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Tübingen, Ernst Wasmuth, ( 1953). . ExLibris. Gutes, sauberes Exemplar

Tubingen, Gemany: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, 1948. 96pgs. Gilt spine titled cloth and decorated paper covered boards. Edges are tanned with a trace of wear to the extremities else near fine in edge tanned and light worn dustjacket lacking a few chips at the spine and fragment the top rear panel. Top front panel has a light circular stain else very good and appearing better than described here. A nice copy of this beautifully printed fourth edition of photographer Karl Blossfeldt's now renowned collection of photographs of plants. Scarce in any condition or edition, especially with a dustjacket in any condition. Text in German. Roth 101.. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Large Quarto.

Berlin: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, [1953]. Folio. xiv, [2], 96 pp. Including 96 blue-tinted photographic plates. Beige cloth, gray lettering & ornament on front cover, gray lettering on spine (slight foxing to endpapers, very minor shelfwear), w/ d.j. (minor chipping head & foot of spine, minor darkening & soiling to spine, couple minor tears, very minor creasing), still NF/G copy. Fifth edition of this magnificent modernist classic of the famed German photographer’s “Art Forms in Nature.” Blossfeldt (1865-1932) meticulously arranged the flowers, stems, leaves, buds, tendrils, seeds, and seed pods in intricate and elegant architectural structures, often greatly magnified, intending to use these images to educate his students about design in nature. Scarce in dustjacket.

Berlin: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, 1929. In-4. Avec 120 planches. Images de plantes. Ouvrage fameux dans l'histoire de la photographie / Quarto. Cloth. With 120 plates. Photographic plant images. Famous book in the history of photography.. Couverture rigide toile. Très bon.

Berlin (Ernst Wasmuth), 1929.. xvii, (3)pp., 120 photographic plates. Lrg. 4to. Cloth (rubbed). Inner front hinge partly shaken, split in outer rear hinge; neat ex-library copy.

Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, [1929]. Second edition. Folio, gilt-stamped green cloth (hardcover), [xviii], [ii], 120 plates. Photogravures. Good; spine a bit dull, some shelf wear, especially to head and foot of spine.

Berlin, Verlag Ernst Wasmuth A. G., [1928]. . First edition; folio (312 × 242 mm, 12¼ x 9½ in); black-and-white photographs printed in gravure by Ganymed, Berlin; foxing to edges and to plain endpapers, green cloth-covered boards, spine titled in gilt, lightly dulled, upper side titled and with a design after one of the photographs in gilt, lightly bowed, black-and-white photo-illustrated dust-jacket, worn and torn with internal repair to lower panel, an excellent copy with a good dust-jacket. Urformen der Kunst is an important and influential work, a cornerstone of the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) movement in Germany and a consensus highlight of twentieth-century photobook collecting. Karl Blossfeldt had initially trained as a sculptor and, as an amateur botanist, was fascinated by the underlying structures of nature as explored by Ernst Haeckel in Kunstformen der Natur (1899-1904). He began photographing plants and flowers against a plain card background in the late 1890s for use at the… Read More

Berlin: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, 1929. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good. The 1929 stated 2nd edition of this seminal photographic study of plants and flowers, IN ITS UNCOMMON PICTORIAL DUSTJACKET. Loosely translated from its German as "Archetypes of Art", Karl Blossfeldt's groundbreaking portraits, all in rich, lavish gravure, highlight the brilliance --and the beauty-- of nature's remarkable design. A very solid copy to boot: Tight and VG+ to Near Fine, with bright, completely unrubbed gilt-titling and insignia along the front panel. Internally, clean as could be, with no writing or markings of any kind. And in a crisp, VG dustjacket, with light chipping along the spine ends (at the spine crown very light loss, at the spine base 1 1/2" of loss) and at the tips. Mild scuffing and soiling as well to the panels but the jacket remains attractive and very presentable. Tall quarto, 120 plates all told. Edited and with an Introduction by Karl Nierendorf.