(London and New York): Phaidon, (c1971). First edition in English (published the same year in Italian). Large 4to. 456 pp. Profusely illustrated, plates. Complete edition of the etchings of Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770) and his sons Giandomenico and Lorenzo. Fine. Gilt-stamped charcoal cloth, illustrated dust jacket. (#5218). More
1979-1991. The sixteen drawings cover a variety of criminal trials in Federal Court in Tampa. Most are matted, varying in size, most 14 x 22 in., or slightly smaller, two 8 x 10 in., and signed by the artist. The subjects usually identified in a caption note or attached card... More
![PORTRAIT OF BOY WITH THE U.S. CAPITOL BUILDING IN BACKGROUND. [title supplied]. Oscar Robert.](/pictures/thumb/61959.JPG?v=1498683389)
[Washington, DC]: nd [ca.1870]. Original watercolor, charcoal and chalk drawing on canvas, 24.5 x 29.5 in., glazed and framed. Signed by the artist. The young boy is well dressed in a double-breasted suit and bow tie, with button-up boots. He stands on a tiled terrace, one hand one a balustrade... More
Cincinnati, Ohio: Printed by Ehrgott, Forbriger & Co., 1862. First edition. Folio. 20 lithograph plates, each 16 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches, picturing army life and operations in the campaign in western Virginia (now West Virginia) in 1861. Caption titles for the 20 black & white plates are as follows... More
nd [ca.1910s?]. Pen & ink drawing with a watercolor wash, approx. 22 x 14 in., matted, glazed and framed. Signed by W.A. Rogers in the lower right corner. Five vignettes of Washington life sketched on a single sheet, each with an inked caption title: "Baggage-Express Men," "The Monument," "A Typical... More
![Tinted miniature profile engraving of Col. William Duane, 2 5/8 x 2 1/2 inches [plate mark] on a larger sheet (6 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches). Charles B. J. F. SAINT-MÉMIN, active in America French miniature portraitist,](/pictures/thumb/48392.jpg?v=1474085591)
Miles Saint-Memin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America 277: "Although the engraving was made in 1802, the version with the inscription 'Col. William Duane' must date after 1808, when Duane became a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army; he also held the rank of colonel from 1813 to... More
West Hartford, VT: Countryman Press, (c1945). Large 4to. 117 pp. Illustrated, color plates. Silver-stamped cloth; bookplate, else very good in worn slipcase. First edition, 1/1275 copies. Consummate painter of animals in their habitats, insightfully profiled by a fellow artist. More
New York: Vanguard Press, (c1927). First edition. 12mo. xxii, (2), 89 pp. Plates from Lynd Ward woodcuts, title page vignette, illustrated endpapers. Scribner (1882-1922), largely self educated, had a meteoric career in social services, starting as a stenographer for a small local newspaper in 1908, eventually rising to assistant secretary... More
Baltimore, (MD): Norman, Remington Co., (c1917). First edition. Large thick 8vo. viii, 601 pp. Illustrated from paintings and drawings by Latrobe, plates, some in color, color frontispiece portrait of Latrobe; publisher's note concerning the front cover decorations laid in, as issued. Born in Philadelphia, Latrobe (1803-1891) attended West Point, 1818-1821... More
Italy: Arti Grafiche Giorgi & Gambi, n.d. 4to. (66) pp. With an inscription and self-portrait drawing by Sheppard on title page. Very good in original stiff wraps. More
New York: 1906. 8vo. 2 pages, approximately 150 words, in part: "Give me a chance to get at it this winter & advance me part of the payment for these fearsome days at the end of the year & I will do them both for $1000." Particularly noted for his... More
New York: Macmillan, 1931. First edition, 1/400 copies signed by each of the 16 contributors. 4to. x, (2), 326, (4) pp. Plates, some in color, double-page color map of the South Carolina low country. The South Carolina low country as portrayed by the leading writers, poets, and artists of the... More
Romae: np, 1627. Green vellum, rebacked in green leather with gilt stamped title, and the last coat of arms of J.A. de Thou (7 quarterings), bearing the motto "Mane Nobiscum Domine," on the front and rear boards. 22 cm. Engraved title page and 45 engraved plates, printed on rectos only... More
New York: The editor, 1912. First edition of this issue, No. 37. Small 4to (11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches). 48 pp. 9 portrait photogravures; 12 pages of ads for business related to photography. This issue devoted to the work of the 19th-century British photographer David O. Hill (1802-1870), whose... More
(Boston, MA): Boston Public Library in co-operation with Barre Publishers, (c1974). First edition, 1/100 specially bound copies that include a signed original lithograph by Wengenroth. 4to. 295 pp. Marginal vignettes, 344 illustrations for the lithographs made by Wengenroth from 1931 through 1972, illustrated endpapers. Wengenroth (1906-1908), a native New Yorker... More
[Washington, DC?]: 1961. Artist's sketchbook containing six original drawings for cartoons depicting political topics of note in 1961: a split amongst the Teamsters (1), the newly inaugurated D.C. Stadium (2), The Common Market (1), the Berlin Wall (1), and Nuclear Bomb Tests by Russia (1). Three of the drawings, 8... More
New York: Museum of Modern Art, (c1984). First edition. 4to. 216 pp. Mostly illustrations, plates. "Published in conjunction with he first comprehensive retrospective of Penn's work … identified by its great refinement of craft, by the wit and grace of its formal invention, and by its unequaled sensitivity to the... More
Original pen-and-ink drawing, 12 x 9 3/4 inches, signed by the illustrator in the lower left corner, "H. Thomson 07," with various shades of blue, brown, yellow, and flesh-tone wash coloring. Pictured as a full-color plate (as in this drawing, but not as vibrant) opposite page 238 in "Silas Marner"... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1949. 4to. xiii. 285pp. 168pp unpagenated with 413 illustrations, including one foldout. Hardback with black cloth boards. Title in gold lettering on spine. This is an odd volume in very good condition. More
Berlin: Rembrandt Verlag, 1968. Quarto. Limited to 200 copies. This being number 168. Original black cloth with artist's name and book title in black on pink label on front cover. Six color and six black & white original screenprints on arches paper. Text in German. Bright copy. Trökes was a.... More
Paris: Berggruen & Cie, (1956). Narrow 8vo.; (2)pp. 15 color plates with captions. Original color pictorial stiff wrappers, glassine dust jacket. A fine copy. First edition, #4 of fifteen copies signed by Tzara and the artist. Issued for the first Paris exhibition of Bonnet's work and illustrating ten paintings in pochoir. More
New York: Brentano's, 1928. 1 of 2500 copies. 8vo.; xv, 269 pp. Illustrated with numerous woodcuts by the author. Illustrated endpapers [previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown]. Brown stamped mustard yellow cloth; small illustration of a cat on front cover. Illustrated dust jacket (spine darkened; small chips to corners, spine... More
1975. Oil painting on canvas, 17 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches, the palate bright but carefully modulated. In a two-inch wide oak frame. Fine condition but for one tiny chip from a patch of impasto (in a distant highrise). Walker (1921-1993) was a self-taught African-American artist, born in Kentucky but... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, (1972). First edition. Folio. 230 pp. Profusely illustrated from Bearden's artwork, plates, some folding, many in color, portrait frontispiece. "[Bearden's] visual idiom involves montage and collage elements in combination with forms and styles that echo those of African sculpture, and is orchestrated by a deft... More
[June - August, 1974]. Sixteen well executed sketches, 14 x 17 in., on plain drawing paper, removed from an artist's sketchpad, depicting various phases of the cases brought in 1974,related to Watergate, including United States v. Nixon. Most of the drawings are signed and dated by Davies, and she has... More
