![Fra Filippo Lippi [1406-1469] [presentation copy]. F. Gray Griswold](/pictures/thumb/30116.jpg?v=1633973510)
New York: Duttons, 1934. First edition. Hardcover (imitation vellum). 35p + 1 plate. No limitation notice, but many of Griswold's books were published in editions of a few hundred. A partly imagined biography, based on Vasari. Signed in ink on title page, also an ink presentation "Gay from Frank." Can..... More
Paris: Musee Jacquemart-Andre; printed by Busson, 1963. First edition. Paperbound. 56p + many pls., several in color. In French. Erratum slip laid in. Large exhibition of this fashionable Paris-based Italian painter (checklist of 270 items). Texts by Jean-Louis Vaudoyer and others. Dashing society portraits, landscapes in the Macchiaioli tradition, Venice..... More
Caligari: Paolo Pisano, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 174p, many photos and line ills., several in color. Monograph on the pre-Christian grotto-crypt of the church of Santa Restituta in Caligari, Sardinia, and its excavation. Chapters on its history, some reproductions and transcriptions of documents relating to the later church, inscriptions found..... More
Florence: Albizzi, 1822. 6th edition. Soft cover. 220p + 3 line pls. In original printed covers. Lacks backstrip: gatherings and cords exposed. Scattered foxing throughout. Partly dampstained, sometimes heavily, but not obscuring content. Gatherings are separating but cords are sturdy. This guidebook to the Uffizi opens with a brief history..... More
Milan: Giancarlo Politi, 1982. First edition. Soft cover. 320p, many ills., many in color. . A seminal publication on international neo-expressionist painting of the 1970s-80s, which embraced forms of earlier art (figuration, texture, emotion, etc.) in reaction to conceptual abstraction. Oliva dubbed the Italian version "La Transavanguardia." Contains "Transitional Art" by..... More
London: Phaidon, 1952. Fra Angelico. First edition. Hardcover. 214p, 65 text ills., 133 full-page plates, 7 tipped-in color plates. Tipped-on jacket plate is creased, torn, and scraped, as shown. "Complete edition," with a catalogue raisonne of known and ascribed works. Addendum slip tipped in at p. 203. A beautiful copy..... More
