1. 19th century Medical Illustration in Gynecology – Pouchet, F.A.

Théorie Positive l’Ovulation Spontanée de la Fécondation des Mammifères et de l’Espèce Humaine, basée sur l’observation de toute la série animale.

[Two Volumes: Text plus Atlas / Texte et Atlas]. Paris, J.-B. Baillière, 1847. 23,5 cm x 31 cm. Texte: XXXVI, 479 pp. / Atlas: 30 pp. texte et 20 planches chromolithographiques [With atlas volume bound in the original printed boards, twenty chromolithographic plates, one fold-out, and tissue guards]. Atlas: Reliure original / Original Hardcover / Text-Volume: Library-Binding. Binding stained and corners rubbed. Some foxing thoughout the text-volume. Slight water damage to some of the text pages.

2.

72-dpi anime [Camera / Vector / Linear / Motion / Interactive] – With an interview of Erik Saks: “Untitled – 002 – Infinity” (″Define what ‘infinity’ means to modern culture”).

Berlin, Die Gestalten Verlag, 2001. 28,5 cm x 24 cm. 197 pages with illustrations throughout. Original Softcover. Slightly bumped corners, DVD is missing, otherwise in Very good condition.

3. A’Beckett, Gilbert Abbott.

The Comic History of England. With Twenty Coloured Etchings, and Hundred Woodcuts by John Leech.

Two Volumes in One Volume (complete set). London, Bradbury, Evans and Co., c.1850 14.5 cm x 22.3 cm. Volume I: XVIII, 320 pages with 10 hand-coloured steelengravings and wood-engravings throughout the text. / Volume II: 304 pages with 10 hand-coloured steelengravings and wood-engravings throughout the text. Original Hardcover with gilt decoration on spine and cover. Recently professionally repaired and restored binding with new endpapers and the saved original bookplate / exlibris of J. Henry H.V. Lane of Kings Bromley in Staffordshire to the pastedown. Gilted edge. Rubbed and sign of wear on cover and spine. Overall very good condition with firm binding and clean interior. Bookplate / Exlibris to pastedown. Inscribed on Augst 10,1879 by previous owner and embossed stamp marks by bookshop W.H.Smyth in London on endpaper.

4. Alderson, Simon / Ball, Ralph / Barber, Edward.

Phaidon Design Classics – Volume One / Volume Two / Volume Three.

Original Edition. Three Volumes (Complete set). New York, Phaidon Press Limited, 2006. Quarto. 3300 pages with thousands of illustrations. Original Hardcover in special collectors protective Mylar. Excellent, close to new condition. The protective Mylar was especially cut so the volumes can be handled without damage to the aesthetic bindings.

5. Allwood, John.

The Great Exhibitions.

London, Studio Vista, 1977. Quarto. 192 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

6. Andreotti, Giulio / Museum of Fine Arts / Accademia Italiana.

Rediscovering Pompeii.

4th edition / Bilingual Edition: Italiano / English. Rome, [Italy], L’Erma di Bretschneider, 1992. Folio (24.5 cm x 30.5 cm). 287 pages. Illustrated throughout. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only.

7. Angeli, Lanfranco.

Palermo – City of Art.

Palermo, s.r.l. F.lli Mistretta, 1987. 21.5 cm x 28.5 cm. Frontispiece (Porta Nuova), Second frontispiece (Panoramic View of Palermo), 128 pages. Several colour photographs throughout. Gatefold street maps inside covers. Original stiched paper binding softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Tight binding. Slight smudging to title page. Internal pages bright and clean. All three gate fold pull out panoramic photographs intact.

8. Angelini, Luigi.

La Famiglia Bergamasca dei Manni Marmorari Intarsiatori. Estratto de “La Rivista di Bergamo” – Ottobre – Novembre 1960.

Bergamo, Stamperia Conti, 1960. 30,5 x 23,5 cm. 22 pages. With many black-and-white illustrations throughout the book. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Written inscription by previous owner.

9. [Anonymous].

Guide to Killarney and Glengariff. With a Map and Six Plates.

New Edition, revised and corrected. Dublin, William Curry, Jun. and Company, 1835. 11 cm x 17 cm. Frontispiece, [4], 130 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with spinelabel and label on frontcover. Some staining to the binding but otherwise firm and with the original endpapers intact. Interior in very good condition besides some pages and illustrations being a little dusty. Few illustrations with faded dampstain. Rare and early publication for the tourist in 19th century Ireland. With name of prewoner in ink on titlepage: “Robert Morrison, Shanakiel, Cork”.

10. Arakawa [Shusaku] and Madeleine Gins.

The Mechanism of Meaning.

Revised Edition. New York, Abbeville Press, 1988. Quarto (29 cm wide x 29 cm high). 161 pages (including six translucent pages at the rear) and the two often missing, loosely inserted cards which show a reproduction of a micrograph of zirconium from the Atomic Resolution Microscope at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Minor staining to dustjacket. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

11. Architectural Design.

Architectural Design & Construction. Collection of nine (9) Issues: Volume I – June 1931 / Volume II – April 1932 / Volume IV – December 1933 / Volume IV – January 1934 / Volume IV – February 1934 / Volume IV – March 1934 / Volume IV – April 1934 / Volume IV – May 1934 / Volume IV – June 1934.

[London], Blackfriars Press, 1931 – 1934. Folio (25 cm x 34 cm). c. 450 pages of essays including a multitude of vintage advertising on design, interior, furniture, bathrooms, Tiles, Modern Stairways, Reform Glazing, Hand Made Sandfaced Tiles, Trent Vale Brick & Tile / Circular Staircases / Art Deco Kitchen Design / Aga Cooker / etc. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some minor tears to some of the original wrappers. Rare !

12. Armando.

Armando – Die Berliner Jahre. Mit Einem Essay von Günther Gercken.

Den Haag, SDU Publishers, 1989. 24.5 cm x 28.5 cm. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

13. [Ashton, Frederick] Dominic, Zoe and Gilbert, John Selwyn.

Frederick Ashton. A Choreographer and his ballets.

First Edition. London a. o, George G. Harrap and Company Limited. 1971. 21.5cm x 28.5cm. 256 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the collection of Margot Fonteyn – photographer and artist Keith Money. Inscribed / Signed by Frederick Ashton to Keith Money. Additionally monogrammed by Ashton on the frontispiece (Monogramm in exchange for his photographed head). With some ephemera (Programme for Ashton’s funeral together with an amusing newspaper-clipping in which the co-author of the book on Ashton, John Selwyn Gilbert, writes to a newspaper and complains about being omitted as the co-author in a recent article).

14. Askari, Nasreen / Arthur, Liz.

Uncut Cloth: Saris Shawls and Sashes.

London, Merrell Holberton, 1999. 22.5 cm x 27.8 cm. 128 pages. With colour illustrations throughout. Original Softcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Contains loose ephemera, an article entitled ‘Paisley Shawls’ with information on ‘weaving a paisley shawl’.

15. [Auerbach, Frank] Hughes, Frank.

Frank Auerbach. With 174 illustrations in duotone and 80 in color.

London, Thames & Hudson, 1990. 4°. 240 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, close to new condition.

16. Ayrton, Michael.

Paintings by Michael Ayrton.

London, Grey Walls Press, 1948. Large Octavo. 17 pages of text with 40 leaves of plates. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

17. Baldry, A. L.

The Wallace Collection at Hertford House.

London, Goupil & Co., 1904. 22.5 cm x 30.2 cm. 302 pages. With black & white illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. The price for this heavy book includes international shipping per Courier !

18. Barber, Fionna.

Art in Ireland since 1910.

London, Reaktion Books, 2013. 26 cm. 318 pages illlustrations (chiefly color). Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

19. Barron, Stephanie / Dube, Wolf-Dieter / Dückers, Alexander / and others.

German Expressionist Prints and Drawings. The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies.

One. Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art / Prestel, 1989. 26.5 cm x 31.5 cm. XVI, 211 pages. Richly illustrated throughout. Hardcover – publisher’s original black cloth with lettering on spine. Large blind-tooled reproduction of Conrad Felixmüller’s ‘Selbstbildnis mit Frau’ on front board. The beautifully illustrated dustjacket illustrated with same reproduction in protective collector’s Mylar. Near fine condition.

20. [Barry, James] Pressly, William L.

James Barry’s Murals at The Royal Society of Arts – Envisioning a New Public Art.

Cork, CUP (Cork University Press), 2014. Folio (24.5 cm wide x 33.4 cm). Frontispiece, XVIII, 395 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.