Art
“Les Bison: Aquarelle originale de Ch. Aurant”; [pencil caption title on mount below image], signed by the artist in lower left corner
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
Steinlen: Steinlen et la rue, par George Auriol; Saint Lazare, par Jacques Dyssord
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
A Collection of Antique Vases, Altars, Paterae, Tripods, Candelabra, Sarcophagi, &c., from Various Museums and Collections, Engraved on 170 Plates by Henry Moses. With historical essays.
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
PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA.; Translated by Edward Farrelly.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992. First edition. 4to. 240 pp., illus. Grey cloth, pictoral dust jacket. Very good. More
Walker Evans America. With an essay by Michael Brix.
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
Picturesque America; or, the Land We Live In. A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Forests, Waterfalls, Shores, Canons, Valleys, Cities, and other Picturesque Features of our Country.; With illustrations on steel and wood, by eminent American artists.
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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Polar bear fending off wolves [supplied title for the painting]
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
The Arts and Crafts of Newport, Rhode Island, 1640-1820
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
The Art of Painting Portraits, Landscapes, Animals, Draperies, Satins, &c., in Oil Colors: Practically Explained by Coloured Palettes; With an Appendix on Cleaning and Restoring Ancient Paintings on Panel or Canvas
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
The Mad Potter of Biloxi: The Art & Life of George E. Ohr. Photography by John White.
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
Eight redheads descending into a lakeside marsh, a watercolor picturing the ducks with wings extended, ready for a landing, the ducks in the foreground with more coloring than those farther away, the colors of the marsh and water somewhat muted, signed in the lower right corner "Roland Clark / 1922."
[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
Open Water
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
Roland Clark's Etchings
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
The progression of a cockfight, as represented in a vertical triptych done in mixed media of watercolor, oil, beads, and bird feathers on art board, the three images matted one above the other: the top picture shows two fighting roosters, painted and constructed in brilliant colors, squaring off, the middle one shows them engaged in the fight, and the bottom one shows the victor crowing over his fallen rival. [Chinese?, 19th-century?].
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
JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY IN AMERICA. 1738-1774
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
The Arts and Crafts in North Carolina, 1699-1840.
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
Twelve Sketches Illustrative of Sir Walter Scott's "Demonology and Witchcraft."
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
PAINTING NATURE'S QUIET PLACES.
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
Art in the American South: Works from the Ogden Collection.
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
THE LITHOGRAPHS OF CHARLES SHANNON, WITH A CATALOGUE OF LITHOGRAPHS ISSUED BETWEEN THE YEARS 1904 AND 1918.
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
Mirages, Scenes de la Vie Arabe. Commentées par Sliman ben Ibrahim.
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
FIVE ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR ILLUSTRATED MINIATURE BOXES, ALL SIGNED BY THE ARTIST.
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
"HE SAID HE WAS A ROYAL SIAMESE." (caption title) ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR DRAWING, SIGNED BY THE ARTIST.
1972. Original watercolor, approx. 11 1/2 x 14 in., matted, glazed and framed. The illustration shows four cats, dressed in elegant ball gowns (their tails peaking out just beyond the hems of their dresses) seated around a tea table in a drawing room. The tea table is full of cups..... More
ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR STORYBOARDS CREATED BY DOOLEY DIONYSIUS, A SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI ARTIST WHO WORKED FOR THE WALT DISNEY STUDIOS, AND THE PUBLIC WORKS OF ART PROJECT (PART OF THE CIVIL WORKS ADMINISTRATION, A PRECURSOR TO THE WPA) IN THE 1930's.
(ca.1930's). A group of 57 meticulously hand-drawn and richly colored illustrations by Dooley Dionysius: 24 panels created to illustrate "Pinocchio," each approx. 14 1/2 x 11 1/2 in., on stiff buff card stock or art paper (including a mock-up of the title page, 16 panels split between a color illustration..... More