Contemporary Doorways Architectural Entrances, Transitions And Thresholds
London: Octopus, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. 176 pages. 28 x 23 cm. More than 120 color photographs. Index. More
London: Octopus, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. 176 pages. 28 x 23 cm. More than 120 color photographs. Index. More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1866. Second edition. Hardcover. 148 pages. 30 x 24 cm. Sixty-six plates, most of which are colored lithographs, and one, a large fold-out [uncolored]. Glossary. Geometrical Definitions. The second edition is identical to the first, published in 1859. KARPEL B295. "Before this work appeared in 1859, the..... More
New York: Praeger, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 142 pages. 25 x 16 cm. Eight color plates, 100 black and white illustrations, and four maps. Index. More
New York: Doubleday, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 296 pages. 32 x 23 cm. 305 color plates. Sources and Location of Works of Art. Bibliography. Index. More
New York: Phinney & Co., Buffalo, 1854. Second edition. Hardcover. 123 pages. 27.5 x 22 cm. Forty two plates. Plates and text generally clean, wide text margins. Glossary of Technical Terms. The author attacks the conventional architecture of the day. Lacks free front endpaper, rubbing to backstrip head. HITCHCOCK 1221..... More
New York: Crown, 1986. First American edition. Hardcover. 224 pages. Folio, 33 x 25 cm. Preface By Roger Passeron. Notes and Catalogue By Charles Sorlier. This, Volume 6 is the last in the series. 150 black & white plus color illustrations printed in Italy. Bright, very fresh copy dust wrapper..... More
London: Sotheby, 1975. First edition. Paperback. 104 pages. 24 x 18 cm. Illustrated in color and black and white. Prices realized laid-in. More
London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1978. First edition. Paperback. 208 pages. 24 x 18 cm. Illustrated in color and black and white. Prices realized laid-in. More
Hanover & London: National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 271 pages. 29 x 23 cm. Illustrated with photographs, maps and drawings. Scholarly articles by a host of contributors. More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 583 pages. 24 x 16.5 cm. Illustrated with photographs. Bibliography. Notes. Index. Book label of the Fireside Book Shop. More
Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 112 pages. 26 x 26 cm. Laid-in on lined 8 1/2 x 11" note paper two pages of notes regarding this publication by the author. Illustrated with drawings. Signed presentation copy to August Heckscher, former Commissioner of Parks and Recreation of..... More
Paris: Gil Blas, ca 1897. Steinlen, Theophile. Stiff Wraps. Steinlen's illustrations, 25.5 x 22.5 cm. All are covers for "Gil Blas" the popular French journal for which Steinlen produced a host of illustrations. All the issues were cut to remove the top portion noting the publisher and the lead title..... More
New York: William T. Comstock, 1889. First edition. Hardcover. 40 text pages. Landscape, 25 x 35.5 cm. Frontispiece and 59 plates (line drawings), the entire production, text and plates exceptionally clean. Considered to be an important popularization of the Shingle Style, geographically of the Maine coast. Included are plans for..... More
New York: The New York Public Library, 1933. Hardcover. 327 pages. 26 x 18 cm. Voluminously illustrated in black and white with reproductions of maps, paintings, watercolors, engravings, and lithographs. List of Towns and Cities. Index of Artists, Engravers, etc. Index of Subjects. KARPEL K317. " In 1930, I.N. Phelps..... More
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co, (1910). First edition. Hardcover. 27 pages in text. Folio, 45 x 36 cm. Translated by Leigh Hunt. Fifty plates printed on glossy stock, most with multiple images -- photographs, drawings, plans, and details -- plus 103 figures in the text. The chief localities of..... More
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1842. Hardcover. 114 & 275 pages. 33 x 27 cm. First published 1796 with 143 plates. New edition with 153 hand-colored engravings. Strutt was an English engraver, and writer on art. BRUNET Vol. 5, p.566, noting earlier edition. BRYAN Vol.5, p.138. DNB notes, "Although the amount..... More
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Folio, 32 1/2 x 23 cm. Seventy-three engraved portraits of George Washington. Compiled by Lawrence Park. With an Account of His Life by John Hill Morgan and Appreciation by Royal Cortissoz. A monumental undertaking, providing a Descriptive List of The Portraits..... More
Stuutgart: Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Nd. First edition. Boards. 126 pages. 32 x 24 cm. Illustrated in color and black and white. Text in German and French. More
Milano: Skira, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. 375 pages. 32.5 x 24.5 cm. Contributions by eight experts. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white on glossy stock. Biographies of artists. Index of names. Text in Italian. More
Tokyo: Manichi Newspapers, 1963-1967. First edition. Hardcover. 42 x 32 cm. 12 volumes in 6 cases covering -- The Protohistoric, Asuka, and Nara periods * Heian Period (8th to 11th centuries) * 11th & 12th centuries * Kamakura Period (12th to 14th centuries) * Late Kamakura Period (13th & 14th..... More
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 48 x 34 cm. Folio, 178 plates of works in the Museum of Fine Arts housed in fascicles 33 x 23 cm. Collotype black and white plates printed on descriptive sheets, and color plates tipped-in. Two descriptive texts, one each in..... More
Paris: Berggruen & Cie, 1953. Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de. Hardcover. 6 text pages. 14.5 x 22.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 108 of 500, the facsimile album printed by Daniel Jacomet, containing 17 fine screen watercolors and 27 designs in crayon and black and white. A French text tribute to Toulouse-Lautrec by..... 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
London: The London Printing And Publishing Company, 1860's. Hogarth, William. leather_bound. 280 pages. 27 x 22 cm. Frontispiece of Hogarth and his dog followed by a full page colored engraving of a maid with a bucket on her head. Most of the steel engravings with tissue guards. Two leaves follow..... More
London: Field & Tuer, 1881. Bartolozzi, Francesco. First edition. Hardcover. 211, 152 pp. Large 4to, thirteen plates, some in color. List of Bartolozzi Works, more than 2000 entries. Index in each volume. "His etchings in imitation of the drawings of the most eminent painters, admirably represent the spirits of the..... More