Arts & Architecture

40 volumes, quarto, complete run of the first of 39 volumes plus the special atlas to accompany volumes 29 & 30, all first editions save the first two volumes which are later reprints, profusely illustrated with photographic illustrations and maps, original blue cloth gilt, some spines a little faded, overall an excellent run.

First edition, first printing, inscribed by the photographer; 4to; Publisher's black boards, titles to upper board and spine in white. With the dust jacket. A superb copy in the dust jacket.

First editions in English, 6 volumes, 8vo & 4to, Troy and its Remains (1875): 52 plates on 51 sheets, one folding, 3 folding maps & plans; Mycenae (1878), 21 wood-engraved and 4 chromolithographed plates, 3 folding, 8 maps & plans, 3 folding; Ilios: the City and Country of the Trojans (1880), wood-engraved frontispiece and 2 folding plates, 7 folding maps & plans; Troja (1884), 4 colour maps and plans, 3 folding; Tiryns (1886), folding frontispiece, 29 maps, plates & plans, many colour, some folding, ink inscription to head of title, with wide margins, § SCHUCHHARDT (Dr. C.) Schliemann's Excavations: an Archaeological and Historical Study (1891), half-title, 2 portraits, 4 plates, one folding, and 7 maps & plans, 4 folding. One or two leaves browned, occasional foxing, old library label to front pastedowns, uniform later half turquoise morocco, spines gilt in compartments, top edges gilt, a fine set.

4to, edition limited to 265 (250 for sale) numbered copies signed by the author and specially bound by Zaehnsdorf; 312 pp., illustrated throughout including 75 colour photographs by F. L. Kenett, full tan morocco gilt, upper cover with scarab composed of black and green morocco onlays outlined in gilt, all edges gilt, original cream linen foldover box, a fine copy.

Limited edition, one of 175 copies signed by the artist, this being no. 169, from a total edition of 195, 4to (34 x 23.5 cm); text printed in black and colours throughout, 41 woodcut compositions in colour after Schmied, 12 of which are full-page, most plates and illustrations heightened in gilt or silver; loose as issued in the original printed wrappers, minor creasing to spine, protected in later black cloth chemise and slipcase, a fine example.

First edition; 4to, (22.2 x 19 cm); scattered light foxing affecting two illustrations, otherwise unmarked internally; publisher's black cloth, head of spine slightly frayed, with original dustjacket, some wear and soiling to dustjacket, lacking errata slip and original belly band, otherwise a very good copy; 195pp.

Limited edition, one of 32 examples on japon nacré, signed by the author and artist, from a total edition of 140, folio (38 x 28 cm); 8 etchings in colour after Delaunay, plus an extra suite in colour also on nacré with each plate signed in pencil, an additional signed etching hand-coloured in gouache by the artist, loose as issue, with tissue guards; in the original lithographed chemise and slipcase, a fine example.

First UK edition, first impression; presentation copy inscribed by the author; 8vo; publisher's black boards, titles to spine gilt, with the dust jacket; light tape residue to the endpapers, from an old jacket protector, spine rather dull but a very good copy in the frayed and torn dust jacket rather faded at the spine.

Limited edition, one of 50 deluxe copies, this being number 40, from a total edition of 250, 4to (28 x 20.5 cm); 63 reproductions (31 with pochoir colouring) and an etching on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil by the artist, with full margins, loose as issued, each plate blindstamped P.R. on the lower right corner; folder with title and justification on japon, illegible dedication to title, unsophisticated tape repairs to folder, slight age-toning to plates; in the original cloth backed marbled chemise, label pasted to upper cover, black ties, an excellent example.

3 original Biba catalogues 35.5 x 18 cm, illustrated throughout by Helmut Newton and others, wrappersrs with biba logo to upper covers, 2 with order slips loosely inserted, one with small cup stain to upper wrapper (feint), one with slight flecking, overall well preserved examples of an ephermeral publication.