Milano: Libreria di Francesco Sanvito, 1859. Hardbound. Marbleized boards with green leather spine and gold lettering; 558 pp. with numerous color plates and bw illustrations. This volume is devoted to the fashions of France, Russia, England, Germany, Austria, and Turkey. Text in Italian. More
London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1844. First. Hardcover. Original brown cloth boards, elaborately tooled; [viii] 532 pp. [32 pp. publisher's ads]; unillustrated. This Original-edition volume includes the following chapters: Causes of the commencement and rupture of the negotiation for peace in 1806 between England and France, Transactions until the..... More
Octoraro, PA: Francis Bailey, 1804. Hardcover. Brown calf leather covered boards with gilt spine lettering. iv, 530, viii, 13 unnumbered pages. "Passed at a Session, Which Was Begun and Held at the Borough of Lancaster, on the Sixth Day of December, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight..... More
Friborg, France: Office du Livre, 1968. Hardcover. Navy boards with gilt design and lettering. Glossy color-illustrated, red, and white dust jacket with white lettering. Blue cardboard slipcase 339 pp. BW and some color illustrations. Text in French. Catalogue of contents of Waddeston Manor, part of a bequest to the National..... More
NY: Christie's, 1996. Hardcover. Grey cloth. Black illustrated dust jacket. 226 pp. Profusely illustrated in color. In English and Chinese. Includes price list. September 1996 auction catalogue featuring 107 lots from The Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, 1990-1996. The California museum concentrated on Ming-style furniture of the 16th, 17th, and..... More
Taschen, 1996. Softbound. Color illustrated glossy wraps. Around 700 pages, but whose counting? Well-over 1000 bw and color plates, but who can count them all? This copy, not numbered, is signed in blue ink or marker by both Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Noty hardcover, and not slipcase apparent or present. One..... More
Paris: Maurice le Garrec, 1928. Softcover. Basic white card wraps with black lettering and glassine covers; Vol. I - 432 pp.; no images; Vol. II - 550 pp. with no images; Vol. III (Table) - 198 pp. with no images. No. 213/525. Text primarily in French but with the occasional..... More
Paris: Editions de Chroniques du Jour, 1938. Paperback. White blue and green wraps with black and green lettering. 51 pp. BW illustrations, quadrichromie print by Dali and color lithograph by Pascin. Text in French. Includes articles by Georges Duthuit, Pierre Gueguen, Kandinksy, Pierre Courthion, Giorgio de Chirico, Raymond Cogniat, Le..... More
Boston: George H. Polley & Co., 1896. Hardcover. Tan buckram/boards with gilt lettering on spine; introductory page, list of plates, and 66 single-sided bw plates. Oversize and heavy and will require extra postage. Illustrated survey of colonial furnishings as they appeared in their colonial interiors. Photographs selected from mansions in..... More
Paris: Editions Quatre Chemins, 1931. Hardcover. Original card wraps with black and red lettering in glassine jacket with added homemade cardboard cover with turquoise lettering. 39 pg. including handcolored frontispiece. XLVII plates. Number 58 of an edition of 355 copies. Text in French. More
Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1956. Hardcover. Charcoal cloth boards with gilt stamped decoration and spine lettering. Gray paper dust jacket with black lettering. 212 pp. BW illustrations. The fourteenth volume of an eventual 72-volume set providing details about the lives and works of Dutch and Flemish artists who produced prints, etchings..... More
London: R. Faulder, 1794, 1799. Hardbound. Full red leather with gilt design around cover borders inside and out, five raised bands with elaborate gilt devices and tooling, all edges gilt. Marbled end papers. Personal bookplate, with coat-of-arms, of Luke, Lord Clonbrock on front end paper of each volume (Luke Gerald..... More
London: James Nisbet and Company, Limited, 1905. Hardcover. Olive green boards with gilt and embossed lettering and decoration. xi, 270 pp. 20 plates. "This edition is limited to 375 copies. The number of this copy is 46." Illustrations by David Cameron Young. More
London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 1997. Hardbound. 2 vols. Black cloth, red title blocks with gilt letters on spines, white & red dust jackets, 520 total pp., with 228 BW plates in vol. I. 2 vols. Part of the large series "Corpus Rubenianum", Part XIII: Details "Rubens's interest in history, particularly..... More
Milan: Committee for the Preservation of Arab Monuments, 1925. Hardcover. Green paper over boards with dark green cloth spine. 64 pp. text followed by 113 bw plates. Text in French. Monograph on the White and Red Monasteries near Sohag. Includes bw photographs, floor plans and more, as well as the..... More
NY: Charles Scribner, 1937. First American. Hardcover. Bronze cloth, green lettering red and green characters. xviii, 193 pp. 39 color, 183 bw. Internally, this is a VG copy. Covers look good, outer hinges theadbare in a few spots. More
Novara: Istituto Geografico de Agostini, 1988. (Signed). Slipcased. Black boards; silver lettering. Black/silver dj with color image. In matching slipcase. 381 pp. with 16 color plates and 63 bw figures. Laid in is a copy of Artibus et Historiae (an art anthology), published by IRSA 1999, Vienna-Cracow. This edition deals..... More
1966. Softcover. Color wraps. 100+ pp. Profuse bw plates. Accompanied a 1966 exhibition that featured works by Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, Nicholas de Stael, Richard Diebenkorn, Jasper Johns, Giorgio Morandi, Andy Warhol, and others; Cover is an original design by Diter Rot, who has numbered and initialed this copy, #301/1000;..... More
Pfälzische Verlagsanstalt, 1983. Hardcover. Grey cloth with color illustrated glossy dustjackets. 4185 pages in total, chiefly illustrations in BW and color. The text of this monumental set is entirely in German. Contents of the individual volumes as follows: Volume 1: J.A. Backer, L.C. van Beyeren, F. Bol, A. van Borssom..... More
San Francisco: Paul Elder and Co., 1915. Hardcover. 2 vols. Brown paper stamped boards with vellum spine, gilt letters on spine, gilt top edges, 482+ total pp., 192 bw plates. Two volume set: Vol. 1 (xix, 233) and Vol. 2 (vi, 252). The first 75 pages of Vol. 1 contain..... More
Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1782. Hardcover. Brown leather boards with gilt stamped maroon label on spine and four bands on spine. 100 pp. Text only. First complete edition. Contents: Canto First, or The Town-Meeting, AM. Canto Second, or The Town-Meeting, PM. Canto Third, or The Liberty Pole. Canto Fourth, or..... More
Culver, Ind. Culver Academies, 1996. Reprint Edition, reduced size, of 1900 book. Hardcover. Burgundy leather, gilt letters on spine, unpaginated, [200+ pp.], 1 color plate, many duotone illus. Copy #90 of 250 of this Limited Edition. A reprint of Marius Vachon's 1900 book about William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Translation by John Chadwick..... More
London: Merrill and Baker, 1901, 1902. Hardbound. 3/4 brown cloth portfolios with vellum covers. an exception set, with exceptional weight. The books are elephant folio in size. More
London: T. Letchworth, 1775. Hardbound. Quarter leather with marbleized end papers; 319 pp. with no illustrations. In excellent condition, considering its age; end papers may be newer; includes diaries with entries about travel between England and New England. More
