103 - 587 FINE and APPLIED ARTS, ART REFERENCE
= Facsimile of the edition Paris, 1947.
- One leaf sm. tear in lower blank margin; sm. brown stain in blank fore-edge margin thoughout; fold. plate w. some sm. brown stains along fold.
= Frontwr. and verso of the col. plate w. owner's monogram of PIET ZWART in upper corner. Bool/ Broos p.93. Rare.
- Recto w. sm. stain in upper blank corner. = Rare.
Idem. TYPESCRIPT LETTER SIGNED "Neurath" (and w. stamp "Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftmuseum in Wien/ Direktion") to "Herrn Piet Zwart, Architekt (...)", dated "9. Dezember 1929", 1 leaf, recto and verso, w. printed letterhead of the "Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftmuseum (...)".
- Folded; sl. worn (sm. tears at ends of folds) and partly browned on horizontal fold.
= Sending Zwart some publications by the Museum and explaining the meaning and importance of normalisation. "(...) Wir streben bei allen unseren Arbeiten eine Normung an. Die Beschauer sollen sich an gewisse Zeichen gewöhnen, um sie beim Wiedersehen sofort richtig zu deuten. (...) Unsere Arbeit könnte man als eine kollektive bezeichnen. Daher entwickelt sich, trotz individueller Verschiedenheiten der Mitarbeiter, ein einheitlicher Stil. (...) Wenn Sie übrigens Peter Alma sehen, können Sie über die Art der Herstellung alles erfahren, da er ein paar Monate bei uns mitgearbeitet hat (...)".
- Backwr. and last leaf w. stain in lower blank corner.
= Frontwr. and all lvs. w. owner's monogram of PIET ZWART in upper corner (lvs. numb. "2" to "9" by Zwart). Bool/ Broos p 49 (ill.). Rare.
= With the orig. introductory/ subscription letter. Rare periodical with contributions by i.a. JEROEN HENNEMAN, PIETER HOLSTEIN, MARKUS RAETZ, JOOST ROELOFSZ and DIRK AYELT KOOIMAN. All published.
- Vague vertical middle fold throughout; backwr. sl. soiled.
= Vol.II of Details from the Excavation of Wooster Street.
Downsbrough, P. A Place - New York. N.pl. (New York), Hal Bromm Gallery, 1977, (24)p. (incl. wr.), 4to (wr. trifle dustsoiled). Banks, E. The Unstated Diagonal. N.pl., the artist, 1979, (16)p., orig. wr., square sm. 8vo. - AND 8 others by/ on Stanley Brouwn (3x), Hans Koetsier, Richard Long (2x), Mark Manders and Lawrence Weiner.
- Both vols. trifle creased in upper corner. Otherwise a fine set.
= Text vol. (in Japanese/ English) and plate vol. of the exhibition in the British Museum and Chiba City Museum of Art in 1995.
Naoi, N., Schenk, S. and Vries, M. de. Takehisa Yumeji. Leyden, Hotei, 2015, 160p., num. col. ills., orig. wr., 4to (fine). - AND 4 others, incl. Y. NOGUCHI, Kôrin (Paris/ Brussels, 1926, plates/ ills., orig. (worn/ stained) wr., sm. 4to).
- Lacks plate 25 (plate 24 bound in twice); a few plates loose(ning). = Standard work.
- Top of frontcover and (less visible) frontwr. waterwrinkled; closed tear in lower margin of front- and backwr.
Genoud, Ch. Buddhist Wall-Painting of Ladakh. Geneva, Olizane, 1982, 116,(4)p., num. col. plates, orig. boards w. dustwr., 4to (fine).
- Both dustwr. w. wrinkled lamination.
= 1. Personal narrative; 2. The Chronicles of Ladakh and Minor Chronicles.
AND 4 others, i.a. the plate vol. only of A. STEIN, Serindia (...) (Delhi etc., 1981, num. (fold.) (col.) plates, orig. cl. w. (sl. frayed) dustwr., 4to) and R. RAY and J. VAN ALPHEN, Tejas. Eternal Energy. 1500 Years of Indian Art (Brussels, 2006, richly illustrated, orig. boards w. dustwr., large 4to).
- Fine copy. = Reprint of the edition Copenhagen, 1935-1938.
AND 3 others, i.a. IDEM, Afrikanske Negerskulpturer/ African Negro Sculptures (London, 1947, num. plates, orig. boards w. dustwr., large 4to).
- Fine copy. = DELUXE EDITION in vellum of the original cloth-bound ed. of 1936.