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| ALT, ALFONS Nature of the Beast (The) Stockport, England, Dewi Lewis Publishing. 2000. (ISBN: 1899253434) Hard Cover, Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 136 pages - around 60 color illustrations, incl many full and double-pages - powerful images of bulls, monkeys, pigs, eagles, turtles, snakes and other animals and reptiles by German photographer Alfons Alt (b.1962) who uses a résino-pigmentype technique which allows a singular immediacy - Sophie Bass-Fabiani on A.A. and the nature of the beast - "De anima", an essay by by Sally Bonn - bio. - the technical principles of résino-pigmentype - captions to the illustrations. New -/New -. CHF 57.00 [Appr.: EURO 37.75 US$ 55.97 | £UK 33.75 | JP¥ 4978] Book number: 003172 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu. | ||
| BACCHELLA, ADRIANO Moi, Le Chat Paris, France, PML. 1990. (ISBN: 2876281597) Hard Cover, 29 x 27 cm. About 100 pages - 70 superb color photos by the author - Introduction by Giorgio Celli - Citations by famous writers and cat lovers. New -/New -. CHF 43.00 [Appr.: EURO 28.5 US$ 42.23 | £UK 25.5 | JP¥ 3755] Book number: 004084 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu. | ||
| BALOG, JAMES James Balog - Anima Boulder, Colorado, USA, Arts Alternative Press. 1993. (ISBN: 0963626604) pictorial hardcover-, 27.5 x 27.5 cms. Square. title superimposed on diaphanous d.j. - 64 pages - in English - 28 color plates - American photographer James Balog (b.1952) teams up chimpanzees with various human beings and produces portraits of unusual twosomes. New-/New-. CHF 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 43 US$ 63.83 | £UK 38.5 | JP¥ 5677] Book number: 007582 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu. | ||
| BALOG, JAMES Survivors - A New Vision of Endangered Wildlife New York, Abrams. 1990. (ISBN: 0810939088) Hard Cover - Clothbound, 31 x 28 cm. 144 pages - in English - 84 plates in full color- "a new vision of endangered wildlife" shows a series of animal portraits created in surreal and unnatural environments - Its author received awards for his superb photos - His original approach of endangered species in such environements symbolize their struggle for survival on a planet made so alien by human destruction of natural habitat that wild animals no longer have a place to live. New -/New -. CHF 105.00 [Appr.: EURO 69.5 US$ 103.11 | £UK 62 | JP¥ 9170] Book number: 004085 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu. | ||
| BARRABAND, ANTOINE Perroquets et Oiseaux Du Paradis Fribourg , Switzerland, Office Du Livre. 33 x 24 cms. undated, probably 1960s - twelve 21.5 x 16.5 cms. color tip-ins on 33 x 24 cms. sheets and a title page - in a cardboard portfolio with a color pastedown, slightly chipped along edges, on front cover - color reproductions of engravings made in 1806 featuring exotic birds, incl. 3 of parrots and 3 of parrakeets. -ine-. CHF 80.00 [Appr.: EURO 53 US$ 78.56 | £UK 47.25 | JP¥ 6986] Book number: 008808 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu. | ||
| BARTSCH, VOLKER Elliott Erwitt - Hundstage Hamburg, Germany, Ellert & Richter. 1988. (ISBN: 3892340455) hardcover-, 29 x 22 Cms. 120 pages - in German - around 100 duotone illustrations - affectionate portraits of different kinds of dogs in different situations by American photographer Elliott Erwitt (b.1928). (For version in English of this book, see ISBN 9783832792572). new-. CHF 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.5 US$ 39.28 | £UK 23.75 | JP¥ 3493] Book number: 007613 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu. | ||
| BERTIN, LEON Vie Des Animaux (La) Paris, France, Librairie Larousse. 1950. Half-Leather Modern Binding, 30.5 x 23 Cms. gilt-embossed half-leather - 2 vols. 992 pages - in French - 17 color plates and 1,966 photo-engravings - a handsome work on animal life - one-celled organisms, plant-like animals, starfish, sea urchins, worms, parasitic worms, mollusks, anthropodes, insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, the evolution of living beings and more - index. Fine. CHF 80.00 [Appr.: EURO 53 US$ 78.56 | £UK 47.25 | JP¥ 6986] Book number: 005132 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu. | ||
| BILLETER, ERIKA Hunde Und Ihre Maler Bern, Switzerland, Benteli. 2005. (ISBN: 3716513482) Cloth-, 30.5 x 25.5 cms. Square. 406 pages - in German - 357 mostly color illustrations - paintings and drawings of dogs by great artists, from ancient times to more modern ones, from Rubens and Goya to David Hockney and Lucien Freud - bios. of the artists and bibliography. Fine-/fine-. CHF 120.00 [Appr.: EURO 79.25 US$ 117.84 | £UK 70.75 | JP¥ 10480] Book number: 007230 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu. | ||
| BOEHME, SARAH E. John James Audubon in the West - the Last Expedition New York, Harry N. Abrams. 2000. (ISBN: 0810942100) Gilt-Embossed Hardcover, 29 x 23 Cms. 200 pages - in English - 184 illustrations, incl. 80 color plates - published to coincide with the 2000-2001 American showings in Cody, Philadelphia, Houston and Los Angeles of paintings of North American mammals by the great wildlife illustrator, John James Audubon (1785-1851) - essays by 4 specialists - chronology, biblio. and index. New -/New -. CHF 82.00 [Appr.: EURO 54.25 US$ 80.52 | £UK 48.5 | JP¥ 7161] Book number: 003889 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu. | ||
| BOWEN, EDWARD L. From Foal to Champion - Dell Hancock New York, Stewart, Tabori & Chang. 1991. (ISBN: 1556702051) Gilt Embossed Cloth-, 22.5 x 27.5 cms. Oblong. in a gilt-embossed cloth slipcase with a color pastedown - 152 pages - in English - over 120 color illustrations - a journey into the world of racehorse breeders - photography by DellHancock - Vignettes of the Turf, essay by Edward L. Bowen - a photographic journal - selected horse farms, broodmare of the year and leading sires. New-. CHF 110.00 [Appr.: EURO 72.75 US$ 108.02 | £UK 65 | JP¥ 9606] Book number: 007585 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu. | ||
| BURNHAM, DOROTHY To Please the Caribou Toronto, Canada, Royal Ontario Museum. 1992. (ISBN: 0888543964) Soft Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 314 pages - in English - 60 color and 56 duotone illustrations, 36 b/w figs. and hundreds of b/w cuts, forms and other diagrams - a noted author on textiles and former curator of the Royal Ontario Museum's Textile Department presents 60 outstanding caribou-skin coats painted between 1700 and 1930 and worn by the Naskapi, Montagnais and Cree hunters of the Quebec-Labrador peninsula - history and description of the caribou - cut of the coats, sewing, quill wrapping, beading, design layout, colors, painting tools, color plates and over 20 design motifs - catalogue of the coats - notes - bibliography - illustration credits - index of the coats. New -. CHF 48.00 [Appr.: EURO 31.75 US$ 47.14 | £UK 28.5 | JP¥ 4192] Book number: 003166 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu. | ||
| CARAS, ROGER A. Jill Freedman - Jill's Dogs San Francisco, Ca. USA, Pomegranate Artbooks. 1993. (ISBN: 1566405262) Cloth-, 25.5 x 28 cms. faintly creased d.j. upper edges - 96 pages - in English - nearly 90 duotone illustrations - all kinds of dogs in different everyday life situations photographed by dog-loving American photographer (1939) Jill Freedman - foreword by Roger A. Caras, president of the A.S.P.C.A.. New-/New-. CHF 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.5 US$ 39.28 | £UK 23.75 | JP¥ 3493] Book number: 007615 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu. | ||
| CLARK, KENNETH Henry Moore's Sheep Sketchbook London, England, Thames & Hudson. 1998, First Paperback Edition. (ISBN: 050028072X) Wrappers, 21 x 26 cms. Oblong. 112 pages - in Englsih - 4 color and 92 b/w illustrations - drawings in their original size of sheep in the 1972 sketchbook of English sculptor Henry Moore ((1898-1986) - texts by the artist and by art critic Kenneth Clark - list of illustrations. New-. CHF 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.5 US$ 39.28 | £UK 23.75 | JP¥ 3493] Book number: 005431 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu. | ||
| COLLAR, NIGEL Pink Africa Paris, France, Marval. 2000. (ISBN: 2862343064) hardcover-, 33.5 x 26 cms. tiny tear along d.j. upper spine end - around 240 pages (unpaginated) - in French - photographs of multitudes of pink flamingos in their natural habitats in Kenya and Tanzania by Italian photographer Carlo Mari - text by noted ornithologist Nigel Collar. New-/New-. CHF 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 66.25 US$ 98.2 | £UK 59 | JP¥ 8733] Book number: 007586 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu. | ||
| CYRULNIK, BORIS ET AL Si Les Lions Pouvaient Parler Paris, France, Gallimard. 1998. (ISBN: 2070737098) softcover-, 21 x 14.5 cms. 1,540 pages - in French - 80 b/w illustrations - essays on human perception of the animal condition by over 50 major thinkers, writers and intellectuals, mainly French, including Georges Bataille, Jacques Hassoun and Jean-Marie Vidal. New-. CHF 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 39.75 US$ 58.92 | £UK 35.5 | JP¥ 5240] Book number: 005841 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu. | ||
| DESPRET, VINCENT Betes et Hommes Paris, France, Gallimard. 2007. (ISBN: 9782070118939) Wrappers-, 23 x 19 cms. 160 pages - in French - over 180 color and duotone illustrations - published to coincide with the 2007 showing at the Parc de la Villette in Paris of contemporary artworks featuring animals by dozens of plastic and video artists and photographers - various texts - bibliography. New-. CHF 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.25 US$ 49.1 | £UK 29.5 | JP¥ 4367] Book number: 009280 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu. | ||
| DOUBILET, DAVID David Doubilet - Water Light Time London, England, Phaidon. 1999. (ISBN: 0714846058) Wrappers-, 24 x 34 cms. Oblong. around 240 pages (unpaginated) - in English - around 220 color illustrations - the varieties of life that live underneath the sea surface photographed and described by leading American underwater photographer David Doubilet (b.1946). (For hardcover version of this book, see ISBN 0714838384). New-. CHF 55.00 [Appr.: EURO 36.5 US$ 54.01 | £UK 32.5 | JP¥ 4803] Book number: 007591 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu. | ||
| EAUCLAIRE, SALLY Cat in Photography (The) Boston, USA, Little, Brown and Company. 1990, First Edition-. (ISBN: 0821217828) Cloth-, 24 x 24 cms. Square-. 200 pages - in English - 103 duotone illustrations - a selection of photographs featuring cats by dozens of well-known photographers, incl. Steichen, Beaton, Friedlander, Moholo-Nagy and McCullin - list of plates. New-/New-. CHF 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 39.75 US$ 58.92 | £UK 35.5 | JP¥ 5240] Book number: 007617 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu. | ||
| ELPHICK, JONATHAN Birds - the Art of Ornithology London, England, Scriptum. 2004. (ISBN: 190268639X) Cloth, 11-And-a-half By 10-And-a-half Inches. 336 pages - in English - 212 color illustrations, mostly plates - images of birds, some never previously published, from London's Natural History Museum, featuring nearly 70 of the greatest-ever ornithological artists from Pliny the Elder in the 15th Century to engravers and explorers from 1650 to 1800, Audubon to the first lithographers 1800-1850, the golden age of lithography 1850-1890 and the age of transition from 1890 to today - list of illustrations - bibliography - index - acknowledgements. New -/New -. CHF 130.00 [Appr.: EURO 86 US$ 127.66 | £UK 76.75 | JP¥ 11353] Book number: 004428 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu. | ||
| FAVETON, PIERRE Chien (Le) Paris, France, Charles Massin. (ISBN: 2707201472) Cloth-, 28 x 22 Cms. 96 pages - in French - over 200 color illustrations - a highly visual description of collectible representations of dogs, from ancient Egyptian and 19th Century Japanese wooden carvings to later bronze and porcelain figurines. New-/New-. CHF 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.5 US$ 39.28 | £UK 23.75 | JP¥ 3493] Book number: 008212 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu. | ||
| FIBICHER, BERNARD ET AL Comme Des Betes Milan, Italy, 5 Continents. 2008. (ISBN: 9788874394586) Wrappers-, 24 x 16.5 Cms. 224 pages - in French - around 200 mostly color illustrations - published to coincide with the 2008 showing at the Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts in Lausanne, Switzerland, of works featuring animals by dozens of artists, incl. Goya, Balthus, Warhol, Baud-Bovy, Hodler and Vallotton - various essays - list of works. New-. CHF 55.00 [Appr.: EURO 36.5 US$ 54.01 | £UK 32.5 | JP¥ 4803] Book number: 008647 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu. | ||
| FOSHAY, ELLA M. John James Audubon New York, Harry N. Abrams. 1997. (ISBN: 0810919737) Gilt-Embossed Cloth, 31 x 23 Cms. 160 pages - in English - 104 illustrations, incl. 54 color plates - the life and work of the great illustrator of American wildlife, John James Audubon (1785-1851) by an art historian and former curator of New York's Historical Society who is an expert on Audubon - chronology, biblio. and index. New -/New -. CHF 82.00 [Appr.: EURO 54.25 US$ 80.52 | £UK 48.5 | JP¥ 7161] Book number: 003888 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu. | ||
| GEHRIG, ULRICH Tierbilder Aus Vier Jahrtausenden Mainz am Rhein, Germany, Philipp Von Zabern. 1983. (ISBN: 3805307373) hardcover-. 228 pages - in German - 23 color and 271 duotone illustrations -published to coincide with eight 1983-1985 showings in Germany and Switzerland of ancient Asian, Egyptian and classical animal figurines - bibliography. New-. CHF 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.5 US$ 39.28 | £UK 23.75 | JP¥ 3493] Book number: 008594 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu. | ||
| GOY-TRABUT, JACQUELINE Guido Mocafico - Medusa Gottingen, Germany, Steidl. 2006. (ISBN: 3865212530) Silver-embossed Cloth, 40 x 25 cms. signed in white by artist on black pre-title page - 64 pages - in English - 20 color plates and 20 color figs. - breathtaking images of different kinds of jellyfish photographed in aquariums in Japan, Germany, France and the U.S. by Swiss photographer Guido Mocafico (b.1962) - intro. by Jacqueline Goy-Trabut of the Oceanic Institute in Paris, France - captions and descriptions. (For version in French of this book, see ISBN 3865210708). New-/New-. CHF 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 66.25 US$ 98.2 | £UK 59 | JP¥ 8733] Book number: 007073 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu. | ||
| GRAHAM, ALISTAIR/BEARD, PETER Eyelids of Morning San Francisco, Ca. USA, Chronicle Books. 1990. (ISBN: 0877015392) Wrappers, 30.5 x 23 Cms. 260 pages - in English - over 200 mostly duotone, some color, illustrations - 2 maps - photographs by Peter Beard - reprint of the 1974 classic work in which Kenyan zoologist Alistair Graham spent 3 years with Kenya's Turkana tribesmen who lived alongside and hunted the legendary and fearsome man-eating Nile crocodiles -bibliography. New -. CHF 76.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.25 US$ 74.63 | £UK 44.75 | JP¥ 6637] Book number: 003859 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu. |
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