Arts & Architecture

Limited edition numbered 57 of 150; folio (48 x 35 cm ; complete with 10 drypoints printed in colours, each signed by Dali in pencil, each numbered 57/150 on Richard de Bas paper; each protected by transparent sheet, text in Italian, printed title and justification pages, printed cream dust wrapper, slightly marked, all loose and housed in red cloth foldover box with title lettered in silver; a fine copy.

First edition; 8vo; 290 illustrations (3 colour plates, the rest duotone and line drawings), handsome bookplate on front pastedown, some pages lightly bumped at edges; handsomely bound in decorative red cloth, lacking original slipcase; a very good copy, spine lightly bleached with slight rubbing to white decoration, rear hinge slightly cracked; 381pp.

Fourth edition; 4to; illustrations throughout including overlays and tipped-in plates; publisher's pictorial wrappers within original plastic sleeve bolted through spine.

First edition. Folio (54.5 x 39 cm), iv, [viii], 33, [i] pp., 61 engraved plates on 54 sheets, many double-page or folding by Bartolozzi, Zucchi, and others , subscription list, contemporary calf gilt, occasional light spotting, rebacked, corners repaired, boards rubbed, a very good example.

Limited edition, one of 1000 numbered and signed copies; oblong folio (35.5 x 26.5 cm); with one photographic portrait by James van der Zee and 32 colour plates; original cloth binding with dust jacket, slightly age-toned at the margin of the dust-jacket, otherwise an excellent example.

A collection of 14 Art Deco designs for jewellery pen & ink and water-colour & white, on cellulose and card; the larger design of four diamond and sapphire rings measures 200 x 160 mm; the others vary but approximately, 140 x 100 mm

Limited edition, one of 150 examples on Arches, from a total edition of 170, signed by the illustrator on the justification, 4to (30.5 x 26 cm); numerous illustrations printed in colour after Schmied, 14 of which are full-page, head and tail pieces, initial and decorations also after Schmied, many heightened in gold and silver, frontispiece signed in pencil by the artist, a.e.g.; finely bound by Charles Lanoë in blue morocco with intricate Art Nouveau onlay design with gilt detail to covers and spine, patterned silk doublures, marbled endpapers, original wrappers bound in, a fine example.

Small 4to, [12], 20, [4], 21-980, [4] pp., couple of pages of the Epistle dedicatory with ink splashes (causing minor loss of text), light old browning pages 940-957, pages 951 - 976 intermittently shaved close at head, last leaf with small repairs to inner margin (not affecting text), modern contemporary style blind-stamped calf by Bernard Middleton, overall this is a very pleasing example which opens well throughout, an excellent copy.

First edition (Italian text version); 14 vols bound in 18 [with] 4 supplementary volumes, 22 in total; large 4to; illustrated with 6 large folding maps, 1640 aquatint plates, of which 1517 are hand-coloured, various tables, etc., portrait of Francis I replaced with an emblematic portrait of 'Terra', occasional short closed tears (not affecting plates), scattered light foxing, plates slightly toned, 2 vols heavily toned; contemporary vellum-backed maroon boards, red and green morocco spine labels with gilt lettering, a very good set.

5 vols, large 8vo, titles in red and black with coloured vignette, 129 engraved plates, maps, etc. after Thomas Allom, 127 illustrations in the text, some foxing or staining to titles and plates, very handsome contemporary gren half morocco gilt in the style of Lewis, a very handsome set.