![Item #3936 [PRE-RAPHAELITES]. Catalogue of artistic & literary property removed from "The Pines",...](/pictures/thumb/3936.jpg?v=1674496941)
London: Sotheby's, 1939. First Edition. Large 8vo. 21 pp., 82 lots. Illustrated issue, complete with 5 plates not found in ordinary issues. Original printed wrapper (to the upper cover is affixed Maggs Bros. label soliciting bids). Loosely inserted is a reproduction of the price-list and buyers' names. IMPORTANT BUT LITTLE-KNOWN..... More
![Item #3927 [STAINED GLASS / GLASSWORK]. [EXTENSIVE MANUSCRIPT INVOICE FROM THE GLAZIER TO THE...](/pictures/thumb/3927.jpg?v=1673876967)
Paris: 1766. Manuscript on paper (see below). Folio (364 x 244 mm). 8 pp. Original blue silk stitching at head and tail. Horizontal fold, edges creased and worn but the paper stock is strong and clean. RARE MANUSCRIPT INVOICE OF THE EXTENSIVE WORK OF A WELL-KNOWN PARISIAN GLAZIER, undertaken over..... More
![Item #3779 [FINE DESIGNER BINDING]. Une Semaine de Bonté ou les sept éléments capitaux. Max Ernst](/pictures/thumb/3779.jpg?v=1673876900)
Paris: Jeanne Bucher, 1934. First Edition. 4to. Complete set of all 5 Cahiers. Bound in 1990 by D.-H. Mercher (stamp-signed in minute lettering inside front cover, dated 1990 inside lower cover): quarter black morocco, spine lettered direct in multi-colored sans serif fonts (purple, green, red, blue, and yellow); both covers..... More
![Item #3832 [SAMOAN SIAPO / TAPA BARK CLOTH "PAPER"]. Large circular Siapo decoratively painted...](/pictures/thumb/3832.jpg?v=1666718147)
Samoa: 1900-1940 or earlier. Tapa bark cloth 65 cm. diameter (approximately), painted in both sides. Worn, with bark surfaces rough, edges frayed and partially separating, Tapa curling, some small unobjectionable holes visible. SAMOAN TAPA BARK CLOTH "PAPER" WITH BOLD GEOMETRIC PATTERNS, WITH CURIOUS TONGAN FLORAL MOTIFS ON THE BACK. Polynesian..... More
![Item #3778 [BOUND BY ALAIN TARAL IN POLISHED MAHOGANY]. Communications. Poèmes & bois gravés....](/pictures/thumb/3778.jpg?v=1666717982)
Paris: Andre Simon [i.e. Kahnweiler], 1921. First Edition. Large 4to. Profusely illustrated with 19 original woodcuts (see below). Bound in polished mahogany by A. Taral (stamp-signed inside lower board), moveable shaped wooden boards ingeniously attached to wood spine by means of carefully crafted wooden hinges, upper cover with a large..... More
![Item #3774 [JAPANESE ART-DECO 1930]. Japanese Harmonica Sheet Music: Kono Taiyo ["This Sun"]....](/pictures/thumb/3774.jpg?v=1666717962)
Tokyo: Aporo Shuppansha, 1930 (Showa 5). First Edition. Folio (265 x 193 mm). [4] pp. printed on thick paper folded vertically, pages 1 and 4 printed in color, pages 2 and 3 in b/w (dust-soiled; light bumps to extremities, minor foxing, and marks). FABULOUS Japanese art-deco item, being a harmonica..... More
![Item #3674 [DECORATIVE PAPERS]. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Block-Printed Papers from the 18th...](/pictures/thumb/3674.jpg?v=1642877762)
Copenhagen: Museum of Decorative Arts, 1958. First Edition. 4to. Typescript. Unpaginated (but 33 ff.) typed on rectos only, with a title-page, Introductory Notes (1 f.), list of Collections from which the exhibition was assembled and respective abbreviations used in the Catalogue (1 f.), plus 30 ff. descriptions of 260 Block-Printed..... More
![Item #3645 [COMPLETE SET OF ALL 6 VOLUMES]. Repertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques...](/pictures/thumb/3645.jpg?v=1641148862)
Ad 1-3: The Hague, Nijhoff, 1938-1964. Ad 4: Paris, Fondation Custodia, 1987. Ad 5: Amsterdam and The Hague, Nijhof, 1956 (facsimile reprint of the 1921 edition). Ad 6: Ibid, 1956, 1938-. Together 6 vols., large 4to., all bound in original publisher's cloth. In UNMARKED and UNSPOILED condition. NOT ex-library! BEAUTIFUL..... More
