Books, Agnes Strickland's "The Lives of the Queens of Scotland"

6 Volumes. Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects. Bound in 3.4 red morocco and marbled boars with the raised band spines gilt-tooled. Top edge...

Books, Captain Charles King's "Famous Decisive Battles of the World. Or, History From the Battlefield." Leatherbound. One volume. Octavo. Bound in three quarter red morocco with marbled boards, top edges gilt, raised bands, & gilt panels on spine. Very good. Published in Philadelphia by J.C. McCurdy & Co., N.D., Circa 1890s. History, Military History...

1 volume. Folio. Bound in full green Morocco by Birdsall, with all edges gilt and ornate gilt on covers & spine, as well as a hand-colored frontispiece. Printed on fine paper. Profus...

Books, Tom Taylor's "Birket Foster's Pictures of English Landscape. Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel" Leatherbound. One volume. Bound in full red morocco w...

2 volumes. First edition! Bound in 3/4 red calf by Bayntun with top edges gilt, raised bands, & gilt panels. Ilustrated with 32 chromo lithographed plates & 9 original watercolors. O...

1 Volume. Frank Matthew. Ireland. Painted by Francis S. Walker, with 24 color plates. Bound in 3/4 green morocco (spine faded to a pleasing tan) marbled boards and endpapers, top edg...

Author: STRICKLAND, Agnes Title: Lives of The Queens of England from The Norman Conquest. Publisher: London: George Bell & Sons, 1908. NEW REVISED...

This is a 2 volume antique book set, The Lives of Scottish Poets. An English language biographical work, dating to the Regency period, published 1821....

This is a set of 5 antique volumes, Lives of the British Admirals by Dr John Campbell et al. An English language, hard bound naval interest book, published in London, 1817. Includes...

A set of two books on The Louvre. One hardcover book with dustjacket, published by Barnes and Noble in 2003, 320 pages. One softcover book, published in 1996 by Reunion des Musees Na...

The definitive collection of artist profiles by legendary journalist and New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins, from the 1960s to today In 1959, Calvin Tomkins interviewed Marcel Duchamp for Newsweek, beginning his six decade- long career writing about art. He then joined The New Yorker, where he has contributed dozens of profiles on the most interesting artists of the time, from Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg to Cindy Sherman and Mark Bradford. This six-volume set includes 82 of Tomkins's most significant profiles dating from 1962-2019. Part art history, part human interest, Tomkins offers insights and observations about the artists, their work, and the ever-changing art world they inhabit. Calvin Tomkins has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1960. He has written more than a dozen books, including The Bride and the Bachelors, Merchants and Masterpieces, Living Well Is the Best Revenge, Off the Wall, Duchamp: A Biography, and Lives of the Artists...

The first edition of Izzak Walton's (1593 – 1683) complete writings, this volume contains Walton's most famous work, the Compleat Angler from the edition of 1668 - with the variants of 1676 as an appendix [Satchell p. 5] - in which Walton celebrates the art and spirit of fishing in prose and verse, as well as the Lives; Love and Truth; and miscellaneous Poetry and Prose, as well as a Life of Walton and bibliographical notes, compiled by the editor. [John Dreyfus. A History of The Nonesuch Press...