CHARLOTTEMobile: +46 704 411 183 Email: [email protected] DU RIETZ RARE BOOKS HAMMARSKJÖLD 60th Anniversary New York International Antiquarian Book Fair Park Avenue Armory Park Avenue & 67th Street, NYC March 5-8, 2020 Booth C30 [ART DECO FUR FASHION CATALOGUE] FOURRERES M., LEROY & SCHMID / LE PAPE, G. / MARTIN, C. / LHUER, V. [Head titles] Ce qu’on peut faire. Quelques projets de manteau et mantelets … / Ce que dit le journal Le Temps en ses colonnes … Paris, Draeger, ca 1920. € 750 Small 4to. Three leaflets of four pages each with pochoir-coloured illustrations, four coloured fashion plates and eight half-tone photographic plates. As issued loose in original ivory colour paper folder printed in black, purple and gold. A very stylish Art Deco catalogue published in a limited number. Ref. Pages d’or de l’édition publicitaire, 16, p. 70. AVRIL, P. Voyage en divers etats d’Europe et d’Asie, entrepris pour découvrir un nouveau chemin à la Chine. Contenant plusiers remarques curieses de physique, de geo- graphie, d’hydrographie & d’histoire. Avec une description de la grande Tartarie, & les differens peuples qui l’habitent. Paris 1692. € 4 000 4to. Pp. (xx), 406, (ii), (24) table. With engraved portrait, one folding engraved map, three engraved plates and five large engraved vignettes. Contemporary calf, gilt. First edition of Avril’s narrative of his two journeys through Central Asia aim- ing to discover new overland routes to China. Philippe Avril, Jesuit professor of philosophy and mathematics at Paris, was summoned by Father Ferdinand Verbi- est in Peking to join the mission there. For eight years, from 1682 to 1690, Avril travelled overland reaching North and Northwest China but ultimately failing to reach Peking. This narrative covers both journeys; the first by caravan through Syria, Kurdistan, Armenia, Persia and across the Caspian to Astrakan where he had to turn back, and the second about his attempt to cross Siberia from Moscow to China, with his return to the West through Constantinople, Moldavia, Poland and Lithuania. Cordier BS 2088. Cf Walravens (1987) 55. BATCHELOR, J. (Transl. & Ed.) Uwepekere or Ainu Stories. As told by one of themselves. Tokyo [1924]. € 340 Small 8vo. Pp. (iv), 2, 104, (1). With illustrations. Parallel text of romanised Ainu and English. Original paper covered boards, spine restored. A collection of tradi- tional Ainu stories translated into English by Batchelor. Rare. BATCHELOR, J. Ainu Life and Lore. Echoes of a Departing Race. Tokyo 1927. € 600 Pp. (xii), 448, (1). With front portrait, many plates and textual illustrations. Origi- nal blue gilt cloth. First edition. Inscribed by the author. Reverend Batchelor came to Hokkaido in 1877 where he lived as a methodist missionary amongst the Ainu In Japan for more than 60 years. Nipponalia (Kyoto 1972) 2274. [BEARDSLEY, A. / BERCHMANS, E. / GASSET, E. / MEUNIER, H. / TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, H., etc.] Les Affiches Étrangères Illustrées. Paris 1897. € 2 000 Large 4to. Pp. (iv), iv, 206, (1). With 68 coloured lithographed plates, 22 black and white full-page plates and numerous illustrations. Later red cloth, spine faded). Limited edition, this is number 394 of 1000 copies on “papier velin” (of total 1050). A very good copy of this impressive work dealing with posters of the Belle Époque from different countries: Germany, England, Austria, Belgium, America and Japan. Illustrated by the most prominent artists of this time. It was published in a series of three, the other two volumes “Les Affiches Illustrées” are devoted to works by French artists. BENSON, R. Sketches of Corsica; or, a Journal Written During a Visit to that Island, in 1823. With an Outline of its History, and Specimens of the Language and Poetry of the People. London 1825. € 500 Pp. (vi), 195, (5). With wood engraved vignette, four engraved plates and one hand- coloured aquatint. Some light offsetting. Contemporary half calf, joints expertly restored. First edition. Abbey Travel 76. Lowndes i, p.156. [BIBA FASHION CATALOGUES] HULANICKI, B. Complete set of six BIBA mail order catalogues. London 1968–9. € 3 000 The collection comprises six stunning mail-order catalogues issued by BIBA, the trendy London fashion shop in the 1960s. Each catalogue contains 12 pages with duo-tone photo illustrations. Narrow elongated 4to. Original printed paper wrap- pers with gilt logo. Barbara Hulanicki is a fashion designer mainly known as the founder of the iconic clothes store BIBA in London. Photographed by Helmut Newton, Hans Feuer, Don- ald Silverstein, Sarah Moon and Harri Peccinotti. Ref: Barbara Hulanicki & Martin Pel, The BIBA Years 1963–75, pp. 90–105. BIBA FASHION CATALOGUES BIRD, I.L. (Mrs. Bishop) The Yangtze Valley and Beyond. An Account of Journeys in China, Chiefly in the Province of Sze Chuan and Among the Man-Tze of the Somo Territory. Two vols. New York & London 1900. € 800 Complete with two fronts, one folding coloured map and numerous illustrations. Publisher’s decorated gilt cloth. First American edition. Isabella Bird, probably the most loved Victorian lady traveller, became the first woman inducted into the Roy- al Geographical Society. Cordier BS 355. Robinson pp. 81–83. Yakushi (1984) B170. [BLIGH, W. / BURNEY, J.] Captainens vid engelske ammiralitetet William Bligh’s resa i Söderhafvet åren 1788, 1789, 1790. Hans half-årige vistande på ön O-Taheiti och hemresa från ön Timor till England. Part I. (all published). Nyköping 1795. € 1 200 Pp. xvi, 220. Modern boards. A Swedish version of Bligh’s famous “Voyage to the South Sea”, translated from the German edition, including the Forster introduc- tion. Rare. Du Rietz, Bibliotheca Polynesiana 96. Ferguson 216. Kroepelien 96. Not in Hill. BORN, I. DE Voyage minéralogique fait en Hongrie et en Transilvanie. Traduit de l’allemand, avec quelques notes, par M. Monnet, Inspecteur-Général des Mines de France, des Académies Royales des Scienes de Stockholm, de Turin, &c. &c. Paris 1780. € 880 12mo. Pp. xvi, (iv), 406. Contemporary calf, spine richly gilt. An account, in the form of letters describing the mines and mountains in the Bannat of Temeswar, Transilvania and Hungary. Poggendorff i,242. BRAAM HOUCKGEEST, A.E. VAN: An Authentic Account of the Embassy of the Dutch East-India Company, of the Court of the Emperor of China, in the Years 1794 and 1795; (subsequent to that of the Earl of Macartney), … Two vols. London 1798. € 1 500 Pp. lii, 288; (ii), 324. With one folding engraved map (foxed, two small tears, one restored at rear). Contemporary tree calf. Old ownership signature on titles. Scarce first English edition. The original manuscript was written in Dutch. Braam Houckgeest was a Dutch-American merchant who had served as supercargo of the Dutch East India Company in Canton and Macao. He accompanied the embassy to China in 1794–5 together with Isaac Titsingh and Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guig- nes. Cordier BS 2351. See Löwendahl 700. BRAND, A. Relation du voyage de Mr. Evert Isbrand envoyé de sa majesté czarienne a l’empereur de la Chine, en 1692,93 & 94. Avec une lettre de Monsieur …, sur l’etat présent de la Moscovie. Amsterdam 1699. € 2 800 Small 8vo. Pp. (ii), 249, (1). With engraved front and one large folding engraved map. Contemporary calf, spine expertly restored. First French edition (orig. in German 1698). It treats the Russian embassy headed by Everard Isbrand Ides which went over land from Moscow to Peking, written by the secretary of the embassy, Adam Brand. The journal describes the Siberian tribes encountered along the route and vividly writes about the visit in China including the embassy’s reception in Peking. The map only to be found in this edition. Chadenat 5335. Cordier BS 2469. Lust 506. Löwendahl 230. Walravens, China Illustrata 70. BRASSEY, LADY ANNA Sunshine and Storm in the East, or Cruises to Cyprus and Constantinople. Lon- don 1880. € 760 Pp. xx, (ii), 448. With two folding coloured maps, nine full page plates and more than 100 illustrations throughout the text. Publisher’s pictorial cloth, richly gilt, designed by Gustave Doré. First edition. Annie Brassey and her husband travelled the world for many years in their private yacht “Sunbeam”. Blackmer 195. Robin- son p. 203. BRASSEY, LADY ANNA Tahiti. A series of photographs taken by Colonel Stuart-Wortley. London 1882. € 950 Square 8vo. Pp. xii, 68. With 31 photographic illustrations. Publisher’s pictorial cloth, Binding lightly shaken but firm. First edition of this charming book about Tahiti based on Stuart-Wortley’s visit to the island in 1880. (The same year as the Kingdom of Tahiti became of French colony). The main text is written by Annie Brassey who visited Tahiti in 1876. Robinson p.202. Theakstone p. 32–3. BRETON DE LA MARTINIÈRE, J.B.J. La Chine en miniature ou choix de costumes, arts et métiers de cet Empire. Four vols. Paris 1811. € 2 800 18mo. With 80 hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary calf, gilt, a few small wormholes on covers. First edition of Breton’s charming work devoted to China and its people, crafts and arts. The lovely plates are based on original drawings by Chinese artists kept in the collection of Henri Léonard Bertin, French statesman Cf. Abbey Travel 535. Cordier BS 64. Lipperheide 1524. Löwendahl 757. [BURMA – PHOTOGRAPHS] A collection of Original Gelatin Silver Photographs. About 1895. € 1 200 Twenty-five photographs with images of Rangoon and Mandalay, including two of Penang Island and the Bridge of Penta Kõta. Each photo measures about 15 x 23 cm, four are slightly smaller. The photographs are pasted on grey thick paper with manuscript caption labels in French. CARRICK, W. (Photogr.) Types Russes. (An album of eleven carte-de-visite). St. Petersburg ca 1880. € 850 Small 12mo. A small leporello-folded album with eleven prints after William Car- rick, mounted on card.