1968. Asia House Gallery; Robert P. Griffing, Jr. The Art of the Korean Potter: Silla, Koryo, Yi. NY, 1968. 132p, over 100 ills., 8 in color. Very good to fine hardcover in d.j. Small bookplate partly removed from inside front endpaper. ** Handsome and comprehensive exhibition catalogue. The show was..... More
1985. Associated American Artists, New York. Barbizon Prints and Drawings. NY: Associated American Artists and C. & J. Goodfriend, 1985. 22p, several b&w ills. Text by Victor Carlson. Very good paperbound (slight shelf soil). ** Exhibition catalogue of 165 works on paper by Corot, Troyon, Dupre, Rousseau, Jacque, Millet, Daubigny..... More
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1998. Atterbury, Paul. Moorcroft: A Guide to Moorcroft Pottery 1897-1993. Shepton Beauchamp: Richard Dennis and Hugh Edwards, 1998. Rev. ed. (this ed. 1st pub. 1993). 208p, hundreds of wares shown in many photos, most in color. Very good hardcover in very good d.j. ** Comprehensive, beautifully illustrated guide to "one..... More
1925. Audin, Marius. Essai sur les graveurs de bois en France au dix-huitieme siecle. Paris: Cres 1925. xxxii, 190p, ca. 200 ills. (numbered to 230). Good sturdy paperbound in original glassine d.j. (foxed). One of 2060 copies. ** Biographical dictionary of French woodcut artists of the 18th century, illustrated chiefly..... More
1912. [Austen-Leigh, Richard Arthur]. The Story of a Printing House, being a Short Account of the Strahans and Spottiswoodes. London: Spottiswoode 1912. 2nd ed. 60p + several pls. Good hardcover (boards, cloth spine). Frontispiece detached, scattered foxing throughout. ** The author was then one of the directors of the firm..... More
1940. Austin, A. Everett, Jr. Night Scenes: An Exhibition of the Wadsworth Atheneum. Hartford, 1940. [52]p, many ills. printed by Meriden Gravure. Good paperbound (cover soil, light stain to one page). Cover title is formed from die-cut letters, four of which have lost the strips that separate them so the..... More
1902. Baedeker, K. La Russie: Manuel du Voyageur. Leipzig: Baedeker, and Paris: Paul Ollendorff, 1902. 3rd [and last] edition. xlix, 476p, 19 maps (most folding), 32 plans, all in color. Hardcover (limp cloth). Split to rear joint mended; ca. 2-inch tear to rear folding map, suitable for mending. Else very..... More
1907. Baedeker, Karl. The Dominion of Canada with Newfoundland and an Excursion to Alaska. Leipzig: Baedeker 1907. 3rd rev. and aug. ed. 331p, 13 color maps (some folding), 12 plans; 2 place-marking ribbons. Good clean hardcover (limp leatherette). Protruding edges of 2 maps chipped, with no loss of content. Tear..... More
1892. Baedeker, Karl, ed. Egypt: Handbook for Travellers. Part Second: Upper Egypt, with Nubia as far as the Second Cataract and the Western Oases. Leipzig, 1892. xxxviii, 365p, 11 maps (some in color) and 26 plans. Very good limp cloth (spine lightly faded). Occasional neat pencil note and dogeared corners..... More
1993. Baekeland, Frederick, and Robert Moes, et al. Modern Japanese Ceramics in American Collections. NY: Japan Society 1993. 206p (120 entries), many photos, many in color. Very good paperbound. ** This important loan exhibition catalogue is a definitive guide to its subject. Covers the development, classical traditions, forms, functions, and..... More
1968. Bager, Bertel. Nature as Designer: A Botanical Art Study. NY: Reinhold 1968 (1st pub. 1966). 176p, 191 black-and-white photos by the author. Good hardcover (covers splayed), lacks d.j. Ink name. ** Close-up photographic studies of a wide range of plants, accompanied by descriptions of their botanical features. Intended as..... More
1980. Bagnold, Enid; ed. by R.P. Lister. Letters to Frank Harris, & Other Friends. Andoversford: Whittington Press / London: William Heinemann, 1980. xxv, 77p + 5 tipped in pls., 1 in color. Fine hardcover (no d.j., as issued) in good slipcase (top edge splitting due to very tight fit of..... More
1992. Balken, Debra Bricker, and Deborah Menaker Rothschild. Suzy Frelinghuysen & George L.K. Morris: American Abstract Artists, Aspects of Their Work & Collection. Williams College Museum of Art 1992. 64p, ca. 30 ills., including several large color pls. Good paperbound (moderate shelf wear). ** Traveling exhibition catalogue, and the first..... More
1973. Ballerini, Luigi, ed. Italian Visual Poetry 1912-1972. NY: Finch College Museum / Istituto Italiano di Cultura 1973. 78p, many ills. and diagrams, some in color. Good to very good paperbound (covers soiled). Comb binding is intact and secure. ** Extensive exhibition catalogue, with a wealth of information: checklist of..... More
1954. Baltimore Museum of Art (Gertrude Rosenthal, text). Man and His Years. Exhibition catalogue, 1954. 40p, many ills. Good paperbound (shelfworn). ** Depictions of old age, works of great painters in their older years, and works by late beginners in European and American art from the Renaissance on. Organized with..... More
1949. Baltimore. Walters Art Gallery. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. 1949. xii, 85p (233 entries) + many ills. on 30 pls. Good paperbound (cover wear, tears). Internally very good. ** Landmark loan exhibition catalogue. Text (and entries?) by Dorothy Miner... More
1885. Bangs & Co., NY. Catalogue of the Library of B.H. Brennan, Esq., of Charlottesville, Va. [S.R. Koehler's marked copy]. 1885. 98p, decorative devices throughout. 832 lots of books, 246 lots of engravings and etchings. Fair paperbound (spine and covers chipped, old library label on front cover). ** Auction catalogue..... More
1995. Bann, Stephen, ed.; Hartford Art School. The Edge of Town. Hartford Art School, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Second International Distinguished Artists Symposium and Exhibition, 1995. 16p paperbound text by Bann + 19 loose 4-page portfolios by the participating artists. The portfolios are very good to fine. All housed..... More
1981. Bannon, Anthony. The Photo-Pictorialists of Buffalo. Buffalo: Media Study for the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1981. 127p, many b&w ills. Good paperbound (covers rubbed). One of 2500 copies. From the library of Estelle Jussim, with her ink name. ** Comprehensive exhibition catalogue, centered on the 50-year span of the Buffalo..... More
1980. Baronio, Joyce. 42nd Street Studio. NY: Pyxidium Press 1980. Stated first edition. N.p., ca. 40 photos. Texts by Baronio and Linda Nochlin. Good hardcover (plasticized boards). A little skewed due to its size. Lacks d.j. ** Large portraits of the sex-entertainment women and men who visited Baronio's Times Square..... More
1958. Barry, Joseph. The House Beautiful Treasury of Contemporary American Homes. NY: Hawthorn 1958. 142p, over 150 large color photos and ca. 25 plans. Very good hardcover in fair d.j. (quite torn). ** Presents a range of 32 mid-century homes, first published in House Beautiful from 1949 on. Designs by..... More
1862. Bascom, John. Aesthetics; or, the Science of Beauty. Boston: Crosby and Nichols 1862. vii, 256p, no ills. Good sturdy hardcover (ex-lib. with usual marks, covers stained). Original brown textured cloth. ** Chapters on the identification and cultivation of taste and beauty in general, and in landscape gardening, architecture, sculpture..... More
1970. Baskin, Leonard. Baskin: Sculpture Drawings Prints. NY: Braziller 1970. 170p, 136 large pls. Near fine hardcover in very good d.j. (sunned). ** Text by Baskin plus his own selection of 136 "of his finest works": sculpture, drawings, and prints. Long bibliography. Book and jacket designed by Baskin; jacket and..... More
1977. Bastin, Norbert. L'Architecture Civile a Namur (XVIe-XXe S.). Namur: Duculot 1977. 79p, several line ills. + 16 photos. Good paperbound (covers shelf-soiled). In French. ** Survey of civic and other secular buildings in Namur, Belgium, of the 16th-20th centuries. In the series Wallonie, Art et Histoire. Can be sent..... More
1967. Battisti, Eugenio. Cimabue. Pennsylvania State University Press 1967. 136p, over 100 ills., many of them fine tipped-in color pls. Very good hardcover; no d.j. Covers lightly shelf-smudged here and there. Outer pages rippled, possibly from the binding or the bulk of the tipped-in plates. Mended closed tear to rear..... More
