Dreishpoon, Douglas. HELEN FRANKENTHALER: Late Works, 1988-2009. 160 pages, including 95 color and 40 b&w plates. 4to, cloth. Radius Books, 2022.
Exploring works from the later period of Helen Frankenthaler's life, Late Works, 1988-2009 features approximately 50 plates and archival images dating from 1988 to 2009. Originally inspired by the exhibition.....
Item nr. 169825
Price: $65.00
Cooper, Harry, et al. Philip Guston Now. 280 pages, including 275 color plates. 4to, cloth,.Washington, National Gallery of Art, 2020.
Published to accompany the first retrospective museum exhibition of Guston's career in over 15 years. This sweeping retrospective covers Guston's influential work, from Depression-era muralist to abstract expressionist to tragicomic contemporary.....
Item nr. 168935
Price: $60.00
Rau, Bernd. JEAN ARP: The Reliefs Catalogue of Complete Works. 407 pp. Large 4to, cloth. New York, Rizzoli, 1981.
Text in English, French and German.
Item nr. 20306
Price: $4,950.00
LORY, Gabriel, Pere et Fils. Principes de Paysages pour apprendre a dessiner et colorer a l'Aquarelle. Four parts, folio, plates ca. 410 x 270 mm., in original printed wrappers with explanatory text on the inner front wrapper and containing 9 or 10 aquatint plates with a total of 37 variations.....
Item nr. 171597
Price: $27,500.00
![Item nr. 171571 Landwirtschaftliche Tafeln. XII. Forstwirtschaft (Holzzucht). [and] XIII....](/pictures/thumb/171571_1.jpg?v=1679070263)
FREIH. VON BABO, A. et al. Landwirtschaftliche Tafeln. I. Obst-bau.; V. Dünger-lehre.; WITH: Otto Schmidt. VI. Wiesenbewässerung.; WITH: L.J. Melicher. VII. Die Bienenzucht.; WITH: Rudolf Abel. IIX. Gemüsebau.; WITH: Franz Willhem Hofmann. IX. Hopfenbau., X. Seidenraupenzucht.; WITH: J. Pitasch. XII Forstwirtschaft (Holzzucht).; WITH: J. Zenker. XIII. Forstwirtschaft (Forstbenützung). Each contains.....
Item nr. 171571
Price: $4,750.00
BYRNE, Oliver. The Young Geometrician; or Practical Geometry without Compasses. iix pp., 62 leaves, illustrated throughout. 8vo, 250 x 150mm., publisher's cloth. London: Chapman and Hall,1865.
A virtually unknown book by the author of the Pickering Euclid. While clearly not as dazzling as that book it is still a tour de.....
Item nr. 171461
Price: $4,750.00
[VEVEY]. [ Fête des Vignerons, 1833]. Continuous panorama scroll with polished wooden spindle and rollers, containing 30 consecutive lithographs (numbered 1-30) from the 1833 Festival of the Vignerons at Vevey, hand-coloured at the time of publication, backed with linen and conjoined to form a continuous scroll of 14.4 meters long.....
Item nr. 171428
Price: $15,000.00
CHILDREN's DRAWING MANUAL. Cahier de Dessin representant les Jeux de l'Enfance & de la Jeunesse avec une Explication & une Devise Morale. Premier Cahier. Title leaf and 10 numbered leaves of letterpress, accompanied by 10 hand coloured plates. Oblong 8vo, 167 x 253 mm., contemporary boards. Paris: Chez N. Shenker.....
Item nr. 171418
Price: $3,250.00
RODENBACH, Georges. Les Vierges. WITH: Les Tombeaux. Two volumes. Unpaginated, illustrated with 4 original coloured lithographs by Jozsef Rippl-Ronai, plus 3 woodcuts by James Pitcairn-Knowles. 8vo, 250 x 170 mm., both bound in original publisher's illustrated wrappers with woodcut illustrations by Pitcairn-Knowles, and each preserved in a morocco-backed sleeve and.....
Item nr. 171379
Price: $8,500.00
GRANDVILLE, J.J. Voyages de Gulliver dans des Contrées Lointaines par Swift. Four parts in one. 448 pp., with a frontispiece of the gigantic Gulliver above an arch, 6 section-titles, and numerous wood-engraved vignettes by Grandville throughout. 8vo, 212 x 125 mm., in the publisher's polychrome binding. Paris: Garnier Freres, 1856
$.....
Item nr. 171345
Price: $2,850.00
GRANDVILLE, J.J. L'Ingénieux chevalier Don Quichotte de la Manche... Traduction nouvelle, illustrée par J.J. Granville. By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Two volumes in one. viii, 552 pp., with steel engraved frontispiece, 6 steel engraved plates, and 24 woodcut engravings, all executed after designs by Grandville. 8vo, 2350 x 150 mm......
Item nr. 171344
Price: $3,500.00
STEPHENS, Henry Louis. The Comic Natural History of the Human Race. [2], [vii]-viii, [9]-216 (i.e., 198 pp.), [2] pp., illustrated with the original front wrapper chromolithograph bound in as frontispiece plus 39 chromolithograph plates of hybrid caricatures by L. Rosenthal after original drawings by Stephens. 4to, 260 x 170 mm......
Item nr. 171322
Price: $7,500.00
SHERER, John. Sherer's Masonic Degree Book of Ancient Craft Masonry. [4] pp., followed by 12 plates. Elephant folio, 574 x 438 mm., modern half calf over cloth-covered boards. Cincinnati, Ohio: John Sherer, 1866.
A remarkably rare Masonic book illustrating ceremonies for the three degrees of craft masonry. John Sherer, himself a......
Item nr. 171307
Price: $15,000.00
LANDELLE, Gabriel, de la. Pigeon Vole. Aventures en l'Air. 414 pp., profusely illustrated. 8vo, 185 x 116 mm., bound in publisher's wrappers in a new red cloth folding box with a blue label. Paris: P. Brunet, 1868.
A sound copy of a scarce little jewel of a book, which anticipates the.....
Item nr. 171297
Price: $3,850.00
GAITTE, Antoine Joseph. Recueil des plus belles Maisons et des plus belles Edifices de la Ville de Paris. 24 numbered leaves with 136 engraved oval or circular views, the whole surrounded by an engraved neoclassical frame. Oblong folio, 401 x 280 mm., contemporary half green vellum over paste paper boards.....
Item nr. 171217
Price: $8,500.00
TROW, John F. Specimen book of the letterpress, stereotype, electrotype and woodcut printing establishment. Comprised of colour printed additional title printed in gold and copper, colour printed frontispiece and title-page followed by 107 leaves printed on just the recto comprised of type specimens, samples of colour printing etc. 8vo, 233.....
Item nr. 171205
Price: $8,500.00
FECHNER, F. Neuer Bildersaal. Nouvelles Galerie de Tableaux. New Picture-Gallery. [18] leaves (including title-page), printed on one side only, with 106 lithographs in contemporary colour, heightened with gum arabic. 12mo, 140 x 91 mm., original dark green publisher's illustrated boards, in a modern cloth folding box. Guben: Bei F. Fechner.....
Item nr. 171149
Price: $2,500.00
SAN FRANCISCO. Select San Francisco. Unpaginated, illustrated with 67 photogravures. Oblong 8vo, 199 x 244 mm., bound in publisher's green cloth. San Francisco: Cunningham, Curtis & Welch, 1898.
A wonderful photographic survey of San Francisco not long before the great earthquake of 1906.
Surprisingly rare with OCLC listing only San Francisco Public.....
Item nr. 171022
Price: $2,500.00
DRESDENER ACHITEKTEN-VEREIN. Dresdener Architektur-album: Bauten und Entwuerfe. 4 pp., with 136 plates. Folio, 440 x 33 mm., loose as issued in the elaborately gilt publisher's cloth portfolio. Dresden: Gilbers, 1875.
A fine copy of this extremely rare and spectacular pictorial survey of Dresden's architecture, most of which was destroyed in the.....
Item nr. 171021
Price: $4,750.00
GRANDVILLE, J.J. Un Autre Monde. Transformations, visions, incarnations... et autres choses. By Taxile Delord. [4], 295, [1] pp., half-title and title-page printed in red, a black and white frontispiece, 133 woodcut vignettes, 15 full-page woodcuts, and 36 hand-coloured plates. Large 8vo, 265 x 180 mm., bound in original illustrated wrappers.....
Item nr. 170972
Price: $9,750.00
BENJAMIN, Asher. The Builder's Assistant: Fully Explaining, the Best Methods for Striking Regular and Quirked Mouldings. Engraved frontispiece and 37 plates, 2 of which are folding (offsetting with browning and spotting, pl. 25 with chips into platemark but not inked area, pl. 33 detached at fold, some damp staining at.....
Item nr. 170505
Price: $12,500.00
COE, Benjamin H. A New Drawing Book of American Scenery, Containing Thirty-Four Views From Nature. 8 pp., followed by 33 illustrations on 24 lithograph plates (mostly marginal spotting throughout). Oblong 8vo, 173 x 260 mm., original marbled boards and title label, rebacked, some rubbing. Boston: B.B. Mussey & Cp., 1849.....
Item nr. 170501
Price: $2,750.00
THACKARA, James. Thackara's Drawing Book for the Amusement and Instruction of Young Ladies & Gentlemen in the Pleasing and Elegant Art of Drawing. [4] pp., [54] leaves of engraved plates. Small 4to, 205 x 163 mm., contemporary sheep-backed plain boards, in a recent custom quarter morocco slipcase. Philadelphia: James Thackara.....
Item nr. 170500
Price: $2,500.00
ARTIST'S MANUAL. The Artist's Companion, and Manufacturer's Guide, Consisting of the Most Valuable Secrets in the Arts and Trades. xiv, 179 [1] pp. 12mo, 170 x 105 mm., original sheep, in a modern green quarter morocco box. Boston: J. Norman, 1814.
An early American artist's manual, which among other things, discusses.....
Item nr. 170499
Price: $2,500.00
DE WITT, Simeon. Elements of Perspective. xxxi [1], 69 [1] pp., followed by 12 folding plates. 8vo, 207 x 123 mm., 19th-century boards rebacked in gilt calf. Albany: H.C. Southwick, 1813.
First and only edition of the first American book on perspective. Rarely seen on the market, with the 2 previous.....
Item nr. 170498
Price: $3,500.00