1. [Ardon, Mordecai] Vishny, Michele.

Mordecai Ardon.

First Edition. New York, Harry N. Abrams Inc, No date. 27.5cm x 29.5cm. 240 pages with 208 illustrations, including 50 plates in full colour. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket with protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. No markings.

2. Ruskin, John.

Sesame and Lilies: Two Lectures delivered at Manchester in 1864: Of Kings’ Treasuries and Of Queens’ Gardens.

Third edition, with preface. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1866. 12 x 17.5cm. (23), 196 pages. Original clothbound hardcover with gilt lettering and gilt edges. Spine sunned, minor marks to boards and joint beginning to loosen but otherwise in very good condition. Inscribed with previous owner’s name on half-title page. Stamp on front free endpaper.

3. [Chester Beatty, Sir Alfred] Holme, Charles (Charles Rennie Mackintosh / Charles Voysey and others).

The Studio: an illustrated magazine of fine and applied art. Alfred Chester Beatty’s personal set of “The Studio”; 97 volumes bound in 69 books with the Register for Vols 1-29 [Lacking Volume 61]. With original artwork by James McNeill Whistler and other important artists of the Belle Époque and Art Nouveau Movement.

97 Volumes (bound in 69 Volumes). London, Offices of The Studio, 1893 – 1929. Quarto. c. 20000 pages with illustrations, photographs, original lithographs, engravings. Contemporary private Hardcover (Uniform deep blue buckram with gilt lettering on spinelabels). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only a few of the Volumes a little shaky. With the handwritten entry “A. Chester Beatty – 24 Kensington Palace Gardens – W. 8”.

4. Baldry, A. L.

The Wallace Collection at Hertford House.

London, Goupil & Co., 1904. 22.5 cm x 30.2 cm. 302 pages. With black & white illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. The price for this heavy book includes international shipping per Courier !

5. Lux, Joseph August.

Der Geschmack im Alltag – Ein Buch zur Pflege des Schoenen.

Zweite Auflage. Dresden, Verlag von Gerhard Kuehtmann, 1910. Octavo. IX, [1], 422, [1] Seiten mit zahlreichen Abbildungen. Illustrtierter Hardcover (Leinen) in Mylar / Brodart-Umschlag. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur geringen Gebrauchsspuren am Einband.

6. Guyau, J. M.

Die Kunst als soziologisches Phänomen.

Erste deutsche Ausgabe. Leipzig, Klinkhardt, 1911. 8vo. IV, 506 Seiten. Softcover / Originale Broschur. Einige wenige äußerliche Gebrauchsspuren. Sehr guter Allgemeinzustand der Erstausgabe der bedeutenden Publikation. (Philosophisch-soziologische Bücherei, 24).

7. Thomson, Arthur.

A Handbook of Anatomy for Art Students.

Fourth Edition. Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1915. 15.5 cm x 22 cm. XVIII, 459 pages. 66 full black and white plates and numerous other illustrations throughout. Hardback bound in green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Evidence of strong wear with damage to front cover and detached front free endpaper and half-title. A brown-paper hand-written nameplate in pen and ink on front pastedown and occasional pencil markings in text.Overall shaky and poor condition but interior still enjoyable.

8. [Raemaekers, Louis] Chesterton, G.K. and others.

The Land and Water Edition of Raemaekers’ Cartoons. [with at least three contributions by G.K.Chesterton].

Volume I [of II]. London, Land & Water, 1916. 23.8 cm x 30.8 cm. 319 pages. With many colour illustrations/cartoons. Each full-page cartoon has a caption by a eminent figure at the time. Original Hardcover with half-leather boards. Gilt title on spine with ruled decoration. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Front endpaper contains gift-inscription to Erik Haugaard. Small closed tear to page 263. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

9. [Masereel, Frans] Verhaeren, Émile / Uzanne, Octave.

Quinze Poèmes d’Émile Verhaeren. Illustrés de 57 Gravures sur Bois, Dessinees et Gravées par Frans Masereel et suivis d’un Souvenir a Verhaeren par Octave Uzanne.

Paris, Edtions Georges Cres & Cie, 1917. 4°. CIII pages. Hardcover / Full leather with gilt lettering to spine and gilt decorated boards. Boards with some stronger signs of wear. One of 1350 exemplaires sur papier anglais.

10. Original Earl 20th century German Expressionism in Original Woodcuts – Mann, Thomas.

Der kleine Herr Friedemann.

München, Phantasus-Verlag, 1920. Quarto. [4], 58, [3] Seiten. Mit elf (11) ganzseitigen Original-Bleischnitten und vier (4) kolorierten Bleischnitt-Initialen von Otto Nückel. Hardcover / Originales Halbpergament. Einband minimal fleckig. Sonst in sehr gutem Zustand mit nur geringen Gebrauchsspuren.