247 - 322 ISOTYPE and INFOGRAPHICS
- Occas. vague thumbing. Wrappers yellowed/ browned and thumbed/ soiled; 2nd and 3rd vol. spine split and wr. loose(ning)
= Rare first editions of the first 3 volumes from the Visual science series (6 vols.). 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; first 2 vols. "With Isotype's compliments" stamp on htitle.
Iidem. Visual history of mankind. Book one, Living in early times/ Book two, Living in villages and towns. London, Adprint Ltd. (A Max Parrish Book), (1948), 1st eds., 2 vols., both 48p., col. isotype ills., orig unif. wr.
- First vol. some sl. occas. thumbing; both vols. partly sl. yellowed. Both vols. spine rubbed; first vol. wr. sl. rubbed; both vols. sl. dogeared.
= First 2 vols. of the series (4 vols.). Reading p.37. Both vols. w. owner's entry "de Kanter" on htitle.
AND 2 others similar by the same authors, both orig. boards (backstrips dam.; corners worn): Fire! (1950) and How the first men lived (1951).
- Some foxing on endpapers. Boards sl. foxed.
= Published in the series Psyche Miniatures. Burke/ Kindel/ Walker, p.288-289: "This book is a pictorial/ verbal primer of Basic English, presenting vocabulary and simple formulations in Basic with accompanying visualizations in Isotype. (...) The book is atypical of Isotype in its attempted equivalence of words and pictures. Their functions were usually complementary in Isotype work."
= First vol. of the Vienna Circle Collection.
- Trifle yellowed; recto w. sm. inkstains (offsetting) in lower blank margin.
ISOTYPE 1938. The International Foundation for Visual Education wishes you a Happy New Year. (The Hague, International Foundation for Visual Education, 1938), New Year's wish, 11,5x14,5 cm., recto printed in black and red w. isotype and use of photomontage by G. ARNTZ.
= Both rare. Vossoughian p.112. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE III.
- Binding yellowed and sl. foxed; backstrip sunned and letterpiece sl. rubbed.
= Published in the series Psyche Miniatures. With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION: "Herrn und Frau de Kanter mit Dank. Otto Neurath". P.J. de Kanter was the secretary of the Nederlandsche Stichting voor Statistiek and his wife de B.J.A. de Kanter-van Hettinga Tromp was member of the board. Reading p.46; Burke/ Kindel/ Walker, p.287: "This was the first book about Isotype in English (...) a version of the language of only 850 words (BASIC). This leads to some peculiar phrases; indeed Neurath later described Basic's idiomatic rules as 'devastating'. Nevertheless, this text remains the best and most concise summary of Isotype."
- Fine.
= Published in the series Psyche Miniatures. Reading p.46; Burke/ Kindel/ Walker, p.287: "This was the first book about Isotype in English (...) a version of the language of only 850 words (BASIC). This leads to some peculiar phrases; indeed Neurath later described Basic's idiomatic rules as 'devastating'. Nevertheless, this text remains the best and most concise summary of Isotype."
= Rare. Text in English and German (translation by Marie Neurath).
Graphic communication through Isotype. Ibid., idem, 1981, 2nd rev. ed., 48p., ills., orig. wr., 4to.
= Originally published in connection with an exhibition recording the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseum in Wien, 1975.
- Some sl. foxing. = Dutch transl. by Hein von Essen. Rare special issue.
De Duitsche uitbuiting van Nederland in cijfers en feiten. The Hague, Economische Voorlichtingsdienst van het Ministerie van Handel en Nijverheid, (1945), 19p., 4 photogr. plates i.a. by C. BLAZER, col. ills. and pictographs, orig. pictorial stiff paper wr.
- Sl. yellowed. = Rare.
Een half jaar vrijheid. 180 dagen opbouw na 1800 dagen afbraak. Amst., H.J.W. Becht for the Regeeringsvoorlichtingsdienst, (1945), 32,(1)p. (incl. inside backwr.), (col.) pictographs by G. ARNTZ, orig. wr. by MOHR.
- Sl. yellowed. Frontwr. lacks sm. portion from upper corner. = Bool/ Broos p.94.
- Endpapers sl. yellowed/ foxed; backstrip sunned, sl. stained and dam. at ends.
= Reading, p.40; Bool/ Broos p.58f; Vossoughian p.95. First edition of Neurath's most famous work on visual education, illustrated with Amtz's isotypes and one of the best examples of how Neurath and Arntz had succeeded in visualizing statistics. From the collection of P.J. de Kanter, secretary of the Nederlandsche Stichting voor Statistiek, w. his bookplate and owner's entry on first free endpaper.
WITH: De Moderne Mensch Ontstaat (...). (Ibid., idem, 1940), (8)p. (incl. wr.), (col.) pictographs by G. ARNTZ, 8vo.
- Trifle foxed. = The rare publisher's brochure for the Dutch edition.
- Endpapers sl. foxed/ yellowed. Spine trifle sunned.
= Reading, p.40; Bool/ Broos p.58f. Dutch translation of Modern Man in the Making, Neurath's most famous work on visual education, illustrated with Arntz's isotypes and one of the best examples of how Neurath and Arntz had succeeded in visualizing statistics. Burke/ Kindel/ Walker, p.326-329 (on the first English ed.).
Leerboek voor arbeiders avondscholen. Sociale kennis A1. Amst., Instituut voor arbeidersontwikkeling, 1938, 3rd ed.,101p., 6 plates, orig. wr.
- Wr. sl. worn; foot of spine chipped. = Reading p.40, on the first edition.
AND 2 others on/ with pictographs, i.a. I.H. VOS, Het Plan van de Arbeid. Basis en Bouw (Amst., ±1936, orig. wr.).
- Endpapers sl. foxed. Binding partly sunned (especially backstrip); backstrip sl. worn at top and w. sm. brown stain; the sl. frayed/ soiled flaps of the orig. dustwr. loosely inserted.
= Reading, p.40; Bool/ Broos p.58f. Dutch translation of Modern Man in the Making, Neurath's most famous work on visual education, illustrated with Amtz's isotypes and one of the best examples of how Neurath and Arntz had succeeded in visualizing statistics.
WITH: De Moderne Mensch Ontstaat (...). (Ibid., idem, 1940), (8)p. (incl. wr.), (col.) pictographs by G. ARNTZ, 8vo.
- Sl. foxed/ soiled. = The rare publisher's brochure for the Dutch edition.
= In the first letter Neurath thanks Mr. and Mrs. de Kanter for helping him and his (recentlly deceased) wife settling in the Netherlands after they fled from Austria du to the reactionary political forces. "(...) Meine Frau hat oft - und auch in ihren letzten Lebenstagen - mit mir darüber gesprochen, wie sehr sie die Freundschaft empfand, die Sie ihr entgegengebracht haben. Wir wussten beiden immer, wie sehr Sie beide unsere ganze Existenz hier ermöglichen halfen (...)". The second letter and its attached letter deal extensively on the cooperation between the International Foundation for Visual Education and the Dutch Statistical Foundation, on the regulation, responsibilities, uniformity, costs and payments: "(...) What you write about the Dutch Foundation as going on with their own Isotype work, I explained in my promemoria, enclosed [= the attached letter], that that would not by wise, since you should think of all our new techniques, etc and of our highly evolved transformational work. It would not by nice, to have the Isotype work by the Foundation for Visual Education and besides that some chart made by your Dutch Statistical Foundation (...)". P.J. de Kanter was the secretary of the Nederlandsche Stichting voor Statistiek and his wife de B.J.A. Kanter-van Hettinga Tromp was member of the board.
Idem. "Auf Wiedersehen!" ORIGINAL DRAWING, pen and ink, dated "23. Aug. 39", on leaf w. printed letterhead "Cunard White Star/ R.M.S. "Aquitania".
= Drawing of an elephant and 5 cats/ kittens. "Neurath was so consumed with pictorial forms of communication that he often signed his correspondences with a drawing of an elephant." "The elephant represents Neurath (it was a common way for him to refer to himself)." (Vossoughian p.58 and 105).
Idem. (Photograph portrait of Otto Neurath). Gelatin silver print, 9,3x7,2 cm. - AND 4 other sm. brochures and offprints, i.a. IDEM, Unified Science as Encyclopedic Integration (offprint from Encyclopedia and Unified Science, Foundations of the Unity of Science, Vol.I, no.1 (1938). Foxed. With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DECATION to "Hernn und Frau de Kanter (...)").
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE IV.
- Contents fine. Remnant of former ticket on frontwr.
= Published in the Wijde Wereld serie (no.1). Reading p.40.
- Staples in spine lacking, bookblocks loose.
= Vol. 1. Living in Early Times; vol. 2. Living in Villages and Towns; vol. 3. Living in the World. Reading p.37. All rare.
= Veröffentlichungen des Instituts Wiener Kreis. Band 21.
Stadler, F. Arbeiterbildung in der Zwischenkriegszeit. Otto Neurath-Gerd Arntz. Vienna/ Munich, Löcker Verlag, 1982, (14),463p., num. ills., orig. stiff wr., sm. 4to (spine sl. worn). - AND 7 others, i.a. F. HARTMANN and E.K. BAUER, Bildersprache. Otto Neurath. Visualisierungen (Vienna, 2002, num. ills., orig. boards, 4to) and K.H. MÜLLER, Symbole. Statistik. Computer. Design. Otto Neuraths Bildpädagogik in Computerzeitalter (ibid., 1991, num. ills., orig. stiff. wr., folio).
= Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook 4. With the first publication of Otto Neurath's full manuscript on 'Visual Education' and the documentation of the Otto Neurath Nachlass (Haarlem, The Netherlands).
- Occas. some foxing/ browning; 1x owner's entry on upper pastedown. Some dustwrs. sl. worn. Overall a good set.
= Reading p.41; Burke/ Kindel/ Walker, p.364-365. (1). S. TAYLOR, Battle for Health. A primer of Social Medicine; (2). G. WILLIAMS, Women and Work; (3). M. YOUNG and T. PRAGER, There's Work for All; (4). N.M. DAVIS, Human Problems in Industry; (5). C. LUETKENS, Women and a New Society; (6). J.A. HAWGOOD, The Citizen and Government; (7). H.C. SHEARMAN, Education - The New Horizon; (8). N. CROSBY, Full Enjoyment.
- Dustwr. worn. = Reading p.41-42.
Hogben, L. From Cave Painting to Comic Strip. A Kaleidoscope of Human Communication. London, Max Parrish & Co., 1949, 286,(2)p., 20 col. plates, num. ills. (incl. a few pictographs) selected by M. NEURATH, orig. cl. w. (chipped/ worn) dustwr.
- Owner's entry on htitle. Dustwr. trifle worn. = Reading p.41.
Priestley, J.B. Theatre Outlook. Ibid., Nicholson & Watson, 1947, 76p., 6 col. pictographs/ charts (2 double-p.) des. by the Isotype Institute, 40 (col.) photogr. plates, orig. cl. w. dustwr.
- Dustwr. sl. worn/ chipped. = Reading p.41.
AND 6 others, all illustrated and including pictographs/ charts, all English text, i.a. W.J. TURNER, Exmoor Village (London, 1947, orig. cl. w. dustwr.); C. MACKENZIE, The Vital Flame (ibid., 1947, orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to) and H.B. RATTENBURY, Face to Face with China (ibid., 1945, orig. cl. w. dustwr.).
- Bookblock bumped in upper outer corner; lacks last endpaper. Wrappers trifle frayed; backwr. lacks sm. portion.
= Very rare statistical overview of the influence of the Five-year-plan on the Russian and world economy with an emphasis on industry, resources and demographics. Only one copy traced, in the Russian state library. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE IV.