141. Palace Museum.

50 Selected Gems of Cultural Relics – newly collected in the Palace Museum in the last fifty years.

Beijing, Forbidden City Publishing House, 1999. 4°. 361 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, near Fine condition. Extremely Rare publication.

142. Ricketts, Charles S. / [Lister, Pamela & Raymond].

Charles Ricketts R.A. – Sixty-five Illustrations. Introduced by T. Sturge Moore.

First Edition. London, Cassell, 1933. 25cm. 60 pages. Illustrated with colour-frontispiece and with beuatiful black-and-white illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition. First edition of a rare monograph with only very minor signs of external wear. With the Exlibris / Bookplate of Pamela and Raymond Lister to the pastedown.

143. [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]

144. Charry Lara, Fernando.

Nocturnos y Otros Sueños. Prólogo de Vicente Aleixandre. Ilustraciones de Fernando Botero.

Bogotá, El Áncora Editores, 1991. 33,5 cm x 25 cm. 125 pages. With colour illustrations throughout the book. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed / signed by author.

145. [Crouwel, Wim] Klasema Art.

Focus Paris.

Wouwse Plantage, Klasema Art, 2001. 31 cm x 24,5 cm. 319 pages. With many colour illustrations throughout the book. Original Softcover. From the library of dutch fashion designer Frans Molenaar with a handwritten letter by the publisher. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very rare!

146. Genovesi, Antonio.

Antonii Genuensis in regia Neapolitana Academia Antecessoris Elementorum Artis Logico-Criticae Libri V. [Elements of the Art Academy of Naples and Genoa and Anthony Antecessoris Logico-Criticae V.]

Editio Novissima ad Postremam Neapolitanam. Bassani, 1779. 8°. XVI, 352 pages. Softcover. With manuscript annotations on the last page. Binding rubbed and with tear to upper spine.

147. [Masereel, Frans] Avermaete, Roger.

Frans Masereel.

London, Thames and Hudson, 1977. 30 cm x 34 cm. 318 pages with numerous illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Unusually excellent, close to new condition.

148. Besset, Maurice et al.

L’Italie & L’Allemagne / Nouvelles Sensibilites – Nouveaux Marches. [Gravures de Chia, Paladino, Cucchi, Clemente, Baselitz, Penck, Lüpertz, Immendorff. Prostfaces de Maurice Besset, Peter Blum, Johannes Gachnang, Nancy Gillespie, Sabine Kunst, Rainer Michael Mason, Claude Ritschard, Fulvio Salvadori].

Geneva, Cabinet des estampes Musee d’art et d’histoire, 1983. 22 x 27,5 cm. 158 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. Fantastic publication with multicolour see-through pages before each artists section.

149. Canaletto, Giovanni Antonio.

Sämtliche Radierungen. Mit einer Einleitung von Alfons Uhl.

Nördlingen, Uhl, 1981. 2°. 2 nn. Blatt, 30 Reproduktionen von Radierungen auf 19 Tafeln / 30 Reproductions in original size. Alle Blatt lose in Originalmappe. Sehr guter Zustand. 2 nn. Blatt, 30 Reproduktionen von Radierungen auf 19 Tafeln. Alle Blatt lose in Originalmappe. Sehr guter Zustand. Großfolio.

150. [Gray, Cleve / Motherwell, Robert] Smith, David.

David Smith – Exhibition Catalogue April 18 – May 13, 1950. [Cleve Gray’s personal copy]. [With a two page introduction / statement by Robert Mothwell].

New York, Willard Gallery, 1950. Small Octavo. 8 unnumbered pages. Original, illustrated softcover / stapled. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Copy of american abstract expressionist painter Cleve Gray, with his name in ballpen on cover. One part of Motherwell’s introductory – statement with a pencil mark at the side highlighting this section: “When I saw David places his work against the mountains and sky, the impulse was plain, an ieffable desire to see his humanness related to exterior reality, to nature at least if not man, for the marvel of the felt scale that exists between a true work and the immovable world, the relation that makes both human”.