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18610. Bernhard Vogel (1683-1737).

PORTRAIT OF SIGMUND ELIAS HOLZSCHUHER AFTER JOHAN LEONHARD HIRSCHMANN. No date, circa 1720, Augsburg, copper-engraving on laid paper, a rich impression, trimmed to or just inside platemark, tipped onto modern mount, sheet size 351 x 261 mm.


Sachgebiete: Deutschland, Altmeistergraphik, Porträts

29.07.2026 - 16:38

175,- EUR

Graham York Rare Books

Alfred Roller

A calendar for 1903, published as a special issue (Sonderheft) of Ver Sacrum magazine. Soiled wrappers, wear to extremities with some restoration, spine splitting. Contens good. Illustrations: 12 full-page woodcuts for each month and 1 woodcut vignette of Jupiter on the half-title, printed in color from stereotypes made from the original wood blocks, by Emil Orlik, Wilhelm List, Kolomon Moser, Max Kurzweil, Alfred Roller, and other Vienna Secession artists. The Jupiter vignette, by Friedrich König, is also printed in black on the front wrapper. The calendars and decorative borders were designed by Alfred Roller. Edited by Max Kurzweil. "Sonderheft, Ver Sacrum Kalender, 1903, preis 2 K"--Printed on front wrapper. "Druck von Adolf Holzhausen...in Wien ; Zink-Clichés von der 'Graphischen Union' in Wien"--Printed on back wrapper. "Notiz für den Buchbinder..."--Back wrapper. Printed in an edition of 500 copies, of which 300 were intended for subscribers, 200 for sale. 14 leaves : ill. (col.) ; 25 x 26 cm Cream printed wrappers with König's woodcut vignette of Jupiter printed on front.

29.07.2026 - 16:37

3500,- EUR

Galerie Stylo

18609. Georg Fennitzer (1646-1722).

PORTRAIT OF CHRISTOPH BALTHASAR GUGEL. No date, circa 1690, mezzotint on laid paper, a very good, rich impression, trimmed to plate margins, tipped onto modern mount, sheet size 135 x 86 mm.

Sachgebiete: Altmeistergraphik, Porträts

29.07.2026 - 16:36

175,- EUR

Graham York Rare Books

(LECK, Bart van der). ANDERSEN, H.C.

Het vlas. (Translated from the Danish by Marie Nijland-van der Meer de Walcheren. Handwriting and color drawings designed by Bart van der Leck). Amsterdam, De Spieghel, (1941). Original folding wrappers. 10 (= 24) p. Printed at De IJsel in Deventer in 550 numbered copies, this being copy #44. 1st edition. Cover slightly browned and with some inevitable creasing of the edges. Very good copy. One of the highlights of Dutch twentieth-century book design. This edition was, from the illustrations, cover, and text to the last exclamation mark, hand-drawn by Bart van der Leck in his typical angular, geometric style (the style of De Stijl). Text and image are interspersed with lines and areas in the primary colours blue, yellow, and red. 'The Flax' ('Hørren' in Danish) is an early tale by Andersen (1849)-an extraordinary message of hope and fulfillment in adverse times.

Sachgebiete: Kinderbücher, Graphik, Illustrierte Bücher

29.07.2026 - 16:34

2400,- EUR

Galerie Stylo

MÜNSTER, Sebastian

Cosmographei, oder beschreibung aller lander, herrschafften, fürnemsten..., 1550 Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1550. Folio (330 by 215mm). Letterpress title-page with woodcut architectural border, 111 woodcut maps, plans, and views, including 63 double-page, illustrated with over 900 vignette woodcuts; contemporary panelled pigskin over bevelled oak boards, roll-tooled border containing small portraits, double central panels composed of different flower roll tools, original brass clasps and catches, manuscript title on a paper label on the spine, in five compartments separated by raised bands, marginal annotations in two hands, including in Hebrew, a few small tears in top and bottom margins, two affecting text, one skilfully repaired, water stains towards the end in the bottom margins. 330 by 215mm.

29.07.2026 - 16:32

58500,- EUR

Daniel Crouch Rare Books Ltd

Bortnyik, Sándor

Potty és Pötty. [(Children’s Book). Proof copy.] Budapest: Ifjuság, 1932. Illustrated by the artist. First edition. Printed in a very small number of copies. Original cloth. 12 p. In fine condition. Extremely rare proof copy of Bortnyik’s only known children’s book, produced in very few copies and long regarded as a legendary work within Hungarian modernism. A substantial section is devoted to Potty és Pötty in Children’s Literature and the Avant-Garde, edited by Elina Druker and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, which examines the origins and variants of the book. The authors note that it is the only children’s book attributed to Bortnyik and place it within his broader engagement with the German ideal of the Gebrauchsgraphiker—the graphic artist who reconciles artistic and commercial aims—an approach that shaped his work throughout the 1920s. They emphasize that the book functions visually, transmitting its concept without reliance on text, in a manner comparable to an advertising poster. In Children’s Literature and the Avant-Garde (John Benjamins, 2015), Samuel D. Albert describes “a fourth, intriguing version” of Potty és Pötty held by the Cotsen Children’s Library at Princeton University, characterizing it as a second, different, and unique Hungarian version, apparently an artist’s copy. The present proof copy closely corresponds to that described example.

Sachgebiete: Kinderbücher, Erstausgaben, Illustrierte Bücher, Moderne Kunst

29.07.2026 - 16:31

7000,- EUR

Foldvaribooks

18605. Bob Gruen Photographs by. edited by Chris Salewicz.

THE CLASH. PHOTOGRAPHS BY BOB GRUEN. 2015, Omnibus Press, folio, pp317, limited edition no.102 of 1250 copies, with a signed photographic print, colour and black and white photographic illustrations, pictorial wrappers in slipcase.

Sachgebiete: Alternativkultur, Instrumente (Musik), Photographie, Pop Art

29.07.2026 - 16:31

460,- EUR

Graham York Rare Books

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Kanadehon Chushingura (The Loyalty of the Forty-Four Ronin). Ukiyo-e colour woodblock print. Ôban yoko-e format. 25 x 37 cm. Edo (Tokyo), c. 1855.

Sachgebiete: Asien, Holzschnitt

29.07.2026 - 16:31

250,- EUR

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