100 books : The collection of a Gentleman

First UK Edition

Beardsley, Aubrey. Under the Hill and Other Essays in Prose and Verse. London: John Lane Publisher the Bodley Head, 1904



4to, Publisher's original bright ocean-blue cloth with bold peacock-feather designs in gilt on upper cover, top edge gilt, Photographic frontispiece portrait of Beardsley at Mentone and 16 full page illustrations.



Under the Hill is an unfinished erotic novel by Aubrey Beardsley, based on the legend of Tannhäuser. The first parts of it were published in The Savoy and later issued in book form



Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (21 August 1872-16 March 1898) was an English illustrator and author. His black ink drawings were influenced by Japanese woodcuts, and emphasized the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the aesthetic movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James McNeill Whistler. Beardsley's contribution to the development of the Art Nouveau and poster styles was significant despite his early death from tuberculosis.

Il messale miniato del Card. Nicolo' Roselli, detto il cardinale d'Aragona.Torino, Bocca, 1906

Folio, quarter calf binding on coloured paper, pp 31.

134 plates reproducing in black and white the renowned manuscript, now at the Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria in Torino.

Die italienischen Bronzestatuetten der Renaissance. Berlin : Verlag von Bruno Cassirer, 1906-1912.

3 volumes folio, contemporary paper boards, 264 plates



Important historical publication and inventory catalogue of the figurative bronze works of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, today's Bode-Museum with an introductory essay "The bronze art of the late Renaissance" by Wilhelm von Bode (1845-1929).

Rare complete set

CORPUS NUMMORUM ITALICORUM Primo tentativo di un Catalogo generale delle monete medievali e moderne coniate in Italia, o da italiani all'estero. Roma : Accademia dei Lincei : [then] Cecchini : [then] Colombo. 1910-1940.

Volumes I-XX, complete. Full stiff vellum binding with gilt titles.


The standard reference on Italian coins from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century.

Vol. I: Casa Savoia - Vol. II: Piemonte-Sardegna - Vol. III: Liguria-Isola di Corsica - Vol. IV: Lombardia (Zecche minori) - Vol. V: Lombardia (Milano) - Vol. VI: Veneto (Zecche minori), Dalmazia, Albania - Vol. VII: Veneto (Venezia), parte I - Vol. VIII: Veneto (Venezia), parte II - Volume IX: Emilia. Parte I (Parma, Piacenza, Modena, Reggio) - Vol. X: Emilia. Parte II (Bologna e Ferrara, Ravenna e Rimini) - Vol. XI: Toscana (Zecche minori) - Vol. XII: Toscana (Firenze) - Vol. XIII: Marche - Vol. XIV: Umbria - Vol. XV: Roma. Parte I - Vol. XVI: Roma. Parte II - Vol. XVII: Roma. Parte III - Vol. XVIII: Italia meridionale continentale (Zecche minori) - Vol. XIX: Italia meridionale continentale (Napoli). Parte I - Vol. XX: Italia meridionale continentale (Napoli). Parte II.

Goloubew, Victor. Les dessins de Jacopo Bellini au Louvre et au British Museum. I. Le livres d'esquisses de Londres. II. Le livres d'esquisses de Paris. Bruxelles : G. Van Oest & C.ie, 1908-1912.


2 vols Folio, quarter vellum binding on green paper, gilt title at board, titles printed in black at spine,


Monumental publication about the famous Venetian painter Jacopo Bellini, 234 plates preceded by an explanatory note for each work.

Lemoisne, Paul-Andre'. Eugene Lami : 1800-1890 . Paris : Goupil ; Manzi, Joyant, 1912.

Folio, full leather binding with gilt decorations, pp. 206.

Copy # 367 out of 500


Illustrations from original paintings and drawings of Lami.

Eugene Louis Lami (12 January 1800 - 19 December 1890) was a French painter, watercolorist, lithographer, illustrator and designer. He was a painter of fashionable Paris during the period of the July Monarchy and the Second French Empire and also made history paintings and illustrations for books such as Gil Blas and Manon Lescaut.

Disegni della R. Galleria degli Uffizi in Firenze. Firenze, Leo S Olschki, Editore, 1913-22

10 parts in 10 volumes in folio, red quarter calf on handmade paper at boards.

488 plates, many with two mounted illustrations representing the drawing collection at the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence, in original colors.

FUMAGALLI, Giuseppe. L'Arte della Legatura alla Corte degli Estensi, a Ferrara e a Modena, dal Sec. XV al XIX, col catalogo delle legature pregevoli della Biblioteca Estense di Modena . Florence: Stabilimento Tipografico Aldino for Libreria Antiquaria T. de Marinis, 1913.



Folio, half calf on colored paper, 32 plates in B&W and 11 illustration along the text

Wilhelm von Bode; M J Binder. Frans Hals; his life and work. Berlin: Photographsche Gesellschaft, 1914.


2 vols in folio, quarter vellum binding on cloth boards, edited by Wilhelm von Bode. With an essay by M.J. Binder.



Translated by Maurice Walter Brockwell. Title-page in red and black.
"The English edition of this work is limited to thirty-five copies on handmade Japanese paper, numbered 1 to 35, and two hundred copies on handmade Van Gelder paper, numbered 1 to 200.

This copy is printed on Van Gelder paper numbered 71.


Frans Hals the Elder (1582 - 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, normally of portraits, who lived and worked in Haarlem. Hals played an important role in the evolution of 17th-century group portraiture. He is known for his loose painterly brushwork

Bronzi italiani : (Trecento-Settecento) / pubblicati da Lodovico Pollak ; con prefazione di Guglielmo Bode. Roma : [s.n.], 1922 [Bergamo : Istituto italiano d'arti Grafiche].

Folio, full leather binding, gilt title on leather label at spine, gilt ruler and central decoration at boards, pp. 150, 50 plates.


109 illustrations of bronzes on L plates


Printed in 150 copies signed by Alfredo Barsanti and Lodovico Pollak this superb catalog from the collection of the Roman antiquarian.


Important work on statuary from the XIV to the XVIII Century from the collection of Alfredo Barsanti, still kept in the museums of Palazzo Venezia, with preface by Wilhelm Bode.

Castiglioni, Camillo. Catalogo dei bronzi / con introduzione e note descrittive di Leo Planiscig. Vienna : A. Schroll, 1923.

Folio, quarter calf on red colored paper, pp. 52, 105 plates. Images by Martino Gerlach.



Catalogue of the extraordinary collection of bronze statues by Camillo Castiglioni based on two cornerstones: on the one hand the Paduan workshop by Riccio, on the other Giambologna and the Florentine school.



Camillo Castiglioni (22 October 1879 - 18 December 1957) was an Italian-Austrian Jewish financier and banker, and was the wealthiest man in Central Europe during World War I.

Nicknamed "Austrian Stinnes", he was active in aviation's pioneering days and invested in the arts. Castiglioni was credited as being instrumental to the founding of what would eventually become BMW AG.

Mac Orlan, Pierre. Malice . Paris : H. Jonquieres & Cie, 1924

4to, full blue Morocco binding (Hinges cracked), pp.145 p., [10] coloured plates by CHAS LABORDE.


Pierre Mac Orlan, sometimes written MacOrlan (born Pierre Dumarchey, February 26, 1882 - June 27, 1970), was a French novelist and songwriter.