Unpaginated introduction by Johann Gustav Droysen to a series of plates illustrating the mid-19th century murals in the Konigsschloss, Dresden by Eduard Bendemann, 12 highly detailed plates in excellent condition showing a variety of Classical subjects and a plan detailing their placement. Oblong folio. Boards, edges slightly rubbed. N.p., n.d...... More

2 volumes: LXIX, XCIX, 729 pp. survey of 17th- and 18th-century German art, incl. essays by Biermann, Adolf Feulner, Albert Brinckmann, and Anton Kippenberg, indices of the artists and their works with brief biographical data and descriptions, 1326 illus., and 32 fine heliogravure plates showing paintings, pastels, drawings, miniatures, sculpture..... More

Brief introductory text on the Bridgewater House Collection of Pictures followed by 120 full-page plates reproducing artwork in the Bridgewater House collection, each plate accompanied by a brief contextual caption and each artist represented by a thorough biography. Oversized folio. Full leather with raised spine, edgewear, abrasions, some small splitting..... More

180 pp. volume (42cm x 50cm) on the Dutch painter, with photogravures scattered throughout the text, accompanied by full of list of plates with page numbers and owners of the works noted, half-title, photogravure portrait by M. Van der Maarel. Folio. Vellum with gilt and blindstamp decoration. Edgewear, soiling, abrasions..... More

78 pp. descriptive monograph on the Pinturicchio fresco cycle in the lavish 15th century Borgia Apartments, heavily annotated, lists, numerous text illus. (1 with color) after portraits, drawings, medals, signatures, etc., 133 fine plates (4 color, many in tones), bound out of order, showing maps, interior views, details of the..... More

6 vols., with approx. 390 superb plates (30 in color, the others in photogravure on fine paper) accompanied by interleaved commentary on the objects, documenting the major collection of mostly Japanese, with some Chinese, art including paintings, lacquerwork, sculpture, ceramics, etc. Large folio. Silk-covered boards, elaborately tie-bound in the Japanese..... More

Moscow-Leningrad: Mezhrabpom, 1924. Octavo (22.4 × 15.3 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 36, [4] pp. Occasional contemporary annotations in pencil; light wear to lower spine extremity; else about very good. Catalog, with introductory articles and reproductions, published for the 1924 Moscow showing of the First German Art Exhibition in the..... More

A complete subscription portfolio of 20 chromolithographs, each 22" x 28", issued in ten monthly installments of 2 prints reproducing orig. watercolors of American birds by Pope with captioned guard leaves reprinting descriptive texts from a variety of sources incl. Alexander Wilson's "American Ornithology" and Audubon's "Birds of America". Each..... More

Delacroix. LXII, 538 pp. catalogue raisonné, in chronological order, of 1968 works by Delacroix in various media, with small wood engravings of most works listed, introductory text, catalogue of portraits of Delacroix, notes, list of salon exhibitions, indices, 4 pp. of signatures, 2 heliogravure portrait frontispieces. A few small stains..... More