Search Results: Titles starting with L from Shapero Rare Books

London, Waddington Graphics and Corianda Studios, 1991. . Screenprint in colours, 1991, on wove paper, signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 95 in pencil, published by Waddington Graphics and Corianda Studios, 102.5 x 77 cm (40.4 x 30.3 in.)

1965 . Lithograph in colours, circa 1965, on Rives paper, signed in pencil, from the edition of 75, published by Mourlot, Paris, 55.9 x 75.6 cm. (22 x 29¾ in.) Although widely known as a sculptor, Alexander Calder (1898-1976) was also a prolific printmaker. This lithograph, spotlights Calder's Futurist style, a style that is more closely associated with his sculpture and highlights his talent across mediums. It accurately captures Calder's precision, but also his freedom in terms of composition. Large geometric strokes across the plate, alongside a lopsided palette of red, black and white takes Calder's iterations of Futurism, which are so often found in his sculpture, and creates a print that encapsulates his spirit.Calder received many accolades throughout his life, including the American Medal of Freedom, and deservedly so. His great influence on Futurism, Constructivism, Minimalism and American art in general is widely accepted, but perhaps most notably is the recognition he has received from… Read More

[c.1930]. . Twenty-one silver gelatin prints, postcard size. Very good tonal range and in good condition. This collection consists of postcards made from photographs taken by Casimir Zagourski in Africa between 1924 and 1941, which formed a part of his overal project, "L'Afrique Qui Disparait" (Disappearing Africa). The photos are set in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly known as the Belgian Congo), Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Chad, Kenya, Central African Republic, Cameroon, and Congo-Brazzaville. The postcards depict a variety of aspects of everyday life in these different settings.Casimir Zagourski, of Polish parentage, was born in Ukraine in 1880. After a military career in the Russian air force and the Polish army, he left Eastern Europe and moved to Africa in 1924, settling in Leopoldville, now Kinshasa, Congo, where he began his career as a photographer. During the next seventeen years, until his death in 1941, Zagourski traveled around Central Africa photographing its… Read More

[Paris, Mabileau & Co., c. 1910]. . Hand-coloured pochoir print. Framed and glazed, overall size: 93.6cm x 49.2cm ID22 The Gamy-Montaut prints document various historical events in the early history of transportation, including Power Boat Racing, Motorcycle and Motor Car Racing, Motor Car Touring, Zeppelins and Tennis.Having observed the rapidly growing interest in cars and racing during the early years of motor cars, Ernest Montaut produced his first motoring prints in the mid-1890s, and by 1897, his drawings were pictorial records of the many races in France. Montaut's work was extremely well received in the Paris of his day and was shown in the fashionable shops of the Rue de l'Opera and Rue de la Paix, as well as in the better galleries.Marguerite Montaut, Ernest's wife, joined him in his work producing not only racing prints but also developing a fine series of aviation prints commemorating such events as the first flights on the early European mail routes. While Marguerite Montaut's works… Read More

Paris, GLM, 1954, . Limited edition, one of 30 copies hand coloured by Miro, signed by the author and the artist on the verso, from a total edition of 100; one leaf, unfolded, small oblong 4to (11 x 27 cm), lithograph heightened with watercolour, pastel and india ink on wove paper, lower right corner slightly creased, otherwise in excellent condition. One of 30 copies with original hand colouring by Miro. This example has extensive additions, with a blue background to the text, the artist's fingerprints in red and black, ink line drawings to the lithograph, as well as brightly coloured dots to the justification. The artist decorated the thirty examples with different illustrations, making them each unique but retained some similar elements such as the red dots and line drawings. René Char and Joan Miro had met during the Surrealist period, but their friendship dated from the post-war years when Miro returned to France. L'Alouette is their third collaborative work. A notably scarce work even for… Read More

Leiden, Meurs, 1665. . First French edition. Folio. 2 parts in 1, bound without additional engraved title, printed title printed in red and black with engraved vignette (short tear to lower blank margin), engraved portrait of Colbert, large folding map (short tear to fold, lightly browned), 34 double-page engraved plates, engravings in the text, light old waterstain towards end, contemporary mottled calf gilt, joints and extremities neatly repaired, a little rubbed, a very good copy. The Dutch being at the height of their power, having supplanted the Portuguese, desired to gain access to China and a portion of the China trade. After much opposition the Government succeeded in sending certain merchants to try the pulse of the Chinese at Canton. Upon their report it was determined to despatch ambassadors from Batavia to the Court of Peking to solicit liberty to trade. This is the embassy written up by Nieuhoff, who was steward to the ambassadors. Its failure led the Dutch to send other embassies.… Read More

Paris, Delaulne, Foucault et al., 1719-1724. . 15 vol. Folio. Titles printed in red & black, engraved portrait, complete with 1380 engraved plates on 1379 sheets, approximately 200 double-page; a few plates lightly browned, occasional small, light waterstaining to fore-margin, generally crisp, clean & fresh. Contemporary sprinkled calf gilt; lightly rubbed, minor wear to extremities. Magisterial work by the Benedictine monk Bernard de Montfaucon (1655–1741), one of the founders of modern archaeology.The present work is a catalogue of ancient Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan and Roman artefacts, sculptures and art. Profusely illustrated, it constitutes a pictorial encyclopaedia of the gods, heroes, everyday life, religious customs, and military actions of the ancient world. The book's images of the ancient goddess of liberty brought it to the particular attention of Benjamin Franklin.Complete sets in contemporary bindings are increasingly difficult to find. Brunet, III, 1862 – Cohen, 731.

[Paris, Imprimerie de Langlois, 1805]. . Original stipple engraving, printed in colours and finished by hand, with strong colour, trimmed to just outside plate-mark, small tear to left side, otherwise a fine copy with clean, strong colours. From Levaillant's Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets, which is considered the most comprehensive and complete catalogue on the subject. This magnificent work includes some of the most lively and colorful bird illustrations ever created. They capture not only the defining characteristics of the species, but also the charming personality of the individual bird.This exquisite monograph was written by Francois Levaillant, an adventurer and natural historian, who was one of the first to record sightings of Australian parrots. Barrband's skill was greatly esteemed and his name lent cachet to the sumptious work authored by Levaillant. Barraband's brilliantly colored engravings of exotic birds coupled with Levaillant's precise descriptions represent the height of… Read More

[Paris, Imprimerie de Langlois, 1805]. . Original stipple engraving, printed in colours and finished by hand, with strong colour, trimmed to just outside plate-mark, small tear to left side, otherwise a fine copy with clean, strong colours. From Levaillant's "Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets", which is considered the most comprehensive and complete catalogue on the subject.This magnificent work includes some of the most lively and colorful bird illustrations ever created. They capture not only the defining characteristics of the species, but also the charming personality of the individual bird.This exquisite monograph was written by Francois Levaillant, an adventurer and natural historian, who was one of the first to record sightings of Australian parrots. Barrband's skill was greatly esteemed and his name lent cachet to the sumptious work authored by Levaillant. Barraband's brilliantly colored engravings of exotic birds coupled with Levaillant's precise descriptions represent the height of… Read More

[Paris, 1806]. . Colour-printed stipple engraving, finished by a contemporary hand. A fine example, from the first edition of the 'Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rolliers, suivie de celle des toucans et des barbus' by Levaillant - a "magnificent work" (Wood) and one of the most comprehensive on exotic birds.

[Paris, 1806]. . Colour-printed stipple engraving, finished by a contemporary hand. A fine example, from the first edition of the 'Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rolliers, suivie de celle des toucans et des barbus' by Levaillant - a "magnificent work" (Wood) and one of the most comprehensive on exotic birds.

Paris, par Iaques Keruer, 1553. . First edition in French; folio (33.5 x 23 cm); ownership inscription and armorial bookplate to front pastedown, woodcut title, initials, headpieces and numerous illustrations, Roman and Italic type, leaves numbered to upper fore-edge margin recto, contemporary annotations in pen in French; 18th-century calf, sympathetically rebacked to style, sprinkled edges, final leaf of text pasted to rear endpaper with some loss to text of imprint, leaves 227 and 228 with a hole affecting text, otherwise internally clean; leaves: [8], 167, [1], 168-184, [2], 185-228. The first edition in French of Leon Battista Alberti's (1404-1472) monumental treatise on the art of building, De re aedificatoria, one of the earliest printed works of architectural theory. Alberti was the architect behind several important Renaissance constructions, including the Palazzo Rucellai and the Santa Maria Novella in Florence, and began writing the text for the Aedificatoria in the mid-fifteenth… Read More

Paris E. Crete and Lemercier for V. Lavallee [c. 1898]. . Folio (40 x 30.5 cm). Half-title, title, frontispiece, dedication, 152 pp. with many photographic illustrations, 8 colour plates; a few small marginal tears without affecting the text. Publisher's beige wrappers with gilt lettering to upper board; very light spotting. mba004 Fine copy of this celebrated work, illustrating extensively the Russian army at the end of the 19th century: its uniforms, its exercises and its officers. Dedicated to Nicholas II, with a frontispiece of the Tsar.

Paris, Morel, 1877. . First edition. 3 volumes, folio (66 x 52 cm), [viii]; [viii]; [viii] pp., with 200 lithographed plates, 130 in colour, 48 tinted (all mounted on tabs) some light scattered foxing throughout, text volume with 34 plates and 73 text illustrations; bound in contemporary brown morocco backed marbled boards, spine gilt lettered with raised bands; overall a very attractive example. MP22 One of the most important books on Islamic art and architecture, focusing on monuments in Egypt.Emile Prisse d'Avennes, orientalist & Muslim convert, obsessive in his attention to detail, was, after Champollion, the greatest pre-twentieth century Egyptologist. A French nobleman by birth, though impoverished, Prisse d'Avennes spent his life in the pursuit of the exotic. After a period fighting for Greek independence he travelled to India, a journey that prefigured his extensive Middle Eastern travels, which during the next 40 years took him to Palestine, Syria, Sudan, Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia, and most… Read More

Paris, Edition 'La Cible', 1919. . One of 100 broadsheet (49.8 x 36.2 cm) subscriber copies; 6 bifolia: 12 leaves + 14 leaves of plates; pp. 18; leaf with justification, leaf with title with circular pochoir publisher's colour vignette (by Larionov), copyright verso, 6 leaves with Valentin Parnakh's analysis with 8 tipped-in illustrations on glossy paper (6 in colour), leaf with list of plates, leaf with list of text illustrations and 14 hors-texte plates: 6 pochoir colour plates (2 by Goncharova and 4 by Larionov) and 8 colour plates (listed as 'Gravures'), 3 tipped-in; sheet size: 500 x 360 mm or the reverse; loose as issued in original publisher's printed paper portfolio with flaps, front cover with title and large vignette in black by Larionov, one cloth tie. The scarce publication reproducing Goncharova and Larionov's works for the avant-garde stage, an exceptional copy that includes the two very rare additional colour pochoir plates by Larionov. This being one of 100 large paper, broadsheet… Read More

Paris, Albin Michel, 1922. . Limited edition and the first illustrated, one of 51 copies (this being no. 34) on papier hollande (from a total edition of 582); 4to (32.5 x 27 cm); illustrated with 24 original engravings after Lobel-Riche in three states, an extra suite of 12 of the plates in three states and an additional signed pen ink drawing, three pages of manuscript notes by Pierre Benoit entitled 'l'Art du Romanicer'; unbound as issued with original publisher's wrappers, in a later orange marbled slipcase. Provenance: G.B. (sticker to inside of wrapper cover). With an original drawing by Lobel-Riche and manuscript essay from Pierre Benoit.L'Atlantide was originally published in 1919 and shortly became a huge success, winning the Grand Prize of the Academie Francaise the same year. Its popularity was largely attributed to the welcome escape Benoit's passionate and exotic novel gave to those suffering from the horrors of WWI.

[Amsterdam, P. Mortier, c.1710]. . Playing card, fine original outline hand-colour. Good condition. A wonderful cartographic playing card in fine original colour.By the early 18th century the cartographic range of playing cards was almost completely dominated by one important family of map makers, the Amsterdam map publishing group founded in 1685 by Pieter Mortier (1661-1711). After his death, as his son was underage, the business was continued by his widow Amelia and brother David; his son Cornelis took over control of the business in 1721, and continued it in partnership with Johannes Covens, as Covens & Mortier, on into the 1780s under later members of the families.Extant sets of the cards can be found with a rule-book, bearing the imprint of Covens and Mortier, but it is likely that the cards were first published by Pieter Mortier towards the end of his life.All playing cards are rare: designed for play and being of small format, they were extremely vulnerable to damage from handling, and easy… Read More

[Amsterdam, P. Mortier, c.1710]. . Playing card, fine original outline hand-colour. Good condition. A wonderful cartographic playing card in fine original colour.By the early 18th century the cartographic range of playing cards was almost completely dominated by one important family of map makers, the Amsterdam map publishing group founded in 1685 by Pieter Mortier (1661-1711). After his death, as his son was underage, the business was continued by his widow Amelia and brother David; his son Cornelis took over control of the business in 1721, and continued it in partnership with Johannes Covens, as Covens & Mortier, on into the 1780s under later members of the families.Extant sets of the cards can be found with a rule-book, bearing the imprint of Covens and Mortier, but it is likely that the cards were first published by Pieter Mortier towards the end of his life.All playing cards are rare: designed for play and being of small format, they were extremely vulnerable to damage from handling, and easy… Read More

Manufacture des Papiers de L'Etat, St. Petersbourg, 1908 - 1909. . Octavo (28 x 20 cm), 3 vols. Frontispiece, XIII, 436 pp. with 29 plates; frontispiece, IX, 751 pp., with 33 plates and one facsimile; frontispiece, VIII, 723 pp., with 27 plates and two facsimiles, all plates with tissue guards; one plate in vol 2 loose. Contemporary red calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands richly gilt, bookmarks; very lightly rubbed. A beautiful copy of this fundamental work on the life of Empress Elizaveta Alekseevna (1779 - 1826), a spouse of Aleksandr I, from the library of the prominent public figure and collector Sergey Sheremetiev. The publication of this singular substantial work dedicated to the life of Empress Elizaveta came to life thanks to the efforts of the Grand Duke Nikolay Mikhailovich, an outstanding historian & writer, and cousin to the last Russian tsar Nikolas II. However, the initial idea for writing a biography of the Empress belonged to the Grand Duke Sergey Aleksandrovich,… Read More

Paris, Éditions Excelsior, 1926. . Limited edition number 307 of 425 numbered copies; 4to; 20 colour plates by Icart and a facsimile letter by Colette on blue paper tipped-in opposite the limitation page, text in French, near-contemporary binding by A. Szekely in half morocco over marbled boards gilt, marbled endpapers and top edge gilt, a little rubbed at extremities, otherwise very good.