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Catalogue of the distinguished collection of modern French illustrated books of the late M. Nicolas Rauch of Geneva : comprising books illustrated by Arp, Beaudin, Bonnard, Boussingault, Braque, Brianchon, Chagall, Chirico, Clavé, Dali, Degas, Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay, Maurice Denis, Derain, Despiau, Dufy, Max Ernst, Giacometti, Gleizes, Goerg, Juan Gris, Gromaire, Laboureur, Lanskoy, Lapicque, Laprade, Laurens, Léger, Maillol, Manessier, Marcoussis, Marquet, Masson, Matisse, Miró, Picasso, Odilon Redon, Imre Reiner, Germaine Richier, Rodin, Roualt, Segonzac, de Staël, Tamayo, Van Dongen, Villon and Vlaminck. Suites of etchings by Chasseriau, Delacroix and Jongkind; Picasso’s Les saltimbanques; and Toulouse-Lautrec’s Yvette Guilbert : bindings by J. Anthoine Legrain, P.L. Martin, Creuzevault, etc. (catalogue for an auction conducted by Sotheby & Co., London, 24 June 1963)
London, Sotheby & Co., 1963(25 cm), 109 (3) pp., 56 text illustrations (5 in colour). 174 lots. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Private collection of the Genevan bookseller Nicolas Rauch. Rauch worked before the War in the Paris office of Maggs Bros; in 1939, he returned in Switzerland, eventually becoming manager of F. Roth in Lucerne, and after 1947 trading under his own name, and absorbing the auction house founded by Kündig. This sale of modern French illustrated books went extremely well: Verlaine’s Parallèlement, illustrated by Bonnard, copy no. 47 of 170 on vélin de Hollande, 1900, brought £900; Eluard, À Toute Épreuve, wood engravings by Miró, 1958, a special copy with additional sets of plates, bound in morocco by P.L. Martin, £1850; Picasso’s fifteen early etchings, Les Saltimbanques, 1904-1905, brought £3000. ¶ Unmarked copy. Photocopy of List of Prices and buyers’ names loosely inserted. -
The Artist & the book 1860-1960 in Western Europe and the United States
New York, Hacker Art Books, 1982(29 cm), 232 pp., illustrations (some in colour). 324 catalogue entries. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. - Catalogue associated with an exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 4 May-16 June 1961. This is a reprint of the revised, second edition (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Cambridge, MA: Harvard College Library, Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, 1972). ¶ Excellent, unmarked copy. -
[Stock catalogues, hors série] The book beautiful and the binding as art
New York & Boston, Nimrod Press for John F. Fleming, Inc. / Priscilla Juvelis, 1983(28 cm), [192] pp., [38] tipped-in colour plates, illustrations. 219 items; “The collection will be offered for sale en bloc until November 1, 1983” (p.[6]). Publisher’s red cloth binding. - Edition limited to 750 copies. “This collection reflects the taste of a South American collector [Carlos R. Scherrer, of Buenos Aires, an early patron of the binder Paul Bonet] who bought in Paris, chiefly in the twenties and thirties, and a successor who acquired a part of this collection and added to it significantly” (from the preface, by Eleanor Garvey). Descriptions by Peter Wick. The collection was sold to Frederick R. Koch; most of the books were offered in the two sales of the Koch collection, “The book as art: modern illustrated books and fine bindings”, conducted by Sotheby’s, New York, on 2 June 1995 and 21 November 1995. ¶ Good, unmarked copy. -
I Libri d'artista italiani del Novecento
Turin, Umberto Allemandi & C., 1993(31 cm), 405 pp., 622 illustrations. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Catalogue of 623 Italian livres d’artiste. Originally published in 1992 in English for the New York exhibition “The artist and the book in twentieth-century Italy”. ¶ As new. -
The Dr Sali Guggenheim collection of French illustrated books (catalogue for an auction conducted by Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 2 May 1995)
London, Christie, Manson & Woods, 1995(27 cm), 179 (15) pp., illustrations (most in colour). 407 lots. List of prices realised loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Collection of 17th-19th century French illustrated books; modern illustrated books. ¶ Annotated copy, partly priced. -
The book as art : modern illustrated books and fine bindings : Part I (catalogue for an auction conducted by Sotheby's, New York, 2 June 1995) § Part II (catalogue for an auction conducted by Sotheby's, London, 21 November 1995)
New York & London, Sotheby's, 1995Two volumes (27 cm), I (2 June 1995): [364] pp., numerous illustrations (most in colour). 416 lots. List of prices realised loosely inserted. II (21 November 1995): 293 (11) pp., numerous illustrations (most in colour). 469 lots. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Collection assembled by Frederick Robinson Koch, incorporating three separate collections: one formed in the 1920s and 1930s, by the jeweller Henri Vever (1854-1942); another formed during the same period, by the Argentine businessman Carlos R. Scherrer; and a collection assembled in the 1950s and 1960s by a Montreal collector. ¶ Fine, unmarked copies. -
Livres d’artistes, livres anciens, manuscrits dont la bibliothèque d’un amateur français (catalogue of an auction sale conducted by Christie’s, Paris, 26 November 2003)
Paris, Christie’s, 2003(27 cm), 122 (2) pp., illustrations (some in colour). Lots numbered 1-56, 101-306. Publisher’s printed wrappers. ¶ Annotated copy. -
Importants livres anciens, livres d’artistes et manuscrits dont deux manuscrits originaux de Paul Verlaine et l’ancienne Collection Louis Marcoussis (catalogue of an auction sale conducted by Christie’s, Paris, 2 June 2005)
Paris, Christie’s, 2005(27 cm), 234 pp., illustrations (some in colour). 487 lots. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Contains property of the Polish-born painter Louis Marcoussis (1883-1941). ¶ Unmarked copy. Laser print of prices realised loosely inserted. -
Catalogue of important illustrated books and livres d’artistes : from 15th to 20th century : the library of Margaret and Stanley Winkelman (catalogue of an auction sale conducted by Bloomsbury Auctions, London, 11 June 2007)
London, Bloomsbury Auctions, 2007(30 cm), 76 (2) pp., illustrations (some in colour). 142 lots. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Library of the Detroit collectors Margaret and Stanley Jay Winkelman (1922-1999). ¶ Annotated copy. -
Collection Gérard Vidalenche (catalogue for an auction sale conducted by Alde, with the expertise of Christian Galantaris, Paris, 21 February 2017)
Paris, Alde, 2017(28 cm), 131 (1) pp., illustrations (most in colour). 216 lots. Publisher's pictorial wrappers. ¶ Unmarked copy.
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