New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1859. Hardcover. 484 pages. 24 x 15 cm. This edition, 15th thousand not noted by HITCHCOCK.325 illustrations, many are tinted, many are full page plates with plans to scale. KARPEL B223. "One of the most important and influential mid-nineteenth-century house pattern books, including designs..... More
Paris: Bachelier, Libraire, 1825-1826. First edition. leather_bound. 20 x 13 cm. Forty-three engraved folding plates. Primarily devoted to mathematics and mechanics as related to the industrial arts, the text contains a number of sections devoted to architecture and perspective. The work was popular going through many editions, and widely translated..... More
Paris: H. Floury, 1904. Whistler, James M. First edition. Hardcover. 209 pages. 8vo, eighteen gravures hors texte, and with an abundance of additional illustrations.Written one year after Whistler's death, Duret sounds his critical acclaim, "the supreme gift of creating works alive by their profundity and beautiful by their form." A...... More
NY: MOMA, 1978. Matisse, Henri. First edition. Hardcover. 232 pp. Square, 4to, 130 illustrations with thirty-four in color and 144 reference illustrations. With additional texts by William S. Lieberman and Riva Castleman. More
Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. 4to, 122 black and white plates each with descriptive text. Bibliography. List of Tribes. The art of tribes in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Upper Volta, Nigeria, Gabon, Congo, etc., with the main center being Nigeria. Text in French. Excellent photographs..... More
Milan: Associazione fra le Casse di RisparmioItaliane, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. 56 pages in text, forty black and white illustrations in the text and twenty-four superior color plates, 10 1/2" x 14 1/2". Text in Italian. More
London: Lund Humphries, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. 160 pp. 4to, plethora of illustrations in black and white. Bibliography. Index. More
Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 246 pages. Copiously illustrated with text illustrations, color photographs by the author, and six maps. Foreword by Michael Coe. Glossary. Index. Noneof the authors' photographs have been published previously, and much new information is published here for the first time. Owner..... More
Milan: Edizioni D'Arte Amilcare Pizzi, 1944. Mantegna. First edition. Hardcover. Folio, 39 pages in text, twenty-three full-page color plates. Limited edition, copy 366 of unknown limitation. More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 256 pages. With 230 illustrations, sixty of which are in full color. Index. KARPEL I53. "This amply illustrated popularized survey attempts touse American standards rather than European ones to access nineteenth century American painting... The more than one hundred generous illustrations,approximately..... More
NY: Macmillan, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. 212 pp. 8vo, forty-two illustrations. Bibliography. More
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1961. Homer, Winslow. First edition. Hardcover. 263 pp. With thirty-six color and aprofusion of black and white illustrations. Bibliography. Chronology. Index of Illustrations. Index of Museums and Private Collections. Index. The monograph is a comprehensive collection of his art, a biography of his life, the..... More
Lausanne: Skira, 1955. Goya Y Lucientes, Francisco. First edition. Hardcover. Translated by James Emmons. Selected Bibliography. Index of Names. fifty-seven tipped-in color plates. Chronological Survey. Volume thirteen of the monograph on artists collection Taste of Our Time. FREITAG 3789. LUCAS p151. More
Leipsig: Verlag Von Gerlach & Wiedling, ca 1920. First edition. Hardcover. 179 pages.. Landscape 4to, 24 x 28 cm. 882 black and white photographs depicting folk designs, interior and exterior, but mostly the latter: doors and other architectural details. Mostly a pictorial essay. More
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 397 pages. 26 x 21 cm. More than 300 illustrations, some in color. Index. More
London: B.T. Batsford, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. 281 pages 24.5 x 18 cm. Eighty-seven collotype and other plates and 230 illustrations in the text. Bibliography. Index. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER J211. "....still the best available monograph on its period......." Ex Library, no external marking. More
London: B.T. Batsford, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. 281 pages. 24.5 x 18 cm.87 collotype and other plates and 230 illustrations in the text. Bibliography. Index. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER J211. "....still the best available monograph on its period......." Ex-library, bookplate and one stamp only. Clean very bright copy. More
Heidelberg: Printed for the Author, ca 1825. First' edition. Boards. Oblong 8vo, textless, with thirteen fine engraved plates with tissue guards. Last five plates lightly dampstained. A survey and pictorial review of chateaus and villas in and around Heidlelberg. Moderate soiling and wear to covers. More
College Park: Univ. of Maryland, 1976. Prendergast, Maurice. First edition. Hardcover. 173 pages. More than 100 illustrations in color and black and white cover the 108 entries. Exhibitions 17 October 1976 - 15 April 1977.Catalogue of the Exhibition. More
Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. 173 pages. 106 plates and twenty-four illustrations in the text. Selected Bibliography. Index. A photographic study of Canada from the decade before Confederation to theRiel Rebellion and the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1885. It is the first documented study..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. 222 pp. Illustrated with ninety-six pages of photographic reproductions and numerous line drawings in the text. Index. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER I53. "An extended essay on the fundamental problem of monumentality in the art of the ancient Near East (Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete)." Small owner blind..... More
New York: Castle Books, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. 271 pages. Illustrated with photographs of interior and exterior views. A tribute to the preservation movement and a warning to maintain vigilance: to protect the remaining historical landmark buildings. More
New York: MOMA, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. 240 pages. With 178 illustrations, forty-eight in full-color. Bibliography. Index. Edited by Andrew Carduff Ritchie. Examines the most influential esthetic theories and the salient artists of the past fifty years in Germany. More
New York: Century Co, 1916-1923. First edition. Hardcover. 406, 521 pages. 22.5 x 16 cm. 400 and 464 illustrations (23 plates) respectively. Indexes. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER P69. "A standard, still valuable handbook, illustrated by line drawings in the text and plates." CHAMBERLAIN 1636. LUCAS p.102. Owner inscription. More
London: B.T. Batsford, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. 160 pp. 295 black and white photographs and 240 text illustrations. Short Bibliography. Notes to the Text. Index. A good general survey by a leading scholar in the field. LUCAS p31. More