Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1929-1994. CAVE. Hardbound. A combination of bound volumes (in green cloth) and loose issues. A most significant run of this important publication that centers on the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Contains Vols. 16-81 (1929-1994), with most issues bound, and Vol. 79-80... More
Londres (London): Whittingham et Wilkins, 1861. Hardcover. Brown embossed cloth, gilt letters on spine, 404 pp. No illus. Text is in French. An inventory of the furniture and fixtures owned by Cardinal Marzarin (1602-1661), Italian cardinal and chief minister of France from 1642-1661. Please note that this is neither an... More
Paris: 1880. CAVE. Hardcover. Tan & cream marbled boards with black leather-like spine and corners, gilt letters on spine, name of library embossed on front cover near spine, 512 pp., many BW illus.; weighs 4 lbs. Text is in French. The entire second volume of this bi-monthly French journal of... More
München / Berlin: 1962-76. Hardbound. Cloth spines and bopard cover. Numerous bw plates in each volume. A significant run of this important scholarly publicaiton. Each volume contains long articles on a broad range on German art and art in German collections from antiquity to the century. 15 volumes in total. More
New York: Anderson Galleries, 1929. Cream glued wraps. 108 pp., 583 lots listed and 93 of them illustrated in BW. Auction held April 2,3,4, 1929. Nicely illustrated, An exceptional selection was presented at this sale, which took three days to complete. More
Bologna: Volpe, 1838. Hardcover. Taken from a disbound volume and rebound singly in pumpkin paper over boards with flax cloth spine; 200 pp. plus 2 contents pp. and one bw illustration. Text in Italian. The lives of painters and authors from Bologna. This is part three, starting with Francesco Primaticcio... More
Köln (Cologne), Germany: DuMont, 1987. Hardbound. Black cloth boards with white stamped titles and illustration, white dust jacket with black and white illustration. 571 pp. 386 black and white illustrations, including many plates, and an additional 284 small illustrations in the catalogue raisonne of his sculpture. Text in German. A.... More
Londra: Tommaso Edlin, 1725. Hardcover. Gilt embossed and leather inlay within leather gilt ruled boards. Five raised bands with extensive gilt tooling within compartments (showing wear), all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers indicate binding date in 1880s, (with signed binder Estes and Lauriat, Boston).Frontis portrait by L. Auberso. Title-page, ten(10) sheets... More
[London] : In the Savoy: rinted by Henry Lintot, (Assignee of Edward Sayer, Esq) ; For D. Browne ; J. Shuckburgh ; and C. Bathurst, 1744. Hardcover. Full light brown leather with 6 raised-bands.[12], 757, [31] pages no plate or portrait (as called for by others). A lovely old book... More
London: J. & J. Leighton, 1911. One of 200 copies. Hardcover. Brown-gray cloth over boards; burgundy title plate on spine with gilt lettering. BW frontispiece + xxxii; 47 pp + 59 BW plates. Among the numerous early accounts of Pligrimages to the Holy Land, the narrative of Bernhard von Breydenbach... More
Berlin: Rückwardt, 1877. Hardcover. Elephant folio 19.5" x 26" in simple portfolio. title-page, half-title, 9 pp. text, followed by 3 diagrams (1-3) mounted on two (2) thick card stock sheets, followed by 30 photographs mounted on 26 thich card stock sheets. Text is in German. An early photographic examination of... More
New York: John W. Lovell Company, 1882. Hardcover. 3/4 Brown leather with marbled boards and endpapers, 5 raised bands with some devices and applied leather labels in 2nd and 4th compartments. 10 Volume set, uniformly bound. One endpaper loose but present. A lovely set that occupies about 13 inches of shelfspace. Great decorative value. More
Wien: Gerlach & Wiedling, [1906]. Hardbound. Brown library buckram. 22 pp followed by 109 stiff sheets. About 2000 examples of Folk Jewelry from around the world are shown here, all drawn from the museum collection in Vienna. Contents are entirely in German, text is concentrated in the first 22 pages. More
Roma (Rome), Italy: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2014. Hardcover. Crimson cloth, gilt letters on spine, black & illus. dust jacket, 945 pp., 157 BW plates, plus CD-ROM in back pocket. "The research on 'The Eastern Part of the Mons Oppius in Rome' presented here has been conducted since March 1981 in... More
Yellow Springs, Ohio: Antioch College Union, 1961. Softcover. Black and white stapled wraps, 76 pp., BW illus. The first issue -- apparently, the only issue -- of this burgeoning art periodical. Consists of prose pieces and poems. Contents: Astarte's Revenge / Larry Rubin -- Grass ; Spring ; The River... More
London, England: Henry, Sotheran, Joseph Baer and Co., 1873. Hardcover. Blue leather(?) with gilt decoration; Raised bands and gilt decoration at spine; All edges gilt; Color marbled endpapers; Approx. 200 pp.; 30 plates. Wonderful engravings of works by Andrea del Sarto, Tissot, Hans Holbein, Gerome, da Vinci, Rembrandt, Ingres, and... More
London: Richard Bentley, 1837. Hardcover. 3 vols. Colorful marbled boards with tan calfskin spines and corners, green and red title blocks on spines, gilt decorations on spines, marbled flyleaves and edges, 1314 total pp. The three-voluime set of these works by English aristocrat and writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)... More
London: J. S. Virtue and Co., 1895. Hardcover. Blue-gray cloth, 21 pp. of text, 22 BW plates. No. 190/400 deluxe edition copies on Japanese Vellum. Tissue guards over each plate. Title on spine & front cover: Selected Works of L. Alma Tadema, R.A. Examines the life and work of Dutch-born... More
London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 1843. Hardbound. Rust-colored library buckram. xx, 32 steel engravings. Interestingly, the plates appear to be printed on several types of paper, some being more prone to offsetting and foxing than others. Overall a tight and nice copy of an uncommon book. The plates are... More
New York: William Saloman, 1912. Original. Hardbound. Black library buckram. Deckled fore and bottom page edges. 56 mounted photogravures with tissue-guards. Oversize and heavy and will require extra postage. The photogravures in this book are on fine, thick, woven rag paper. They are from photographs by Lillian Baynes Griffin, the... More
New York: M. T. Richardson, 1883. Hardcover. Brown cloth over boards; Gilt titling and illustration to front cover; 181 pp.; 4 bw plates; 73 bw figures. Full title as on title page: The Complete Carriage and Wagon Painter. A Concise Compendium of the Art of Painting Carriages, Wagons and Sleighs... More
NY: George Routledge & Sons, 1868. Dore, Gustave. Hardcover. Gilt-embossed blue cloth. 50 pp. 9 bw plates, each with a tissue guard. Large, clean steel engravings by J. Saddler after drawings by Doré, great condition, especially for its age. Lovely poem; lovely illustrations. The book was a Christmas gift from... More
Geneva, Switzerland: 1924. Hardcover. Gray cloth quarter binding; Original wraps bound in; lxii, 253 pp. 1 color, 316 bw plates. Text in French. More
Venezia: Filippi Editore, 1972. Hardbound. Red cloth spine with marbled paper boards 628 pp.;. Reprint/facsimile of the original from 1771; text in old Italian lettering;. More
