Gyorgy Kadar
In original portfolio with hand drawn cover. 40 drawing. 40 drawing made mostly about the pavilions. The Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (International Exposition of Art and Technology in Modern Life) was held from 25 May to 25 November 1937 in Paris, France. Both the Palais de Chaillot, housing the Musée de l'Homme,[1] and the Palais de Tokyo, which houses the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, were created for this exhibition that was officially sanctioned by the Bureau International des Expositions. Gyorgy Kadar (Katz) was a painter and graphic designer. He began his art studies at the free school of Tibor Gallé, Sándor Bortnyik and István Örkényi-Strasser, and then completed his art studies in Paris between 1937-1939 at the École Technique Supérieur Art et Publicité. In 1947-49, he was a teacher at the Academy of Applied Arts in Budapest, and from 1949 to 1974 at the Academy of Fine Arts. I He also worked on book graphics and poster design. His works can be found in the Hungarian National Gallery, the Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem. In original portfolio with hand drawn cover
Taunay, Hippolyte; Denis, Ferdinand
First edition. Six volumes, in contemporary leather, marbled edges. Panels tooled with gilt floral frame, edges gilt. Spine gilt with red title and volume number vignette. Illustrated with 54 hand-colored lithographs. Vol. 1: xvi 236 pp., 10 pls.; Vol. 2: [4] 276 pp., 7 pls.; Vol. 3: [4] 204 pp., 5 pls.; Vol. 4: [4] 299 [1] pp., 18 pls .; Vol. 5: [4] 337 [1] pp., 6 pls.; Vol. 6: [4] 281 [1] pp., 8 pls. The first general work on Brazil in French, illustrated with fifty-four hand-colored lithographs. Written by Hippolyte Taunay (1793-1864) son of the celebrated painter Nicolas-Antoine Taunay, a member of the Missão Artística Francesa came to Rio de Janeiro in 1816. Hippolyte, as an assistant of Georges Cuvier traveled through Rio, Bahia, and Pernambuco to assemble a natural history collection for the great naturalist. While in Sao Paolo, Taunay met Ferdinand Denis (1798-1890) who helped him with his work and became the co-author of the present book. Denis was pursuing a diplomatic career and stayed in Brazil for some two years which dramatically changed his path and eventually he dedicated a large part of his life to the discovery, study, and publication of Portuguese and Spanish manuscripts related to Brazil. Although some sections of the book are gathered from earlier works, a large part was written by Taunay and Denis, as it is described in the preface. Most of the views of Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, and Pernambuco are by Taunay and the excellent reproduction were made after the works of Jean de Léry (Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre de Brésil, 1578), Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied (Reise nach Brasilien, 1820), and John Mawe (Travels in the Interior of Brazil, 1812). The themes of the illustrations vary from views of cities, buildings, diamond mining, slave trade, regions and landscapes (Bahia, Pernambuco, Mato Grosso, Rio de Janeiro, Olinda) to ethnological subjects such as portraits, objects, ornaments, and customs, including capturing a jaguar and whale hunting, among many others. "The six volumes absolutely complete with all the plates are very rare. [.]. Some volumes include plates 'avant la lettre' and copies exist with contemporary colouring. Most of the plates are folding." (Borba de Moraes) Our copy is absolutely complete, and one of those few with contemporary colouring. Most of the larger illustrations are bound as double-page instead of folding plates, and the plates roughly follow the order of what Borba de Moraes suggests. Scarce in the trade. Sabin 94416, Borba de Moraes II 846-7. Occasional foxing, some quires affected more. Brown stain to first leaves of vol. 5. Otherwise in fine condition. Six volumes, in contemporary leather, marbled edges. Panels tooled with gilt floral frame, edges gilt. Spine gilt with red title and volume number vignette. Illustrated with 54 hand-colored lithographs
[Dubroca, Jean-Louis]
First German edition. In its first, blue paper binding. The first German translation of the first biography of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the first ruler of an independent Haiti, with one of the earliest portraits of the Emperor. First edition in German of Jean-Louis Dubroca's La vie de J. J. Dessalines, originally published in French, in Paris, 1804. Contains one of the earliest portraits of Dessalines, based on the first French edition. Considered the first biography of Jean-Jacques Dessalines (c. 1758-1806) a former slave, one of the leaders of the Haitian Revolution, the only successful slave rebellion in history, which culminated in the elimination of slavery and the founding of the Republic of Haiti, the first independent black republic and the second independent nation in the Western Hemisphere in 1804. Dessalines became the first ruler of an independent Haiti, as Emperor Jacques I (1804-1806) until being assassinated in 1806 by opponents who resisted his autocratic rule. Written by Jean-Louis Dubroca (1757-1835), who also authored the first biography of Toussaint Louverture, as part of the ongoing propaganda of Bonaparte's regime to vilify the Haiti revolution and its leaders. Both of Dubroca's biographies were soon published in other languages, the present one in German (1805, Leipzig - the present edition), Spanish (1805, Madrid; 1806, Mexico), and Dutch (1805, Haarlem). Scarce, no records in RBH. WorldCat locates only 3 copies in the US (NYPL; Berkeley; Harvard), in addition, a copy is held at the JCB Library. Binding chipped, opened at upper front joint. Untrimmed. Pages tanned. First 2 leaves loose. Otherwise in fine condition. In its first, blue paper binding
Sinkovits Péter
Designed by Gyorgy Kemeny. First edition. In original paper. Imre Bak, Krisztián Frey, Tamás Hencze, György Jovánovics, Ilona Keserü, Gyula Konkoly, László Lakner, Sándor Molnár, István Nádler, Ludmil Siskov, Endre Tót.
In contemporary vellum, title in ink on spine. Second French edition. [12] 222 [10] p. A scarce and important French translation of Libre de Consolat de Mar, the basis of international maritime law. Libre de Consolat de Mar or the Book of the Consulate of the Sea is a Catalan-origin medieval compendium of rights and regulations of nautical issues, the model of international maritime law, a collection of laws and customs of Roman, Greek, Byzantine, Rhodian, Italian, French, and Spanish maritime rights. They deal with everything that has to do with the sea and sailors, Courts of Admiralty, merchant vessels and their customers, ships of war, Admirals, also harbor rules. These regulations served basically as the code of maritime law until the publication of the French Great Ordinance of Marine (Grande ordonnance de la marine) in 1681 during the reign of Louis XIV. Originally written in Catalan in the late 13th century, first printed in 1484 in Barcelona and later translated into other languages. In French, translated by a Marseille jurist François Mayssoni, appeared in 1577 in Aix just as the present, second edition. Our copy contains an additional ten-page supplement, the articles of the Franco-Ottoman capitulation treaty of 1604, between Henry IV and Ahmed, that provided numerous privileges to France in the Ottoman Empire. Scarce, except for a recent copy in 2023 no other recorded by RBH within the last almost one hundred years (Maggs, 1925). WorldCat locates only 6 copies worldwide (BL, BnF, Bibliothèque Mazarine, Harvard, LoC, Berkeley). . Modern bookplate on inner front panel (Robert Thibault). Old ownership entries on title page. Vellum tanned, with some stains, rubbed. Paper tanned. Light foxing throughout. Tiny wormholes occasionally. Light water stain to lower margin. Overall in very good condition.
In modern half leather. First edition. Title page ruled with typographical ornament, with an engraved portrait of Anthony of Padua. [10] 55 [1] p. Scarce and early Spanish work on coffee. Fernandez Matienzo's work is the second book in Spanish about coffee. Discurso medico is a response to a treaties, Noticia de el Caphe, by Juan de Tariol, published the preceding year, in 1692, in Palencia, in which the author discussed the healing properties of the drink. Fernandez Matienzo, a doctor of medicine of Palencia, disproves his friend Tariol's assertions, argues that coffee has no such positive benefits, it is on the contrary, harmful, and recommends the readers to drink hot water - the only healing ingredient of coffee - instead of the "insipid and bitter drink" (desabrida y amarga bebida). Scarce, no copies recorded by RBH. Outside of Spain, IB locates only two copies in the British Library (UK) and at Berkeley (USA). IB 106526 . Trimmed, some pages the page number or catchword, occasionally the last line shaved. Old library stamp masked in white on 3 1 and on the last page. Otherwise in fine condition. First edition. Title page ruled with typographical ornament, with an engraved portrait of Anthony of Padua.
First edition. Woodcut coat of arms on title page. In 18th century leather. Gilt spine, with red title vignette, marbled endpapers, tinted edges. ff. [8] 178 [6] (several misnumbered). Sign. [par.]â A-Zâ . Curious economic-demographic treaties, with interesting references to America. Benito Peñalosa de Mondragón's (1580-1646) important work dealing with the depopulation of Spain, with several chapters of American interest. Besides the numerous references throughout the text, Benito Peñalosa justifies the Spanish conquest of America by planting the Catholic faith in the New World (ff. 38-42), describes the Spanish possessions in America (ff. 65-67), and the ecclesiastic and administrative structure of the Indies (ff. 67-68), dedicates a long section on the rich mineral and other resources (gold, silver, and quicksilver mines) of the West Indes, with particular focus on the mining in Potosi, the last chapters are dealing with the wines of Peru (and its effects on the miners) and the good government (ff. 114-149). With interesting details on slaves, such as their unusual route to Arica from the distant port of Buenos Aires, or the contagious diseases brought by the Africans spread among the indigenous slaves in the vineyards in Peru, and the impact on the profit of the encomenderos. (Díaz Araya 2019) Due to its chapters on mining in Peru, a copy was exhibited at the 2015 exhibition Subterranean Worlds: Under the Earth in the Early Americas at the John Carter Brown Library (no. 19). Scarce on the market, no records on RBH in the last forty years. Sabin 59635; Palau 217642 Literature: Díaz Araya, A. et al. (2019) Afrodescendientes en Arica. Registros Coloniales para una Historia Regional. In : .Y Llegaron con cadenas. Las poblaciones afrodescendientes en la Historia de Arica y Tarapacá (Siglos XVII-XIX), Universidad de Tarapacá. pp. 29-65. . Spine slightly worn, panels slightly rubbed, corners bumped. Pages tanned, browned due to aging. Staines occasionally. Lower outer corner of I1 missing, not affecting the text. Closed tear to T8 upper margin. Tiny wormholes at the lower margin in quires R, and X. Late 18th century marginal notes in quires R, Y, and Z. Overall in very good condition. In 18th century leather. Gilt spine, with red title vignette, marbled endpapers, tinted edges First edition. Woodcut coat of arms on title page.
First edition. Authors copy (at least partly). In three volumes, plus atlas. In modern uniform half leather. Publisher's printed wrappers bound into. [4] 470[=490] and [1] plate; [4] 438 and 16 p. autograph supplement; [4] 460 [2] and [1] plate. + 17 lithograph plates in album; sizes (ca.): 72 × 36; 72 × 54; 98 × 66 cm. An extremely scarce scientific work on volcanos, the second volume with several corrections and inserted notes in the author's hand. With the atlas of 17 plates. Bylandt-Palstercamp'sThéorie des volcansis a result of more than thirty years of research and survey of volcanos, while the author visited the mountain chains of Europe, Asia, and America. In this three-volume, monumental work he delineates many interesting and curious discoveries and revelations about the volcanos in general and the volcanic phenomena. Discusses his theories about the distinct elevation and the different shapes of the volcanos, the fixed orientation of their summits, slopes, and orifices, and the specific location of the volcanos around the globe. The author attributes the currents of the sea to volcanic activities, correlates earthquakes to the same phenomena, and shows the relation between mount altitudes and magnetic power. Bylandt-Palstercamp classifies the mountains, the lavas, and the operation of the volcanos and defines a general law to determine the formation of volcanic cones. The work is appended with an album of seventeen large plates to illustrate the subject. Not much is known about the author, besides the present work and it's preliminary pamphlet, we couldn't find anything else he published. The preliminary contains the same text as "Avant-propos" of the present book (vol. 1. pp. 1-83) with some minor stylistic and typographical changes and was published twice under the titleRésumé préliminaire de l'ouvrage sur la Théorie des volcans, in Naples in 1833 and under a slightly different title in Paris, in 1834. The second volume of our copy contains several annotations, corrections, and deletions in the author's hand. The shorter notes and corrections are in pencil in the text, and the longer ones, written in ink on separate small papers, are inserted into the gutter at the corresponding locations. The extent of these notes varies, mostly the length of a paragraph, some are longer, like a 2-page one supplementing the section "Influence volcanique" on p. 38, and a 4-page revision of the text of "Effects des Eaux" on pp. 54-57. The section on Basalt on pp. 329-362 was corrected in pencil more heavily than the others, and a 16-page supplement in ink on Bohemia was added to the end of the volume (corresponding with the text on p. 396). The album, printed the subsequent year in 1836, contains 17 lithograph plates of maps, views, and diagrams in three different large sizes, each designed by Bylandt-Palstercamp. Most of the plates are maps (12), and the others are views (some bear more than one) and/or diagrams. The majority of the plates are folio size and folded once (ca. 72 × 54 cm), four are half of this size, unfolded, and three plates are extra large, folded twice (ca. 98 × 66 cm). 1: Atmosphère [.]. 2: Carte Générale Des Courants Volcaniques Et De Leur Influence Sur Le Système De La Terre. 3: Carte Du Foyer Oriental. 4: Carte Du Foyer Occidental. 5. Carte Géologique et Volcanique De L'Etna. [.]. 6: [Etna, Siracusa] 7: Profil d'un Volcan assis entre les paralleles du grand Canal de feu & spécialement de l'Etna. / Basalts des Iles Ciclopëinner. / Les roches prismatiques à Paterno. / Les effets des tremblemens de terre sont entr'eux en raison inverse du guarré [.] 7bis: Intérieur du cratère de l'Etna, 1832. 8: Les Iles Eoliennes ou de Lipari. 9: Carte volcanique du midi de l'Europe [.]. 10: Carte volcanique de la France Cenrale [.]. 11: Archipel de la Grèce. Ile De Santorin. 12: Environs de San-Léo. (Urbin.) [.]. / Grotte basaltique près Arciréale dans Sicile. / Volcan qui s'est élevé momentanément en devant de la Sicile 1831. / Tableau comparatif entre quatre principaux Volcans [.]. 13. Carte Volcanique du grand Internum de Baia et de l'Ile d'Ischia. [.]. 14: Cratère du Stromboly. / Construction géométrique du Vesuve. 15: Carte volcanique du Vesuve et de la Campanie. [.]. 16: Peninsule de Sorrento. Scarce, no records on RBH. . Pierre Mosse's bookplate on the inner front panel in each volume. Artistically restored. Overall in fine condition. Vol. 1.: Possessor's inscription or dedication clipped from the front wrapper, restored. Water stain to upper outer corner almost throughout, otherwise fine. Vol. 2.: With several annotations, corrections, and deletions in Bylandt Palstercamp's own hand in pencil, many inserted autograph notes in ink, in various lengths from a paragraph to pages, and a 16-page autograph supplement in ink at the end of the volume. Light water stain to the gutter. Otherwise fine. Vol. 3. Light foxing throughout, some pages tanned. Otherwise fine. Album: The maps are kept in the original printed paper wrappers (restored at folding). Some plates are slightly dusted, and chipped at the edges, some with light or darker foxing. Otherwise in very good condition. In three volumes, plus atlas. In modern uniform half leather. Publisher's printed wrappers bound into First edition. Authors copy (at least partly).
Fold out. Stefan Sebok was a Hungarian-born architect who worked with Walter Gropius in Dessau and Berlin in the late 1920s, and then with fellow Hungarian emigré László Moholy-Nagy on his famous Light Prop, and later moved to the Soviet Union to work with the constructivist architects Moisei Ginzbrug, El Lissitzky and the Vesnin brothers. In between he carried out numerous projects of his own and found himself central to a key generation of emerging modern architects in Dresden, Berlin and Moscow. Life and work He was accepted in Dresden in 1921 at the Hochbau [Architecture] faculty at the Sächsiche Technische Hochschule, opting for the science oriented course, but chose art for his optional subject. The university records show him as a highly achieving student and he was given the opportunity to do a research project on Viennese Baroque, which he presented in 1925 as an illustrated public lecture at the Dresden Kupferstichkabinett. In 1926 he submitted his Diploma work, a project for the design of the Tanztheater, Dresden, probably inspired by the presence of the famous dancer Gret Palucca in Dresden at the time. The work had many innovative features aiming to minimise the interface between stage and spectators. He received his diploma Dip. Ing. Arch. in March 1927. Although he already had a firm position offered by Erich Mendelsohn at the time, he decided to join Walter Gropius in Dessau. The main attraction for Sebök was the recently commissioned revolutionary theatre by Erwin Piscator. Although the theatre did not materialise at the time, the concept of the possible use of films, the stage and roof design, was reworked by Sebök in several drawings over the years and it found its continuation also in a plan worked out by Gropius and Sebök in 1930 for a theatre for Kharkov for mass performances for which many of Sebök's annotated preliminary sketches have survived. In 1928 Sebök briefly returned to Dresden, probably to re-work his Tanztheater for the Internationales Problem Theater. From 1928 till 1931 Sebök rejoined Gropius in Berlin participating in numerous projects. Sebök also collaborated closely with László Moholy-Nagy on the Kinetisch-konstruktives System [Kinetic Constructive System] and the Light space modulator. The collages for these are marked durchconstruirt [constructed] by Sebök and the technical drawings for the latter bear his signature. During 1929 he was also involved with Moholy-Nagy in various stage designs for Erwin Piscator.
First edition. In publisher's half cloth. With original, illustrated dust cover. 20, 128, 9, (6), [1] p. 20 pages in Hungarian about Leica technic, 128 pages of photographs, 9 pages of technical details of the photos and 6 pages of advertisement of photo equipments. József Németh (1911-2006) was one of the most influental photographers in Hungary, graphic artist, designer. His photos and articles were published in more than 40 books, author of several books on photography. . Jacket slightly chipped, small missing on the back. Overall in very good condition. In publisher's half cloth. With original, illustrated dust cover