1979. Berlin. Nationalgalerie. Max Liebermann in seiner Zeit. 1979. 687p, many ills., many in color. Nice sturdy paperbound (light cover wear); internally very good. ** Substantial exhibition catalogue of over 500 paintings, prints, and drawings by this German impressionist and Berliner Secession artist. Texts by Matthias Eberle and others. Very..... 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
Riga, Latvia: Latvian State Publishers, 1958. Fedders. No stated edition. .Hardcover. No jacket, as issued. 160p, ca. 70 pls., 8 in color. Study of this early Latvian landscape painter. (1838-1909) With a checklist of his works. In the publisher's series, Materials on the History of Latvian Art. In Russian. Uncommon..... More
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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. First edition. Soft cover. Vol. 14, no. 1. 176p, many photos. Slight shelf wear. Articles on the founding and first decades of the Victoria and Albert Museum by Clive Wainwright, Anthony Burton, Martin Levy, Paul Tucker, and others. The Government Schools of Design and the..... More
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1895. Hettel Jewelry Company, C.R. 1895 C.R. Hettel Jewelry Company, St. Louis, Mo. [cover title]. 222p, many line ills. Poor but complete limp cloth. Back cover, index, and rear endpapers detached. Front cover worn, opening pages dampstained, pages dogeared. Ca. 8 x 10 inches. ** Trade catalogue used as a...... More
1989. Hirschl & Adler Folk. But Were They Good Likenesses? NY, 1989. 42p, many ills., many in color. Text by Colleen Cowles Heslip. Good paperbound (shelfwear to covers). ** Interesting loan exhibition catalogue, which pairs 19th-century American portraits and landscapes with daguerreotypes or photographs of the actual subjects. Can be..... 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
Paris: Prisma, 1943. First edition. Hardcover (original boards). 30p + 49 pls. followed by fold-out captions. No. 715 of 1590 copies. Ink name of previous owner, a Boston-area photographer. No d.j. (as issued?). The first book on Hippolyte Bayard, the early French photographer of the 1840s. Reproduces his portraits (including..... More
Paris: Promodis, 1985. First edition. Original cloth. 539p, many ills. + many color ills. on 38 plates. Masterful history of the 19th-century French book, with chapters by various experts. Covers book production, publishing and bookselling, the illustrated press, genres and reading audiences, etc. Large and heavy; shipping/handling will be extra..... More
1979. Tiffany. Paperbound. Reynolds, Gary A. Louis Comfort Tiffany: The Paintings. NY: Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, NYU, 1979. 64p, ca. 40 ills., several in color. Covers foxed. Laid in: sheet of introductory text plus list of decorative objects lent for the exhibition. ** The first study of Tiffany's..... More
1939. Sotheby & Co. Catalogue of Artistic & Literary Property connected with Rossetti, Swinburne, Ford Madox Brown, etc. removed from "The Pines", 11 Putney Hill (The Home of A.C. Swinburne and Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton). London, 1939. Auction catalogue, unnumbered. 21p (82 lots) + 5 pls. Very good paperbound. Bookseller ticket..... More
University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1976. Beardsley, Aubrey. First edition. Hardcover. 292p, ca. 150 line ills. by Beardsley. Extensive revision and expansion of Weintraub's 1967 biography of Beardsley. Scarce in this condition. More
1902. Wolverhampton Art and Industrial Exhibition, 1902. Catalogue of the Exhibits in the Fine Art Section. Wolverhampton: Whitehead Brothers 1902. 63p, no ills. Fair paperbound (covers torn, a few opening pages dampstained, a few of the brittle pages have separated from the staples). ** Checklist of over 350 works and..... More
