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Saint Phalle, N. de
Réalisations, & projets d'architectures de Niki de Saint Phalle. [AND] Niki de Saint Phalle Museum Boymans-van Beuningen 22 juli - 5 september 1976. [Exhibition catalogue].
Paris, Alexandre Iolas, [1974]. Oblong, elongate leporello with 23 folds (16.1 x 590.4 cm), with stiff printed boards(16.1 x 24.6 cm).
Read moreRouffaer, G. P. and H. H. Juynboll
Die Batik-Kunst in Niederländisch-Indien und ihre Geschichte bearbeitet auf Grund von dem im Reichs Museum für Volkerkunde und öffentlichen wie privaten Sammlungen in den Niederlanden befindlichen, reichhaltigen Material. De batik-kunst in Nederlandsch-Indië en haar geschiedenis. Op grond van materiaal aanwezig in 's Rijks Ethnographisch Museum en andere openbare en particuliere verzamelingen in Nederland.
Haarlem, H. Kleinmann & Co.; Utrecht, A. Oosthoek, 1899-1914. Two volumes in two (text, atlas). Large 4to (33.5 x 25.8 cm). Double title pages (in German and Dutch), 646 pp. (15, [iii], xxx, 534, xxix, xxxi-lxv); several text illustrations (1914 text volume); ix pp.; 100 plates (many double-sized, and/or in colour), one very large, double folded map (in red and black) of Java and Madura (1899 atlas volume), a second map, of "Voor India" (i.e., India proper) in red and black, double folded, tipped in between plates 80 and 81. Uniform full batik cloth. Patterned endpapers.
Read moreRickman, P.
A selection of bird paintings and sketches.
[London], Curpotten for Fine Sporting Interests, 1979. Folio (40.6 x 30.5 cm). Original watercolour by Rickman, mounted in passepartout, acting as frontispiece. Title in black and red, [vi] pp.; Portrait of Rickman; 31 full-colour plates, tipped in and each tissue-guarded and with an explanatory text leaf, two black-and-white plates (in the rear), and 34 black-and-white pencil sketches on titles and text leaves, one tailpiece. Original burgundy full morocco. Spine with five raised, gilt-stippled bands; compartments with gilt borders, bird vignettes, and title; boards with gilt-rolled borders consisting of bird figures and floral elements and larger gilt bird vignettes. Iridescent red silk endpapers; pastedowns with gilt-rolled floral borders. All edges gilt. In original burgundy half linen clamshell box with burgundy morocco spine matching the book's spine, gilt ornithological vignette and inside covered with protective dark red felt panels.
Read moreRicketts, E. F. and J. Calvin
Between Pacific Tides. An account of the habits and habitats of some five hundred of the common, conspicuous seashore invertebrates of the Pacific Coast between Sitka, Alaska, and northern Mexico.
Stanford University Press, 1939. Large 8vo (22.8 x 15.6 cm). xxii, 320 pp.; 46 numbered plates, 112 illustrations on unnumbered plates. Publisher's pictorial cloth. Green endpapers.
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Musterbuch für Stahldruck.
Unpublished [n.d., but ca. 1890]. Folio (32.5 x 21.0 cm). Ca. 150 leaves with over 2,500 finely hand-coloured decorative transfers in Art Nouveau and romantic styles. Black blind half calf over black boards. Front board with original, neatly handwritten label.
Read moreParé, A.
Opera Ambrosii Parei Regis Primarii et Parisiensis chirurgi. A docto viro plerisque locis recognita: et Latinitate donata, Iacobi Guillemeau, Regij & Parisiensis chirurgi labore & diligentia. Ad clarissimum virum Marcum Mironem Regis Archiatrum dignissimum.
Paris, Iacobus Du-puys [Du-Puys; Dupuys], 1582. Folio (33.1 x 21.1 cm). Title page, [xi], 884, [xli] pp.; large woodcut portrait of the author, numerous woodcuts in the text, including many that are quite large and detailed, wood-engraved capitals and headpieces. 17th-century speckled calf. Spine with six raised, gilt-ornamented bands; compartments with gilt-lined borders and floral vignettes; gilt-rolled ornamental band at head and foot, and gilt title. All edges speckled red.
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