Sir Edwin Landseer, Exhibition Catalogue by Richard Ormond

The Tate’s Gainsborough show (24 October-19 January 2003). 1st Ed softcover exhibition catalog was the most comprehensive ever held on the artist. Loans came from far and wide, inclu...

Veronese's Drawings. A Catalogue Raisonné by Richard Cocke. Published in London: Sotheby's Publications, 1984. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Paolo Spezapreda, known as 'Veronese...

An Exhibition Catalogue of Chinese Glass from The Hope Danby Collection. London: S. Marchant and Sons, 1999. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 44 pp. A beautiful catalogue fo...

Wedgwood, a Living Tradition by John Meredith Graham II and Hensleigh Cecil Wedgwood. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences and the Brooklyn Museum, 1948. Limited first e...

The Hudson-Fulton Celebration: Catalogue of an Exhibition Held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Two volumes), by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1909. 1st Ed 2 volume set, hardcovers. Volume I: Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings by Dutch Masters of the Seventeenth Century by W. R. Valentiner, 149 paintings are described and illustrated on 162 pages; Volume II: Catalogue of an Exhibition of American Paintings, Furniture, Silver and Other Objects of Art, 1625--1825 by Henry Watson...

Blue Chips from Jim's of Lambertville. 128 pp. A gallery catalogue from Jim's of Lambertville, an art dealer specializing in Pennsylvania impressionist and m...

The first is a 32 page catalogue which was published in a very small number of only 50 copies in 1942. Text is in French and includes 19 black and white photographs and one page of s...

Exhibition catalogue accompanying the 2016 exhibition at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. The book and show explores the art of Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) and Bruce Nauman (b. 1941) ...

A fabulous pristine Victorian papier mache book slide / expanding bookends with most exquisite hand painted Newfoundland dog after Landseer's "A Disti...

The Genius of Charles James exhibition catalogue by Elizabeth Ann Coleman. Book accompanied the 1982 Brooklyn Museum show. Soft cover first edition.

MIMMO PALADINO - Etchings Woodcuts and Linocuts - 1983-1986 Waddington Galleries, London - Exhibition Catalogue. Copyright Waddington Graphics 1986. 1st Edition. Oblong soft cover ...

Captain Sir George Collier’s presentation silver entree dishes and covers by Richard Cooke, London 1803, each plain rectangular with gadroon borders, covers with detachable vine twist handles, the covers engraved: ‘Presented by the Old Madras Insurance Company to Captn. Collier, Commander of His Majestys Sloop ‘Victor’, for his persevering & gallant conduct in chasing for two days, partially engaging & ultimately sinking the French National Corvette ‘La Fleche’ of superior force while advantageously anchored at the Mahé Islands.’ Dimensions approx.: 150 x 290 x 200mm / 6 x 11 ½ x 8 inches Total weight approx.: 3513 grams / 112 oz. troy. Footnotes: These silver dishes were presented to Captain Sir George Collier KCB (1774-1824) for destroying the 22-gun French corvette La Flèche whilst commanding Victor, 18 guns, in the Seychelles on 5 September 1801. After escorting troop transports into the Red Sea ahead of the British invasion of Egypt, Victor fell in with La Flèche off Diego Garcia. After an initial engagement, the corvette escaped to windward only to be found again four days later. A short but fierce action ensued during which the corvette caught fire, grounded on a coral reef and sank before a prize crew could secure the ship. As reward, the Admiralty made Collier post captain and gave him command of Leopard, 50 guns. Born in London, Collier entered the Royal Navy in 1784. As a midshipman, he was wrecked off Madagascar in 1792 surviving among the natives of that island for six months before being rescued by a passing Portuguese brig. Unfortunately, the brig was immediately captured by a French privateer and for two more years, Collier was confined as a prisoner of war on Mauritius. Returning to service in 1795, he was given his first command in Suffolk Tender. Following the Peace of Amiens, Collier commanded the Sea Fencibles at Liverpool. After accompanying the expedition to Copenhagen in 1808, for which he was knighted for delivering the admiral’s dispatches, he saw action, and was wounded, supporting the military Campaign in Spain. After the war, Collier was made commodore on the African station where he was employed suppressing the slave trade with such rigour that he was elected an honorary member of the African Institution, founded by William Wilberforce...