ALTE TABAKZEICHEN (Old Tobacco Labels)
Berlin: Widder-Verlag, 1924. Handsomely produced and illustrated with color and black and white images of tobacco labels. This is #373 of 500 copies.
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THE ART-JOURNAL. JANUARY, 1867-OCTOBER, 1867. TEN ISSUES. (ONE VOLUME)
London: [J. S. Virtue & Co.], 1867. Half Leather. The January through October, 1867 issues of the Art Journal, with numerous engraved plates, and additional plates depicting art works from the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1867, the second world’s fair.....
BERLIN AND ITS TREASURES.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1867. Quarto. Hard Cover. BEING A SERIES OF VIEWS OF THE PRINCIPAL BUILDINGS, CHURCHES, MONUMENTS, ETC. WITH A SELECTION OF SUBJECTS FROM THE ROYAL PICTURE GALLERY, AND OTHER COLLECTIONS OF PAINTINGS; TOGETHER WITH INTERIOR.....
BUDDHIST WALL PAINTINGS OF WESTERN TIBET (In Japanese)
Hard Cover. About 120 pages of glossy color photographs of Tibetan wall paintings and about 100 pages of text in Japanese; published in 1981 or prior as there is an old invoice for the book dated 1981 laid in;.
DIE GALERIEN EUROPAS. ERSTER BAND. TAFEL 1-100
Leipzig: Verlag von E. A. Seemann. Quarto. Hard Cover. A stout quarto binding in tan buckram, with titling in black. 104 pp. of text in German. Followed by 100 color plates mounted on dark gray art paper, preceded with tissue.....
DIE GALERIEN EUROPAS. ZWEITER BAND. TAFEL 101-200
Leipzig: Verlag von E. A. Seemann. Quarto. Hard Cover. A stout quarto binding in tan buckram, with titling in black. 92 pp. [105-197] of text in German. Followed by 100 color plates mounted on dark gray art paper, preceded with.....
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[EDITION DELUXE] LONGFELLOW PORTFOLIO, BEING A SELECTION OF SEVENTY-FIVE ARTIST PROOFS FROM THE ORIGINAL WOOD-CUTS ILLUSTRATING THE NEW SUBSCRIPTION EDITION OF LONGFELLOW’S POETICAL WORKS
Houghton Mifflin, 1881. Three Quarters Leather. A beautiful copy of the Longfellow Portfolio [Deluxe Edition] bound in three quarter morocco over green pebbled cloth. All edges gilt. All of the numbered plates are present, but none have the artist’s pencilled.....
![Item #293418 [GRAPHIC DESIGN] [PROPAGANDA] [MILITARY & NAVAL] FLEET ADMIRAL NIMITZ POSTER. WORLD...](/pictures/thumb/293418.jpg?v=1618756011)
[GRAPHIC DESIGN] [PROPAGANDA] [MILITARY & NAVAL] FLEET ADMIRAL NIMITZ POSTER. WORLD WAR II. “THAT’S THE SPOT TO HIT!”
[Washington, D.C.]: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1944. 40” x 28.5”; Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz World War II framed propaganda poster; original Official Navy Poster, Industrial Incentive Division; “That’s The Spot To Hit!”. Some creases evident, but no tears --.....
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[GRAPHIC DESIGN] [TOBACCO AD] DIANA.
A. Hoen & Co. | Hatch Lith. Co., [1874]. Lithographic advertisement for Diana brand tobacco, by A. Hoen & Co. in Richmond, Va.
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[GRAPHIC DESIGN] [TOBACCO AD] WINNER PLUG TOBACCO. BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY, PETERSBURG VIRGINIA
Richmond, Va. A. Hoen & Co., [c. 1890]. 10 3/8 x 10 3/8”; color chromolithograph label for “Winner Plug Tobacco” backed in linen. The British-American Tobacco Co. was the advertising company and labels such as these were intended to be.....
![Item #289868 [HOLIDAY ADVERTISING CARD] HOLIDAY PRESENTS AND TOYS AT REDUCED PRICES AT KIERSKI &...](/pictures/thumb/289868.jpg?v=1591219492)
[HOLIDAY ADVERTISING CARD] HOLIDAY PRESENTS AND TOYS AT REDUCED PRICES AT KIERSKI & CO’S BOOK STORE. 90 SOUTH C STREET, VIRGINIA CITY.
[Virginia City, Nevada]: [Kierski & Co’s Book Store], [c. 1870]. A Christmas advertising card depicting a weary Santa, taking a much needed reading break. Printed for the Kierski & Co. Book Store in Virginia City, Nevada, from the 1870’s. Originally.....
LEAF. BOOK OF HOURS. FLANDERS, 15th CENTURY
A finely illuminated double-sided leaf from a 15th century Book of Hours. Thirteen lines in Latin, with richly decorated and embellished capitals in blue, red and gold. A beautifully penned border with leaves in gold, and tiny flowers in blue.....
READING IMPERIAL CARTOGRAPHY: Ming-Qing Historical Maps in the Library of Congress
Library of Congress with in association with Academia Sinica Digital Center, 2013. Hard Cover. First Edition. Bound in grey cloth with a pictorial pastedown; housed in a pictorial slipcase .~No marks of any kind. Slipcase bumped at spine bottom edge.....
REMBRANDT: EXPERIMENTAL SKETCHER
New York: Hacker Art Books, 1988. Hard Cover. Binding sound; very slight scratch mark to front board impression otherwise no markings of any kind.
SELECTED BRONZE OBJECTS OF THE EARLY METAL PERIOD IN KOREA 1945-1968
Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 1968. Folio. Hard Cover. Text written in Korean. Blue cloth binding with very light edgewear to extremities. Binding slightly cocked (at bottom.) Dust jacket flaps are clipped. Light edgewear to dustjacket; no markings in text.....
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[WESTERN AMERICANA] CALIFORNIA’S MAGAZINE (Edition De Luxe) Volume I
San Francisco, CA: California’s Magazine Company, 1916. Quarto. Suede. Volume I only. Hardcover suede binding with moderate to heavy edgewear to extremities. Boards are stained and slightly soiled. Chips on spine. there is a previous owner name; no markings in.....
PORTRAITS OF WHISTLER: A CRITICAL STUDY AND ICONOGRAPHY
New York | London: John Lane Company | The Bodley Head, 1918. Limited to 250 copies printed by Updike at The Merrymount Press. Marbled boards backed in black cloth. There is a previous owner bookplate on the pastedown; otherwise a......
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[ART] DIE HANDZEICHNUNGEN ZUM GEBECBUCH KAISER MAXIMILIANS. MIT EINER EINFUHRUNG VON WERNER TIMM.
Dresden: VEB Verlag der Kunst, 1957. Quarter Leather. 4to.; in quarter vellum over marbled boards, with a heavy cardstock sleeve; xi, [xii-xvi], 44 leaves in facsimile; followed by xvii-xx, [xxi-xxii]; there are no ownership marks in the book.
PONS PER STYX
St. Petersburg, Russia: The State Russian Museum, 1994. Octavo. Soft Cover. Signed. No markings in text; text written in Russian and English; black paper binding with black cardboard slipcase; very light edge wear to slipcase; binding slightly cocked;.
ALEX KATZ: A PRINT RETROSPECTIVE
The Brooklyn Museum | Burton Skira, 1987. Soft Cover. First Edition. Signed. This copy is signed by the artist, Alex Katz, with a personal inscription to the art patrons Sidney and Frances Lewis: “For | Frances & Sidney | love.....
L’OEUVRE COMPLET DE EUGENE DELACROIX: PEINTURES, DESSINS, GRAVURES, LITHOGRAPHIES: 1813-1863
New York: Da Capo Press, 1969. Hard Cover. A facsimile reprint of the 1885 Paris edition; this published in New York in 1969. A clean copy with no marks.
CLASSICAL MODERN ARCHITECTURE
Easton Press | Terrail, 1997. Full Leather. Bound in the publishers full maroon leather, with elaborate decorations in gold, a colorful pastedown, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, The unmarked Easton Press bookplate is laid in. From Easton’s “Glorious Art”.....
DANCER DRAWINGS
Brooklyn NY: Art 101, 2007. Spiral Bound. Text by Ellen E. Rand. Red covers with a spiral binding. No marks of any kind.
THE ART OF THE FAKER: Three Thousand Years of Deception
Boston; Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1961. Hard Cover. First Edition. Illustrated; Scarce. No pencil or ink markings in text. Dark grey cloth binding. Very light edgewear to extremities. Closed tear at top of front dustjacket cover at spine. Small.....
HONORE DAUMIER, L’HOMME ET L’OEUVRE. OUVRAGE ORNE D’UN PORTRAIT A L’EAU-FORTE, DE DEUX HELIOGRAVURES, ET DE 47 ILLUSTRATIONS.
Paris: Librairie Renouard; H. Laurens, Successeur, 1888. Three Quarters Leather. The first systematic listing of Daumier’s lithograph illustrations, by Arsene Alexandre. Honore Daumier was a French printmaker, caricaturist, painter and sculptor, who focused on social and political aspects of 19c.....