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
Paris: Verve, 1945. Matisse, Henri. First edition. Hardcover. 61 pages. Folio, 35 x 26 cm. With two original lithographs: "de la couleur and the Fall of Icarus," plus a host of black and white and color plates. According to the Verve bibliography, this issue "was more than two years in... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1954. Picasso Pablo. First American edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Folio, 36 x 26.5. With an appreciation by Rebecca West. Sixteen full-page color lithographs printed by Mourlot, the Verve double number 29/30. VERVE p.269. "In this richly diverse masquerade, which combines something of the English Christmas... More
Paris: Np, 1891. leather_bound. Unpaginated. 32.5 x 25 cm. Original watercolor title page by J. Ostolle, text lettered in gilt. Twenty three full page etchings with lettered tissue guards by French academic painters. Frontispiece by Edmond Lechevallier-Chevignard with additional full page contributions by Alexander Cabanel, Leon Bonnat, Charles De Lort... More
New York: Ticker Publishing Co., 1907-1908. First edition. Hardcover. 31, 56, 48, 48, 48, 48 pages. 25.5 x 17 cm. Complete Index to Volume 1. Photographs of Captains of Industry adorn the front page of most issues, including James R. Keene, "the Famous Operator at his Ticker." Elbert Hubbard "from... More
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 208 pages. 28 x 30.5 cm. Signed by Caponigro in ink on half title. 143 duotone illustrations. Text by Marriane Fulton. Caponigro explores the various configurations of these prehistoric monuments. Selected Bibliography. Owner inscription. Clean, bright copy. More
London: Robert Daniel, 1651. First edition. leather_bound. 393 pages, plus (5 leaves: Index Rerum & Verborum & Index Scripturarum). 32 x 21 cm. Translated and edited by Richard Montague. Parallel text in Latin and Greek. He is recognized in the Eastern Orthodox Church as St. Photios the Great, viewed as... More
Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921. Cezanne, Paul. First edition. Hardcover. 125 pages. Folio, 39 x 29.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 214 of 250 on papier d'Arches. Black and white and tipped-in color plates, Original brown stiff wrappers laid-in. French text very bright and fresh as is the entire production. The... More
New York: Eakins Press, (1966). First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Folio, 37 x 36 cm. 12 full page photogravures with tissue guards printed recto only. In the afterword by John Szarkowski, he notes, "Evans style seems as inevitable and as anonymous as that of the early daguerreotypists, yet the character of... More
Los Angeles: Self Published, 1970. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 48 pages. 18 x 14 cm. 25 black and white reproductions of photographs, all captioned: lots for sale in Los Angeles area. Printed by G.R. Huttner Lithography. Most photographs printed recto or verso only. Pristine copy. More
London: Thames and Hudson, 2015. Matisse, Henri. First edition. Hardcover. 200, 364, 330 pages. 33.5 x 26 cm. An extensive review of fifty-nine works from the various stages of Matisse's career, Contributions by Barbara Buckley and Jennifer Mass. Extensive Index. Printed on multi-colored stock. A sumptuous production with decorated covers... More
Stockhom: Moderne Museet, 1968. Warhol, Andy. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Unpaginated. 27 x 20.5 cm. Published on the occasion of the Andy Warhol exhibition in Stockholm, February-March 1968. Editing by Andy Warhol, Kasper Konig, Pontus Hulten and Olle Granath, and presents Warhol's first major European retrospective. 614 black-and-white reproductions, divided... More
Paris: Maeght, 1956. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 100 pages. 38 x 28 cm. Introduction by Georges Limbour. Text in French. Etchings, original lithographs, and prints by a host of prominent artists of the period highlighted by double page original color lithographs by Chagall and Miro (tiinted etching by the latter)... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916-1924. Manuscript Edition. Orig. green cloth, gilt lettered brown leather spine labels. Very good. 10 vols. 23 x 15.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 385 of 750, mostly unopened. Edited by William Frederic Bad??. Illustrated with numerous photogravure and halftone plates, the gravure plates with printed tissue guards... More
New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1902). Eldorado Edition. Hardcover. 22 x 15 cm. Limited edition, copy 487 of 1050. Photogravure frontispieces and plates on Japanese vellum, titles in red and black, numerous woodcuts by Frederick Simpson Coburn, captioned tissue guards, wide text margins, bound by Root & Son... More
London: "The Field" Office & Ward and Lock, 1859. Leetch, John. First edition. leather_bound. 115 pages. 18 x 12 cm. Six hand-colored etched plates by Leech, all fresh and bright, text clean. The "Old Boys" are fox hunting. Bound by Little Brown, Boston, raised bands, spine panels richly gilt in... More
London: Henry Colburn, 1848. Hardcover. 403, 477 pages. 19.5 x 12.5 cm. Engraved frontispieces. Letters starts 1190 (Richard I, the Lion Hearted), ends 1649 (during the Civil Wars). Raised bands, spine panels richly gilt with arabesques, leather spine labels in brown and black lettered in gilt. Modest surface war. More
New York: D. Appleton, 1857. Hardcover. 19 x 13 cm. This American edition contains the remainder of the articles in the Edinburgh Review, and several written and published during his college years. Four pages of adverts at rear of last volume. Macaulay, an English Whig politician, essayist, poet, and historian... More