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Nuremberg: Christian Sigmund Froberg for Wolfgang Michahelles, 1710. 12mo (127 x 77 mm). [16], 145, [7] pp. Gothic types. Woodcut illustration of a pantograph (p. 8). Overall discoloration, some soiling and fraying to first and last few leaves. Contemporary speckled parchment over pasteboards (worn, covers bowed and darkened).*** A popular and now commensurately rare German translation of Claude Boutet's guide to miniature painting, the Traité de Miniature pour apprendre aisément à peindre sans... Read more about this item

Exquisite unpag. example of Art Deco book design, detailing a 3-month journey the artist undertook with Jean Dunand aboard the schooner Peau-Brune, sailing from St. Nazaire in Brittany, around the Iberian Peninsula and through the Strait of Gibraltar, to the town of La Ciotat on the coast of Provence, fashioned as a logbook with chronological entries related to specific dates, table of contents. Illustrated throughout with approximately 100 beautiful engravings in brilliant colors from various points... Read more about this item

Ravensburg, Germany: Otto Maier Verlag/Paris: Eyrolles, 1959. Square quarto (29.7 x 31.2 cm). Stamped cloth; XXVII introduction followed by 100 numbered full-color plates. Some light splitting to interior along spine, very minor toning, overall very good. Ex-libris bookplate for Italian architect and designer Aldo Cosmacini, with hand-written signature to title page. This volume is an invaluable resource on color printing and color theory. The table of contents clearly lays out - in German, English,... Read more about this item

A complete subscription portfolio of 20 chromolithographs, each 22" x 28", issued in ten monthly installments of 2 prints reproducing orig. watercolors of American birds by Pope with captioned guard leaves reprinting descriptive texts from a variety of sources incl. Alexander Wilson's "American Ornithology" and Audubon's "Birds of America". Each installment bound-in with orig. illus. wrpps., prints tipped-in on larger plates of heavy card, some plates with pigment transfer to opposite leaf, 2 with... Read more about this item

London: Tegg et. al, 1824. Second edition. 8vo, with 9 engraved plates (4 folding). Bound in rubbed contemporary 3/4 calf, some foxing and soiling, generally a very good copy. Second edition of "the first modern book on dyeing and the first general theory of its principles."-Duveen, p. 74. Berthollet was most noted for applying the [then] newly- discovered oxygenated muriatic acid to vegetable colors for the purpose of bleaching. The revolutionary results of Berthollet's experiments, conducted in... Read more about this item