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Best.-Nr. 23674Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz Verlag 2006. Cloth. Fine/Fine. A gorgeous example of this sweeping catalogue raisonne of the great German artist Kurt Schwitters 1887-1948. Complete in 3 massive volumes all clean and near-pristine in their lovely dustjackets. Tight and Near Fine to Fine in crisp easily Near Fine to Fine dustjackets. Thick tall quartos first-rate color and black-and-white reproductions throughout. Vol. I: Catalogue Raisonne 1905-1922 "638 pages 997 illustrations 104 in colour" ; Vol. II: Catalogue Raisonne 1923-1936 "604 pages 1071 illustrations 118 in colour"; Vol. III: Catalogue Raisonne 1937-1948 "784 pages 1312 illustrations 119 in colour". Text in both English and German. From the dustjacket front flap: "Although Kurt Schwitters was one of the most influential artists of international Modernism so far only certain parts of his immensely varied pictorial work have been thoroughly investigated. Now his oeuvre has been documented and properly acknowledged for the first time in a three-volume catalogue raisonne. More than 3800 works from the period between 1905 and 1948 among them numerous previously unpublished pictures and paintings are presented to the public after world-wide research and a complete sighting of his artistic estate. Schwitters' works are ordered chronologically and within years according to genre. All works are shown in black-and-white; lost and destroyed works are also documented. In addition 341 representative works are reproduced in colour.". Hatje Cantz Verlag unknown books
1842Best.-Nr. 16953London: Printed for the Camden Society 1842. Decorative Cloth. Very Good . The very uncommon 1842 1st edition of this original publication of "two curious documents concerning Dr. John Dee" the great 16th century occut philosopher 1527-1609 who devoted much of his life to the study of alchemy divination and Hermetic philosophy. 1 "His Private Diary written in a very small illegible hand on the margins of old Almamacs discovered a few years ago by Mr. W.H. Black in the library of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford". 2 "A Catalogue of his Library of Manuscripts made by himself before his house was plundered by the populace and now preserved in the library of Trinity College Cambridge". This 1842 volume a slim octavo in its original chocolate-brown boards has held up very nicely. Solid and VG with decorative blindstamping to the panels and still-bright gilt-titling and flourishes along the spine. Just a touch of light bubbling to the rear panel small neat former owner name and 1940 date at the front free endpaper. Apart from this clean as could be with no other writing or markings of any kind internally and a strong very sturdy binding. By any measure an impressive copy of this rare mid 19th century examination through his diary and his personal library of manuscripts of the mind of Dr. John Dee. Printed for the Camden Society unknown
1842Best.-Nr. 16953London: Printed for the Camden Society 1842. Decorative Cloth. Very Good . The very uncommon 1842 1st edition of this original publication of "two curious documents concerning Dr. John Dee" the great 16th century occut philosopher 1527-1609 who devoted much of his life to the study of alchemy divination and Hermetic philosophy. 1 "His Private Diary written in a very small illegible hand on the margins of old Almamacs discovered a few years ago by Mr. W.H. Black in the library of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford". 2 "A Catalogue of his Library of Manuscripts made by himself before his house was plundered by the populace and now preserved in the library of Trinity College Cambridge". This 1842 volume a slim octavo in its original chocolate-brown boards has held up very nicely. Solid and VG with decorative blindstamping to the panels and still-bright gilt-titling and flourishes along the spine. Just a touch of light bubbling to the rear panel small neat former owner name and 1940 date at the front free endpaper. Apart from this clean as could be with no other writing or markings of any kind internally and a strong very sturdy binding. By any measure an impressive copy of this rare mid 19th century examination through his diary and his personal library of manuscripts of the mind of Dr. John Dee. Printed for the Camden Society unknown books
