New York: Art Digest, Inc., 1929-1956. KAVE. Hardbound. 18 Light red cloth bound volumes. This complete set occupies 4 feet of shelf space. Contains issues ranging from Vol 3/7 to 31/3. A key resource for American Art happenings and activities for the time periods published. More about Art Digest (Set, 1929-1956
Philadelphia, PA: J. C. Kayser, 1823. Hardbound. Newly bound in embossed brown textured cloth with center gilt title, gilt title and date on spine. Engraved title page and simple title page. viii, 242, 41 pp., six engraved plates plus engraved title page. Includes elaborately engraved plates for the states of... More about Commercial Directory; Containing A Topographical Description Extent
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807. Hardbound. 3/4 leather with five raised bands and decorated compartments. T.e.g. Unpaginated, see notes. Well-illustrated. This unique book is an accumulation of several different editions of this book, illustrated by Flaxman. Other editions bound into this book are: Bohn, London 1854; Batelli and... More about Compositions by John Flaxman, Sculptor, R.A. from The Divine Poem of Dante Alighieri, containing...
New York: The Anderson Galleries, 1915. Softcover. Tan wraps, 105 pp.; bw frontis and 7 additional bw plates. "Catalogue of the Interesting and Valuable Egyptian Collection formed by Mr. Robert de Rustafjaell." An auction catalog from November 1915. Robert de Rustafjaell was "a Bey of the Imperial Ottoman Empire, a.... More about The Egyptian Collection formed by Mr. Robert de Rustafjaell
Paris: XXe siècle, 1966. Hardcover. White boards with color-illustration and black lettering on spine. Mylar cover. 104, [68] pages, [19] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits. Includes original lithographs by Chagall and da Silva. "The masters of the imaginary, Marc Chagall. Inventory of African art, doors with reliefs... More about XXe siècle: Les Maîtres de l'Imaginaire, Marc Chagall, Inventaire de l'art Africain, Portes à...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. Hardbound. Three volumes, in original shipping container. A massive 3-volume set, in the original shipping container. Never read. A compiled description as follows: First edition, first printing. Three volumes, sharing the following format: Hardcover. Fine beige cloth-covered boards with title debossed on cover and... More about Robert Adams: the Place We Live, a Retrospective Selection of Photographs, 1964-2009. Three Volumes
London: John Murray, 1823. Original. Hardcover. Maroon/brown embossed cloth/boards. Gilt lettering on spines. Each volume numbered individually, (around 260-275 each; Vols. III and V have slightly over 300 pages each), and none include any illustrations. A complete set of this classic, epic poem which is a parody of the legends... More about The Orlando Furioso (8 Volumes
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 about German and Netherlandish Masters of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (The Illustrated...
Vancouver: Bau-Xi Gallery, 2012. Hardcover. Glossy, black boards with red/white lettering. Color-illustrated dj with white spine lettering. 344 pp. with over 200 color images throughout. Large format; 8 pounds. Published with the cooperation of artist Bratsa Bonifacho (b. 1937) to mark the 40th anniversary of his immigration to Canada. Several... More about Bonifacho Retrospective: 1973-2013, 40 Years In Vancouver
London: William Clowes and Sons, 1870. Hardcover. Burgundy cloth with leather back and corners. 29 pp + 75 plates (monochrome lithographs). Protected in red buckram library wrapper and slipcase. Oversize. Architectural studies of 13th-century buildings and furnishings by William Burges, compiled during his travels in the 1850s. Printed for subscribers... More about Architectural Drawings
L'Auteur: Paris, [1833]. Hardbound. 1/2 blue patterned cloth with marbled boards, leather label with gilt lettering, and additional device on spine. 97 pp., foolowed by 39 plates, thus extra-illustrated. One plate is folding. A very scarce item in very nice condition. Intermittent foxing and inconsistent foxing to plates, at least... More about Monumens de sculpture, peinture, architecture, etc., de l'ancien Comtat Venaissin et des villes...
London: Williams and Norgate Ltd, 1910. Hardcover. Stiff boards. Burgundy cloth over spine. 75 pp. Oversize. More about Spencer's Descriptive Sociology: A Cyclopedia of Social Facts. No. 10, Greeks: Hellenic Era
NY: Chas. D. Lakey, 1881. Hardcover. Black cloth/leather. vii, 223 pp. 93 full-page bw plates. This handsome volume contains the monthly issues of the Builder and Wood-Worker Journal of Industrial Art from Jan. 1881 to Dec. 1881. Each issue contains excellent full-page lithographs and articles that address the needs and... More about Builder and Wood-Worker for 1881: A Journal of Industrial Art Devoted to the Building,...
Berlin: Verlag Heinrich Keller, 1933. Hardbound. Off-white boards with gold lettering, [xxii], (93), 152 pp, 152 BW plates, several BW illustrations. Text in German. Each plate number has a corresponding annotation in the beginning of the volume; within the introduction there is the life and artistic activity of Dosio among... More about Das Skizzenbuch des Giovannantonio Dosio
Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Hardcover. Orange, color-illustrated dustjacket over orangish cloth, gilt lettering. xiv, 273 pp. 1 color, 149+ bw plates. Contents as follows: Some thoughts on writing a history of Sienese altarpieces / H.W. van Os -- The Renaissance altarpiece : a valid category? / Paul Hills... More about The Altarpiece in the Renaissance
University of the State of New York, 1901. Hardbound. Original plain cloth covered boards. Title page, 12 large (21.5" x 26") colored map plates. Apparently quite rare. No sales history found on this volume, holdings are limited to Library of Congress and Freiberg University library in Germany (according to Worldcat)... More about Geologic Map of New York exhibiting the Structure of the State so far as known
Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1872, circa. Hardbound. Green embossed cloth. 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... More about Land and Sea: A Collection by Edward Moran
Los Angeles, Calif. Cotsen Occasional Press, 1999. Hardcover. Goldenrod cloth, gilt letters on spine & front cover, color pictorial dust jacket, 392 pp., profusely illus. in color; weighs 9 lbs. OVERSIZE. "Surveys nineteenth- and twentieth-century baskets of Japan, their place in history, and the elevation of bamboo craft work to... More about Japanese Bamboo Baskets: Masterworks of Form & Texture, from the collection of Lloyd Cotsen
Fribourg: Office du Livre, 1977. Hardcover. Red cloth, gilt letters on spine, white & color illus. dust jacket in mylar cover;. Main text is in French, with general summaries and explanations in French, German, and English. Presents more than 350 exampleas of graphic artwork rendered by Catalan artist Antoni Clave... More about Antoni Clave: L'oeuvre grave 1939-1976
Albany, NY: Erastus H. Pease & Co., 1847. Hardbound. Dark brown blindstamped cloth with gilt embossed spine design and title. xiv, [1], 498, [2], 12 pp. ads at rear. Color lithographed frontispiece, and color lithograph at page 425, folding map at the very front of the book, many figure drawings... More about Notes on the Iroquois or Contributions to American History, Antiquities, and General Ethnology -...
New York: Harper & Row, 1970. Hardcover. White oatmeal cloth with round color paper image pasted to front center. Original dustjacket with small fold at top of rear panel with tiny tear, uniform light wear and soiling, some foxzing spots inside dustjacket. Clipped inside bottom dj panel, price present ($4.95)... More about IN THE NIGHT KITCHEN
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892. limited. Hardcover. Textured red cloth with leather spine and corners. 68 pp. 15 tissue guarded plates (6 in color), all are present. Five section titles included as well as main title and intro. OVERSIZE. This is a portfolio-style publication, which consists of five parts. Part... More about American Illustrators
London: Luke Meredith (Printer), 1694. NF. Original 8th edition (not an e-book, paperback, etc.). Hardcover. Dark green library buckram with gilt title on spine. (rebinding) Contents original. XXVIII + vi + 432 + (12) + (12) + xiv + 186. Includes bw general frontis, red/black-lettered main title page, 1 foldout... More about Antiquitates Christianae or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: as also the...
Holland: C.E. Mees Santpoort, 1925. Hardbound. Beige cloth with printed lines on borders, applied leather gilt lettered label on spine, the whole designed by Wright. French fold pages with grey borders and FLW design. Housed in a maroon buckram folio and slipcase with leather spine. Consists of seven special numbers... More about Life Work of the American Architect Frank Lloyd Wright
