NY: Ink, Inc, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. 271 pp. 272 illustrations: color and black and white plates, photographs, drawings, plans. Bibliography. Index. This is the first comprehensive narrative of Vaux's work to show the entire range of his creativity. More
NY: Summit, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 288 pp. More
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
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
New York: Macmillan, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. 717 pages. One hundred black and white plates. Notes. Index. Owner inscription. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER M489. CHAMBERLAIN 1456. "A good survey of American Painting." LUCAS p89. More
NY: Hudson Hills, 1981. 1st American edition. Hardcover. 321 pp. 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
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
NY: Bennett Book Studio, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. 140 pp. 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
Paris: Quatre Chemins, 1949. First edition. Paperback. 106 pp. 4to, 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
NY: Abrams, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 290 pp. 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
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
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
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
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
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
NY: 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
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
NewHaven: Yale Univ. Press, 1976. Hardcover. 410 pp. Thirty-sixblack 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
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
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
London: Thames & Hudson, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 209 pp. 154 illustrations,fourteen in color. Bibliography. Index. The author examines buildings and gardens still extant as well as those now gone or which never existed, but more importantly, Conner discusses Western fascination with Oriental architectural ideas. More
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
Balmes: Ediciones Poligrafa, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 267 pp. Illustrated with 133 photographs and reproductions in black and white and in color. Text in Spanish, English, French and German. Asturias still maintains, almost intact, a series of pre-Romanesque buildings, with slight restorations; thus, they have recovered their primitive state. More
London: Seeley & Co., 1893. Hardcover. 388 pp. 8vo, 236 illustrations. Edited by Walter Armstrong. Ex-library, chipped at backstrip head. More
London: John Murray, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. 348 pp. 4to, fifty-five plates. Index. CHAMBERLAIN 1044. "A general survey of the field, beginning with BenedettoAntelami." Ex-library, no external marking, backstrip chipped at extremities, bookplate. More