New York: Macmillan, 1929. Arms, John Taylor. First edition. Hardcover. 179 pages. 29.5 x 22.5 cm. With fifty-one reproductions of etchings and drawings by John Taylor Arms. Reproductions are brilliant and with lettered tissue guards. Wide text margins, interior contents clean, fresh and bright. More
Paris: Veith & Hauser, (1854). First edition. Hardcover. Folio, 43 x 29 cm. Engraved title and 114 engraved plates, each with small publisher's blind stamp in lower margin, a few plates with light spotting, balance exceptionally bright and clean. Provenance: Furstliche Furstenbergische Hofbibliothek at Donaueschingen with inkstamp on lower corner..... More
London: George Bell & Sons, 1921. Hardcover. 219 & 233 pages. 28 x 19.5 cm. Total of 200 plates, most with plans and drawings to scale. Bibliography. Index. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER J167. "A standard work of French classical architecture." CHAMBERLAIN 846. LUCAS p53. Printed by the Chiswick Press, small owner label and..... More
London: George Bell & Sons, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. 431 pages in total. 28 x 20 cm. Approximately 250 plates. Title page printed in red and black. General Index. This was Blomfield's second work, which the DNB called "masterly," and noted they were, "learned, admirably written and well-illustrated." This work..... More
London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1933. Hardcover. Three volumes in one, each with itsown Index and a list of illustrations in black and white. Approximately 300 pages in text total. Backstrip worn at joints and extremities with small tear at head. More
New York: E.P. Dutton And Company, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. 431 pages. 29 x 23 cm. Index. Clean very fresh copy with wide text margins. Images are full page printed recto only on glossy stock. Railton trained as an architect and was one of the leading black and white illustrators..... More
Milan: Gio. Battista Bidelli, 1645. leather_bound. 228 (32) (a4-c4). 25.5 x 19 cm. Two parts in one volume. Engraved title by Blanc, portrait of the author on front leaf. Folded map of Cremona, folded plan map dated 1583, six engravings on four folded plates of Cremona Cathedral, the Torrazzo. Magnificently..... More
La Haie: Pierre De Hondt, 1746. leather_bound. Folio, 34.6 x 24.7 cm. x4, A-Z4, Aa-Ss4, Tt2. Title page printed in red and black with an engraved vignette, and title-page and all text pages within a typographical border, and with woodcut initials and head and tail pieces. The 31 plates after..... More
New York: Tabard Press, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 264 pages. 30 x 27 cm. 250 illustrations, forty-two in color. An important study in light of the many paintings destroyed in religious controversies. Catalogue herein completes this ground breaking study, listing almost all the significant paintings of the period under review..... More
London: Sir Isaac Pitman, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. 290 pages. 28.5 x 23 cm. 60 full-page plates, photographs and drawings, plus illustrations in the text. Historical overview of the two universities and their buildings reviewed in chronological order and the modifications as time proceeded. Armorial bookplate, scattered toning mostly marginal..... More
New York: New York Univ. Press, 1964. Rembrandt, H. van Rijn. First edition. Hardcover. 225 pages. 181 black and white plates. Bibliography. Index. First volume of The Wrightsman Lectures, New York University Institute of Fine Arts. The author discusses the influences of the great Italians of the 15th and 16th..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. [VII] 3 pages in text. 29 x 23 cm. 183 plates with an introductory comment preceding the plates. A pictorial survey: photographs and drawings, some of the latter with details to scale. Co-authors are Henry M. Polhemus and Addison F. Worthington..... More
New York: Architectural Book, 1917. First edition. Hardcover. 5 pages in text. 28.5 x 21 cm. Ninety-three black and white plates, most of them containing at least two illustrations per plate. Two world wars obliterated many of the buildings described herein. Sharp, bright copy, owner inscription front cover free endpaper..... More
New York: Architectural Book, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. [xiii] 209 pages. 28 x 21 cm. 209 black and white plates. Each plate carries a scale drawing of a portal or doorway. Interior contents fresh and clean. Owner inscription front cover paste-down. One page advert at rear. A fresh, bright very clean..... More
New York: Abrams, 1992. Verrocchio, Andrea del. First edition. Hardcover. 125 pages. Square 4to, profusely illustrated in color and black and white. The painter-sculptor-goldsmith Andrea del Verrocchio of Florence. More
New York: M. Knoedler & Co, 1928. First edition. Paperback. 55 pages. Illustrated in black and white. 109 entries. More
Np: Np, [1935]. Hardcover. 12 leaves. Small folio, 31 x 23 cm. Limited edition, one of 100 privately printed in New York. The original letter cannot be traced but the greater part of this epistle was first published in 1536 and established in all the biographies of More. Text in..... More
Florence & New York: Pantheon & Harcourt, Brace and World, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. [XVII], [XVII] 35 & 38 pages in text respectively -- Vols 1-2. 31 x 24 cm. 88 and 112 plates. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER M227. "Trans. of `Die deutsche Buchmalerei.' An older, standard survey of German illumination; valuable for..... More
New York: New York Univ. Press, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 157 pages. 106 black and white illustrations. Index. The primary purpose of this book, "has been to bring together a varied array of decorated gables from all regions where Netherlandish craftsmen worked at home and abroad and to arrange them..... More
Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 321 pages. 100 full-page, color drawings with analysis by the author, and two other specialists; Konrad Oberhuberand Eckhart Knab. This volume is an introduction to the Albertina's great treasures from the anonymous masters of the Florentine Trecento to FrancescoGuardi. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER L59........ More
New York: Abrams, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 200 pages. Folio, 35 x 27 cm.21. 188 illustrations including 150 photgraphs in color. Foreword by Sir Harold Acton. List of Villas. Bibliography. More
New York: Architectural Book, 1920. Lowell, Guy. First edition. Hardcover. 140 pages. Folio, 18 x 12". 140 black and white plates, photographs and sketches made by Edgar I. Williams and by Harold R. Shurtleff. Interior clean and fresh, binding tight. All plates printed recto only on high gloss stock. Lowell..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. 264 pages. 30 x 25 cm. Host of tipped-in color plates. Notes. Index. More
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. 546 pages. 28.5 x 21 cm. 266 illustrations: many from unique unpublished sources, include drawings and plans as well as photographs. Bibliography. Index. A definitive study. Slight toning to endpapers and fore-edges. More
Chicago: Art Institute, 1941. First edition. Paperback. An exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago Jan.13 - March 2, 1911. Black and white illustrated examples of prints described in text. Chronological Table of Paper and Papermaking. Bibliography. Cello tape remnant lower spine. More