1889. Art Institute of Chicago; American Art Association. Exhibition of the Works of Vassili Verestchagin: Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue. Plus: First and Second Appendixes. Chicago, 1889. 3 items: 80p with many ills.; 14p, 35p. Very good stapled paperbounds (Second Appendix covers are soiled and sunned). Owner's small ink stamp on two..... More

Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press for Harvard University Library, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. 178p, 88 ill., almost all in color (some published here for the first time). Essays on the histories and personalities behind selected American daguerreotypes in Harvard collections. The college began collecting daguerreotypes early on, recognizing their..... More

New York: Cooper Union, 1928-1951. Mostly first editions. Hardcover (buckram, spine gilt-stamped). Variously paged and illustrated (chiefly text). From the library of E. Maurice Bloch, with his bookplate. Typed contents page glued in. The museum is now the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. Contents: "Proposed Plan of the Cooper Union Museum..... More

Cambridge, MA: Charles B. Wood III, n.d. [2000]. First edition. Soft cover. 79p, many ills. Bookseller catalogue, continuing Wood's pioneering catalogues of books about and containing photographs.  203 entries, all scrupulously described.  Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More

Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1879. First edition. Soft cover. 277p + 7 pls. Lacks front wrapper. Title page torn in half. Back wrapper present. 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

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

New York: Grand Central Art Galleries Art Education Association, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 94p, many ills., including 8 color pls. Important exhibition of this lyrical landscape style, which fell out of favor in the wake of modernism and is now highly valued. Overview by Gerdts, followed by chapters on four..... More

N.p. [Boston?]: Ginn & Company, n.d. [1885-86]. First edition. Soft cover. 282p, a few ills. Lists well over 100 textbooks and examination guides in all fields and for all education levels, together with many testimonials from satisified educators around the country. The contents of many books are described, often with..... More

Westborough, MA: House of Whittemore, n.d. [mailed with 2-cent stamp; ca. 1940s-50s]. First edition. Soft cover. 42p, 7 ills. on covers. Old handling soil; handwritten mailing address. Laid in: 4-page typed list of about 100 "hard-to-find titles, good to fine condition") with several ills. Hundreds of items, chiefly 19th-century American..... 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

N.p. No stated publisher, n.d. [1880s-90s]. No stated edition. Unbound sheet. One newsprint broadsheet, folded once to make 4 pages. Large advertising flyer for Lee's "monster aggregation of living marvels.  The most successful exhibition traveling of features that cannot be duplicated in America."  Advertises educated horses, donkeys, and dogs; reed..... More

Paris: Promodis, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 539p, many ills. + many color ills. on 38 plates. Chipped d.j. 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..... More