Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago (copyright American Art Association), 1889. First edition. Soft cover. 3 items: 80p with many ills., 14p, 35p. Second Appendix covers are soiled and sunned; owner's small ink stamp on two covers; small pin- or staple holes in most margins and sometimes in the text. The..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Advocate, 2008. Ashbery, John. First edition. Soft cover. 72p, many ills. and photos. Laid in: DVD with animation, claymation, and other films by 5 artists (6 tracks total). This issue of The Harvard Advocate was published in anticipation of Ashbery's reciving the Harvard Arts Medal in Spring..... More
London: B. Weinreb Architectural Books, 1975. First edition. Sewn soft cover. 319p, many ills. Catalogue of 1,979 books and other sources on furniture, interior design, murals, mosaics, ceilings, exhibitions, ceramics, metalwork, jewelry, textiles, vases, ornament, and some original drawings and watercolors. Chiefly British and European titles of the 18th-20th centuries..... More
Ecouen: Office de Tourisme d'Ecouen, 2012. Limited edition (1 of 1000 copies). Soft cover. 152p, many ills., many in color. In French. Trace of old price sticker on front cover. Very comprehensive survey of the French, British, and American painters and printmakers who frequented this lesser-known artists' colony just north..... More
Leipzig; Paris: Baedeker; Paul Ollendorff, 1902. Third edition. Hardcover (limp cloth). The last edition of La Russie. xlix, 476p, 19 maps (most folding), 32 plans, all in color. Split to rear joint mended; ca. 2-inch tear to rear folding map, suitable for mending. Else very good and crisp, with no..... More
![Item #30155 Austria; Togethep [sic] with Budapest, Prague, Karlsbad, Marienbad. Karl Baedeker](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30155.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633973518)
Leipzig; London; New York: Karl Baedeker; T. Fisher Unwin; Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. 12th rev. ed. Soft cover. 518p, 86 maps and plans, 2 panoramas, most in color and all very good. Limp cloth (a few light stains). Ink name of a Mrs. Reynolds, New York. An early issue of..... More
Frankfurt: Joseph Baer & Co., 1929. First edition. Soft cover. 28p, many ills. Prospectus for the "most important private collection of 15th century books formed in Germany since the Klemm Collection has been sold in 1886." Illustrations of woodcuts and text pages from a selection of the 850 books to..... More
New York: New York Public Library, 1933. First edition. Soft cover. 60p, no ills. Reprinted from the library's June-August 1933 Bulletin. Over 1000 entries, chosen largely for their illustrations. Grouped into Bibliographies, Periodicals, Plant Forms as Motives and Pattern, Plant Forms in the Applied Arts, Plant Forms in the Fine..... More
Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press for Harvard University Library, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. 178p, 88 ill., almost all in color (some published here for the first time). Essays on the histories and personalities behind selected American daguerreotypes in Harvard collections. The college began collecting daguerreotypes early on, recognizing their..... More
Tunbridge Wells: P.M. Barnard, n.d. [ca. 1910-12]. First edition. Soft cover. 74p, several ills. Bookseller catalogue with 162 items, often described and documented in detail. The "facsimiles" are reproductions of woodcut illustrations. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
London / Liverpool: Barraud Studio, n.d. [ca. 1890]. No stated edition. Mounted photograph. Image is ca. 7 x 10 inches on damaged cardboard mount (ca. 10 x 14 inches). On the mat are printed Barraud's name and addresses plus "W & S Ltd" and "Permanent." Image has trivial wrinkles (from..... More
N.p. [Redding, CA?]: Colleen Barry, 1996. Barry, Colleen. Three-dimensional object. Unique mixed-media book object. Ca. 10 inches high, 7 inches wide, and 5 inches deep including the door knob. Signed and dated. Purchased from the artist in the year of its creation, 1996. Photos are too light; colors are..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1865, 1875, 1882, 1898. Various editions. Hardcover. Each variously paged (from 480p to over 1100p), no ills. Occasional toning from material laid in. The 1865 edition is rebound in old half leather and marbled boards; the others are all in their original cloth bindings. (1) ..... More
Jaffrey, NH: David R. Godine, 2004. First edition. Soft cover. 272p, over 1000 color photos. The landscape designer-authors assembled this book from the more than 1,000 gardens they visited in 21 countries. They discuss how to choose, site, and maintain arbors, birdhouses, beehives, bollards, boot scrapers, bridges, drains, fences, fountains..... More
London: B.T. Batsford, 1944 (1st pub. 1943). Whistler, Rex. "Second Impression, with corrections, Spring 1944" Hardcover. 148p, several line ills. + 42 ills., 1 in color. Jacket by Rex Whistler is torn and soiled. Inscribed "To Miss Eileen Trans with friendly regards from Harry Batsford Opening Day, N.Y. 1948." Chiefly..... More
Leipzig: Rowohlt, 1911. First edition thus. Hardcover. viii, 282p, no ills. Printed with light green headings. No jacket, if issued. An elegant presentation, typeset and printed by the Leipzig firm of Drugulin in one of its handsome typefaces. The colophon reads "Ce livre . . . est le neuvieme Drugulin..... More
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1974. Rohm, Robert / Sproat, Christopher. First edition. Soft cover. [20]p, 8 plates. One of the museum's series of exhibitions "in which prominent guest curators present what they regard as important developments in contemporary art" (note by Kenworth Moffett). The works are mixed media (rope..... More
London: Phaidon, 1957. Advance blads. Soft cover. These are not the books, but publicity materials for volumes 1 and 2 of Venetian School. Each: many ills. on 32 pages + tipped-in color frontispieces., bound up from the printed sheets. Vol. 1 includes Berenson's prefaces to the 1957 and 1932 editions;..... More
Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, n.d. [1920s]. No stated edition. Soft cover. [16]p, no ills. Catalogue of publisher/printer Bernheim-Jeune's books, portfolios, and original prints for sale. All with prices; the book listings include edition details. Cezanne, Courbet, Matisse, Manet, Van Gogh, and many more late 19th- and early 20th-century masters. The books are..... More
Lyon: Braun, 1943. Walch, First edition. Soft cover. 16p, ca. 15 ills. Jacket rather torn. Despite having been born with a deformed leg and arm, Alsatian-born Charles Walch achieved artistic renown in France between the world wars. Besson was the first critic to champion him. Some of the paintings reproduced..... More
Yeovil, UK: Marston House, 2005. Coper, Hans. New edition (1st pub. 1983). Soft cover. 224p, over 100 large ills., many in color. Definitive, profusely illustrated study of "the most important studio-potter of the twentieth century." With much on his long association with fellow ceramist Lucy Rie. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967-1969. Various editions. Hardcover. Hundreds of pages, some ills. Light shelfwear and soil; overall clean and sturdy). No d.j. (if issued?). From Henry Adams to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Vol. 5 is the 1969 first printing; vols. 1-4 are 3rd or 4th printings of 1967 and..... More
Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press, n.d. [1992-93]. First edition. Unbound sheets. Folded card plus 2 loose sheets. Printed by offset in two colors. Ca. 4 x 5 1/2 inches. Publisher's prospectus. One sheet reads, "A gentle reminder to let friends, collectors, and book lovers everywhere know that Carol's nifty new alphabet..... More
Fribourg: Edita-Denoel, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 200p, ca. 300 ills., 120 in color. In French. Overview of the leading 19th-century and early 20th-century French glass artists and the development of the techniques and styles of their vases, bowls, bottles, tableware, etc. Large and heavy; shipping/handling may be extra. Please keep..... More
![Item #30411 Das Tier in der Antike [The Animal in Antiquity]. Hansjorg Bloesch](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30411.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633973579)
Zurich: Archaeologisches Institut der Universitat Zurich, 1974. First edition. Soft cover. 71p + hundreds of small ills. on 64 pls. In German. An enormous loan exhibition of 400 works depicting animals in ancient art--Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Chiefly small and large sculptures, vase paintings, and metalwork. Birds, cats, sea..... More
