Search Results: Titles starting with F from Comellas Rare Books

Parisiis, apud Sebastianum Cramoisy, 1629. Thick 8vo. 8 leaves. 160 pages. 144 pages. 1 leaf. (1 blank leaf). 6 leaves. 410 pages (i.e. 408, pages 385-386 do not exist). Contemporary full red morocco, gilt spine with nerves, richly gilt boards. First Edition of this rare educational trilingual version in French, Greek and Latin, of Aesop's fables. Intended to help children in learning Greek and Latin, it was edited by Jean Meslier, a grammarian and hellenist who notably directed the city of Laon's college in the 17th century. A magnificent copy bound at the time in morocco and richly gilt-tooled in the style of the greatest binders of this period.

Paris, Librairie Centrale des Arts, s.d. (1905). Large folio. 2 leaves. 40 lithographed plates in monochromatic tones (blue, green, yellow, black). Illustrated publisher's portfolio, formerly redone binding ribbons, cloth spine. Original Edition. Precious collection of plates by the Parisian-adopted Czechoslovakian painter Alfons Mucha (1860-1939), devoted to the female figure and its central place in the stylistic revolution of Art Nouveau. Mucha wanted to infuse aesthetic values into craftsmanship and this work shows the innovations he proposed to present his drawings of female figures in stylized frames (fans, circles, stars, triangles, ovals, rectangles, etc.) which could then be inserted in illustrations, posters, advertising decorations, interior decorations, stained glass windows, etc. Presented without introductory text in the form of loose sheets, it is a publication intended for students and craftsmen. His plates have often been dispersed and complete series of their forty plates, as is the… Read More