"Cet ouvrage a été tiré sur vélin d'Arches à la forme à 100 exemplaires numérotés en chiffres arabes, et 25 exemplaires hors commerce numérotés de I à XXV ... Chaque ouvrage comporte une suite sur Japon nacré, et dans tous les exemplaires les gravures sont signées"--Colophon., BEIN Ernst +71: Bookplate of Dorothea Tanning. "Exemplaire VIII" signed by the author with a suite of signed engravings on Japon nacré. Unbound in slipcase as issued., Issued unbound in quires in portfolio in slipcase., and The poem "L'oiseau délyrant" is dedicated to Max Ernst.
"Mummy, mummies de Alain Fleischer a été achevé d'imprimer le 1er janvier 1999, cette édition a fait l'object d'un tirage limité à 44 exemplaires répartis comme suit: 20 exemplaires, numérotés d 1 à 20, pour Alain Fleischer, 20 exemplaires, numérotés de 21 à 40, pour Didier Mutel, 4 exemplaires, numérotés de 41 à 44, réservés aux proches collaborateurs"--Colophon., Illustrations are mounted photographs., In lead case as issued., and No. 27, signed by Didier Mutel.
Subject (Name):
Mutel, Didier, illustrator. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no98107146 and Mutel, Didier--Autograph.
Subject (Topic):
Artists' illustrated books--Italy. and Mummies--Pictorial works.
In the early months of ’58, the French section [of the Situationist International] issued two tracts: ’Nouveaux theatre d’operation dans le culture’ and ’Aux producteurs de l’art moderne’. The former schematised the programme of the SI, while the latter invited artists, ’tired of repeating outmoded ideas’, to organise new modes for the transformation of the environment..."--Cf. Home, S. The assault on culture, 1991.
Publisher:
Edité par la section française de l’I.S,
Subject (Name):
Internationale situationniste
Subject (Topic):
Arts, Modern --20th century --Europe and Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --Europe --History --20th century
Jacques d'Amiens' adaptation of the Ars amatoria ends on leaf G4b, and is followed by "Le chef damours" (G4b-K5a) and "Les sept are damours" (K5a-K6a, called in the colophon "Les sept artz liberaulx")., Signatures: A-I4K6., and With the bookplates of Ambroise Firmin Didot and Stroehlin. Quires misbound as follows: A G C D B F E H-K.
Publisher:
[Jean Trepperel?]
Subject (Name):
Didot, Ambroise Firmin--Bookplate, Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. Ars amatoria. Old French. Jacques d'Amiens, and Stroehlin--Bookplate
A guide to the creation of different silk fabrics, this manuscript is unusual in including the original fabric swatches with detailed technical diagrams for their construction.
Description:
Imperfect: some pages mutilated with loss of text.
Subject (Topic):
Silk industry --France, Silk weaving --France --Early works to 1800, Textile industry --France, Weavers --France, and Workshop recipes --Early works to 1800
From the library of Alfred Heller., Includes legend for Exposition buildings., and Pavillon du Louvre is indicated prominentley on recto map, while verso contains advertising for Pavillon du Louvre (at the Expo) and Magasins du Louvre (the Paris department store), along with a map for the Métropolitan subway.
Publisher:
[Magasins du Louvre?]
Subject (Geographic):
Paris (France)--Maps
Subject (Name):
Exposition internationale--(1937:--Paris, France)--Maps, Grands Magasins du Louvre, and Heller, Alfred E.--Ownership