The Precious Legacy Judaic Treasures From The Czechoslovak State Collections
New York: Summit, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 288 pages. More
Art History
Impressions of Uniyo-Ye The School of the Japanese Colour-Print Artists
San Francisco: Paul Elder, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. 75 pages. Fourteen illustrations. Index. An early work and critical review of the Japanese colour-print artists. 2nd copy ex-library. More
Crusader Figural Sculpture in the Holy land Twelfth century examples from Acre Nazareth and Belvoir Castle
Ramat Gan: Massada Press, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 237 pp. Fifty illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Professor Barasch, founded theDepartment of the History of Art at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER K87. "A scholarly study of surviving Crusader sculpture in the Holy Land, some of which have been recently discovered." More
Masterpieces from the Collection of the Princes of Liechtenstein
New York: Hudson Hills, 1981. 1st American edition. Hardcover. 321 pages. 159 plates, most in color. Foreword by John Held. Translated by R.E. Wolf. Index of Names. Limited edition, copy 560 of 2500. Ex-library with no interior marking. More
Painters In A New Land From Annapolis Royal to the Klondike
Toronto: McClellandand Stewart, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 224 pages. Over 200 illustrations with more than half in color. Bibliography. Index. A panorama of Canadian art complemented with descriptions from contemporary travel literature, diaries and letters. A good survey of the topic. More
A Practical Guide To American Nineteenth Century Color Plate Books with Supplement
New York: Bennett Book Studio, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. 140 pages. 8vo, includes American books having at least three colored plates (including frontispiece) when and as issued by the publisher, dated not earlier than 1800 or later than 1900. Children's books and books with tinted plates are omitted. Chronological Index..... More
Little Tales of Great Artists
Paris: Quatre Chemins, 1949. First edition. Paperback. 106 pages. Illusrated in black and white and with one color lithograph. Limited edition, copy 262 of 1000. Confessions of a painter, art critic, collector and dealer. More
Modern Primitives: Masters of Naive Painting
New York: Abrams, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 290 pages. More than 150 illustrations, many in full-color. Bibliography. Index. of Names. As Gauguin noted, "Sometimes I went back very far, further than the horses of the Parthenon.... to the wooden rocking horse of my childhood." More
A History of French Architecture From the Reign of Charles VIII Till the Death of Mazarin Till The Death Of Louis XV 1661-1774; With Drawings By The Author And Other Illustrations
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
M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Water Colors and Drawings 1800-1875
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. More than 400 illustrations. Foreword by Perry T. Rathbone. Introduction by Henry T. Rossiter. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER L79. "Contains useful information for the study of 19th century American draughtsmen and watercolorists. Both volumes contain appendixes listing known artists represented, known sitters, places represented..... More
Antonello Da Messina
Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1956. Antonello Da Messina. First edition. Hardcover. Folio, 24 pages in text, six test illustrations and 51 tipped-in color plates of good technical fidelity. FREITAG 201. More
The Prints of the Pont-Aven School Gauguin and His Circle In Brittany
Washington, DC: Smithsonian, 1988. First edition. Paperback. 143 pages. Foreword by Douglas Druick. Abundantly illustrated in black and white. Bibliography. A representative selection of the group's printmaking activities from approximately 1888-1895. More
Puritan Architecture and its future
London: Lutterworth Press, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. 91 pages. Small 8vo,twenty-two plates and twenty-one line drawings in the text. Index. A plea for the rebuilding of bombed Puritan churches. More
Baroque Architecture
New York: McBride, Nast, 1914. 1st American edition. Hardcover. 238 pp. Royal 8vo, 109 illustrations. Index. CHAMBERLAIN 835. "One of the first of the limited number of books on this subject in English." LUCAS p.50. Ex-library with no external markings, slight nicks to backstrip extremities. More
Friedrich Weinbrenner Architect of Kurlsruhe A Catalogue of the Drawings in the Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 163 pages. 246 illustrations some in color. Catalogue of Selected Drawings. Checklist of the Weinbrenner Collection at the Univ. of Pennsylvania.Bibliography. Concordance of Inventory Numbers. Weinbrenner was the first internationally important German architect of the 19th Century. More
The Stone Circles of the British Isles
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1976. Hardcover. 410 pages, Thirty-six black and white plates and fifty text figures, many are drawings to scale. Bibliography. Index. An in depth study of stone circles which flourished betweenthe middle of the Neolithic and Late Bronze Age from approximately 2500 to 1000 bc. More
Tapestries of Europe and of Colonial Peru in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Voluminously illustrated in black and white and color. Foreword by Perry T.Rathbone. This set is not only a catalogue of the holdings of the Boston Museum of Art, but also a comprehensive survey of the art of the tapestry,illustrated with examples..... More
The Flowering of the Italian Renaissance
NY: Odyssey, 1965. 1st American edition. Hardcover. 384 pp. 312 illustrations, many in full-color. Glossary - Index. Bibliography. Maps. Translated by Jonathan Griffin. The author'spurpose was "to bring to the fore certain facts that seem illuminating, such as the polarity of Padua and Urbino, the vogue for marquetry, the innovationsin..... More
The Life of Ruskin
London: Macmillan, 1911. Ruskin, John. First edition. Hardcover. 540 & 615 pp. 8vo, five illustrations. Index. Written by a pupil of Ruskin's who also prepared the monumental "library edition." Ruskin'smastery of prose is unsurpassed. Ex-library, no exterior markings, backstrip chipped at extremities. More
Gothic Architecture
London: Seeley & Co., 1893. Hardcover. 388 pp. 8vo, 236 illustrations. Edited by Walter Armstrong. Ex-library, chipped at backstrip head. More
The Evolution of Italian Sculpture
London: John Murray, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. 348 pp. 4to, fifty-five plates. Index. CHAMBERLAIN 1044. "A general survey of the field, beginning with Benedetto Antelami." Ex-library, no external marking, backstrip chipped at extremities, bookplate. More
Excavations at Portchester Castle Volume III: Medieval, the Outer Bailey and its Defences
London: Thames and Hudson, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 253 pp. 132 text figures and forty-five plates with many of the former large fold-outs. Bibliographies. Index. Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London No. XXXIV. The author describes the defences and buildings of the outer bailey..... More
Art In European Architecture
New York: Reinhold, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. 228 pp. Preface by Le Corbusier. Voluminously illustrated in black and white and with color plates. Index. Le Corbusier notes, "Neither architecture nor urbanismhave as yet manifested themselves in terms of decisive and universally accepted realities." (Unlike painting and sculpture). Le Corbusier admires..... More
Indian Art of The Americas
New York: Heye Foundation, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 304 pages. Photography by Carmelo Guadagno. With 500 illustrations, some in full-color. Bibliography. The Museum of the American Indian, HeyeFoundation presented the contents herein as an exhibit and traveling show; therefore, monumental works of art were to bulky to be carried from..... More
Indian Art in America
Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. 244 pp. 250 plates with those in color, tipped-in and of excellent color fidelity: first-rate reproductions. There are seventy suchillustrations. Bibliography. A beautiful book written by a well-respected authority on Indian life, custom and artistic tradition. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER I603."An introductory essay is..... More