Exhibition card: Hamish Fulton (3 April-3 May 1975).
Printed on one side. Card. Basel: Rolf Preisig, 1975.
Announcement card for Fulton’s 1975 show with Preisig. Fine. More
Printed on one side. Card. Basel: Rolf Preisig, 1975.
Announcement card for Fulton’s 1975 show with Preisig. Fine. More
Printed on one side. Card. Torino: Gian Enzo Sperone, 1974.
Card announcement for Fulton’s 1974 presentation with Sperone. In fine condition.
❧ A. Minola, M.C. Mundici, F. Poli, M.T. Roberto, eds., Gian Enzo Sperone: Torino, Roma, New York: 35 Anni di Mostre tra Europa e America (2000), Vol. II, p. 492. More
Black & white photographic illus. on recto, details on verso. Photographic postcard, mailed. Basel: Rolf Preisig, 1977.
Postcard invitation for Preisig’s 1977 presentation of Hamish Fulton (b. 1946). In fine condition. Mailed to the Kunstraum München. More
Black & white photographic illus. on recto, details on verso. Photographic postcard. Bremerhaven: Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst Bremerhaven, 1973.
Postcard invitation for Fulton’s debut exhibition at Jürgen Wesseler’s gallery in Bremerhaven. Near fine.
❧ Exhibition installation pictured in Vorhut aus dem Hinterland (Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen: 1992). More
Black & white illus. on recto, details to verso. Card. Rome: Gian Enzo Sperone, 1976.
Card announcing Long’s 1976 show with Gian Enzo Sperone in Rome. A sketch of Long’s work is reproduced on the recto. Fine.
❧ A. Minola, M.C. Mundici, F. Poli, M.T. Roberto, eds., Gian Enzo Sperone: Torino, Roma, New York: 35 Anni di Mostre tra Europa e America (2000), Vol. II, pp. 272 & 493. More
Black & white photographic illus., text in red. Photographic postcard, mailed. New York: John Gibson Gallery, [1969].
Postcard invitation to Long’s debut solo show in the United States. Gibson (1933-2019) was one of the earliest gallery advocates of Land Art.
In fine condition. Mailed to Alphonse Ossorio of East Hampton.
❧ See Richard Long’s website. More
Full-bleed black & white illus. throughout. Unpaginated. Oblong 8vo, printed hardcover. Bern: Kunsthalle Bern, 1977.
Uncommon Richard Long (b. 1945) exhibition catalogue/artist’s book. Near fine; a few marks to the covers. More
Two fine & large folding lithographed plates (one with cont. coloring) & two folding printed tables. xxix, 368 pp., one leaf of errata; x, 368 pp., one leaf of errata. Two vols. 8vo, cont. fine blue calf bound in the Romantic style, sides gilt, flat spines gilt, a.e.g. Göttingen: 1822.
First edition and a beautifully bound set of this ecological classic. Meyer (1782-1856), was a German botanist in Göttingen and physiographer of the Kingdom of Hanover. The present work is “one of the earliest phytosociological and ecological treatises.”–Stafleu & Cowan 5931.
The large handcolored lithographed plate depicts soil profiles from... More
One folding engraved plate & 16 folding printed tables. viii, 327, [8] pp. 8vo, cont. green calf-backed marbled boards (rather well-rebacked with the orig. spine laid-down), flat spine gilt. Paris: Nyon, 1804.
First edition of the work which “laid the foundations of a new science, phytochemistry. Saussure examined the chief active components of plants, their synthesis, and their decomposition. He specified the relationships between vegetation and the environment and here, too, did pioneering work in what became the fields of pedology and ecology.”–D.S.B., XII, p. 124.
In this work, Saussure systematically applied for the first time the quantitative method of... More
Vol. I: Engraved frontis. printed in bistre, four hand-colored engraved plates of alternative materials used in making paper. Separate atlas with printed drop-title & 15 leaves of specimens. 6 p.l., 54 pp. Vol. II: Separate atlas with printed drop-title, 19 leaves of specimens, & one hand-colored engraved plate. 6 p.l., 28 pp. Two vols. Small 4to (195x 150 mm.), all vols. uniformly bound in richly gilt contemporary red morocco, covers with large gilt decoration in Rococo style, flat spines gilt, each text and respective atlas in fitted, richly gilt & tooled cont. red morocco slipcases. Regensburg: 1765.
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Finely engraved title-page (a trifle shaved at outer edge) & 675 woodcuts in the text. 11 p.l. (incl. engr. title), 1187 (i.e., 1185), [87] pp. Folio, cont. Dutch vellum over boards (upper joint with small split of 7 cm. at foot, minor pale dampstaining to first 20 leaves & last third of book), panelled in blind, central arabesque in blind to each cover, ties gone. Amsterdam: H. Laurentius, 1644.
First edition to be edited by Joannes Bodaeus à Stapel; it “is one of the best and most thoughtfully prepared of all the editions of Theophrastos.”–Hunt 240.
H.H. Bartlett wrote in... More