Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects - 10 vols. by Vasari, Georgio - 1976

Kansas City, Missouri: Bufton, 1919. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. First Editions, no additional printings or editions stated; 4tos, three-quarter textured black cloth with black cloth boards, marbled edges and eps; overall, vg (boards rubbed and worn; cloth frayed where overlaps textured corners; shelfworn; spine ends bumped and very heavily worn; pages toned; white stains on boards of v2; v3 cracked at first blank rear flyleaf; v4 cracked at Roman Candle and at Thomson). Please be aware shipping this set priority or internationally will require additional postage.

Lyon/Paris: Librairie Catholique de Perisse Freres, 1857. Hardcover. Good. Seconde Edition stated; 3 vols, French text only; 12mo, half-leather, marbled boards and eps, speckled edges, gilt thistle devices on spines; good (marbled boards worn, rubbed, and chipped; shelfworn; leather on spines worn and rubbed; owner wrote numbers on spines; spine ends worn; corners worn to boards; side edges of vIII's boards heavily worn and chipped to boards; waterstains and discoloration to side edges of front and rear eps and first and last pages in vIII).

London: Welbecson. First Edition . Hardcover. Good+. W.A. Rouch photos. An incomplete ten volume set: includes 'special volume', covering the years 1919-1923, and Volumes I-IX, covering 1924-1932; MISSING Volume X, 1933. Folios, filled with biographies and fine photogravures of famous horses; uniform bindings, brown cloth with white cloth spines, top edge gilt; overall, good plus (all have lightly sunned spines and moderately foxed text and plates). Special Volume, 1919-1923: No. 198 of 600 copies, soiled and spotted spine, frayed at top. Vol. I, 1924: No. 716/1000. Vol. II, 1925: No. 583/1000, spots on spine, boards bowed. Vol. III, 1926: No. 423/1000, spots on spine, covers soiled, and brown cloth separating from white in rear. Vol. IV, 1927: No. 156/1000, spots on spine. Vol. V, 1928: No. 371/1000, both covers bowed, spots on front cover. Vol. VI, 1929: No. 124/1000, spots on spine, soiled covers, more foxing than others. Vol. VII, 1930: No. 274/1000, soiled front cover. Vol. VIII, 1931:… Read More

London: John & Paul Knapton. First Edition . Hardcover. Fair. First English Editions, by an unknown translator; the originals were in French. Volumes 6 and 7 by Rollin, published in 1742; Volume 10 by Crevier, published in 1745. Fair overall, though v10 is poor. The paper and printing was excellent, though some maps are misfolded; foxing to pastedowns of v6 and 7, light foxing to interior of v7. Modern bookplate to each volume on front pastedown. Full-leather bindings quite damaged, the spines are heavily chipped, worn and cracked with the title-pieces chipped off except for a portion of v7; leather rubbed and worn, corners worn to boards; broken throughout due to spine cracks. Volume 6 came apart completely and was repaired with a new front hinge, new rear joint and hinge, and partially replaced spine (Japanese paper was used for half of spine and front joint), the book is still quite fragile; blindstamp on ffep and a name stamped twice on the blank page following the ffep. Volume 7 has… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Hardcover. Very Good-. Author's Autograph Copy N0. 295." SIGNED by Harte in vol. 1 and dated Septem. 1896. This set includes all volumes published until 1903 but lacks vol. 20, published in 1914. A vg- set, overall; the spines are faded to brown, the title pieces darkened w/ several chipped (vol. 1 and 15-20), spine ends bumped and worn (few tiny tears to ends and chips to cloth). Hinges repaired in vol. 1, which also has a thin waterstain at the bottom corner of the ffep only. Pages 297-312 creased along side edge. Text in all vols. free of marks. This wonderful set includes illustrations by many of the finest artists of the time, and many have SIGNED various plates: James Montgomery Flagg, E. Boyd Smith (3x), Guy Rose, B. West Clinedinst, Mary Hallock Foote (2x), Alice Barber Stephens (2x), W.L. Taylor, Fredric Remington, Otto H. Bacher, M.J. Burns, Malcolm Fraser (2x), T. de Thulstrup, Frederick Dielman, Orson Lowell (2x), Frank T. Merrill, Eric Pape,… Read More

Kansas City, Missouri: Bufton, 1919. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. First Editions, no additional printings or editions stated; 4tos, three-quarter textured black cloth with black cloth boards, marbled edges and eps; overall, vg (boards rubbed and worn; cloth frayed where overlaps textured corners; shelfworn; spine ends bumped and very heavily worn; pages toned; white stains on boards of v2; v3 cracked at first blank rear flyleaf; v4 cracked at Roman Candle and at Thomson). Please be aware shipping this set priority or internationally will require additional postage.

Lyon/Paris: Librairie Catholique de Perisse Freres, 1857. Hardcover. Good. Seconde Edition stated; 3 vols, French text only; 12mo, half-leather, marbled boards and eps, speckled edges, gilt thistle devices on spines; good (marbled boards worn, rubbed, and chipped; shelfworn; leather on spines worn and rubbed; owner wrote numbers on spines; spine ends worn; corners worn to boards; side edges of vIII's boards heavily worn and chipped to boards; waterstains and discoloration to side edges of front and rear eps and first and last pages in vIII).

New York: Columbia University. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Three Volumes in FIVE Books, consists of Vols. 1, 2 and 4 of the set. Missing Volume 3. Vol. 1, 1970: 'The Latin and Greek Poems' by Douglas Bush and 'The Italian Poems' by J.E. Shaw & A. Bartlett Giamatti, vg (bumped corners) in vg+ dj. Vol 2 , 1972: 'The Minor English Poems' by A.S.P. Woodhouse & Douglas Bush. Part 1 is vg (spine ends and corners bumped, scratch on front board), no dj. Pt. 2 is vg (bumped spine ends) in vg dj (edgeworn). Pt. 3 is vg (spine ends and top corners bumped), no dj. Vol. 4, 1975: 'Paradise Regained' by Walter McKellar, vg (bumped spine ends and corners) in vg dj (faded spine). Please be aware that shipping this item will require extra charges above our standard rate.

London: H. Virtue. Hardcover. Good+. Complete set of this major and beautifully illustrated work, 6 sm. folio volumes in green cloth. The set looks quite good though there are many small flaws. Spines are darkened somewhat, and spine ends crimped. The engraved plates (photos and art) are foxed, usually the frontispieces most heavily. All have a bookseller's sticker from William Potter, Liverpool, on the front pastedown. Vol. 1, Division 1; has date of 1901 on title page (the rest have no date). Vol. 1 Div. 2 has the front hinge starting, and a red stain near the bottom of the rear board. Vol. 2 Div. 1 has the front hinge starting. Vol. 2 Div. 2 has the front hinge broken, and the title page loose. Vol. 3 Div. 1 has a scar in the cloth of the front cover, front hinge starting and rear hinge weak. Vol. 3 Div. 2 is the worst shaken, with the front hinge broken so that the ffep, frontis and title page have come loose together; also a loose plate ('Sceptre') at p. 700. Good plus overall.

London: Welbecson. First Edition . Hardcover. Good+. W.A. Rouch photos. An incomplete ten volume set: includes 'special volume', covering the years 1919-1923, and Volumes I-IX, covering 1924-1932; MISSING Volume X, 1933. Folios, filled with biographies and fine photogravures of famous horses; uniform bindings, brown cloth with white cloth spines, top edge gilt; overall, good plus (all have lightly sunned spines and moderately foxed text and plates). Special Volume, 1919-1923: No. 198 of 600 copies, soiled and spotted spine, frayed at top. Vol. I, 1924: No. 716/1000. Vol. II, 1925: No. 583/1000, spots on spine, boards bowed. Vol. III, 1926: No. 423/1000, spots on spine, covers soiled, and brown cloth separating from white in rear. Vol. IV, 1927: No. 156/1000, spots on spine. Vol. V, 1928: No. 371/1000, both covers bowed, spots on front cover. Vol. VI, 1929: No. 124/1000, spots on spine, soiled covers, more foxing than others. Vol. VII, 1930: No. 274/1000, soiled front cover. Vol. VIII, 1931:… Read More