Portrait photograph of Ferenc Molnar
New York: February 15, 1941. Read More about Portrait photograph of Ferenc Molnar
Price: $1,000
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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Collection of seven “Visitors” books from The Antique Porcelain Co. Ltd.
[London, New York]: 1950-1984. These guestbooks from the London and New York showrooms of Hanns Weinberg's Antique Porcelain Company form a virtual who’s-who of mid- to late-20th century European royalty, high society, and art world luminaries. Weinberg was the favored dealer to the Rockefeller, Mellon, and Phipps families, and his..... Read More about Collection of seven “Visitors” books from The Antique Porcelain Co. Ltd
Price: $5,000
A Catalogue of the Antiquities and Works of Art Exhibited at Ironmongers' Hall, London, In the Month of May, 1861...
London: Harrison and Sons, St. Martin's Lane, 1869. Read More about A Catalogue of the Antiquities and Works of Art Exhibited at Ironmongers' Hall, London, In the...
Price: $350
Sporting Embellished by Large Engravings Illustrative of British Field Sports.
London: A.H. Baily, 1838. First edition. Read More about Sporting Embellished by Large Engravings Illustrative of British Field Sports
Price: $850
Henry Matisse a novel.
New York: A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book, 1971. First American Edition. Read More about Henry Matisse a novel
Price: $150
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,...
Price: $350
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...
Price: $2,250
The Colonial Architecture of Salem.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1919. Number 1129 of 1200 copies. Read More about The Colonial Architecture of Salem
Price: $150
Building Code, Paris 1748
Les Loix des Bâtiments, suivant la Coutume de Paris, Traitant de ce qui concerne les Servitudes réelles, les Rapports des...
N.p. [Paris?]: 1748. Building Code, Paris 1748. Read More about Les Loix des Bâtiments, suivant la Coutume de Paris, Traitant de ce qui concerne les Servitudes...
Price: $750
A History of Architecture.
New York: Harper & Brothers, [1918]. Harper's Fine Art Series. Read More about A History of Architecture
Price: $150
The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Ireland, Anterior to the Anglo-Norman Invasion; Comprising an Essay on the Origin and Uses of the...
Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1845. Second edition. Read More about The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Ireland, Anterior to the Anglo-Norman Invasion; Comprising an...
Price: $400
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...
Price: $75
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[Vitrvvivs itervm et Frontinvs à Iocvndo revisi repvrgatiqve qvantvm ex collatione licvit]. Collection of Architectural Woodcuts from the first Giunta edition...
[Florence: Giunta, 1513]. First octavo edition. Incomplete copy of an important edition of Vitruvius, with the woodcut illustrations in reduction from the 1511 edition. Read More about Vitrvvivs itervm et Frontinvs à Iocvndo revisi repvrgatiqve qvantvm ex collatione licvit]....
Price: $750
The American Home. Ellen D. Wangner, Editor.
Garden City, New York: Published by Doubleday, Doran & Compan, Inc, 1928-1950. Continuing the Garden & Home Builder. Read More about The American Home. Ellen D. Wangner, Editor
Price: $750
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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Choix de Plans de Grandes Compositions Exécutées Présentant avec leur Jardins ou leur Entourage une Séries d'Ensembles de l'Antiqiuté de...
Paris: Auguste Vincent, Editeur, 1910. First edition. Here you get the plans for the Acropolis, the Forum, Versailles, etc. Read More about Choix de Plans de Grandes Compositions Exécutées Présentant avec leur Jardins ou leur...
Price: $400
The Library of Architectural Documents. Vol. II: D’Espouy. One Hundred Selected Plates from Fragments D’Architecture Antique. Vol. III: Selected Monuments...
New York: The Pencil Points Press, 1923-1924. Read More about The Library of Architectural Documents. Vol. II: D’Espouy. One Hundred Selected Plates from...
Price: $175
Portrait photograph of Harold Arlen.
New York: May 17, 1960. Read More about Portrait photograph of Harold Arlen
Price: $2,600
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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
Price: $250
Hill Towns and Cities of Northern Italy.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1932. First edition. Read More about Hill Towns and Cities of Northern Italy
Price: $150
Etching: 'saint Catherine's Belfry, Honfleur"
1932. Second state, one of 162 copies. French Church Series no. 34. Read More about Etching: 'saint Catherine's Belfry, Honfleur"
Price: $450
Etching of the Herbert Lowell Dillon Gymnasium at Princeton, NJ.
Princeton, NJ: 1947. The total edition was 356 examples of which 53 were destroyed. A very detailed etching typical of the meticulous style of Arms, renowned for his prolific printmaking, specifically of Gothic architecture. Julian P. Boyd was a librarian (1940-52), and later history professor at Princeton University. His preservation..... Read More about Etching of the Herbert Lowell Dillon Gymnasium at Princeton, NJ
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Etching: French Lace West Portal of the Main Façade of the Church of Notre-Dame, on the Place Notre Dame, Villefranche-en-Rouergue...
The Society of American Etchers, Gravers, Lithographers and Woodcutters Inc. Second State. Read More about Etching: French Lace West Portal of the Main Façade of the Church of Notre-Dame, on the Place...
Price: $500
Original Drawing by Maitland Armstrong
Original drawing of a spacious domestic panelled hallway, stairwell and sunlit window.
n.p: n.d. Armstrong, David Maitland. Original Drawing by Maitland Armstrong. D. Maitland Armstrong [1836-1918] was born in Newburg, NY, attended Hartford's Trinity College, and studied art in Paris and Rome. He is best known for his decorative paintings, including interiors such as the one offered here (probably one of a...... Read More about Original drawing of a spacious domestic panelled hallway, stairwell and sunlit window
Price: $600
AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED ("SATCHMO / LOUIS ARMSTRONG").
[np]: 4 February 1970. Armstrong graciously and innocently responds to a party representing himself as "The American Hall of Fame Library": "I received your very fine letter. And it made me feel very happy. That is the nicest thing that has happen [sic] to me since I have been playing..... Read More about AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED ("SATCHMO / LOUIS ARMSTRONG"
Price: $3,000