<strong>MARILYN</strong> <strong>BRAITERMAN</strong> RARE BOOKS CATALOGUE 28 Fine and Decorative Arts, Architecture and Landscape Design, Travel, Literature, Fine Press and Illustrated Books, Judaica 20 Whitfield Road, Baltimore, Maryland 21210 410-235-4848 410-235-7500 fax marilyn@braitermanbooks.com www.braitermanbooks.com TERMS All books are returnable for any reason within seven days of reciept if carefully wrapped and fully insured. New customers are asked to send check with first order. Institutions can be billed according to their requirements. Maryland customers must add sales tax. Postage and insurance are additional. I am always eager to buy fine single books or collections. Please let me know your specific collecting interest and I will be glad to offer appropriate books. Visitors are welcome by appointment. Front Cover Illustration: 140 Back Cover Illustrations: 16, 25, 58, 94 Photography: Sara Glik 410-653-2653 Design: Lucinda Morreale 410-323-4272 96
1. (ADVERTISING/PAPER) 23 Examples of the Use of Color in Modern Advertising. New York: Canson & Montgolfier, 1928. (Pasted over the imprint is a label reading “U.S. Distributors/ The Morilla Company/ New-York/ Printed in France.) Large 8vo, black paper-covered boards with lettering in bronze and design in shades of blue, silver and bronze on both covers. The fragile spine has been unobtrusively rebacked in compatible paper with original lettered spine laid down. Scarce in this condition. Now a fine, tight copy of a stunning paper sample book of 23 different colors of Canson Ingres paper with double-page spreads describing the paper and giving an example of its use in advertising with Art Deco designs in colored inks. $400 SEE COLOR INSERT 2. (ADVERTISING/ PUBLICITY) ‘SEM’ (SERGE GOURSART) Célébrités Contemporaines et la Bénédictine. Paris: Devambez (circa 1910). 8vo, portfolio. Fine. Ten loose color lithograph portraits of celebrities endorsing Benedictine liqueur by Sem, a popular caricaturist. They include the artist himself, Victor Sardou, Santos-Dumont (early aviator), Massenet and other figures of the arts and theater. Pages d’Or de l’Edition Publicitaire, #42 (published in conjunction with a 1987-1988 exhibition at the Bibliothèque Forney). $700 3. (ALLEN PRESS) CAXTON, WILLIAM. The Mirrour of the World. ( Kentfield, CA 1964) Folio. Three parts of unsewn signatures in the French style, each in colored paper wrappers, contained in a hinged green fabric-covered box lined with brown wood veneer. Two very minor spots on front of box else a fine copy with prospectus. One of 130 copies printed on handmade paper in Romanée type set by hand. A beautiful edition of the first English printed work with illustrations and the first complete cosmography in English (a popular encyclopedia of knowledge in the Middle Ages). It was printed by William Caxton, the first English printer, in 1481 on the first English printing press, which he had established in 1476. Each of the three sections in this edition opens with a lovely full page hand colored initial, and there are 33 delightfully primitive woodcuts after the original illustrations and border ornaments printed in colors throughout. $850 4. (ALLEN PRESS) Dialogues of Creatures Moralised/ Being Ancient Fables, Curious to the Philologer, Interesting to the Lover of Natural History and Helpful to the Moralist. Kentfield, CA 1967. Small folio, tan pictorial cloth lettered in red. Fine copy with prospectus in matching slipcase (light glue marks on inside pastedown where bookplate removed). One of 130 copies of a deluxe edition printed entirely by hand in Goudy types on handmade Italian paper. The most ambitious work of the press to that date. The text of the fables first appeared in 1480, printed in Latin by Gerard Leeu at Gouda, Holland. All 180 of the charmingly naive woodcuts are used, printed in six outline colors. $700 NEW YORK APARTMENT HOUSES 5. (AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE) Apartment Houses of the Metropolis. New York: G.C. Hesselgren Publishing Co. (circa 1910). Folio, pebbled brown cloth with blind-stamped decoration and gilt lettering on spine and front cover. Fine. Intended as a reference for architects, builders and apartment house operators by the publishers of “over nine-tenths of all the rental booklets in Greater New York”. With 298 pages and index; photographs, floor plans and rental information for over 200 contemporary apartment buildings built in the first decade of the 20 th century with architects and builders listed for each. Some maps and photographs of surroundings of the buildings as well. A trove of information on New York architecture of the period. $1500 6. ANDRÉ, ÉDOUARD. L’Art des Jardins. Traité Général de la Composition des Parcs et Jardins. Paris: G. Masson, 1879. Thick 4to, original red cloth elaborately decorated in black and gilt on spine and both covers. Expertly rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Very attractive copy with Lotus Club, New York bookplate “presented by Mr. Mellon”. First edition of a classic on modern garden theory, especially influential in France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Woodengraved frontispiece, eleven full or double page color lithograph plates with garden plans and 520 wood-engraved illustrations in the 888 page text. An appendix lists public and private parks and gardens, including thirty in the United States. $985 NEO-CLASSICAL PATTERN BOOK 7. (ARCHITECTURE) Builder’s Magazine: Or, A Universal Dictionary for Architects, Carpenters, Masons, Bricklayers... A New Edition. London: Society of Architects, 1788. Thick 4to, contemporary marbled boards newly rebacked in leather, original leather label remounted. Faded later ownership inscription on title page and endpaper. Light foxing or browning. With 345 pages and 85 engraved plates, mainly folding, of plans, sections, decorative artifacts and detailed design work for interiors and exteriors. Clean, sharp impressions of the plates. The second part, paginated separately, consists of plans and elevations with letterpress description. This is the third edition (various editions were published as late as 1823). This “new edition” was published by Elizabeth Newbery after the death of her husband Francis, nephew of John Newbery. The pictorial part is the work of John Carter who invented almost all of the plans and elevations. They cover a wide range of subjects: farm houses, inns, hospitals, shop Rare Books Catalogue 28 1
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