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Harry van Kuyk. Wit op wit. En zwart. Reliefdrukken en kunstenaarsboeken.

KUYK - Wal, Joost van de & Paul van de Capelleveen: · 2016 · Scriptum Art Books v.o.f.

€49.95 ($55.06 | £41.67 | ¥8,793)

2016, (21 x 27 cm), 416 pp. Nederlands, ils., luxe softcover. Monografie over de Nijmeegse kunstenaar Harry van Kuyk (Zevenaar 1929 – Nijmegen 2008). Van Kuyk was een volstrekt eigenzinnige eenling in de wereld van de grafiek. In 1969 ontwikkelde hij een nieuw procedé voor de g…

Bibliotheca Stanleiana. A Splendid Selection of Rare and Fine Books, from the Distinguished Library of Colonel Stanley. The Selection Contains all his Rare Italian and Spanish Poetry, Novels and Romances; An Extraordinary Collection of Voyages and Travels, Including an Unique Copy of De Bray’s Voyages... with a Matchless Copy of Holinshed Upon Large Paper... Sold by Auction, by R. H. Evans... on Friday the 30th April, and Seven Following Days... [London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co.], 1813. [6],

STANLEY (Thomas, Colonel) · 1811 · Forest Books

£295.63 (€354.41 | $390.63 | ¥62,387)

London: J. Barker, 1811. [2], 80pp., some heavy browning and spotting throughout, 1062 items described with printed prices. 2 works bound in one, 8vo (225 x 140 mm), later quarter calf, spine lettered in gilt “Catalogues = Gardnier, Stanley, Goldsmid, Devonshire”, alas, without …

De bello Rhodio, libri tres, Clementi VII Pont. Max. dedicati.Hagenau, Johann Setzer, 1527. 4to (ca. 21 x 16 cm). The title is set within a woodcut border, the woodcut printer's device can be found beneath the colophon on the recto of the last leaf, and with some woodcut decorated initials. Modern gold- and blind-tooled calf, with the author and title lettered in gold on the front board.

FONTANUS, Jacobus (Jacobus FONTEYN). · 1522 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)

[56] ll.Second edition of the account of the siege and conquest by the Ottomans of the island Rhodos in 1522, written by the lawyer Jacobus Fontanus (also Jacobo Fontano or Jacob Fonteyn; d. after 1538) from Bruges. The work is dedicated to Pope Clement VII.The Order of the Knig…

[The Arrest of Christ].[Flanders (Bruges?), or Nürnberg, ca. 1520]. Miniature painted on vellum (7.8 x 5.6 cm) in numerous colours, highlighted with gold and in a gold border, probably from a book of hours, but with no text.

[MINIATURE - GERMAN]. · 1999 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€7,500.00 ($8,266.55 | £6,256.09 | ¥1,320,219)

A finely rendered miniature showing great detail in bright colours, highlighted with gold, depicting the Arrest of Christ, most likely from a diminutive book of hours. Surrounded by a bustling throng of Roman soldiers carrying spears and wearing halberds, Christ appears calm jus…

[Triumphal arches and catafalques (elaborate funeral biers) erected in the years 1715, 1721-1723 and 1737]. [Sienna, ca. 1728, with 1 addition ca. 1737]. Folio (ca. 29 x 21 cm). 8 original drawings in black ink with ink washes plus 1 additional line drawing of a catafalque added about a decade later. Never bound, but formerly sewn.

[SPLENDID CEREMONIES]. · 1670 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€9,500.00 ($10,470.97 | £7,924.38 | ¥1,672,278)

ll. 28-31, 34-37.Original ink and ink-wash drawings of 5 triumphal arches and 3 catafalques (elaborate funeral biers), plus an additional line drawing of a 4th catafalque on the back of one leaf, all erected at various locations in the city of Siena in Tuscany: in the cathedral,…

L'Art de la Porcelaine en Europe

Divis, Jan; and Ernould-Gandouet, Marielle · 1989 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Book Good Dust Jacket Included 3rd Edition Grund, 1989 French text; Hardcover (cloth with dust jacket); 232 with a total of 146 illustrations, 82 black and white and 64 in colour; 21.5 x 28.5 cm; 1.205 Kg; Used book with signs of wear, namely some peeling of the laminated layer …

Emperor of China: Self-portrait of K'ang-Hsi

Spence, Jonathan D. · 1974 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

Book Good Dust Jacket Included 1st Edition Book Club Associates by arrangment with Jonathan Cape Ltd English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 19 x 21.5 cm.; 0.75 kg.; 218 pages with black and white illustrations followed by index.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior an…

Netsuke: 100 Miniature Masterpieces from Japan

Tsuchiya, Noriko with the assistance of Rutherston, Max · 2014 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Book Good No Jacket 1st Edition The British Museum Press, London English text.; Paperback.; 19 x 19 cm.; 0.7 kg.; 224 pages with 240 colour illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. The exterior shows wear marks throughout, namely edge wear, scuffs an…

Switzerland, as now divided into nineteen cantons; interspersed with historical anecdotes, local customs, and a description of the present state of the country. The cantons are severally described, and also the county of Neuchatel, the republic of Geneva, the boundaries, & new road over the Simplon, with picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Swiss, illustrated in fifty coloured engravings of the costume. To which is added a short guide to travellers. 2 vols bound in 1.

YOSY, A. (Ann): · 1815 · Harteveld Rare Books Ltd.

CHF 450.00 (€486.81 | $536.56 | £406.07 | ¥85,692)

London, printed (by B. Howlett) for J. Booth and J. Murray, 1815, gr. in-8¡,(25 x 16 cm.), 2 ff. (title vol 1 + titlepage) + VIII + 236 p. ; titlepage + 212 p. + alltogether 50 engraved costume plates all hand-coloured + 1 engraved plates of music with text (on 1 sheet), XIXth…

Botanica Pharmaceutica exhibens plantas officinalis quarum nomina indispensatoris recentur, cum Iconibus… Plate 222. Viscum album. [Mistletoe].

Happe, A. · 1788 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€300.00 ($330.66 | £250.24 | ¥52,809)

Berolini (Berlin), 1788. Folio-size (36.2 x 22.2 cm). An engraving in original, delicate hand-colouring, with printed caption. = The Pharmaceutica is a very rare work; it is seldom found complete - even individual plates of plants are rare. This print shows the mistletoe. "It ha…

Survey of northeast Greenland.

Koch, I. P. · 1916 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€175.00 ($192.89 | £145.98 | ¥30,805)

Kopenhagen, Bianco Lunos, 1916. 4to (26.1 x 17.0 cm). 388 pp. [numbered 81-468], seven folded partly coloured maps, six folded profiles, 48 photographs, 149 text illustrations. Slightly later half morocco over grained boards. Paper label with script title on the spine. = These a…

Chiron: Or, the Mental Optician.

[CARACCIOLI (Charles)]: · 1758 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

London: Printed for J. Robinson..., 1758. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes in 1. 12mo, 169 x 95 mms., pp. [iii] - vi [with second leaf signed A2]. 188; [ii], 192, quarter calf, marbled boards, gilt spine. A good copy. The Monthly Review gave the work a brief notice in 1758: \"This …

The Life of Frederick the Second, King of Prussia. To which are added, Observations, Authentic Documents, and a Variety of Anecdotes.

[LAVEAUX (Jean-Charles)]: · 1789 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£850.00 (€1,019.01 | $1,123.16 | ¥179,375)

London: Printed for J. Debrett..., 1789. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, 212 x 125 mms., pp.xi [xii blank]. 525 [526 blank, 527 - 540 Index]; [iv], 560 [561 -569 Index, 570 blank, 571 - 573 adverts], including half-title in each volumes, contemporary calf, neatly reba…

Rohault's System of Natural Philosophy, Illustrated with Dr. Samuel Clarke's Notes Taken mostly out of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy. Done into English By John Clarke. The The Third Edition.

ROHAULT (Jacques): · 1735 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£850.00 (€1,019.01 | $1,123.16 | ¥179,375)

London, Printed for James, John, and Paul Knapton..., 1735. 2 volumes. 8vo, 197 x 118 mms., pp. [xxxii], 285 [286 adverts]; 292 [293 - 315 Index, 316 adverts], 14 folding engraved plates at end of volume 1, 13 folding engraved plates at end of volume 2, for a total of 27 plat…

The Life of Dr. Sanderson, Late Bishop of Lincoln. Written by Izaak Walton. to which is added, Some short Tracts of Cases of Conscience, written by the said Bishop

SANDERSON (Robert) . WALTON (Isaac): · 1678 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Printed for Richard Marriott, 1678. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, 175 x 108 mms., pp. [240], recently and unsympathetically recased in quarter buckram, marbled boards; lacks portrait. A Calvinist, Bishop Robert Sanderson, (1587-1663) made an impact his contemporaries, includ…

TIME And LOVE. Poems

Dow, Dorothy Minerva [1897 - 1989] · 1942 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$38.50 (€34.93 | £29.14 | ¥6,149)

New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1942. 1st Edition. Blue cloth binding with gilt stamping. Light red dust jacket. ix, [3], 13 - 107, [1 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5-1/4" Dow "was born in 1897 in Lockport, Illinois, the daughter of John and Elizabeth Gund Dow. She bega…

Andy Warhol. Catalogue Raisonné. Paintings and Sculptures 1964-1969. Volume 2

WARHOL - Frei, George & Thomas Printz: · 2004 · Scriptum Art Books v.o.f.

€750.00 ($826.66 | £625.61 | ¥132,022)

July 2004, (29 x 25 cm), 850 pp. English text, 1460 colour ills., 130 b/w. ills., 2 volumes, hardcover in carton slipcase. Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is arguably the most iconic figure of twentieth-century art, a highly enigmatic personality who not only altered the definition of a…

REPORT Of The DINNER GIVEN To CHARLES DICKENS, In Boston, February 1st, 1842. Reported by Thomas Gill and William English, Reporters of the Morning Post.; Most of the Speeches Revised by Their Authors

[Dickens, Charles. 1812 - 1870]. Holmes, Oliver Wendell [1809 - 1894]. Gill, Thomas. English, William · 1842 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$1,650.00 (€1,497.00 | £1,248.71 | ¥263,515)

Boston: William Cosby and Company, 1842. 1st separate appearance (BAL 8735n; Gimbel B112; Kitton, 1; Tilton, p. 560). Original printed buff paper wrappers. Custom blue cloth case. [2], 66 pp. Dickens' speech recorded on pp. 10 - 15. Holmes' 'Song', p. 33. Old bookseller slip lai…

No Glorious Dead: The Impact of War on Sudbury, a Suffolk Market Town. (Valerie Herbert & Shirley Smith).

HERBERT, VALERIE & SMITH, SHIRLEY . FOREWORD BY BLYTHE, RONALD. · 2009 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

Sudbury Museum Trust, 2009. 9780956364500. Large Format Paperback. 11.5" x 8.25". [6pp.]/pp.142, 240 sepia and black and white illustrations within the text. Illustrated stiff card covers, minor wear to front fore-edge, and bump to top of spine. Chapter on the 'friendly invasion…

No Glorious Dead: The Impact of War on Sudbury, a Suffolk Market Town. (Valerie Herbert & Shirley Smith).

HERBERT, VALERIE & SMITH, SHIRLEY . FOREWORD BY BLYTHE, RONALD. · 2009 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Sudbury Museum Trust, 2009. 9780956364500. Large Format Paperback. 11.5" x 8.25". [6pp.]/pp.142, signed by Shirley Smith to title page, 240 sepia and black and white illustrations within the text. Illustrated stiff card covers, minor wear to front fore-edge. Chapter on the 'frie…