Michael Mappes Ill (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good- to very good condition. First edition Ex-Library. Large Quarto. (2) 62pp., 106 plates. Original blue cloth with blind-stamped ruling on covers, gilt lettering on spine. Material collected in Egypt during the summer and fall of 1904. The main object of the studies were monuments with recordings of the relations of ancient Egypt to foreign countries, especially Asia and Europe. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of b/w drawing and photographs in text and on one hundred and six plates, sixty-nine of them folding, including five in color, and seven photographic plates. Binding with light wear along edges, small chips and small closed tears, light scratches and lightly frayed at head and tail of spine. Signature pages one to fourteen loose but attached, pages seventeen through twenty-eight loose, and pages thirty-three to forty-three partially loose. Lower part of folding plate thirteen separated but present. Library stamps and numbering on inside cover, front free endpaper and verso of title page. Library stamp in text block. Binding and text block in good-, plates in very good condition.

Softcover. Condition: g+. Fourth edition. Oblong Sextodecimo. 32pp. Original stapled color illustrated wrappers with red and black lettering on cover. Pamphlet issued by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gartenkunst e. V. (German Society for Garden-Art, nonprofit) to enhance communal living. An appeal to home owners by the German Arbeitsfront to pay attention to the design of front yards. Illustrated with 18 skillful b/w drawings showing nine pairs of architectural perspectives, with and without fences. In each case the buildings are shown with their front yards fenced and open, emphasize on an urban garden city atmosphere. The seven page text disputes the view of the human being as a product of his environment and promotes a pro-active, creative attitude towards shaping his/her environment with an emphasis on open space environments. The final drawing, called Big City Satire, features a winding banister separating a walkway from a lawn in a well-to-do urban business district with a brief text suggesting the winding banister design represents the actions and thinking of "old-school" politicians as opposed to the desirable "straight" new way of handling matters in the Third Reich. The pamphlet contains a list of recommended shrubs to be planted at rear. Wrappers with minor soiling and rubbed, light wear along edges and spine. Light vertical folding crease in middle of publication. Wrappers in overall good, interior in very good condition.