impossibly crowded world stage. It is this sometimes overwhelming encounter with the world that these prints seek to express. "Prints… Read More

This collection of original material of Jerome Myers includes two photographs of Jerome Myers, taken by Leo Grubman, one taken in 1910 [when they shared an art gallery and studio] and signed by Leo Grubman, the other taken by Grubman circa 1932. There is a photograph of his wife Ethel (photographer not identified). After his success at the Armory Show in 1911 with the sale of his painting "The Mission Tent" he was able to move into a new studio at the new Carnegie Hall building. There are two warmly personal letters with biographical items of interest plus some artistic representation. The first letter is to his friend Leo Grubman, dated January 21, 1914, and discusses with pride his daughter Virginia's dance recital and his busy schedule. There is a second letter (lacking the first page) of one page signed "Jerome" and circa 1915 of his move to Carmel, New York where he bought 18 acres in a very rustic setting (where he has made a few nice ink sketches along the margins of the letter). A small corner… Read More

London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1893. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Good+. 8 5/16" × 5 11/16" × 1/2". Maud. A Monodrama; by Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press. Printed by William Morris, and published by Macmillan & Co., Bedford Street, Strand. 1893. Limited First Edition. First State. 8vo: 8 5/16" x 5 11/16" x 1/2" (21.1 x 14.4 x 1.3 cm). Bound in custom hardcover full leather with tooled design. One of 500 [at two guineas] paper copies (plus 5 [not for sale] on vellum). Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor (with the second version of the Primrose watermark) paper. Uncut. Colophon and the smaller, rectangular printer's device designed by Morris (no. 1). All edges gilt. [iv], 69, [70, imprint] pp. Printed in black and red throughout with the Golden type designed by Morris for his press, with stanza numbers in red. Woodcut title within a floral border, facing page with full woodcut floral page-border (borders 10a and 10). Numerous other floral edge borders at… Read More

London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1901–1902. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Very Good+. 11 5/8" × 8 1/4" . The Works (of William Morris): Limited ed. set of 8 large 4to William Morris works printed at the Chiswick Press for Longmans in Golden type: The Aeneids of Virgil Done into English Verse & Architecture, Industry, and Wealth & Hopes and Fears for Art. Signs of Change & The Odyssey of Homer, Done into English & The Roots of the Mountains: Wherein is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale, Their Friends, Their Neighbours, Their Foemen and Their Fellows in Arms & The Story of Grettir the Strong Translated from the Icelandic by Eiríkr Magnússon and William Morris & A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark Written in Prose and in Verse & Volsunga Saga: The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs, with Certain Songs from the Elder Edda: Translated from the Icelandic by Eiríkr Magnússon and William Morris. Three Northern Love Stories and Other Tales: Translated… Read More