ART AND PHYSICS by LEONARD SHLAIN "AUTOGRAPHED" - 1991

NY: Scott, Foresman, 1912. Published NY: Scott, Foresman, 1912. SOFTCOVER 4to., 7 1/2"x10." Unpaginated (65 pages, including frontis+30 plates - mostly color, with plate description on facing page.) NOTE: THIS IS NOT THE TEACHER'S EDITION. Original printed card wrappers with art nouveau design cover. Corners bumped, two small chips. Old professional tape repair at the inside cover joints, spine backstrip gone, stitching and signatures loose, but a serviceable copy. Text and plates clean, no stains or tears. Good.. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to. Illus.

Richmond, VA: William Byrd, 1927. SIGNED First edition, first printing. Hard cover. Published Richmond, VA: William Byrd, 1927. Signed and dated (September second, 1927) by author on half title. 4to., 7 1/2" x 10." Blue cloth with white lettering and design to cover, marble pattern end papers, color frontis with printed tissue guard, two-color title page. Illustrated with 371 original plates. Spine lettering mostly rubbed off, slight rubbing to the cover lettering, few spots/marks on rear cover, otherwise very good. Binding tight, hinges strong. Internally very good, pages clean, crisp. Very good minus overall.. Signed by Author. 1st. Hard. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. 4to.

Taipei: Distributor Chinese Watercolor Society, 1978. First Edition - Limited. Paperback. Very Good. (7 of 10)//Very Good- (dustjacket). Lan Wang; editor-Max C.W. Liu - Chinese Opera Watercolors: Guo ju ren wu shui cai hua. some rubbing dj edges. softcover book in dj. Tipped-in color plates. Wang Lan was one of Taiwan's senior men of letters, as well as a reknowned watercolorist. He was Executive Director of the Chinese Center, International P.E.N., Chairman of the Chinese Watercolor Society and Executive Director of the Chinese Writers' and Artists' Association. His most widely known novel, The Blue and the Black, published in 1958, was translated into many languages, including English, and adapted for film and stage. His watercolors are held in numerous collections. Born in China in 1922, he fought against both the Japanese and later the Communists, eventually going to Taiwan. This first volume includes 19 full-color tipped-in plates, brilliantly reproducing watercolors by Wang. An… Read More

Baltimore: Museum and Library of Maryland History, The Mayland Historical Society, 1983. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Near Fine. An exceptional reference on early Maryland silver. Fine in stiff illustrated wraps except for very small crease to bottom corner of front cover. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Silver in Maryland at the Maryland Historical Society.

Valle Crucis Abbey. Original uncoloured lithograph, R Bowyer, 87 Pall Mall. Ca 1800. Drawn by Miss Smirke, engraved by J Harriden. Sheet size 495mm x 340mm, Print size 405mm x 280mm. With wide blank margin, engraved frame and title. Two very small ink marks on title, otherwise in tight, bright and clean condition with strong plate inprint. A delightful print, empahsising the more rural aspect of this area.

NY: McGraw Hill, 1960. First Edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: McGraw Hill, 1960. First American Edition. Folio. 9 1/2" x 12." 260pp., 83 tipped-in color plates and 52 b/w illustrations.A Very Good or better copy - clean, straight, tight, no markings, in a Good, heavily frayed dj with several small chips missing.. 1st. Hard. Very Good/Good. Folio. Illus.

Abergavenny Church. Original hand coloured aquatint etching. Drawn and Engraved by J Cullum. Ca 1840. Sheet and plate size 265mm x 205mm including blank border of 15mm and title Now known as St Marys this Priory was a Monastery of Benedictine or Black Monks, founded in the reign of Henry I between 1100 and 1135. Abergavenny Church is recorded in the poem The Worthiness of Wales written near the end of the 16th Century, by Thomas Churchyard who toured Wales in 1586. This poem, dedicated to Her Most Excellent Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, gives much information respecting the Church and the Monuments. The poem was first published in 1587 and reprinted in 1776. Extensive alterations took place in 1828 and Cathedral and Church architect Gilbert Scott was to comment in 1874 "Few Churches have suffered from decay and injudicious repair than this." Information regarding the alternations would suggest this aquatint was completed after the alternations, the leaded roof replaced by slates being the most… Read More

Stuttgart: Ernst Klett, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Stout 4to. Pp. 588. Foreword by Josef Hirn. Illustrated with a generous section of photos depicting life in Stuttgart before and during the rise of the Nazi party. Bound in black cloth with gilt Star of David stamped on front cover, gilt lettering on spine. Book is in Fine condition with dust jacket showing hints of wear at edges. A particularly fresh copy. Dust jacket now protected in a clear removable, archival cover.

Brussels: La Renaissance Du Livre. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. 2804122166 . Index, bibliography. Profusely illustrated with photographs, drawings and plans. Text in French. A sumptuous book surveying the architecture, landscape architecture and sculpture of Brussels and Wallonia, the southern, French-speaking region of Belgium. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 319 pages .

Roma, Tip. Salviucci, 1864. Soft Cover. xiii, [3], 157 p.; 22.5 cm. Title continues: pubblicati per opera di Ernesto Ovidi. A collection of essays by a painter who was a Pre-Raphaelite before the Pre-Raphaelites. He admired Trecento and Quattrocento Italian Renaissance paintings and here studies them as a basis for art of the Romantic movement. Untrimmed, uncut in original yellow wrappers; very good. Stock#OB691.