531. [Ungerer, Tomi].

ZUT ! – TOMI UNGERER. – à l’occasion du quatre-vingtième Anniversaire de Tomi Ungerer, Le Magazine ZUT ! est Heureux de vous offrir un exemplaire de ce Hors-Série.

Zut, 2001. 4°. 261, (4) pages. Softcover. Excellent condition. Beautifully signed in his calligraphic hand by Tomi Ungerer on the cover. / Von Tomi Ungerer auf dem Umschlag kalligraphisch signiert. [ZUT – Hors – Série 01]

532. [van Delft, Jan Vermeer] De Vries, Ary Bob.

Jan Vermeer Van Delft.

Basel, Holbein-Verlag, 1945. 20.2 cm x 27.5 cm. 132 pages. With sixty-eight black and white, and three colour illustrations. Original Hardcover. Black cloth boards with original cloth gilt on spine and Vermeer’s gilt ‘signature’ on front cover. Very good condition with some clear signs of external wear. Minor discoloration to front and rear pastedowns and endpapers. Minor foxing to edges. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen Translator- Erik Haugaard.

533. van den Berg, Jörg and Karen.

Im Tal / Kunst im Dialog mit Kunst und Natur. Edited by Karen and Jörg van den Berg.

Duisburg, Berlin, Lehrstuhl für Kunstwissenschaft, Äesthetik und Kunstvermittlung der Univerität Witten / Herdeck und für den Kunstverein Hasselbach, 1999. 30.5 cm x 24.5 cm. 184 pages. 38 full page black-and-white photographs including five photographs by August Sander and a loosely inserted map with key to the exhibition (with some annotations in pencil). Original Hardcover (Oilve green cloth – title in embossed silver on cover and spine). Excellent good condition with only minor signs of external wear with very minor pencil marks. Rare !

534. Van Halem, Ludo [editor].

CoBrA – The colour of freedom. The Schiedam Collection.

Rotterdam, NAi Publishers, c 2006. 22 cm x 28 cm. 375 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

535. [Vanbrugh, John] Whistler, Laurence.

The Imagination of Vanbrugh and his fellow artists. [Together with the 4 Volume set of Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh (Bloomsbury, The Nonesuch Press, 1927) / Also together with an original, limited engraving of Vanbrugh’s “Pyramid at Stowe” by Artist John Ingamells].

First Edition. London, Art and Technics Limited/B.T. Batsford Limited, 1954. 22cm x 32cm. XV, 269, 86 unnumbered pages of illustrations. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear to the slightly stained binding. [Including: Vanbrugh, John. The Complete Works of Sir John VanBrugh. The Plays Edited by Banamy Dobree. The Letters Edited by Geoffrey Webb. Volume I: Introduction / The Relapse / The Provok’d Wife / A Short Vindication of the Relapse and the Provok’d Wife from Immorality and Prohpaneness / Volume II containing: Aesop – Parts I and II / The Pilgrim / The False Friend / The Country House – Volume III: The Confederacy / The Mistake / A Journey to London / The Provok’d Husband / The Fourth Volume containing The Letters // Number1295 of 1300 numbered sets on machine-made paper (total 1410). Four Volumes (complete). Bloomsbury, The Nonesuch Press, 1927. 20cm x 26.5cm. XLIV, 239, 257, 290, 284 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with some signs of external wear. The Volumes in firm condition]

536. [Vanity Fair] Bowles, Thomas Gibson / [Fantastic collection of political caricature portraits of 19th century American Politicans / British Politicians]

Vanity Fair: A Weekly Show of Political, Social & Literary Wares – Complete Annual for the year 1872 with 51 full-page portraits of victorian statesmen of england as well as the united states of america (Hamilton Fish, Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley etc.), politicians, writers, artists, “men of the day” and men of influence, portrayed in chromolithography / chromolithographs in colour (January 6, 1872 – June 29, 1872 & July 6, 1872 – December 28, 1872 ).

London, Vanity Fair, 1872. Folio. 208, 208 pages. Complete set. Interleaved with 51 chromolithographic portraits. Beautifully restored, original Hardcover (half-leather with orginal spine (gilt letttering and ornament). With new, linen-covered boards, using the original pastedowns and endpapers. A stunning Volume in excellent condition. All illustrations in wonderful colour.

537. Vierge, Daniel.

The Tavern of the Three Virtues. Translated from the Original of Saint-Juirs. Illustrated with sixty drawings by Daniel Verge together with a critical essay on the art of Vierge by Edmund Gosse.

London, T. Fisher Unwin, (ca. 1890). 22 cm x 33 cm. 155, (1) pages. Hardcover. Original cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. One of only 650 copies of a limited edition. Exlibris of Gordon Sloane (Lamh Dhearg). Blindstamped “Oaklands, St.Peters, Isle of Thanet”.

538. Vulliamy, Lewis / Spiers, R. Phene.

Examples of Classic Ornament from Greece & Rome. Drawn from the Originals by Lewis Vulliamy [Architect, Gold Medallist and Travelling Student of the Royal Academy]. A Series of Twenty Plates [Plate No. VI missing]. Selected from the Original Published Work and with Introductory & Descriptive Notes by R. Phene Spiers.

London, B.T. Batsford, 1907. Large Folio (43 cm x 50 cm). Preface and Notes, 19 plates (of 20). Original Hardcover with original ribbons in place. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. The plates in excellent condition with only very minor signs of foxing. Very Rare publication !

539. Walker, Dorothy.

Modern Art in Ireland. Foreword by Seamus Heaney.

First Edition. Dublin, Lilliput Press, 1997. Quarto (24.5 cm wide x 28.5 cm high). 239 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

540. [Walpole, Horace] Fothergill, Brian.

The Strawberry Hill Set, Horace Walpole and his Circle.

First Edition. London, Faber and Faber, 1983. 14 cm x 22 cm. 277 Pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.