Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club, 1988. Revised edition (1st pub. 1986). Hard cover. 347p, ca. 380 photos and line ills., 86 in color. Comprehensive study of the structure, design, manufacture, and symbolism of the Kashmir shawl from the 17th century on, including many 19th-century French examples. About half the book..... 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
Ecouen: Office de Tourisme d'Ecouen, 2012. Limited edition (1 of 1000 copies). Soft cover. 152p, many ills., many in color. In French. Trace of old price sticker on front cover. Very comprehensive survey of the French, British, and American painters and printmakers who frequented this lesser-known artists' colony just north..... More
London / Liverpool: Barraud Studio, n.d. [ca. 1890]. No stated edition. Mounted photograph. Image is ca. 7 x 10 inches on damaged cardboard mount (ca. 10 x 14 inches). On the mat are printed Barraud's name and addresses plus "W & S Ltd" and "Permanent." Image has trivial wrinkles (from..... More
Providence: Rhode Island School of Design, 1987. First edition. Soft cover. 82p, over 60 ills., 4 in color. Designed by Malcom Grear Designers, printed by Meriden-Stinehour Press. Detailed exhibition catalogue of Victorian illuminated books in several genres--sacred texts, history of the book, secular literature, architecture and design, manuals and examples..... More
Beaufort-en-Vallee, France: Bergmans en Brouwer, 1983. First edition. Soft cover. 80p, many ills. In English and French. A remarkable offering of 389 items relating to the Paris Salon through the years. With short historical texts, selected bibliography of secondary sources, and a list of publications on the Salon, 1800-1900 (in..... 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
![Item #26593 Third Annual Dinner [menu printed on silk]. Boston Marketmen's Republican Club](/pictures/thumb/26593.jpg?v=1633973484)
Boston: Elwell French (printer), 1891. First edition. Unbound folded sheet. The menu is printed on one piece of unhemmed yellow silk, originally tied with thread within stiff covers; the covers have now detached.. The sewing is still intact on the silk. The lettering on the cover, which surrounds an image..... More
![Item #30459 The Photograph and the Book V [Catalogue 105]; 19th Century Photographically...](/pictures/thumb/30459.jpg?v=1633973593)
Cambridge, MA: Charles B. Wood III, n.d. [2000]. First edition. Soft cover. 203 entries, all scrupulously described. Bookseller catalogue, continuing Wood's pioneering catalogues of books about and containing photographs. 79p, many ills. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
Cambridge, MA: Charles Wood, n.d. [2003]. First edition. Soft cover. 83p, many photos. Offers 221 illustrated books, albums, catalogues, and technical manuals, all described in scrupulous detail. 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
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
N.p. [Vermont]: [E.J. Bullock & Co.], n.d. [late 19th century?]. No stated edition. Unbound card. Advertising card, ca. 3 1/4 x 5 inches. At the top are two silhouetted equestrians embossed in silver. The woman rides sidesaddle in a long flowing habit. Photographed through hard plastic sleeve. This Vermont country..... More
![Item #30120 Julijs Feders [Fedders]: Monograph. A. Eglit, A. Lapin](/pictures/thumb/30120.jpg?v=1633973510)
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
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
![Item #31120 [Three Assorted 1880s Catalogues]. Book and Printseller Francis Harvey](/pictures/thumb/31120.jpg?v=1663678902)
London: Francis Harvey, 1881, 1882, and n.d. [ca. 1885]. First edition. Soft cover. Variously paged, no ills. Each from ca. 200 to 500 items. Deaccessioned long ago from the Gray Collection, Harvard. The titles are: Catalogue of Fine and Scarce Books (1881); Catalogue of a Choice Collection of Autograph Letters..... 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
![Item #30277 The Making of the South Kensington Museum [in Journal of the History of Collections];...](/pictures/thumb/30277.jpg?v=1633973542)
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
![Item #31123 Announcements and Catalogue [cover title]. Ginn, Company](/pictures/thumb/31123.jpg?v=1663678904)
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
Munich: Eigenthum und Verlag von Jos. Albert, n.d. [1866?]. Schnorr von Karolsfeld, Jos. Albert. First edition. Portfolio. 16p + 20 loose plates (mounted photographs). Scattered foxing and spotting, but the photos are overall clean, very crisp, and richly printed. Cover wear (front cover is detached). Ex-library (long ago), with title..... 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
![Item #30402 [Photograph of A. Monroe, Fine Groceries, Fruits & Produce, ca. 1900]. Instantaneous...](/pictures/thumb/30402.jpg?v=1633973577)
New York: Instantaneous Photo View Co., n.d. [ca. 1900]. Photograph. Ca. 6 x 4 inches on mount that is ca. 8 1/2 x 6 inches. The mount is poor quality cardboard; the bottom right corner is close to chipping off. Sepia-toned photograph showing the storefront and sidewalk display of A...... 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
London: Henry Sotheran, 1991. First edition. Soft cover. 142p + 16 pls., 9 in color. Annotated exhibition catalogue of ca. 500 works of fiction and non-fiction by ca. 230 "New Woman" writers, well known and lesser known. With an insightful introduction by Drabble. Can be sent outside the US for..... More
