Art, Architecture & Design

Art, Architecture & Design

Rare books, prints and original works of art in the fields of performing arts, book illustration, gastronomy, decorative arts, and architecture. Featured works include original watercolors by Ludwig Bemelmans and works by the great masters of the Golden Age of book illustration. Also specializing in art works from America, Britain, France, and Japan. 

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Item #41492 Silver perfume holder in the form of a fanciful fish with red stone eyes and...

18th Century Silver Flexible Fish

Silver perfume holder in the form of a fanciful fish with red stone eyes and articulated tail.

probably Dutch: mid 18th century. 18th Century Silver Flexible Fish. A charming and curious work. The sole-like fish, its body engraved and chased, is hinged at the head, which opens to reveal a perfume container; the tail, indecipherably hallmarked, is composed of six jointed segments, giving it a naturalistic flexibility..... Read More about Silver perfume holder in the form of a fanciful fish with red stone eyes and articulated tail

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Item #345281 Correspondence from Ansel Adams to Witter Bynner [2 postcards; summer, 1962]. Ansel...

Ansel Adams letters to Witter Bynner

Correspondence from Ansel Adams to Witter Bynner [2 postcards; summer, 1962].

1962. Ansel Adams letters to Witter Bynner. Ansel Adams was one of many artists and writers that was friends with writer Witter Bynner (b.1881 - d.1968), having stayed with him and his partner Bob Hunt in Santa Fe. In this letter from the Fourth of July 1962 Adams writes to..... Read More about Correspondence from Ansel Adams to Witter Bynner [2 postcards; summer, 1962

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Item #254103 Antiphonarium Romanum de tempore et sanctis ad normam Breviarii ex decreto...

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Antiphonarium Romanum de tempore et sanctis ad normam Breviarii ex decreto sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini restitut, S. Pii V Pontificis Maximi...

Venice: Apud Nicolaum Pezzana, 1770. No Copy in OCLC. A truly magnificent and well-preserved example of this genre of liturgical printing in both red and black, which, in design and format, carried on with the manuscript tradition, but which, by the late 18th century, had already become impractical. For obvious..... Read More about Antiphonarium Romanum de tempore et sanctis ad normam Breviarii ex decreto sacrosancti Concilii...

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Item #16848 A sketchbook of 30 detailled pencil drawings, primarily showing details of column...

A sketchbook of 30 detailled pencil drawings, primarily showing details of column ornamentation, apparently from museum specimens.

Germany: 1858. With the pencilled notation in upper corner of initial blanks of “Fr. Kimpler, Berlin 11 [ ] '58.” A card formerly associated with the piece had the name of “Trina N. Hempler” on it. Read More about A sketchbook of 30 detailled pencil drawings, primarily showing details of column ornamentation,...

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Item #28744 Traité du Nivellement, contenant la Théorie et la Pratique de cet Art. Avec la...

Surveyer's Handbook

Traité du Nivellement, contenant la Théorie et la Pratique de cet Art. Avec la Description d'un nivellement nouvellement inventé.

Paris: Nicolas Langlois, 1688. First edition. Surveyer's Handbook. Bullet (1639-1716), "Architecte du Roy," was the author of the often reprinted L'ARCHITECTURE PRATIQUE (1691), which became a standard (v. Fowler, pp. 69-70) for the next 100 years. Bullet's Traité is similarly written in a spirit of pure practicality, treating that branch..... Read More about Traité du Nivellement, contenant la Théorie et la Pratique de cet Art. Avec la Description d'un...

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Item #256967 Autograph letter, signed. One page to Edward Biddle, Esq. " I have read with much...

Autograph letter, signed. One page to Edward Biddle, Esq. " I have read with much delight your article in this...

Bristol, PA: 1913. Letter from Charles E. Scott, cashier of the Farmers National Bank of Bucks County, concerning an article written by Edward Biddle about the bank's architecture. "The only alteration of the interior was the conversion of the river front parlor into a banking room. A country director several..... Read More about Autograph letter, signed. One page to Edward Biddle, Esq. " I have read with much delight...

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Item #18204 Architectural rendering in watercolors of a wing of a Victorian gabled brick...

Fine Victorian Architectural Watercolor

Architectural rendering in watercolors of a wing of a Victorian gabled brick building, surrounded by trees, against an open sky...

probably English: Ca. 1870. Fine Victorian Architectural Watercolor. A skillful rendering, most likely professional, of a portion of a building, probably a school or similar institution. Read More about Architectural rendering in watercolors of a wing of a Victorian gabled brick building, surrounded...

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Item #246496 [Original photograph portrait of Concha, an armless Mexican Woman]. Armless Woman

Armless Woman, Inscribed Photograph

[Original photograph portrait of Concha, an armless Mexican Woman].

ca. 1911. Armless Woman, Inscribed Photograph. Three quarters portrait of an armless Mexican woman named Concha. Miraculously, she has inscribed the verso in an elegant copperplate hand, “Cata: La cinceridad de mi cariño, se la demuestra el presente recuerdo de la ultima de tus amigas. Concha. Apetatitlán, 15 April de..... Read More about Original photograph portrait of Concha, an armless Mexican Woman

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