New York: A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., (1972). 4to. Two volumes. 356; 365 pp. White cloth boards. In red cloth slipcase. Illustrated. Contains 234 illustrations, 76 in color in volume 1 and 307, 79 in color in volume 2. Dust jackets somewhat chipped and worn..... More
Place unidentified, 19th century. Original watercolor, 9 7/8 x 15 1/2 inches, mounted to a larger sheet of thicker paper taken from an 18th-century book (margins browned); in shades of blue, green, and brown, the scene centers upon four bison with others at a distance, all emerging from a forest..... More
Paris: Eugene Rey, 1930. First edition, 1/10 copies on ancien du Japon. 4to. (204) pp. Mounted frontispiece portrait, black-and-white illustrations in text, mounted color plates, one double-page, with tissue guards; the second half of the book consists of Steinlen's drawings for the story of Saint-Lazare by Jacques Dyssord. Theophile Steinlen..... More
London: Henry G. Bohn, (1814). First edition (plates are dated 1811). 4to. xii, 61 pp. 150 engraved plates, 10 hand-colored, engraved title page with an ornamental border, engraved chapter head and tail-pieces. Includes a short essay by H.H. Baber (per a citation in the British Museum Catalogue) on each of..... More
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992. First edition. 4to. 240 pp., illus. Grey cloth, pictoral dust jacket. Very good. More
New York: Rizzoli, (c1991). First edition. 4to. 37, (3) pp. 123 full-page plates from Walker Evans photographs, each captioned with a subject title, place, and date, most from the period 1929-1937. Fine. Gray boards, illustrated dust jacket. (9490). More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, (1872-1874). 2 volumes. Large 4to. 49 steel engravings and numerous wood engravings. A tribute to the natural diversity of America as shown by its artists. Decorative embossed brown pebbled cloth with all edges gilt. Wear to spine ends and corners. BAL 1732. More
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New York: 1930. Watercolor and pen-and-ink painting, with highlights applied in white, 26 x 18 inches, an action scene of a polar bear on hind legs fighting off a pack of wolves, a wolverine perched on a snow-covered ledge above, ready to strike — “nature, red in tooth and claw.”..... More
Newport, RI: Preservation Society of Newport County, 1954. First edition, 1/2000 copies. 4to. xiii, 216, (2) pp. Illustrated, portraits, plates. Primarily considers furniture, including clocks, paintings, especially portraits, and silverware. Very good. Orig. blue-green cloth, gilt spine title. (#7706). More
London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1840. Tall 8vo. 47, (1) pp. 11 plates picturing palettes, each exhibiting paints of various colors; title page vignette. Eight page publisher's catalogue (dated 1837). Original Gilt-stamped decorated dark green cloth (spine with some repair to splits along joints). Very good copy. First published in 1822 under..... More
New York: Abbeville Press, (c1989). First edition. 4to. 192 pp. Profusely illustrated from photographs, many in color, color plates. Ohr (1857-1918) was "dismissed with condescending incomprehension by artists and critics" as crazy while working on his art pottery in Biloxi, Mississippi: "the genius of this radical and sophisticated artist has..... More
[New York?]: 1922. Watercolor on art paper, 8 x 10 3/4 inches. Clark (1874-1957), a native of New York, studied art at the William Kellogg School and at the Art Students League as a prelude to his long career as one of the preeminent American sporting artists and illustrators, producing..... More
New York: Frank Lowe, c1943. Hand-colored aquatint, 1/250 copies (this #209), signed by the artist in pencil in the lower margin. The image (17 m1/2 x 19 1/2 to plate marks) shows a flock of 12 canvasbacks flying over open water in a coastal marsh, with woodland in the background..... More
New York: Derrydale Press, (c1938). First edition, 1/800 copies, with a signed frontispiece etching by Clark. Folio. (15) pp. Illustrated from etchings by Clark, 69 plates and the original etching as frontispiece; "Complete List of Etchings by Roland Clark" at rear. Inscribed by Roland Clark on the half-title in the..... More
Each picture 2 x 3 inches. Matted, glazed, and framed; old tideline around edges of matt, one bead eye apparently wanting, but very good otherwise. More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press for the National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966. First edition. 4to. Two volumes. xxiv, 244pp. (with illustrated plates following); xxi, 472pp. (with illustrated plates following). The "first book to be published in the series of the AILSA MELLON BRUCE STUDIES IN AMERICAN ART sponsored by..... More
Winston-Salem, NC: Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, 1965. First edition. 8vo. vii, 480 pp. Newspaper advertisements, court records showing indentures for craftsmen, private records, and institutional archives were searched to provide names for all those believed to be working in arts and crafts during the period under study; results..... More
London: Published for the artist by J. Robins and Co., 1830. First edition. 12mo. Title page plus 12 engraved plates, each with tissue guard and a leaf of explanatory text (rectos only); two ad leaves. Original printed wrappers (spine reinforced with cello-tape). Good solid copy. (1182). More
(Arcade, NY: Thomas A. Daly Studio, c1998). First edition, 1/300 copies signed by the artist/author and accompanied by an original wash drawing by the artist, signed by him. Oblong folio. 152 pp. Profusely illustrated from the artist's paintings, primarily color plates. "[Daly's] personal relationship with the natural world strikes an..... More
NY: Watson-Guptill, (c1985). First edition. 4to. 144 pp. Illustrated; color plates. With the publisher's card requesting comments on the book laid in. Grey cloth, gilt title on spine, color illustrated dust jacket. Very good. More
Baton Rouge, LA: LSU Press, 1996. First edition, review copy with slip laid in. Large 4to. xi, (1), 292 pp. Profusely illustrated from color reproductions of the art works, maps. Selections from a collection assembled by Roger Ogden, a New Orleans lawyer and entrepreneur, "one of the finest collections of..... More
34 Oakley Crescent S.W. R.A. Walker, 1920. Black lettered buff paperwraps (soiled). 12mo.; 16pp. Unopened pages. #91 of 100 copies, signed by the author. The catalogue entries are "continued from the end of Mr. Rickett's catalogue." A very good copy. The essay by Derry and part of the catalogue first..... More
Paris: H. Piaza, 1906. First edition, 1/400 copies. 8vo. 222, (4) pp. Color illustrations from Dinet paintings, color plates, color vignettes and initials. Dinet (1861-1929), a French orientalist painter, was born in Paris, the son of a prominent judge. After studying at the Lycée Henry IV through the 1870s, he..... More
nd (ca.1930's?). Five small decorative boxes (three wooden or metal matchboxes, two metal keepsakes), embellished with miniature, jewel-like hand-painted watercolor scenes. Two bear printed labels, most likely also designed by Dionysius, advertising his miniatures, and naming the scenes depicted ("Old South" shows young ladies in hoop skirts; "Atlantis" depicts a...... More
