La Belle Jardiniere. Calendar for 1898
by Paris. Imprimerie de Vaugirard
Paris: Imprimerie de Vaugirard, 1898. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. decorated in color Art Nouveau portfolio. Fine. 27 x 21 cm. Twelve separate full-page color plates printed on glossy stock by prominent and less known Belle Epoque artists, depict a variety of scenes, some sporting and military, but balance more characteristic of each artist's style. such as the... Read More
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Cezanne Son Art - Son Oeuvre
by Venturi, Lionello
Paris: Paul Rosenberg, 1936. First edition. Paperback. Orig. printed wrappers. Very good. 2 vols. Cezanne, Paul. 407 & 406 pages. Large 4to, 1634 illustrations. The rare, original edition of the catalogue raisonne printed in Limited edition, copy 250 of 1000. Illustrations in Vol.II printed on coated paper. Text untrimmed and unopened. FREITAG 1551. RIGGS p169. Aquamarine colored front... Read More
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Italian Painting in America; Translated From The Italian By Countess Vander Heuval And Charles Marriott
by Venturi, Lionello
New York: E. Weyhe, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth front covers lettered in silver. Very good. 3 Vols. XIX Preface. Folios, 39 x 32 cm. 614 full page illustrations printed on heavy glossy stock with descriptive facing text for each. Vol. I: Romanesque And Gothic; Vol.II. Fifteenth Century Renaissance; Vol. III. 16th to 18th Century. Title... Read More
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Accurata E Succinta Descrizione Topografica Delle Atichita Di Roma Dell' Abate Ridolfino Venuit
by Venuit, Ridolfino
Rome: Pietro Piale & Mariano de Romanis, 1824. Third edition. leather_bound. Full modern antique niger. Near fine. 2 vols. (2) xvi, xxxii, 256' vi, 238 pages. 27.9 x 20.3 cm. Engraved vignette on title-pages, engraved portrait following title, 2 engraved head-pieces, large engraved folding map, 68 engraved plates after Piranesi, Morel, Rinaldi. Ferrerri, Duflos and others. Complete with... Read More
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El Monasterio De San Blas En La Villa De Lerma
by Vera, Luis Cervera
Valencia: Editorial Castalia, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth. Very good in rubbed dust wrapper. 160 pages. 27 x 21 cm. Forty -five plates, many are large fold-outs and in color, plus twenty-three text figures, most are plans to scale. Building began in 1611, and completed July, 1617. Limited edition, copy 102 of 500. Glossary. Index. Ex-library,... Read More
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Present Tense
by Verberg, JoAnn
New York: MOMA, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. light yellow cloth front cover text in white. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 184 pages. 28 x 23.5 cm. Photographs in color and black and white. Forward by Glenn D. Lowry. Introduction by Susan Kiismaric. List of Plates. Selected Bibliography. Most photos printed one side only.
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Art In Vienna 1898-1918 Klimt Kokoschka Schiele And Their Contemporaries
by Vergo, Peter
London: Phaidon, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth. Near fine in chipped dust wrapper lacking portion at front cover foot. 256 pp. 215 illustrations with an abundance of full-color plates. Bibliography. Index. The author traces thedevelopment of the Secession movement whose members included Klimt, Kokoschka, Schiele (visual arts), and Otto Wagner, Adolf Loos and Josef Hoffman (architecture... Read More
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Belle Chair; Onze Poems inedits d'Emile Verhaeren illustres par Aristide Maillol
by Verhaeren, Emile
Paris: Edouard Pelletan, 1931. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. buff wrappers. Fine in very good original glassine slightly nicked at extremities. Maillol, Aristide. 35 pages. 30.5 x 24.5 cm. Limited edition, No.II/V of 12 roman numbered copies on Japan Pelletan, lithographs printed by E. Desjobert (of a total edition of 255), illustrated with three woodcuts and eleven black... Read More
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A Floating City, And The Blockade Runners
by Verne, Jules
New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co, 1874. First American edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's brown decorated cloth with beveled edges. Very good. 286 pages. 21 x 15 cm. Four leaves of adverts at rear. Forty two illustrations. The two tales, the first based on his own experience on a transatlantic voyage on the Great Eastern, the largest iron ship... Read More
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Instants Et Visages De Paris
by Vertes, Marcel & Gerard Bauer
Paris: Andre Suaret, 1951. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. portfolio cover a color lithograph with original glassine, contents loose as issued laid-in. Fine in Very good beige cloth folding box bumped at upper corner. Vertes, Mardel. 155 pages in text. Folio, 39 x 29 cm. Limited edition, copy 178 of 250 signed by Vertes and Bauer. With a... Read More
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L'Age D'Or Par Raymond Hesse; Lithographies Originales En Couleurs De Marcel Vertes
by Vertes, Marcel (Illustrator)
Paris: Les Editions De La Roseraie, 1926. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. cream wrappers lettered in gilt. Very good. 82 pages in text. 28.5 x 21 cm. Limited edition, copy 61 of 250 on Arches, with an original drawing of Cupid on the half title signed and inscribed by Vertes, and by Hesse -- both to Lucien Bonn.... Read More
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VERVE Revue Artistique et Litteraire Volume VI, Nos. 21/ 22
by Paris. Verve
Paris: Verve, 1948. First edition. Orig. paper covered boards with cover design by Matisse in yellow and blackwith original glassine. Near fine. Matisse, Henri. Unpaginated, approximately 64 pages. 35 x 27 cm. Illustrated in color and black and white. VERVE p. 197. "Matisse's cover for this issue, an original lithograph, fairly bursts with this delight in the sun... Read More
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Verve The French Review Of Art No. 8; September-November 1940
by Paris. Verve
Paris: Verve, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. cover by Matisse in color with original glassine lacking a small portion front cover at lower spine. Near fine. 35 x 27 cm. No. 8 completed a few days before the occupation of Paris: original front cover colored lithography by Henri Matisse, and double-paged color lithograph by Pierre Bonnard [Sunset Over... Read More
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Kandinsky and Der Blaue Reiter
by Vezin, Annette & Luc Vezin
Paris: Pierre Terrail, 1992. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth. Fine. Kandinsky, Wassily. 223 pages. Voluminously illustrated with a plethora of full color reproductions. Bibliography. Translated by Judith Hayward. Color plates of excellent fidelity.
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Empire
by Vidal, Gore
New York: Random House, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth, front cover and front cover with inset black label lettered in gilt. Fine in fine matching slipcase. 486 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy 2 of 250, signed by Gore Vidal in black ink.
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The Architectural Journey Through Long Island; Edited with an Introduction by Marian Leifsen
by Viemeister, August
Port Washington: Kennikat Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth lettered in silver. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 150 pages. 28 x 22 cm. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Presents a representative cross section of architecture on Long Island. Index.
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The Lyrical Poems of Francois Villon
by Villon, Francois
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1979. Hardcover. Full forest green cloth, spine and front cover stamped in genuine gold. Fine in fine floral decorated light green slipcase matching the endpapers. 152 pages. 28 x 19 cm. Introduction by Robert Louis Stevenson. English version with the original French printed on facing pages.: selected by Leonie Adams; the French versions... Read More
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Les Oeuvres De Francoys Villon; Les Lais Le Testament Poesies Diverses Le Jargon
by Villon, Francoys
La Haye: A.A.M. Stols, 1941. Hardcover. Orig. cream cloth spine and light tan boards, backstrip and cover lettered in gilt. Fine in fine brown slipcase. iv, 144 pages. Limited edition, copy 180 of 325 on papier superacre du Japon. Title page printed in red and black and text in red, blue and black. Medieval poetry from renown Belgian... Read More
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Jacques Villon * Lyonel Feininger
by Villon, Jacques & Lyonel Feininger
Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1950. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated grey stiff wrappers. Fine. 46 pages. 24.5 x 18.5 cm. Critical essays by George Heard Hamilton, Thomas B. Hess and Frederick S. Wright. Illustrated in black and white.
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Jacques Villon. Les Estampes. Les illustrations. Catalogue Raisonné
by [Villon, Jacques] Ginestet, Collette de and Catherine Pouillon
Paris: Arts Et Metiers Graphiques, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth in fine dust wrapper in fine matching black cloth slipcase. 511, (1) pages. 36.5 x 29 cm. Born Gaston Duchamp into an artistic family -- his siblings Marcel Duchamp, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, and Suzanne Duchamp would all make important contributions to 20th-century art. He was noted as... Read More
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Saggio d'Architettura Civile Con Alcune Cognizioni Comuni A Tutte Le Belle Arti
by Vinci, Gianbattista
Venezia: Modesto Fenzo, 1795. First edition. Paperback. Old, plain tan wrappers. Very good. 109 pages. 18 x 11 1/2 cm. The author, an architect and mathematician, dedicated this book to the sculptor, Antonio Canova, this critical review discusses early architectural works to 1800. CICOGNARA 689. Uncut, mostly unopened, unsophisticated copy, chipping with some loss to spine, binding firm,... Read More
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Discourses On Architecture; Translated With An Introductory Essay, By Henry Van Brunt
by Viollet-Le-Duc, Eugene Emmanuel
Boston: James R. Osgood And Company, 1875. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. dark salmon cloth, backstrip and front cover decorated in gilt. Very good. Viollet-Le-Duc, E.E. XX, [2] 517 pages. 26 x 17.5 cm. Large fold-out plate a frontispiece., with an additional 17 black and white plates, many are also fold-outs. More than 100 text figures. Brunt, a prominent... Read More
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Journal of The Senate of Virginia November Session, 1794
by Richmond. Commonwealth of Virginia
Richmond: Commonwealth of Virginia, 1951. Hardcover. Orig. tan buckram. Very good. 105 pages. Prefatory Note by Wilmer L. Hall. With a full Index which was lacking in the original document. A reprint with correction published ina Limited edition one of 200.
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Ex aduerso respondet Latina interpretatio, in qua verbum verbo reddidit VITVS VVINSEMIVS. Carminum ratio ex GVL. CANTERO diligenter obseruata; additis eius in totum Sophoclem NOTIS
by Sophoclis Tragoediae VII
Heidelberg: Apud Commelinus, Hieronymus, 1597. leather_bound. Later full brown calf with raised bands. Very good. [2], 3-16, [3], 6-701, [3] pages. 17 x 11 cm. Woodcut device, title. In Latin and Greek on opposite pages. Translated by Vitus Winsemius. ADAMS, 1451. OCLC: 43159662. Generally clean copy, a few side notes and limited underlining. Wide text margins with title... Read More
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La Pittura Moderna E L'Arte Del Tessuto Stampato (Rapporto di colori)
by Vitrotto, G. (Editor)
Torino: Ente Moda, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. white boards. Very good housed in worn plain white box. Unpaginated. Thirty leaves. Folio, 36 x 26.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 5 of 150. An unusual, stunning combination, presenting tipped-in color reproduction of art works by prominent modern artists with an accompanying full page color lithograph portraying essential colors in... Read More
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