New York: Anderson Galleries, 1924. First edition. Soft cover. 38p, 3 ills. of title pages. Covers worn and soiled; internally clean and complete. Unused bid sheet bound in. Auction catalogue of 266 lots: "source books: books by and about Shakespeare, English literature of the Elizabethan period, etchings, engravings, etc. pertinent..... More
Rome: Capitolium (Revista di Roma), 1968. First edition. Soft cover. Special issue of the journal Capitolium. Over 250p (some numbered separately), hundreds of photos + ca. 10 folding maps and plans in flat colors. Covers worn, outer pages dogeared, but text block is secure and sturdy. The maps are generally..... More
New York: New York Public Library, 1958. Limited reprint edition. Soft cover. 39p, several line ills. + 4 plates. Decorations printed in red. One of 1000 copies, reprinted from the library's Bulletin. Just what the title says, on typography, production, and illustration from Pope to Bewick and Blake. Can be..... More
Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1996. First edition. Soft cover. 262p, over 120 ills., some in color. Jacket soiled, wrinkled. Catalogue accompanying a major exhibition, which sought "to explore the anatomists' curiosity about the structures and functions of the body, and the artists' equally passionate search for ways to represent..... More
Providence: John Carter Brown Library, 1990. First edition. Soft cover. xvi, 16, 36p + 12 plates. Printed by Meriden Gravure-Stinehour Press. Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition The Book in the Americas, presented at the Americas Society Art Gallery, New York, in 1990. Describes and collates 12 supplemental books..... More
![Item #26138 Louis-Auguste Brun [1 of 1000]; Peintre de Marie-Antoinette 1758-1814....](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/26138.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1632502346)
Paris: Goupil, 1911. Brun, Louis Auguste. Limited edition. Hardcover (buckram with leather label, original wrappers bound in). 150p, many ills. No. 73 of 1000 copies. Focuses on Brun's early career--portraits, landscapes, and a chapter of interesting studies of horsemen and horsewomen astride and aside. More
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 238p, 34 ills. In the publisher's series RES Monographs on Anthropology and Aesthetics. "Historical and theoretical examination of French court ballet over a hundred-year period, beginning in 1573, that spans the late Renaissance and early Baroque. Utilizing aesthetic and ideological criteria..... More
Zurich: Zufthaus zur Meise, 1939. First edition. Soft cover. 86p + 103 mostly full-page plates, one printed with red. Part 1 of the 6-part Essling auction: catalogue of 300 illustrated books from Italy, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Holland, and Belgium. Chiefly 15th and 16th centuies; the plates show chiefly woodcuts. All..... More
Vienna: Gilhofer & Ranschburg, n.d. [1928 from receipt notation]. First edition. Soft cover. 115p, many text ills. + 23 plates, a few in red. Unused order card and an advertising flyer laid in. Bookseller catalogue of 627 items. Incunabula comprises items 1-75, including the 1465 Mainz Cicero. Also Americana, maps..... More
New York: H.P. Kraus, n.d. [1968]. First edition. Hardcover. 148p + color frontispiece and 115 ills. of woodcuts in the text, mostly the same size as the original. Covers stamped in gold; a little smudged and dusty. Catalogue of 97 books in many fields, all described in scholarly detail. Beautifully..... 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
Hanover, NH: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. 486p, over 200 ills. + 16 color plates. Lacks the dust jacket. An extraordinary catalogue that examines "the depth and breadth of European interest in the marvelous during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries"--natural, artificial, and supernatural wonders. Essays..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. Earl, Ralph. First edition. Hardcover. 258p, many ills., many large plates in color. Small tear to lower jacket edge. Definitive study and catalogue of portraitist Earl's life, work, and times, published in conjunction with the major exhibition organized by The Wadsworth Atheneum. Includes texts..... More
Zurich: L'Art Ancien, n.d. [1970s]. Hollar, Wenzel. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., many line ills. Substantial auction catalogue of 464 lots of prints, albums, books etc., of late Mannerism, Baroque, early Rococo, and the 17th century, including over 40 works by Wenzel Hollar. Architecture, emblems, festivals, calligraphy, ornament, etc. etc...... More
Paris: Lair-Dubreuil, 1923. First edition. Soft cover. Catalogue: 204p, no ills. Album: 28 loose plates of bindings. Catalogue skewed, spine chipped. Album covers worn and detached, plate margins smudged. The auction was held from February 26 to March 2, 1923. It offered 844 lots, chiefly books of the 16th-18th centuries..... More
Beverly Hills, CA: Harry A. Levinson, n.d. [mid-1960s?]. First edition. Soft cover. 87p + 90 large pls., including cover. Over 340 annotated entries in many fields of the humanties and sciences; subject index. More
New York: Artist's Limited Edition in association with Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 132p, 91 ills., a few plates in color. Jacket rubbed, torn at edges. A survey of the interrelation of art and human anatomy from antiquity on by the longtime Metropolitan Museum print curator. Essays..... More
Boston: David R. Godine, "printed for the members of 'Hoc Volo' " 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 218p, 21 ills. (2 folding). In Godine at Fifty, the publisher notes, "It was not only the last of Morison's texts to be printed, but also indispensable for the serious scholar of letters and..... More
New York: Collection J.B. Neumann, n.d. [ca. 1936]. First edition. Soft cover. N.p. [15 pls.]. Text by Neumann on the inside covers. Catalogue issued from Neumann's gallery at 509 Madison Avenue, offering chiefly northern European and Italian old master paintings. Includes works by an unknown 15th-century Austrian master, Bosch, Zurbaran..... 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: Paul Breman, 1974-1989. First edition. Soft cover. Variously paged and illustrated. Cat. 42: Renaissance Arts and Sciences (1974). Cat. 1:86: Architecture (1986). Cat. 2:87: Reference Books (wide variety of mostly recent studies in art, architecture, and related fields). Cat. 144: Architecture of the Continent of Europe. Detailed entries except..... More
London: Robin Halwas, 1998. First edition. Soft cover. 80p, many ills. With an index of printers and publishers. 161 items, chiefly 16th-18th century: architecture, theatre architecture, emblems, festival books, fortification & the art of war, horsemanship, painting, sculpture, perspective, mathematical sciences, topography & local history. A handsome catalogue, printed in..... More
Paris: J. Claye, printer, 1864. No stated edition. Soft cover. 30p, 12 line ills. In French. Official report to the government minister Vaillant on the condition of this cliffside Normandy castle, and recommendations for further repairs and restoration, in order of priority. It dominates the town of Falaise, birthplace of..... More
Dresden: Albertina, 1930. First edition. Soft cover. 50p + 24 pls. Spine reinforced with tape; lower corner of front cover and opening pages chipped away. Paper age browned; the book has the look of a much earlier publication date. Exhibition catalogue of 206 drawings by Rembrandt and many of his..... More
![Item #32829 Katalog 10: Incunabula, Holzschnittwerke des XVI. Jahrhunderts, Varia [etc.]....](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32829.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1754340493)
Munich: Seuffer & Willi, n.d. [1931 from accession note]. First edition. Soft cover. 64p + many ills. on 16 plates. Unused order card laid in. Bookseller catalogue of 500 items: incunabula, illustrated books of the 16th century, woodcut books, varia. Can be sent outside the US for less than the..... More
