Autograph letter signed
Las Vegas, Nevada: December 21, 1945. “I DID NOT INVENT LOVE. IT WAS HERE WHEN I GOT HERE”... Read More
Price: $7,800
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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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
Price: $150
Edwin A. Abbey Sketchbook
Sketchbook of drawings.
n.p. Edwin A. Abbey Sketchbook. Extracts from an early Edwin Abbey sketchbook, containing 19 pencil sketches signed by Abbey. Some are rudimentary sketches of trees and shrubs, others detailed, complete drawings of landscapes and houses This album was given to Abbey Thom Kissel from his grand-uncle Alden Freeman, in appreciation... Read More
Price: $9,000
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
Price: $500
Abracheff School of Art. Founded 1928.
Boston: 172 Newbury Street, n.d., ca. 1930. Scool of art founded by Bulgarian-born artist Nicolai Abracheff and his brother Ivan Abracheff. Includes illustrations of student work by Irma Orvokki-Saïla, John Andreev, Esther F. Trachtenberg, Irving E. Smith, Aaron Bornstein, Lotte Korson, and Charlotte J. Fox. Read More
Price: $100
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
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
Price: $6,000
Choix d'airs pour une Flûte avec accompagnement de Guitare.
Carls[---indecipherable]: 1846. Read More
Price: $75
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
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 to... Read More
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
Price: $750
Inscribed with Drawing of Pugsley
Nightcrawlers.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957. First edition. Inscribed with Drawing of Pugsley. With a full-page pen drawing on the fly leaf of Pugsley with a pet lizard, inscribed to author Nathaniel Benchley, “For Nat, Chas Addams, 1957.” Addams designed the jacket to Benchley’s children’s book The Visitors (1965)... Read More
Price: $3,750
Le Livre de Goha le Simple. Illustrations et gravures originales de M. Henri Le Riche.
Lyon: Association Lyonnaise des Cinquante "La Belle Cordière" 1930. One of 90, #37 reserved for M. Rozendaal, a member of l'Association Lyonnaise des Cinquante. WITH : an extra set of plates in black and white in separate portfolio. Read More
Price: $600
Aerated Beverages (Including Cordials, Brewed Beers, etc.) and All About Them.
London: Barnett & Foster, [1900]. First edition. Read More
Price: $125
Compositions from the Tragedies of Aeschylus. Designed by John Flaxman. Engraved by Thomas Piroli. The Original Drawings in the Possession...
London: published for I. Flaxman Junr. by J. Matthews No. 44 Strand, Januray 12, 1795. Flaxman, John. First edition. Read More
Price: $900
4 Original pen drawings signed “L. H. Sartor”.
N. P: n.d. [1970's]. Each drawing showing a view of a small farm of a African-American family, probably southern. The first showing a woman in apron and cap churning butter on the porch,h talking to a young boy in a baseball cap while on the front steps a young girl... Read More
Price: $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
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
Price: $750
Painters of the Desert.
Palm Desert, CA: Desert Magazine, 1960. Second printing. Read More
Price: $150
![Random Sketches on a Hunting Trip through Mexico, the Western States, and Alaska T.G. B. May 4/89 to Apl 3/90 [Manuscript Title]. Alaska, Thomas Gilbert Bowick.](/pictures/thumb/310356.jpg?v=1526399621)
Record of a Hunting Trip to Alaska, 1889-1890
Random Sketches on a Hunting Trip through Mexico, the Western States, and Alaska T.G. B. May 4/89 to Apl 3/90...
V.p: 1889-90. Record of a Hunting Trip to Alaska, 1889-1890. Album of drawings and photographs by an accomplished amateur artist, Thomas Gilbert Bowick, during a hunting trip in Oregon and Alaska with his brother John Robie Bowick in 1889 and 1890. The brothers, apparently of English extraction, were part owners... Read More
Price: $22,500
![[Photographs of Alaska]. Alaska.](/pictures/thumb/304775_1.jpg?v=1476381523)
[Photographs of Alaska].
[Alaska]: c. 1905. A collection of photos including images of the U.S. Revenue Cutter (USRC) Manning and her crew. Designed as a cruising cutter for the Revenue Cutter Service, the Manning was commissioned on 8 January, 1898. After service with the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War, the Manning returned... Read More
Price: $750
“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
Price: $400
Album of 34 Original Chinese Watercolors
Album of 34 Chinese watercolor paintings on paper.
China: Ca. first half of 19th century. Album of 34 Original Chinese Watercolors. A very interesting and engaging collection of genre scenes. The trees, rocks, and landscapes are particularly well rendered, and the figures are full of life. The pictures in many such albums often follow a sequence of events... Read More
Price: $6,000
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
Price: $900