American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection, First Edition

American paintings from the Manoogian Collection by the National Gallery of Art. Washington: Natl. Gallery of Art, 1989. First edition softcover. 203 pages. Published in conjunction ...

American Iconology, New Approaches to Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. Hardcover with dust jacket. 344 pp. Overview of the "sister arts"...

The Art of Patronage, The Daywood Collection. Charleston: Huntington Museum of Art, 2017. First Edition hardcover with dust jacket. 122 pp. A catalogue of works from The Daywood Collection at the Huntington Museum of Art. The collection includes oils by: Childe Hassam, landscape and figurative oils...

Sotheby's: The Garbisch collection, Vol. IV, May 1980. Important American furniture, and Related Decorative Arts. First edition softcover, 184 lots of important furniture photographed...

The Wrightsman collection, Vols. I-V. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1966-1973. First edition hardcovers with dust jackets. 2248 pp. Inscribed by the Wrightsmans. The complete series of The Wrightsman collection catalogues from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Jayne and Charles Wrightsman, who, in a relatively short period of time—beginning in 1952—amassed the finest private collection in America of the decorative arts of the Ancien Régime (15th c until 1792). Throughout the years the Wrightsmans' active interest in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts has resulted in splendid gifts that have enabled the Museum to create an unparalleled and truly encyclopaedic collection of French 18th c...

Sienes Painting, From Its Origins to the Fifteenth Century by Bruce Cole. New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1980. Stated first edition hardcover with dust jacket. 243 pp. The history of painting in Siena from its beginnings of the 13th century to the 15th century. The Sienese style was an artistic language of power, inventiveness and beauty. It featured a highly decorative use of color, the construction of complex space and a particular emotional expression. Artist's include Simone Martini...

Author: WELLS, H. G.. Title: The Time Machine An Invention. Publisher: NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1895. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION FIRST ISSUE...

AUTHOR: ATWOOD, Margaret. TITLE: The Edible Woman. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1969. DESCRIPTION: FIRST AMERICAN EDITION PRESENTATION COPY. 1 vol., publisher's original pink cloth backed boards, gilt lettered spine, inscribed by Atwood on the half-title "For Bart & Roby best wishes Margaret Atwood...

Forsyth, Frederick. The Day of the Jackal. New York: Viking Press, [1971]. First American edition. Signed and inscribed by Forsyth on the title page....

AUTHOR: TOLKIEN, J. R. R. TITLE: The Hobbit or There and Back Again. PUBLISHER: London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1937. DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING. 1 vol., 7-11/16...

Cosmography & Astrology Large oval engraved plate with inscriptions outlining the various parts of cosmography and astronomy; below, two emblematic figures with scientific instruments either side. Lettered with title, dedication, and various inscriptions. To his Excellency Roger Palmer, Earle of Castelmain and Baron of Limerick in Ireland, Embassador Extraordinary from his majesty King James II to his Holyness Pope Innocent 11th anno dom 1686. This plate is humbly DD by Richard Blome. On paper and retaining its original coloring. Sheet width 26 ½ cm., 10 ½ in., height 41 ½ cm., 16 ½ in., In a part-gilded Sansovino frame...

'American Notes for General Circulation' by Charles Dickens. First Edition. Vol 1 and 2 London: Chapman and Hall 1842 Bradbury and Evans, Printers,...