Of Knights and Spires Gothic Revival in France and Germany
by Hunter-Stiebel, Penelope
NY: Rosenberg & Stiebel, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth lettered in silver. Near fine. 62 pages. 27 x 20 cm. Illustrated with color and black and white plates or neo-Gothic ornament and furniture. Bibliography.
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Menuiserie: The Carved Wood Furniture of 18th Century France
by Hunter-Stiebel, Penelope
NY: Rosenberg & Stiebel, 1986. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Near fine. 63 pages. 22 x 19 cm. More than 30 illustrated examples.
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The Museum of Modern Art, New York The History and the Collection
by Hunter, Sam (Introduction)
New York: Abrams, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. white cloth with illustrated front cover label. Fine in fine plastic dust wrapper. 599 pages. With 1070 illustrations, including 319 in full color. Preface by Richard E. Oldenburg. Index. Features essays by William Rubin, John Elderfield, Riva Castleman, Arthur Drexler, John Szarkowski, and Mary Lea Bandy and Eileen Bowser. This... Read More
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American Art of The 20th Century
by Hunter, Sam
New York: Abrams, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Near fine in near fine dust wrapper. 487 pages. With 839 illustrations, including 166 in full-color. Bibliography. Index. Owner inscription. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER I477 ."An excellent, critical survey of 20th-Century American painting, sculpture and architecture.
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Stories From The Italian Poets: With Lives Of The Writers
by Hunt, Leigh
London: Chapman And Hall, 1846. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary brown polished calf. Teg. Very good/Near fine. 2 Vols. 415, 515 pages. 19 x 12.5 cm. Commentary on Dante, Bolardo, Ariosto, Tasso, et al. Clean, fresh copy, raised bands, double gilt cover panels, spine panels richly decorated win floral motifs, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, nicks to backstrip heads. ... Read More
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William Penn Horticulturist
by Hunt, Rachel McMasters Miller
Pittsburgh: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Illustrated. Bibliography. Index. Orig. navy cloth. Fine in orig. but chipped glassine overwrapper. 38 pages.
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Architettura Campestre
by Hunt, Thomas Frederick
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827. First edition. Boards. Orig. publisher thick gray boards with illustrated front cover paper label. later cloth backstrip. Very good. 28 pages in text. 32 x 25 cm. Twelve full-page lithographed plates with descriptive text -- "designs for a summer house and gardener's residence, a garden cottage, a gate lodge, a... Read More
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Peter Hurd The Lithographs
by Hurd, Peter
Lubbuck: Baker Gallery Press, 1969. Second edition. Hardcover. Orig. charcoal cloth. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. Hurd, Peter. Unpaginated. 30.5 x 23.5. Introduction by Andrew Wyeth. Edited with a Foreword by John Meigs. 50 plates.
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Sir Christopher Wren A Biography
by Hutchinson, Harold
New York: Stein & Day, 1976. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Orig. cloth and boards. Fine in very good dust wrapper. Wren, Christopher. 191 pp. Black and white illustrations. Appendices. References. Select Bibliography. Index. FREITAG 10354.
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A Mathematical And Philosophical Dictionary: Containing An Explanation Of The Terms, And An Account Of The Several Subjects, Comprized Under The Heads Mathematics, Astronomy, And Philosophy Both Natural And Experimental:; With An Historical Account Of The Rise, Progress And Present State Of These Sciences: Also Memoirs Of The Lives And Writings Of The Most Eminent Authors, Both Ancient And Modern, etc.
by Hutton, Charles
London: J. Johnson, 1796. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. marbled boards rebacked, brown calf with black leather spine labels lettered in gilt. 2 vols. Very good/Near fine. 650, 756 pages. 27 x 23 cm. Thirty-seven copper engraved plates, and a host of diagrams and tables in the text. Volume I, 1796 probably a later issue -- copies noting 1795... Read More
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Essays New And Old
by Huxley, Aldous
London: Chatto & Windus, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth spine lettered in gilt. Teg. Very good. 257 pages. 22 x 17.5 cm. First edition. Limited edition, copy 366 of 560 signed by Huxley. Spine sunned, edges of boards slightly faded. printed at the Florence Press with wide text margins. Interior clean.
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The World Of Light A Comedy In Three Acts
by Huxley, Aldous
London: Chatto and Windus, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Quarter brown cloth lettered in gilt and decorated blue boards. Teg. Near fine. 104 pages. 21 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 103 of 160 signed by Huxley. Sharp, bright copy, bookseller label of Philip P. Duschnes.
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Histoire De Russie, Representee Par Figures, Accompagnees D'Un Precis Historique.; Les Figures Gravees Par F.A. David, Associe Libre De L'Academie De Peinture Et De Sculpture De Berlin, D'Apres Les Dessins De Monnet
by Blin De Sainmore [Adrien Michel Hyacinthe]
Paris: Boiste, 1799. First edition. leather_bound. 102, 104 pages. 26.5 x 20 cm. With additional engraved titles, and 36 sanguine plates [with tissue guards] by Francois Anne after Charles Monnet, an historical and portrait painter born in Paris about 1730, admitted into the Academy in 1765. Chronological Table of Illustrations from 862-1681 end of both volumes. Interior contents plates... Read More
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Allons-y! Histoire Contemporaine Recontee & Dessinee
by Ibels, Henri-Gabriel
Paris: P.V. Stock, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. printed pictorial stiff wrappers. Fine in fine cloth and marbled board clamshell box.. 111 pages. 25.4 x 18 cm. Limited edition, copy 15 of 50, large paper edition on Japan vellum, signed by Ibels. Forty black and white plates. A contemporary of Bonnard and Edward Vuillard, he was a member... Read More
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Knock Ou Le Triomphe De La Medecine by Jules Romains; Comedie en Trois Actes
by Dubout (Illustrator)
Paris: Le Editions Du Valois, 1953. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine in fine portfolio in slightly nicked matching slipcase. Dubout. 192 pages. 26 x 21 cm, fifty-four colored lithographs (aquarelles) by Dubout, inimitably ribald and Gallic -- physicians, buffoons and cheeky bums. -- the original comedy produced Paris, 1923. Limited edition, copy 1002 of 2050. A... Read More
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Ovid Metamorphoses (pseudonym of Naso, Publius Ovidius) ; Translated by Arthur Golding * Edited by Madeleine Forey * Essay on Titian and Ovid by Michael Prodger
by Titian [Illustrator]
London: The Folio Society, 2008. Hardcover. Full Nigerian goatskin blocked with a design by Simon Brett. Fine in fine matching cloth clamshell case. Teg. Fine. 378 pages. 33 x 25 cm. Limited edition, copy 1415 of 2750. Printed on Vizille Ivoire Laid paper. Tipped in full page color plates after paintings by Titian.
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Manon Lescaut Translated From The French Of The Abbe Prevost by D.C. Moylan; With Eleven Illustrations By Alastair And An Introduction By Arthur Symons
by Alastair [Hans Henning von Voight] (Illustrator)
London & New York: John Lane & Dodd, Mead, 1928. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth rebacked. Very good. Alastair. 197 pages. 32 x 26 cm. Limited edition, copy 1120 of 1850. The 11 full-page illustrations are color lithographs with lettered tissue guards. Illustrated endpapers are also color lithographs, but with separate designs. Title page in red and black. Covers... Read More
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The Devil's Devices Or Control versus Service by Douglas Pepler
by Eric Gill (Illustrator)
London: Hampshire House Workshop, 1915. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated red boards, black cloth spine. Near fine. (VIII), 128 pages. 20 x 13.5 cm. Twelve illustrations or devices all of which, with the exception of that on p. (IV) are wood engravings by Gill, printing run of 1500 copies. Unopened, bookplate of Richard D. Friedlander, and laid in... Read More
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Sebastian Van Storck by Walter Pater; And An Introduction By P.G. Konody
by Alastair [Hans Henning von Voight] (Illustrator)
London & New York: John Lane & Dodd, Mead, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. cream cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Very good. Alastair. 68 pages. 32 x 26 cm. Limited edition, copy 774 of 1050. Eight full-page color lithographs by Alastair, one after p.52 signed in pencil by the artist. Pater's fictional account set in the time... Read More
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Robert Indiana And The Star of Hope; With Essays by John Wilmerding and Michael K. Komanecky
by Indiana, Robert
Rockland, Maine: Yale Univ. Press, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. white decorated boards. Fine and replicated on fine dust wrapper. 128 pages. 26 x 24.5 cm. Host of color and black and white plates, many are full page. Contains work from his student days and from the New York World's Fair and not exhibited since.
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The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana. Translated from the Sanscrit by Sir Richard Burton and F.F. Arbuthnot ; In Seven Parts, with Preface, introduction and Concluding Remarks
by Ingai, Victo. [illustrator]
London: The Folio Society, 2018. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth front cover color inset, essay text with navy cloth spine and yellow boards, housed in navy cloth folding box spine lettered in gilt. Near fine. 31 x 24.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 455 of 750 with a color signed print by Victo. 64 pages [Essays By W.G. Archer, Hanif... Read More
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California Joe, The Mysterious Plainsman.; The strange adventures of an Unknown Man, whose real identity, like that of the "Man of the Iron Mask" is still unsolved
by Ingraham, Colonel Prentiss
New York: Beadle and Adams, 1882. Wraps. Orig. illustrated stapled wrappers. Fine. 16 pages. 28 x 21 .5 cm. Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure. Vol. III. No. 54. Back cover with list of titles, No. 1 - No. 56. 20th century facsimile.
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Adventures of Buffalo Bill From Boyhood To Manhood; Deeds of Daring and Romantic Incidents in the Life of Wm. F. Cody, the Monarch of Bordermen
by Ingraham, Colonel Prentiss
New York: Beadle and Adams, 1881. Wraps. Orig. illustrated stapled wrappers. Fine. 16 pages. 28 x 21 .5 cm. Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure. Vol. I. No. 1. 20th century facsimile.
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A Check List of American 18th Century Newspapers in The Library of Congress
by Ingram, J. Van Ness (Compiler)
Washington, DC: GPO, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. Book-plate. Ex-library. Orig. cloth. Very good. 186 pages.
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Fifty Paintings By George Inness
by Inness, George
New York: Privately Printed, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. thick brown boards, maroon cloth spine. Teg. Very good. Inness, George. 14 pages in text. 26 x 19 cm. Fifty black and white plates. Introduction by Elliott Daingerfield. Beautifully printed on handmade paper, Limited Edition, one of 300, illustrations in photogravure with lettered tissue guards. FREITAG 4564. KARPEL I980.... Read More
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