Album
c. 1829-1879. Front free endpaper has charming small watercolour of house tipped in, with legend in pencil "I... Read More about Album
Price: $1,500
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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A Wonderful Time: An Intimate Portrait of the Good Life.
New York: Harper & Row, 1974. First edition. "A Wonderful Time" is a visual representation of the glamour, luxury and exclusivity of the elite during the 1950s and 1960s. It features photographs of celebrities, socialites, and other members of high society enjoying themselves at parties, on vacation, and in their..... Read More about A Wonderful Time: An Intimate Portrait of the Good Life
Price: $1,200
Two Autograph Letters, Signed, One to Miss Luff (autograph request)and another to Mr. Harris (accepting dinner engagement).
Morgan Hall, Fairford, Gloucestershire: Nov 25, 1905 & March 10, 1906. Read More about Two Autograph Letters, Signed, One to Miss Luff (autograph request)and another to Mr. Harris...
Price: $150
RARE — One of 100 Copies
Myopia Songs & Waltzes With Winchester and Hamilton Chat.
Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press for Private Distribution, [October], 1897. First edition, number 41 of 100 copies. RARE — One of 100 Copies. Read More about Myopia Songs & Waltzes With Winchester and Hamilton Chat
Price: $500
Account for Painting "1761. Mr. William Waine to Thomas Etheridge, Dr;..."
1761. An invoice for whitening, ceiling repair, spotting, mending an oven; docketed for Mr. Waine's account on verso. Read More about Account for Painting "1761. Mr. William Waine to Thomas Etheridge, Dr;..."
Price: $125
Fine Early Copy of Ackermann's Oxford
A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings.
London: Rudolf Ackermann, 1814. First edition. Fine Early Copy of Ackermann's Oxford. An early copy. The list of plates in vol. I is the first state (it does not list the portraits of Founders; this copy does not include the Founders). Plate 1, vol.1, is mislabeled “History of Cambridge” and..... Read More about A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings
Price: $6,000
The Father of Acoustics
Die Akustik.
Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1830. "Neue, unveränderte Ausgabe". Third (revised) edition (first published 1802 and 1817). The Father of Acoustics. Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni (1756-1827) was a German physicist, amateur musician and instrument maker. Fascinated by the phenomenon of sound, Chladni estimated the speed of sound and is now famous..... Read More about Die Akustik
Price: $1,750
Choix d'airs pour une Flûte avec accompagnement de Guitare.
Carls[---indecipherable]: 1846. Read More about Choix d'airs pour une Flûte avec accompagnement de Guitare
Price: $75
INSCRIBED BY MANY
Photography at Mid-Century: Tenth Anniversary Exhibition.
Rochester: George Eastman House, 1959. First and only edition. INSCRIBED BY MANY. Inscribed to Ed L. Gates by many of the photographers. Among them Ansel Adams, Minor White, James E. Durrell, Jr., Paul Caponigro, Gene Saunders, and Beaumont Newhall, the director of Eastman House. A handwritten note from Gene Saunders..... Read More about Photography at Mid-Century: Tenth Anniversary Exhibition
Price: $2,500
Signed
My Camera in the National Parks.
Boston: Virginia Adams, Yosemite National Park and Houghton Mifflin Company, 1950. First edition. Signed. Signed by Adams on the front blank. Read More about My Camera in the National Parks
Price: $750
Portrait photograph of Diana Adams in Anthony Tudor's ballet, SHADOW OF THE WIND.
New York: April 23, 1948. A fine and rare image (there are none of her in the Library of Congress) of one of the the great American ballerinas. Adams danced major roles in works by some of the century's greatest choreographers, including George Balanchine, Anthony Tudor, and Jerome Robbins. Later..... Read More about Portrait photograph of Diana Adams in Anthony Tudor's ballet, SHADOW OF THE WIND
Price: $750
Addams to a Little Admirer
Autograph Letter, Signed (Chas Addams), to Robert Black (sic Block).
[New York]: 27 October 1954. Addams to a Little Admirer. The great American cartoonist of the macabre writes: “Dear Robert, Thanks for your very kind letter. I’m glad that you like my pictures and I will try to do more of them. They’re all so special, that it isn’t easy..... Read More about Autograph Letter, Signed (Chas Addams), to Robert Black (sic Block
Price: $400
Inscribed
Black Maria.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. First edition. Inscribed. Inscribed to author Nathaniel Benchley and his wife, “For Marg and Nathaniel with love, Chas Addams, New York, 1960.” Addams designed the jacket to Benchley’s children’s book The Visitors (1965). Read More about Black Maria
Price: $950
Metroplitan Museum of Art
Address of the Officers of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the People of New York.
New York: Francis & Laurel, Stationers & Printers, 1871. First Edition. Metroplitan Museum of Art. The museum first opened on February 20, 1872. Read More about Address of the Officers of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the People of New York
Price: $150
MAN, MAN, FICKLE MAN! From 'The Sultan of Sulu,' The Operatic Satire by George Ade, As Sung by Gertrude Quinlan...
New York: Published by Permission of George Ade [as] Music Supplement of Hearst's Chicago American, 1902. First edition; sheet music. This imprint unrecorded by OCLC (which locates a single holding with a "New York American and Journal" imprint) [South Florida]. Read More about MAN, MAN, FICKLE MAN! From 'The Sultan of Sulu,' The Operatic Satire by George Ade, As Sung by...
Price: $200
Includes the 1928 First Exhibition
[Four Harmon Foundation catalogues of African American artists, including the groundbreaking 1928 first exhibition].
New York: Harmon Foundation, 1928-1931-1933-1935. First editions. Includes the 1928 First Exhibition. Four programs for the important early exhibitions of African American art, including the 1928 first exhibition of works created exclusively by African-American artists. Artists from the first exhibition included Sargent Johnson, Aaron Douglas, A. R. Freelon, Helen Smith..... Read More about Four Harmon Foundation catalogues of African American artists, including the groundbreaking 1928...
Price: $12,500
INSCRIBED BY ARTIST
L'Art Et La Vie: Mane-Katz.
Paris: Marcel Seheur, 1933. Number 684. INSCRIBED BY ARTIST. The artsist was Jewish, Ukrainian 1894-1962). The book is inscribed to the Weslers by the artist in 1950. Read More about L'Art Et La Vie: Mane-Katz
Price: $150
Museum of Painting and Sculpture, or Collection of Principal Pictures, Statues and Bas-Reliefs in the Public and Private Collections. Musée...
London & Paris: Rossange, Barthes and Lowell; Audot, Éditeur, 1829-1834. Read More about Museum of Painting and Sculpture, or Collection of Principal Pictures, Statues and Bas-Reliefs in...
Price: $750
Painters of the Desert.
Palm Desert, CA: Desert Magazine, 1960. Second printing. Read More about Painters of the Desert
Price: $150
“A nun and a small peasant girl” entitled "From a Watercolour Sketch by E. Landseer"
1843. Rare - the plate for this print remained private and was never used for a published edition. Read More about “A nun and a small peasant girl” entitled "From a Watercolour Sketch by E. Landseer"
Price: $400
Album of 37 pencil drawings of German scenes with captions in English, early ones of Charlottenburg.
[Berlin, Charlottenburg]: [c.1908]. Includes dated drawings of on the Spree River, as seen from the gardens behind the Fredericks Palace, Berlin (May 20, 1908) and King William's Hunting lodge in Grunwald (May 21, 1908), as well as statues, landscapes, and architecture in Charlottenburg and Grunwald. Read More about Album of 37 pencil drawings of German scenes with captions in English, early ones of Charlottenburg
Price: $900
India Company School, Hoe Copy
Album of Indian miniatures.
[India]: ca.1830. India Company School, Hoe Copy. Read More about Album of Indian miniatures
Price: $3,000
In Dust Jacket
Judith of Bethulîa, A Tragedy.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1904. First edition. In Dust Jacket. Adaptation of Aldrich’s epic dramatic poem Judith and Holoferne, and the basis for two films, most importantly D.W. Griffith's 1914 version, which was his first feature length film and the film that laid the foundations for his furture extravaganzas..... Read More about Judith of Bethulîa, A Tragedy
Price: $750
ONE OF 50
Pierre Alechinsky. 20 Jahre Impressionen. Oeuvrekatalog Druckgraphik.
Munich: Galerie van der Loo, [1967]. #28 of 50 with an original lithographic print, signed and numbered. ONE OF 50. Read More about Pierre Alechinsky. 20 Jahre Impressionen. Oeuvrekatalog Druckgraphik
Price: $350
Chinese Woman: a pencil portrait.
Alexander (1767-1816) was particularly noted for his pencil and watercolor portraits of Chinese people, of which this frontal bust drawing is a fine, typical example. Many of these derive from his lengthy stay in Peking, beginning in 1792; on his return to London he became a professor of art, and..... Read More about Chinese Woman: a pencil portrait
Price: $1,250