Original colour print printed on laid paper and signed in the plate lower right.
Original engraving produced for the illustration of La Gazette du Bon Ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion journals of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French designers and artists at the height of the Art Deco era.
First edition of the English translation, published in the same year as the first edition (in German). OCLC records only 8 copies in public libraries.
Original sewn wrappers with a pasted vignette to the upper cover, the title in English and Chinese surrounded by representations of chess pieces. Covers with sunned margins, small marginal tears at the spine folds.
Profusely illustrated with 80 in-text examples of chess games, as well as a photograph depicting monks engaged in a game of chess.
An exceptionally rare treatise on Chinese chess, published in Peking in 1937 by the only German-language publishing house in China before the Second World...
Different issue from the one dated An XI (1803), which itself is not firmly established as the true first edition (cf. Monglond VI 139–140; Quérard VI 326).
The work is illustrated with an etched frontispiece entitled « Frémissez ! voilà du joueur le sort inévitable !! » depicting a gambler blowing his brains out in a gaming room, amid general indifference.
Our copy is preserved in its original publisher’s wrappers, with a blank marbled paper provisional cover showing small losses at the corners.
A pleasing copy.
First edition printed in small numbers of this offprint from the Mercure de France published on May 15, 1920. OCLC does not locate any copies in North America and only three in Europe (Bnf, Bibliothèque Doucet, Universitätsbibliothek Basel).
Covers with frayed margins, second cover partially shaded, one small piece of paper missing from the right margin of a page due to the fragility of the paper.
Signed and inscribed copy to painter Bernard de Blois: “En sympathie de voisin de logis et d'esthétique. Canudo 1922.” [”In sympathy as a neighbor of lodgings and aesthetics. Canudo 1922.”]
Extremely rare first edition of the libretto of...
Description of 60 Patience games with figures in red and black indicating the placement of cards. Red border on all pages. Title page in a cartouche framed with Renaissance ornaments, in black, red and sepia. Beautifully printed work.
Publisher's ochre boards. Renaissance style ornamental compositions on the covers. Red edges.
Superb copy, in near mint condition.
New edition, after the original published in 1738.
269 numbered figures at mid-page.
Contemporary full marbled sheep binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title label. Upper joint cracked at head, and a small crack at tail over 0.5cm. 3 corners very bumped and worn. 3 traces of surface wear on lower board. Good copy.
Didactic treatise on Backgammon, a game of Chinese origin that was very popular in Europe under the name of Trictrac, and which features numerous games. The rules of the game remained unchanged until 1931, the date at which the Americans modernized the game rules.
