The RENAISSANCE to ROMANTICISM
The Art Journal. New Series, Volume 1: With the
Illustrated Catalogue of the International Exhibition of 1862
bound-in.
London: James S. Virtue, 1862.
24 engraved plates. Large 4to pp.244.
Bound with: The Art Journal Illustrated
Catalogue of the International Exhibition 1862. Profusely
illustrated. Large 4to, pp.208. Original green cloth blocked
in gilt. Joints cracked and chipped, backstrip chipped at head
and base, stitching slack in places.
Quote Item No. 6178
Price: £75.00
ART PORTUGAIS 1850 - 1950.
Lisbon:
Museu do Chiado, 1994.
French text.
Profusely illustrated throughout in colour. Large 4to, pp.380,
original cloth in dustwrapper; an extremely good copy.
Quote Item No. 3134
Price: £38.00
BADE, PATRICK: Femme Fatale. Images of Evil and
Fascinating Women.
London: Ash & Grant, 1979.
First edition. Profusely illustrated in colour and black &
white. Small folio, pp.128, original red cloth in dustwrapper; dustwrapper slightly bumped and with a very short
rubbed tear to front top edge at fold, some edge-rubbing;
internally, very good.
Quote Item No. 5657
Price: £10.00
London: Phaidon Press, 1960.
115 illustrations, 4 in colour. 4to, pp.163. Original
cloth in price-clipped dustwrapper contained in a crude brown
card slipcase; binding excellent; dustwrapper faded at spine with
small amount of edge-rubbing; internally, excellent; slip-case
stained.
Quote Item No. 1085
Price: £9.00
London: Thames & Hudson,
1986.
First paperback edition.
765 illustrations.
Folio, pp.494, softcover;
binding unevenly faded, slightly edge-rubbed;
internally very good.
Quote Item No. 9470
Price: £22.00
Paris: Editions Scala in association with the Drawing Center,
New York, 1988.
Profusely illustrated, partly in colour. 4to, pp.223, original
cloth in dustwrapper; binding very good; dustwrapper with a creased
tear to front top edge, some shelf-wear, else good; internally, ink
name on endpaper else very good.
Quote Item No. 3457
Price: £18.00
London: Collins, 1950.
No. 14 in the "New Naturalist" series. Plates, some coloured.
8vo, pp.xxxI:304, original cloth; binding unevenly faded, in
spotted and browned d.w. which is a little chipped at headband.
Quote Item No. 5719
Price: £20.00
BOLTEN,
J.: Dutch Drawings from the Collection of Dr. C. Hofstede de Groot.
Introduction and Critical Catalogue by J. Bolten. A
publication of the Groninger Museum voor Stad en Lande.
Utrecht: Oosthoek's, 1967.
First edition. Profusely illustrated. 4to, pp.252, original cloth;
a very nice copy indeed in slightly creased dusty dustwrapper.
Quote Item No. 10693
Price: £20.00
BREWINGTON, W.V. and DOROTHY: The Marine Paintings and
Drawings in the Peabody Museum.
Salem, Mass.: 1968.
Numbered limited edition. First edition. Profusely illustrated
partly in colour. 4to, pp. xvii:530, original cloth.
Small label "from the Brook-Hart Collection" on front free endpaper;
a very nice copy in slightly marked d.w.
Quote Item No. 1344
Price: £125.00
BROWN, DAVID BLAYNEY: The Art of J.M.W. Turner.
New Jersey: The Wellfleet Press, 1990.
First edition. Profusely illustrated in colour and black &
white. Folio, pp.192, original cloth in glazed dustwrapper;
lower edge of binding and dustwrapper very slightly rubbed, else
excellent.
Quote Item No. 5653
Price: £10.00
BUCKMAN, PROFESSOR [JAMES] and NEWMARCH, C.H.: Illustrations
of the Remains of Roman Art, in Cirencester, The Site of Ancient
Corinium.
London: George Bell, 1850.
First edition. 11 plates (of which 8 hand-coloured) and a
hand-coloured map. 4to, pp.xxiii(including list of subscribers):155,
original blue ribbed cloth gilt; lacking most of backstrip, corners
worn, scuffed through cloth to board in several places on upper
cover. Some foxing and thumbing to prelims, generally, internally,
good. Old ownership inscription on front free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 10385
Price: £38.00
BURKE, JOSEPH and CALDWELL,
COLIN: Hogarth.
The Complete Engravings.
London: Thames &
Hudson, 1968.
Profusely illustrated.
Folio, pp.30:[267 plates illustrated]:[Notes on the Plates],
original brown cloth in dustwrapper;
faint browning to page edges;
armorial bookplate to front pastedown;
generally very good.
Quote Item No. 8737
Price: £25.00
CALLENDER, GEOFFREY: Masters of Maritime Art. A
Second Loan Exhibition of Drawings from the Collection of Capt.
Bruce Ingram.
London: Colnaghi, March 1937.
Coloured frontispiece, plates in sepia. 4to, pp.37, original printed
wrappers; wrappers frayed on margins.
Quote Item No. 1335
Price: £40.00
CASTERAS, SUSAN P.: The Defining Moment. Victorian Narrative
Paintings from the Forbes Magazine Collection.
Charlotte, North Carolina: Mint Museum of Art, 1999.
Exhibition catalogue. Well illustrated in colour. Large 4to,
pp.151, softcover; very very slight shelf-wear to binding,
else very good indeed.
Quote Item No. 5735
Price: £9.00
CHAPMAN, HUGO;
HENRY, TOM;
and PLAZZOTTA, CAROL: Raphael from
Urbino to Rome.
London: National
Gallery, 2004.
Published to accompany the exhibition at the National Gallery, 20
October 2004 to 15 January 2005.
Illustrated in colour.
Large 4to, pp.320, pictorial soft cover;
lower corner of front cover very slightly creased with a
slight chip beside it;
in all other respects, very good.
Quote Item No. 8717
Price: £20.00
CLAPP,
FREDERICK MORTIMER: Jacopo Carucci da Pontormo, His Life and Work.
New York: Junius Press, n.d.
A high quality reprint of the edition of 1916. Tall 8vo,
pp.xxviii:355:153 illustrations, original
grained blue cloth; a very good copy indeed in like
dustwrapper
Quote Item No. 10690
Price: £40.00
CUST, SIR LIONEL: The King's Pictures from Buckingham
Palace, Windsor Castle and Hampton Court. One hundred and one
subjects selected by Sir Lionel Cust, Late Keeper of the King's
Pictures. Presentation copy signed by George V and Queen Mary.
London: Fine Art Publishing Co., n.d. (1930).
101 tipped-in coloured and sepia plates. 4to, original red
cloth no dustwrapper; spine faded, headbands bumped; some foxing to
page edges and internally; the binding has bowed inwardly at corners
due to the unequal thickness between the centrally placed tipped-in
plates and the page edges. A signed presentation copy inscribed by
George V to Clive Wigram (1873-1960; Equerry to King George V from
1910 to 1931 and Private Secretary 1931-1936). Signed by George V
and by Queen Mary and dated Christmas 1930.
Quote Item No. 8025
Price: £125.00
DAY, HAROLD A.E.: East Anglian Painters Volume III.
Eastbourne Sussex: Eastbourne Fine Art, 1969.
Edition limited to 1,000 copies. Illustrated with one colour
plate, the rest in black & white. 4to, pp.261, original
pebble-grained cloth, lettered in gilt with black & white pictorial
onlay on upper cover; slight crease just below upper headband;
page edges slightly browned; pastedowns slightly cockled;
in all other respects, very good.
Quote Item No. 8255
Price: £15.00
DENKSTEIN, VLADIMIR: Hollar Drawings.
New York: Abaris Press, 1979.
First American edition in English. Profusely illustrated in
colour and black & white. Very large 8vo, pp.216, original
grey cloth lettered in gilt on spine and gilt-stamped with lines of
"H" to sides in dustwrapper; all edges browned;
damp-staining to lower dustwrapper spine, headbands slightly bumped;
internally, neat ownership sticker to front free-endpaper, else very
good.
Quote Item No. 7705
Price: £10.00
DESAILLY, CLAUDE: The Vasarely Didactic Museum at the
Gordes Chateau.
Vaucluse: Musee Didactique, 1976.
Coloured plates thoughout. Small 4to, pp.81, original glazed
wrappers; binding a little edge-rubbed.
Quote Item No. 4658
Price: £10.00
DUTTON, GEOFFREY: White on Black, the Australian Aborigine
Portrayed in Art.
Melbourne: Macmillan, 1974.
First edition. Profusely illustrated, partly in colour.
4to, pp.168, original cloth in dustwrapper; dustwrapper with a
number of tears and creasing along edges (some slight loss at top of
spine) and edge-rubbed; binding and internally very good.
Quote Item No. 731
Price: £20.00
ETTLINGER,
L.D.: The Sistine Chapel before Michelangelo, Religious Imagery and
Papal Primacy.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965.
First edition. Frontispiece & 44 plates. 4to, pp.xiii:(1):128,
original cloth; a very nice copy in very good price-clipped
dustwrapper. In the Oxford-Warburg Studies series.
Quote Item No. 10691
Price: £100.00
EXHIBITION CATALOGUE: Une Autre Amerique - Musee du Nouveau
Monde.
Hotel Fleuriau, La Rochelle, 14 Mai 1982.
Profusely illustrated, partly in colour. 4to, pp.261, original
cloth; very good in rubbed d.w.
Quote Item No. 3171
Price: £12.00
EVANS, A.E. &
SONS: The Fine Art Circular and Print
Collector's Manual [comprising a] Catalogue of Nearly Six Thousand
Etchings and Engravings by Artists of every School and Period,
comprising the Best Examples of Every Eminent
Engraver .... to the present time.
London: Now on Sale by A.E. Evans & Sons, 403, Strand,
1857.
Extensive print dealer's catalogue giving the "size and price of
each print, and references to the works of those authors who have
made the art of engraving their study". With an appendix,
"Consisting of a Catalogue Raisonnee of Nearly 400 prints unknown to
Bartsch".
8vo, pp.260:iv:50:4, contemporary half calf somewhat rubbed,
inner joints cracked but firm; sellotape marks to endpapers and to
corners of boards. First title bears date in ink "1858",
the title to the appendix bears the printed date 1857.
An interesting catalogue full of irresistable bargains, e.g. Durer's
"Adam and Eve, a brilliant impression, and in perfect state of
preservation, very rare, £10 10s" and
John Martin's "The Fall of Babylon, most brilliant proof
before any letters, £3 3s" etc.
Quote Item No. 2018
Price: £75.00
FOSKETT, DAPHNE: British Portrait Miniatures.
London: Spring Books, 1968.
Plates, some coloured. Imperial 8vo, pp. 199, original cloth;
slight sellotape mark to front free endpaper else very good in d.w.
Quote Item No. 1882
Price: £10.00
FULCHER,
GEORGE WILLIAMS: Life of Thomas Gainsborough. Second edition.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, 1856.
Engraved frontispiece and addtional engraved title with tissue
guard. Small 8vo, pp.viii:248, original green ribbed cloth blocked
in blind; very light water-splash mark to binding, generally a very
good copy indeed.
Quote Item No. 10697
Price: £35.00
GRAVES, ALGERNON: The Society of Artists of Great Britain
1760-1791. The Free Society of Artists 1761-1798.
Bath: Kingsmead Reprints. 1969
Facsimile of the 1907 edition. 4to, pp.viii:354, original cloth in
dustwrapper; binding very good; dustwrapper spine faded, with short
tear to top edge, edge-browned, some shelf-wear; internally, some
foxing, small sticker to front free-endpaper, else good.
Quote Item No. 805
Price: £20.00
GUILLAUD, JACQUELINE and MAURICE: Rembrandt. The Human Form
and Spirit.
Paris: Guillaud Editions, 1986.
First edition. Illustrated profusely in colour and black &
white. Large 4to, pp.684, original brown cloth lettered in
cream on spine, blocked with portrait of Rembrandt on upper cover in
dustwrapper; binding very good; dustwrapper with some
shelf-wear; internally, and small sticker to front free-endpaper,
else excellent.
Quote Item No. 6570
Price: £50.00
GURATZSCH, HERWIG: Dutch and Flemish Painting.
New York: Vilo, 1981.
Profusely illustrated in colour. Large 4to, pp.302, original
cloth in dustwrapper; binding very good; slight shelf-wear to
dustwrapper, else good; all edges slightly browned; internally,
excellent.
Quote Item No. 7697
Price: £16.00
HAAK, BOB: The Golden Age. Dutch Painters of the
Seventeenth Century.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1984.
First edition. With 1,117 illustrations, 74 in colour. Folio,
pp.536, original olive green cloth in dustwrapper; damp-staining to
both ends of spine of binding (dustwrapper unaffected), else good;
dustwrapper very good; internally, edges slightly yellowed,
otherwise in all other respects, excellent.
Quote Item No. 7701
Price: £45.00
HARDIE, MARTIN: Water-colour Painting in Britain.
III The Victorian Period.
London: B.T. Batsford, 1968.
First edition. Coloured frontispiece, black & white
illustrations. Folio, pp.xvi:398, original grey cloth in
dustwrapper; binding edge-faded and browned, spine browned;
dustwrapper poor, a number of tears, headbands frayed and chipped,
edge-rubbed and browned; page edges browned and foxed;
rear joints cracked; despite all, internally good.
Quote Item No. 8260
Price: £30.00
HOFSTATTER, HANS H: Art Nouveau. Prints,
Illustrations and Posters.
Ware, Hertfordshire: Omega Books, 1984.
Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Large 4to,
pp.295, original white cloth in dustwrapper; slight shelf-wear
to dustwrapper (one corner slightly frayed), a small piece chipped
from bottom corner of front free-endpaper, else an excellent copy.
Quote Item No. 5658
Price: £12.00
HOLME, GEOFFREY [Editor]: British Marine Painting. With Articles by
A.L. Baldry.
London: "The Studio", 1919.
Plates, some coloured. 4to, pp.135, blue binder's cloth, lettered in
gilt on spine, no dustwrapper; headbands and corners bumped and
slightly rubbed; original wrappers preserved and bound in; a little
creasing to a few margins; library blindstamp and ink accession
numbers on title; generally very good.
Quote Item No. 1203
Price: £20.00
HUMBERT, JEAN: Edouard
Detaille.
L'heroisme d'un siecle.
Paris: Editions Copernic,
1979.
French text. Illustrated
in colour and black & white.
4to, pp.95, original boards in dustwrapper;
binding browned along edges, lower spine bumped;
dustwrapper slightly edge-rubbed and lower spine chipped and
creased, spine faded;
internally very good and with a book-plate adhered to front
pastedown.
Quote Item No. 9149
Price: £35.00
Paris: Musee Carnavalet, 1990.
Exhibition catalogue. French text.
Numerous colour illustrations. 8vo, pp.128, original wrappers;
very slightly edge-rubbed, else good.
Quote Item No. 476
Price: £12.00
JACKSON,
MRS. F. NEVILL: Ancestors in Silhouette cut by August Edouart.
Illustrative Notes and Biographical Sketches.
London: John Lane, 1921.
First edition. Numerous plates. 4to, pp.xvii:239,
original green cloth blocked in black and white, no dustwrapper;
binding slightly edge-rubbed; internally, upper inner
hinge pulled, small ink mark on margin of frontispiece, title a
trifle marked. With the armorial label of Exeter City Library
on front pastedown, ink-stamped "Last Copy in County" on reverse of
title and bar-code on rear endpaper. Although "ex-library"
this is actually a very nice bright copy.
Quote Item No. 8289
Price: £65.00
LANDSEER, SIR EDWIN: The Works of Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A.,
illustrated by forty-four steel engravings and about two hundred
woodcuts from sketches in the collection of Her Majesty The Queen
and other sources.
With a History of his Art-Life by W. Cosmo
Monkhouse.
London: Virtue, n.d. ca. 1880.
Bound as two volumes. 44 steel engraved plates and engraved title,
together with a further 10 plates showing early work, and ca. 200
woodcuts in the text. Two volumes large folio, pp. 168 (text),
contemporary half crimson morocco, spines floral gilt extra. Some
rubbing to headbands, raised bands and joints. Unfortunately the
cloth sides have been badly affected by damp and corners scuffed,
but the volumes remain attractive on the shelf. Internally very
clean and tight.
Quote Item No. 10500
Price: £145.00
LAURIE,
A.P.: The Brush-work of Rembrandt and his School. Illustrated by
Photomicrographs.
Oxford: University Press, London: Humphrey Milford, 1932.
First edition. Frontispiece and 127 plates. 4to, pp.xviii:43,
original cloth; a very nice copy in like dustwrapper.
Quote Item No. 10692
Price: £140.00
LINDSAY, LIONEL: Conrad Martens, the Man and His Art.
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1968.
Revised and enlarged edition. 68 plates in colour and monochrome.
4to, pp.xvi:39, original cloth ;in dustwrapper; binding very good;
dustwrapper very poor, with multiple tears to edges and large pieces
(particularly to front cover) missing, with ineffectual old
sellotape repair to back cover; page edges browned; internally very
good.
Quote Item No. 828
Price: £15.00
MACMILLAN, DUNCAN: Scottish Art 1460 - 2000.
Edinburgh and London: Mainstream Publishing, 2000.
Illustrated in colour and black & white. 4to, pp.464, original
black cloth in glazed dustwrapper; spine and upper dustwrapper
partially sun-faded, else a very good copy. This is an
extremely heavy book, please ask for a quote for postage.
Quote Item No. 6467
Price: £25.00
MALLALIEU, H.L: The Dictionary of British Watercolour
Artists up to 1920. Two Volumes.
Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 1986 & 1988.
Volume 1 - The Text, second edition; Volume 2 - The Plates, third
impression. Two volumes, folio, pp.390 and pp.[plates], original
cloth in dustwrapper; Volume 1 dustwrapper creased at top of spine,
and slight shelf-wear to both volumes, else in all other respects,
very good.
Quote Item No.3246
Price: £22.00
MONTAGU, JENNIFER: Courage and Cruelty. Paintings
and their Context: III Le Brun's Horatius Cocles and The
Massacre of the Innocents.
London: Dulwich Picture Gallery, 1990 - 1991.
Black & white illustrations. 4to, pp.100, softcover.
Quote Item No. 4595
Price: £14.00
MUNZ,
LUDWIG: A Critical Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings and the
Etchings of his School formerly attributed to the Master with an
Essay on Rembrandt's Technique and Documentary Sources. Complete
Edition. Two volumes.
London: Phaidon, 1952.
First edition. Profusely illustrated. Two volumes, folio, pp.338 and
pp.232, original cloth; both volumes very good indeed in good
slightly marked or rubbed dustwrappers. Contained in the original
slipcase, this spotted and a little rubbed.
Quote Item No. 10696
Price: £100.00
NAGEL, DR KURT and SCHLIPF, BENNO P: Das Fleischerhandwerkin der Bildenden Kunst. Kunstgeschichte des
Fleischerhandwerks.
Heidenheim: C.F. Rees, n.d.
Illustrations throughout, largely in colour. 4to, pp.146,
original cloth in dustwrapper; binding very good; dustwrapper with
some nicks to top of spine, shelf-wear, else good; internally,
excellent.
Quote Item No. 3161
Price: £10.00
OPIE, JOHN: Lectures on Painting, delivered at the Royal
Academy of Arts: With a Letter on the Proposal for a Public Memorial
of the Naval Glory of Great Britain. To which is prefixed a Memoir
by Mrs. Opie, and other accounts of Mr. Opie's Talents and
Character.
London: Longman, 1809.
First edition. Mezzotint portrait. 4to, pp.vi (Including list
of subscribers):(1):186, contemporary half calf with crimson
lettering piece; binding rubbed, lettering piece chipped, some
foxing. Portrait frontispiece offset on title-page. Manuscript index
on front fly-leaf.
Quote Item No. 7530
Price: £90.00
POPHAM,
A.E.: Correggio's Drawings.
For the British Academy by the Oxford University Press, 1957.
First edition. 110 illustrations. 4to, pp.xix:210, original cloth; a
very nice copy in slightly holed dustwrapper.
Quote Item No. 10694
Price: £60.00
RETI, LADISLAO and BUHRER, EMIL M: The Unknown Leonardo.
London: Hutchinson, 1974.
Profusely illustrated. Large 4to, pp. 319, original cloth
gilt in dustwrapper; binding very good; dustwrapper edge-torn and
slightly rubbed; internally, inscription on front free-endpaper,
else very good.
Quote Item No. 4178
Price: £18.00
RHEIMS, MAURICE: The Age of Art Nouveau. With 12
colour plates and 595 monochrome plates.
London: Thames & Hudson, 1970.
Reprint. 4to, pp.450, original cloth in dustwrapper;
dustwrapper spine slightly faded, else an excellent copy.
Quote Item No. 5258
Price: £20.00
RIZZI, ALDO: Mostra del
Tiepolo disegni e acqueforti / dipinti.
Electa Editrice, 1971.
Italian text. Profusely illustrated, partly in colour. Two volumes
4to, pp. 121 & 198, original cloth; very good in like dustwrappers.
Contained in the original slipcase which is edge rubbed.
Quote Item No. 9272
Price: £35.00
ROBERTS-JONES, PHILIPPE:
The History of Painting in Belgium from the 14th Century to the
Present Day.
Brussels: La Renaissance
du Livre, 1995.
Illustrated in colour.
Folio, pp.532, original cloth in dustwrapper;
large ink inscription on half-title;
generally an excellent copy.
Quote Item No. 9284
Price: £45.00
London: Halton & Co., 1950.
First edition. Numerous plates, some coloured. 4to, pp.244, original
bevelled blue cloth gilt; backstrip a little dulled, corners very
slightly rubbed, signature on front free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 1290
Price: £40.00
ROHRMOSER, ALBIN: Meisterwerke aus dem Salzburger Museum
Carolino Augusteum.
Salzburg: 1984.
German text.
Profusely illustrated in colour. Large 4to, pp.108, original
cloth gilt with coloured pictorial onlay no dustwrapper; spine and
sides of binding faded, very slight cockling to lower fore corner
throughout; in all other respects, very good.
Quote Item No. 3136
Price: £20.00
ROSENBERG, PIERRE: French Paintings 1500-1825.
San Francisco: The Fine Arts
Museums of San Francisco, 1987.
Illustrated in colour and black & white. 4to, pp.373, pictorial softcover; some slight shelf-wear to binding; internally, slight bump to lower front edge affecting a
number of pages and front cover, else very good.
Quote Item No. 8745
Price: £22.00
ROSSETTI, D.G: Drawings of Rossetti.
London: George Newnes, n.d.
Numerous plates, some tipped-in. 4to, pp.8 (text):[plates], original
cloth-backed decorated boards, no dustwrapper; binding headbands and
corners bumped and frayed, boards lightly rubbed and soiled, with
uneven fading; page edges browned; internally, some browning and
foxing, else good.
Quote Item No. 4558
Price: £12.00
SCHULZE, SABINE: Leselust.
Niederlandische Malerei von Rembrandt bis
Vermeer.
Frankfurt: Schirn
Kunsthalle, 1993.
German text. Profusely
illustrated. Large 4to,
pp.381, pictorial soft cover;
slight crease to top corner of front cover;
some shelf-wear to binding;
ink name and armorial bookplate to half-title;
internally very good.
Quote Item No. 8738
Price: £33.00
SECORD, WILLIAM: Dog Painting 1840 - 1940. A social
history of the dog in art. Including an important historical
overview from the earliest times to 1840 when pure-bred dogs became
popular.
Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 1992.
Reprint. Profusely illustrated. 4to, pp.367, original cloth. Some
spotting to upper edge of text block else a very nice copy in like
price-clipped d.w.
Quote Item No. 10534
Price: £22.00
SITWELL,
SACHEVERELL: Narrative Pictures, a Survey of English Genre and its
Painters.
With notes on the illustrations by Michael
Sevier.
London: Batsford,
1937.
First edition. Plates,
some coloured. 4to,
pp.vi:122, a very good copy in the delightful Rex Whistler
dustwrapper. The
dustwrapper slightly chipped at headband.
The d.w. now with protective glassine wrapper which is taped
to the reverse of the wrapper. Some light foxing to prelims.
Quote Item No. 10373
Price: £35.00
SLIVE, SEYMOUR and HOETINK, H.R: Jacob Van Ruisdael.
New York: Abbeville Press, 1981.
Exhibition catalogue published for the travelling exhibition The
Hague, October 1981-3 January, 1982 and The Fogg Art Museum, January
- April, 1982. Illustrated in colour and black & white.
Large 4to, pp.271, original chocolate brown cloth in dustwrapper;
dustwrapper spine very slightly faded; page edges slightly
browned; internally, neat ownership sticker to front free-endpaper;
generally, an excellent copy.
Quote Item No. 7706
Price: £27.00
SMITH, BERNARD: Australian Painting 1788-1960.
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1965.
Plates and illustrations, some coloured. Royal 8vo, pp.xi:357,
original cloth; very good in slightly rubbed d.w.
Quote Item No. 702
Price: £16.00
SPIELMANN, M.H: The Portraits of Geoffrey Chaucer.
Chaucer Lectures, no publisher or date.
An offprint. Plates. 8vo, pp.111-141, contemporary
quarter green calf. Some browning to the text.
With autograph note signed from Spielmann to Sir Lionel Cust
(The keeper of the Queen's Pictures) dated 21 July 1900:
"Pray accept the enclosed with my best regards & thanks" and
with postscript: "Of course the portraits are for the most
part larger in the Magazine of Art".
Signed by Cust and with his bookplate.
Quote Item No. 7083
Price: 21.00
STRIEDER, PETER: The Hidden Durer.
Rushcutters Bay, Sydney: Bay Books, 1978.
English edition. Illustrated profusely in colour. Folio,
pp.190, original cloth in dustwrapper; lower corners very
bumped; edges slightly browned; generally a good copy.
Quote Item No. 7712
Price: £9.00
SYMBOLISM: Le Symbolisme dans les Collections du
Petit Palais.
Paris: Musee du Petit Palais, 1988-89.
Exhibition catalogue, French text. Forty-eight coloured plates and
black & white illustrations. Small folio, pp.195, softcover; binding
with a piece chipped at base of spine chipped, corners bumped, one
with crease, otherwise good; internally, excellent.
Quote Item No. 492
Price: £15.00
STRONG, ROY: The English Renaissance Miniature.
London: Thames & Hudson, 1983.
First edition. Profusely illustrated, partly in colour.
4to, pp.208, original cloth in dustwrapper; binding very good;
dustwrapper with slight shelf-wear; internally, ink gift inscription
on front free endpaper, else excellent.
Quote Item No. 3433
Price: £12.00
VAN
DER VELDE, CARL: Frans Floris (1519/20 - 1570) Leven en Werken.
Brussels: Paleis der Academien, 1975.
Two volumes ( one of text, pp.555, one of plates, 342 illustrations
). 8vo, original printed light card wrappers; very good indeed in
edge rubbed dustwrappers. Rare.
Quote Item No. 10689
Price: £655.00
VASARI,
GIORGIO: Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors & Architects.
Newly Translated by Gaston Duc. De Vere. With Five Hundred
Illustrations. In Ten Volumes (Complete).
London: Macmillan & The Medici Societ, 1912.
Published 1912 - 1915. Ten volumes 4to, original blue grained cloth,
upper covers blocked in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut.
A very good set indeed.
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Price: £425.00
Thirty-four marine paintings by Webb illustrated in b&w.
Oblong 8vo, pp.(34) original coloured pictorial boards, ring bound;
fine as issued.
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Price: £10.00
WILLIAMS, JULIA LLOYD: Dutch Art and
Scotland.
A Reflection of Taste.
The National Gallery of Scotland, 1992.
Published to accompany the exhibition from 13 August to 18 October,
1992. Illustrated in
colour. Oblong (22cm
high x 25cm wide), pp.179, pictorial softcover;
an excellent copy.
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Price: £12.00
WILLIAMSON, GEORGE C.
[Editor]: Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and
Engravers.
Five Volumes.
Port Washington, N.Y.:
Kennikat Press, 1964.
New edition, revised and enlarged.
Black & white illustrations.
Five volumes, large 8vo, original green cloth lettered in
gilt on black on spine, no dustwrappers;
headbands and corners slightly bumped on all volumes,
small nick to top edge of cover of Volume V, but generally
bindings very good;
internally excellent.
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Price: £60.00
WIND, EDGAR: Bellini's
Feast of the Gods.
A Study in Venetian Humanism.
Cambridge, Massachusetts:
for the Harvard College Library by Harvard University Press,
1948.
First edition. Black &
white plates. 4to,
pp.[8]:81, original cloth in dustwrapper;
binding very good;
dustwrapper spine slightly browned and with short tears and
chips to ends of spine and one corner, and small puncture mark near
lettering on spine;
internally excellent.
Quote Item No. 9180
Price: £15.00
Leigh-on-Sea: Lewis, 1980.
Reprint with additions. 48 plates. 4to, pp.92, original cloth
in dustwrapper; dustwrapper spine faded, else very good in all other
respects.
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Price: £15.00
WORNUM, RALPH NICHOLSON: Descriptive and Historical Catalogue
of the Pictures in the National Gallery with Biographical Notices of
the Painters. Foreign Schools. Forty-fifth edition.
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1867.
8vo, pp.308, contemporary half tan calf, marbled boards, crimson
lettering piece. Binding rubbed but sound.
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Price: £35.00
WYLLIE, W.L: Marine Painting in Watercolour.
London: Cassell, 1901.
First edition. 24 mounted coloured plates. Oblong 8vo, pp.58,
original green cloth; binding very badly marked, internally
good.
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Price: £25.00