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Watson-Guptil Publications, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket un-clipped. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Art & Design; Painting; Antiquarian & Rare. ISBN: 0823045102. ISBN/EAN: 9780823045105. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 6786. . 9780823045105

New York: The Guggenheim Museum, 2002. First edition / First printing. First issue without the notice of the Hugo Boss sponsorship on the copyright page; later printings printed this sponsorship notice. Silvery pale gray cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy. The definitive work on Barney's acclaimed cycle of films.

Vinegia: Vincenzo Vaugris. [Architettura-Prima edizione] (cm.16,5) ottima piena pergamena sec. XVIII. Titolo calligrafato al dorso.-- cc. 12 nn., (di cui l' ultima bianca), cc. 248, c. 1 con la marca tipografica. La dedica del traduttore Pietro Lauro Modenese è a Bonifacio Bevilacqua. prima edizione in qualsiasi lingua moderna e prima traduzione italiana di questo capolavoro dell' architettura rinascimentale. L' Editio Princeps del " De Re Aedificatoria " apparve nel 1485 a Firenze e ripropone in dieci libri la struttura del testo di Vitruvio. I primi tre libri riguardano il progetto e l' esecuzione; nel 4° e 5° si esaminano le grandi opere come città, ponti ecc. Nell' 8° e 9° si gtratta dell' apparato ornamentale, nel 10° si tratta di restauro e idraulica. Opera fondamentale non solo per l' architettura ma anche per il pensiero rinascimentale nel suo insieme. Qualche lieve traccia di polvere alla prima e ultima carta, altrimenti… Read More

Osijek Galerija Likovnih Umjetnosti, 1993, hardcover. There are 183 numbered color reproductions, plus photographs and other visuals. Text in CROATIAN, with summary in English and in French. 219 pages, 9.5x13 inches. -- Hardcover. Condition: near fine (corners lightly bumped) with near fine dust jacket. -- Ivan Rein studied with prominent Croatian painters at Zagreb and then Paris. His art evolved through the classical European forms and his Croatian training, to a more personal style in Paris 1930s, "Rein was a painter of intimacy." These more "mature" paintings also reflected his disturbance at the Spanish Civil War and encroaching fascism from Germany. His art and life ended when he became active with the Yugoslav resistance in World War II.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1930. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end page -"To Will H. Hays with the pleasant memory of meetings with him Joseph Cummings Chase 1935 " and a 1/3 page pen-and-ink original drawing of a rooster captioned "'Lo Bill lets crow together". Joseph Cummings Chase (1878-1965), was "the official portrait painter of six presidents, back-stage sketcher of the performing artists, illustrator of children's books and fiction, caricaturist for newspapers and periodicals, lecturer, teacher, and author of nine books." Will H. Hays managed Warren G. Harding's successful campaign for the Presidency of the U.S. and was subsequently appointed Postmaster General. After a year in that position, he resigned to become most famously known as the first President of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), which under his guidance published a blacklist of actors and workers studios should not hire, inserted moral clauses… Read More

Paris: Chez C. P. Landon. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1801. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. 16 volumes, only, of 21. This set includes volumes 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 19, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, and 21. Bound in full green morocco, spines in five compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in two compartments, gilt imperial eagle and floral tooling in remainder, gilt and blind-stamped borders on covers surrounding gilt imperial eagles, a.e.g., rust endpapers. Illustrated with hundreds of full-page engravings of works of art in the museums and public buildings of France. Charles Paul Landon (1760 – 1826) was a French painter and popular writer on art and artists. It is chiefly for his writing on the arts that he made a reputation. He published nearly one hundred volumes during his lifetime. Landon was among the collaborators of the influential Journal des arts, des sciences et de la littérature. He was also a part-owner of the Gazette de France,… Read More

New York Botanical Garden. PAPERBACK. 1/1/2003. 002222 :Very Good uncreased paperback with slight edge wear . Used - Very Good.

London: Rodwell & Martin. Very Good. 1820. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue lightly scuffed leather with a bit of color fading and light edge ware. Blind stamped with a border. Raised bands with gilt decorated panels. Sixty full page tissue protected engravings and three vignettes. (8) ,197 and (3). Deckle page edges. Prior owners book-plate. English Text; Engravings; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 197 pages .

HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents a VERY RARE ASSOCIATION COPY of FANNIE B. BLUMBERG, VOL. NO. 2, A SEQUEL. "July 9, 1965 we embarked on the publication of (Volume No. 1) as a testimonial and memorial dedicated to preserving various letters, unpublished stories manuscripts, memos and comments...This (Vol. 2) is needed to complete the record…"(Benjamin Blumberg) 6" x 9", 315 page paperback, including numerous b/w photos, illustrations and painting reproductions. Cover is brown marbled heavy paper with gold gilt design and particulars. Condition = Near Fine. On title page appears an INSCRIPTION BY AUTHOR to friend & fellow artist (sculptor) RALPH H HUMES, who spent 42 years in south Florida. Noted appraiser James Beattie gave this book a value of $260.

Hermann, 1966. Book. Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. In-4, relié, jaquette, Bon Etat, Les constituantes - liants, solvants, plastifiants, pigments, colorants, charges, adjuvants.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. First U.S. edition / First printing. Pale gray cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket. Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 17 March-12 June 1994 and the Art Institute of Chicago, 16 July-16 October 1994.

1929, n. Good+. Nice tight copy 1st edition 1st printing (See photos slight spotting

London: Sands & Co, 1908. Limited edition (1250 copies) of Smith's seminal work by Sands & Co. 9 volumes (complete) in burgundy buckram with paper labels to spine. Ex library copy with the usual stamps and marks. Fading to the spines of each volume and some marking / nicking to the spine edges (particularly vol. 9). still useful reference guide for the history of the origins and developments of European painting and painters. It provides an extensive listing of the more celebrated Dutch, Flemish and French painters of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Attractive black and white plates with tissue protection. A heavy set (12kg packed) additional shipping will be required at cost, outside of Europe. Text in English. Édition limitée (1250 exemplaires) de l'œuvre phare de Smith par Sands & Co. 9 volumes (complets) en percaline bordeaux avec étiquettes en papier au dos. Ex exemplaire de bibliothèque avec les cachets et marques d'usage. Décoloration sur les dos de chaque volume… Read More

1887 1ed Dore Masterpieces Illustrated Dante Bible Milton Fontaine Quixote Fairy

"The most popular and successful French book illustrator of the mid-19th century!"

Famous French artist, Gustave Doré was most known for his incredible woodcut engravings. Doré's romantic style of illustration, supremely imaginative and richly detailed, was ideally suited to literary subjects. Artists and art lovers will find in these pages' superb examples of the illustrator's art! This first edition, compiled by Edmund Ollier, of Dore's 'Masterpieces' features 80 engraved plates.

Item number: #21590
Price: $550

DORE, Gustave

Masterpieces from the works of Gustave Doré: selected from the Doré Bible, Milton, Dante's Inferno, Dante's Purgatorio and Paradiso, Fontaine, Fairy Realm, Don Quixote, Baron Munchausen, Croquemitaine, etc., etc.: with memoir of Doré and descriptive letterpress

New York: Cassell Publishing Company, ©1887. First edition

Details:
• Collation: Complete with all pages
o Unpaginated… Read More

Very good volume of 17 numbers of this rare 18th century art magazine.

With calligraphic title page and 50 (of 51) copperplates after artists such as Paul Sandby, C. Monnet, Charles le Brun, Philippe de Champaigne, Giovanni Casanova, Charles Eisen, etc., engraved by Joshua Collyer, William Walker, Charles Grignion, Michael Angelo Rooker, T. Cook, J. Hall, W. Sharp and others.

"In each number of which will be given a Portrait of some Celebrated Personage, some interesting Historical Subject and some curious Perspective View executed by the most capital artists of Great Britain and calculated to enrich the Cabinets of the Curious or to ornament the Apartments of Persons of Real Taste."

Each number had three plates, a portrait, a historical or mythological scene and a bucolic landscape. Missing one plate (of Perseus), never bound in.

The portraits include writers, philosophers, scientists, statesmen, clergy and aristocrats such as Geoffrey Chaucer, Alexander Pope, Racine, Moliere, Corneille, Sir… Read More