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115. [Southwest Pueblo Art] Julius Gans. Santa Fe: Southwest Arts & Crafts, 1930.<br />
Very good in illustrated wrappers . A 32-page priced listing, illustrated with photographs,<br />
of the Southwest Arts & Crafts gallery’s offerings for 1930 with sections on<br />
Chimayo blankets, Navajo rugs, silver jewelry, decorated knives, belts, baskets, pottery,<br />
moccasins, beadwork, and juvenile cowboy outfits. The “Exquisite Black San Ildefonso<br />
Pottery with dull black designs on glossy black backgrounds, by the renowned Maria,<br />
Tonita, Anna and others,” is highlighted, at prices ranging from $8.00 for water jars,<br />
about 12x9 in., to $3.00 for water jars, about 6x6 in. Scarce. $75.00<br />
Inscribed with a full-page drawing by Art Spiegelman<br />
116. [Spiegelman, Art] Joseph Moncure March. THE WILD PARTY. Drawings by<br />
Art Spiegelman. New York: Pantheon <strong>Books</strong>, 1994. Fine in a like dust jacket. The halftitle<br />
page has a full-page drawing and inscription signed by Spiegelman. $400.00<br />
117. Verneuil, M. P. ÉTOFFES JAPONAISES TISSÉE & BROCHÉES. Quatre-vingts<br />
Planches précédées d’une préface de G. Migeon. Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-<br />
Arts, c.1905. A large portfolio with a 12-page folder containing the preface and contents,<br />
and 80 loosely inserted color plates, each mounted within a printed heavy card<br />
stock frame. With the bookplate of the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum. Each<br />
plate card stock mount is stamped on the back in red ink: George Walter Vincent Smith<br />
Collection, Art Museum, Springfield, Massachusetts. The plates are complete and in fine<br />
condition, in fine mounts with no markings except for the discreet stamps on the rear.<br />
The brown cloth portfolio is in<br />
very good condition, but with<br />
some rubbing to the gilt title<br />
lettering on the front panel, some<br />
light staining and lacking the ties.<br />
$1,200<br />
118. [Vitruvius] Giovanni<br />
Poleni. EXERCITATIONES<br />
VITRUVIANAE VITRUVIANAE<br />
PRIMAE [-TERTIA] HOC EST:<br />
IOANNIS POLENI COMMENTAR-<br />
IUS CRITICUS DE M. VITRUVII<br />
POLLIONIS ARCHITECTI X. LIB-<br />
RORUM EDITIONIBUS, NEC NON<br />
DE EORUNDEM EDITORI-BUS,<br />
Atque de Aliis, qui vitruvium<br />
quocumque modo explicarunt, aut<br />
illustrarunt. Padua and Venice:<br />
Manfrè and Pitteri, 1739-1741.<br />
Three volumes bound in one with<br />
continuous pagination. The<br />
internal titles give 1739 as the date<br />
of vols. I & II, and 1741 for vol.<br />
III. An examination of the<br />
publishing history of Vitruvius,