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
Roma (Rome), Italy: Casa Editrice Le Maschere, 1954 onward. Hardbound. Red vellum covers, printed vellum spine titles with design. Text entirely in Italian. A monumental and comprehensive dictionary of the theatre, its history and the people and places associated with it. A key source of information. More
Oakland, Calif. The Oakland Museum, [1988]. Softcover. Olive-brown & color illus. wraps, 112 pp., BW & color illus. Issued in conjunction with 1988-1989 exhibitions of works by American landscape painter Granville Redmond (1871-1935). With essays by Harvey Jones and Mary Jean Haley, and a biographical chronology by Mildred Albronda. A visual feast. More
Roma (Rome), Italy: Per cura del Ministero della pubblica istruzione, 1896. Hardbound. Blue library buckram. 349 pp., 32 bw or colored plates and many text illustrations. Text in Italian. Essential and rare reference work. Articles by Enrico Ridolfi (who reorganized the Uffizi), Adolfo Venturi, Giulio Carotti, G. Cantalamessa, Lucio Mariani... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1884. Hardcover. Forest green pebbled cloth, gilt letters on spine, 458 pp. plus ads, 252 BW woodcuts. An outstanding history of something we take for granted. Originated in French by Emile Alglave and J. Boulard; translated here by T. O'Conor Sloane and edited with... More
Parma, Italy: Franco Maria Ricci Editore, 1974. Hardcover. Black silk over boards; Sepia-tone photo plate affixed to front cover; 189 pp.; 41 photographic plates tipped in. Text in Italian; A collection of Lewis Carroll's letters to and photos of assorted women and girls who served as friends, inspiration, and subjects... More
New York: Abaris Books, 1985. Hardcover. Brown cloth with gilt letters and lines on spine and front cover, 359 pp., 300+ BW illus. Part of a lengthy series of illustrated picture atlases presenting the reproduction of prints rendered by European masters. Once based primarily on the compilations created by Austrian... More
Torino, Italy: Edizioni d'arte Fratelli Pozzo, circa 1973 (?). Hardcover. Color illus. paper over boards with beige title plate affixed to front; Portfolio with 10 loose folded sheets inside; Lined with off-white cloth; 10 color plates. Ten constellation illustrations from the original 1603 edition of Uranometria, a star atlas by Johannes Bayer. More
Albuquerque: The Pushkin Collection, 1998. Hardcover. Putty cloth over boards with color pictorial dj; unpaginated, with 104 color plates interspersed with essay material. Text in English. A beautiful book, the first in any language, about the life and work of Nikolai Efimovich Timkov. Filled with biographical essay material and photographs... More
1956. Softbound. Printed wraps. [36] pp., many bw reproductions. This entire issue is devoted to the Russian writer Mayakovsky. Scarce. Includes much on his interactions with Burliuk, and Burliuk's art. More
Paris: A. Quantin, 1880-1882. Third edition. Hardbound. 2 vols. Red library buckram, gilt letters on spine. V1: 480 pp. 35 photogravures. V2: 474 pp. 35 photogravures; set weighs 12.5 lbs. Text is in French. A two-volume set that addresses Art and Artists of the 18th Century. Volume 1 contains chapters... More
Napoli (Naples), Italy: Presso Giuseppe Marghieri Editore, n/d (c 1875). Hardcover. Brown/olive marbled boards with taupe cloth spine. No cover/spine lettering. Title page and index of illustrations followed by 26 duotone plates. Text in Italian. Lithographs of antique and "modern" ornamentation from the main eras of art, compiled by Andrea... More
New york: John Wiley & Son, 1870. Green publishers' cloth with gilt design and title on spine, beveled boards. xxiv, 1098 pp, 4 pp. ads at rear. Index to different fruits goes from pp. 1013-1095, General Index frpm pp. 1096-1098. Single-sheet notice on the Fruits of California immediately following the... More
New York, New York: Amphoto, 1961. Hardcover. Color illus. paper over boards; BW pictorial dj. with red and black lettering; 14 pp. plus plates; 90 bw plates. Preface by Lawrence Durrell; Introduction by Chapman Mortimer; A collection of nudes by Bill Brandt, most well known for his photos of London... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1989. Hardcover. Color illus. cloth; Clear plastic dj.; 448 pp.; 429 plates and figures, 262 color plates and 167 bw plates; weighs 9.5 lbs. A beautiful and enormous tome that showcases the work of abstract expressionist Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011), from the early 1950s through... More
New York: Fords, Howard & Hulbert, 1890. Hardcover. 4 vols. Brown stamped cloth, viii. 318 pp. total, many BW illus.; the volumes being held together by a white tie. OVERSIZE AA1. An original four-volume set of the work illustrated and written by Edwin Forbes (1839-1895), who was attached to the... More
New York, New York: The Publishers Printing Co., 1908 (1906). First. Hardcover. New brown spine with period embossing, original tan cloth boards with embossing and BW decoration. 319 pp. Very many BW illustrations. Very rare first edition. Harry Houdini's extensive research on his former hero and idol and the source... More
New York: Ernest Knaufft, 1894. 1894 - 1897. Pamphlet. Twenty-four issues from the period of July 1894 to March 1897. Each ivory stapled wraps, paginated consecutively over all volumes, from page 30 to 812 (although not all pages are present, as not all volumes printed within that time are present);... 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, 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: 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
Paris: Librairie centrale des Beaux-Arts, 1902, circa. Softbound. Paper covered oversize wraps. xi, [1], 273 pp, with numerous text illustrations and 20 pages of photogravure illustrations on thick-stock. The second part of a two-part publication. This part, complete in and of itself, covers the 17th and 18th centuries. Text in... More
Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1872, circa. Softcover. Printed wraps. 72 small original lithographs on 18 pp, preceded by text and list of pictures offered. An exceedingly rare item published by the author. Comprised of 72 small stone lithographic reproductions of studio paintings by the author / illustrator. These pictures had previously... More
Rome: Forzani & Co., printers, 1911. Softbound. Tan printed wraps with very old tape along most of spine. 80 pp., This catalogue and exhibition represented the first large-scale representation of prevailing American Taste in Europe since the 1900 Paris Exposition. 731 works were presented by representative artists of the day... More
