BIBLIOGRAPHY and TYPOGRAPHY

Auction 83, 24-28 November 2025

215 lotti

Lotti

Lotto 553

[Popular prints]. Brückner, W. Imagerie populaire Allemande.

Milan, Electa, 1969, 222,(2)p., num. (full-p.) (col.) ills., orig. gilt boards w. dustwr., slipcase, folio. Toschi, P. l'Imagerie populaire Italienne. Paris, Les Deux Mondes, 1974, 229,(31)p., num. (full-p.) (col.) ills., orig. gilt boards w. dustwr., folio. - AND 4 others, i.a. H. VOGEL, Bilderbogen und Würfelspiel (Leipsic, 1981, (col.) plates, orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to) and A.S. SYTOWA (ed.), Lubok. Russische Volks-bilderbogen 17. bis 19. Jahrhundert (Leningrad, 1984, (col.) ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to).

Stima 50 € – 70 €Aggiudicato 60 €

Lotto 554

Printing and the Mind of Man.

A descriptive catalogue illustrating the impact of print on the evolution of western civilization during five centuries. Ed. J. Carter and P.H. Muir. London/ New York, Cassell/ Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967, XXXIII,(3),280p., num. ills./ facs., orig. cl. w. dustwr., folio. - AND 1 other: R. SCHAER (ed.), Tous les savoirs du monde. Encyclopédies et bibliothèques, de Sumer au XXIe siècle (Paris, 1996, num. (col.) ills., orig. pict. boards, 4to).

Stima 60 € – 80 €Aggiudicato 80 €

Lotto 555

[Proost Prikkels]. Lot

of 132 vols., Amst., Proost en Brandt, 1941-1985, ills., various sizes and shapes. WITH several duplicates.

Stima 100 € – 150 €Aggiudicato 210 €

Lotto 556

Rattemeyer, V., Helms, D. a.o. (ed.). "Typographie kann unter Umständen Kunst sein".

Wiesbaden etc., Landesmus. etc., 1990, 3 (of 4) vols., 262,(1); 338,(1); 143p., num. (col.) ills., orig. unif. wr., 4to. AND 2 others: P. RÖSSLER, Die neue Linie 1929-1943. Das Bauhaus am Kiosk (Berlin, 2007, num. (col.) ills., orig. wr., folio) and M. SIMON THOMAS and Y. BRENTJENS, Nederland ↔ Bauhaus. Pioniers van een nieuwe wereld (Rott., 2019, (col.) ills., orig. wr., 4to).

Stima 60 € – 80 €Aggiudicato 60 €

Lotto 557

Rickards, M. The Encyclopedia of Ephemera. A Guide to the Fragmentary Documents of Everyday Life for the Collector, Curator, and Historian.

New York, Routledge, 2001, 2nd ed., X,(2),402p., num. ills., orig. boards w. dustwr., large 4to. Jury, D. Graphic Design Before Graphic Designers. The Printer as Designer and Crafsman 1700-1914. London, Thames & Hudson, 2012, 312p., 779 (col.) ills., orig. pict. boards w. dustwr., sm. folio. - AND 2 others similar, i.a. M. RICKARDS, Collecting Printed Ephemera (Oxf., 1988, num. (col.) ills., orig. boards w. dustwr., 4to).

Stima 30 € – 50 €Aggiudicato 60 €

Lotto 558

[Rogers, B.]. Mansbridge, G. Bruce Rogers: American Typographer.

New York, The Stone House Press, 1997, XIII,(1),95,(3)p., tipped-in col. frontisp., orig. clothbacked boards, slipcase. Purington Rollins, C. BR, America's Typographic Playboy. New York, The Georgian Press, 1927, (4),13,(2)p., 6 plates, ills., printed in 500 numb. copies by Richard W. Ellis, orig. boards. - AND 2 others on and 2 by the same, i.a. J. BLUMENTHAL, Bruce Rogers, A Life in Letters 1870-1957 (Austin, 1989, (col.) plates, orig. cl., 4to) and B. ROGERS, Report on the Typography of the Cambridge University Press. Prepared in 1917 at the Request of the Syndics by Bruce Rogers and now printed in Honour of his Eightieth Birthday (Cambridge, 1950, ills., printed in 500 copies, orig. hcl., 4to).

Stima 50 € – 70 €Aggiudicato 70 €

Lotto 559

Roos, S.H. de. Typografische geschriften 1907-1920. Introd. J.P. Boterman.

The Hague, SDU uitgeverij, 1989, 153p., num. (col.) ills., orig. wr., 4to. - AND 7 others, i.a. J. TSCHICHOLD, Opstellen over typografie. Dutch transl. and ed. H. van Krimpen (Maastr., 1988, orig. cl. w. dustwr.); D. DOOIJES, Over de drukletterontwerpen van Sjoerd H. de Roos (Zutphen, 1987, ills., orig. wr.) and TYPOGRAFIE MOET! Een bundel bij het afscheid van Karel Trebus (The Hague, 1993, frontisp. portrait, orig. cl. w. dustwr.).

Stima 40 € – 60 €Aggiudicato 40 €

Lotto 560

Rowell, M. and Wye, D. The Russian avant-garde book. 1910-1934.

New York, Museum of Modern Art, (2002), 304p., num. (col.) ills., orig. boards, 4to. Andel, J. Avant-garde Page Design 1900-1950. New York, Delano Greenidge, 2002, 388p., English, French and German text, 463 (col.) ills., orig. boards w. dustwr., folio. AND 2 others similar: J.E. BOWLT and B. HERNAD, Aus vollem Halse. Russische Buchillustration und Typographie 1900-1930 (Munich, 1993, num. ills., orig. dec. boards w. dustwr., 4to) and A.W. PURVIS, Dutch Graphic Design, 1918-1945 (New York, 1992, (col.) ills., orig. boards w. duZtwr., 4to. One leaf creased).

Stima 50 € – 70 €

Lotto 562

Slinn, J., Carter, S. and Southall, R. History of the Monotype Corporation. Ed. A. Boag and C. Burke.

London/ Woodstock, Printing Historical Society/ Vanbrugh Press, 2014, 432p., ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., large 8vo (fine). Annenberg, M. Type Foundries of America and their Catalogs. New Castle, Oak Knoll Press, 1994, XXI,(1),286p., ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to. - AND 3 others, i.a. T. BAINES REED, A History of the Old English Letter Foundries (Folkestone, 1974, 2nd rev. and enl. ed. by A.F. Johnson, ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to).

Stima 40 € – 60 €Aggiudicato 60 €

Lotto 565

[Stationery]. Portable travel desk,

mahogany(?), 19th cent., 60x49x13 cm. (opened), 49x29x18 cm. (closed), green leatherclad hinging writing desk, several sm. compartments w. i.a. 2 glass ink bottles, retractable drawer containing i.a. a bone stylus and letter opener.

Stima 200 € – 300 €

Lotto 568

Sutnar, L. Design for point of sale.

New York, Pellegrini & Cudahy, (1952), without pagination, num. ills., orig. clothbacked boards, obl. folio. Rasch, H. and B. (ed.). Gefesselter Blick. 25 kurze Monografien und Beiträge über neue Werbegestaltung. Baden, Lars Müller, 1996, 111p., num. ills., orig. limp cl. w. perspex frontcover, 4to.

Stima 40 € – 60 €Aggiudicato 40 €

Lotto 569

A Tribute to W.A. Dwiggins on the Hundredth Anniversary of his Birth.

New York, Friends of Hermann Püterschein, 1980, 153,(2)p., ills., printed in 500 copies at the Inkwell Press, orig. dec. cl. Rädisch, P.H. A tot Z. Een autobiografie van P.H. Rädisch, staalstempelsnijder. Haarlem, Priegelboekerij, 1979, 60,(4)p., tipped-in portrait, printed in 135 numb. copies, orig. cl., 4to. - AND 8 others, i.a. HELMUT SALDEN, LETTERONTWERPER EN BOEKVERZORGER (Rott., 2003, num. col. ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to); J. KELLY, The Art of the Book in the Twentieth Century. A Study of Eleven Influential Book Designers from 1900 to 2000 (Rochester, 2011, num. ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to) and A. CHICK, Towards Today's Book. Progress in 19th century Britain (London, 1997, ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to).

Stima 70 € – 90 €Aggiudicato 70 €

Lotto 570

Tschichold, J. Die neue Typographie. Ein Handbuch für zeitgemäss Schaffende.

Berlin, Brinkmann & Bose, 1987, 2nd ed., 240p., num. (col.) ills., orig. cl., in orig. slipcase together WITH: Beiheft Die neue Typographie, mit Beiträgen zur Geschichte des Buches von Werner Doede, Jan Tschichold und Gerd Fleischmann. Ibid., idem, 1987, 47,(1)p., ills., orig. wr. (fine). Idem. Typografische vormgeving. Dutch transl. C. Nypels. Amst., N.V. vh. J.F. Duwaer & Zonen, 1938, 101,(1),(6 advert.)p., (col.) ills., typography by J. TSCHICHOLD, orig. cl. w. dustwr. AND 8 others by/ on the same, mainly small publications, i.a. IDEM, Contemporary Typography (Pittsburgh, The New Laboratory Press, 1961, printed in 500 copies, orig. wr., 4to); IDEM, Der chinesische Stempel; Ursprung des Buchdrucks (Basel, 1972, ills., orig. wr., private edition, not for the trade); P. BARNES (ed.), Jan Tschichold, Reflections and reappraisels (New York, 1995, ills., printed in 200 copies, orig. wr.).

Stima 100 € – 150 €Aggiudicato 100 €

Lotto 571

Tschichold, J.

Schriften 1925-1974. Berlin, Brinkmann & Bose, 1991/ 1992, 2 vols., 397,(3); 461,(3)p., ills., orig. unif. boards w. dustwr. (fine). Klemke, W. (introd.). Leben und Werk des Typographen Jan Tschichold. Munich etc., K.G. Saur, 1988, 28,(4),392,(1)p., num. (col.) ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to (fine). - AND 3 others on the same, i.a. C. BURKE, Active Literature. Jan Tschichold and New Typography (London, 2007, num. (col.) ills., orig. boards, 4to).

Stima 60 € – 80 €Aggiudicato 70 €

Lotto 572

Tschichold, J. Typographische Gestaltung.

Basel, B. Schwabe & Co., 1935, 1st ed., 112,(10)p., num. (col.) ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr. Renner, P. Die Kunst der Typographie. Berlin, Frenzel & Engelbrecher "Gebrauchsgrafik" Verlag, 1939, 1st ed., 314p., ills., orig. cl. AND 6 others by/ on Jan Tschichold or Paul Renner, i.a. J. TSCHICHOLD, Typografische vormgeving. Dutch transl. by C. Nypels (Amst., 1938, ills., orig. cl. w. (stained/ worn) dustwr.) and C. BURKE, Paul Renner. The Art of Typography (London, 1998, ills., orig. wr. w. dustwr., large 8vo).

Stima 80 € – 100 €Aggiudicato 160 €

Lotto 573

Twyman, M. Early lithographed books. A study of the design and production of improper books in the age of the hand press. With a catalogue.

London, Farrand Press and Private Libraries Association, 1990, 374p., frontisp., 282 ills., orig. gilt cl., 4to. Gaskell, Ph. A Bibliography of the Foulis Press. Winchester, St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1986, 2nd ed., 484p., orig. cl. Reid, A. A Check-list of the Book Illustrations of John Buckland Wright. Together with a personal memoir. Pinner, Private Libraries Association, 1968, 94p., frontisp., 17 plates, 19 (full-p.) ills. by J. BUCKLAND WRIGHT, printed in 1400 copies (700), orig. gilt cl. AND 7 others, i.a. A. TAYLOR, Book Catalogues: Their Varieties and Uses (Chicago, 1957, orig. cl.); R. MYERS a.o. (ed.), Books for Sale. The Advertising and Promotion of Print since the Fifteenth Century (New Castle/ London, 2009, ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr.) and J. RAVEN a.o. (ed.), The practice and representation of reading in England (Cambr., 1996, orig. cl. w. dustwr.).

Stima 80 € – 100 €

Lotto 574

[Typespecimens]. Enschedé en Zonen, J. Boekletter.

Haarlem, Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, n.d. (±1921), 192p., orig. giltlettered and blindst. cl., 4to. Idem. Spécimen des Lettres françoises, dites Caractères de Civilité, des XVIme et XVIIme Siècles dans la Collection Typographique de Joh. Enschedé en Zonen. Haarlem, J. Enschedé en Zonen, 1926, 40p., typography by J. VAN KRIMPEN, printed on handmade paper, orig. boards, 4to. Idem. Proef van Nederduitsche en Gothische initialen uit de XVde eeuw. Haarlem, J. Enschedé en Zonen, 1925, 51,(1)p., printed in black and red on handmade paper, orig. marbled boards, 4to. AND 5 others in 6 vols. by the same, i.a. Die hochdeutschen Schriften aus dem 15ten bis zum 19ten Jahrhundert (ibid., 1919, orig. marbled wr.) and Proef van letteren ((Haarlem), 1993, 2 vols., facs. vol./ text vol., (fold.) plates/ ills., orig. cl./ orig. wr., slipcase).

Stima 80 € – 100 €Aggiudicato 130 €

Lotto 575

[Typespecimens]. Ponot, R. (ed.). La fonderie typographique de Laurent, Balzac et Barbier créée en 1827 par Honoré Balzac. Introd. J. Dreyfus.

Paris, Éditions des Cendres, 1992, XXXIX,(5)p., (3),87,(2),86 facs. lvs., printed in 999 numb. copies, orig. hcl., obl. folio. Hoftijzer, P. (introd.). A Tale of Fonts: Exploring the Heritage of the Elzeviers, 1658-1713. Amst./ Leyden, Elsevier, 2013, 3 vols., introd. booklet: 30,(1)p., (col.) ills., orig. boards, obl. 8vo; 2 vols. of facs. reprints of typespecimen: Specimen Typorum Johanns Elsevirii (1658) ((16)p,, orig. wr., sm. 8vo) and Proeve der Druckkerye van Mr Abraham Elzevier (1713) ((29)p., orig. wr., 8vo), together in orig. board portfolio, obl. large 8vo. - AND 2 others: J.A. LANE, Early Type Specimens in the Plantin-Moretus Museum (New Castle/ London, 2004, ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to) and CABINET DES POINÇONS DE L'IMPRIMERIE NATIONALE DE FRANCE (Paris, 1950, 2nd ed., orig. wr., 4to. Sl. worn copy). - ADDED: 2 other miscell. works.

Stima 80 € – 100 €Aggiudicato 130 €

Lotto 576

Typographische Mitteilungen.

Year 24, no.1. N.pl., Bildungsverband der Deutschen Buchdrucker, 1927, (2),32,8,(2)p., num. (typographic) ills., orig. wr., 4to.

Stima 30 € – 50 €

Lotto 577

Unger, G. "d".

Silkscreen, 43,7x30,3 cm., monogrammed "GU '87" and "HS XXIV" in pencil.

Stima 30 € – 50 €Aggiudicato 50 €

Lotto 578

[Unger, G.]. Burke, C. Gerard Unger, life in letters.

Amst., De Buitenkant, 2021, 334,(2)p., num. (col.) ills., book design by HANSJE VAN HALEM, orig. dec. boards, 4to. Unger, G. Theory of Type Design. Rott., NAi010, 2018, 239p., (col.) ills., orig. richly dec. cl. Idem. Alverata. Hedendaagse Europese letters met wortels in de middeleeuwen. Proefschrift. N.pl., the author, 2013, 286,(1)p., (col.) ills., orig. wr. - AND 3 others by the same, i.a. Terwijl je leest (Amst., 1997, ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., large 8vo).

Stima 50 € – 70 €Aggiudicato 50 €

Lotto 579

Updike, D.B. Printing types. Their history, forms and use.

Cambr./ London, The Belknap Press/ Oxford Univ. Press, 1962, 3rd ed., 2 vols., XLVI,292; XIX,(1),326p., facs. ills., orig. unif. cl. Wells, J.M. a.o. Anderhalve eeuw boektypografie in Amerika, Engeland, Frankrijk, Duitsland, Zwitserland, Italië, België en Nederland. 1815-1965. Amst., J.M. Meulenhoff, 1965, (6),422,(2)p., num. plates, orig. giltlettered cl. - AND 8 others, i.a. J. BALL, William Caslon 1693-1766 (Kineton, 1973, plates, orig. cl. w. dustwr.); F.E. PARDOE, John Baskerville of Birmingham (London, 1975, plates, orig. cl. w. dustwr.); J.A. LANE, Early Type Specimens in the Plantin-Moretus Museum (London, 2004, ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to) and A. HUTT, Fournier. The Compleat Typographer (Londen, 1972, ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr.).

Stima 80 € – 100 €Aggiudicato 100 €

Lotto 582

Vervliet, H.D.L. The Palaeotypography of the French Renaissance. Selected Papers on Sixteenth-Century Typefaces.

Leyden/ Boston, Brill, 2008, 2 vols., VIII,285,(1); (4),286-564,(1)p., num. ills., orig. unif. cl. w. dustwr., sm. folio. AND 2 others similar by the same: Sixteenth-Century Printing Types of the Low Countries (Amst., 1968, num. ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., sm. folio) and French Renaissance Printing Types. A Conspectus (London, 2010, num. ills., orig. cl., sm. folio).

Stima 100 € – 150 €Aggiudicato 190 €

Lotto 583

Waal, H. van de. Drie eeuwen vaderlandsche geschied-uitbeelding 1500-1800. Een iconologische studie.

The Hague, M. Nijhoff, 1952, 2 vols., XI,(1),361; XI,(1),184p., 120 plates, orig. unif. wr., 4to (bookplate on upper pastedown). Meyer, M. de. De volksprenten in de Nederlanden 1400-1900. Amst./ Antw., Scheltema etc./ De Standaard, 1970, 220,(2)p., 175 (full-p.) (col.) ills., orig. gilt hvellum w. board slipcase, folio (without the supplement). - AND 5 others, i.a. G.J. JASPERS, De blokboeken en incunabelen in Haarlems Libry (Haarlem, 1988, (col.) plates/ ills., orig. boards w. dustwr.); P.J. BUIJNSTERS and L. BUIJNSTERS-SMETS, Papertoys. Speelprenten en papieren speelgoed in Nederland (1640-1920) (Zwolle, 2005, num. (col.) ills., orig. boards w. dustwr.) and H. VÖGEL, Bilderbogen und Würfelspiel (Leipsic, 1981, num. (full-p.) (col.) ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to).

Stima 50 € – 70 €Aggiudicato 50 €

Lotto 584

Warde, B. The Crystal Goblet. Sixteen Essays on Typography. Ed. H. Jacob.

London, Sylvan Press, 1955, 221p., orig. cl. w. dustwr. Spencer, H. Design in Business Printing. Ibid., idem, 1952, 104p., (col.) ills., orig. cl., 4to. Lathem, E.C. and E.F. (ed.). D.B.U. and R.R. Selected Extracts from Correspondence between Daniel Berkely Updike and Rudolph Ruzicka 1908-1941. New York, American Printing History Association, (1992), VI,181,(1)p., printed in 500 copies, orig. cl. w. dustwr. - AND 6 others similar, i.a. B.H. NEWDIGATE, Book Production Notes (Oxshott, 1986, ills., orig. cl., 4to); TYPE & TYPOGRAPHY. Highlights from Matrix, the review for printers and bibliophiles (West New York, 2003, ills., orig. boards w. dustwr., 4to).

Stima 60 € – 80 €Aggiudicato 80 €

Lotto 586

Wilson, A. The Making of the Nuremberg Chronicle.

Amst., N. Israel, 1978, 2nd ed., 255,(1)p., num. (col.) facs. plates/ ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., folio. Goldschmidt, E.P. The Printed Book of the Renaissance. Three Lectures on Type, Illustration, Ornament. Amst., G.T. van Heusden, 1974, (2),VII,(2),92,(3)p., plates, orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to. AND 5 others, i.a. F.A. JANSSEN, Technique and design in the history of printing ('t Goy-Houten, 2004, ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr.) and A.F. JOHNSON, Selected essays on books and printing. Ed. P.H. Muir (Amst. etc., 1970, ills., orig. cl. w. (sl. soiled) dustwr., large 4to).

Stima 70 € – 90 €Aggiudicato 80 €

Lotto 587

Zapf, H. Variations typographiques. Recherces illustrées par 78 exemples. Pref. C. Peignot.

Paris, Hermann, 1965, without pagination, num. tipped-in samples, (facs.) ills., printed in 300 numb. and signed copies, orig. boards w. dustwr., sm. folio. Zahn, C. (introd.). Hermann Zapf & His Design Philosophy. Selected Articles and Lectures on Calligraphy and Contemporary Developments in Type Design. Chicago, Society of Typographic Arts, 1987, 254,(1)p., (col.) ills., orig. giltlettered cl. w. dustwr., sm. folio. AND 5 others by/ on the same, i.a. 2 vols. publ. by The Typophiles, New York, orig. cl. sm. 8vo: H. ZAPF, About Alphabets. Some marginal notes on type design (1960, ills., printed in 700 copies) and J. KELLY, About more alphabets. The types of Hermann Zapf (2011, ills., printed in 1000 copies).

Stima 80 € – 100 €Aggiudicato 90 €