(Charlottesville, VA: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2002). First edition, an exhibition catalogue. Oblong 4to (16 x 23 cm). (8) pp. Illustrated from eight color paintings by Gibbs and with a portrait and biographical sketch of the artist who “imagines a Monticello peopled in the [four seasons] of another time … alone..... More
New York: N. Currier, c.1847. Hand-colored lithograph, 10 x 13 inches. Matted. Some browning to margin, but very good. The print pictures General Winfield Scott and his troops around an artillery battery. A caption in the lower margin describes the action during the battle. More
New York: Lith. of Chs. Magnus, nd [ca. 1850]. Illustrated letter sheet, 10 3/8 x 8 3/8 inches. The color view at the head featuring a wooded square with a fountain in the foreground of a business district, the street teeming with pedestrians, horses and carriages, and riders on horseback;..... More
Brookgreen Gardens, SC: 1936-47. Five folding pamphlets, including: SCULPTURE BY ANNA HYATT HUNTINGTON; VERSES IN THE GARDENS; MAP OF THE MUSEUM OF SMALL SCULPTURE; HISTORY; and a general museum pamphlet with illustrations. All designed to aid the visitor to the gardens. All very good. The set. More
Paris: Georges Petit, 1910. 4to. 49 pp. 27 plates, picturing 118 examples, the text describing each individually. This copy extended by the addition al description of five more examples in manuscript, photographs of each mounted on four inserted leaves. Contemporary roan-backed red cloth, gilt spine title and gilt title on..... More
(Charlottesville, VA): Alderman Library, 1959. 8vo. (7) pp. Describes 16 paintings, drawings, views, woodcuts, elevations, and photographs of Jefferson’s home. OCLC locates four copies (Massachusetts Historical Society, Virginia, TJMF, Library of Virginia). Printed self-wrappers. Very good. More
Savannah, GA: (Press of Review Publishers for the museum), 1924. Issued several times under varying titles, 1917-1930. 8vo. (2) 35 pp. Illustrated from photographs (of the building and some of its paintings). Catalogue of the museum’s paintings, sculpture and other holdings, bequeathed by children of Gov. Edward Telfair (1735-1807). Founded..... More
NP: nd [1876?]. Original pen & ink drawing, 14 x 18 1/2 in., mounted, glazed and framed. The unnamed artist has placed a sketch of a domed building, likely Memorial Hall, designed by Herman Schwarzmann as the art gallery for the exhibition, at the top of the drawing. Uncle Sam..... More
Redding, CT: Silver Fox Press, 1974. Reprints of the three titles listed below. 8vo, Three volumes: (1) "Die Deutsche Expressionistische Kultur und Malerei" by Eckart v. Sydow (first published 1920; 152 pp., illustrated, plates); (2) "konstruktivisten" (1937 exhibition catalogue that includes El Lissitzky, Maholy-Nagy, and Mondrian; 20 pp. and 30..... More
nd. Reverse painting on glass, in a distressed silver and black frame. 17 x 30 cm. showing an image of the building and its cupola, a few trees in the foreground, within a gilt and black border. Very good. More
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N. Y. Charles Magnus, nd [bet. 1850 - 1860?]. Pictorial lettersheet, folded in half, to 30 x 23.5 cm. Birdseye view image of the city of Halifax, 12.5 x 18.5 cm., occupies the upper third of the sheet; integral leaf blank. Some toning to paper. More
The card, measuring 5 1/4 x 3 1/4 in., carries an ink sketch of palm trees and flamingos at sunset. Two little stick figures lounge near the shore line. The artist has colored in the sky with a pink wash. Accompanying the drawing is a little original birthday poem, sending..... More
(Cincinnati, OH): Lith. By Donaldson & Elmes, 22 Court St. 1864. Black-and-white lithographed view of Lookout Mountain, 12 ½ x 16 inches, the mountain rising steeply in the background, a locomotive of the Nashville & Chattanooga Rail Road pulling carloads full of soldiers away thought clear-cut fields, a :Field Hospital”..... More
[artwork for a cover], an original painting, 12 1/4 x 9 inches, for the cover of this issue of the magazine, picturing a well-dressed but fat gentleman in a suit, becoming sea-sick while standing in a cruiser's cabin on a boat show floor, similar in style to a New Yorker..... More
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Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1942. Broadside, 16 7/8 x 12 3/8 inches, printing a message from "National Resources Development," report of the National Resources Planning Board, transmitted to Congress by the President on January 14, 1942. In addition to the four "universals of human life," Freedom of Speech Worship..... More
NP: np, nd. Engraving. Image size 18 x 27.5, on a 26.5 x 41 cm. sheet. A portrait of Daniel Lambert (1770-1809), Keeper of Bridewell House of Corrections and a sizable "Prodigy in Nature." Manuscript caption below the print: "Dan'l Lambert, Leicester." The portrait shows Lambert seated in a chair..... More
London and Brussels: Willis and Sotheran; and C. Muquardt & Co. (printed in Berlin by Unger brothers, printers to the King), 1864. Second edition (first published in 1862). Folio. 45 pp. 50 colored lithotinted plates, including the frontispiece. OCLC locates one copy of this edition (Columbia), though five of the..... More
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N. Y. Charles Magnus, nd [bet. 1850 - 1860]. Pictorial lettersheet, 30 x 23.5 cm. Birdseye view image of the city of Rochester, 11.5 x 19 cm., occupies the upper third of the sheet. Executed by G. G. Lange, Darmstadt and published by Charles Magnus. Some toning to paper. More
NP [New York?]: John I. Donlevy, intaglio-chromographic and electrographic engraver, nd. Calligraphic bust-length oval portrait of George Washington, engraved by Donlevy, platemark 16 1/2 x 13 7/8 in. Matted, glazed and framed. Within the oval portrait which is based Stuart's "Lansdowne" image, Washington's face has been hand-colored. His birth and..... More
NY & Washington, D.C. Charles Magnus, 12 Frankfort St., NY; 520 7th St., Washington, D.C., 1863. Lithograph, 23 x 43 cm., on a 37 x 56 cm. sheet, depicting the grounds of the Soldier's Home in Washington, D.C. An American flag flies from a flag pole at the center of..... More
London and New Haven, CT: The Tate Gallery for the Yale Center for British Art, 1978-81. Four volumes. First editions. 4to. xvii, (3), 427; xv, (3), 126; xxiv, 382; xxii, 257 pp. The set includes: (1) BOOKS ON THE HORSE AND HORSEMANSHIP: Riding, Hunting, Breeding & Racing, 1400-1941. A catalogue..... More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company Inc. under the auspices of the National Sculptor Society, (1947). 17cm. Black cloth spine with illustrated paper boards. 63pp., numerous illus. General wear to covers and spine. Inscribed by the artist Wheeler Williams to Mary & George Plimpton. Tipped in at rear is..... More
Alexandria, VA: [1987]. Watercolor on art paper, 8 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches, matted. Abbott (1920-1988) was a longtime resident of Alexandria, Virginia, working at Fort Belvoir while leading various Audubon Society activities, including bird counts. He wrote and illustrated a number of books and pamphlets concerning the ornithology of..... More
[Montgomery, PA?]: nd [ca. 1945]. Gouache on board, 13 x 17 inches. Abbott (1895-1950) was a popular American illustrator of wildlife. A native of Brookline, Massachusetts, he studied at Harvard and was thereafter engaged in business in New York City. He moved to Altadena, California in the early 1930s and..... More
Pasadena, CA: Trail’s End Publishing Co., (c1948). First edition 8vo. xii, (4), 350. Profusely illustrated from Russell paintings and line drawings, photographs, plates, many in color, color illustrated endpapers. Adams Herd 16. Adams Six-Guns 14. Original burgundy cloth, gilt spine title, color illustrated dust jacket (rubbed, several small chips and..... More
