Sam Gatteño Books: Books about Books, Illustrated Books, Calligraphy
| found: 11 books |
Alphabets through the Ages.
Denver: The A.B. Hirschfield Press, Inc. 1950. 0. Soft cover. Square quarto. No pagination. Original printed stiff paper wrappers. Illustrated. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1858
USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 37.5 | £UK 32.25 | JP¥ 6329]
Les Ecritures Financières et Italiennes-Bastardes dans leur Naturel. Ouvrage composé de quantité d'exemplaires ...des Alphabets et Pièces d'Ecritures.
Basel: Les Editions Holbein, n.d. [c. 1945]. 0. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. 63, [1]ff. One of 500 copies on ordinary paper from a total edition of 550 copies. Original paper boards. Label on upper cover. Corners bumped. Illustrated with 63 calligraphic plates. Facsimile reprint of the Paris, Pierre Drevet edition of 1647. An excellent slightly-enlarged facsimile reprint of one of the most important seventeenth century writing-books, with a descriptive blurb by Jan Tschichold. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1859
USD 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 140.25 | £UK 120.25 | JP¥ 23733]
Essemplare Di Piv Sorti Lettere 1578.
London; Nattali & Maurice Ltd. 1968. 0. Hardcover. Oblong octavo. 50, lvipp. Original papered boards. With the dustwrapper. Facsimile reprint of the 1578 edition. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1860
USD 95.00 [Appr.: EURO 88.75 | £UK 76.25 | JP¥ 15031]
A Renaissance Alphabet. Il Perfetto Scrittore, Parte Seconda.
Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1971. 0. Hardcover. Oblong octavo. xxii, [6]pp. Original cloth binding. With the dustwrapper. Illustrated with 26 plates. Fine facsimile of a 16th century writing book. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1861
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 14.25 | £UK 12.25 | JP¥ 2373]
La Scrittura.
Milano: Il Saggiatore, 1962. 0. Hardcover. Oblong octavo. No pagination. First Italian edition. Original printed boards. Illustrated extensively, some in color. Translated from the French L'Écriture of 1962. An illustrated history of writing. The author begins by looking at Egyptian hieroglyphics, moves to the ancient near east and into western Europe. This is number 8 in the Serie Storia. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1864
USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 32.75 | £UK 28.25 | JP¥ 5538]
Silagraphy. A New System of Short-Hand. Invented by William Hudson Hurst. Arranged for Self Instruction and Colleges.
Chicago & London: W.H. Hurst Company & A.C. Field, 1910. 0. Hardcover. Small octavo. 108, [iv]pp. Original blue cloth, stamped in gilt. Illustrated. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1868
USD 190.00 [Appr.: EURO 177.5 | £UK 152.25 | JP¥ 30061]
Alphabet: International Annual of Letterforms, Volume One, 1964.
London: James Moran Limited for the Kynoch Press, 1964. 0. Hardcover. Folio. 164pp. Title-page on folding sheet; printed in different typefaces. List of typefaces on p. 3. Only one volume published. Original cloth. With the dustwrapper. Illustrated with five folded leaves of plates and textual ones. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1869
USD 68.00 [Appr.: EURO 63.75 | £UK 54.5 | JP¥ 10759]
Formal Penmanship and Other Papers.
New York: Pentalic Corporation, 1977. 0. Soft cover. Small quarto. 156 pages. Original decorated stiff paper wrappers. Illustrated in the text and with plates. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1100
USD 32.00 [Appr.: EURO 30 | £UK 25.75 | JP¥ 5063]
Manuscript and Inscription Letters for schools and classes and for the use of Craftsmen ...with 5 plates by A.E.R. Gill.
London: John Hogg, 1909. 0. Hardcover. Folio. Sixteen plates loose in the portfolio. Blue portfolio. Ties present. Illustrated with sixteen calligraphic plates, five by Eric Gill. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1870
USD 950.00 [Appr.: EURO 887.5 | £UK 760.5 | JP¥ 150306]
Fantastic Alphabets: 24 Original Alphabets.
New York: Dover Publications, Inc. 1976. 0. Soft cover. Large quarto. 72 pages. Original decorated stiff paper wrappers. Illustrated. Very Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1098
USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 | £UK 9.75 | JP¥ 1899]
Meisterbuch der Schrift. Ein Lehrbuch mit vorbildlichen Schriften aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart für Schriftenmaler, Graphiker, Bildhauer, Graveure, Lithographen, Verlagshersteller, Buchdrucker, Architekten und Kunstschulen.
Ravensburg: Otto Maier, 1965. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. 238 pages. Second edition. Cloth. Illustrated with many type examples in the text, and 176 plates of historical typefaces. With the dustwrapper. In a mylar protective wrapper. Ex-library copy, with the call number pasted on the spine of the wrapper removed. Also removed are the pockets from the front and rear pastedowns. A very clean and good copy. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1043
USD 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 93.5 | £UK 80.25 | JP¥ 15822]
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