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
Nashville, Tenn. American Association for State and Local History, 1960-1968. CAV E. Softbound. 72 loose issues, each appox. 20 pp. This lot includes the following issues from the 1960s: Vol. 16:2; Vol.17:2-12; Vol.18:1-12; Vol. 19:1,2,4-14; Vol. 20: (begins a smaller format for the publication)1-5,7-12; Vol. 21:1-7; Vol. 22:5-12; Vol. 23:1-8..... More
NY: American Art Association Inc, 1927. Softbound. Paper wraps. 136 pp. BW illustrations. Cover title is "Orientalia: Semi-Precious Stones, Porcelains, Potteries, Enamels and Furniture: The Collections of Mrs. Leopold Stokowski and Mr. Edward G. Getz with Additions." The Stokowski-Getz Collection. Catalogue lists 497 items, including "more than a hundred snuff..... More
London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., no date. Hardcover. Full publisher's reddish orange cloth, each volume with similarly elaborate gilt embossed boarder and spine title, but each with unique gilt embossed design in center of cover. 8 volumes, each with steel engravings. Some volumes have a bound-in insert stating that..... More
New York: Roerich Museum, 1929, October. Softbound. Green wraps with red printing. 14 pp., 5 large bw plates. This exhibition was the first exhibition held at the newly opened Roerich Museum in NYC on Riverside Drive, in the Master Apartments constructed there by Roerich. Laid in with this copy is..... More
1900. Softcover. Green wraps. 200 pp. No illus. 103 artists represented by 270 listed paintings. 17 works by Inness and F.S. Church, 14 by Homer Dodge Martin. A famous collection based on the strength of the representation, and a valuable reference because of the individual artist biographies provided. Extremely scarce..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1955. Hardcover. Red, gilt-stamped boards, 3/4 black with gilt spine lettering. xxxiv, 97 pp. Illustrations, facsimiles. More
Rome and Milan: Societa Editrice D'Arte Illustrata, 1926. Paperback. Taupe paper wraps with black illustration and lettering in black and orange. 309 pp. Text in Italian. 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
NY: D. Appleton & Company, 1872. Hardcover. 3/4 leather with gilt embossed Publisher's cloth over thick board covers. All Edges Gilt. Marbled endpapers. Volume 1 (1872): vi, 568 pages, 24 unnumbered leaves of plates Volume 2 (1874): viii, 576 pages, [25] leaves of plates) 47 steel engravings plus 2 engraved..... More
Milan, Italy: Franco Maria Ricci / Musei Vaticani, 2004. First French edition. Hardcover. Black cloth over boards; Color pictorial dj.; 214 pp.; Profusely illustrated in bw and color. Text in French; A wonderfully illustrated guide to the collection held at the Gregorian Etruscan Museum at the Vatican; Many full-page plates;..... More
Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2007. Hardcover. Black stamped cloth, black & colored lettered dust jacket, 148 pp., many BW & color illus. Issued in conjunction with a 2006-2007 exhibition featuring the work of American conceptual artist Mel Bochner (b. 1940). With an essay by Johanna Burton and an..... More
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers, 1969. Hardbound. Black cloth with white & color illustrated dust jacket in mylar cover. 407 text pp., followed by 160 pp. of bw plates. The original and still standard work on this topic. First edition of this scarce and invaluable handbook of white porcelain..... More
NY: Cassell Publishing Company, 1892. Hardcover. Yellow cloth. 288 pp. Introduction by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Preface by the artist. Contains 20 photogravures and 25 photo-etchings. In addition, there are 50 sketches drawn by Gerome especially for this volume, interspersed throughout the text. This mighty volume was written with the use of..... More
Washington: National Gallery of Art / Galleria Degli Uffizi / Lund Humphries, 2015. Paperback. Color-illustrated softcover with french flaps and white lettering. viii, 248 pp. Profusely illustrated, mainly in color. Issued in conjunction with several 2015 exhibitions of artwork by Florentine Renaissance painter Piero di Cosimo (1462-1522). "This generously illustrated..... More
San Francisco: C. A. Murdock & Co., 1883. Second edition. Softcover. Paper wraps. 27 pp. By the author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. This short story was written to be sold for the benefit of the new Silver Street Kindergartens. The first edition is extremely rare, and the second edition..... More
Madison, CT: Sound View Press, 1991. Hardcover. Blue cloth. 242 pp. 2 bw plates. Includes a 10-page history with 25 notes; directors, officers, and committees; exhibition dates and locations; analytic chart of the exhibitions; and an index by artist (the bulk of the book). More
Washington, D.C. The National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1994. Hardcover. Black cloth boards, silver titling; black & color illus. dust jacket, 532 pp. Numerous bw photo reproductions, and dance notation charts throughout; weighs 6.5 lbs. From the intro: The first volume of Duncan's published choreographies. Dance scores written..... More
Paris: Editions Quatre Vents, 1964. Limited edition, No. 266 of 320 copies. Softcover. Paper wraps with pasted on color plate and glassine covers. 88 pp., many bw and 8 tipped-in color plates. Text is in French. Nouvelle édition contenant huit reproductions en couleurs. Soixante reproductions en voir. Texts contributed by..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1895. Hardcover. Green decorative paper over boards; new leather spine with gold lettering; 438 pp. plus 2 pp. adverts with illustrations throughout. Pyle's usual delightful illustrations throughout the tales of Twilight Land, told at the Inn of the Sign of Mother Goose. Mother Goose herself..... More
West Islip, NY: ULAE Inc, 1981. Hardbound. White leatherette with padding, with gilt silver impressed title in the style of handwriting; the whole contained in a beige cloth slipcase. Printed on thick wove paper with ragged edges, top edge silver gilt. Introductory essay followed by 45 bw images printed upon..... More
New York: Chalette Gallery, 1965. 223 of 500 total copies. Paperback. Blue printed wraps. 10 color lithographic facsimiles with tissue guards, tipped-in. This copy signed and numbered by the artist on the rear colophon. Exquisite reproductions, A lovely copy. Published on the occasion of the exhibition of recent works by..... More
New York: John G. Unnevehr, 1869. Hardbound. Black library cloth with gilt title on spine, in slipcase of similar material. All Edges Gilt. 4 Volumes bound together into a rather unwieldy creation. Vol. 1: TP, 50 pp., [4] followed by 79 single-sided plates. Vol. 2: TP, 62, [2] pp., followed..... More
Tbilisi: Sabchota Sakart, 1965. Hardcover. Pale blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on front cover, illustrated dj, 115 pp, richly illustrted in bw and color illustrations. Text in Russian with resume in English, p. 6. More
