Leipzig: (1926): Verlag Quelle & Meyer, First Edition. Quarto. 304 pp. German text. Extensively illustrated and photographed compendium of world culture, art and architecture, from ancient times through the early 20th century, including full-color reproductions of Wassily Kandinsky, Caspar David Friedrich, Rembrandt's "Staatmeesters", Albrecht Durer's Apostles, Matthias Grunewald's Stenheimer Altar..... More
(Iowa City, 2010): Four Peaks Press. First Edition. Thick Quarto. First printing. Inscribed: To Noel, the father was my best model in 30 years, Molly, [signed boldly] Tomas." 206 pages, printed in a small print run. This scarce edition has mostly color illustrations with many full page. Introductory essay by..... More
(Los Angeles, 2000): Los Angeles County Museum of Art/ Rizzoli International Pub. First Edition. Quarto. 252pp.Signed by Susan Peterson on page 87. A catalogue published by the Museum in Conjunction of an Exhibition under the same title. Drawn from the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, defining..... More
Moskva: Iskusstvo, 1973. First Edition. Quarto. 48 pp. Russian text. 41 plates after text, 25 illus. in text. Upper spine dj slightly bunched, wear to lower spine dj and corners. More
Paris; [1898]: E. Bernard & Co. 7" x 10" 16 hand-colored (watercolor ) prints by Lebouregoise which are seldom complete (complete sets are in the British Library, New York Public Library and the Lilly Library at Indiana University). Zola was the object of more caricatures than any other French writer..... More
Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1841. Small Octavo. A new ediiton, enlarged. 350p. After dealing with painters of the Italian Renaissance, the author moves to Northern Europe and several more modern painters (Poussin, Rosa). Her works reveal a great deal about US perceptions of art history in the early..... More
Secaucus: Chartwell Books, Inc. 1989. Hard Cover. Folio. 207pp. index. Color illustrations. Book traces the history of this art form from the eleventh century to the present day. More
(Skylark Press. Los Anerles, 2006). Quarto. 255 pages. With the original slipcase. The only recorded copy is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This includes the original cd which includes a documentary on Leestemaker by Emily Lou and Vincent Ho's composition for strings and piano while showing his four best..... More
Valencia: F. Semere y Compania, 1907. Half-Leather. Small Octavo. Inscribed to Dr. Eduardo Barraque, Paris, May, 1909. First Edition. Legua Francisco Ibáñez was a painter of the Valencian school. At the Exhibition of Fine Arts in 1899 his art attracted wide attention, there are a number of photographs and examples..... More
London: The Tablet, 1975. Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 12pp unpaginated. The text of a sermon delivered in Westminster Cathedral at the Solemn Requiem for the poet and painter David Jones on 13 December 1974. More
England: Leigh-on-Sea, 1979. Cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Only 500 copies printed, The author has provided with an expert eye the best guide to the flower painting of Simon Pietersz Verelst. A small chip at bottom of dust jacket spine. More
Braziller New York, 1956. Hard Cover. More
Museum of Modern Art Mew York 1946. First Edition. Cloth. (some edgewear, small closed tear), 199 pages, bibliography, profusely illustrated. More
Vail, Co. Nd.(ca.2010): Diamond Tail Press. Limited Edition. Thick Quarto. Limited to 3000 copies. 359p. index. illustrated with nearly 400 color illustrations. A handsome copy bound in black cloth stamped in blind, spine lettering black, in fine pictorial dust jacket. More
New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2006. Elias Rivera. First Edition. Cloth. Folio. Folio, 244pp. The rich reds and browns of Rivera's paintings bring so close the everyday life of Latin America the viewer feels they were there. Five decades of travels and painting, from New York to Guatemala, Mexico and..... More
Sydney: Bay Books, 1977. First Edition. Cloth. Square Folio. Square Folio, 159pp. Artists and color plates of their paintings: Each color plate has biographical sketch, with criticisms and comparisons. Bound in dark brown cloth boards, with illustrated dust jacket. More
Seattle, (1996): University of Washington Press. First Edition. Cloth Hardcover. Small Folio. 242p. index. This superb volume is the definitive work on Haida Art. It has 90 full-color photographs of such art works as masks, pipes, rattles and other ceremonial objects with an additional 95 black-and-white photographs with rare historic..... More
Sov Khudozhnik Moskva 1974. First Edition. a very good copy in a good dust jacket Profusely illustrated with the decorative arts of the Soviet Union from the Revolution to 1975. Many illustrations colored. More
Geneva: Editions Slatkine, 1978. Limited Edition. Quarto. Limited to 300 copies. Bibliographic References. Important Bernese landscape painter. A facsimile edition from the 1920 edition. Illustrated with 188 heliogravures from photographs of S.A. Schnegg. Published in memory of a benefactor of the museum of Berne fire Charles-Louis Lory, Munsigen. Bound in..... More
Florence: Istituto Nazionale Di Studie Sul Rinascimento, 1943. Original Wraps. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 387p. 24 Illustrations. Italian text. A very good copy of an important work on Renaissance art and culture Previous owner's card Enrich Barfucci is tipped-om... More
Hillsdale, New York: Pendragon Press, 2007. Original Paper Wrps. 394p. index. bibliography. In a career of little more than a decade the Neapolitan composer, Leonardo Vinci Produced successful operas but died mysteriously amid rumors of poison. Burney says his committment to poetry caused him to forge a new musical stye..... More
Los Angeles, (2006): Taschen. Quarto. 447pp., illustrated in color, with a table of contents which list all the artist represented. Each artist has a short biography and a few representations of their art. Bound in pictorial paper covered boards, spine lettering blue over red. A handsome, near fine copy... More
Paris: Henri Laurens, 1927. First American Edition. 256 pp. 160 photo illustrations. Beautiful edition bound in original wraps with glossy paper. Creases on spine. More
Zurich, (1949): Europa Verlag. 12mo. all 12 woodcuts present of one of his scarce works and his first after the end of the Second World War. You can see how his work was a major influence on Lynd Ward and others later such as Will Eisner and Art Spiegelman... More
New York; (1992): Clarkson Potter Publishers. First Edition. Quarto. 240 pp. signed by the author. photographs by Jack Parsons, Design by Paul Hardy. Extensively photographed historical-cultural look at the actual origins and developments of the American West. Bound in tan cloth, spine lettered in white.pictorial endpapers. A very nice copy..... More