Benjamin West A Biography
Boston: Houghton Miflin, 1978. West, Benjamin. First edition. Hardcover. 525 pages. Illustrated. Extensive Bibliography. Index. More about Benjamin West A Biography
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The Artist In America
NY: W.W. Norton, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 256 pp. 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 about The Artist In America
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 about Boston Common in Colonial and Provincial Days
American Painting History And Interpretation
NY: Macmillan, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. 717 pp. One hundred black and white plates. Notes. Index. Owner inscription. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER M489. CHAMBERLAIN 1456. "A good survey of American Painting." LUCAS p89. More about American Painting History And Interpretation
A Rhode Island Chaplain in the RevolutionLetters of Ebenezer David to Nicholas Brown 1775-1778
Providence: Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. 82 pp. Three illustrations. Preface by LawrenceC. Wroth. Index. Previously unpublished letters which lay in the Brown University business archives. Limited edition, one of 900 copies. More about A Rhode Island Chaplain in the RevolutionLetters of Ebenezer David to Nicholas Brown 1775-1778
At Home with the Presidents
NY: 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 about At Home with the Presidents
Letters Of Hugh Earl Percy from Boston and New York 1774-1776
Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, 1902. First edition. 88 pages. 22.5 x 17.5 cm. Frontispiece of Percy. Presents letters from a British army officer to his father, and with brief commentary on the battles of Bunker Hill, Lexington, Concord in which the writer participated. Index. Printed at the Merrymount Press by... More about Letters Of Hugh Earl Percy from Boston and New York 1774-1776
Early American Portrait Draughtsmen in Crayons
NY: Frederic Fairchild Sherman, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. 111 pp. 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. Paper... More about Early American Portrait Draughtsmen in Crayons
Still-Life Painting in America
NY: Oxford Univ. Press, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. 54 pages in text. With 134 plates in black and white.Notes. Orig. navy linen cloth. CHAMBERLAIN 1458. "A general history of still-life painting in America written by a competent scholar." LUCAS p89. More about Still-Life Painting in America
Re-Dedication of the Old State House, Boston, July 11, 1882
Boston: Boston City Council, 1882. First edition. Hardcover. 175 pp. 4to, thirty illlustrations. Index. Bookplate, ex library. More about Re-Dedication of the Old State House, Boston, July 11, 1882
Architecture Boston
Barre: Barre Publishing, 1976. 1st edition. Hardcover. 182 pp. Introduction by Walter Muir Whitehill. Text by Joseph L. Eldredge. Graphics by Mark Driscoll. 182 photographs, and twelve maps. Bibliography. Index. Whitehill notes, "Although Boston has preserved only a few scattered examples of its colonial buildings it offers an unrivaled view... More about Architecture Boston
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 about Peter Harrison First American Architect
American Manners & Morals A Picture History of How WeBehaved and Misbehaved
NY: 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 about American Manners & Morals A Picture History of How WeBehaved and Misbehaved
Homes and Gardens in Old Virginia
Richmond: Garrett & Massie, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. 544 pp. Introduction by Douglas S. Freeman. Approximately 125 illustrations. KARPEL B924. "A popular book but still of use." ROOS 3361. More about Homes and Gardens in Old Virginia
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 about The Colonial Architecture Of Salem
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 about The Wood-Carver of Salem Samuel McIntire His Life and Work
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 about Indian Art in America
Early English Churches in America 1607-1807
NY: 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 early... More about Early English Churches in America 1607-1807
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 about Our Colonial Homes
History Of The American Theatre
NY: 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 in... More about History Of The American Theatre
The Architecture Of Colonial America
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1915. First edition. Hardcover. 289 pages.21 x 15 cm. Illustrations from photographs, more than ninety by Mary H. Northend and others. Index. Backstrip rubbed at extremities, corner wear, owner (architect) stamp free endpaper. More about The Architecture Of Colonial America
Benjamin West and the Taste of his Time
Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1959. West, Benjamin. First edition. Hardcover. 144 pp. Seventy-three plates in black and white. Bibliography. Index. FREITAG 10223. KARPEL H565. "An excellent discourse on the developmentof West's painting, interpreted in relation to his contemporaries." More about Benjamin West and the Taste of his Time
American Painting First Flowers of Our Wilderness
Boston: HoughtonMifflin, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. 368 pp. 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 about American Painting First Flowers of Our Wilderness
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 about The Architecture of The Old South The Medieval Style 1585-1850
America's Historic Houses and Restorations
NY: Castle Books, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. 271 pp. 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 about America's Historic Houses and Restorations