Inedited Works of Bakst, Illustrated Book of Stage/Dance/Theater Designs

Giovanni Pietro Olina. UCCELLIERA; Overo discorso della natura e proprietà di diversi uccelli e in particolare di que' che cantano, con il modo di prendergli, conoscergli, allevargli, e mantenergli. Rome: Andrea Fe, 1622. FIRST EDITION. Large Octavo, 9 3/16 x 6 7/8 inches (232 x 175 mm);pp. XI + 161 + [12], including 66 full-page engraving of which 43 represent individual birds and 23 illustrate the materials about trapping and caring for birds; woodcut initials & tail-pieces, light offsetting as typical, a little browned, a few stains, A7 lacking small portion from inner margin, E4 with small paper flaw holes at head just touching head-line; 18th century diced russia, rebacked, flat spines divided into panels by single gilt rules, gilt title and publication year, rubbed, corners worn, gilt-rolled turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Front pastedown with the engraved armorial bookplate of Thomas Philip Earl de Grey...

THE EQUILIBRIAD by William Samsons with illustrations by Lucian Freud. London: Hogarth Press, 1948. Limited Edition. 8vo, 8 5/8 x 5 5/8 in (220 x 140...

London: John Murray, 1915. 2 volumes, 8vo; 7 1/2 x 5 1/8 inches (190 x130 mm). Vol. 1: xvi, 748 pp.; Vol. 2: vii, 786 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author in 1835 in Vol....

Colección General de los Trajes que en la actualidad se usan en España: principiada en el año 1801 Madrid: Librarias de Castillo, 1801. First Edition 8vo (12mo?); 6 1/2 4 1/8 inche...

1850 two volume set of Byron's Works, printed by A. Fullerton, Edinburgh. Scarlet Morocco leather & gilt bound set filled with superb steel engravings of Italy, etc. Lord Byron's hom...

Histoire de Leon Bakst
 Copyright by Edition “L’Art Russe” Alexandre Kogan 
ECrite par Andre Levinson Societe D’Editions et de Librairie Henri Reynaud PARIS This is number 94 of ...

Before starting his career as an architect, Scarpa worked for more that ten years as artistic director at the Venini glass works where he gained an exceptional knowledge of raw mater...

This is a sale catalogue produced by Christie's New York in May 1987 for a sale of Furniture and works of Art by Alberto and Diego Giacometti. there are 38 lots, all photographed in ...