Washington DC: GPO, 1923-1925. First edition. Hardcover. 250, 376 pages. 25.5 x 16 cm. Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 126 and 130. Forty six and sixty plates respectively with Part one plates and text mostly unopened. Index. Clean, bright copy bound by James McDonald Co. of New York with original wrappers preserved... More
Washington DC: GPO, 1927-1929. First edition. Hardcover. 420, 412 pages. 25.5 x 16 cm. Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 142 and 146. Fifty five and sixty six plates respectively with both copies, plates and text mostly unopened. Index. Clean, bright copy bound by James McDonald Co. of New York with original wrappers... More
Washington DC: GPO, 1919. First edition. Hardcover. 245 pages. 25.5 x 16 cm. Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 107. Fifty five plates: plates 44 - 55 are chromolithographs with multiple images of eggs per plate. References to Bibliography. Explanation Of Plates at rear. Index. Clean, bright copy bound by James McDonald Co... More
Washington DC: GPO, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. 343 pages. 25.5 x 16 cm. Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 121. Ninety three plates . Index. Plates and text mostly unopened. Clean, bright copy bound by James McDonald Co. of New York with original wrappers preserved, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt. Bookplate of William Van Winkle. More
Washington DC: GPO, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. 343 pages. 25.5 x 16 cm. Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 121. Sixty nine plates with an explanation for each at rear. References To Bibliography. Index. Clean, bright copy bound by James McDonald Co. of New York with original wrappers preserved, raised bands, spine lettered... More
Washington DC: GPO, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. 490 pages. 25.5 x 16 cm. Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 135 Ninety six plates, both text and plates mostly unopened. Index. Clean, bright copy bound by James McDonald Co. of New York with original wrappers preserved, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt. Bookplate of William Van Winkle. More
Washington DC: GPO, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. 345 pages. 25.5 x 16 cm. Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 113. Ninety three plates include 16 pages of multiple chromolithograph images of bird eggs. Index. Clean, bright copy bound by James McDonald Co. of New York with original wrappers preserved, raised bands, spine lettered... More
Chipping Camden, London & New York: M. Walter Dunne, 1904. First American edition. leather_bound. 387 pages. Folio, 36 x 28.5 cm. One of a small number of copies printed on vellum for the American market, The Trinity Edition with a hand illuminated presentation leaf to Anna L. Wilson tipped-in. With... More
Tokyo: Dobun-kwan, (1896). First edition. Stiff Wraps. Unpaginated. 22 x 36 cm. Thirty five full page color lithographs and 2 black and white plates, each plate accompanied by a lettered guard sheet with descriptive letterpress in English, first three introductory pages after title in Japanese characters. With black and white... More
London: Sam Keble And Dan Brown / J. Moxon, 1693 & 1697. First editions. Hardcover. (2) 77 (2) pages. 15.5 x 10.7 cm. Half title, 2 page publisher preface, two pages of adverts at rear. Engraved of Raleigh by Frederick Hendrick Van Hove (circa 1628-1698). Small stain title page foot... More
New York: Random House, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 399, 369. 281 pages. 38 x 39 cm. 850 examples: 550 paintings and 325 calligraphies with 875 colored plates. Volume covers in tan, green and blue. Research and Translation by Keith Itoh & Lawrence Wu. Introduction Commentary by James C.Y. Watt. Selected... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longman, ca. 1850. leather_bound. 339 pages. 17 x 11 cm. Engraved frontispiece and title page. CBEL called this long poem "his very best work in verse." [see: Vol. 11, p.162]. Elegant binding by Leighton Brewer, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, small bookplate. More
New York: Wiley and Putnam, ca 1853. First edition. leather_bound. Unpaginated, 26 leaves. 26 x 23 cm. An early chromolithograph work for the American market preceding Louis Prang by many years with Mapleson being a pioneer of chromolithography in America vying with Owen Jones in artistry and composition. BENNETT p.71... More
New York: Conde Nast, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 101 (8) pages. 30.5 x 25 cm. Limited edition, copy 522 of 1500 signed by Arthur Elgort, and also inscribed "N.Y.C. Dec 84 To Julie with love and friendship, Arthur." Elgort worked for a number of fashion magazines including British Vogue, American... More
Np: Np, ca 1510. Van Leyden, Lucas. 11.5 x 7 cm. Four mounted engraved plates, all with strong dark impressions, each with collection mark on verso. BARTSCH Nos. 87-90. Mounted by Artuur Baldinger Kunsthandel Lijstenmarkerj Jodenbreestrat 16. Amsterdam. Lucas van Leyden was among the first Dutch exponents of genre painting... More
Np: Np, ca 1510. Van Leyden, Lucas. 11.5 x 7 cm. Four mounted engraved plates, all with strong dark impressions, each with collection mark on verso. BARTSCH Nos. 95-98. Mounted by Artuur Baldinger Kunsthandel Lijstenmarkerj Jodenbreestrat 16. Amsterdam. Lucas van Leyden was among the first Dutch exponents of genre painting... More
Chillicothe: Mountain House Press, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. 102 [1] pages. Small folio, 29.2 x 19.4 cm. Limited edition, copy 164 of 182 signed by Dard Hunter. Hunter's seventh volume on papermaking written in 1935 after his sojourn to the ancient villages of Yen-Thai and Lang-Buoi, Tonkin, Indo-China (now Viet... More
London: John Lane, 1897. Beerbohm, Max. First edition. Hardcover. 53 pages. 16.5 x 13 cm. Number One of the Bodley Booklets printed by Will Bradley at the Wayside Press in Springfield, Mass. BOMBACE A16. Front cover of the pictorial wrappers chipped at edges with some loss. Interior clean, housed in... More
New York: Abrams, 1972. Shahn, Ben. First edition. Hardcover. 371 pages. Folio, 35 x 30 cm. 234 illustrations, 154 in color. Index. Author, wife of Ben Shahn completed this work three years after his death. More
New York: Tudor, 1970. Marini, Marino. First edition. Hardcover. 506 pages. 35 x 27 cm. Catalogue Raisonne. More than 1000 illustrations with 80 in color. Errata sheet laid-in. List of Exhibitions. More
Chillicothe: Dard Hunter, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. 326 pages. Folio, 43 x 30 cm. Limited edition, copy 69 of 210, 200 of which were for sale; however, as noted in his own bibliography there were only 180 completed. "The last work of the Mountain House Press and the author's magnum... More
Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1968. Daumier, Honore. First edition. Hardcover. 446 & 619 pages. 28.5 x 22.5 cm. 208 plates in Vol.I, and 325 plates in Vol.II. Concordance. List of Owners. Errata slip. Limited edition, copy B70 of 800 American copies of a total edition of 1500. FREITAG 2084... More
Paris: Batchelier & Carilian-Goeury et Dalmont, 1844. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Folio, 44 x 27.5. Atlas volume only with 74 lithograph plates, some double-paged. Leroy was a professor at the Ecole Royale Polytechnic. Text in French. Some light foxing and browning, corner, extremity and joint wear, signature on title page... More
Philadelphia: Anthony Finlay, 1827. Hardcover. Folio, 36 x 28 cm. Ten hand-colored engraved maps (one double page), colored double-page chart of time, two folding letterpress text leaves. Maps include (1) Terra Veteribus Nota, (2) Graecia Antiqua, (3) Orientis Tabula, (4) Asia Minor, (5) Romanum Imperium, (6) Italia Antiqua, (7) Places... More
