Paris: Ch. Massin & Cie. 1928. Loose_leaf. 12, [4] p.: 40 leaves of photographs; 34 cm. Portfolio has red cloth spine and corners, with red ribbon ties; printed in red and black. The text and leaves of plates are loose in the portfolio, as issued. Text is entirely in French... More
Philadelphia: John Sartrain, 1835. 1 mezzotint engraving of Benjamin Carr (1768-1831), American composer, singer, music teacher, and music publisher. Sheet is 30 x 24 cm.; image is 14 x 11 cm. John Sartain (1808-1897) pioneered mezzotint engraving in the United States. He engraved this portrait of Benjamin Carr from a.... More
Philadelphia: William Smith, 1860. Sheet is 48 x 57 cm. Image is 33 x 38 cm. Hand-colored lithograph produced by Magee's Lithograph Press, 48 S. 3rd St., Philadelphia. No date of publication. John L. Magee, artist, lithographer, and engraver, was located at 48 or 49 S. 3rd St., Philadelphia, only... More
Philadelphia: Beck Engraving, 1901. Hardcover. [2], 47, [1] p., color frontispiece and 126 leaves of black-and-white plates; 24 cm. Red cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover title: Catalogue of the Collection of Paintings of Peter A. Schemm. Top page edges gilt. "Gallery Schemm" -- at head of title page. Each... More
Berlin: Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, 1925. Hardcover. "51.-63. Tausend." [6], 346, [2] p., frontispiece and 9 leaves of plates (including portraits); 23 cm. Light brown cloth with dark brown spine and cover titles and decoration. Top page edges dark brown. Small bookseller's label on front fixed endpaper: Wohlthat'sche Buchhandlung K.u.H. Schild... More
New York: X-iing Books, 2010. Paperback. 128 p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Paperback with orange cover; illustration runs continuously across the covers. Title in silver on front cover and in silver printed in a mirror image on the back cover. Agriculture Reader is an arts annual founded in 2006. This volume... More
London: John Lane, 1911. Hardcover. 2 volumes (xl, [2], 502, [2] p.; xiii, [3], 541, [1] p.): frontispieces in each volume, 113 additional plates (a few in color); 26 cm. Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine titles and cover titles; white decoration. Top page edges gilt. Vol. 1 frontispiece... More
![The Talisman [with slipcase]. Walter Scott](/pictures/thumb/000597.jpg?v=1472082182)
Ipswich, England: Limited Editions Club, 1968. Castellon, Federico. Hardcover. With an introduction by Thomas Caldecot Chubb and illustrations by Federico Castellon. This is number 167 of a limited edition of 1,500 copies printed by W.S. Cowell in Ipswich, Suffolk, Eng. The aquatints were etched in copper by Federico Castellon and... More
London / New York: B.T. Batsford, 1948. Hardcover. vi, 120 p., frontispiece and 7 leaves of color plates: many full-page and in-text illustrations; 22 cm. Blue cloth with yellow spine title. Patterned dust jacket designed by Sibyl James. Publisher's adversitements on back dust jacket flap and half title verso. "First... More
![Outside Over There [publisher's press sheet]. Maurice Sendak](/pictures/thumb/003980.JPG?v=1472082326)
New York: Harper & Row, 1981. 1 publisher's press sheet (41 x 36 cm.). Color image (23 x 25 cm.) of the main character, Ida, hold her baby sister, as she and her mother watch her father's ship sailing away. In Near Fine Condition: slightly creased; clean and bright. More
Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1755. 1 handcolored copperplate engraving (25 x 20 cm.) from art by Jacques de Sève (fl. 1742-1788); engraved by C. Baron. Plate 19 from Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Histoire Naturelle, vol. 6. The plate is undated. The 11 volumes on Quadrupeds were originally published from... More
![Le Marcassin [and] Le Cochon de Lait [1 handcolored copperplate engraving of a wild boar and a...](/pictures/thumb/004873.jpg?v=1472082390)
Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1800. 1 handcolored copperplate engraving (25 x 19 cm.) from art by Jacques de Sève (fl. 1742-1788); engraved by Schmits. Plate 13 from Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Histoire Naturelle, vol. 1. The plate is undated. Although the 11 volumes on Quadrupeds were originally published from... More
Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1755. 1 handcolored copperplate engraving (25 x 20 cm.) from art by Jacques de Sève (fl. 1742-1788); engraved by Madeleine-Therese Rousselet. Plate 11 from Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Histoire Naturelle, vol. 6. The plate is undated. The 11 volumes on Quadrupeds were originally published from... More
Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1755. 1 handcolored copperplate engraving (25 x 20 cm.) from art by Jacques de Sève (fl. 1742-1788); engraved by Le Villain. Plate 24 from Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Histoire Naturelle, vol. 6. Although the plate is undated, the 11 volumes on Quadrupeds were published from... More
Vienna: Kunstverlag Anton Schroll & Co., 1921. Bohatta, Ida. Hardcover. 94 p., [6] leaves of handcolored plates; 11 cm. Pale yellow paper over boards with black spine and cover titles. Front cover has color illustration and green ruled border; back cover has publisher's emblem. Floral endpapers. No date of publication;... More
Vienna: Anton Schroll & Co., 1926. Hardcover. xi, [1], 208 p.: 487 illustrations; 31 cm. Faux leather spine and corners; red and green spine labels with gilt-stamped titles. Marbled paper over boards. Beschreibender Katalog der Handzeichnungen in der Graphischen Sammlung Albertina, Bd. 1. Lacking the pamphlet with the translation of... More
Vienna: Anton Schroll & Co., 1941. Hardcover. [8], 75, [1] p., 174 p. containing 784 illustrations; 31 cm. Faux leather spine and corners; red and green spine labels with gilt-stamped titles. Light brown paper over boards. Beschreibender Katalog der Handzeichnungen in der Staatlichen Graphischen Sammlung Albertina, Band 6. This catalog... More
Dublin: Academy House, 1898. Paperback. Sold also by Hodges, Figgis, & Co., Dublin, and Williams & Norgate, London. [4], xiv, 12, [2] p., 12 leaves of photogravure plates: in-text illustrations and 1 full page of illustrations; 44 cm. Grey cloth spine; card covers printed in black. In Ireland, the High... More
Frankfurt am Main: Eberhard Kiefer [Eberhard Kieser], 1629. Hardcover. Title continued: "Monarchia usq; ad Invictiss. D.D. Ferdinandum II. Roman. Imper. & annum Christi M.DC.XXIX. una cum eorum effigiebus & Symbolis ex probatissimis Historicis, aureis etiam, argenteis, & aeneis numismatibus delineatis. Accesserunt Historia et Series Belli Bohemico-Germanici, sive Commentarii de statu..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1990. Hardcover. 208 p.: 118 illustrations (50 in color); 29 cm. Dark green cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and emblem on front cover. Illustrated dust jacket. Includes biographical notes on the poets, and indices of poems, poets, and artists. Book and dust jacket are in Fine Condition: clean and bright. More
1850. 1 print (16 x 14 cm.). Black-and-white print of Thomas Sully painting of 1843, Cinderella at the Kitchen Fire, showing Cinderella sitting in front of the fire playing with a cat, her stepsisters in the next room in front of a mirror. No date or other publication information; the... More
![The Present State of Old English Furniture [provenance: Louise Miller Johnson Pratt]. R. W....](/pictures/thumb/005939.JPG?v=1513973133)
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1921. Hardcover. xii, 132 p., tissue-guarded frontispiece and 59 leaves of plates; 31 cm. Maroon cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles; blind-stamped decorative border on front cover. Top page edges red. Title page printed in red and black. Small bookseller's label on back... More
![The Story of Kennett by Bayard Taylor [with carte de visite of Bayard Taylor]. Bayard Taylor](/pictures/thumb/004712.JPG?v=1472082379)
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903. Hardcover. Cedarcroft Edition. [2], x, [2], 469, [5] p., frontispiece and 17 leaves of illustrations; 20 cm. Orange cloth with black spine and cover titles; black-and-white paste-down illustration on front cover. Attached to the front fixed endpaper by a former owner are a carte... More
London: Seven Dials, Cassell & Co., 2000. Paperback. First published in 1984; this edition includes a new author's note and errata. 408 p.: heavily illustrated; 25 x 26 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Includes index. A wonderfully illustrated study of the interior design of homes in Europe and the United... More
![Autruche [handcolored copperplate engraving from a painting of an ostrich]. Edouard Travies](/pictures/thumb/004846.JPG?v=1472082389)
Paris: A. Le Vasseur, Editeur, 1880. 1 handcolored copperplate engraving (16 x 27 cm.) from a painting by Edouard Travies (1809-1868?); engraved by Nicolas Amable Fournier. Printed by R. Taneur. Undated; the publisher was active from 1878 to 1887 or later. In Fine Condition: clean and bright. More