Calligraphy

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THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF WRITING, as well Hieroglyphic as Elementary. Illustrated by Engravings taken from Marbles, Manuscripts and Charters, Ancient and Modern: Also, Some Account of the Origin and Progress of Printing.

Astle, Thomas.

London, 1803. Second (and best) edition, with additions. Folio (11 1/4 x 18 3/4). Portrait, title, (iv), xxiv, 240 pages, 32 plates (some hand colored). Recent period-style half calf & marbled boards, original marbled edges. Front endpapers discolored (from glue?); portrait has marginal foxing & small dampstain; light old damp... More

Price: $1,425.00

THE TRAJAN INSCRIPTION. An essay...together with an original rubbing from the the inscription.

Catich, Edward M.

Boston: Society of Printers, 1973. 8 1/2 x 11. (iv), frontis from photograph of the Trajan Column, 13 pages, double spread photograph of the inscription, with an original rubbing of the letter "P" tipped in. Oatmeal cloth, paper cover label. Fine copy. Number 53 of 130 copies with the rubbing... More

Price: $475.00

Caracteres et Alphabets de Langus Mortes et Vivantes. Contenant Vingty-Cinq Planches.

Diderot & d'Alembert.

Paris, ca. 1770. 10 x 15 1/2. 17 pages of text followed by 25 engraved plates. Recent cloth. A few inconsequential spots, margins a bit toned, very good. The exotic alphabet section from the great Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers. The 25 fine plates... More

Price: $325.00

Sprache.

Fussenegger, Gertrud.

Bad Goisen: Neugebauer Press, 1974. 5 1/2 x 9. 8 pages accordion-fold, opening to about 40 inches. Calligraphy by Neugebauer is printed in white on black paper. Textured paper over boards, printed label. Previous owner's note on final blank states this was given to him by Neugebauer. Very slight wear. More

Price: $50.00

An Alphabetical Accumulation.

Lohmann, Francesca.

Heavenly Monkey, 2017. 4 1/2 x 6. Title + 26 leaves+colophon, all printed (black) & calligraphed (red) on rectos only. Bound by Claudia Cohen in a non-adhesive limp vellum, gold-tooled at the edges, title calligraphed in red on the spine. The pastedowns are taken from old vellum manuscripts. Fine in... More

Price: $1,100.00

THE TREATISE OF GERARD MERCATOR. Literarum Latinarum, quas Italicas, cursoriasque vocant, scribendarum ratio (Antwerp 1540).

Mercator, Gerard.

Antwerp: De Sikkel and Paris: Pegasus Press, 1930. 5 1/2 x 8. xxiv and 58-page facsimile of Mercator's writing book. Green silk cloth, upper tips bumped, board edges have wear. Bookplate of printer Bill Jackson. Good copy. One of 200 copies, printed at the Officina Bodoni in Janson type on... More

Price: $385.00

Caracteres et Alphabets de Langues Mortes et Vivantes.

Panckoucke.

Paris: Charles Panckoucke, ca. 1783. Twenty-five plates, 12 x 19 inches. Each plate is on a half sheet of paper (with deckles on 3 sides). They are mounted on hinges of the same paper, and bound sidewise (as they would have been originally) into recent black cloth titled "Oriental Alphabets."... More

Price: $500.00

Manuale Calligraphicum. Examples of calligraphy by students of Hermann Zapf at RIT.

Pankow, David and Steven Galbraith.

Rochester: Cary Graphic Arts Collection, 2016. 11 x 9. xi, 19 leaves of calligraphy in black & red/brown, 6 double-column pages of the artists' biographies (LI-LVI). Quarter vellum & blue boards. Fine. One of 325 copies, designed by Jerry Kelly and typeset in his Rilke typefaces. Printed by Bradley Hutchinson... More

Price: $195.00

Album Calligraphique. Album of 12 original alphabets hand painted by stencils in watercolors & finished by hand with metallic pigments.

Saint-Victor, Beauvalet de (Chevalier).

(NP, ca. 1840). 9 1/4 x 11 3/4. 120 pages. The album is comprised of 12 alphabets of 25 letters (there is no "W") on rectos of thick, smooth paper which was "made" by the artist. There are also a title page, an index, and 10 section titles preceding the... More

Price: $22,000.00

A Garden Companion.

Sweet, Melissa.

Boston: Bromer, 1984. 2 x 2 1/2. Miniature manuscript of 32 leaves of calligraphed text and water colors. Bound by Arno Werner in red morocco with the alphabet in gilt, all edges gilt. Fine in morocco & cloth tray case. A delicate alphabet book of flowers, shrubs, vegetables, & garden... More

Price: $825.00

'Chinese Calligraphy and Paintings in the Collection of John M. Crawford, Jr.

Yu-ho Ecke, Tseng. Bound by Roger Powell.

Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1971. 8 1/2 x 11 1/2. Numerous collotype plates by Meriden Gravure. In a superb Roger Powell binding of dark green morocco, text gilt-tooled in capitals on both covers; twenty-seven Chinese seals in 8 colors are onlaid on covers; striped Oriental rice-paper endpapers, all edges gilt... More

Price: $14,000.00

GUDRUN ZAPF VON HESSE. Bindings, Handwritten Books, Typefaces, Examples of Lettering and Drawings.

Zapf, Gudrun.

West New York: Mark Batty, 2002. 8 x 11. 221 pages (including 150 color plates). Red cloth gilt. A separate portfolio contains six type and printing specimens created especially for this edition by Gudrun Zapf. Both in slipcase. Fine. One of 80 special copies, signed by Zapf. First major retrospective... More

Price: $500.00

CALLIGRAPHIC SALUTATIONS. Hermann Zapf's letterheadings to Paul Standard. The Beginning of a friendship that lasted a lifetime.

Zapf, Hermann.

Rochester: Cary Graphic Arts Collection, 1993. 8 1/2 x 6. (10) pages followed by 16 leaves printed rectos only, in black, red, and blue. Reproduced from Zapf's calligraphy, with printed translation beneath. Blue cloth gilt, with red leather spine label. Fine. One of 30 special copies on Arches paper and... More

Price: $300.00

THE FINE ART OF LETTERS. Pages from Publications by Hermann Zapf.

Zapf, Hermann.

NY: Grolier Club, 2000. Two vols. 8 x 11. 96 pages with 80 illustrations (many in color) of Zapf's type faces, book designs, and calligraphy, including many rare pieces never before reproduced. A separate portfolio contains 20 original specimens: leaves from books, alphabets (one signed), a prospectus, & an entire... More

Price: $1,750.00

HERMAN ZAPF AND HIS DESIGN PHILOSOPHY.

Zapf, Hermann.

Chicago: Society of Typographic Arts (1987). 7 1/2 x 12. 254 pages. Cloth, printed dust jacket. Fine. Articles on calligraphy and type design, with illustrations, bibliographical notes and a list of Zapf's175 type designs. Approximately half the book consists of plates (most in color). The dustwrapper, when opened, reveals the... More

Price: $80.00

MANUALE ZAPFICUM. Typographic arrangements of words by and about the work of Hermann Zapf & Gudrun Zapf von Hesse. Set in typefaces by both; in honor of their ninetieth birthdays.

Zapf, Hermann.

Rochester, 2009. 8 x 12. Two-page introduction by Jerry Kelly, 20 type specimens printed on rectos in black & red , 2-page list of contributors. Vellum spine & boards. Fine. One of 100 copies. Specimens were created by several presses, including Kelly-Winterton (5), Cary Graphic Arts (5), Rick Cusik (8), and Archetype. More

Price: $250.00

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