New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1902. First. Hardcover. Blue cloth over boards; Title block at top of spine; 323 pp.; 3 bw illustrations. Subtitle: Describing the Events of the Battles of Brandywine, Warren Tavern, Germantown, and Whitemarsh, and of the Camps at Neshaminy, Wilmington, Pennypacker's Mills, Skippack, Whitemarsh, and..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1924. Hardcover. Number 40 of 100 signed. xxi, 443 pp. 64 unnumbered plates. Illustrations in B&W and color, maps included. Gilt lettering on spine and cover. Gray dust jacket with white cloth binding, pictoral endsheets, deckled edges on textblock. Top edge gilded. In 1835, Charles..... More
Madrid: Rosendo Naseiro, 2014. Hardcover. Sage cloth with color illus. laid on both covers, gilt letters on spine & front cover, 400 pp., color & BW illus. Text is in Spanish. Provides details of still-life paintings from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, as collected by Spanish businessman Rosendo Naseiro..... More
Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1874. Hardcover. Brown leather covered boards with black embossed lettering and illustration. iv, 200 pp. 13 tissue-protected BW-photographs. "The compiler of the present volume commenced the work for his own convenience, with no view to publication, but to supply in some measure the information demanded of..... More
London: William Clowes and Sons, 1870. Hardcover. Burgundy cloth with leather back and corners. 29 pp + 75 plates (monochrome lithographs). Protected in red buckram library wrapper and slipcase. Oversize. Architectural studies of 13th-century buildings and furnishings by William Burges, compiled during his travels in the 1850s. Printed for subscribers..... More
Firenze (Florence), Italy: Presso Molini, Landi e Compagno, 1810. Hardbound. Marbeled red boards with leather spine, gilt lettering. title-page, [3], vi, [2], 156 pp., [2], 4 engraved plates, 40 page Appendice. More
Coatesville, PA: Weekly Times Job Print, 1892. Softcover. Blue textured aligator wraps with gilt embossed title. 30 pp., no illustrations. A story of a Choctow Indian household. The author agreed to publish this story and donate the proceeds to help pay for a stained glass windown in the Coatesville, PA..... More
London / New York: V & A Publishing / Harry N. Abrams, 2008. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with white lettering on spine, color illustrated dust jacket, 143 pp, chiefly color illustrations, color map. Focuses on early chintzes from the Victoria and Albert Museum's collection of Indian chintz textiles made in..... More
Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, 1934. Paperback. White paper wraps with brown lettering. 321 pp. 21 pages of BW plates. Text in French. Includes bibliography and index. More
Philadelphia: P. M. Lafourcade, 1817. Softcover. Original publishers plain wraps. [4], 159 pp. untrimmed and uncut. Du Pont de Nemours responds here to the book and hypothesis put forth by Malthus in his treatise Essay on the Principle of Population (1798), which was revised in a second edition published in..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1937. Hardcover. Navy boards with gilt stamped lettering. 469 total pages BW illustrations. Includes bibliographical references. More
Paris: Chez Jacques Barois ... et Pierre-Guillaume, 1745. Hardcover. 3/4 bluish cloth with plain board covers. Title-page with no frontis, xx, 258, 14 (2) pp. a few vignettes or printers devices, no illustrations. Small 4to. Text is entirely in French. A scarce catalogue, last seen at auction in 2010 with..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company. Hardcover. Reddish / Maroon cloth with top edge gilt, untrimmed edges. 10 volumes, each being in the area of 440 pp. in length. Some illustrations. Volume 1 is splitting at inside fron hnge but holding at the top, small pinhole at top of spine cloth..... More
London: John Williams, Library of Fine Arts, 1840. Hardcover. Black buckram boards, 8" X 9" square of original cover, with gilt tile and embossed insignia, mounted onto leaf before title page. iv, 12 pages of text entitled "Windsor Castle." 39 leaves of black and white plates, with 15 tinted lithographs..... More
Paris: Editions d'Art Charles Moreau, 1937. Hardcover. Cream paper over boards with milk chocolate cloth spine. Light/dark chocolate lettering; cream gros-grain ribbon tie at right side. Folio. 5 pp. text and 32 separate bw plates. Oversize folio. Text in French. With a preface by Paul Leon and the introduction by..... More
Leipzig: Johann Paul Krauss, 1768-69. Hardcover. Leather covered boards with leather spine and gilt lettering. Text in Old German. 436 pp. With two fold-out engravings. Text in Old German. Covers artists and specific works of art in Berlin, Dresden, Bologna; a separate section on Michelangelo, the Bartholomaus Kilian genealogy and..... More
Paris: Levy, 1931. Softcover. Two Volume Set, Volume I is loose with no wraps, 317 pp and 36 black and white plates. Volume 2 in gray wraps with red lettering, 290 pp and 84 pp of black and white plates. Written in French. Volume 1: Studies. Volume 2: Catalogue. General..... More
London: George Leighton, 1870. Hardcover. Oversized/ folio red marble boards with red leather spine. Five raised bands on spine with gilt lettering and tooling. Decorative end pages. Lovely bw illustrations throughout including a large fold-out in rear titled, "Library of the House of Commons" Includes a front index to all..... More
Rome: E data in luce da Vitale Mascardi, 1635. Softcover. Tan wraps bound with twine, bw illustrated title page, 135 pp, 9 bw plates, inlcuding one folded one. Text in Italian. Later published with the author's Raccolta di lettere (1654) as: Relatione della sontuosa festa del saracino fatta in Roma..... More
London: Simpkin & Marshall, 1834-1835. Hardbound. Salmon library buckram. Engraved title-page opposite first color plate, followed by second printed title-page. 96 plants are listed, and these are accompanied by 24 hand-colored plates. Each plate illustrated 4 examples, and most have tissue guards. There are 24 plates and 96 plants included..... More
London: Arthur Barker Limited, 1972. Hardbound. Green cloth. BW frontispiece photograph, 219 pp. including detailed index. A most rare title, in very nice condition cept'n for the odor, which will fade away in time. More
Paris: Editions de la Reunion des musees nationaux, 1997. Softcover. Black wraps with color pictorial front. 208 pp. BW and color plates. Exhibition 1997-1998 at Musee d'Orsay, Paris and Musee des Augustins, Toulouse. More
Houston ; Köln: Menil Foundation ; DuMont Schauberg, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. White paper boards, blue cloth spine, white dust jacket with black titles. xvi, 396 pp. 740 black and white illustrations. Text in German, introduction in English and French, with inserted 4-page translation guide. This fourth volume comprises 740..... More
New York: Horizon Press, 1965. Tan cloth boards with gilt lettering on front and spine, issued in plain brown slipcase, unpaginated, profusely illustrated in bw. Includes bw lithograph signed by Mostel laid-in. "This edition is limited to two hundred and fifty numbered copies signed by the artist and accompanied by..... More
