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A comprehensive and sumptuous survey that celebrates the beauty and appeal of flowers throughout art, history, and culture The latest installment in the bestselling Explorer Serie...

A wonderful collection of antique tattered French books discovered in France, representing The Encyclopédie méthodique par ordre des matières ("Methodical Encyclopedia by Order of Su...

The Cyril Humphris Collection of European sculpture and Works of Art, Part I and II. Tuesday, January 10, 1995. Sotheby's New York. Sotheby's, Humphris, the London dealer...

'One of the most soulful and personal books on refreshing, fragrant, and delicious Persian dishes that express her youth, family tradition, and sophistication.' – Daniel Boulud, chef...

Pisanello, Painter to the Renaissance Court by Luke Syson and Dillian Gordon. London: National Gallery Company, 2001. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 264 pp. A book on the works of Pisanello by London's National Gallery to accompany the exhibition. Pisanello (1395-1455) was one of the most distinguished painters of the early Italian Renaissance. He is known for his amazing large murals, elegant portraits, small easel...

Christie's: Fine and Decorative Arts: The Maurice & Margo Cohen Collection. Important 20th Century Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture, New York, May 1999. 194 pp., illus. Works by Otto ...

Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns by Stacey Sell, Hugo Chapman and Kimberly Schenck. With gift card from the curator at National Gallery of Art, Washington. Publis...

A SPLENDID DEPICTION of REGENCY LONDON Papworth, John Buonarotti Select Views of London: With Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Some of the Most Interesting of Its Public Build...

Sotheby's: The Estate of Peter Jay Sharp, Thursday January 13 1994. 1st Ed hardcover auction catalog with dust jacket. Richly illustrated with full-color lithographic reproductions a...

Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1998. Second printing hardcover with dust jacket. 255 pp. An important book published by the United States Ho...

Rings for the Finger by George Frederick Kunz. Softcover, Published by Dover, New York, 1974. There is probably no item that is so common to almost all cultures and ages of man, yet so frequently overlooked, as rings. Nearly everyone wears (or has worn) rings; yet what person today could tell you anything about their origins, original uses, history, or even the customs behind modern engagement, wedding, and graduation rings...

London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1782. 64mo, 1 1/4 x 1 3/8 in. (57 x 33 mm), 24pp. Original cream morocco elaborately gilt and with decorative morocco inlays in red, w...

The Grandeur of Viceregal Mexico; Treasures from the Museo Franz Mayer. Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, 2002. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. Spanish and English text. 36...

The Art Collection of the Late Mr and Mrs Charles E. F. McCann, Together With Property from The Daniel & Florence Guggenheim Foundation, Parke-Bernet Galleries. 91 lots some photogra...

Sotheby's: Jewelry From John Traina Collection Auction Catalog 2011. 1st Ed softcover catalog. 92 lots. All lots described and illustrated in color. With an Index of Jewelry Makers. Consisting of cufflinks, men's jeweled dress...

Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1934. Limited Edition. Slim 8vo; 8 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. (224 x 112 mm); (vi),16 pp., (vi); printed on Arnold paper, in black ink using Eri...

Christie's Important American Furniture, Folk Art, Silver & Chinese Export, Date - 19th - 23rd January 2012, No. of lots - 447, No. of pages - 326, Illustrated in color. NPT Books,...

A RARE EARLY EDITION OF AESOPIC LITERATURE, BEAUTIFULLY ILLLUSTRATED. Les Fables d'Esope Phrigien avec celles de Philelphe; traduction nouvelle, Enrichie de Discours Moraux et Histor...

Set of Three 18th Century Vellum Sunday Sermon Books. 1.) Sermoni Per Tutte Le Domeniche Dell' Anno (Sermons for all the Sundays in a Year) by Monsignore Alfonso Maria De Liguori. Na...

The Golden Cockerel Press, 1937. Illustrations by Dorothea Braby. FIRST, LIMITED EDITION 8vo.; 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 in. (226 x 160 mm); 63 pp.; 14 pt. Perpetual type; four wood-engravings ...

Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1927-1928 4 volumes, 4to; 10 1/8 x 7 1/2 inches (258 x 190 mm); pp. vol. 1, [4] xliv, 239 [1]; vol. 2, [10] 257 [5]; vol. 3, [10] 290 [4]; vol. 4, [4]...

Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1941. Limited Edition. Vellum. Octavo, 9 7/8 x 6 3/4 inches (250 x 170 mm); title page vignette etched by Mario Vellani-Marchi with a couple of small spots,...

Geoffrey Bennison Master Decorator by Gillian Newberry and Sir John Richardson hardcover book.Extremely rare, limited edition, collectible out of print.The first monograph on the wor...

The Best of Aubrey Beardsley by Kenneth Clark. New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1978. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. 173 pp. An overview of Aub...

Robert Bateman, an Artist in Nature, with text by Rick Archbold. Hardcover book with dustjacket, published in 1995 by Crescent Books. Printed in Italy, illustrated, 176 pages.

Hibel Lithographs edited by Theodore Plotkin. Hardcover book, stated first edition and first printing, published in 1977. Printed in Switzerland, illu...

Sotheby's Art at Auction 1992-93: The Art Market Review. Published by Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Highlights: ...

Subversion and Surrealism in the Art of Honoré Sharrer by M Melissa Wolfe, Sarah Burns and Robert Cozzolino. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Yale Univer...

Sixty Years A Queen: The Story Of Her Majesty's Reign by Sir Herbert Maxwell. Published in London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1897. 1st Ed hardcover, wit...

Industrial Art and the Museum by Charles R. Richards. 1st Ed hardcover published by The Macmillan Company, 1927. Including: Industrial Art Museums of Germany (München, Hess. Landesmu...

This is a RARE first limited edition of Watson's poems, printed on deluxe japon and bound in vellum. Unwin's Cameo series of poetry was a distinctively packaged sequence of books tha...

Surrealist Art, The Lindy and Edwin Bergman collection. Chicago: Thames and Hudson, 1997. Stated first edition softcover. 245 pp. A comprehensive overview of Surrealist art from one ...

Deliverance by James Dickey. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970. Stated first edition hardcover with dust jacket. Deliverance is widely considered as Dickey's best novel and was ...

In Search of Norman Rockwell's America. Hardcover book with dustjacket. Published in 2008 by Howard Books.

Impressionist New York by William H. Gerdts. Hardcover book with dustjacket. Stated first edition published by Artabras in 1994. Printed in Italy, illustrated, 224 pages.

Delhi: Stones And Streets by C.S.H. Jhabvala. Published by Ravi Dayal, Delhi, 1990. 2nd Ed Signed hardcover with dust jacket. Professor Cyrus S.H. Jhabvala was a prominent Indian arc...

Palazzi of Sicily by Angheli Zalapi Hardcover. This book is the first to trace the evolution in style of the fabulous homes that have been built on the island of Sicily, from feudal...

Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere by Caroline A Jones (Editor), Natalie Bell (Editor), and Selby Nimrod (Editor). 2022, MIT Press softcover 1st Ed. "Essays, conversat...

The Jingguantang Collection Part III fine and important Chinese ceramics and Works of Art, Christie’s; New York September 18, 1997. First edition soft...

The Collins Big Book of Art, from Cave Art to Pop Art, General Editor David G. Wilkins. Stated first edition, published in 2005 by Collins Design. Hardcover w...

Sotheby's: The West Wycombe Park Sale June 1998.First Edition softcover with 1442 lots photographed in color and fully described, with results. This house was the site of some filming of Downtown Abbey...

A collection of twelve stories by Mark Twain, translated into French and amusingly illustrated in color by Jean Trubert (1909 – 1983) a well known and prolific comic strip designer a...

The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck. Hardcover book, first edition, published in February 1947 by The Viking Press of New York. Printed in the United States of America by Kingsport Pre...

The Grosvenor House Antiques Fair, 1991, by Trusthouse Forte PLC. Published by , The Burlington Magazine, 1991. 1st Ed hardcover with gilt edged pages....

Art of Modern Rock: The Poster Explosion by Paul Grushkin & Dennis King. Published by Chronicle Books, 2004. Hardcover with dust jacket. Authoritative, eye-popping, and massive, Art of Modern Rock is the first and last word on contemporary concert posters. An art form that has grown hand-in-hand with the independent music scene, heralding small and large gigs alike, the posters have emerged from visually creative street-level notices to prized collectibles rendered in a variety of styles and media. Today's poster artists combine the expressive freedom pioneered in the poster revolution...

The National Gallery London by Michael Wilson. Hardcover book with dustjacket published in 1977 by Orbis Publishing Limited of London. Printed ...

The Hardy Collection of Early Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art From the Sze Yuan Tang: Sale #8218, with original printed invitation. Christie's New Y...

Davenport's Art Reference & Price Guide 2 Volume Set by R. J. Davenport. 1st Ed hardcover. 1st Ed hardcover no dust jackets as issued. The comprehensive and authoritative book on int...

Early American Bottles & Flasks and Other Rare American Glass Collected by the Late Alfred B. Maclay. Parke-Bernet NY softcover auction catalog....

This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World by Mary Savig, 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket Exhibition Catalog. During the summer of 2020, the space outside the Renwick Gallery-The...

Anatomia Come Arte (Anatomy as Art) by Mario Bucci. Florence: The Fiorino Art Edition, 1969. Second edition hardcover with dust jacket, Italian text. 291 pp. A handsome art book illu...

Harry Bertoia - Sculptor by June Kompass Nelson. Hardcover book with dustjacket. First edition published in 1970 by Wayne State University Press of Detroit, Michigan. Illustrated, 13...

Diane Arbus: Family Albums, by Anthony W. Lee and John Pultz. Yale University Press, 2003. Diane Arbus (1923-1971) is renowned for her provocative and unsettling portraits of modern ...

Rare first issue of the first edition for Bernard Shaw’s first published novel. Shaw, George Bernard. An Unsocial Socialist. London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowery & Co., 1887. First Edition, First Issue. Crown 8vo, 7 3/8 x 5 inches (188 x 126 mm); [4] 256 pp.; original red cloth, stamped in gilt on spine and covers, a little rubbed and soiled, spine slightly faded, hinges weak; dark brown endpapers; foxing on first 2 and last 2 sheets. First edition, first issue with "Author of The Confessions of Byron Cashel's Profession etc. etc." to title and no appendix. Ink inscription of Mrs Walter Crane on half title. [Broad, p. 87; Magill p. 965] This is Shaw's first published novel. It had been serialized in "To-Day, A Monthly Magazine of Scientific Socialism" between March and December of 1884. This printing was promptly canceled, and supposedly only samples for booksellers and travelers had been sent out with this title-page. Having attended a meeting by political economist Henry George in September 1882, Shaw became fascinated with Socialism, read Marx and became a member of the Fabian Society in September 1884, writing their first manifesto later that year. He believed in a more moderate, non-violent form of socialism and believed that socialist ideals could best be achieved by infiltration of people and ideas into existing political parties. In the early 1880s Shaw also began his literary career by writing music and art criticism and began writing novels, of which An Unsocial Socialist was the first published. But as his career as a playwright started taking off in the latter part of that decade, his political activities also decreased. Shaw later explained that he had intended An Unsocial Socialist as the first section of a monumental depiction of the downfall of capitalism. Gareth Griffith, in a study of Shaw's political thought, sees the novel as an interesting record of conditions, both in society at large and in the nascent socialist movement of the 1880s. [Griffith, Gareth. Socialism and Superior Brains: The Political Thought of George Bernard Shaw. London: Routledge, 1993]. The story centers on Sidney Trefusis, a millionaire socialist, who leaves his bride on their wedding day because he fears his passion for her will get in the way of his plans to overthrow the British government. Sidney vanished "underground"--Disguises himself as a common laborer called "Mengels"--and infiltrates Alton College, a girl's school where well-bred young women are "fitted and fatted to be put on the marriage market". His plan: take over the school and plant the seed of radical socialism into the fertile brains of the future consorts of cabinet ministers and kings. What he doesn't plan on is the presence of one Agatha Wylie, a sixth-form rabble-rouser, who falls hopelessly in love with both Sidney and his politics, and just happens to be his deserted wife's cousin. Love triangles, mistaken identities, Marx, Engels, pistols and the proletariat jostle for position. (via LibraryThing) An unusual ASSOCIATION COPY with ink inscription and address of "Mrs Walter Crane" [ie Mary Crane] on the half title. Walter Crane married Mary Andrews in 1871 and after a sojourn in Rome returned to London in 1873 living first in Wood End and then at Beaumont Lodge, Shepherd's Bush (the address she has written in this book). In 1914 Mary...

Vida Americana Mexican Muralists Remake American Art. 1925-1945, by Barbara Haskell. 1st Ed hardcover, no dust jacket as published by Yale University...

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Published by Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 2009. Stated 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket....

This American edition of Isherwood's two novels [The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye Berlin] set in Weimar-era Berlin, were originally published by the Hogarth Press...

Guercino's Friar with a Gold Earring, Fra Bonaventura Bisi, Painter and Art Dealer by David M. Stone. Softcover book, first edition published in 2023 by The John Mable Ringling...

Art Nouveau in Munich softcover book. Published in 1988 in conjunction with the exhibition "Art Nouveau in Munich: Masters of Jungendstil". Printed in the Federal Republic of Germany...

The decorative tile in architecture and interiors. Softcover book with dustjacket, published in 2000 by Phaidon Press limited of London. Illustrated, 240 pages.