Search Results: Titles starting with V from Antiquariat Banzhaf

Paris, Societé des Amis des Livres 1912. (and) Maquette of the book with the original drawings by Henri Paillard. Two volumes. 144, (6) pages with 35 etched vignettes with views of Venice in the text, richly adorned with woodcut initials and borders by and after Henri Paillard and an extra-suite of the etchings on 35 plates.; (2), pages (7)-142 with the full complement of the original pen sketches of the views and designs for borders and initials by Henri Paillard, 35 etched proof plates, heavily reworked with pen heightening, of which 4 pasted onto mounts, and 5 plates with the original pen- and ink and watercolour designs for borders and initials. Uniformly bound set in somewhat later French brown morocco bindings signed Canape et Corriez, on five raised bands, second compartments with gilt stamped title, foot of spine of the published volume with gilt stamped date, maquette volume with gilt stamp "Maquette d'Artist", covers framed by triple blind rules. Red morocco doublures, with a geometrical… Read More

12 pages in brown ink adorned with calligraphic ornaments in upper and lower margins of a few pages. Cont. German calico wrappers with flowers in various green and red hues. Folio (344 x 208 mm). Interesting manuscript by a professional calligrapher and practical mathematician dedicated to the Prussian senator and senator of the town of Saltzwedel Wilhelm Erdmann gewidmet. The principle idea enclosed in this small treatise could well be used to encode text. A fine copy.