Benjamin West A Biography
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978. West, Benjamin. First edition. Hardcover. 525 pages. Illustrated. Extensive Bibliography. Index. More
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The Artist In America
New York: W.W. Norton, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 256 pages. Lavishly illustrated with color and black and white plates. A survey of 300 years of American Art with essays by experts. Introduction by Lloyd Goodrich. More
Boston Common in Colonial and Provincial Days
Boston: Privately Printed, 1903. Hardcover. 48 pages. 12.5 x 16.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 175 copies printed by D.B. Updike at The Merrymount Press. Seven illustrations with tissue guards, most are maps from original engravings. Addenda. Index, covers slightly dusty. More
A Rhode Island Chaplain in the Revolution Letters of Ebenezer David to Nicholas Brown 1775-1778
Providence: Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. 82 pages. Three illustrations. Preface by Lawrence C. Wroth. Index. Previously unpublished letters which lay in the Brown University business archives. Limited edition, one of 900 copies. More
At Home with the Presidents
New York: Overlook Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 256 pages. 4to, 125 black and white photographs and drawings, and fifty-eight color photographs. Index. An architectural and social tour. Bookplate. More
Early American Portrait Draughtsmen in Crayons
New York: Frederic Fairchild Sherman, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. 111 pges. Thirteen illustrations. Index: Names of Artists. Index: Names of the Sitters. A listing of portrait draughtsmen in crayons, both native American and foreign artists working in America, from the earliest times until 1860. Limited edition, one of 300 copies..... More
Re-Dedication of the Old State House, Boston, July 11, 1882
Boston: Boston City Council, 1882. First edition. Hardcover. 175 pages. 4to, thirty illlustrations. Index. Bookplate, EX-library. More
Peter Harrison First American Architect
Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. 195 pages. 23 1/2 x 16 cm. Forty-one black and white illustrations. Appendices. Index. Being a Loyalist, Harrison was neglected, his papers and drawings destroyed by a New Haven mob. His buildings happily, survived. FREITAG 4139. ROOS 4217... More
American Manners & Morals A Picture History of How We Behaved and Misbehaved
New York: American Heritage, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 399 pp. More than 700 illustrations in black and white and color. Index. The volume startswith Colonial life in the early 1600's and ends in the late 1960's: American society with all its pimples, quirks and extravagances. More
Homes and Gardens in Old Virginia
Richmond: Garrett & Massie, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. 544 pages. 24 x 17 cm. Introduction by Douglas S. Freeman. Approximately 125 illustrations. KARPEL B924. "A popular book but still of use." ROOS 3361. More
The Colonial Architecture Of Salem
Boston: Little, Brown, 1919. First edition. Hardcover. 282 pages. 24.5 x 16 cm. Seventy-seven black and white plates. Index. Limited edition, copy 222 of 1200. KARPEL B736. "Despite its age, this is a useful book. It analyzes the four periods of Salem architecture between the years 1628 and 1828. Elements..... More
The Wood-Carver of Salem Samuel McIntire His Life and Work
Boston: Little, Brown, 1916. First edition. Hardcover. 168 pages. 24.5 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy 487 of 930. 127 plates, mostly photographs. One of a family of a notable family of wood-carvers, joiners and housewrights. His windows were usually twelve-paned Georgian type which still finds favor today. Laid-in is..... 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
Early English Churches in America 1607-1807
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. 206 pp. With 118 photographs of interiors and exteriors. Notes. Bibliography. Index. A list of churches in each region that were built before 1808 and are still standing provides a guide in each locality to some of the loveliest examples of..... More
Our Colonial Homes
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. 211 pages.Twenty-one illustrations in black and white. KARPEL B128. "The author discusses and illustrates (mostly from photographs) twenty houses, all but three of which are in Massachusetts." Backstrip worn head and foot. More
History Of The American Theatre
New York: J. & J. Harper, 1832. First edition. Hardcover. 420 pages. 22 x 14.5 cm. Eva La Gallienne's copy with her bookplate front paste-down. Inscribed presentation copy from Harold Moulton, a member of the Civic Repertory Company, dated Oct. 6, 1930. Eva La Gallienne founded the Civic Repertory Theatre..... More
American Painting First Flowers of Our Wilderness
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. 368 pages. With several color and over 150 black and white illustrations. Notes. Index. KARPEL H50. "When this book was published in 1947, it was the mostcomprehensive general history of American Painting to 1775, and it remains of value today..." More
The Architecture of The Old South The Medieval Style 1585-1850
Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. 203 pages. 26 x 20 cm. Foreword by Charles Rufus Morey. 282 black and white illustrations. Bibliography. Index. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER J312. "An innovative study of early Southern architecture: the origin of the building types and details are traced to late Gothic precedents in..... More
America's Historic Houses and Restorations
New York: Castle Books, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. 271 pages. Illustrated with photographs of interior and exterior views. A tribute to the preservation movement and a warning to maintain vigilance: to protect the remaining historical landmark buildings. More
Quaint And Historic Forts of North America
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1915. First edition. Hardcover. 309 pages. 24 x 17 cm. Approximately seventy-five photographs. Index. Slilght nicks to backstrip extremities. More
Preserving And Maintaining The Older Home
New York: McGraw Hill, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 237 pages. More
Treasury of American Design
New York: Abrams, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Foreword by J. Carter Brown. Introduction by Holger Cahill. Voluminously illustrated with almost 3000 illustrations, about 850 in color. Index of Artists. Index. KARPEL F221. "Latest and fullest published selection of illustrations from the glorious collection of renderings produced by hundreds of artists..... More
Common Houses in America's Small Towns: The Atlantic Seaboard To The Mississippi Valley
Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 238 pp. Small 4to, copiously illustrated with photographs and drawings. Bibliography. Index. Glossary of Structural Forms. This monograph covers sixty-seven different house types and successfully describes 96% of the houses surveyed. More
The Guide Book to Historic Germantown, Prepared for the Site & Relic Society
Germantown: Site & Relic Society, 1926. Fourth edition. Hardcover. 167 pages. 12mo, maps and drawings. Index. More than thirty-six historic buildings are discussed, twenty-four are illustrated in line drawings. Bookplate. More
Pennsylvania Dutch American Folk Art
New York: American Studio Books, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. 136 pages. Voluminously illustrated, mostly in black and white, but with color plates of brilliant fidelity. Bibliography. KARPEL I1532. "General historical and sociological background is provided, nevertheless, placing the various motifs in the proper religious and ethic context." More