247 - 322 ISOTYPE and INFOGRAPHICS
- Some sl. occas. foxing (title-p. worse). Upper hinge broken; backstrip pasted over w. tape.
= The first book publication of the Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseum at Vienna, headed by Dr. Otto Neurath, the great advocate of the importance of visual education. Attached to the museum as a freelancer since 1926, Arntz became Head of the Graphics Department in January 1929 and from then onwards Neurath and Arntz worked closely together in creating the ISOTYPE, the International System Of Typographic Education. This rare book is still a mixture of styles: partly pictorial statistics by Arntz, partly colourful figures by i.a. Meixner. See at length Bool/ Broos p.49f; Reading p.40; Vossoughian p.80; Burke/ Kindel/ Walker, p.103-106. Provenance: the collection of P.J. de Kanter, secretary of the Nederlandsche Stichting voor Statistiek. SEE ILLUSTRATION ON TITLE-PAGE.
= The first comprehensive account of the Isotype movement in the history of visual communication from its birth in prewar Vienna, through wartime production in the Netherlands to 1940s England, where the Isotype Institute continued to produce work until 1971. It documents the visual system's worldwide influence, including its educational uses by the United States, Soviet Russia, and Africa.
Neurath, O. From hieroglyphics to Isotype. A Visual Autobiography. M. Eve and C. Burke (ed.). Ibid., idem, 2010, XXXI,191,(1)p., num. col. ills., orig. cl. w. pict. dustwr., 4to. - AND 1 other: Representation of the World. Otto Neurath and his Era (Tokyo, 2007, richly illustrated, orig. wr., folio).
- Worn frontwrapper w. vertical fold and sm. tear in upper edge.
= Van Dam/Van Praag 504; Rond Paasheuvel en Prinsenhof p.50 (with ill.).
AND 1 other by the same: We vlogen in 15 jaar 66x naar de maan, 631x rond de aarde (Rare, possibly not circulated. Van Dam/ Van Praag 499).
- Small annot. and a few foxed spots on wrs. = Rare. Reading p.40.
AND 4 others by the same, i.a. 3 translations of the preceding (w. the same pictographs) in Dutch, French and Italian (1944).
= All translations of the booklet. Burke/ Kindel/ Walker, p.356-358.
- Upper hinge sl. weak.
= This album records the devastation suffered by Greece during World War II. The material was gathered during the occupation mainly by the Office of Spatial and Urban Studies and Research, as part of the Ministry of Public Works in Greece, with the assistance of architects from the Deputy Ministry of Reconstruction.
- Wrapper sl. stained. = Bool/ Broos p.94.
IJzerman, A.W. Ver-beeld Verleden. 1. De 80-jarige oorlog/ 2. Nederland als grote mogendheid. Leyden/ Amst., H.E. Stenfert Kroese/ De Arbeiderspers for Nederlandse Stichting voor Statistiek, n.d. (1948/ 1951), 2 vols., 55,(1); 54p., (col.) pictographs and orig. unif. wr. by G. ARNTZ, 4to.
- First vol. paper sl. yellowed. Spines sl. rubbed. = Bool/ Broos p.94.
AND 1 other.
- Backstrip yellowed; binding sl. soiled and worn.
= The pages 17-30 were compiled by the Dutch foundation for statistical advice (Ned. Stichting voor Statistiek) and contain num. col. pictographs by GERD ARNTZ.
AND 2 similar advertising yearbooks for 1951 and 1955 publ. by De Arbeiderspers/ Het Vrije Volk, num. ills./ adverts., orig. cl., folio (1951 contains 1 page w. pictographs).
- Contents and wr. fine. Dustwr. frayed. = Burke/ Kindel/ Walker, p.325.
- A few foxed spots; overall fine. = Very rare. Bool/ Broos p.94.
- First vol. paper sl. yellowed and owner's entry on title-p. Spines sl. rubbed. = Bool/ Broos p.94.
- Frontwr. w. dam./ weak spots. = Anti-nazi information booklet, prob. spread by the RAF.
- Wrappers some wear and a tear on turn-in frontwr. = Rare.
- Dustwr. frayed and trifle soiled.
= Industrial Relation Series. With the rare dustwrapper w. pictographs. All pictographs designed by the "Mundaneum Institute, Vienna. Dr. Otto Neurath, Director". Reading p.40.
- Title-leaf sl. browned. Portfolio sl. rubbed and worn along edges.
= Burke/ Kindel/ Walker p.269ff. Album dealing with the Worker's Unions and the fulfilment of the Five Year Plan (preferably in 4 years), published to mark the Ninth Congress of Soviet Trade Unions. This is the English-language edition, published some time after the Russian edition and revised by Gerd Arntz and his team during their visit to Moscow. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE II.
- Both bookblocks loosening; contents w. some minor defects. Spine-ends dam.; wrappers sl. browned.
= Reading p.40.
= Bool/ Broos p.94. Spoorwegserie III.
De efficiency der Nederlandsche Spoorwegen. (The Hague), Nederlandsche Spoorwegen, n.d (±1941), 16p., (col.) pictographs and orig. unif. wr. by G. ARNTZ.
- Fine. = Bool/ Broos p.94.
- Bookblocks sl. loosening; occas. vague thumbing; a few lvs. in 2 vols. w. (very) sm. brown stain in blank fore-edge margin. Covers sl. yellowed along margins and some sl. wear; boardedges and corners (sl.) rubbed; backstrips some sm. specks. Good copies.
= Rare first editions of the first 3 volumes from the series A Parrish colour book for older children. Reading p.37. "After Otto's Neurath's death in 1945 emphasis was put on the production of schoolbooks and other books for children. These books were conceived, written and illustrated by Marie Neurath with the help of a very small team of assistants (...)" (Reading p.27). Provenance: the De Kanter family, with their owner's entry. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE III.
- Both w. orig. damaged envelope with later annots. in ballpoint.
= Friendly letters, writing that she gave the address of mrs. De Kanter to Robin Kinross because of some questions about an Isotype exhibition that took place in The Hague in the past and where mrs De Kanter first saw Isotype charts, and about current exhibitions on Gerd Arntz and Isotype. "(...) Arntz forgives me that I did not come to the Hague for the opening, as I forgive him that he did not come to Reading. The Reading exhibition will go to Vienna in April, and may go elsewhere afterwards. So things are going on; indeed much better than we could anticipate in those sad en difficult years that you shared with us (...)" [13/01/1977]. Also about the activities celebrating Otto Neurath's 100th birthday, the publishing of his writings and the growing interest in Isotype. "(...) We have now closed down the Isotype Institute, but there is Reading University, and the tradition is being carried on (...)" [13/01/1983].
Idem. "Voor familie de Kanter van Miez". Small original drawing, col. pencil, 8,2x14,9 cm., recto only (sl. yellowed and some vague folds). Idem. Isotype Charts. London, British Medical Association, 1954, (2)p. (numb. 4-5), pictographs printed in black and red, orig. printed wr.
= Offprint from Medical & Biological Illustration, vol.4 (1954), no.1.
ADDED: a typescript letter by Robert Kinross to mrs De Kanter referred to above, with her typescript response (carbon copy).