Whilst living in Paris between 1950 and 1954, van der Elsken quickly fell for the attractions of Saint Germain des Prés and the people he found th...

Beautiful, rare broadside made as a tribute to the purported inventor of the printing press, Lourens Janzoon Koster (c.1370- c.1440). Presented as...

Important art nouveau work incorporating plants into decorative motifs.Munich painter Anton Seder (1850-1916), was the first director of the Ecole...

Extremely rare publication on one of the most important centres of German-Italian cultural exchange in the 19th Century.This set of views shows th...

Signed and numbered by the artist. A monumental book with striking full-page etchings by Frink depicting the figures, animals and birds that charac...

Copper plate engraving. Repairs to verso, small wormholes, otherwise a rich impression.

Fine copy of this large architectural publication showing many designs, projects and plans of the early Stalinist era, still constructivist someti...

An exquisite series displaying fashion in magnificent and imaginative illustrations by George Barbier the noted early twentieth century French art...

An exquisite series displaying fashion in magnificent and imaginative illustrations by George Barbier the noted early twentieth century French art...

Photographs taken by Beaton while Official Photographer for The Ministry of Information. Not so very common in this condition.First edition, first...

4to (285 x 250 mm); Foreword by the Duchess of Devonshire, numerous illustrations, mostly in colour; publisher's blue cloth, illustrated dust-jack...

An at the time of publication significant work relating to the artist Félicien Rops, featuring previously unpublished material. Notable for its at...

Fifty, often merciless but never malicious, caricature portraits by Beerbohm, including one of George Bernard Shaw who had recommended Beerbohm to...

Viviane Sassen was born in Amsterdam but lived in a Kenyan village from the ages of two to five while her father worked at a hospital. Flamboya co...

Flower Is contains three bodies of work: photographs taken in Paris of flowers, flower sellers, and chance encounters on the street, the River Rou...

Auction catalogue. A rare auction catalogue listing items ranging from '400 bags saltpetre' to '6 chests rhubarb' to '6 bales Tripoli madder root.'...

Four Chinese Export paintings, each finely painted in ink and gouache on paper with bird and flower scenes enclosed with floral cartouches, on a d...

From the library of Duff Cooper, British Ambassador to France. It may have been short-lived but the Gazette du Bon Ton was hugely influential refle...

The greatest and the rarest of all the Art Deco fashion periodicals. The early 20th century was a time of dramatic change in fashion. The heavy clo...

Deemed worthy of exhibition at the Paris World's Fair 1900. The finest and most meticulous images of the moon until the 1970's.The Atlas photograph...

Presentation copy with a drawing by George Condo. Inscribed by Condo to Hilary Gerrard with an original drawing titled 'War against the tutu':'for ...