New York: 1891-1972. KAVE. Hardbound. Bound volumes and loose issues, combined. This run occupies 17 shelf feet. Though not complete, this substantial run includes the following issues: Vols. 1-26, Vol. 32, Vol. 38, Vols. 65-66:1-5, Vol. 67:5-6, Vol. 68, Vol. 69:1-2, Vols. 83-141, Vol. 146, Vol. 148, Vols. 150-152. Early... More
Santiago, Chile: Mackenzie & Co. 1910. Second Edition. Softbound. Brown printed wraps. (appx. 108 pp., 54 sheets). Inside this are laid-in the business cards of both John E.D. Trask (Commissioner General, United States) and Charles Francis Brown, (Assistant Commissioner General of The United States to The International Fine Arts Exposition.)... More
Paris: Chez Helleu et Sergent, 1926-1927. Hardcover. Portfolio. 8-pp. booklet with a laid-on illus., 54 BW plates laid on individual sheets, housed in a tan cloth portfolio with ribbon tie and paper title plate; weighs 6 lbs. OVERSIZE. Title on front cover: 55 Dessins D'Honore Fragonard. Text is in French... More
New York: American Art Association, 1914. Softcover. Grey card wraps with original black line drawing and lettering; green tape spine with white hand-written lettering. (Binding not original but with an Asian theme. Signed by F. Gentile.) Unpaginated [350] with 3 tissue-guarded color plates and numerous duotone illustrations. Text in English... More
New York: National Arts Club, [1918]. Hardbound. Cardboard portfolio with ties and tipped-on facsimile of woman's head. 50 leaves inside (contents, 46 (of 47 called for images), 1 duplicate image, one uncalled-for image, and reproduction of written text by Pennell). "This unique collection of drawings was contributed to the "American... More
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
Paris: M.B./G.M. 2005. Masurovsky, Gregory. Signed Original; No. EA of 20 copies printed. Slipcased. Folio of cream Arches paper with black lettering and French flaps. 11 loose sheets (title page, text, colophon) and two loose/double-fold sheets with one bw illustration each and the corresponding title opposite. Both illustrations have tissue... More
London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1837. Hardcover. Original green cloth boards, with embossed pattern on covers, gilt titles on spine. IV, 373 pp text, 36pp index, 18 pp ads. 12 illustrative plates, 1 in color. All plates present. More
Italy: Luciano d'Alessandro, nd. Original/Signed/Numbered. Folio. Elephant folio. Flexible boards covered in beautiful, heavy cream paper with fleurs-de-lis motif. Grey cloth spine. Cream cotton ties at 3 open edges. Contents include 3 bw photographs (11.5x15 inches), each signed/numbered. Each is mounted onto a bi-fold piece of heavy, black, textured art... More
Wilmington, Delaware: Press of Ferris Bros., Printers, 1883. limited first. Leather bound. Brown 3/4 leather with marbled boards; 6 raised bands on spine; marbled page edges all around; marbled end papers; original plain, brown paper wrapper remnants surrounding book. [4], 531 pp. No illustrations. Only the slightest wear, but some... More
Paris: Librairie D'Architecture de a Levy, 1867. E. Lechevallier-Chevignard (dessines); A. Didier; L. Flameng; F. Laguillermie (graves). Hardcover. Black cloth library rebinding. Bound in two volumes. 151 pp + 154 pp. 150 color plates, handcolored engravings in some cases with gilt detailing. An importantant work on historical costumes of the... More
Barcelona: Lunwerg Editores, 1997. Hardcover. Black cloth, black & color illus. dust jacket, 483 pp., many color & BW illus. Text is in Spanish. Consists of a series of illustrated essays that look at examples of Baroque art found in South America. Sections approach the genre by region: Peru and... More
London: Williams and Norgate Ltd, 1929. Hardcover. Stiff boards. Burgundy cloth over spine. 49 pp. Oversize. More
London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, Early Edition. Hardbound. Heavy black leather with gilt lettering and decoration; 839 pp. with 76 full-page bw illustrations and several additional heading and smaller illustrations; TEG. Lovely copy with excellent plates. Heavy and will require extra postage. More
Taipai, Taiwan: Aries Gemini Publishing Ltd. 1991. Hardcover. Brown cloth, gilt letters on spine & front cover, brown & color illus. dust jacket, 307 pp., 650 color illus. and 74 BW drawings; weighs 6.5 lbs. The second volume only of a five-volume series covering "historic Chinese porcelain and ceramic wares... More
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1885. Hardbound. Wedgwood blue cloth with black and gold decoration and gold lettering; TEG; 20 etchings. With commentary on each etching; works include 4 by Rembrandt with corresponding etchings by Rajon, Rlameng, Unger, and Jacquemart; Corot, with etching by Guerard; Swieszewski, with etching... More
London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1900-01. Hardbound. Paper covered printed boards with black printed cloth spines. Part I, 1900: [vi] 51 pp. text plus 60 BW plates, BW frontispiece. Part II, 1901: [viii] 60 pp. text plus 63 plates, 1 fold-out, mostly BW, color frontispiece. Sold as a set of two... More
London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 1843. Hardbound. Rust-colored library buckram. xx, 32 steel engravings. Interestingly, the plates appear to be printed on several types of paper, some being more prone to offsetting and foxing than others. Overall a tight and nice copy of an uncommon book. The plates are... More
Berlin, Germany: Verlag von Hans Schoetz & Co. / Staatliche Museen Zu Berlin, 1928. Hardcover. Dark green cloth, gilt letters on spine & front cover, 46 pp. + 56 BW plates, 14 BW illus. in text. Text is in German. Series: Katalog der Sammlung Antiker Skulpturen, Band I. A catalog... More
Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1948. Original edition of 375 copies. Pamphlet. Decorative brown, stapled wraps with bw lettering. Tan overlay (with museum information) glued (intentionally) across lower third of front cover. 6 interior pages with 4 color plates. With an introductory essay by Sacheverell Sitwell and color plates... More
Liechtenstein: Kraus Reprint, 1969. Oatmeal linen with grey title block on spines; each volume has 100-200 pp. text followed by bw plates;. Text in German; Vol. 2 covers the time from 1350 to 1400; Vol. 3, North Germany 1400 - 1450; Vol. 4, Southwest Germany 1400 - 1450; Vol. 5... More
New York, New York: American Art Association, 1917. Softcover. Plain white wraps; Off-white dj.; Unpaginated, approx. 150 pp.; Profusely illustrated in bw. Accompanied the sale held March 12 and 13, 1917, at the American Art Galleries. Introduction by D. J. R. Ushikubo. 503 lots listed, including works by Yeishosai Choki... More
Paris: Henry Babou, 1929. Softcover. Light blue paper wraps as portfolio for signatures, tissue cover, 53 pp., with BW illus., plus 11 leaves of BW & colored plates. Text is in French. One issue in a series presenting the lives and works of book illustrators. This one focuses on French... More
[Honolulu]: Manoa Press, 1993. Hardbound. half dark black cloth with black thread ties, red patterned paper covered boards. Illustrated with images created by the author in the tradition of the Ming work Lidai Minggong Huapu. A sheet of sample paper is also tipped in and another small piece is laid-in... More
