Pre-20th-century art and architecture is the subject of our current featured 2020 sale books. All are 40% off through January 31, 2020. All subjects, all regions, all artists, all media, so long as the activity is all or almost all pre-1900. If there's no photo here, we can easily send one.
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![La Russie: Manuel du Voyageur [1902]. K. Baedeker](/images/noimage.png)
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
![An Exhibition of Ecole des Beaux Arts Drawings [etc.]. Barry Bergdoll, Clarendon Gallery](/pictures/thumb/A5889.jpg?v=1539198070)
1983. Bergdoll, Barry. An Exhibition of Ecole des Beaux Arts Drawings and a Selection of English and Continental Architectural Drawings and Interiors. London: Clarendon Gallery / NY: Artis Group, 1983. 55p (101 entries), many ills. Good paperbound. Pricelist laid in. ** Sale catalogue. Part 1 comprises Ecole projects, the orders..... More
1990. Campa, Pedro F. Emblemata Hispanica: An Annotated Bibliography of Spanish Emblem Literature to the Year 1700. Duke University Press 1990. 248p, several pls. Very good hardcover (no d.j., as issued?). Would be fine except that one page is wrinkled. ** Lists hundreds of primary and secondary sources, with useful..... More
1992. Christie's, London. The T. Crowther & Son Collection of Architectural Furnishings. Auction catalogue (no. 4824), 1992. 221p, many photos, many in color. Good paperbound (lower corner of front cover creased; a little shelfwear; internally very good). ** Over 1400 sumptuous items from the inventory of this venerable firm upon..... More
![The Artist as Anthropologist: The Representation of Type [etc.]. Mary Cowling](/pictures/thumb/A5892.jpg?v=1539198071)
1989. Cowling, Mary. The Artist as Anthropologist: The Representation of Type and Character in Victorian Art. Cambridge University Press 1989. 391p, 340 ills. Very good hardcover in good d.j. (would be very good except for short tears to top). ** How Victorian painting and illustration "made a significant contribution to..... More
1978. Egerton, Judy. 'The Ingenious Mr. Seymour': James Seymour 1702-1752. London: William Drummond Covent Garden Gallery 1978. [16]p, 16 ills. + 2 color ills. on the covers. Good paperbound (front cover rubbed and stained at bottom); internally very good. ** Exhibition catalogue of this important equestrian painter: describes 54 drawings..... More
Fountain, Robert, and Alfred Gates. Stubbs' Dogs. London: Ackermann 1984. 117p, 70 ills + 14 color pls. Very good hardcover (top fore-edge foxed) in good d.j. (dents, small rubbed spots on front). ** "The hounds and domestic dogs of the eighteenth century as seen through the paintings of George Stubbs."..... More
2003. Georgetown & Scott County Museum. Edward Troye. Georgetown College, Georgetown, KY, 2003. Texts by Ann Bolton Bevins. 39p, over 40 color photos. Very good paperbound. ** Important loan exhibition of over 40 paintings by America's leading 19th-century painter of racehorses (also some portrayals of cattle and people). Can be..... More
1993. Gombrich, E.H. Gombrich on the Renaissance. London: Phaidon 1993 (1st pub. in this form 1986). 4 volumes, variously paged and illustrated. Very good paperbounds, in very good slipcase. ** Boxed set: Norm and Form, Symbolic Images, The Heritage of Apelles, and New Light on Old Masters. (Published at 49.99..... More
2009. Holcomb, Melanie, et al. Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages. NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art 2009. 188p, 157 ills., almost all in color. Fine hardcover in fine d.j. ** Beautiful documentation of this important exhibition. Holcomb's text treats the "history, aesthetics, and uses of medieval drawings" from..... More
1999. Holmes, Megan. Fra Filippo Lippi: The Carmelite Painter. Yale University Press 1999. 301p, 234 ills., many in color. Fine hardcover in fine d.j. Cover photo is a little cropped. ** Beautiful modern study of Lippi, focusing on his training and experiences as a Carmelite friar. "Holmes transforms our understanding..... More
1982. Hoppin, Martha J. The Emmets: A Family of Women Painters. Pittsfield, MA: Berkshire Museum 1982. 63p, many ills., many in color. Very good paperbound. ** Essay and checklist by Hoppin; preface by Lydia Sherwood McClean. The first systematic study of Rosina Emmet Sherwood, Lydia Field Emmet, and Ellen Emmet..... More
1979. Reynolds, Gary A. Louis Comfort Tiffany: The Paintings. NY: Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, NYU, 1979. 64p, ca. 40 ills., several in color. Good paperbound (covers foxed). Laid in: sheet of introductory text plus list of decorative objects lent for the exhibition. ** The first study of Tiffany's..... More
1864. Ruprich-Robert [Victor Marie Charles]. Le Chateau de Falaise (Calvados). Paris: J. Claye, printer, 1864. 30p, 12 line ills. Good paperbound (light chipping to covers; shelf soiled; lightly foxed). ** Official report to the government minister Vaillant on the condition of this Normandy chateau, and recommendations for repairs and restoration..... More
Sparrow, Walter Shaw. Henry Alken. London: Williams and Norgate 1927. (The Sport of Our Fathers, 1) Introd. by Theodore Cook, editor of The Field. xxiv, 55p + 72 ills., 8 in color. Good sturdy hardcover (shelfsoiled, spine sunned); no d.j. (as issued?). No. 124 of 250 copies of the large-paper..... More
1914. Torii, R., and Kimiko Torii. "Etudes Archeologiques et Ethnologiques: Populations Primitives de la Mongolie Orientale." Offprint from Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo. Tokyo: University, March 29, 1914 (Vol. 36, art. 4). Ca. 140p, many line ills. and photos in text and on plates, a...... More
