N.P. Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, 1995. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. pp. 66-82. Offprint from the Yearbook. Nineteen illustrations in the text. READ MORE about VENETIAN XYLOGRAPHIC AT THE JOHN RYLANDS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, MANCHESTER, ENGLAND
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 75434
Biblioteconomia e Bibliografia Saggi e Studi diretti da Francesco Barberi
Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 1985. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 95+(1) pages. Biblioteconomia e Bibliografia Saggi e Studi diretti da Francesco Barberi. Text in Italian. Includes 21 black-and-white plates. Signed and dated by the author on the first leaf. A loosely laid-in plate indicates that this copy came from the reference library and stock of H.P. Kraus. Minor wear. READ MORE about MONETE E MEDAGLIE NEL LIBRO ANTICO DAL XV AL XIX SECOLO
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 95709
Translated from the French by Harry Miller Lydenberg.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. 8vo. cloth. 225 pages. Translated from the French by Harry Miller Lydenberg. First edition in English. (Appleton p.15). An important book. READ MORE about THE ORIGINS OF PRINTING AND ENGRAVING
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 509
Translated from the French by Harry Miller Lydenberg.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 225 pages. Translated from the French by Harry Miller Lydenberg. First edition in English. (Appleton p.15). Jacket with piece missing at head of spine. READ MORE about THE ORIGINS OF PRINTING AND ENGRAVING
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 510
Munich: Fritz Hanfstaengl, 1922. 8vo. half parchment, title gilt-stamped on spine and front board. (iv), 363, (5) pages. Text in German. A history of illustration in Germany, with 410 black and white illustrations. Frontispiece, illustration of Hans Baldung Grien, Hexensabbat, Table of contents. Foreword. Covers illustration from incunabula to the early 20th century. Particular attention to the work of Albrecht Dürer. Listing of illustrations and author's names. Boards and spine soiled. Back board scuffed. Light... READ MORE about DIE DEUTSCHE GRAPHIK
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 109350
(Paris): n.p., 1859. 8vo. later cloth with embossed seal (entwined Ls in an oval, surmounted by a crown). (ii), 10 pages. An offprint from La Revue Universelle des Arts (July 1859). The article deals with the Flemish Master ES of 1466, and challenges speculation voiced by M. Harzen regarding the artist's potential authorship of the large coats-of-arms of Charles le Téméraire, duc de Bourgogne (1). Traces of peacock blue original stiff paper wrapper visible along... READ MORE about LE GRAVEUR DE L'AN 1466 ET LES GRANDES ARMOIRIES DE BOURGOGNE
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 77086
Cambridge: University Press, 1950. 4to. cloth. x, 93 pages followed by eight plates. First edition, limited to 750 copies. Lacking dust jacket. Bumped lower spine and front board. Ex-library with stamp and spine markings. READ MORE about THE PRINTED BOOK OF THE RENAISSANCE, THREE LECTURES ON TYPE, ILLUSTRATION AND ORNAMENT
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 8915
N.P. Chapin Library, 1995. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 45, (3) pages. Limited to 500 copies. Foreword by Robert L. Volz. Illustrated, including two in color. READ MORE about FINISHED BY HAND, DECORATION IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY PRINTED BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 58055
N.P. Chapin Library, 1995. 8vo. quarter cloth with marbled paper covered boards and with original stiff paper wrappers bound-in. 45, (3) pages. Limited to 500 copies. Foreword by Robert L. Volz. Illustrated, including two in color. In later binding. READ MORE about FINISHED BY HAND, DECORATION IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY PRINTED BOOKS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 118098
Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1905. 4to. quarter leather with vellum covered boards. x, 595, (3) pages. First edition. Well-illustrated study of wood engraving and copper engraving over four centuries. John Howell's copy. Some rubbing. READ MORE about KUPFERSTICH UND HOLZSCHNITT IN VIER JAHRHUNDERTEN
Price: $225.00 Order nr. 69704
Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1911. thick tall 8vo. leather backed paper-covered boards, stamped in gilt, top edge gilt. x, 597, (3) pages. Second edition. With 260 illustrations in the text. Study of woodengraving and copper engraving over four centuries. Original leather spine faded and worn along edges. Covers rubbed heavily. With a bookplate indicating that this book came from the reference library of H.P. Kraus. READ MORE about KUPFERSTICH UND HOLZSCHNITT IN VIER JAHRHUNDERTEN
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 75577
Paris: Gazette des Beaux-Arts. 1886. 4to. original stiff paper wrappers. 72 pages. Text in French. A study of late 15th century book illustration by Venetian printers. Black and white illustrations. Index of cited works. Unopened. Wrappers soiled and tanned. Spine and edges of wrappers chipped. READ MORE about A PROPOS D'UN LIVRE A FIGURES VÉNITIEN DE LA FIN DU XVE SIÈCLE: ESSAI BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 114719
Bruxelles: Éditions du Cercle d'Art, 1943. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 61, (5) pages. Limited to 520 numbered copies. Nicely printed in black ink with red initial chapter letters. Tipped-in illustrations. Covers age yellowed and spine covering partially chipped away. READ MORE about L' ESPRIT DE LA GRAVURE AU XVe SIÈCLE
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 87806
Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1941. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 152 pages. 138 items described in detail. Well illustrated. Covers toned. READ MORE about THE FIRST CENTURY OF PRINTMAKING, 1400-1500
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 15956
Paris: Le Courier Graphique, (1947). 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 42, (6), i-xxxii pages. First edition. Volume one (of four) in Mornand's study of book illustrations. This volume looks at the 15th-18th centuries. Number four in the "Courrier Graphique" collection. With 35 black-and-white illustrations. Pages unopened. READ MORE about L' ART DU LIVRE ET SON ILLUSTRATION
Price: $11.00 Order nr. 62887
(Spiegel Menschlicher Behaltnis) Basel: Bernhard Richel, 31. August 1476 und der Frühe Basler Inkunabelholzschnitt.
Basel: Frobenius A. G., 1937. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 127 pages. (Spiegel Menschlicher Behaltnis) Basel: Bernhard Richel, 31. August 1476 und der Frühe Basler Inkunabelholzschnitt. Written in German, with a foreword, bibliography, and overview tables of the text and woodcuts. The Inaugural-dissertation presented to the philological-historical department of the philosophy faculty of the University of Basel. Fading on extremities, small tear near middle of top edge of front cover. With the bookplate of H.P. Kraus... READ MORE about DAS DEUTSCHE SPECULUM HUMANAE SALVATIONIS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 100654
2 volumes
(Paris): n.p., n.d. (but circa 1876). 8vo. later cloth with embossed seal (entwined Ls in an oval, surmounted by a crown). 9 pages + one fold out leaf of plates in black and white; 20 pages. 2 volumes. A pair of offprint articles, one responding to the other, from La Revue Universelle des Arts and the Bulletin des Commissions royales d'art et d'archéologie, bound separately. The Pinchart article seems to dismantle the criticism voiced by... READ MORE about LA PLUS ANCIENNE GRAVURE SUR CUIVRE FAITE DANS LES PAYS-BAS and LES GRANDES ARMOIRIES DU DUC...
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 77096
Milano: G.G. Görlich, (1945). large 4to. later cloth with original paper front wrapper laid-down on front cover. 96, (2) pages + 53 plates. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies. A study of Italian Renaissance book illustration from the late fifteenth century through the first quarter of the sixteenth century, this volume investigates xylography in the Venetian, Lombard, Florentine, Sienese, and Roman contexts, many examples of which are reproduced in the large plates section at the... READ MORE about ARTE DELL'ILLUSTRAZIONE NEL LIBRO ITALIANO DEL RINASCIMENTO
Price: $185.00 Order nr. 77213
Leipzig: E. Diederichs, 1901. 4to. cloth-backed boards. 135+(1) pages. A history of scholarship, learning, and libraries in Germany from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth century. Illustrated with 130 plates most of which are drawn from fifteenth and sixteenth century book illustrations and depict scholars and books. Published as volume 9 of the MONOGRAPHIEN ZUR DEUTSCHEN KULTURGESCHICHTE. Covers rubbed. Edges of endpaper chipped away and endpaper detached. READ MORE about LEHRER UND UNTERRICHTSWESEN IN DER DEUTSCHEN VERGANGENHEIT
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 93522
Leipzig: E. Diederichs, 1901. 4to. decorated cloth-covered wrappers, top edge gilt. 135+(1) pages. A history of scholarship, learning, and libraries in Germany from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth century. Illustrated with 130 plates most of which are drawn from fifteenth and sixteenth century book illustrations and depict scholars and books. Published as volume 9 of the MONOGRAPHIEN ZUR DEUTSCHEN KULTURGESCHICHTE. Bookplate. READ MORE about DER LEHRER UND UNTERRICHTSWESEN IN DER DEUTSCHEN VERGANGENHEIT
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 44320
Los Angeles: University of California, 1988. 8vo. stiff wrappers. 127 +(1) pages and 25 plates. First edition. Examples of late medieval or renaissance artists at work in a collection of early printed books. The authors suggest that it was the cartolai or paper dealers, who, in the first twenty-five or so years of Italian printing, were instrumental in the hand-finishing and decoration of printed books. With color frontis and twenty-five black-and-white plates following text. READ MORE about CARTOLAI, ILLUMINATORS, AND PRINTERS IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY ITALY: THE EVIDENCE OF THE RIPOLI PRESS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 62719
Bremen: Kunsthalle Bremen, 1979. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 191+(1) pages. Study of the illustrated book. READ MORE about BILD UND BUCH, DAS ILLUSTRIERTE BUCH VOM 15. JAHRHUNDERT BIS ZUR GEGEN WART AUS DER SAMMLUNG DER...
Price: $7.00 Order nr. 34152
[The Book]. Její vznik, vyvoj a rozbor.
Praha: Orbis, 1949. large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, 243+(4) pages, 203 pages of plates. [The Book]. Její vznik, vyvoj a rozbor. Study on the history and technical aspects of the book. Extensive black-and-white and color illustrations of virtually every aspect of book production: manuscripts, papermaking, various fonts, watermarks, types of early printed books, proofreaders' corrections, graphic illustrative techniques, maps, music printing, bookplates, elaborate bindings, to name only the most obvious. Index. Spine slightly torn, bottom... READ MORE about KNIHA
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 74333
Washington and New York: National Gallery of Art and George Braziller, (2000). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xxiii, 545+(1) pages. First edition. Scholarly catalogue of Italian and Spanish books on architecture, antiquities, and decoration, from the 15th into the 19th centuries, all in the Millard Collection at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Italy produced illustrated architectural books that surpass those from any other publishing center in the originality of their content and in... READ MORE about MARK J. MILLARD ARCHITECTURAL COLLECTION, VOL. IV ITALIAN AND SPANISH BOOKS FIFTEENTH THROUGH...
Price: $90.00 Order nr. 62639
Nürnberg: n.p., 1877. 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards with stiff paper wrapper bound in. vii, 214+(1) plus 11 leaves of illustration. Catalogues objects relating to a variety of topics connected to the book arts in Bavarian collections. Chapters on prominent publishers, seventeenth century book decoration, woodcuts, metalcutting, lithography, photography and different types of presses and printing technology. All chapters divided in two sections: a general overview followed by a bibliography usually arranged chronologically, sometimes... READ MORE about AUSSTELLUNG VON ARBEITEN DER VERVIELFÄLTIGENDEN KÜNSTE IM BAYRISCHEN GEWERBEMUSEUM
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 77520
