Recent arrivals and highlights

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Listed below are some of our recent arrivals and featured books. Check back regularly for updates.

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A poignant plea for both the lace industry and the besieged women and children facing hardship under the Germany occupation that had begun the year prior to the publication of this catalog.

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The Birds of Acid

Author:

Didier Mutel

Book Artist:

Atelier Mutel

The Birds of Acid is a response to John J. Audubon’s extraordinary Birds of America. In this work Didier Mutel reinterprets, in his own way, this monument in the history of engraving and printmaking.

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Dickens expresses admiration for "Ornamental and Domestic Poultry"

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Inscribed by Robert Graves to Jean Fayard

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Le Feste d'Imeneo : the wedding festival of Joseph, Archduke of Austria & Isabella Maria, Princess of Parma Parma, 1760

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An unpublished vaudeville play with street vendors on Boulevard du Temple near Madame Tussaud’s wax museum

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A sales catalog for a Parisian women’s clothing designer displaying 150 different designs (1904-06), for dresses, coats, hats, furs, parasols, etc. for different seasons—complemented by 8 photographs of dresses.

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The Hellmap Atlas

Authors:

Didier Mutel Peter Koch

Book Artist:

Atelier Mutel

The HELLMAP ATLAS is a geography of Hell inspired by Sandro Botticelli's (circa 1485) drawings for an unrealized edition of Dante's Inferno.

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The Birds of Acid, part 5

Author:

Didier Mutel

Book Artist:

Atelier Mutel

Sketches of six new birds by Didier Mutel

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A large, striking and carefully designed historical atlas of France, northern Europe, and Switzerland, drawn by a secondary student, mademoiselle Victorine Robert, with more than 40 hand-colored maps.