N.p. N.d. [ca. 1890-1900?]. Hardcover. 10p of card stock, on which are mounted 10 original ambrotypes. No text. Probably of English origin, as most of the products are from Britain, the British Empire, and Europe. Someone took great care and pride in composing these artful displays of food and drink..... More

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

London: Clarendon Gallery, 1983. First edition. Soft cover. 55p (101 entries), many ills. Sale catalogue of works on exhibit at Artis Group Ltd, New York. Part 1 comprises Ecole projects, the orders, competitions, projects, decors, etc. Part 2 comprises continental and English architectural, topographical, theatrical, and interior drawings. Can be..... 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. 203 entries, all scrupulously described. Bookseller catalogue, continuing Wood's pioneering series of books about and containing photographs.  79p, many ills.  203 entries, all scrupulously described.  Can be sent outside the US for less than the..... More

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

Amherst, MA: Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, 1998. First edition. Soft cover. Published in collaboration with Berry-Hill Galleries, New York. 104p, many ills., many in color. A handsome and informative exhibition catalogue of a splendid collection. The still lifes are chiefly 19th-century, with a few 20th-century examples. More

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Library, 1990. Meteyard. First edition. Soft cover. Harvard Library Bulletin, new series, vol. 1, no. 2 (Summer 1990). Pp. 50-66, 11 black-and-white ills. Good introduction to Meteyard's book illustrations and woodcuts. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. [Arts and..... More

North Bridgewater, MA: Gazette Steam Job Print, n.d. [1870s-80s]. No stated edition. Unbound sheet. Advertising flyer for fruit trees, grape vines, trees, roses, shrubbery, etc. Ca. 6 1/2 x 10 inches. Blank on reverse. South Abington existed by that name from 1875 to 1886 (it is now Whitman). Robbins was..... More

New York: Hirschl & Adler Folk, 1989. First edition. Soft cover. 42p, many ills., many in color. Text by Colleen Cowles Heslip. Interesting loan exhibition catalogue, which pairs 19th-century American portraits and landscapes with daguerreotypes or photographs of the actual subjects. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than..... 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