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

Fredericton, New Brunswick: 1992-2001. Fifteen items with nine envelopes: Two letters or notes, nine greeting cards (5 printed with Bobak art works, 4 with original drawings by him, 1 with both), one separate caricature of Bruno, one engraved invitation, two color photographs, nine envelopes, four of which bear a stamp... 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

Boston, MA: Boston Book and Art Shop, Inc.. Printed in France on the Presses of Draeger Freres. 1969. 8vo. 179 pp. Grey cloth in dust jacket. Two original lithos: the frontispiece and the dust jacket. Near fine in slipcase. 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: 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

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

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

Missoula, MT: Mountain Press Publishing Co., (1989). First edition. Oblong folio. xix, 203 pp. (86 pages of illustrated text). 56 figures, 46 plates, some in color, each captioned, illustrated endpapers. Catalogue of the artist's drypoint etchings, with commentary by Crouch. Fine. Green cloth, illustrated dust jacket. (#6051). 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

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

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