Design

  Folding card, 15x15 cm, with illustrated cover and printed empty template (Very Good, minor staining in the inner white margins).  

[Greiz, Germany: 1930s - 1940]

An impressive commemorative photographic album accompanying a large exhibition in Luanda, in 1938, demonstrating colonial introduction of Western architecture and design in Angola.   Large 4°, 173 pp. text with vignettes and decoration, printed in black and orange, interleaved black and white photographs. [17 pp.] advertisements printed in black and orange, original illustrated wrappers (wrappers rubbed with small chips on…

A pedagogical avant-garde book with data visualization, in techniques of typographic illustrations in letterpress, made by a Portuguese educator Paulo de Cantos.  

  An unusual series of drawings in different styles, depicting Satan and demons in various forms from the traditional 666 and the pentagon through monograms to Hitler and Stalin   8°: [68 pp.] with 35 drawings in colour, recto only, art nouveau black calf with debossed decoration and a clasp, later gilt decoration and manuscript title, art nouveau patterned end…

  [Tarih-i İstikbâl. Mesaif-i Siyasiye / Reception History. Political Issues]   A charming late Ottoman binding made of Ebru – or Islamic marbled paper   8°. 208 pp., contemporary marbled paper boards with envelope flaps and brown calf spines (last 15 pages slightly age-toned and water stained, binding with minor wear, otherwise in a good condition).  

A unique private photo album representing the collection of works by Austrian-Hungarian artist Elisabeth Neumayer-Somossy, whose creations transitioned from applied arts to highly valued artworks.

  A collection of 6 Ottoman books on modern Turkish women is bound in original silk bindings with vivid 1920s patterns, which emphasize the presence of a woman as a central motif.    

8°. [2] title page and portrait, 125 pp., original illustrated wrappers, printed in colour on the inner side of the back cover (wrappers with minor foxing, age-toning and minimal traces of use, otherwise in a good condition).

A short dictionary of foreign words, as well as expressions used in Brazil and in Portuguese colonies, and correct Portuguese words with an attractive cover. Small 8°, 8 pp. on pink paper with covers printed in black and red, unbound as originally published (Very Good).

  12°, 63 pp. with colour illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (minor scuffing to the spine, otherwise in a good condirion)  

  A patten book with crochet and knitting samples 8°, 8 unnumbered black cards with attached 28 original crocheted and knitted samples in silk/cotton white thread, accompanied by titles hand-written in white, black card cover with hand-written title in white, originally bound together with red ribbon (cover with a discrete water-stain, hardly noticeable staining to the back cover, otherwise in…