The Duke of Sacramento A Comedy in Four Acts
by Baer, Warren
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1934. Hardcover. Fleur-de-lis blue boards and tan cloth. Very good. 77 pages. 24 X 16 cm. Sketch by Jane Bissell and color illustrations by Arvilla Parker. Reprinted from the edition of 1856. Limited edition, one of 500 copies, with original Grabhorn announcement laid-in. Free endpapers toned. GRABHORN 212.
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European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists born in or Before 1865. A Summary Catalogue
by Baetjer, Katharine
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth. Near fine in near fine slipcase. 3 vols. 535 pages. Volume I: Text, with a note to the catalogue and an Index. Volume II: Illustrations, four on each page, covering Italian, Spanish (including Portuguese), Icons, Russian, British and German (including Austrian, Czech,Danish, Hungarian, Swedish and... Read More
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Thomas Cole
by Baigell, Matthew
New York: Watson Guptill, 1981. First edition. Cloth. Orig. ruby cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Cole, Thomas. 84 pages. 29 x 27 cm. 32 color plates and 12 black and white. Bibliography. Index.
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Thomas Hart Benton
by Baigell, Matthew
New York: Abrams, 1973. First edition. leather_bound. Orig. full beige leather. Front cover image of Benson embossed in gilt. Near fine. Benton, Thomas Hart. 279 pages. 30 x 35 cm. Large, landscape 4to, Limited edition, copy 272 of 350 signed by Thomas Hart Benton. The artist celebrates the American experience; his father, a Tennessean served in the Confederate... Read More
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Report On Portions Of The Province Of Quebec And Adjoining Areas InNew Brunswick And Maine Relating More Especially, etc.
by Bailey, L.W. & William McInnes
Ottawa: S.E. Dawson, 1893. First edition. Paperback. Orig. printed, stitched tan wrappers a bit soiled. Stitching disintegrated. Very good. 24 pages. With quarter-sheet map in two colors of the Cambrian Rocks in the Counties of Temiscouata and Rimouski. Geological Survey Of Canada.
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The Churches of Mexico 1530-1810
by Baird, Joseph Armstrong, Jr.
Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth. Near fine.. 126 pages in text. Profusely illustrated with 163 plates, eight of which are in color, as well as thirty-six black and white figures. Photographs by Hugo Rudinger. Chronologies. Biographies of Architects. Glossary. Selective Bibliography. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER J250. "A first-rate book.
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Indian Ducks And Their Allies; Reprinted From The Bombay National History Society Journal: With Corrections & Additions
by Baker, E.C. Stuart
Bombay: Bombay Natural History Society's Journal, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter red cloth spine and black cloth covers, black spine label printed in gilt. Very good. 222 pages. 24 x 17 cm. With 30 Chromolithograph plates by Gronveld, Lodge & Keulemans. Index. Interior text bright, clean, and fresh. Edward Charles Stuart Baker was a British ornithologist and... Read More
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Indian Ducks And Their Allies; Reprinted From The Bombay National History Society Journal: With Corrections & Additions
by Baker, E.C. Stuart
London, Calcutta & Bombay: R.H. Porter et al., 1908. Hardcover. Three quarter brown morocco and green cloth. Very good. XI, 292 pages. 28 x 19 cm. With 30 Chromolithograph plates by Gronveld, Lodge & Keulemans. Index. Interior text bright, clean, and fresh. Edward Charles Stuart Baker was a British ornithologist and Indian Imperial police officer. Index. Raised bands,... Read More
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L'Oeuvre De Leon Bakst Pour La Belle Au Bois Dormant; Ballet en Cinq actes d'apres le conte de Perrault Musique de Tchaikovsky
by Bakst, Leon
Paris: M. De Brunoff, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter maroon morocco and marbled boards with matching marbled endpapers. Near fine. 24 pages in text. 39 x 29 cm. Limited edition, copy 157 of 500 signed by Bakst & De Brunoff. Frontispiece, a lithograph of Bakst by Picasso and 54 mounted color lithographs with lettered tissue guards. Based... Read More
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Color Wood Engraving (PEKING) & Turn To The East Portfolio
by Baldridge, Cyrus Leroy & Singer & Baldridge
New York: Minton, Balch & Company, 1925. First Editions. Hardcover. Fine. The Peking color wood engraving, 26 x 39: No. 131 signed in pencil by Baldridge. Bright, fresh and fine copy. The latter is complemented with "Turn To The East" portfolio 41 x 27.5 also numbered 131 by Caroline Singer and C. Le Roy Baldridge housed in stiff tan... Read More
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The Fire Next Time
by Baldwin, James
New York: Dial, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. white cloth lettered in red. Near fine in chipped dust wrapper with loss as spine head and foot. 120 pages. 20.5 x 14 cm. His reputation has endured since his death and his work has been adapted for the screen to great acclaim. His mother never revealed who his biological... Read More
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Da Bellinia A Tintoretto; Dipinti dei Musei Civici di Padova dalla meta del Quattrocento ai primi del Seicento
by Ballarin, Alessandro & Davide Banzato, Cura
Roma: Leonardo - De Luca, 1991. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. 373 pages. 28.5 x 23 cm. 32 color plates and a 421 black and white photographs, all are printed on quality glossy stock. Seven chapters by scholars. Bibliography. Concordance. Index of Artists. Text in Italian.
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Professional Engineering in Canada 1887 to 1987
by Ball, Norman R.
Ontario: National Museums of Canada, 1988. Second edition. Boards. Orig. decorated boards. Near fine in nicked dust wrapper. 176 pages. 28 x 22 cm. 200 illustrations. Index.
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The Earlier Stone Age in Southern Africa Bibliography
by Ball, Richard Walter
Cape Town: Univ. of Cape Town Libraries, 1969. Second edition. Paperback. A list ofpublished material on the Earlier Stone Age of South Africa, including South Africa, South West Africa, the Protectorates, Southern and Northern Rhodesia."All material prior to 1900 has been omitted. Orig. green wrappers. Fine.
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Le Peche Veniel Conte Drolatique
by Balzac, Honore de
Paris: Rene Kieffer, 1922. Original Wraps. Orig. illustrated wrappers flaked at backstrip extremities. Slight embrowning at front cover head. Very good. 4to, with brilliant color illustrations by J. Hamman. Limited edition, copy 450 of 590 on velin de cuve paper. Text in French.
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Crusader Figural Sculpture in the Holy land Twelfth century examples from Acre Nazareth and Belvoir Castle
by Barasch, Moshe
Ramat Gan: Massada Press, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. tan cloth. Fine in very good dust wrapper. 237 pages. Fifty illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Professor Barasch, founded theDepartment of the History of Art at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER K87. "A scholarly study of surviving Crusader sculpture in the Holy Land, some of which have been recently discovered.... Read More
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La Guirlande Des Mois 1920
by Barbier, George (Illustrator)
Paris: Jules Meynial, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. silk decorated cloth. Fine in near fine dust wrapper in near fine slipcase. Aeg. Barbier, George. 128 pages. 12 x 8.5 cm. Six full-page pochoir color plates (plus additional text and border designs) -- Art Deco illustration in its zenith; Barbier being one of its foremost and famous proponents. Texts... Read More
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French Letterpress Printing; A list of Fench printing manuals and other texts in French bearing on the technique of letterpress printing, 1567-1900
by Barbier, Giles
Oxford: Oxford Bibliograhical Society, 1969. First edition. Paperback. Orig. printed red stiff wrappers. Fine.. 39 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Index.
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Journals of the Late Brevet Major Philip Norbourne Barbour * Captain in the 3rd Regiment, United States Infantry * and his wife Martha Isabella Hopkins Barbour; Edited with a Foreword by Rhoda van Bibber Tanner Doubleday
by Barbour, Philip Norbourne
NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth spine with printed paper label and navy cloth covers. Very good. 187 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Barber served in the Mexican War, killed 1846 in the battle of Monterey. Limited edition, copy 297 of 1000 signed by Ms. Doubleday. Bright copy. Spine with a few... Read More
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Die Deutchen Schuzengraben und Soldatenzeitungen; Kulturdokumente zum Weltkreig I.
by Bardt, Fred B. (Editor)
Munich: R. Piper & Co. Verlag, 1917. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Very good. 154 pages. 21 x 19.5 cm. With a 152 images and facsimiles. Satire and commentary on World War I with all the combatants included. Contemporary review with all participants skewered. Text slightly toned, front cover nick at foot. Text in German.... Read More
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The George Brown Toy Sketchbook
by Barenholtz, Edith F. (Editor)
Princeton: Pyne, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. white cloth. Near fine in chipped, in very good slipcase. 16 pages in text. 37 x 29 cm. Fifty-eight full-page, exquisite color drawings by this imaginative toymaker. Every attempt was made to reproduce the "sketchbook" in exact facsimile. Full play was given by Brown to the brilliant use of color and... Read More
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Die Wandlungen Gottes
by Barlach, Ernst
Berlin: Paul Cassirer, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated brown boards. Very good. 31.5 x 45 cm. Seven full page woodcuts. Barlach, an outstanding sculptor of the Expressionist movement whose style has often been called “modern Gothic.” Influenced early in his career by Jugendstil, Germany’s Art Nouveau style, he vacillated between pursuing sculpture and the decorative arts. His... Read More
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The English Farmhouse and Cottage
by Barley, M.W.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Near fine in chipped dust wrapper. 297 pages. Twenty-five plates, thirty-eight text figures, and eight tables. Glossary. Index. This book attempts to describe the houses of the majority of the rural population of England, particularly in the 16th to 18th centuries. Only the smaller houses of... Read More
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Picasso 75th Anniversary Exhibition
by Barr, Alfred H., Jr.
New York: MOMA, 1957. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. printed wrappers lightly soiled. Very good. Picasso, Pablo. 115 pages. Profusely illustrated in black and white. Errata slip enclosed.
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Francis Rattenbury and British Columbia; Architecture and Challenge in the Imperial Age
by Barrett, Anthony A. & Rhodri Windsor Liscombe
Vancouver: Univ. of British Columbia Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 391 pages. Copiously illustrated; more than 200 photographs, plans, drawings and maps. Bibliography. Index. The first major critical study of a Yorkshire born, Canadian architect who had a major influence and impact on the Canadian West. He was also chief... Read More
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