Paris: "Arts et Métiers Graphiques" 1935. First edition. Softcover. Folio (12 1/4 x 10"). [14]pp (Text), 120pp (Plates), 121-139, [1]pp (Text and advertisement). Original spiral bound decorative wrappers by Pierre Boucher. "Photographie" was an annual special issue of the magazine "Arts et Métiers Graphiques" entirely dedicated to modern photography, and..... More
![Item #55315 L'Art Décoratif de Léon Bakst [1/80 deluxe edition] (The Decorative Art of Leon...](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/55315_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1764105859)
Paris: Maurice de Brunoff, 1913. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/80. Small Elephant Folio. [6], 49pp. (text), 77 leaves (plates), [8]pp. Uncut at fore- and bottom edges. Original gilt-stamped full vellum, with gilt vignette on cover, gilt lettering and ruling on spine. Top edge gilt. Laid in, an original pochoir-highlighted watercolor signed..... More
Paris: Larousse, ND (ca 1930). First edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto (8 1/4 x 11 1/2"). 36pp. Original quarter blue cloth over illustrated paper covered boards, with black lettering to front cover. Illustrated title page. French children book splendidly illustrated throughout with illustrator Aman-Jean's delightful b/w and color drawings pertaining to..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1942. First edition thus. Octavo. 2 vols. xiv, 180, (2); (6), 399, (3)pp. Brown cloth spines lettered in gilt, over pictorial light brown boards. Both volumes are housed in publisher's matching slipcase entitled, "Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen." Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece..... More
![Item #44706 La Faune des Dancings [SIGNED- Unique Copy]. Jean Auscher, Francis de Miomandre, Wash...](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/44706.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1546042422)
Paris: Published by the author, ND (1925). Limited First edition. Hardcover. Folio (16 1/2 x 14 3/4"). Unpaginated. [8]pp (Title, Preface, Table of Contents, Limitation page), 10 leaves (Plates), 10 leaves (Suite of the plates). Original gilt-tooled full vellum, with gold lettering to spine. Marbled endpapers. Title page in red..... More
Bruxelles: E. Lyon-Claesen, [1891]. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant folio. [16]pp (Text), 50 loose plates, as issued. Original illustrated cloth portfolio with string tie. Exquisite collection of 50 tipped-in color lithographs after watercolor painting by Jean Baes depicting Belgium's historic towers and turrets. Age wear on portfolio with spine missing. Boards..... More
London: The Fine Art Society, 1913. First English edition. Hardcover. Folio. [8], 51pp. (text), 77 [1] leaves (plates). Uncut. Original gilt-stamped three-quarter vellum over decorative, paper-covered boards, with Bakst signature stamped to cover, gilt lettering on green leather label, and gilt ruling on spine. Top edge gilt. Mounted photogravure frontispiece..... More
Paris: Institut National de l'Audiovisuel / Editions Hier et Demain, ND (ca. 1977). First edition. Hardcover. Folio. Oblong. Unpaginated. Original spiral bound photo-illustrated paper covered boards. Pictorial endpapers. A splendid pictorial anthology of cinema from 1890 to 1977, covering the early cinematic origins and the infancy of film, to the..... More
Paris: Hazan, 2002. Hardcover. Quarto. 255pp. [1] Photo illustrated dust-jacket with white and baby blue lettering on cover and spine, decorative back cover. Cobalt blue boards with baby-blue lettering on spine. This fascinating book showcases the culture of the Maghreb region and its use of natural materials used in architecture..... More
Fontenay-aux-Roses [Paris]: F. Brouty, J. Fayard et cie, 1946. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 112, [2]pp. Illustrated tanned wrappers, with black and blue lettering on the front cover. This work is a powerful illustrated memoir by French artist Jean Bernard-Aldebert (aka Bernard-Aldebert, 1909-1974), about his time as a prisoner in five..... More
Fontenay-aux-Roses [Paris]: F. Brouty, J. Fayard et cie, 1946. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 112, [2]pp. Rebound in red pebbled 3/4 morroco over marbled paper boards. Spine with gilt lettering and raised bands. Decorative red endpapers. Original illustrated front wrapper with black and blue lettering, bound in. This work is a...... More
![Item #55766 [Torat ha-Mashiah...] Lex Messiae. Lex Dei nova: id est, Evangelium Domini nostri...](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/55766_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1780263691)
circa 1700. Small octavo (14.1 by 8.5 cm). Manuscript in black and brown ink; 18-20 lines per page; text in vocalized Hebrew. [6, title and editor's preface], 146, [12, blank], [10, notes]. Lacks the first leaf, which has been supplied in manuscript by a later owner. 19th-century limp morocco (rubbed..... More
Paris: Rollin, [1729]. First edition. Hardcover. Two works, jointly issued, 12mo (16.2 cm x 9.9 cm): [24], 102, [2]; [32] 311 [9, table, approbation and errata]pp. Each work with full, dated title-page. Roman, italic and Hebrew letter; printed side-glosses in Latin; woodcut decorations and initials. Contemporary green morocco, covers and..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. First English language edition. Hardcover. Octavo. VI, [2], 340pp. Original printed wrappers over blue cloth, with gold lettering and printer's device on spine. Half-title page inscribed and signed by Jean Leca. Fascinating work bringing together essays by eminent social scientists from several countries. They discuss the..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead, & Company, (1937). First edition thus. Hardcover. 4to. xii,145pp. Blue cloth, gold pictorial gold design by Bosschere. Illustrated color endpapers. Color reproduction frontispiece of the Sea monsters and the Fisherman by the illustrator, with full page tissue guard. Illustrated throughout with hundreds of black and white..... More
Paris: "Arts et Métiers Graphiques" 1938. First edition. Softcover. Folio (12 1/4 x 10"). [10]pp (Text), 90pp (Plates), 4pp (Text), [8] leaves (Color plates); [105-132]pp (Text and advertisement). Original spiral bound decorative soft cloth by Pierre Boucher. "Photographie" was an annual special issue of the magazine "Arts et Métiers Graphiques"..... More
Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale, 1766. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xvi, 277, xxiii pp., 7 maps, six folding. Rebacked in light brown leather with original calf boards with gilt emblems and decorative ruling laid to front and back cover. Decorative endpapers. Title page with emblem in lithography. Decorative head pieces, one..... More
Paris: Etablissements Papegnin, ca. 1910s, 20s. First edition. Softcover. Oblong 24mo. Unpaginated. Original printed wrappers with gold and black lettering on front cover. Fascinating photo album of this Napoleonic landmark, which was the residence of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte, until he was crowned Emperor of the French. During the Empire..... More
![Item #43668 Lucien Clergue at White Sands, 1986 [INSCRIBED] [16 ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS]....](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/43668.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1521847932)
Paris: Printed by Roland Dufair, 1988. Hardcover. 1/1, hand-numbered. Housed in a custom-made beige cloth clamshell box. This is a unique collection of sixteen, 12x16" mounted and matted color cibachrome photographic prints showing famed French photographer Lucien Clergue taking nude photographs of model Audree Bouvier (most likely his wife), at..... More
Bruxelles: La Boetie, 1947. Limited edition. Softcover. 1/4800. Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 3/4"). [4], xvii, [1], 178pp (Vol. 1); [2], 170, [4]pp (Vol. 2). Uncut and unopened copy. Original glassine over printed wrappers, with red and black lettring to front covers and spines. Originally published in December 1825, two..... More
Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1915. Hardcover. 8vo. xiii, 582 pp. Blue cloth binding. Corners bumped Ex-library with stamp. Front board loose, but attached. Spine faded. Overall, in fair/good condition. More
Bordeaux: G. Gounouilhou, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (10 x 6 1/2"). cxvi, 444pp. Later full burgundy cloth, with gold lettering to spine. Edited under the auspices of the Académie nationale des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Bordeaux, this work publishes the surviving documents featured in the cartulary of the..... More
Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1929. Reprint. Paperback. Quarto. VIII, 326, [2]pp. Uncut and unopened copy. Original printed wrappers. Scarce monograph on the molecular scattering of light. Jean Cabannes was a French physicist specialising in optics. From 1910 to 1914 Cabannes worked in the laboratory of Charles Fabry in Marseille..... More
![Item #24092 Dílo Josefa Drahoňovského [CZECH GLASS ART][SIGNED BY THE ARTIST]. Jindrich...](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/24092.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1693416720)
Praha (Prague): Vladimír Žikeš, 1933. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/500. Large quarto. 310, [4]pp. Contemporary three-quarter leather over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering on spine. Raised bands. Top edge gilt. Photo-illustrated title page in red and black lettering. Decorative initials. Original wrappers bound in at rear. This scarce work..... More
Paris: Letouzey et Ané, 1961-1963. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo (10" x 6-1/2"). 2 vols. 284, (2); 400pp. Index. Text in French. Original wrappers removed and rebound in brown buckram, spine lettered in white. An ex-library set with rubber stamp on title pages and library pocket on rear pastedowns. Cet..... More