Boston: William Guild, 1852-1853. Hardbound. 3/4 black leather with 4 raised bands. Four serial volumes bound into one. 192, 188, 188, 188 pp., A rare children's periodical compounded in value by both the presence of two entire years' worth here, and it's beautiful leather binding. One steel engraving per volume as a frontispiece. More
London: The Royal Society (John Martyn, Printer), 1668. Softbound. 24 cream rag pages, string sewn binding; black text with no illustrations. Page numbered from 789 - 812. (Stored in a plain, dark brown paper wrapper, unmarked). Complete issue in itself (number 40) but likely disbound from a larger volume of... More
New York: Abbeville Press, 1988. first edition. Hardbound. Blue patterned cloth volumes contained in blue cloth, gilt and color embossed firm slipcase. Volume I: [12], 13- 703 pp., 396 illustrations, many in glossy color. Volume 2: [viii]. pp. 713-1311, illustration nos.397-700, plus glossary with figures, index. A sumptuous, luxurious set... 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
Washington, DC: Liberty Loan Committee, 1918. James Montgomery Flagg. Softcover. Brown paper stapled wraps with black lettering; 42 pp. with 21 bw illustrations. A propaganda pamphlet about Uncle Sam, the US government, and WWII, with illustrations on the left pages and text on the right pages. Quite a piece of history. More
Paris / London: Librairie de L'Art, Remington and Co. 1883. Signed. Hardcover. Green buckram boards, [viii] 45 p. 9 plates with etchings and tissue protectors, 33 engravings, frontispiece, additional decorative engravings. Etchings from celebrated pictures and numerous illustrations on wood and in facsimile. Signed by the author with an inscription to a friend. More
Buenos Aires: Emece Editores, 1964. Hardbound. 2 vols. Brown cloth with brown leather spine with gilt lettering. Volume 1: 236 pp. color frontispiece, no other illustrations. Volume 2: OVERSIZE GA1. This is a set of two volumes, lacking a slipcase which may have contained them. Volume I is the text... More
New York: Collectors Editions Ltd. / Da Capo Press, 1968-1969. Reprint. Hardcover. 32 vols. Brown cloth, maroon title blocks on spines, gilt letters on spines and front covers; various paginations, many BW illus. Text is in French. The complete 32-volume reprint set of this voluminous analysis of the artwork rendered... More
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers, 1969. Hardbound. Black cloth with white & color illustrated dust jacket. 407 text pp., followed by 160 pp. of bw plates. The original and still standard work on this topic. First edition of this scarce and invaluable handbook of white porcelain. Covers the kilns... More
Philadelphia: Everts & Stewart, 1875. Original - not a reprint. Folio. Elephant folio (14.5 x 17.5 inches). Decorative maroon cloth/boards; quarter black leather. xii + 50 pp. with 47 maps with at least some color (some with multiples on same page) and several lithographic views. Errata sheet tipped in. No... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1888. Aquarelle Edition. Hardcover. Black library buckram. 80 pp + plates. 41 tissue guarded plates (12 repeated in color). Oversize (elephant folio). Very interesting resource for a connoisseur or student of 19th century American art. This increasingly scare edition was limited to 75 copies... More
[New York]: American Art Association, Inc. 1928. 85/500 copies. Hardcover. Original binding of chocolate laid paper/boards; gilt lettering and insignia; ivory paper spine. Bw frontis portrait of E.H. Gary, with tissue guard. [90] pp. including 34 full-page plates with tissue guards. A bit heavy at 5 pounds and will require... More
New York: Collectors Editions Ltd. 1970. Reprint of: Wien : Gesellschaft für vervielfältigende Kunst, 1908-1934. Hardcover. All volumes: Cream linen/boards; maroon faux leather spines with black title block; silver lettering. No dust jackets. Missing Volume 10 (Plates). Vol. I: xi + 380 pp. with 37 bw line drawings. Vol. II... More
Moskva-Leningrad: Izdatels'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, 1961. Hardbound. Dark blue boards with gold lettering and ridged designs on spine, 498pp, prolific BW plates, illustrations and figures; small addenda slip tipped-in. TEXT IS IN RUSSIAN.This volume includes a wonderful and very informative text on history and ethnographic study in Siberia. It is... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Hardbound. Red cloth with gold lettering; cream pictorial dj with black and red lettering; 502 pp. with 368 bw illustrations. Heavy and will require extra postage. The Royal Collection at Windsor numbers over 800, the largest and most representative by Guercino and his school in... More
Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 1947. Hardcover. Portfolio. Three-quarters gray paper boards with sage green cloth spine & edges. 20 pp. stapled pamphlet, 16 of original 25 plates in paper frames. OVERSIZE. Text is in English and German. A portfolio of art pieces created by 25 artists who were living in... More
Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1972. Hardcover. Brown cloth, with decoration on front cover, 304 pp. 100s of bw plates. A comprehensive treatment of works by German-American artist Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956). Introduction is in German and English, as is most of the text. A very well assembled catalogue. Rare. More
Berlin, Germany: Verlag von Hans Schoetz & Co. / Staatliche Museen Zu Berlin, 1928. Hardcover. Dark green cloth, gilt letters on spine & front cover, 46 pp. + 56 BW plates, 14 BW illus. in text. Text is in German. Series: Katalog der Sammlung Antiker Skulpturen, Band I. A catalog... More
Zurich, Switzerland: Verlag Berichthaus, 1973. Hardcover. 2 vols. Gray cloth, gilt letters on red blocks on spines, slick gray & illus. dust jackets, 740 pp. (v.1) + 613 BW plates (v.2), weighs 13 lbs. Text is in German. A catalog raisonne of work by Swiss painter John Heinrich "Henry" Fussli... More
no place: no publisher, 1913, circa. Hardcover. Blue cloth with gilt title on spine. 173 pp., few bw illustrations. Research indicates strongly that C.R.T. is Clayton R. Truesdale, or Dr. Clayton R. Truesdale from Fremont, Ohio. The letters published in this book were written between Nov. 18, 1911 and June... More
Agnese Udinotti, [1975?]. Softcover. Portfolio. Trifold gray and white paper wraps, 33 leaves, 2 original watercolors. Text is in English. On the front cover: "God, from the top of your mountains the heart can expand and see the timeless existence, a myriad of centuries full of compassion compiled rock upon... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1859. Hardcover. Blue cloth/boards; quarter leather with gilt spine lettering. 864 pp. with 426 bw illus. Table of Contents listed in alphabetical order. Each issue included the Editor's Easy Chair, Editor's Foreign Bureau, Editor's Table, Editor's Drawer, Fashions. Interesting articles, among many, include Christian Martyrs... More
Sankt Peterburg: A. F. Marksa, 1901. Hardcover. The complete, original individual paper wraps of the 1901 run of this periodical and supplement, all bound together in stunning, blue cloth/boards, decorated with highly-stylized image and gold title block with black (old style) Cyrillic lettering. Paginated consecutively over the year's run (804... More
New York: D. Appleton & Co. Publishers, 1866. Hardcover. Three-quarters reddish cloth with brown board spine, gilt letters on front cover, unpaginated, BW engravings. Title on front cover: Gems of Penmanship by Williams & Packard. A 19th-century study book of styles, fonts, flourishes, and techniques of lettering. Makes you realize... More
