The New Painting
New York: Praeger, 1969. 1st American edition. Hardcover. 207 pages. 27 x 22.5 cm. 168 illustrations in color and black and white. Bibliography. Artist's Biographies. Study of painting development over the last sixty years. More
New York: Praeger, 1969. 1st American edition. Hardcover. 207 pages. 27 x 22.5 cm. 168 illustrations in color and black and white. Bibliography. Artist's Biographies. Study of painting development over the last sixty years. More
New York: William D. Smith, 1841. leather_bound. 119 pages in text. 30 25.5 cm. Small folio, frontispiece, plates 1-53, 56-88. Glossary of Technical Terms. HITCHCOCK 693. KARPEL B107. "Asher Benjamin and Minard Lafever were the two architectural authors most influential in the development of the Greek Revival in America. Both..... More
Lausanne: Edita S.A., 1966. Lartigue, Jacques Henri. First edition thus. Hardcover. 128 pages. Landscape 4to, 24 x 30 cm. Plethora of tipped-in reproductions of photographs by Lartigue who began picture taking at the age of seven, during the frivolous spirit of France's Belle Époque -- the Paris of an upper..... More
London: Dodd, Mead, 1929. First American edition. Hardcover. 195 pages in text. Large 8vo, Eighty-four, full-page, black and white plates. Index of Artists' Names. Bibliography. KARPEL K171. "This work contains chapters on satirical etching, and sporting prints in Britain; eighteenth, and early twentieth-century British etchers; and a comprehensive chapter on..... More
New York: Hawthorn Books, 1967. 1st American edition. Hardcover. 256 pages. With 263 black and white plates.Bibliography. Index. An intelligent and entertaining guide by a noted social historian about the customs, styles and fashions of 19th century knick-knacks that stood on innumerable Victorian what-nots. More
New York: G.P. Putnam, 1849. First edition. Hardcover. 326 & 373 pages. 24 x 15 cm, two tinted lithographed frontispieces, five folding maps and plans, and a host of plates and woodcuts in the text. Index. BLACKMER 968. The author, English archaeologist whose excavations greatly increased knowledge of the ancient..... More
New York: E. Weyhe, 1945. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Folio, 36 x 26 cm. Eight plates in full color and forty-four in half tone, each with descriptive text. Limited edition, one of 400 copies. Harunobu flowered late in life, during the last six years he produced his most beautiful designs..... More
Daylesford, PA: Oak Knoll, 1923. Leetch, John. First edition. Hardcover. Two leaves. 16 x 12 cm. Tipped-in color plate by Leech of The Ghost of Christmas Past. Bound by Riviere & Son, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, original delft blue wrappers bound-in. Book label of Marie Berliner and Barry Moser. Spine..... More
London: John Lane, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. 191 pages in text. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 106 reproductions in photogravure. Bibliography. Index of Artists. It describes the principal plates of nearly every etcher and contains special essays on prominent artists as Callot, Millet, Meryon, Legros, Lepere, Forain, Steinlen and others..... More
Berlin: Verlag Von Georg Reimer, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. 268 pages. Folio, 37 x 29 cm. Limited edition, copy 285 of 500. 100 illustrated mostly color plates on heavy stock, many with more than one image per plate, and all are color lithographs. An elegant production, backstrip and front covers..... More
Paris: Arts et Metiers Graphiques, 1946. Degas, Edgar. First edition. Boards. 4to, 33 x 25 cm. More than 1500 illustrations, plus photos and two facsimile pages. Comprehensive Catalogue Raisonne, the standard work on Degas. Limited edition, copy 665 of 980. The first volume presents biographical data, and critical reviews. Volumes..... More
New York: William Helburn, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. XVI & 310 pages. Folio, 38 x 28 cm. 304 plates: photographs, elevations, plans to scale, interior and exterior views, six plates in color. Limited edition, one of 1000 copies. Harrie Thomas Lindeberg designed for the rich and famous of the first..... More
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1888. First English edition. Hardcover. 179 pages. 28 x 20 cm. Fifty-nine illustrations, some are fold-outs or double-paged. This English edition with extensive corrections and additions by the author, which have not appeared in the German original. Index of Names, Books and Prints. Endpapers foxed, scattered, light..... More
London: Karsten Schubert Ltd, 1989. Manzoni, Piero. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 15 pages. 27 x 21.5 cm. Photograph of Manzoni, and illustrations in black and white. An Italian Avant-Garde artist whose career was cut short by an untimely death at 30 years of age. More
London: Lund Humphries in association with Rizzoli, 1984. First Editions. Stiff Wraps. Approx. 36 pages in text for each volume. 30 x 25 cm. Host of quality color plates printed on high gloss stock. Biographical Notes and commentary by art critics. Complete in four volumes. More
London: Ordovas, 2011. Bacon, Francis. First edition. Hardcover. 87 pages. 31 x 24.5 cm. Introduction by Pilar Ordovas. Commentary by Taco Dibbits. Illustrated in color and black and white. List of Works. Exhibition 7 October - December 2011. Printed on high quality glossy stock. More
Pacenza: Tip. Le. Co, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. 373 (1) pages. 30 x 24.5 cm. 384 color illustrations printed on high quality glossy stock. Furniture and their makers from the 17th century upward. Index of Names with full bibliographic detail. Text in Italian. Selling price at publication, 130.00 Euros. More
Los Angeles: Taliesin Fellows, 1990-1999. First edition. Hardcover. 21.5 x 21.5 cm, and starting with Nos. 19: 8/1/2 x11 inches. Printed in black and red. Illustrated with photographs, plans and diagrams. More
Geneva: Skira, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. 229 pages. Small folio, 145 illustrations, eighty-five tipped-in color plates. Index of Names and Places. More
Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Transcribed and with Introduction by Lilian M.C. Randall. 130 illustrations. Chronology. Index. A rich and virtually unexplored archive for the art historian and social historian. Provides a detailed record of prices paid and commissions issued to artists, dealers, and craftsmen. Lucas' acquaintances..... More
Paris: Muses Nationaux, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 147 [14] pages. 28 x 22 cm. 722 entries with 203 plates. Text in French. General inventory of drawings -- North German, Dutch, Flemish and Swiss schools. Small ding front cover upper joint, otherwise clean and fres, owner inscription. More
New York: Pitman, 1974. First American edition. Hardcover. 256 pages. 24 x 18 cm. 361 black and white photographs, eight plates in color. Bibliography. Index. This is the first work in English dealing exhaustively with Chinese export porcelain. More
Leipsig: Friedr. Voight, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant folio, 54 x 42 cm. Twenty full page color lithographs of Art Nouveau designs printed recto only. Born in East Prussia he studied in France, where he was inspired by the Art Nouveau movement exemplified by the Nancy School. He published a...... More
London: Saunders and Otley, 1834. First edition. leather_bound. 341 pages. 28 x 20 cm. Large paper copy with wide text margins, ordinary copies were approx. 23 x 15 cm. Twenty-seven engraved plates -- vignettes, portrait and views. Bulwer-Lytton reached the height of popularity with the publication of a novel, "Godolphin,"..... More
Paris: J. Terquem, 1928. Laborde, Charles. First edition. Hardcover. 37 pages in text. 41 x 32 cm. Limited edition, copy 106 of 121 of the regular edition on Velin de Rives [numbered 22-121] with 21 full-page hand-colored etchings, and 21 proofs of the same uncolored. Mac Orlan, born Pierre Dumarchey..... More