Booth No. 11

Michael Steinbach Rare Books
Freyung 6/4/6 – 1010 Vienna, Austria – Tel. +43-664-3575948 – www.antiquariat-steinbach.com
Mail: michael.steinbach@antiquariat-steinbach.com

1 Brunelleschi - Contes du Temps Jadis. Paris, Piazza, 1912. 30×24 cm. 122 pages, 2 leaves,
20 coloured plates by Umberto Brunelleschi. Red brown crushed morocco, opulently gilt, ornamental oval center piece on booth boards, front board with title, surrounded by gilt frames, spine
lavishly gilt with floral ornaments and title in gold, top edge gilt, inside dentelles, red, brown and
JPY 580,000gilt endpapers, original illustrated covers bound in, signed Durvand.
One of 400 numbered copies, imprint signed by Brunelleschi, bound in a signed masterbinding. Printed on Japon paper. Contains five fairy tales: La Belle aux cheveux d’or –L’Oiseau bleu – Gracieuse et Percinet – L’adroite Princesse – Le Prince chéri. Withstriking colour ilustrations by Umberto Brunelleschi (1879-1949) active as fashion,costume and stage designer in Paris. The beautiful master-binding correspond with thelovely illustrations. The binder Lucien Durvand (1852-1924) operated one fo the finest
workshops in turn-of-the-century Paris. In 1900 he was awarded a silver medal for hisbindings at the Universal exhibition, and, according to Flety, he was devoted to improving the craft of binding right up to his death. An almost untouched, breathtaking copyof this splendid book.

2 Chagall - Bourniquel, Camille: La féerie et le royaume. (Paris), Mourlot (1972). 31×22.5
cm. 100 pages, 1 leaf, with 10 original colour lithographs by Marc Chagall. Original wrappers in
JPY 1,500,000original cloth-portfolio and original cloth-slipcase.
One of 180 numbered copies on velin d’Arches.
Imprint signed by Chagall and the author. Very rare
and in perfect condition. - Mourlot 668 - 677; Monod1799.

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3 China - Nagakubo, Sekisui. Japanese Colour
Woodblock Historical Atlas of China. (Todo rekidai shugun enkaku chizu). Edo, 1857. 36×24 cm. 13 coloured,
double-page woodblock-maps. Japanese accordion binding, paper title-label on upper cover.  JPY 250,000This Japanese historical atlas of Chinese maps traces Chinese history fromthe early times through to the Qing Dynasty. Includes the forward fromthe 1789 first edition. - Introduction in the upper part with some water-stains, maps not effected; binding partly dusty and a bit wrinkled.

4 China - Porcelain - Hsiang Yuan-P’ien. Chinese
Porcelain. Sixteenth-Century coloured illustrations withChinese Ms. Text. Translated and annotated by StephenW. Bushell. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1908. 31.5×25cm. 45 pages with 83 coloured plates. Blue soft clothcovers.
JPY 550,000A very scare and collectible collection of Chinese antique porcelain. Illustrated descriptions for the Celebrated Porcelain ofDifferent Dynasties by Hsiang Yuan-P’en styled Tzu Ching, circa
MDLXXV (1625). - Chinese stitched binding, on double leaves.
- Title-labels on boards a bit rubbed.

5 Eye-wear. Collection of 60 coloured designs for glasses. Tokyo ca. 1950 - 1960 21×30 cm.
60 coloured designs on Cardboard. JPY 580,000Interesting collection of different designs for glasses, made by different Japanese designers,
some were made for known Japanese companies like Renown, Sony, Onword. The designs arevery imaginative, partly in shining colours, partly very detailed. All with description in Japanese,mostly with the address of the designer on the reverse side. Most likely from the 1950ties to the1960ties.

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6 Malory, Sir Thomas. LE MORTE DARTHUR. The book ofKing Arthur and of his noble Knights of the round table. 4 volumes. London, Philip Lee Warner, publisher to the Medici SocietyLtd., 1910 - 1911. 27×20.5 cm. XX, 168 pages, 3 leaves; XVI,178 pages, 3 leaves; XVI, 208 pages, 4 leaves; XVI, 212 pages, 4leaves; 48 tipped in colour plates by Russell Flint. Original fullvellum with hand-sewn head bands, green ribbon closures, gilt
title on front board and spine, top edge gilt. JPY 450,000One of 500 numbered copies. With 48 wonderful plates by the Scottish artist
William Russell Flint (1880-1969), he was one of the most successful bookillustrators of his time. Imprinted after the text of William Caxton as modernized, under the editorship of Alfred W. Polllard, for the Library of English
classics, in the Ricardi Press fount, by Charles T. Jacobi. The lettering of thetitle-pages is engraved after the design by M. Engall. - With a label of theRoyal Waldburg Library, from the collection of the House of Wittelsbach.
- One modern exlibris; the original flexible vellum binding, partially slightlyundulated. - A fine copy.

7 Music - Mattheson, Johann. Der vollkommene Capellmeister, das ist gründliche Anzeige
aller derjenigen Sachen, die einer wissen, können, und vollkommen inne haben muß, der einer
Capelle mit Ehren und Nutzen vorstehen will. Ham burg, Herold, 1739. 34.5×22.5 cm. 28pages, 2 leaves, 484 pages, 8 leaves register, with engraved vignette on title-page, type-set musical examples within the text, woodcut head and tailpieces Contemporary half vellum, decorated
papers on boards. JPY 1,000,000The most important work of Matteson, an encyclopedia ofknowledge. He brings together a vast array of facts as well as
his most complete statement of several major theoreticalconcepts. These include the systematizing of the doctrines ofrhetoric as they become the basic of compositio...A lengthy
discussion of emotion in music leads to...the only attempt
found in baroque literature to arrive at a true “Doctrine” ofthe Affections. (New Grove 11, p. 835). - With a small
inscription at the inner front board. Boards covered with a
special marbled paper.

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8 Viennese Secession - Ver Sacrum: Mittheilungender Vereinigung Bildender Künstler Oesterreichs. Volume I, 12 issues + Sonderheft bound in 1 volume. Vienna, Gerlach-Schenk, 1898 30×30 cm. With many,
partly coloured plates and illustrations, partly originalgraphics. Original illustrated cloth, illustrated originalwrappers bound in. JPY 850,000“Ver Sacrum” was the official Organ of the Viennese Secession,
which was founded in 1897 and whose President was the painterGustav Klimt. The architects Josef Hoffmann and Joseph Maria
Olbrich were leading mambers. Their works and those of Koloman Moser have been very important for this leading Art Nouveau journal. “Ver Sacrum” was “The most elegant of all periodicals” (The Art Press, p. 9f). - “The generally geometric andsimplified character of the Austrian Jugendstil is apparent in thepages of Ver Sacrum, whose distinctive square format and highgraphic quality make it not only the most important expression ofthis school, but one of the most significant journals of the period”(Harvard, Turn of a Century 1885-1920, page 98.); Nebehay, Ver
Sacrum 1898-1903 (1975); Arntzen/Rainwater Q338; Vom
Jugendstil zum Bauhaus (1981), no. 20. - Beautiful copy withwide margins.

9 Viennese Secession - Mascha, Ottokar: Österreichische Plakatkunst. Vienna, Löwy, n.d. (ca. 1915).
40×30 cm. 7 leaves, 124 pages with 21 mostly lithographed, coloured plates and 176 partly mounted, partly
coloured illustrations. Original-Cloth.  JPY 2,200,000First edition of this rare and outstanding work on Austrian Poster-Art from the turn of the century. Only 200 copies in clothbinding were published and it is considered nowadays as athought after collectors’ piece. Only the most efficient printerswere chosen to make the reproductions of the posters, therefore
they are all of outstanding quality. Beautiful examples of secessionist posters by the most important Austrian artists of that time,
like Oskar Kokoschka, Gustav Klimt (the poster for the firstexhibition of the Viennese Secession), Julius Klinger, Emil Orlik,
Joseph Olbrich, Alfred Roller, Koloman Moser, Heinrich Lefler,
Egon Schiele and others, all in perfect, colourful, partly lithographed reproductions. This book in a perfect condition as here
present is very hard to find. - With a dedication from the author
on the front fly-leaf signed and dated Vienna 1915.

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