Paris: Chez Gogué, 1771. Hardbound. Old calf leather with five raised band and old gilt lettering and tooling on spine. Marbled endpapers. viii, 248 pp., no illustrations. Grouped into 2,682 lots, this catalogue is distinguished by a twenty-eight page author's index. The title-page with a mounted label on the verso..... More
London: The National Gallery, 1980-1989. CAVE. Softcover. 9 issues: Volumes 4-11 and 13, 1980-1987 and 1989. Various paginations, BW and color illus. ISSN 0140-7430. Nine issues of this technical publication of The National Gallery in London: Volumes 4-11 and 13, 1980-1987 and 1989. From the Gallery web site: "The National..... More
NY: Harry C. Jones, 1893-1895, September. Hardcover. Leather and cloth in 5 volumes. A complete run of this periodical in five volumes. The first volume in in 3/4 brown leather, and is titled "The Years Art", as recorded in The Quarterly Illustrator; 328 pp. Volume 2 is in 3/4 dark..... More
Paris: H. Launette - Goupil et Cie. 1883. Limited to 110 sets, this one unnumbered. Hardcover. 3/4 dark brown leather with 5 raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt. Volume 1: 192 numbered pages. Volume 2: pages 193-384. Approx 500 BW plates and illustrations throughout the set. Text..... More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. Hardcover. Navy cloth, with gilt letters on spine & front cover, and silver decoration on spine & covers; 476 pp., 10 BW plates. An early science fiction tale, speculating on what daily life would be like in the year 2000. Turns out Americans are..... More
Venetiis (Venice): Apud Natalem Feltrini, 1714. Original. Hardcover. Brown mottled leather/boards. 6 raised bands with gilt decoration and lettering. Decporative title pages with red/black lettering and bw illus. (16) + 340; and (12) + 414. Text in Latin. Barbosa was a prolific Portuguese writer on canon law. His work included..... More
Lugduni (Lyon): Laurentii Arnaud, Petri Borde, Joannis, & Petri Arnaud, 1679. 1665 and 1679 Originals. Hardcover. Embossed leather/boards. 5 highly-raised bands on spine with gilt decoration and lettering. Red speckled page edges. (4) + 263 + (32); and (4) + 293 + (38). Both title pages with red/black lettering and..... More
Paris: Hotel Drouot, 1875. Hardbound. 3/4 Brown moroccan leather with vellum boards, elaborate gilt design, five raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers with one etched bookplate inside front cover and another gallery bookplate on front marbled free endpaper. Includes 25 original etchings. Binding is signed Stikeman & Co.... More
London: Faber & Faber, 1936. Hardcover. Rose cloth boards with gilt stamped boards. xxviii, 160 pp., 160 pp. of plates. BW illustrations. Catalogue of the exhibition from November 1935 to March 1936 at Royal Academy of Arts. Includes list of plates. More
Paris: Heideloff et campe, 1834. Hardbound. 1/2 red leather with gilt spine title and marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. x, [2], 419 pp. followed by 1 pp ad at rear. A pretty nice copy of a very scarce book. Defects are not that bad, but must be mentioned. 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
Paris: Galerie Georges Petit, 1918-1919. Hardcover. 3 vols. Brown cloth, brown title plates with gilt letters on spines, together with 3 volumes in wraps. Text is in French. Titles on spines: Atelier Edgar Degas. After the death of French artist Edgar Degas (1834-1917), his own paintings and his collections were..... More
Rockland, Maine: Borrowed Views Press, Inc., 2004. First. Hardcover. Off-white cloth over boards; Color illus. dj.; Color illus. endpapers; 120 pp.; Profusely illustrated in color. Includes an essay by Carl Little; A letter from the artist is laid in. More
Philadelphia: 1904. Hardcover. Original wraps. 157 pp. Numerous illustrations. The second sale lists lots 1086 to 2226. An extremely rare volume. The reproductions have thin red lines through them to prevent them from being sold as originals. Almost all the works in these catalogues are annotated to some degree. An..... More
Letchworth, England: National Society of Colonial Dames of America / Arden Press, 1913. limited to 506 copies. Hardcover. Green cloth, gilt letters on spine & front cover, gilt top edges, lxxxvij + 566 pp., 145 BW plates. Privately published. "Over two thousand pieces of silver anterior to the year 1825..... More
New York: Columbia University, 1951. Hardcover. Blue cloth, gilt letters on spine & front cover, ca 703 total pp., BW illus. and diagrams, 3 fold-outs. Title on spine & front cover: Reference Clay Minerals, A. P. I., Research Project 49. A compilation volume consisting of 8 individual reports: No. 1..... More
New York: D. Appleton, 1879, circa. Softbound. A collection of 116 of 128 steel engravings of Turner's works from this series housed in 38 (2/40 missing) blue paper folios with black lettering. With tissue guards and separate text plate for each engraving. All in a textured cinnamon board binding with..... More
Oslo, Norway: Oslo Museum of Applied Art, 1995. Softcover. Black & illus. wraps, French flaps, 109 pp., BW & color illus. Issued in conjunction with a 1995 exhibition showcasing selected pieces created by Norwegian silversmith Tone Vigeland (b. 1938). Essays: Interview with Tone Vigeland / Donna Gustafson -- Links: The..... More
London / New York: Oxford University Press, 1964-1977. Second edition. Hardcover. 14 vols. Dark teal cloth boards with white faux-leather spines; gilt letters on spines; gilt letters and decoration on front board; various paginations, 1400+ BW plates, many within-text BW illus. All but two volumes of the 16-volume set, representing..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Hardbound. Black cloth with gold lettering; color pictorial dj with white lettering; Brodart cover; 207 pp. with 69 bw illustrations;. Radisich examines four sets of pictures that involve multiples canvases, discussing them in the architectural settings for which they were designed and the demands imposed..... More
Woodland Hills, California: East End Editions KLS, LLC, 2007. Hardcover. White cloth over boards; Semi-opaque dj.; 58 pp.; 12 plates, numerous bw and color figures. Features photos of Monroe from the set of "Something's Got to Give," as well as some of Schiller's photos of others, including Barbara Streisand, Richard..... More
Unidentified: Graphic Arts Laboratories, 1972. Paperback. White and BW-illustrated wraps with black lettering. 10 pp. BW illustrations. Very rare find! Includes 5 seperate sheets of sample prints. More
Tokyo / New York / San Francisco: Kodansha International, 1977. Limited. Hardbound. White linen cloth with gilt embossed design and title, contained within a bluish cloth clamshell box. 315 pp., with 95 mounted color plates and 312 smaller bw reference illustrations. "Three hundred copies of this limited international edition have..... More
Harrisburg, PA: Montgomery and Dexter, Printers, 1829. Hardcover. Full pebbled leather, 3.5" x 5.5" redleather gilt lettered label on spine. 174 pp. Extremely scarce first printing of this treatise by Winebrenner, who was written about extensively in Richard Kern; John Winebrenner and the Church of God. Gossard writes (in his..... More
