3 Volumes. Abate Luigi Lanzi, The History of Painting in Italy.

3 Volumes. Richard Muther, The History of Modern Painting. Bound by Sotheran in 3/4 brown morocco and linen boards with the covers and raised ban spines gilt-tooled. Top edges gilt w...

4 Volumes. Percy Macquod. A History of English Furniture. Bound in 3/4 brown morocco with linen boards. Covers and raised band spines are gilt-tooled. Top edges gilt. Color plate fro...

Miller, Francis Trevelyan (editor). The Photographic History of the Civil War in Ten Volumes. New York: The Review of Reviews Co., 1912. Quarto, ten volume set, in original blue cloth gilt bindings. Illustrated with thousands of photographs, plus maps. This is an important 10-volume photographic history of the Civil War, edited by Francis Trevelyan Miller. The set was first published in 1911, the 50 year anniversary of the start of the Civil War. This 1912 edition contains “thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities.” This mammoth work contains written contributions from over 39 academics, writers, veteran officers of both Union and Confederate forces, and President William H. Taft. A number of the photographs are from the collections of private individuals, as well as the extensive Eldridge Collection of Mathew Brady Civil War photographs...

The Story of Painting, the Essential Guide to the History of Western Art. By Sister Wendy Beckett, in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Hardcover book wi...