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Za oboronu SSSR [i.e. For Defence of the USSR] by SOVIET PROPAGANDA DESIGN

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Seller: Ursus Books

Title: Za oboronu SSSR [i.e. For Defence of the USSR]
Author: SOVIET PROPAGANDA DESIGN
Seller: Ursus Books (United States)
Description: 1928. SOVIET PROPAGANDA DESIGN. Za oboronu SSSR [For Defence of the USSR]. 48 pp., illustrated with 32 full page plates printed in red and black. Small folio, 275 x 200 mm., bound in publisher's wrappers illustrated by Czech artist P. Skala. Moscow: Izdatel'stvo AKHRR: Shkola FZU pri 1-i Obraztsovoi tipografii, 1928. A remarkable collection of Soviet imagery intended as instruction for decorating workers' clubs, reading huts and use during rallies. The illustrations include fully decorated interiors, concepts for 'hands-on' attractions such as a 'rayok' or Russian peep show, shooting galleries, and quiz shows. Most of the imagery is in the constructivist style, but also includes numerous caricatures of western fat cats, fascists, and even a Ku Klux Klan member, which would have been inspiration for costume design. Rare, OCLC finds just one copy at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. The leaves with illustrations have an even toning from the printing process, else a fine copy with the errata slip and unusually printed on fine thick paper.

Varia comensuracion de Juan de Arfe y Villafañe, Natural de Leon, y Escultor de Oro y Plata by ARFE Y VILLAFAÑE, Juan de (1535-1603) – ASENSIO Y TORRES, José, ed.

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Title: Varia comensuracion de Juan de Arfe y Villafañe, Natural de Leon, y Escultor de Oro y Plata
Author: ARFE Y VILLAFAÑE, Juan de (1535-1603) – ASENSIO Y TORRES, José, ed.
Seller: Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Madrid: En La Imprenta Real, 1806. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volumes in 1, folio (287 x 195mm). (Volume I: [8], 1-36, [8 pls.], 37-68, [4 pls.], 69-95, [7 pls.], 97-126, [32 pls.]; Volume II: [2], 1-60, [18 pls.], 61-99, [15 pls.], 101-112, [12 pls.], 113-166pp.) 96 engraved plates, including diagrams of geometry, anatomy and architecture. Bound for William Stirling (1818-1878) in mottled morocco gilt-stamped to front cover with his arms (a bend engrailed with three buckles) surrounded by his family motto “Gang Forward,” spine labeled “Juan de Arfe Varia Comensuracio Madrid 1806,” marbled endpapers, edges gilt; (few plates foxed, otherwise clean and well-preserved). Stirling’s armorial bookplate to front pastedown beneath monogrammed bookplate “D.P.” with chipmunk and two mice, and to rear pastedown the “Keir Arts of Design” bookplate. New Edition, corrected and augmented. Juan de Arfe y Villafañe, also known as the “Spanish Cellini,” was a gifted goldsmith who came from one of the most important and influential goldsmithing dynasties in Spain. He was an influential Spanish engraver, goldsmith, artist, anatomist and author. Juan de Arfe’s Grandfather Enrique emigrated from Germany at the end of the 15th century and is credited with first popularizing the grand “custodias” of the 16th and 17th centuries. His son and grandson followed in his footsteps. Juan de Arfe’s book “De Varia Comensuracion” was first published in 1585 and each section focused on one of his subjects of expertise: geometry, human anatomy, animals, architecture and silverwork. Arfe later added, as in this edition, sections on birds, heraldry and sundials. Some of his work was from first-hand experience, as when he attended the flaying of corpses to gain material for the anatomy plates, and some was from other sources, such as Durer for the natural history engravings. Following his father’s death, Arfe moved to Valladolid, where he worked as a goldsmith, mostly for churches and cathedrals, making monstrances and other pieces for city churches including Ávila, Seville and Burgos. The section on goldsmithing contains engravings of many fine and elaborate pieces, most designed for ecclesiastical use. The sections on geometry and architecture also have special meaning for students of goldsmithing. Arfe viewed his silver designs as architecture in miniature and his aim was to lead his fellow goldsmiths back into the tradition of classical architecture. He was unaware that his ideas were helping to create a new style which later generations would christen the Renaissance. Rare. Worldcat locates only 6 copies in institutional collections in North America.

Autograph letter signed to an unidentified correspondent by Beaufort, Daniel Augustus

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Title: Autograph letter signed to an unidentified correspondent
Author: Beaufort, Daniel Augustus
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: Warburton, 1869. Beaufort, Daniel Augustus (1814-98). Autograph letter signed ["D. A. B."; remainder of surname supplied in pencil in a different hand] to an unidentified correspondent. 4pp. Warburton, 15 December 1869. 139 x 191 mm. Faint trace of mounting on fore-edge of second leaf, but fine otherwise. From Daniel Augustus Beaufort the younger, son of Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort (1774-1857) and grandson of geographer Daniel Augustus Beaufort (1739-1821). Beaufort came from a scientific family: His grandfather helped to found the Royal Irish Academy and published an important map of Ireland in 1792; his father developed the Beaufort Scale for indicating wind force and served as the British Admiralty's Hydrographer of the Navy from 1829 to 1854; and two of his aunts, Harriet and Louisa Beaufort, wrote popular works on botany and entomology. Daniel Augustus the younger was a clergyman who served as rector of Warburton from 1850 to 1872; he also had a strong interest in natural history. Beaufort's letter reads in part as follows: "To answer your reply briefly, the animals we spoke of-by which phrase I suppose you mean those of the genus Pediculus anglici, louse-most decidedly have legs; & these like those of all true "Insects" are six in number (I say "true," because spiders are only by a vulgar man called Insects: they, you know, have eight). "The point in which the members of the genus Pediculus differ from most other genera is that they are apterous, i.e. wingless. "I may mention as an interesting fact, that every animal is infested with accompanied by creatures of this family, having some peculiarity appropriate to each species, and they are all formed upon the type of the human specimen. Generally each animal enjoys its armies of but a single species; but there are some kinds of eagles & gulls which have the distinguished privilege of bearing no fewer than five species of these attachés. . . "In reference to your notion of Pediculus being like mites without legs, & moving themselves by springs, let me implore you to discard such a view as utterly untenable: indeed as more than indefensible. For mites-whether such as you see in cheese, or such as your son would call "Gentles," or any other-are neither more nor less than babies: such are the infant Wasp, infant bee, infant house-fly, &c., &c. &c. If you will carefully feed, tend & watch some, you will find that the mite passes into two other forms of existence, the 3rd & mature one having wings." .

Several Have Lived; Illustrations by André Masson by Chisholm, Hugh

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Title: Several Have Lived; Illustrations by André Masson
Author: Chisholm, Hugh
Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description: [New York: The Gemor Press, 1942. First edition. Masson, André. [49] p. mounted illus. 26 cm. Wrappers, spine and cover labels. One of 500 copies. Faint wear to spine, else fine.

THROUGH PATHLESS SKIES TO THE NORTH POLE by Wyeth, N.C.

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Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY

Title: THROUGH PATHLESS SKIES TO THE NORTH POLE
Author: Wyeth, N.C.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
Description: THROUGH PATHLESS SKIES TO THE NORTH POLE, NGS, 1928, first edition, near fine. A full color print depicting Byrd flying over the North Pole.

Philip Guston, 3

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Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB

Title: Philip Guston, 3
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition: VG- (Ex-art library with label and few marks, otherwise clean.) Blind library stamp.
Description: Los Angeles, CA: Gemini G. E. L., 1983. Softcover. VG- (Ex-art library with label and few marks, otherwise clean.) Blind library stamp.. Glossy black wraps with blue paper dj; [20 pp.], illustrated with 8 lithographs, 2 BW illus. A brochure of 8 wonderful lithographs (#16-23) by American printmaker Philip Guston (1913-1980) and printed in black ink on a variety of papers with two bw photographs of the artist. Uncommon, on its own without its two predecessors.

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