Old English Porcelain A Handbook for Collectors
London: Whittlesey House, (1946). New Edition. Hardcover. 292 pages. 112 plates, many in color. Marks. Bibliography. Index. More
London: Whittlesey House, (1946). New Edition. Hardcover. 292 pages. 112 plates, many in color. Marks. Bibliography. Index. More
Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1980. Castagno, Andrea del. 1st American edition. Hardcover. 224 pages. 134 plates and twenty-four text figures. Bibliography. Index of Works by Location. General Index. The first full study of Castagno to appear in English. FREITAG 1465. More
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827. First edition. Boards. 28 pages in text. 32 x 25 cm. Twelve full-page lithographed plates with descriptive text -- "designs for a summer house and gardener's residence, a garden cottage, a gate lodge. a dairy and gamekeepers residence....a small residence, an orangery..... More
Lubbuck: Baker Gallery Press, 1969. Hurd, Peter. Second edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 30.5 x 23.5. Introduction by Andrew Wyeth. Edited with a Foreword by John Meigs. 50 plates. More
London: T. and J. Egerton, 1792. First edition. leather_bound. 209, 258 pages. 23.5 x 15.6 cm. 52 aquatint plates with half-titles additional aquatint titles, 2 maps and errata at the end of each volume. Russell, Ronald. GUIDE TO BRITISH TOPOGRAPHICAL PRINTS, p.90. "The topographical work in aquatint described so far..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 121 pages. 23.5 x 25.5 cm. Illustrated with a host of color plates on glossy stock. Signed presentation copy, "For August Heckscher With Admiration," dated 11.6.88. Heckscher was Commissioner of Parks and Recreation of New York during the Lindsay administration. More
Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 238 pages. Copiously illustrated with photographs and drawings. Bibliography. Index. Glossary of Structural Forms. This monograph covers sixty-seven different house types and successfully describes 96% of the houses surveyed. More
New York: Praeger, 1965. Jacoby, Helmut. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 28 x 22 cm. Profusely illustrated in black and white, drawings and photographs of his buildings on glossy stock. Signed presentation copy in blue ink "For Mr. & Mrs. August Heckscher in the appreciation of the hospitality given to me..... More
New York: Fowler And Wells, Publishers, 1859. First edition. Hardcover. 176, (xii) pages. 19 x 12.5 cm. 123 wood engravings. With numerous original plans designed by F.E, Graff et al. Contains a pot-pourri of designs: a log cabin, a hexagonal house, southern, western Italian, English, suburban, gothic, symmetrical and semi-southern..... More
London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. 179 pages. Illustrated by the author with 132 tipped in black and white plates. A few bleached spots at front cover and spine foot; otherwise clean and neat copy. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart &Winston, 1966. Johnson, Philip. First edition. Hardcover. 115 pages. 28.5 x 26 cm. Signed presentation copy in blue ink to August Heckscher May 1966 (Parks Commissioner under Mayor John V. Lindsay who was long active in public affairs). Introduction by Henry-Russell Hitchcock. Fifty-one color plates with..... More
London: Day and Son, 1866. Jones, Owen. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 28.5 x 22 cm. 24 leaves, text verso, plates recto: all are chromolithographs -- illuminators Owen Jones and Henry Warren on stone by A. Warren. GORDON N. RAY p.144. "In his later years (this title) he turned from magnificent..... More
London: Longman & Co, 1845. Jones, Owen. First edition. leather_bound. Unpaginated. 16.5 x 12 cm. Thirty two chromolithograph pages, stunning designs. GORDON N. RAY p.144. "a character example of the increasingly elaborate gift books which Jones produced in the late 1840's and the early 1850's." Raised bands, covers with decorations..... More
Brussels: W. Godenne, 1930. Hardcover. 30 pages in text. Preface by Dr. J. Laenen. Text in French and Dutch. Photographs of churches, church bells, all printed recto only. Index. Modest rubbing to extremities. More
Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 193 pages. 26 x 18 cm. Host of photographs, plans to scale. A study of origins shaped by central and western European countries with the Fenno-Scandian settlers exerting the largest degree of influence. Bibliography. Index. More
Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. 320 pages. 27 x 21.5 cm. 76 color plates by Kahlo with descriptive text, and a multitude of additional black and white and color plates. Selected Bibliography. Lenders to the Exhibition and Index. More
New York: Crown, 1966. Schiele, Egon. 1st English edition. Hardcover. 561 pages. 29 x 23 cm. First edition published 1930, Vienna. 245 plates in color and black and white with the former tipped-in, plus a host of black and white illustrations in the text. Text in English and German. Backstrip..... More
New York: Doubleday, 1965. Picasso, Pablo. First edition. Hardcover. 240 pages. 32 x 25 cm. Signed presentation copy in black ink "et pour mon ami, Carol -- a friend for fifty years with love Helen Kay." 190 illustrations, twenty eight in color. List of Reproductions by Chapters. A few faint..... More
Torshavn: Emil Thomsen, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 134 pages. 32 x 24 cm. Color and black and white illustrations present richly decorated church furniture from the first half of the 15th century of the Faroe Islands. The motifs on the furniture are especially associated with the liturgical practice of the..... More
London: I.B. Taurus, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. 272 pages. 34 x 24.5 cm. Profusely illustrated with color plates. Index. This volume presents some of the earliest records of the region. More
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987. Nash, Paul. First edition. Hardcover. 258 pages. With twenty-four pages of illustrations and forty-one plates in black and white. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. A comprehensive critical interpretation of the popular English modernist. More
San Francisco: Art Museum Association of America, 1985. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 79 pages. 29.5 x 22.5 cm. Illustrated in color and black and white. Gottlieb, born in Australia was an abstract expressionist. More
NY: Jewish Museum, 1996. First edition. Paperback. 187 pages. 29 x 22 cm. Illustrated in color and black and white. Bibliography. More
New York: Praeger, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. 180 pages. Voluminously illustrated with photographs. Biographicaldata on leading Japanese architects. A comprehensive review of Japanese architecture since 1945. More