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
Clermont: Typographie de Paul Hubler, 1861. First edition. Soft cover. 212p, no ills. Institutional library discard, minimally marked. Housed in card-stock folder. First edition of this catalogue and visitor's guide to the recently established provincial museum in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Short introduction, list of donors and subscribers, over 500 entries for..... More
Syracuse: Design Center, Syracuse University, n.d. [1962]. First edition. Soft cover. [72]p, many black-and-white ills. Short texts by Laurence Schmeckebier, Director of the Syracuse School of Art. Catalogue of the "collection of ceramics organized by Professor Ruth Randall and exhibited for the first time as a part of the University's..... More
Hamburg: Hauswedell & Nolte, 2000. First edition. Soft cover. 94p, many black-and-white ills. In German. Auction held on November 14, 2000. Auction catalogue of over 500 European and American artist's books and periodicals in traditional and mixed media, from the estate of Rolf Dittmar. Chiefly postwar publications. With printed estimated..... More
Florence: Albizzi, 1822. 6th edition. Soft cover. 220p + 3 line pls. In original printed covers. Lacks backstrip: gatherings and cords exposed. Scattered foxing throughout. Partly dampstained, sometimes heavily, but not obscuring content. Gatherings are separating but cords are sturdy. This guidebook to the Uffizi opens with a brief history..... More
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1954. First edition. Soft cover. 98p, several ills. Unused bid sheet laid in. Auction catalogue of 477 lots, a few ills. of bindings by Pierre Legrain and P.L. Martin, among others. Rose was an English artist "vigorously championed by Gertrude Stein" (Wiki). Can be sent outside..... 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
Upperville, VA: Oak Spring Garden Library, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. lxxiii, 427p, over 100 ills., most in color including many large pls. Fwd. by Rachel Lambert Mellon. Very small stain to back of jacket, which is cropped on the right in the photo. The third in the series of catalogues..... More
