New York: The Anderson Galleries, 1915. Softcover. Tan wraps, 105 pp.; bw frontis and 7 additional bw plates. "Catalogue of the Interesting and Valuable Egyptian Collection formed by Mr. Robert de Rustafjaell." An auction catalog from November 1915. Robert de Rustafjaell was "a Bey of the Imperial Ottoman Empire, a...... More
London, England: Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1889. Hardcover. Tan cloth over boards; Gilt titling; lxviii, 158 pp. plus plates; 35 bw plates with tissue overlay. Includes portrait miniatures by Huet Villiers, Luke Sullivan, Sir William Charles Ross, Isaac Oliver, Jean Pititot, Hans Holbein, William Hogarth, Jean Honore Fragonard, Francois Boucher..... More
Boston, Mass. Technology Organization, 1976-1996. KAVE. Hardbound. A combination of 8 bound vols. (in yellow buckram) and 9 loose issues, A sizable run of this periodical with the specific focus of art conservation and restoration. Subtitled: "of Art, Architecture, and Antiquities: The Magazine for Analysis / Preservation / Restoration /..... More
Boston: Everett and Munroe, 1809. Printed sheets, removed long ago from a larger bound volume. 56 pp.trimmed to 5" x 8" Ames, a Massachusetts Representative in the first four Congresses (1791--97), was an extreme Federalist, convinced that the Republic would come to ruin under Jeffersonian principles. On January 11, 1811..... More
Hartford, CT: Trinity College Press, 1969. Hardcover. Black and blue hardcover with white lettering. Dust jacket of same design. 85 pp. 6 color (3 tipped in), appx. 40 bw plates. Three lectures: I, General Education and Art Education: Possessive or Productive; II, One Plus One Equals Three and More: Factual..... More
New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1862. Original. Hardcover. Red cloth/boards. Gilt titling on front cover, with ornate CSA printing. Dark brown end papers. 136 pp. with 5 original maps (one with some hand coloring) and 8 pp. of the publisher's title listings. Errata sheet is bound in. The book is..... More
Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1976. Hardcover. Marbled boards with black spine and gilt spine lettering. 21 unnumbered pages. Mainly illustrations, some on tissue. "450 copies of this book were printed on various interesting papers during the autumn of 1976. The pressman was Harold McGrath. This is copy number 43." More
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1928. Hardcover. Gray paper boards with gold cloth spine, 87 pp. of text plus 32 BW plates. Outlines these specific holdings of three collections then located in Poland: at Castle Goluchow, at the Czartoryski Museum in Cracow [sic], and at the University of Cracow [sic]. The..... More
Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2007. Hardcover. Black stamped cloth, black & colored lettered dust jacket, 148 pp., many BW & color illus. Issued in conjunction with a 2006-2007 exhibition featuring the work of American conceptual artist Mel Bochner (b. 1940). With an essay by Johanna Burton and an..... More
Paris: Chez Emery, Saugrain l'aîné, Pierre Martin, 1724. 1724-1726. Hardcover. Published as 8 volumes in 9 parts (2 parts to Volume I); missing Volume IV. All volumes: Brown leather/folio boards. Six raised bands on spines with elaborate gilt decoration and titles. Marbled end papers. Page edges colored red. Small bw..... More
Boston: Haskell Publishing Company, 1893. Hardcover. Vol. 2 only. Black library buckram. Pages 79-150 + 35 of 36 monochrome plates. Contains additional textual illustrations. Oversize. Of interest to students and connoisseurs of 19th century European and American art. It features work by artists like Edward Grutzner, David Neal, Joseph Edouard..... More
London: Macmillan & Co., 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Illus. boards with olive cloth spine, unpaginated, BW illus. A 144-verse heroic poem penned by English illustrator Walter Crane (1845-1915). The text of the poem appears in plain form first, then decorated in Crane's ornate style for the second half of the..... 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
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1864. Hardbound. Heavy embossed cover dewsigns in leather, 5 raised bands, all edges are gilt. Beautifully marbled endpapers. 91 pp + unpaginated full-page plate engravings. The last copyright date is 1864. All engravings of the early sections are within the confines or around the text..... More
Bremen: Gerhard Marcks-Stiftung, 1986. Softbound. BW thick illustrated wraps. Appx. 70 pp., 54 bw photographs and reproductions. This copy unique. Lengthy inscription in German by the artist, and an original watercolor / crayon by the artist tipped-in inside the front cover, signed and dated. A wonderful copy. More
London: George C. Leighton, 1860. Hardcover. Oversized/ folio red marble boards with red leather spine. Five raised bands on spine with gilt lettering and tooling. Decorative end pages. 640 pages (issues numbered consecutively). BW frontis and lovely bw illustrations throughout. Includes fold out color plates titled, "Imperial Stag-Hunt in the..... More
Worcester, MA: Excudebat Isaias Thomas, Jun., singulatim et numerose eo vendita officinae suae, 1800. Editio prima Americana. Leather bound. Brown leather boards with stamped design in front cover, title block on spine with gilt lettering, 478 [2] pages. Leather bound book issued in a leather slip case with extensive stamped..... More
Amsterdam: Chez Clousier; Chez David, l'aine; Chez Durand; Chez Damonneville, 1743. Leather bound. Brown leather boards, five raised bands on spine with gilt decoration and lettering, decorative end pages, red tinted block, red and black printed title page, 295 pp, several bw illustrations throughout. Text in French. Includes very early..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1911-1914. Hardcover. Each of the three volumes is bound in crisp blue publishers cloth. Each of the three is housed in it's own 3/4 leather box, where the book (in a separate green silken stiff wrap) is inserted into the rear. All three are first editions, first..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1924. Hardcover. Blue-gray paper covered boards with green cloth spine and black lettering on white paper spine label. White dust jacket with green decoration and black lettering. 287 pp. "The book contains thirty-three stories and sketches, rich in humour, passion, sympathetic insight, and responsibe to many emotional..... More
London, England: B. T. Batsford, 1876. Hardcover. Brown cloth library binding; Unpaginated, approx. 80 pp.; 36 plates. Includes a preface by the author, followed by descriptions of the plates, then the plates themselves, which feature sketches of both individual pieces of furniture and full rooms; Scarce--WorldCat currently lists only five..... More
New York: Abaris Books, 1992. Hardcover. Red cloth over boards with gilt lettering; black title plate with gilt on spine. Pages labeled 4987-5588. BW plates labeled 2210-2453, with some having several parts (a, b, etc), so over 250 plates. BW Figures labeled 141-180. Volume 10, a thick volume in a...... More
London: Nattali and Bond, 1858. Second edition, enlarged. Hardbound. Three volumes in original publishers' red boards and half-leather. A wonderful set of this attractive set. These stories harken back to Medieval times and are written in a slightly outmoded style of English. More
Lime Rock, Conn. Bernhardt Wall, 1937. Hardcover. Light gray cardboard boards with dark gray cloth tape as spine; light gray paper dust jacket, [30 pp.], 28 color etched plates. Book handmade by American etcher Bernhardt Wall (1872-1956), containing 28 of his original etchings related to this FDR trip. Most of..... More
