Pennsylvania: 1940s. Original drawing on ruled notebook paper (194 x 124 mm = 7.6" x 5") preserved in 11" x 14" frame with museum glass and 8-ply archival mat (edges frayed and with some light browning as is true with almost all surviving examples of this artist's work). EMBLEMATIC AMERICAN..... More

Liverpool: G.D. Caffin, 1940. Artistic composition of six antique glass prosthetic eyes, embedded in their original cotton and mailing box (ca. 153 x 65 mm), surrounded by pale blue dried flowers and stems, the entire composition accomplished by means of a Zoom Box which has subsequently been framed with reddish..... More

Heidelberg: Richard Weissbach, 1955. Hardcover. Octavo, 315 pages, original cloth with gilt lettering. ¶ The first scientific catalog of the early German lithography, arranged alphabetically by the artist's last name. First published in 1925, this book is still considered an essential reference work. More

Basel: Nicolaus Kessler, 1502. 4to (235 x 160 mm). 260 ff., COMPLETE. Lovely flourished Lombard initials rubricated throughout (some quite large), headings rubricated and underlined (some insignificant thumbing to first leaves, slight marginal worming to last 8 ff., unimportant spotting here and there). Contemporary Bamberg blind-tooled pigskin binding over bevelled..... More

Buenos Aires: Centro de Artes Visuales del Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, 1968. First Edition. Softcover. Square 4to. Well illustrated. Original illustrated wrappers. Scarce catalogue of an important Kosice exposition, held in the Centro de Artes Visuales of the Instituto Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires, in 1968. [Kosice] "is remembered for..... More

Ad 1-3: The Hague, Nijhoff, 1938-1964. Ad 4: Paris, Fondation Custodia, 1987. Ad 5: Amsterdam and The Hague, Nijhof, 1956 (facsimile reprint of the 1921 edition). Ad 6: Ibid, 1956, 1938-. Together 6 vols., large 4to., all bound in original publisher's cloth. In UNMARKED and UNSPOILED condition. NOT ex-library! BEAUTIFUL..... More

Copenhagen: Museum of Decorative Arts, 1958. First Edition. 4to. Typescript. Unpaginated (but 33 ff.) typed on rectos only, with a title-page, Introductory Notes (1 f.), list of Collections from which the exhibition was assembled and respective abbreviations used in the Catalogue (1 f.), plus 30 ff. descriptions of 260 Block-Printed..... More

Paris: Librairie Renouard - H. Laurens, Editeur, n.d. (1906). First Edition. Folio (27 x 38 cm; 11 x 14.5 inches). COMPLETE SET of 48 plates of Parisian Art Nouveau leather deigns, 39 of 48 glassine tissue guards are present, most with their glassine pattern overlays (missing tissue guards: Fascicule 1:1..... More

Berlin: Ad 1: Verlag fur Kunstwissenschaft; Ad 2: Verlag Bruno Hessling, 1936-1939. First Edition. Together 2 vols. Ad 1: xv, [5], 782, [2] pp. With 77 b/w illustrations in the text. Attractively (and very sturdily) bound in contemporary red quarter morocco over glazed red boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt..... More

S.l. s.n., 1930s (or 1980s?). A quantity of four paintings on paper, generally 370 x 280 mm each, hinged with cloth tape to mattes ca. 1980s (?). Some age toning, the painting of the Native American is slightly creased on the lower blank margin (SEE IMAGES). INTRIGUING COLLECTION OF FOUR..... More

St. Petersburg, Russia: Izdanio upravleniia Imperatorskimi [Published by Golike & Vil'borg for the Imperial Factory], 1906. First Edition. Large and very heavy folio (370 x 275 mm). COMPLETE: viii, 422, plus 63 pages, including French summary ("La manufacture impériale de porcelaine à St. Petersbourg") on pp. 325-372 (pp. 320-324 proud..... More