Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Botanical print. Black and white photogravure. Image measures 10" x 7.75". Three botanical image magnified 12, 4, and 18 times respectively. Published in the second edition of Blossfeldt's "Urformen der Kunst." Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) was a botanist who applied artistic principles to the study of plants which resulted in his innovative way of photographing them. Please visit our gallery for more Blossfeldt prints.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Botanical print. Black and white photogravure. Image measures 7.5" x 10 1/8". Three botanical image magnified 4, 12, and 10 times. Published in the second edition of Blossfeldt's "Urformen der Kunst." Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) was a botanist who applied artistic principles to the study of plants which resulted in his innovative way of photographing them. Please visit our gallery for more Blossfeldt prints.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
BLOSSFELDT, Karl. Achillea Clypeolata (Yellow yarrow) Plate 119. Ernst Wasmuth, Berlin, 1929.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Botanical print. Black and white photogravure. Image measures 10.25" x 7.75". Botanical image of yellow yarrow magnified 15 times. Published in the second edition of Blossfeldt's "Urformen der Kunst." Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) was a botanist who applied artistic principles to the study of plants which resulted in his innovative way of photographing them. Please visit our gallery for more Blossfeldt prints.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$372.65 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: In-4. Avec 120 planches. Images de plantes. Ouvrage fameux dans l'histoire de la photographie / Quarto. Cloth. With 120 plates. Photographic plant images. Famous book in the history of photography.
Seller: Librairie Bonheur d'occasion (LILA / ILAB), Montréal, QC, Canada
Price: US$474.03 + shipping
Description: Untertitel: Herausgegeben mit einer Einleitung von Karl Nierendorf Untergebiet: Photographie Abbildungen: 120 s/w Photographien auf Bildtafeln in Tiefdruck Zustand: Einbandrücken mit geringen Läsuren. Geringe Stossspuren. Seiten: XVII S. /96 Tafeln Auflage: Zweite Auflage Format: 2°. Einband: Ln. goldgepr. Gebiet: Botanik
Seller: Antiquariat Narrenschiff, Trin, Switzerland
Price: US$634.49 + shipping
Description: 4°. OLn. mit goldgeprägtem Titel. mit 120 Bildtafeln. Einband leicht berieben, Innendeckel und Vortitel stockfleckig, Inneres in gutem Zustand. Zustand insgesamt gut. 2200 Gramm.
Seller: Eugen Küpper, Muenster, Germany
Price: US$711.07 + shipping
Description: 4°. XVII. OLn. mit goldgeprägtem Titel. mit 120 Bildtafeln. Einband leicht berieben, Inneres in sehr gutem Zustand. Zustand insgesamt gut. 2200 Gramm.
Seller: Eugen Küpper, Muenster, Germany
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: xvii, (3)pp., 120 photographic plates. Lrg. 4to. Cloth (rubbed). Inner front hinge partly shaken, split in outer rear hinge; neat ex-library copy.
Seller: Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA), Charlestown, MA, U.S.A.
Blossfeldt, Karl. Urformen der Kunst. Ernst Wasmuth A.G., Berlin, 1929.
Price: US$875.00 + shipping
Description: Folio. XVII (I) Text, (1) 120 leaves (Plates). Original gilt-stamped green cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Publisher's device on title page. Second edition of the most famous work by German botanist and photographer, Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932). "His entire photographic output is devoted to plant parts: twig ends, seed pods, tendrils, leaf buds etc. These he meticulously arranged against stark backgrounds and photographed in magnification, so that unfamiliar shapes from the vegetal worlds are revealed as startling, elegant architectural forms. Since the first publication of his photographs in the late twenties (1928) his work is considered to be one of the aesthetic highlights of photo history." Originally published in 1928 when Blossfeldt was sixty-three and a professor of applied art at the Berliner Kunsthochschule, "Urformen der Kunst" quickly became an international bestseller and in turn made Blossfeldt famous almost overnight. His contemporaries were enchanted by the abstract shapes and structures in nature that he revealed to the world. In 2001 "Urformen der Kunst" was included in "The Book of 101 Books" as one of the seminal photographic books of the 20th Century. Illustrated with 120 b/w reproductions in photogravure. Each image is approx. 10 1/4 x 7 1/2" on a 12 1/4 x 9 1/2" sheet. Text in German. Binding with very light wear along edges with gilt lettering on spine lightly faded. Ex-Libris of A. Reder on inside front cover. Slight age-toning along paper margin, not affecting images. Binding in overall very good, interior in near fine, images in fine condition.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$888.00 + shipping
Description: Second edition. Folio, gilt-stamped green cloth (hardcover), [xviii], [ii], 120 plates. Photogravures. Good; spine a bit dull, some shelf wear, especially to head and foot of spine. Photography, Botany. pks
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA, Dade City, FL, U.S.A.
BLOSSFELDT, Karl. Urformen Der Kunst. Ernst Wasmuth, Berlin, 1929.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: Photographische Pflanzenbilder. Hrausgegeben mit Einer Einleitung von Karl Nierendorf. Illustrated with 120 photogravure plates. 4to, gilt-stamped green cloth boards. Berlin: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, (1929) A complete German second edition. Edited and with an Introduction by Karl Nierendorf. Missing dust jacket. Spine is slightly cocked, with wear to head and tail, some fraying at joints and corners, and small crack to front hinge. Binding is otherwise sound. Previous ownership signature on front end paper. Pages slightly toned.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The 1929 stated 2nd edition of this seminal photographic study of plants and flowers, IN ITS UNCOMMON PICTORIAL DUSTJACKET. Loosely translated from its German as "Archetypes of Art", Karl Blossfeldt's groundbreaking portraits, all in rich, lavish gravure, highlight the brilliance --and the beauty-- of nature's remarkable design. A very solid copy to boot: Tight and VG+ to Near Fine, with bright, completely unrubbed gilt-titling and insignia along the front panel. Internally, clean as could be, with no writing or markings of any kind. And in a crisp, VG dustjacket, with light chipping along the spine ends (at the spine crown very light loss, at the spine base 1 1/2" of loss) and at the tips. Mild scuffing and soiling as well to the panels but the jacket remains attractive and very presentable. Tall quarto, 120 plates all told. Edited and with an Introduction by Karl Nierendorf.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.