![Das Tier in der Antike [The Animal in Antiquity]. Hansjorg Bloesch](/pictures/thumb/30411.jpg?v=1630621203)
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
Minneapolis: Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, 1958. First edition. Soft cover. 28p, 21 ills. One of 1000 copies designed by Rob Roy Kelly. Back cover and last few pages dampstained along spine. Covers age soiled. Catalogue for a loan exhibition that aimed to assemble all the major Poussin paintings in..... More
No place: No stated publisher, n.d. [1986?]. First edition. Paperbound. 16p, 18 large color ills. Light handling soil to covers. The text is titled "Hand-Werk zu Arbeiten von Peter Reichenberger." The oils on canvas or paper have a resemblance to color field painting. Can be sent outside the US for..... More
Frankfurt: Societats-Verlag, 1930. First edition. Soft cover. 16p, several ills. + 200 ills., mostly full-page plates. They are numbered to 199; the 200th is the half-title photo. Half-title page detached. Original covers chipped. Text in German; captions in German, French, and English. Short survey of the first 30 years of..... More
![Third Annual Dinner [menu printed on silk]. Boston Marketmen's Republican Club](/pictures/thumb/26593.jpg?v=1616764742)
Boston: Elwell French (printer), 1891. First edition. Unbound folded sheet. The dinner was held at The Quincy (address Sinclair and Mann), Boston, February 11, 1891. There are well over 10 courses, starting with Bluepoints Deep Shell and moving on to soup, fish, removes [beef and fowl], entrees, releve [orange de..... More
1861. Bouillet, J.-B. Musee de Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dome). Clermont: Typographie de Paul Hubler 1861. 212p, no ills. Fair paperbound: institutional library discard, minimally marked. Covers detached, stitching loosening. Housed in card-stock folder. ** First edition of this guide to the recently established provincial museum in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Short introduction, list of..... More
New York: Jaap Rietman, 1976. Andre, Carl. First edition. Soft cover. 88p, many black-and-white ills. Covers lightly soiled overall, foxed. Published on the occasion of a traveling exhibition. More
New York: Rosa Esman Gallery, 1978. First edition. Soft cover. [16]p, several ills. Outer pages foxed; covers soiled. Catalogue of 42 works on paper and books by Malevich, Exter, Goncharova, Larionov, El Lissitzky, Rodchenko, Tatlin, and others. Published on the centenary of Malevich's birth. Can be sent outside the US..... More
New York: Princeton Architectural Press for New York Chapter/American Institute of Architects, 1987. Rodchenko, Alexander. First edition. Soft cover. [32]p, many black-and-and white ills. Exhibition catalogue. Texts by Bowlt, Alexander Lavrentjev, and Vieri Quilici on Rodchenko's photographs and graphic design, architectural language, and constructivist theory. Can be sent outside the..... More
London: Routledge, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 654p,many tables, + many ills. Over 20 essays by specialists on 17th- and 18th-century material culture in Britain, Europe, and America. Their interpretations help shape "a new historical landscape based on the consumption of goods and services." The parts are: Problems, Methods and Concepts;..... More
Cambridge, MA: Privately printed (Harvard University), June 1955. First edition. Hardcover. 176p, no ills. Photo-duplicated typescript, printed on rectos. Tipped in: "This report is confidential and not for distribution or publication until permission has been granted by the Present of Harvard University." Covers lightly shelf-rubbed. A mid-century needs and opportunities..... More
![Little Fur Family [in fur binding]. Margaret Wise Brown](/pictures/thumb/30456.jpg?v=1632163263)
New York: Harper & Row, 1984. Williams, Garth. Reissue (1st pub. 1946). Hardcover. N.p., color ills. by Garth Williams. Bound in artificial fur. Box is poor (soiled, worn). Price $4.50. Tiny bedtime story about a day in the life of "a little fur family | warm as toast | smaller..... More
New York: Bruce R. Lewin Gallery, 1995. Anton, Peter. First edition. seed packet. Unopened seed packet purportedly containing assorted cantaloupe seeds to be opened under zero gravity and sowed during a lunar eclipse. Issued as an invitation to a private preview of Peter Anton: Recent Sculptures. Stained (probably artist's linseed..... More
![The Story of the Mosaics [Moars Cafeteria]. Benjamin Bufano](/pictures/thumb/30401.jpg?v=1630620604)
San Francisco: Moars Cafeteria, n.d. [1950s]. No stated edition. one sheet, folded into thirds. One sheet, printed in green. Folded, 4 x 6 inches. For many years Moars Cafeteria on Powell Street in San Francisco was home to three large mosaics by Italian-born sculptor and mosaic artist Benjamin (Benny) Bufano. ..... More
Atlanta: Nexus Press, 1987. Burke, Bill. Limited edition. Hardcover. N.p., many duotone photos by Burke and other ills., some in color. Plasticized pictorial boards; no jacket, as issued. One of 1000 copies (unstated). The first edition of this remarkable artist’s book. Via photographs, diary entries, and collaged ephemera, Burke documented..... More
![Cygnea Cantio: Swan Song [no. 2 of 50, signed]. Tracey Bush](/pictures/thumb/25738.jpg?v=1626632702)
England: Tracey Bush, 1999. Bush, Tracey. Limited Edition. One folded sheet. Artist's book consisting of one stiff leaf of tan paper, folded in thirds, within blue cloth covers with ties. Very faint ghost of an old small label on back cover, which could easily be removed. Folded, 6 x 9..... More
Geneva: Christian Braillard (printer), 1983. First edition. Soft cover. [48]p, many color ills. Poetic text by Butor and an explanation of the series and its production by Pretre. One of 1500 trade copies. In French. Catalogue for two exhibitions of Jean-Claude Pretre's Offenbach series held in Basel, 1983 (including..... More
West Glover, VT: Something Else Press, 1967. First edition. Soft cover. A Great Bear Pamphlet. 14p, 1 small ill. on cover. Ruminations, printed in various tones of blue, red, and black ink. Original price of $1.50 printed on back. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default..... More
![The Photograph and the Book V [Catalogue 105]; 19th Century Photographically Illustrated Books, a...](/pictures/thumb/30459.jpg?v=1632163264)
Cambridge, MA: Charles B. Wood III, n.d. [2000]. First edition. Soft cover. 79p, many ills. 203 entries, all scrupulously described. Bookseller catalogue, continuing Wood's pioneering series of books about and containing photographs. 79p, many ills. 203 entries, all scrupulously described. Can be sent outside the US for less than the..... More
1950. Brichta, Yela. One sheet, folded twice, making 6 panels. Charles Barzansky Galleries, NY. Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture by Yela Brichta. N.d. [1950]. 1 ill. on front panel. Text by Harry G. Cayley of NYU. Handling wear and soil; short German-language newspaper review stapled in. ** With checklists of..... More
Cambridge, MA: Charles Wood, n.d. [2003]. First edition. Soft cover. 83p, many photos. Offers 221 illustrated books, albums, catalogues, and technical manuals, all described in scrupulous detail. More
Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1879. First edition. Soft cover. 277p + 7 pls. Lacks front wrapper. Title page torn in half. Back wrapper paresent. The sewn gatherings are separating. Suitable for enclosure or for a good rebinding project. As first issued, in the Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences de l'Institut de France..... More
London: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1902. Turner. First edition. Soft cover. 11p, no ills. Auction catalogue of 168 prints (92 from the Liber Studiorum). All prices and buyers inked in. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
1977. Christopher Mendez [gallery]. C W Kolbe (Catalogue 38). London, 1977. 32p, ca. 76 ills. Very good paperbound (covers shelfsoiled). Pricelist laid in. ** Sale catalogue of the astonishingly detailed landscapes and animal studies by this German etcher-engraver. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping..... More
![Hoen Ho: Kyuseikyu Reisenmei Rinsho Shugakucho [calligraphy manual]. Chuo School of Art Press](/pictures/thumb/26577.jpg?v=1615216394)
1987. Chuo School of Art Press. Hoen Ho: Kyuseikyu Reisenmei Rinsho Shugakucho [The Square and Circle Method: Penmanship etc.]. Tokyo: Chu Bijyutsu Gakuen Shuppankyoku [Chuo School of Art Press], 1987. 83 loose sheets total, housed in a folding cardboard case with ties. The sheets are ca. 9 1/2 x 13..... More
