Frankfurt: Joseph Baer & Co., 1929. First edition. Soft cover. 28p, many ills. Prospectus for the "most important private collection of 15th century books formed in Germany since the Klemm Collection has been sold in 1886." Illustrations of woodcuts and text pages from a selection of the 850 books to..... More
London: Christopher Mendez, 1977. First edition. Soft cover. 32p, ca. 76 ills. 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 rate. More
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Paris: L'Art & Les Artistes, 1915. First edition. Soft cover. 76p, many photos and paintings. Laid in: subscription sheet plus a reproduction of an unpublished woodcut by Pierre Gusman. A special issue of the journal L'Art & Les Artistes documenting the devastation of Vise, Liege, Louvain, Ypres, and many other..... More
St. Gallen, Switzerland: Galerie im Erker, 1958. Dix, Otto. First edition. 20p, many black-and-white ills. Very good paperbound. Owner's neat ink name. Texts by Otto Nebel on Dix's war subjects, and by Otto Conzelmann on "overcoming sentimentality." There is no list of the items in the exhibition. Can be sent..... More
Leiden: Museum Boerhaave, 1979. First edition. Soft cover. 59p, many line and halftone ills. Owner's ink name. Exhibition catalogue commemorating the 350th anniversary of Huygens's birth and bringing together all his scientific instruments, portraits, and first editions of his writings. Divided into 12 thematic parts, such as "A Dutchman in..... More
Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1978. First edition. Soft cover. 208p, over 200 ills. of over 200 thoroughly described works. Compiled with the assistance of advanced graduate students at Yale and elsewhere; the first in a projected series of three catalogues of the Wadsworth Atheneum's European paintings. Classically designed by Nathan Garland..... 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
Darmstadt: Alexander Koch, 1921. First edition. Hardcover (boards). 190p, many large photos, 2 in color. A few marginal tears, all neatly mended. Pictorial survey of contemporary rooms devoted to food--breakfast and tea rooms, dining areas, buffets and credenzas, silver and glassware, table settings, and kitchens and cooking facilities. Interior decor..... More
Rotterdam: Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, 1986. First edition. Stapled soft cover. [24]p, many ills. Printed in red and black. Light handling soil, stain to back cover from removed sticker. In Dutch. Loan exhibition catalogue of the early printed work of this legendary Dutch graphic artist (1897-1973)--posters, advertisements, brochures, books, etc., from..... More
Stuttgart: Deutscher Sparkassenverlag, 1992. First edition. Soft cover. 190p, many color ills. Color-packed survey of advertising posters made for the German savings bank, from the late 1920s through 1992, along with historical texts. Many well-known artists, and a wide variety of styles, are here. The title, "He who doesn't honor..... More
New York: J.B. Neumann and G. Franke, [1931]. Beckmann, Max. First edition. Soft cover (stiff wrappers). 48p, over 40 full-page pls. and other ills. No jacket (as issued?). Following the short text are 12 plates of Beckmann's prints, 12 installation photos of the large Beckmann show at the Basel Kunsthalle..... More
Stockholm: Sandbergs Bokhandel, 1951-1966. First edition. Soft cover. Variously paged and illustrated; usually 100+ pages with many ills. (several in color in Cat. 13). Occasional marginal ink notes. Errata slip tipped in Cat. 10. In English. Hundreds of rare books, prints, autographs, livres d'artiste, bindings (some Gothic), broadsides, maps, etc...... More
Konigstein im Taunus: Karl Robert Langewiesche Nachfolger Hans Koster, 1962. First edition. Soft cover. 47p, over 100 color ills. On the Curt Tillmann collection of 20th-century German book jackets--Steinlen, Bernhard, Koch, Zapf, Salter, Kredel, Heartfield, Reiner, Piatti, and many more. Includes adult and children's books. Uncommon in the US. Can..... More
Dresden: Albertina, 1930. First edition. Soft cover. 50p + 24 pls. Spine reinforced with tape; lower corner of front cover and opening pages chipped away. Paper age browned; the book has the look of a much earlier publication date. Exhibition catalogue of 206 drawings by Rembrandt and many of his..... More
New York: Rizzoli, 1989. First edition. Soft cover. 262p, over 140 ills., chiefly large color pls. Traveling exhibition catalogue; the organizers were especially proud that the show was going to Soviet as well as to Scandinavian museums. Very useful survey, with long artist biographies. More
Paris: Flammarion, 1974. Vlaminck. First edition. Hardcover. 280p, 420 ills., 3 color pls. Detailed catalogue of well over 350 woodcuts, aquatints and other prints on metal, and lithographs by Vlaminck, as well as prints after him. Entries include edition details, publishers, locations, etc. The prints were usually separately issued, but..... More
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987. First American edition. Hardcover. 296p, 263 ills. (9 in color). Important survey of German architecture, ca. 1740-1845: the influence of France and England, neoclassicism in North Germany and South Germany, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Leo von Klenze, etc. With an applendix of every important German neoclassical..... More
