Search Results: Titles starting with V from Cole & Contreras

Paris: Carilian-Goeury et Vr Dalmont / Napoléon Chaix, 1847. A PRISTINE COPY OF THE FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF THIS EXTREMELY EARLY MANUAL FOR RAILROAD CONDUCTORS AND ENGINEERS. 143 pp. Signed by author on verso of half-title (as with all copies). Printed on good wove paper. Name of former owner ("M. Picandet") stamped on front cover and half-title. 12mo. Original plain wraps. Uncut. Light wear to wraps. Internally fine and bright. Considering the tiny target audience of this book, surely very few copies were printed, and most of those were probably subject to heavy use. The survival of such a pristine copy is nothing short of remarkable.

Paris: hors commerce (privately printed for the author), 1929. VERY RARE first and only edition (privately printed) of this play (intended for marionettes) by Henry Church (1880-1947), now perhaps best remembered as a patron of the arts and sponsor (and co-editor) of the literary journal Mesures. 75 pp. Edition limited to 100 numbered copies, all printed on fine Dutch wove paper. WITH A SIGNED PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM CHURCH TO LOUIS VOGT. 8vo. Printed wraps. Minimal wear to covers, else FINE AND BRIGHT.

Paris: Cent Femmes Amies des Livres, 1962. Ramondot. A wonderful livre d'artiste devoted to Venice, with 20 ORIGINAL DRYPOINTS BY JACQUES RAMONDOT. Edition limited to 100 numbered copies, all printed on fine Rives wove paper. This copy was printed for the Countess Guy de Kerveguen, and has a signed presentation inscription from the artist. Laid in, exceptionally, is THE SIGNED ORIGINAL INK AND WASH DRAWING FOR THE DRYPOINT ON PAGE 135. Large 4to. Loose as issued in original sheets with printed wraps. FINE AND BRIGHT, in the original board chemise and slipcase (slipcase a bit bumped).

Paris: Société des Amis des Livres, 1912. The most beautiful early 21st century evocation of Venice, with 35 ORIGINAL ETCHINGS BY HENRI PAILLARD. Published by Henri Béraldi's Société des Amis des Livres, among the most exclusive bibliophile societies, in an EDITION LIMITED TO ONLY 100 COPIES, ALL PRINTED ON FINE ARCHES WOVE PAPER. This is copy number 53, printed for André Aude. Laid in is a typed note to Aude from Jean Borderel, treasurer-archivist of the Société, signed in ink by Borderel. Large 4to. Loose as issued in original wraps. FINE AND BRIGHT, in the original chemise and (lightly stained) slipcase. Rare.

Paris, 2014. A very large original photograph by Colombian photographer Margarita Bohórquez, who lives and works in France. Edition limited to three prints, each signed, numbered, and titled by the artist. 115 x 76 cm. In fine condition, with no defects.

Paris, 2014. A very large original photograph by Colombian photographer Margarita Bohórquez, who lives and works in France. Edition limited to three prints, each signed, numbered, and titled by the artist. 76 x 115 cm. In fine condition, with no defects.

Paris: Les Editions la Bourdonnais, 1937. A FINE SIGNED LARGE-PAPER COPY of the first and only edition of this first-hand account of a voyage to the South Pacific, including the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), Fiji, Tonga, and numerous other places. 115 pp plus folding map. ONE OF 100 NUMBERED LARGE-PAPER COPIES PRINTED ON FINE LAFUMA WOVE PAPER, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR IN PURPLE INK. 8vo. Original wraps. ENTIRELY UNCUT AND UNOPENED. A bit of very light foxing, else FINE AND BRIGHT

Paris: Plon, 1967. ONE OF ONLY 24 NUMBERED COPIES PRINTED ON IMPERIAL JAPANESE PAPER OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE MOST IMPORTANT VOLUME OF JULIEN GREEN'S JOURNAL. 514 pp. 8vo. Publisher's printed wraps. ENTIRELY UNCUT AND UNOPENED. Fine and bright, like new, with no defects.

Bern: Galerie Kornfeld, 2005. Paul Klee. Second, last and best edition of the standard catalogue raisonne. 313 pp. 113 items reproduced (often in multiple states) and thoroughly described. Edition limited to 1200 copies. Folio. Publisher's cloth, dustjacket. FINE AND BRIGHT.

Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1907 and Euphorion, 1927 (reprint). Two volumes, complete. The catalogue raisonne of Munch's etchings, drypoints, lithographs, and woodcuts. 519 items exhaustively described. 4to. Publisher's cloth. FINE AND BRIGHT. New.

Friburgi Brisgoviae (Freiburg im Breisgau): Typis Satronianis, sumptibus Wagneriorum, 1780. Volume I, all published of what was to be a monumental scholarly study of the antiquities of the Church. Includes a wealth of bibliographic information about early books and manuscripts pertaining to the Church and the church fathers. Three full-page engraved plates. 8vo. Bound in recent boards, with an old leather spine label. Stamp (in Hungarian?) on title-page, else fine and bright.

Barcelona: Polígrafa, 1993. A printed folder with a large (48 x 36.5) and stunning color aquatint by Albert Ràfols-Casamada, signed in pencil by the artist. Edition limited to 90 copies. Printed on fine wove paper. FINE AND BRIGHT.

Paris: Au dépens de l'auteur (privately printed), 1928. Yvonne Ripa de Roveredo. A beautiful livre de peintre, with prose poems and 22 ORIGINAL SOFTGROUND ETCHINGS BY YVONNE RIPA DE ROVEREDO. Edition limited to 100 numbered copies printed on extremely fine Japon nacré paper. Four 4-page propectuses printed on fine laid paper, each with a subscription form, laid in. Oblong folio. Loose as issued in original wraps. FINE AND BRIGHT, with no defects. Housed in the original (lightly worn) decorated slipcase.

Madrid: Alianza, 1995. Spanish translation of Panofsky's classic work on Durer. 325 illustrations. 4to, original wraps. Fine.

Paris: René Kieffer, 1924. Paul Baudier. A livre d'artiste beautifully illustrated by Paul Baudier, one of the great book artists of the 20th century, with 20 ORIGINAL FULL-PAGE HORS-TEXTE ETCHINGS (with aquatint) AND NUMEROUS WOOD-ENGRAVINGS. Edition limited to 580 numbered copies, of which this is ONE OF ONLY 50 COPIES (tête) PRINTED ON FINE ANTIQUE JAPANESE PAPER, WITH THE ETCHINGS IN THREE STATES. 4to. Original wraps. Uncut. FINE AND BRIGHT. sxxi

Tuebingen: Max Niemeyer, 1969. Critical edition. 8vo. Fine in original wraps.

York: A. Barclay / Engelmann, 1831. First and only edition of this collection of carefully rendered yet somewhat naive lithographic views of York churches. 23 plates, including the frontispiece, each accompanied by a page of letterpress description. Complete with the 24th and final plate, which was published as an afterthought and thus is not included in the list of plates. A LARGE-PAPER COPY, WITH THE PLATES IN INDIA PROOF STATE. With the bookplate of John Tricks Spalding. 4to. Attractively bound in 19th century half crushed morocco and cloth, WITH SPALDING'S INITIALS, IN STYLIZED LETTERS, BEAUTIFULLY LAID INTO THE FRONT COVER IN MOROCCO. Light wear to extremities of binding, light occasional internal spotting. Plates bright and fine. A very good copy of a rare book.

Paris: Furne, 1832-1833. A PRISTINE COMPLETE SET OF 25 STEEL ENGRAVINGS AFTER ALFRED AND TONY JOHANNOT, ILLUSTRATING THE WORKS OF CHATEAUBRIAND, IN ORIGINAL PARTS, WITH ALL WRAPPERS PRESENT. Proofs avec la lettre with wide margins on fine wove paper. Large 4to. All parts loose in wrappers, as issued. A bit of minor chipping and tearing to edges of wrappers, else FINE AND BRIGHT, an extraordinary set.

Genève (Geneva): Cercle des Arts & des Lettres, 1901. A stunning suite of TWENTY LARGE FOLIO WOOD ENGRAVINGS by Maurice Baud after paintings executed by Auguste Baud-Bovy between 1886 and 1898, depicting 19th-century Alpine life and landscapes in all of their picturesque austerity. 28 pages plus 20 full-page hors-texte wood-engravings. Complete with detailed letterpress descriptions. Edition limited to 171 copies, of which this is number 41, one of 150 on fine wove paper, printed for M.C. François and SIGNED BY BAUD. Absolutely complete, with ALL PRINTED TISSUE-GUARDS PRESENT. Large folio (51.9 x 39.7 cm). Loose as issued in publisher's attractive cloth portfolio. Half-title spotted, last leaf (wood engraving no. 20) with some small marginal tears, else FINE AND BRIGHT. A rare and important collection of Alpine prints.

Paris: Les Exemplaires, 1955. ILLUSTRATED WITH SIX HAUNTING FULL-PAGE HORS-TEXTE ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS BY LOUIS ROGER, whose work has a strong affinity for that of Alexandre Alexeieff. 61 pp. Edition limited to only 99 copies, all printed on fine Marais wove paper. Initialed in ink by Fernand Fleuret, founder of the Société des Bibliophiles "Les Exemplaires". 4to. Loose as issued, in original wraps and slipcase. FINE AND BRIGHT, WITH NO DEFECTS. Very rare.