Riera i Arago, Josep Maria - Untitled - (Barcelona 1954 b.) Collage/handmade pap…

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Riera i Arago, Josep Maria - Untitled - (Barcelona 1954 b.) Collage/handmade paper. Lower left in Roman numerals dat. 1995, signed lower right. 30 x 22 cm; matted and framed under glass - In his works, the artist explores the world of machines and the concept of movement as a painter, draughtsman, engraver and sculptor; he is one of the most important contemporary Spanish sculptors in the tradition of Catalan sculpture and is a successor to Julio González, who is considered the inventor of "iron sculpture" and the first "artist with the welding machine".

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Riera i Arago, Josep Maria - Untitled - (Barcelona 1954 b.)

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ARAGO (Jacques). Deux océans. Paris, Librairie théâtrale, 1854. 2 vol. in-12 half green basane, smooth spine gilt and cold-stamped, gilt title and tomaison (period binding). Rubbed, foxing.

Estim. 250 - 300 EUR

ARAGO (Jacques). Voyage autour du monde (Souvenirs d'un aveugle), with sixty drawings and scientific notes. Paris, Hortet et Ozanne, 1839. 4 vols. large in-8 with I. (2) ff. 400-[1] pp. portrait, 15 plates. - II. (2) ff, 423 pp, [2] ff, 15 plates. - III. (2) ff, 399 pp, portrait, 15 plates - IV. (2) ff, 451 pp, 15 plates. Aubergine half-maroquin, smooth spine finely decorated with gilt rocaille irons, gilt title and tomaison (period binding). One spine unstained, tear with paper loss on one board. Illustrated with 2 lithographed portraits of the author and his brother Dominique-François, and 60 lithographed plates based on the author's lively sketches. Frequent foxing and spotting. Jacques ARAGO (1790-1855) was the third brother of the famous astronomer François Arago (1786-1853). An inveterate traveler, in 1817 he obtained government permission to embark on the Uranie (Capitaine Freycinet) as a draftsman. He circumnavigated the globe on this famous frigate, which also included (exceptionally) Madame Rose de Freycinet. The frigate ran aground on the Falkland Islands, and Arago didn't return until 1821. He went blind in 1837.

Estim. 150 - 200 EUR

ARAGO (Jacques). Voyage autour du monde (Souvenirs d'un aveugle), with sixty drawings and scientific notes. Paris, Hortet et Ozanne, 1839. 4 vols. large in-8 with I. (2) ff. 400-[1] pp. portrait, 15 plates. - II. (2) ff, 423 pp, [2] ff, 15 plates. - III. (2) ff, 399 pp, portrait, 15 plates - IV. (2) ff, 451 pp, 15 plates. Green half calf, smooth spine gilt and cold-stamped, gilt title and tomaison (period binding). Unstained spines faded to havana with rubbing, bumping and spotting. Illustrated with 2 lithographed portraits of the author and his brother Dominique-François, and 60 lithographed plates based on the author's lively sketches. Rousseurs. Jacques ARAGO (1790-1855) was the third brother of the famous astronomer François Arago (1786-1853). An inveterate traveler, in 1817 he obtained government permission to embark on the Uranie (Capitaine Freycinet) as a draftsman. He circumnavigated the globe on this famous frigate, which also included (exceptionally) Madame Rose de Freycinet. The frigate ran aground on the Falkland Islands, and Arago didn't return until 1821. He went blind in 1837.

Estim. 80 - 100 EUR

[ARAGO (François)]. Annuaire pour l'an 1838 présenté au Roi par le Bureau des Longitudes, suivi d'une Notice sur le Tonnerre par M. Arago. Paris, Bachelier, 1837. In-12 black morocco, ribbed spine, gilt title and date, gilt coat of arms at center of covers, gilt edges, inner lace (Capé). Some light foxing. E.A.S. from F. Arago on the original cover to M. Léopold Double (partly cut by the bookbinder's knife). A fine copy bound with the arms and bookplate of Baron Lucien DOUBLE, son of Léopold, a distinguished amateur who built up a large but select library, which he described as the "cabinet d'un curieux" Paris 1890 and which was sold at public auction in February 1899 (O.H.R. 2464.)

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