Category: Art Nouveau

Austrian Secession Leather Desk Binder or Folder and Notebooks

Price: $400.00

Seller ID: 002652

Condition: Near Fine

A beautiful leather tooled desk folio folder featuring Classical Greek and Egyptian ornaments embraced in the Austrian Secessionist movement. at the turn of the last century. N.d., circa 1900. 31 by 22 cm. The color palette is gilt on black and somber green/gray. The binding is flawlessly preserved. Within is a separate notebook with textured wraps that resemble the sea floor perhaps. The pages within have never been used. The folder also includes a second notebook featuring a bird pattern on its wraps. This may or may not have been a part of the original package. This notebook is in a ...
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Narodni Pohadky [Fairy Tales]

Price: $750.00

Publisher: KVU. Printer: Odburu Umelecke Besedy : 1920

Seller ID: 007268

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

N.d., circa 1920. N.p., probably Prague. Folio, 35.5 by 30.5 cm. Unpaginated, 14 pp. Illustrated with deliberately naive-looking illustrations, with some simple border decoration on each page that fuses folk art with Art Nouveau styles. Scarce -- only two institutional copied discovered on OCLC First Search, and the only one outside of the Czech Republic is at the LOC. Condition: title label on front cover has corner tear, but no losses.
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Tall Art Nouveau Postcard Album, currently without postcards

Price: $38.00

Seller ID: 005701

Binding: Decorated Cloth

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1900 to 1910. Color illustration on front cover of a Flemish or Norman village, framed by a blindstamped (and gilt impressed) image of a Jugendstil-style picture frame. Endpapers also of a high Art Nouveau pattern. About 40 leaves of card stock for the postcards. The slots into which the postcards are secured appear unused or very lightly used. There are no postcards in the album at present. A few slots have slight damage, but this doesn't necessarily suggest use. Age toning around the edges of the card leaves. Cocking to the binding. Soiling on the cloth binding, but over...
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Malaya Knishnaya Grafika Chudoshnikov "Mira Iskusstva" [Assorted Book Graphics International Style]

By: Aleksei Aleksyeyevich, Lev Smoylovich, Vladimir Aleksyeyevich Byelkin, Aleksandr Nikolayevich, Ivan Bilibin, etc.

Price: $175.00

Publisher: St. Petersburg, Izdatelstvo "Kleo" : 2000

Seller ID: 002174

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Fine

Russian miniature book full of Art Nouveau vignettes from an array of Russian artists, all executed at the turn of the twentieth century -- most are from the first decade of the 20th century. The imagery is full of enchantment, variety and imaginativeness. The publication honors an artistic past that Russians could at last imbibe freely with the fall of the Soviet Union, and it demonstrates how connected the Russians were at the time to the prevailing artistic winds sweeping Europe and America while somehow preserving a certain wonderful Russian otherness. Here one will find represented the...
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Variations Quatre-Vingt-Six Motifs Décoratifs en Vingt Planches

By: Benedictus, [Edouard]. Pochoir by Jean Saudé

Price: $5,750.00

Publisher: Paris, Éditions Albert Lévy. Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts : 1928

Seller ID: 007095

Binding: Paper pastedown on boards of folder.

Condition: Very Good

Folio. 48 by 37 cm. 20 plates of very bright pochoir of bold, visually exciting floral patterned decoration, the designs of which straddle what we regard as Art Nouveau and Art Deco. The Art Deco element enters into the geometric patterns, which are overall a recessive piece of the designs overall. Benedictus (1878-1930) was a polymath -- he was also a composer and a chemist. In the latter capacity, he invented bullet-proof glass. Condition: wear to the folio folder, with some discoloration and staining to its paper pastedown, and lifting of the spine. Fraying of spine cloth. Card stock...
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"Novissima" 1902. Albo Annuale D'Arti e Lettere: Anno II

By: De Fonseca, Edoardo, Diretttore

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Milano, Enrico Bonetti : 1902

Seller ID: 001511

Binding: Paper pastedowns on boards, cloth spine

Condition: Very Good

Questa pubblicazione antologica e notevole come un veicolo dell'Arte Moderna italiana e magari l'estetismo. Si puo vederlo con le illustrazioni e gli scritti. Fra gli scrittori celebri sono Gabriele D'Annunzio (come si aspetta, e il suo spirito sembra informare l'opera intera), Edmondo de Amicis, Renato Fucini, Antonio Fogazzaro, Luigi Capuana, Giuseppe Giacosa, Federico di Roberto, e gli artisti includono Michetti. Dell'interesse speciale e un canzone da Puccini, con le parole di Panzacchi, intitolato "Terra e Mare". Un tema che tocca probabilemente una meta di questo numero e il ...
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Le Castel Béranger

By: Guimard, Hector

Price: $6,500.00

Publisher: Paris, Librairie Rouam et Cie : 1899

Seller ID: 007160

Binding: Quarter Morocco

Condition: Near Fine

Oblong folio, 32 by 45 cm. Title page, [1], 3 page introduction, 65 color plates, followed by table of contents. Plate illustrations are photos or derived from photos for the most part, but include some plans and drawings. This monograph depicts virtually every aspect, interior and exterior, of Guimard's first famous foray into Art Nouveau architecture, a complex built close to the Gare de Passy in Paris. Details include wallpaper, lighting, tiling, fences and grill or ironwork, stained glass, fountains, stairwells, etc. etc. Generally the palette is of a pale red, blue and green, but viv...
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[Trade Catalogue] Tiling. A Series of Suggestions for Walls. Floors. Fireplaces. &c.

By: Maw & Company Limited

Price: $2,500.00

Publisher: Jackfield, Shropshire, England, Printed by George Falkner & Sons, Manchester. : 1900

Seller ID: 007112

Binding: Hardcover. Paper pastedown on boards. Buckram s

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa early 1900s. Folio. 38 by 29 cm. Title leaf, index leaf, preface leaf, followed by 36 chromolithographic color plates, each with facing leaf containing price list. Plates capture stunning high Art Nouveau design aesthetics. Price list leaves also serving as tissue guards, it would seem. Maw & Co. was founded in Worcester in 1850, and it moved to Jackfield in 1883. By 1900 Maw was the world's largest producer of ceramic tile. The company's fortunes went into decline after the First World War, but remained in business, after a merger and a reorganization, until 1970. In 2001...
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Art Nouveau Watercolors of Decor and Other Subjects

By: Ragot

Price: $2,800.00

Publisher: : 1909

Seller ID: 003164

Binding: Quarter Calf

Condition: Very Good

Folio, 48 by 33 cm. 39 watercolors and chalk drawings mostly of furniture and decor items but also a smattering of decorative book bindings, architectural details, flowers, animals, landscapes, etc. Particularly nice are the studies of furniture, screens and stained glass windows. Ragot was a student at the Lycee de Laval at the time. The work is generally quite precise, and he satisfyingly captured the prevailing Art Nouveau aesthetic that was soon to recede. All the leaves are now loose from their binding. Many of them are stamped in the corner with the school name and information abo...
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Le Meuble au XXme Sicle

By: Raynal, Gustave

Price: $1,250.00

Publisher: Paris, Librairies-Imprimeries Runies : 1913

Seller ID: 006788

Binding: Portfolio. Paper pastedown. Cloth spine. Ri

Condition: Very Good

Folio, 47 by 35 cm. Title leaf, table of contents leaf, followed by 30 color plates. Housed in portfolio, with three ribbon ties. OCLC First Search shows holdings at Met, Getty, Hagley, New York Public and Biblio et Archives Nationales Quebec. Surprisingly, not showing up on Gallica (BNF's catalogue). Furniture is quintessential Art Nouveau pieces, including buffets, bookcases, armoires, tables, commodes, vitrines, etc. etc. All shown in rooms with wallpaper and perhaps idealized settings yet with the focal point the particular piece being showcased. The palette of the plates is general...
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Un Air Embaume Parfume le Monde L'Or de Rigaud. sa firme ses parfums

By: Richepin, Jean, author of introductory poem entitled "Fleurs"

Price: $450.00

Seller ID: 004923

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Scarce, with no copies located on OCLC FirstServe. N.d., circa 1914, when the fragrance "Un Air Embaume" was first introduced. 8vo. 24 by 21 cm. Unpaginated, 12 leaves, plus tissue guards and wraps, with nine of those being color plates. Rigaud as a parfumier dates back to 1852. At the turn of the century it created and marketed fragrances associated with celebrities of the day -- one fragrance was named after the opera star "Mary Garden" -- and the company might well have been a pioneer in such tie-ins. The company also consciously pursued the Anglo market, and capitali...
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[Manuscript] Géométrie

By: Weblen, A.

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Paris, NA : 1901-1902

Seller ID: 007162

Condition: Near FIne

Attractive French student's geometry notebook, with Art Nouveau styled title page rendered in watercolors, and neat, precise pen-and-ink and some wash geometric diagrams on virtually every other page following. Folio, 33.5 by 24.5 cm. Unpaginated, 39 leaves (with content). Text written on versos, facing the diagrams, in a very neat cursive which might fairly be deemed a calligraphic hand. Diagrams are typical ones encountered in high school geometry for the most part, here rendered perfectly. The most exciting would be ones relating to a tower and a fountain, as well as ones explaining ...
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Category: Art Nouveau