Boston: "All the Booksellers" 1846. Revised. Softcover. Off-white wraps; 48 pp.; No illustrations; Presently in a protective portfolio of off-white heavy stock with green cloth at spine. Full title: Our First Men: A Calendar of Wealth, Fashion and Gentility, Containing a List of Those Persons Taxed in the City of..... More
Boston: Charles Stimpson, 1843. Hardcover. Newer boards covers and cloth spine with gilt title and ruling. 542 pp., Contains 20,930 whole names. A lovely copy. No ads are present, as mentioned in other copies. 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
Milano: XXe siècle, 1966. Hardcover. Color-illustrated boards with white spine and black lettering in mylar cover. xi, 120 pp. Profusely illustrated in BW and some color. Text in French. Part of 20th century series. More
Moscow: State Publishing House of Fine Arts, 1937. Two Volumes. Volume 1: 287 pp. with profuse illustratioons, some in color. Volume 2: 314 pp., profusely illustrated in bw, some color. Text is entirely in Russian. From His First Work to the Period of Maturity (and) From the First Portraits Painted..... More
none stated; likely London: none stated, 1840. First. Hardbound. Dark blue library buckram boards (re-binding), 60pp, 60 BW etchings. There are 60 plates listed over the general 59 due to the title "page" really being more of a plate than anything. This book is a compilation of work by Henry..... More
London: Bell and Daldy, 1873. Hardcover. Black library buckram. Frontispiece, title page, index, and 8 pp intro followed by textual descriptions and corresponding plates. 22 BW plates are pasted in. Oversize. Correggio's Parma frescoes, which were engraved by Paolo Toschi, and photographed by Stephen Thompson for this book from prints..... More
Tralee, Ireland: Churchhill House Press, 2007. Hardcover. light blue cloth boards. 349 pgs w/ illustrations. pictorial dustjacket. Michael Stapleton (1747-1801) was the most skilled stuccodor working in the neoclassical or ‘Adam’ style that dominated Dublin interior decoration in the final decades of the eighteenth century. Although the astonishing quality and..... More
London: Day & Son, Lithographers To The Queen, 1862. Leather bound. 3/4 brown leather with 5 raised bands, gilt title on spine and date at base ein gilt. Marbled boardd and endpapers. Part 1: xvi, 342pp., [ii pp. colophon]; Part 2: xiv, pp. 345-836pp., half-titles, engraved map, 13 lithographed plates..... More
Summit, New Jersey: Hickok-Bockus, 1994. 160/200 Special Binding, signed by John Ordeman. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with 3/4 brown leather and gilt printing on spine. Boxed in green cloth over board slipcase with gilt lettering. 446p. 355 b+w prints. Very attractive and comprehensive catalog of the work of Frank W...... More
1792 onward. Leather bound. Full leather (worn). Pagination as follows: tract 1: 76 pp. Tract 2: vii, (1), pp. 9-91, (5) pp. Tract 3: half-title ("Paine's Rights of Man, Part The Third), tp, 38 pp. Tract 4: 40 pp. No ffep or half-title to first tract, which is erroneously dated..... More
Paris: Les Ateliers de Daniel Jacomet, 1965. Softcover. Tan illustrated canvas notebook (measuring 4x3 in), unpaginated, in color illustrated cardboard envelope (measuring 5 1/2 x 4 1/2 in), all in printed plexiglass case with black and red lettering. "The Notebook of Notebooks" Facsimile of an illustrated Picasso notebook, given to..... More
Venice, Italy: Alfieri, 1976. Hardcover. Slipcase covered with colored paper; Goldish-brown cloth over boards; Matching dj. with off-white lettering; 419 (vol. I), unpaginated, approx. 600 pp. (vol. II); 24 color plates (vol. I), 1,079 bw figures (vol. II). Text in Italian. A wonderful set of Veronese's works. Extensive text. Nice..... More
Chicago: Caxton Club, 1898. Hardcover. Salmon cloth boarsd with black-lettered white paper label. 32 pp. 20 numbered pages of plates. Facsimiles. One of 186 copies. "The facsimiles of the six Poe manuscripts are made by the courtesy of Mr. Charles L. Hutchinson, owner of the originals"-Note, page 7. More
London: Thomas McLean, 1841, 1842, 1845, 1848. Hardcover. Each vol: green cloth, red leather spine, gilt lettering, decorative or illustrated title pages, tissue guards over each plate. Series (vol) 1: 24 plates (mostly two- or three-tones, 4 chromolithographs) + TP and dedication, with smaller-size explanation of plates bound in. Series..... More
Torino: Umberto Allemandi & C., 1994. Slipcased. All volumes: pale aqua boards/black lettering. Matching matte dj with red/black lettering. Housed in a slipcase with grey cloth/boards; aqua paper layovers to match the dust jackets, with color images. Black ribbon to help with removal of books. Vol. I: 190 text pages..... More
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1974. Hardcover. Beige stamped cloth, blue and illus. dust jacket with mylar cover; 180 pp., 130+ BW and color illus., 1 original lithograph; held in original cardboard slipcase. On front cover: Chagall, Lithographs IV. The fourth in a six-volume series devoted to the lithographs produced..... More
New York: Abaris Books, 1979. Hardcover. Volume 2 ONLY Red cloth over boards with gilt lettering; black title plate with gilt on spine. Pages labeled 614-1136 with 100s of bw reproductions. Volume 2 ONLY. Explanatory Remarks, then sections on Anthonie Van Borssom, Johannes Colaert, Lambert Doomer and Jacob Van Dorsten..... More
Japan: late 19th centuiry. Softbound. Goldish (worn) brocade covers. 17 folds of dual-page images. Old invoice in the book attributes the book to Taki Katei (1830-1901) with a "?" and says it is sign ....katei go. A very nice specimen. More
Topsfield, Massachusetts: The Wayside Press, 1927. Hardcover. Black and white marbled boards, black spine with white title plate and black lettering, bw frontispiece original photo laid-in, 33 pp and 8 additional original bw photographs laid-in. Full title page: The Walpole Society Note Book. The Annual Meeting at New York February..... More
London: Elkin Mathews, 1914. Hardcover. Blue cloth with gilt embossed tree on fron cover, gilt title along thin spine. 64 pp., no illustrations. This was Weber's first book. With a prefatory note by Alvin Langdon Coburn. A very nice copy from old bookstore stock, never read. It collects 38 poems..... More
Braunschweig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1967. Original. Hardcover. Pumpkin cloth/boards; gilt lettering. Glossy, pale grey dj with sculptural image. 539 pp. with 576 bw illus. 6 pounds and may require extra postage. Text in German. Comprehensive book about European bronzes of the 15th-18th centuries. Covers those of Italy, Germany, Netherlands, and..... More
1980. Hardbound. Half blue leather-like cloth and pictorial glossy boards. Contained in a flawless illustrated, sturdy slipcase. 475 pages, of which 400 are photographs. Photography by Ishimoto, Yasuhiro. A stunning and breathtaking (and decidedly rare) examination of Islamic design through the selective and discerning lense of Yasuhiro Ishimoto. A brief..... More
Paris: Editions Cahiers D'Art, 1970. Softcover. Stiff white glued wraps 172 pp, 10 page listing of plates, 484 illustrations. Text is entirely in French. This is Volume 22, of the 33 physical volumes of the entire set. More
