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
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: 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
![Polar bear fending off wolves [supplied title for the painting]. Charles Livingston BULL, American artist and illustrator.](/pictures/thumb/58183.jpeg?v=1524176713)
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
(New York): Limited Editions Club, (c1987). First edition thus, 1/750 copies signed by the illustrator and Hersey. Large 4to. xiv, (2), 104 pp. Plates. A novel of Haiti's bloody 1791 revolution. "The text has been printed at Wild Carrot Letterpress on mould-made Cartiere Enrico Magnani paper. The etchings were printed... 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
[Easthampton, MA]: Cheloniidae Press, nd [1982]. Printed broadside, 22 x 15 inches, the large headline printed in red. Titled, numbered ("34/100" and signed by Robinson below the images. Some smudging in the margins, else fine. 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
(c.1935). The file comprises (1) original drawing, 12 3/8 x 9 1/8 inches, in graphite and watercolor, with white highlighting, picturing a racing yacht rounding a course buoy, sails full in high seas, the crew of 12 working, a competitor and officials boat in background, signed by the artist in... 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
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
