Cooperstown, NY: New York State Historical Association, 1930-1997. KAVE. Softcover. A combination of 78 loose issues and one bound volume (in black library buckram). This incomplete but substantial run covers Vols. 11-78 (1930-1977). One bound volume contains Vol. 69, 1988. The loose issues run as follows: Vol. 11:3,4; Vol. 19:1;..... More
New York: Roerich Museum, 1929, October. Softbound. Green wraps with red printing. 14 pp., 5 large bw plates. This exhibition was the first exhibition held at the newly opened Roerich Museum in NYC on Riverside Drive, in the Master Apartments constructed there by Roerich. Laid in with this copy is..... 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
Paris: Cercle d'Art, 1962. Hardcover. Cream cloth boards with red and green illustration. Yellow paper and green cloth-covered hardshell slipcase with black and white illustration and black lettering. 35, 165 pp. BW and color illustrations. Text in French. Contains list of drawings and paintings. More
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J. B. Lippincott & Co., circa 1870s? Hardcover. Blue cloth over boards; Gilt and black titling and decoration at spine and front cover; All edges gilt; 61 pp.; 13 bw plates. Includes descriptions of the works, as well as a biographical sketch of the artist, by James Dafforne;..... More
Barcelona: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, 2003. Softbound. Color pictorial wraps. 567pp with 171 color and 232 bw plates. Text in Spanish, with an English translation on pages 497-567. Explores the life and work of the versatile and gifted 19th-century Spanish artist, Mariano Fortuny Marsal, who painted orientalist, genre and..... More
Paris: Louis Carre. Softcover. Yellow wraps, glassine dust jacket, 62 pp., 7 color lithographs, 3 BW drawings. Text is in French. Subtitle on cover: Il construit un tableau, un epi, une rose, un visage, un sein nu. A tribute to the work of French cubist painter Jacques Villon, born Gaston..... More
Farnborough: Gregg Press Limited, 1967. Hardbound. Claret cloth with gold lettering; unpaginated with approx. 600 pp. and two gatefolds;. A facsimile of the original edition, published in Trevoux in 1725; with an introductory note by Sir Anthony Blunt; text in French. 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
Bruxelles (Brussels), Belgium: Hotel Drouot, 1982. Hardcover. Original grey, oversize boards with brown leather spine/corners and gilt lettering. Unpaginated with approx. 220 pp. Included are 76 plates (inc. 46 and 46 bis), numbered 1 through 75, with 8 double-page plates. Most plates in duotone but 13 in color. With tissue..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1969 (circa). Limited edition of 1800 copies, unnumbered copy from publisher's estate. Hardcover. Stunning edition with full brown leather binding, marbled end papers, gilt decoration on front cover, 7 raised bands on spine with elaborate gilt design, blue leather spine label with gilt titling.348 pp...... More
Neuchatel, Switzerland: Ides et Calendes, 1985. Hardbound. Light green cloth with Light green, color illustrated dustjacket. 360 pp., 32 full-page color and hundreds of smaller bw illustrations. Text entirely in French. A vital reference of 19th Century French Landscape painters. More
Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1955. Hardcover. Charcoal gray stamped cloth boards, gilt letters on spine, gilt decoration on front cover; 280 pp., many BW illus. The twelfth volume of an eventual 72-volume set providing details about the lives and works of Dutch and Flemish artists who produced prints, etchings, engravings and..... More
NY: Trow Press, 1907. Hardcover. Green cloth with monochrome plate on front. 65 pp. 27 bw plates. Uncommon auction catalogue. Auction was proceeded by exhibition at the Fifth Avenue Art Galleries. 141 lots sold by auctioneer James P. Silo, including paintings by Constable, Corot, Gainsborough, Le Brun, Reynolds, and Turner..... More
New York: Shepherd Gallery, Associates, [1977]. Paperback. Tan stapled wraps with color illustration, brown lettering. [12] pp. No illustraitons. "This exhibition catalog of bronzes by Antoine-Louis Barye is in actuality the catalog of a single collection. The collection sets forth not only the richly varied subjects from the work of..... More
Munich: Prestel, 2002. Paperback. Glossy color-illustrated dust jacket with white and forest freen lettering. 223 pp. Color and BW illustrations. Portraits. Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institue from June 16 to September 2, 2002. More
London: Macmillan & Co., 1894. Hardcover. Red clay cloth/boards. Added yellow cloth spine with original title block overlaid. viii + 307 pp. with 75 bw illus. An amazing architectural, decorative, historical description of Sancta Sophia, including her situation in Byzantium and Constantinople and as the first church there. Certainly, anyone..... More
Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 1973. Three volumes in 4 physical books. See description below. Text in German, though Volume I has a brief summary at the beginning of the book which is in English; Volume II has brief summaries in French and in English. Vol. 1 (1973): ISBN 0378661399, lxxxix..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press / Oxford University Press, 1981. 403/1000. Hardbound. Red cloth with gilt-embossed design; top edge gilt. xii + 150pp; 12 color plates with 192 bw illustrations. Housed in a board slipcase covered with oatmeal linen. Oversize and heavy and will require extra postage. (14 x 20 inches; 12..... More
New York: Pierogi Press, 1998. Paperback. Stapled wraps. 72 pp., few illustrations. Cover artwork is a color lithograph by Andrew Moszynski. Unsigned and unnumbered, but one of 450 copies. Scarce. More
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1889. Standard Library Edition. Hardcover. 22 vols. Turquoise marbled boards, 3/4 leather spines and corners; gilt letters and decoration on spines; gilt top edges; matching marbled flyleaves; various paginations; BW plates as frontispieces and BW illus within texts. The complete 22-volume set..... More
London: Ernest Benn, Ltd., 1926. Folio. Board folio of green cloth and decorative green/yellow/red paper. Green gros-grain ribbone closure. Text booklet of 32 pp. with occasional bw illus.; 92/96 color plates. A fascinating study of the sumptuous, colorful native/folk dress of the Eastern Europeans. Included are examples for both women..... More
Boston, MA: Porter E Sargent, 1914. First edition. Hardcover. Grey embossed paper-covered boards with white paper label on spine (extra label at rear of book) in chipped and cracked but mostly complete printed and illustrated dustjacket. (132) pp., with munted frontis and several other mounted plates. This copy quite notable..... More
London: Day and Son, 1853. Hardcover. Dark brown textured boards with ornate gilt decoration and lettering. Brown leather spine/corners. 78 color plates (numbered 80-157). Unpaginated but with approx. 80 pp. text interspersed between plates. AEG. Oversize and heavy. Will require extra postage. Chromolithographed title page and stunning, vivid color lithographs..... More
