ART from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

Paris: L'Imprimerie Chaix, 1897. First edition. Print. Fine. Lovely image of a couple examining an Art Nouveau print. This image speaks to the public's passion for posters at the end of the 19th century. To appeal to this passion, "Les Maitres de L'Affiche" was published by Jules Cheret. Cleverly, the reduced-size fine art poster lithographs were a more… Read more about this item

Paris: L'Imprimerie Chaix, 1899. First edition. Print. Fine. Joan of Arc holding a banner in a hail of arrows. Grasset worked as a book illustrator and poster designer in Paris towards the end of the 19th century. His work brought him into contact with the Montmartre circle of artists including Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Image size varies on paper… Read more about this item

Paris: Imprimerie Chaix, 1896. First edition. Print. Very good condition. Steinlen (1859-1923) the famed Swiss born printmaker who settled and worked in Montmartre, Paris, is noted for his impressive posters of cafes and night life. He was a socialist whose images display his lifelong support and focus on the working class. Art nouveau style poster for this… Read more about this item

Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1906. New edition with additions, illustrated with photogravure plates from works of art. Hardcover. Very good condition. Handsomely bound set in red half morocco, marble boards, spines gilt decorated, raised bands, silk bookmarks intact. 2 vols, printed on laid paper, each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress, top edge gilt. OCLC:… Read more about this item

Netherlands: Lannoo Publishers, 2016. First edition thus. Hardcover. Overall fine condition. Maria Sibylla Merian [1647 - 1717] was a German entomologist and scientific illustrator. 'She was one of the earliest European naturalists to document observations about insects directly.' (wikipedia dot com) Her lifelong study of insects and incorporation of the various stages of insect development into her illustrations… Read more about this item

New York: James Ackerman, 1989. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good overall. A facsimile edition of the New York edition of 1845 which incorporates 6 additional plates from the London edition of 1844 not included in the American edition. Set number 626 of 950, signed by Dana Pratt Director of Publishing Library of Congress, and Robert Abrams President of… Read more about this item

Cologne: Taschen, 2009. Fine. 42 plates of parrots by Edward Lear, loose in a clamshell. Includes a soft cover, 32pp volume on Lear's life and parrot behavior written by Francesco Salinas, Sophia Willmann, and Rainer Willmann. Enclosed in a salmon clamshell, with pink crested cockatoo on front, and thumbnail images of the complete set of parrots on verso,… Read more about this item

London: George Bell and Sons, 1895. Hardcover. Very good overall. 8vo, 367pp, light green cloth boards with green stripes, art deco on front, gilt title on spine, many b&w illustrations. Covers slt. dusty, some bubbling on cloth, internally clean and bright.

New Haven CT: George Braziller, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. A facsimile of the 1947 original Verve edition with facsimile of the original colophon signed by Matisse. 4to, xviii, 146 pp., [10] pp, color illustrations. Black cloth lettered in red and white at spine and front board with the illustrated jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket which has… Read more about this item

New York: Viking Press, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Black-and-white photographic portraits of Georgia O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz, with an introduction by Georgia O'Keeffe. Folio, xviii, 51pp, quarter gray paper and cloth covers. In price-clipped else fine dust jacket and the publisher's plain cloth slipcase. The book was printed by the Meriden Gravure Company.

Los Angeles: Taschen, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. This groundbreaking book covers every aspect of Diego Rivera's career and brings together in a single volume comprehensive information about his murals, both in Mexico and beyond..." Folio, 672pp with beautiful color images, many folding. Tan cloth, embossed title on front and spine, in pictorial dj. 17.5 x 11.75… Read more about this item

Brussels: Edition des Archers, 1985. Very good condition. Yves Swolfs is a Belgian comic book writer and artist, most known for his series, Durango. A poster of a winter scene with man on a horse. 22 1/2 x 31 1/2", Original folds.

Brussels: Edition des Archers, 1985. Very good condition. Yves Swolfs is a Belgian comic book writer and artist, most known for his series, Durango. A Durango poster of the lead character holding a machine gun. 22 1/2 x 31 1/2", Original folds.

London: T. Bensley for R. Bower, 1804. One man holds a torch within a stone building while others descend the stairs to the lower chambers. A print from "Views in Palestine, from the Original Drawings of Luigi Mayer, with an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Country and Its Remarkable Places". Mayer [1755-1803] was an Italian-German artist and… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co, 1852. First edition. Hardcover. Good + overall. With sketches by Capt. S. Eastman of the U.S. Topographical Corps, who drew them during the nine years he was stationed among the Indian tribes in and around Fort Snelling, Minnesota. Most of the text is by his wife Mary Eastman with a contribution by Fredrika… Read more about this item

London: T. Bensley for R. Bower, 1804. The Chapel print shows many men and women praying toward the open doorway of the Chapel with two men inside, and two guarding the entrance. A print from "Views in Palestine, from the Original Drawings of Luigi Mayer, with an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Country and Its Remarkable Places". … Read more about this item

London: T. Bensley for R. Bower, 1804. The Tomb of Joseph of Arimathea shows a group of men looking into a seemingly empty tomb with light radiating from the tomb. A print from "Views in Palestine, from the Original Drawings of Luigi Mayer, with an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Country and Its Remarkable Places". Mayer [1755-1803]… Read more about this item

London: T. Bensley for R. Bower, 1804. Pompey's Pillar is a Roman triumphal column in Alexandria Egypt, set up in honor of the Roman emperor Diocletian between 298-302 AD. The print shows the pillar with the city in background. A print from "Views in Palestine, from the Original Drawings of Luigi Mayer, with an Historical and Descriptive Account of… Read more about this item

Brussels: Edition des Archers, 1985. Otherwise very good condition. Artist Malik, (born William Tai) was a Belgian comic book artist. A poster showing a fearful woman in the foreground, and several men in the background, one with clenched fists, another with a cigarette, and another riding a horse. 23 1/2 x 34", original folds, slt ruffled… Read more about this item

1970. Photograph. Very good overall. Photographs of metal sculptures mounted on accordion style card, some separated, one image detached. Images 7 1/2 x 9 1/2" on card 9 x 12". Some photographs toned at edges. Artist unidentified.