Twenty-Three Years Under a Sky-Light; or, Life and Experiences of a Photographer
Hartford, Connecticut: H.J. Rodgers, 1872. Hardcover. Green boards with gilt lettering; 235 pp.; richly illustrated. More
Hartford, Connecticut: H.J. Rodgers, 1872. Hardcover. Green boards with gilt lettering; 235 pp.; richly illustrated. More
Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1975. Softcover. orange & black pictorial wraps. 116 pgs w/ bw illustrations. Illustrated throughout. More
Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1975. Hardcover. orange & black pictorial wraps. 116 pgs w/ bw illustrations. Illustrated throughout. More
Tielt: Lannoo, 2016. Hardcover. Illustrated board covers, no dj. 237 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits. What comes after postmodernism? In her new book 'Painting after Postmodernism', the catalogue at the autumn exhibition of the same name and grand in Brussels, Barbara Rose - the American equivalent of Susan Sontag..... More
New York: H.C. Perleberg, 1926. Hardbound. Black cloth portfolio with three ties. Cover page with text, followed by the 47 (of 50) plates, 4 (of 6) of which are in color. Lacks plates 1, 26 and 32. Plates 11,21, 41, and 38 are color. More
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1993. Hardbound. Pictorial boards, 231 pp., bw and color illustrations throughout. Volume 2 only of a 4 volume set. Chapters include: Azurite and Blue Verditer; Ultramarine Blue, Natural and Artificial; Lead White; Lead-Tin Yellow; Smalt 113; Verdigris and Copper Resinate; Vermillon and Cinnabar; Malachite..... More
New York: John Wiley, 1863. Hardbound. Brown gilt embossed publishers cloth. 234 pp. + 2 pp publishers ads. An original edition of a classic treatise. Gilt embossed palette on front cover. More
NY: John Wiley, 1854. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Brown cloth. 189+ pp. Illustrated with 15 lithographed plates ["Sarony & Co. Lith N. Y."] with tissue guards. A lovely first edition (American) of this important publication. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. Hardcover. Hard cover, embossed. Cover has fade marks. 261 pp. illus. throughout. quartercloth, corners bumped and worn. David and the great moderns of the past, Manet and the impressionists -- Cézanne and post-impressionism -- The school of Paris, Matisse, and the Fauves -- Cubism..... More
Tokyo: Graphic-sha Publishing Co., Ltd., 1992. Hardcover. Tan paper over boards with blue lettering; neon yellow-green endpapers. White and color-illustrated dust jacket with black lettering. 110 pp. Profuse color and BW illustrations. Text in English and Japanese. Chapter include Using the materials; Watercolor basics; and Utilizing the techniques. More
London: Bromhead, Cutts & Co., Limited, 1920. Hardcover. Light brown quarter-cloth binding with gray paper boards and printed label on front cover. Deckled edges. 28 pp. A brief guide to turning an original design into a finished print in color, focusing on woodblock but with some discussion of other techniques..... More
Berlin-Neubabelsberg Akadem: Verlagsges. Athenaion, 1924. Hardcover. Green board covers, gilt artwork on cover. 128 pages illustrations, mounted plates. Text in German. Part of a Series of Art Lectures consisting of 6 Titles. Bind is intact but could be repaired or re-bound. Rare. More
London: T. Passinger, 1685. Hardcover. Brown full leather binding with blind debossing on spine. Marbled endsheets at back. 767 pp. Lacking frontispiece, engraved title, and several plates. I. The one hundred and twelve chymical arcanums of Petrus Johannes Faber ... II. An abstract of choice chymical preparation, fitted for vulgar..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2010. Hardcover. White DJ with red and orange lettering; grey boards with metallic silver lettering; xxxix, 460 pp.; richly illustrated; ephemera laid-in. Foreword by Peter Sellars. More
NY: Hugh Kelly, 1910. Hardcover. Green cloth. 33 pp. 2 color illus. This little book briefly discusses many aspects of color: primary, secondary, tertiary, intermediate, harmony, complementary, white and black, and shadows. On 5 pages a little bit of the top margin of the page is missing where a paper..... More
Worcester, Massachusetts: Davis Publications, Inc., 1979. Hardcover. White & illus. glossy boards, 84 pp., BW and color illus. "Developed from the linear principles involved in curve stitching, a new contemporary art form has emerged known as symmography or thread design. Symmography, as a combination of mathematical principles and artistic design..... More
Berlin-Neubabelsberg Akadem: Verlagsges. Athenaion, 1930. Hardcover. Green board covers, gilt artwork on cover. 112 pp, b/w and color illustrations. Text in German. Part of a Series of Art Lectures. Bind is intact but could be repaired or re-bound. Rare. More
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1975. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering; orange illustrated DJ with white lettering; 103 pp.; richly illustrated. Contents include: Basic photographic concepts -- Equipment -- Film -- Light -- Measuring light -- Color -- Presenting the object -- Background -- Special problems --..... More
Berlin-Neubabelsberg Akadem: Verlagsges. Athenaion, 1922. Hardcover. Green board covers, gilt artwork on cover. 127, [1] pages, 5 leaves of plates : illustrations (some color). Text in German. Part of a Series of Art Lectures consisting of 6 Titles. Bind is intact but could be repaired or re-bound. Rare. More
New York: M. T. Richardson, 1883. Hardcover. Brown cloth over boards; Gilt titling and illustration to front cover; 181 pp.; 4 bw plates; 73 bw figures. Full title as on title page: The Complete Carriage and Wagon Painter. A Concise Compendium of the Art of Painting Carriages, Wagons and Sleighs..... More
Cincinnati: North Light Books, 1992. Hardcover. BLUE BOARDS with illus. dj. 144 pp. numerous color plates. More
Leningrad: Ermitazh, 1961. Softcover. Color-illustrated wraps with Cyrillic lettering; 77 pp. text followed by 67 bw illustrations. Text in Russian. A very interesting work showing the "before and after" photos of holdings that have been restored. With several chapters about the processes, history, etc. and tables and charts included. More
Philadelphia: John F. Watson, 1811. Hardcover. Light blue folding case with light green cloth ties and mounted title card with black lettering; boards are missing; lxvii pp.; 1 leaf, 130 pp. Early American Imprint on Art. More
New York: Japan Society, 1996. Paperback. Black photo-illustrated wraps with white lettering; 79 pp.; richly illustrated. More
Amsterdam: Foundation for Conservation of Modern Art, 1999. Paperback. Black glued wraps with red printing.446 pp., profusely illustrated. Presenting the conservation challenges related to different media and materials of considerable art-historical value, the studies in this volume include symposium papers by art historians, physicists, philosophers, artists, conservators and critics, on..... More