Horatio Greenough. An American Sculptor's Drawings.
Middlebury: Middlebury College Museum of Art, 1999. 120 pp. Illus. with color & b/w photos and reproductions. Obl. Sm. 4to. Stiff paper wrappers. First edition. A fine copy. As new. More
Middlebury: Middlebury College Museum of Art, 1999. 120 pp. Illus. with color & b/w photos and reproductions. Obl. Sm. 4to. Stiff paper wrappers. First edition. A fine copy. As new. More
Wein: Deutscher Verein für Kunstwissenschaft, 1916. 29, [2] pp. + plates. Illus. with 12 b/w plates. Quarter vellum over paper covered boards. First edition. Series: Jahresgabe des Deutschen Vereins für Kunstwissenschaft, 1916. One of 1200 copies. Überreicht vom Deutschen Verein für Kunstwissenschaft card laid in loose. Spine soiled with chips..... More
Bern: Francke, (1959). 183 pp. + Plates [60 pp.]. Illus. with 60 b/w photos (bildtafeln). 8vo. Cloth. First edition. Ten scholars contributed to this Festschrift for Joseph Gantner, which came from the "Symposion Das Unvollendete als Künstlerische Form, veranstaltet von der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität das Saarlandes in Saarbrücken am..... More
New York: Alpine Fine Arts, (1982). 310 pp. Illus. with 40 color plates & 151 b/w photos. 4to. Cloth. First English Language edition. Trans. Helga Harrison. Schnapper's excellent monograph on Jean Louis David (1748-1823). A near fine copy with minor shelfwear, else crisp and fresh, in a near fine dust..... More
Leipzig: A. Schumann, (1912). 17 pp. + 50 leaves of plates. Illus. with 50 b/w plates. 4to. Cloth. First edition. Series: Meister der Zeichnung. Bd. 8. Louis Corinth, illus. Lovis Corinth (1858-1925) was an important German painter and printmaker. A very good copy with light foxing on the spine, bookplate..... More
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1983. 351 pp. Illus. with 110 color plates, 110 b/w photos, and 8 b/w figures. 4to. Cloth. Later printing. Art dealer's stamp to edges and half-title else a near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. More
New York: Praeger, (1971). 154 pp. 10 color & 97 b/w illus. 4to. Cloth. First printing. American Art and Artists Series. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with a few short tears. Freitag 9151. More
Washington, D. C. Pensler Galleries, 1990. Frontis, 52 pp. Illus. with 30 color and 15 b/w plates. Trade format [8 x 10 in.]. Stiff gray paper wrappers. First printing. Short introduction by Pensler, plates, and checklist. Art gallery stamp to two front leaves else a fine sharp copy. More
Baltimore: Penguin, (1955). xxi, 297 pp. + plates [192 pp]. Illus. with 192 multi-image b/w plates and 10 drawings. Sm. 4to. Cloth. First edition. "A well-written, well-illustrated survey of British medieval sculpture which incorporates the latest findings and points the direction for further research." Part of the Pelican History of..... More
New York: Fawbush Editions and Solo Press, (1985). Illus. with 2 tipped-in color photographs and 9 lithographs, most hand-colored. Folio. Loose folded sheets as issued with tissue-guards in stiff paper wrappers in blue linen clamshell box. First edition. Number XV of twenty roman numeral copies (from a total edition of..... More
Buenos Aires: Asociación Libreros Anticuarios de la Argentina, 1953. 166 pp. Illus. with b/w plates, reproductions and photos. 8vo. Paper wrappers. First edition. A.L.A.D.A. Monografias No. 1. No. 319 from an edition of 500 copies. César Hipólito Bacle (1790-1838) was an Argentine lithographer. Tear to front wrapper, wrappers edgeworn, soiled..... More
Geneve: Albert Skira, 1952. 179 pp. Illus. with 80 laid in color plates. Folio. Cloth. First edition. The third volume of the History of Italian Painting and the seventeenth in Skira's "Peinture. Couleur. Histoire." series. Slight aging to the edges else a near fine copy in a good tape-repaired dust..... More
New York: Universe Books, 1961. 71 pp. Illus. with 60 b/w plates. 4to. Cloth. First American edition. Commentary by Enrico Josi. The black and white photographs, many of which are of Christian art and artifacts in their original historical locations in Rome, are quite powerful. A very good+ copy. No..... More
Berlin: Propylaen Verlag, (1922). 255 pp. Illus. with 110 b/w photos. Sm. 4to. Quarter brown morocco over paper-covered boards, green spine label, gilt titles. First edition. Tear to head of spine, extremities worn, front edge with minor foxing, but clean interior, and still about very good. Freitag 12488. More
London: Phaidon, 1956. 131 pp. Illus. with 70 b/w reproductions plus 2 folding plates in rear pocket. 4to. Cloth. First edition. A study of four paintings once in a room at the the Castle of Ferrara: Bellini's The Feast of the Gods,which was restyled by Titian, plus three of Titian's..... More
Harmondsworth: Penguin, (1956). xv, 271 pp. + plates 192 pp. Illus. with b/w plates. Sm. 4to. Cloth. Second printing. A condensed, well-written, authoritative survey of British painting from the period of Henry VIII and Holbein to the end of the 18th c. Valuable bibliography with critical comments. Boards rubbed else..... More
Seattle: Salisbury Press, 1970. 64 pp. Illus. Folio. Brown leatherette with gold lettering. First edition. Intro by Senator Mike Mansfield. Color and black and white illustrations by the Montana western artist who died in 1926. Very good+ with inscription on ffep, small bump to head of spine, and one signature..... More
Salem: Peabody Museum of Salem / Boston Public Library, (1971). xvi, 123 pp. (1). 6 color & 50 b/w illus. Sq. 8vo. Navy blue cloth. First edition. Robert Salmon (1775-1851), popular but eccentric painter of marine subjects, is considered by some to be the father of Luminism. Wilmeding's treatise is..... More
München: R. Piper & Co., 1921. 152 pp. Illus. with 105 b/w woodcut reproductions. Sm. 4to. Paper covered boards. Third edition. 15th century German book illustration. A very good copy, spine and boards darkened, illustrated bookplate on free front endpaper, scattered foxing mostly to fore edge. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1966). xvi, 368 pp. Illus. with 267 b/w plates. Sm. 4to. Cloth. First edition. "Authorative general essays as well as a good pictorial survey of American Art in the colonial period. Includes: From Wilderness to republic by L.B. Wright; Architecture by G.B. Tatum; Painting by..... More