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ART AND ARCHITECTURE 9. Avedon, Richard. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Jonathan Cape 1993. 1. Addams, Chas. DRAWN AND QUARTERED. With a 1st UK Ed. Folio. Unpaginated. Profusely illus. throughout in Foreword by Boris Karloff. Random House, New York 1942. b/w. from photos. Margins of e.ps. lightly browned, good in 1st Ed. Slim 4to. [112]pp. Profusely illus. throughout in b/w. original red lettered cloth with b/w. illus. affixed to lower board as issued, spine lightly faded. £50.00 Ownership inscription, e.ps. lightly browned, original red lettered cloth backed boards, lightly soiled and rubbed with some wear to 10. (Baur). Ayers, John. THE BAUR COLLECTION corners and head and tail of spine. £50.00 GENEVA. Chinese Ceramics. With Korean and Thai Wares; His first work. Ming Porcelains and Other Wares; Monochrome Glazed 2. (Album). VICTORIAN SCRAP ALBUM. Porcelains of the Ch’Ing Dynasty; Collections Baur Genève 60pp. 500+ cuts. Military, floral, children, animals, etc. Upper 1968-74. hinge cracked, silver and black dec. green cloth, minor wear. 1st English Ed. 4 vols. 4to. Profusely ills. from photos. including £350.00 many colour and several folding. Text in English/French. Delightful example. Textured cloth, sl. rubbed d/ws., enclosed in card slipcase. £1,500.00 3. (Album). VICTORIAN SCRAP ALBUM. 1878. Superbly illustrated, depicting 662 pieces, some with several illustrations 21 leaves. 250+ cuts. Commemorative Cards, Flowers, Birds, showing different angles etc. Horses, Trees. Shaken, gilt and black ruled cloth, frayed, minor Edition Limited to 1100 Copies, of which 50 marked H.C. ‘rèservè aux marking, upper joint with loss in part. £200.00 collaborateurs’, volume 1 H.C., volume 2 No. 589, volume 3 No. 1001, For Alice Isabel Lunt, Febuary 3rd 1878. Aged 1 Year. volume 4 No. 749. Alfred Baur (1865–1951). His life long collection of Far Eastern art, 4. Amsden, Dora. THE HERITAGE OF HIROSHIGE. A particularly Chinese ceramics and jade, and Japanese porcelain, Glimpse at Japanese Landscape Art. With the Assistance of John lacquer-ware, netsuke, sword ornaments, prints and textiles. Stewart Happer. Illustrated with Prints from the Happer John Ayers founder of and former keeper of the Far Eastern Department Collection. Paul Elder and Co. 1912. (as it was then known) at the Victoria and Albert Museum from 1970 1st UK Ed. vii leaves + 84 leaves + 1 leaf (Japanese style). 16 until 1982. A renowned Asian ceramics specialist who has written more than twenty books on the subject. plates, 5 leaves of Artist signatures. Some browning, bound in The remaining volumes of the series published Volume 5: Chinese Jades; dec. cloth backed boards with title to upper board, four hole string Volume 6: Netsuke; Volume 7: Japanese Sword-Fittings; Volume 8: binding, minor wear. £75.00 Japanese Ceramics; Volume 9: Japanese Lacquer; Volume 10: & 11: Japanese Prints Parts 1 & 2 5. [Anon]. JAPANESE BOOK. N.d. 6”x 3”. 276 leaves, Japanese style, with Japanese stab style cloth 11. Briquet, Charles Moïse. LES FILIGRANES Dictionnaire boards £100.00 Historique Des Marques du Papier Dès Leur Apparition Vers Appears to be a book of symbols mainly with 6 per page each with 1282 Jisqu’en 1600. Maurizio Martino CT N.d. c.[2004]. acccompanying text in Japanese. Facsimile Reprint of 1923 Ed. 4 vols. 16112 examples. Very 6. [Anon]. [JAPANESE PATTERN BOOK? IN good in gilt lettered cloth. £100.00 Limited to 150 Copies. JAPANESE]. 6” x 2.8”. 280 leaves bound Japanese style. Ills. throughout each 12. British Museum. CATALOGUE OF BOOKS PRINTED ills. with text. Some light browning, original wrapps., with label, IN THE XVTH CENTURY NOW IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM some soiling. £100.00 Part I. Xylographical and Books Printed with types at Mainz, Wide range of illustrations including samurai helmet, foliage, geometic Strassburg, Bamberg and Cologne; Part II. Germany Eltvil-Trier; shapes, flowers, fans, animals, portions of landscape, numerous Part II.I Germany: Leipzig-Pforzheim German -Speaking decorative designs, etc. Switzerland and Austria-Hungary; Part IV. Italy Subiaco and 7. [Anon]. [JAPANESE PATTERN BOOK? IN Rome; Part V. Venice; Part VI. Italy: Foligno Ferrara Florence JAPANESE]. Milan Bologna Naples Perugia and Treviso. Part VII. Italy: 6” x 2.9.” 118 leaves bound Japanese style. Ills. throughout each Genoa-Unassigned Addenda; Part VIII. France, French-Speaking ills. with text. Some light browning, original wrapps., with label, Switzerland: Part IX. Fascicule I. Holland Fascicule II. Belgium. some soiling and creasing. £100.00 Part X. Spain Portugal. Part XII. Italy (Supplement). ... Order of Wide range of illustrations showing large patterns, possibly for the Trustees ... 1908-85. wallpaper or similar. Mainly decorative some foliage, occasional Vols. 1-10 plus vol. 12, thus 11 in total [only, lacking volume 11 animals, shells etc. England, volume 13 Hebraica, and volumes 14 & 15 Facsimiles]. 4to. 296 plates. First 5 vols. in original cloth, corners rubbed with 8. [Anon]. [JAPANESE PICTURE BOOK IN JAPANESE]. cloth loss, cloth split to joints; vols. 6-10 in original cloth backed 6” x 9.” 50 leaves bound Japanese style. Some light browning, boards, cloth splitting to joints in part; vol. 12 original cloth original wrapps., with label, some soiling. £100.00 faded, all vols. showing wear. [And] PRINTING IN ENGLAND Telling a story, with two or three frames to each page, the last few leaves IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. Gordon Duff’s Bibliography with single frame to each page. The first leaf depicting a mature teacher? with supplementary descriptions, chronologies and a census of with three pupils; then three men individually depicted, one astride a bull, one at the top of a scroll, one riding an umbrella in the sea; The copies by Lotte Hellinga. Bibliographical Society The British story unfolds with women, animals, foliage. Then possibly the men Library 2009. Royal 8vo. 278pp. Bright gilt lettered buckam. travelling abroad and overseas prehaps fulfilling tasks; riding fish and £450.00 oxen, shown fishing, playing instruments, feasting, wrestling, some 12 volumes in total. domestic scenes with women cooking, weaving, toiling; a scene of cock “Every profession, it seems, possesses one supreme work of reference … fighting, Samurai, the last few scenes showing many men and women unequalled by any other work in the same field. For incunabulists toiling, dancing, archery, stick fighting etc. Each frame with some (indeed, for all bibliographers), there is the British Museum’s catalogue dialogue. of incunabula” (from a review by Curt F. Bühler of volume IX, in The Book Collector, Winter 1962, p.489). “Perhaps no other collection of 1 any type of book has had a catalogue that has become such a standard [And] LUCA DELLA ROBBIA With Other Italian Sculptors by work in its field, used as much as an authoritative bibliography as a Leader Scott. [With] FRA BARTOLOMMEO by Leader Scott. record of holdings” (from a review by Martin Davies of volume XI in The [And] RAPHAEL By N. D’Anvers. [With] TITIAN by Richard Book Collector, Summer 2007, p.191). Ford Heath. [And] FRA ANGELICO By Catherine Mary 13. Britten, F.J. OLD CLOCKS AND WATCHES & THEIR Phillimore. [With] GIOTTO By Harry Quilter. [And] MAKERS. Being an Historical and Descriptive Account of the ALBRECHT DÜRER By Richard Ford Heath. [With] THE different styles of Clocks and Watches of the Past, in England and LITTLE MASTERS By William Bell Scott. [And]. Abroad to which is added a List of Ten Thousand Makers. MICHELANGELO by Charles Clement. [With] GHIBERTI Batsford 1904. AND DONATELLO With Other Early Italian Sculptors by 2nd Ed., much enlarged. Royal 8vo. viii + 735pp. + [i] + 24pp. Leader Scott. [And] CORREGGIO By M. Compton Heaton. publ. adverts. 700 ills., mostly from photos. Hinges tender and sl. [with] LEONARDO By John Paul Richter. [And] RUBENS by shaken but firm, ex.-libris Harry Percy Boord, original gilt Charles W. Kett. [With]. REMBRANDT By John W. Mollett. lettered cloth, corners sl. bumped, some minor soiling and [And] TINTORETTO By W. Roscoe Osler. [With] MANTEGNA rubbing, joints sl. rubbed with sm. nick towards head of upper AND FRANCIA By Julia Cartwright. Sampson Low, Marston, joint, spine lightly faded and sl. bumped at head and tail, t.e.g. Searle & Rivington 1880-6. £85.00 18 works bound in 9 vols. Frontis., profusely ills. including many folding. Some light browning, marbled e.ps. and edges, ex.-libris 14. Cassell’s ILLUSTRATED FAMILY PAPER Dame Margaret Boord, contemporary maroon straight grained EXHIBITOR; Containing about Three Hundred Illustrations, with morocco with intricate gilt fillet to edges of boards, gilt lettering Letter-press Descriptions of all the Principle Objects in the and gilt motifs to spines, minor wear and rubbing to spines. International Exhibition of 1862. Cassell, Petter & Galpin 1862. £280.00 1st Ed. Sm. 4to. xiv + 272pp. Profusely illus. thoughout. Some The Great Artists. light marginal browning and occasional spotting and thumbing, marbled e.ps., upper hinge very sl. tender but firm, half skiver 18. Holbein, Hans. THE DANCE OF DEATH; From Original with cloth covered boards, boards dampstained and sl. soiled, the Designs of ... Engraved by W. Hollar. With Descriptions in corners and joints rubbed and scuffed, gilt ruled raised bands and English and French. Printed for J. Coxhead ... 1816. gilt title to spine. £50.00 [iv] + 70pp. Engraved portrait frontis. of Hollar, portrait of Holbein, 30 engraved numbered plates, 1 un-numbered engraved 15. (Cigarette Album). THE “LONDON” CIGARETTE plate. Light browning and foxing, rebound in modern double CARD ALBUM. 22 Complete Cigarette Card Sets, a total of 930 blind rule edged half calf with marbled boards, gilt rule edged cards. 1930s. raised bands with gilt lettered title label to spine. £250.00 Landscape 4to. From the library of Tony Leujeune. Last filled Containing "The life of Holbein": pages [1]-12.