Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1890. leather_bound. (6) 315, 299 pages. Edition de Luxe, copy 161 of 250. Sixty two full page photogravures and photographs with lettered tissue guards -- 31 in each volume. Her only novel set in the Italian Renaissance. Wide text margins, interior fresh and clean. Elegantly bound..... More
Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1953. Goya Y Lucientas, Francisco. First edition. Hardcover. 224, XIV. 22 x 15 cm. Second volume houses 216 full page black and white plates. Catalogue of the Caprichos. Bibliography. Index. Interior contents of both volumes as new. More
Washington DC: The National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998. Rothko, Mark. First edition. Hardcover. 374 pages. 31.5 x 23.5 cm. 116 full page color plates, additional black and white and color images in the text. Four essays at rear. Chronology of Rothko's life. Medium and size of each full page..... More
Paris & New York: Quatre Chemins - Editart & Shoman Art Company, 1948. Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Pages 5-15 in text. 30.5 x 24.5 cm. Copy 129 of 500 reserved for Shoman Art Company. Total edition of 1100. Text in French. The phototypies, 40 plates mostly in..... More
New York: Abbeville Press, 1983. Eichenberg, Fritz. First edition. 336 pages. 28.5 x 22.5 cm. 400 illustrations, 122 in color. Signed by Eichenberg in ink on his Ex Libris bookplate. List of Illustrations. Eichenberg addresses seventeen of mankind's most inflammatory social and political issues, providing illustrations from the great masters..... More
New York: John F. Scovill, 1862. Hardcover. 208 pages. 22 x 14.5 cm. One preliminary leaf, [9] - 208. Frontispiece, plates, hand colored botanical engraved plates. additional steel engraved and woodcut text illustrations. Contains music, fiction, poetry and religious content. Backstrip an early restoration, ornately decorated covers in gilt floral..... More
Munich & New York: Theo. Stroefer & Geo. Kirchner & Co., 1879. Hardcover. 55 pages. 32 x 24.5 cm. Thirty black and white plates including seven fine engraved full-page plates, original paintings by Mayer, all with tissue guards. The original vignettes, ornamental borderings by Rudolf Seitz. Title page printed in..... More
London: The Fine Art Society, Ltd, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. 176 pages. 27 x 21 cm. Haig, Swedish painter, draftsman, engraver noted for his architectural etchings lived in England, traveled widely, dying in 1921. Title page in red and black. Essentially a catalogue raisonne with note stating there will be..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1896. Bulfinch, Charles. First edition. 323 pages. 24 x 17.5 cm. Thirty-one photogravure illustrations with lettered tissue guards. Introduction by Charles A. Cummings. List of Public Buildings Designed by Charles Bulfinch. FREITAG 1163. KARPEL B1081. "...This is the major primary source, although as Garrett points out, many..... More
Paris: Albert Levy, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 text pages. 34 x 26 cm. Forty eight plates printed recto only. Includes full page Art Deco and Art Nouveau designs by a host of prominent architects and designers of the period including Jean Prouve, Edgar Brandt, Raymond Subes, M. Rux-Spitz et..... 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
Augusta, Maine: Florence Codman, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 39 (4) pages. 31 x 23 cm. Privately printed and Illustrated with photographs and one plan. A personal appreciation with laid-in card noting "With Compliments Of The Author." More
New Haven & London: Yale Univ. Press & Oxford Univ. Press, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. 181 pages. 27 x 20 cm. More than 160 illustrations, photographs, drawings and plans to scale. Biographical Note and Index. More
Camden: Colby Museum ofArt, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 362 pages. 28 x 22 cm. Foreword by James M. Carpenter and Hugh J. Gourley III. 132 figures. Notes. Glossary. Selected Bibliography. Index. Published under the auspices of The Colby Museum of Art. Throughout the book the authors are careful to call..... More
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1953. Bone, Muirhead. Hardcover. 133 pages. 29 x 22 cm. Illustrated with a host of black and white and color plates-- thirty two in all. Bright, very fresh and clean copy. More
New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1970. Lafever, Minard. First edition. Hardcover. 313 pages. 25 x 17.5 cm. 109 illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Lafever's Gothic Revival style was his major contribution to the development of New York architecture during its formative years. KARPEL B1125. "The major study, thoroughly documented." More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1948. Dali, Salvador. Hardcover. 295 pages. 21 x 15 cm. A special numbered and autographed edition copy 491 signed by Billy Rose in blue ink, illustrated with full page tinted plates by Salvador Dali, Clean, very crisp copy. More
Boston & New York: Phillips, Sampson & Company & J.C. Derby, 1850. First edition. Hardcover. [6] 322 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves. 19 x 12.5 cm. Chromolithographed title page. Three full page steel engraved plates with tissue guards. last few leaves with small spot in front margin, interior contents very clean..... More
Boston: David P. King, 1850. First edition. Hardcover. [6] 13-324 pages. 19 x 12.5 cm. Chromolithographed title page. Two full page steel engravings with tissue guards: some toning to borders, balance of text clean and sharp. Gift book from Samuel Stone to his sister Sarah A. Stone, handwritten in blue..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851. Cruikshank, George. 1847-1885? Hardcover. 201 pages and 14 pages of adverts at rear. 17 x 11 cm. Our copy not noted in OCLC which describes two editions by Harper & Brothers. COHN 545 denotes the David Bogue, 1848 publication in six monthy parts. Our..... More
Np: Privately Printed, 1923. First edition. Boards. 16 pages printed recto only. 20 x 18 cm. Limited edition, one of 300 printed on Japan vellum. Two bookplates: Albert Parson Sachs & Vincent Lloyd Russell. Essay on Oscar Wilde, both the title page and hand-written example color tinted and with tissue..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1920. First edition. Boards. 320 pages. 20 x 14.5 cm. Two bookplates one armorial in colors (Vincent LLoyd Russell). Endpaper toning., spine slightly faded. More
New York: Knopf, 1943. 1st American edition. Boards. 37 pages. 21 x 13.5 cm. Printed by Peter Beilenson at the Walpole Printing Office. The Rede Lecture of 1943 delivered at Cambridge University. More
Boston: Hill Publishing Company, 1972. First Editions. Hardcover. 30.5 x 23.5 cm. A complete set of this periodical for 1972. The magazine targeted to hip intellectuals and literary arts aficionados. The publication presented literature and illustrations by novelists, short story writers, poets and screenwriters, including six Nobel prize winners: Maya..... More
Paris: Furne, Libraire-Editeur, 1855. Hardcover. 598 pages. 27 x 17 cm. Twenty four full page high quality steel engraved plates with tissue guards. Chapter headings with Initial letters, List of the Doges of Venice Text generally very clean and bright. scattered light toning to margins of front fold-out map of..... More