New York: Anderson Galleries, 1924. First edition. Soft cover. 38p, 3 ills. of title pages. Covers worn and soiled; internally clean and complete. Unused bid sheet bound in. Auction catalogue of 266 lots: "source books: books by and about Shakespeare, English literature of the Elizabethan period, etchings, engravings, etc. pertinent..... More
New York: Anderson Galleries, 1928. First edition. Soft cover. 34p, a few line ills. Laid in: Anderson Galleries sale catalogue 2233 offering the "Manuscript Horae together with the only perfect copy in America of Nicolaus de Lyra's 'Postillae super Bibliam' [Strassburg, ca. 1472], the property of Professor Paul Soubeiran de..... More
Utrecht: Antiquariaat Forum, 2002. First edition. Soft cover. 463p, many ills., many in color. Bookseller's large handsome catalogue of over 500 "rare books, prints, manuscripts, drawings and a painting, ca. 1600-1850," all with detailed descriptions. The topics include "history of the book, bibliography, (occult) sciences, astronomy, travel, atlases, medicine, dentistry..... More
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
Tunbridge Wells: P.M. Barnard, n.d. [ca. 1910-12]. First edition. Soft cover. 74p, several ills. Bookseller catalogue with 162 items, often described and documented in detail. The "facsimiles" are reproductions of woodcut illustrations. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
London: Phaidon, 1957. Advance blads. Soft cover. These are not the books, but publicity materials for volumes 1 and 2 of Venetian School. Each: many ills. on 32 pages + tipped-in color frontispieces., bound up from the printed sheets. Vol. 1 includes Berenson's prefaces to the 1957 and 1932 editions;..... More
Minneapolis: Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, 1958. First edition. Soft cover. 28p, 21 ills. One of 1000 copies designed by Rob Roy Kelly. Back cover and last few pages dampstained along spine. Covers age soiled. Catalogue for a loan exhibition that aimed to assemble all the major Poussin paintings in..... More
Rome: Capitolium (Revista di Roma), 1968. First edition. Soft cover. Special issue of the journal Capitolium. Over 250p (some numbered separately), hundreds of photos + ca. 10 folding maps and plans in flat colors. Covers worn, outer pages dogeared, but text block is secure and sturdy. The maps are generally..... More
London: Routledge, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 654p,many tables, + many ills. Over 20 essays by specialists on 17th- and 18th-century material culture in Britain, Europe, and America. Their interpretations help shape "a new historical landscape based on the consumption of goods and services." The parts are: Problems, Methods and Concepts;..... More
New York: New York Public Library, 1958. Limited reprint edition. Soft cover. 39p, several line ills. + 4 plates. Decorations printed in red. One of 1000 copies, reprinted from the library's Bulletin. Just what the title says, on typography, production, and illustration from Pope to Bewick and Blake. Can be..... More
Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1996. First edition. Soft cover. 262p, over 120 ills., some in color. Jacket soiled, wrinkled. Catalogue accompanying a major exhibition, which sought "to explore the anatomists' curiosity about the structures and functions of the body, and the artists' equally passionate search for ways to represent..... More
Philadelphia and New York: Rosenbach Company, n.d. [1920]. First edition. Soft cover. [10]p, no ills. Pages age browned. Published to promote Rosenbach's offering of these books. With contemporary penciling, often noting buyer and price. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate... More
Vienna: Osterreichisches Museum fur angewandte Kunst, 1986. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., 30 black-and-white ills. mostly full-page pls. Cover handling soil. In German. Exhibition catalogue of 88 Baroque examples from the museum's library--sumptuous book bindings and book illustrations. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping..... More
Providence: John Carter Brown Library, 1990. First edition. Soft cover. xvi, 16, 36p + 12 plates. Printed by Meriden Gravure-Stinehour Press. Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition The Book in the Americas, presented at the Americas Society Art Gallery, New York, in 1990. Describes and collates 12 supplemental books..... More
![Item #26138 Louis-Auguste Brun [1 of 1000]; Peintre de Marie-Antoinette 1758-1814....](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/26138.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1632502346)
Paris: Goupil, 1911. Brun, Louis Auguste. Limited edition. Hardcover (buckram with leather label, original wrappers bound in). 150p, many ills. No. 73 of 1000 copies. Focuses on Brun's early career--portraits, landscapes, and a chapter of interesting studies of horsemen and horsewomen astride and aside. More
Zurich: Zufthaus zur Meise, 1939. First edition. Soft cover. 86p + 103 mostly full-page pls. One printed with red. Covers soiled and sunned; upper corners bumped throughout. Pages age-browned. Part 1 of the 6-part Essling auction. Auction of 300 illustrated books from Italy, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Holland, and Belgium. Chiefly..... More
New York: Praeger, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 264p, ca. 220 ills. + 28 color pls. In the publisher's American Art and Artists series. A pioneering book, and still a standard survey. Large and heavy; shipping/handling will be extra. Please keep this in mind when ordering. More
Vienna: Gilhofer & Ranschburg, n.d. [1928 from receipt notation]. First edition. Soft cover. 115p, many text ills. + 23 plates, a few in red. Unused order card and an advertising flyer laid in. Bookseller catalogue of 627 items. Incunabula comprises items 1-75, including the 1465 Mainz Cicero. Also Americana, maps..... 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
![Item #30116 Fra Filippo Lippi [1406-1469] [presentation copy]. F. Gray Griswold](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30116.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633126783)
New York: Duttons, 1934. First edition. Hardcover (imitation vellum). 35p + 1 plate. No limitation notice, but many of Griswold's books were published in editions of a few hundred. A partly imagined biography, based on Vasari. Signed in ink on title page, also an ink presentation "Gay from Frank." Can..... More
New York: H.P. Kraus, n.d. [1968]. First edition. Hardcover. 148p + color frontispiece and 115 ills. of woodcuts in the text, mostly the same size as the original. Covers stamped in gold; a little smudged and dusty. Catalogue of 97 books in many fields, all described in scholarly detail. Beautifully..... More
New York: H.P. Kraus, n.d. [1950]. First edition. 36p (73 items), several large black-and-white pls. Occasional pencil marks. Features manuscript herbals, colorplate flower books, fish, and birds, etc., all meticulously described. Buffon, Merian, Redoute, etc. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate... More
New York: H.P. Kraus, 1972. First edition. Soft cover (slightly age browned). 65p, no ills. 206 items, with detailed descriptions. Index of subjects, persons, and places of publication. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. 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
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 160p, 116 ills., including 32 large color plates. Described as the first book in English "to focus on the changing perception of light in early Italian painting" (ca. 1250-1430). Examines contemporary attitudes to light, the fresco and panel painting techniques that..... More
