About Rob Zanger Rare Books LLC
We’re passionate about rare books, fine art, and photographs. We’re captivated by remarkable creations by writers, artists, photographers, editors, and designers; the extraordinary craftsmanship by printers, illustrators, and binders are sources of joy and wonder. We’re enthralled by the innovations by publishers and dealers; and the devotion of collectors and scholars to discover, document, and celebrate the works and creators they love. Rob Zanger Rare Books is located amidst a serene pastoral setting in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York State. We offer rare books, fi...Read More
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Featured Pieces
Three (3) images from Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji (Fuji sanjūrokkei)
Located in Middletown, NY
Tokyo: Kawaji, 1830.
Three (3) woodblock prints (nishiki-e) in color on handmade mulberry paper, each 2 5/8 x 3 3/8 inches (67 x 82 mm), the full sheet, margins slightly trimmed. Ea...
Category
Early 19th Century Edo Portrait Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Woodcut
Tolosa (Toulouse); Leaf LXXI from Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle
Located in Middletown, NY
Woodcut on laid paper, 8 3/8 x 9 1/8 inches (212 x 233 mm), the full sheet. In excellent condition with text and portraits of Empedocles, Sapho, Zeuxis and others on the verso, as is...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Woodcut
Remarkable Ruins of Morea, formerly called the Peloponnesus
By (After) Giovanni Pannini
Located in Middletown, NY
Engraved by Pierre François TARDIEU, after Giovanni Paolo PANNINI
London: Alexander Hogg, c1778.
Etching with engraving on light weight wove paper, 7 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches( 190 x 285...
Category
Late 18th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
Reconstruction of the citadel, or acropolis, of Athens
Located in Middletown, NY
Engraving with hand coloring on H & I Honig watermarked laid paper, 7 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (191 x 262 mm); sheet 9 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches (235 x 332 mm), full margins. In good condition ...
Category
Early 19th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
12 images on 6 sheets from Nuova raccolta delle vedute moderne di Roma
Located in Middletown, NY
Rome: 1795.
Each an engraving with extensive hand coloring on laid paper, some with a partial heraldic watermark, each 6 5/8 x 4 3/4 inches (165 x 120 mm); (sheet) 10 1/4 x 7 1/8 in...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian School Landscape Prints
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
A view of the New York Public Library, looking uptown along 5th Avenue.
Located in Middletown, NY
New York: c 1920.
Etching with aquatint printed in brownish black ink on cream wove paper, 8 3/4 x 12 inches (220 x 304 mm), full margins. Signed and titled in pencil in the lower ma...
Category
1920s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Etching, Aquatint
The Fish Market
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with drypoint and aquatint on laid Japon paper, 9 x 11 1/4 inches (228 x 280 mm); sheet 11 7/8 x 13 5/8 (302 x 346 mm), full margins. Signed, titled and inscribed "To my dear...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Aquatint, Drypoint
Mars driven away from Peace and Abundance by Minerva
By Agostino Carracci
Located in Middletown, NY
Agostino CARRACCI, after Jacopo TINTORETTO
Sapientia Martem depellente Pax et Abundantia cogaudent; Mars driven away from Peace and Abundance by Minerva
Engraving on handmade laid ...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Woodcut
The Triumph of Caesar: Plate IV of IX
By Andrea Mantegna
Located in Middletown, NY
Andreani, Andrea, after Andrea Mantegna
The Triumph of Caesar: Plate IV of IX
1599. Chiaroscuro woodcut in colors printed from four blocks on laid paper in dark brown, grey, and thr...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Ink, Woodcut
R.M.S. Caronia Cunard Line
Located in Middletown, NY
A beautiful poster advertising a less famous, doomed Cunard ship.
c1950. Offset lithograph in colors on lightweight white wove paper, 16 x 12 3/8 (420 x 315 mm); sheet 21 7/8 x 17 7...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint, Lithograph, Offset
Group of seven (7) prints from Engravings of Plants + 1 Redouté
By Abraham Bosse
Located in Middletown, NY
Each a lithograph with hand coloring on watermarked Arches wove paper with a deckle edge. Each 16 1/4 x 12 1/4 (412 x 312 mm); sheet 26 x 19 3/4 inches (661 x 502 mm), each with full...
Category
Late 17th Century French School Still-life Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
Place de la Cour, Vienna
Located in Middletown, NY
Vienna: Chez Artaria.
Engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream laid Van Gelder Zonen paper with a large heraldic watermark with a fleur-de-lys and a crown, 10 3/4 x 16 1/...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Landscape Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving
