Rare Books

The Royal Palaces of India by George Michell. Published by Thames & Hudson, 1994. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. As early as the 14th c, stories glorifying the exotic palaces of ...

AUTHOR: AUSTEN, Jane. TITLE: The Novels (Works) of Jane Austen. PUBLISHER: Edinburgh: John Grant, 1906. DESCRIPTION: THE WINCHESTER EDITION. 10 vo...

CARTIER 1900 - 1939 Paris, London, New York. This special hard-cover book was published in honor of the exhibition, 'Cartier 1900 - 1939', held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from April 2, 1997, through August 3, 1997, and the British Museum, London, from October 3, 1997, through February 1, 1998. This exhibition was organized jointly by the two museums. Foreword by: Dr. Robert G. W. Anderson, Director, British Museum "The firm of Cartier is widely recognized as one the world's greatest designers and manufacturers of jewellery and objects d'art. This exhibition is timed to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the founding of the company in Paris in 1847." Preface: Judy Rudoe, Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities, British Museum "Previous exhibitions devoted to Cartier have encompassed the entire period of the firm's history, from 1847 to the present. The aim of this exhibition is to take a fresh look at a more closely defined period, from around 1900, when the firm's distinctive style becomes identifiable, to the end of the 1930s, which saw a dramatic change of style that led to a quite different aesthetic." A gorgeous exhibition book highlighting the first four decades of the 20th century when the renowned Paris-based firm known as Cartier expanded to London and New York. Specially taken photographs present a breathtaking array of necklaces, bracelets, brooches, rings, as well as cigarette cases, clocks, and objects d'art. 450+ illustrations, 350 in full color. A great piece to start a collection, add to one, display on a coffee table, library shelf, etc. Author: Judy Rudoe Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York, NY, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Published: 1997 Language: English Printed and bound: Italy Binding: Hard Cover with cloth binding in red burgundy with silver embossing Dust-Jacket: High-gloss, four-color process. Designed by: Harry Green...

Old American Houses 1700-1850, how to restore, remodel and reproduce them, by Henry Lionel Williams & Ottalie K. Williams. Hardcover book with dustjacket. First edition, published in...

The Complete Work of Raphael, (1483-1520). Published in New York, Reynal & Company in association with William Morrow and Company, 1969. Raphael Sanzio, usually known by his first na...

AUTHOR: JOHNSON, Samuel. TITLE: The Works Of Samuel Johnson. PUBLISHER: Oxford: by Talboys And Wheeler; and W. Pickering, 1825. DESCRIPTION: OXFORD ENGLISH CLASSICS. 11 vols., 8-...

“Dosso Dossi: Court Painter in Renaissance Ferrara” – Art Book, 1999 Exhibition Catalogue A definitive and richly illustrated monograph on Dosso Dossi, the celebrated court painter of Ferrara. Published to accompany the landmark 1999 exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and J. Paul Getty Museum, this volume remains the authoritative reference on the artist’s oeuvre. Authored by leading scholars Peter Humfrey and Mauro Lucco, the book surveys nearly all known works—mythological, allegorical, and religious—highlighting Dossi’s imaginative style and Venetian influences. Notable paintings such as Jupiter Painting...

Limited Edition . A painter's book The first complete work designed in gouache and cut-out paper by Matisse, JAZZ is the most accomplished painter's book. The set of colour plates, ...

AUTHOR: SCHULZ, Charles. TITLE: Peanuts Jubilee. My Life and Art With Charlie Brown and Others. PUBLISHER: NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975. DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION INSCRIBED WITH A DRAWING. 1 vol., 15-3/8" x 11-3/8", illustrated, inscribed on the half-title "For B. J. with every best wish - Charles M. Schulz" with the addition of a large full body sketch of Snoopy, hardcover, original stamped silver boards. CONDITION: Inner and outer hinges fine, mild general handling to covers, foredge of rear pastedown and endpaper worn, internally clean and bright, overall VERY GOOD. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: "B.J." is B.J. Thomas best...

AUTHOR: JONSON, Ben. TITLE: The Works Of Ben Jonson, With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and A Biographical Memoir. PUBLISHER: London: for many, 1816. DESCRIPTION: 9 vols., 8-5/...

Frida Kahlo is now regarded as one of the foremost artists of the 20th century. Her reputation grew late in her life and more so, posthumously. During her life she was more famous fo...

Sotheby's: 1993, Loyd-Paxton Collection of Dallas Texas. This catalog contains selections from the Collections of Loyd-Paxton of Dallas, Texas including: European Furniture and Decorations, Japanese, Indian and Chinese Works of Art...

My Time at Tiffany's by Gene Moore. St Martins Press, 1990. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Gene Moore dressed Tiffany's windows for 35 years and helped ...

First edition, second printing of a foundational text of the women's liberation movement, radical both in its political messaging and because it was written “by women for women.” Ari...

Antique 19th century leather bound books Set includes: 1,2,3,5,6,7,9 Measures: 1" W x 3.5" D x 5.5" H We acquired a collection of leather bounds from a small library collector.

Goldsmith, John An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord God M.DCC.LXXXIV. 1784 London: Company of Stationers, 1783, first edition 48mo, 4 x 2 1/2 in. (113 x 53 mm); pp. 48 + blank page...

An exceptional and completely intact early 18th century Benedictine monastic chant-antiphonal manuscript, handwritten in Upper Austria in 1719 by the nun Johanna Elisabeth Zundorffs ...

Extraordinary handwritten Baroque-era exorcistic healing and ritual manuscript originating from the Austrian–Bavarian Alpine sphere, executed entirely in German Kurrent script with s...

Tolkien, J.R.R., The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King. London: Allen & Unwin, 1956, 1957, 1959. First editions, fifth impression ...

A rare and visually striking early 18th-century German Baroque devotional work printed in Nuremberg in 1705, richly illustrated with dramatic allegorical engravings depicting the “Vi...

AUTHOR: HABINGTON, William. TITLE: The Historie Of Edward The Fourth, King Of England. PUBLISHER: London: by Tho. Cotes, for William Cooke, 1640. DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION. 1 vo...

A vintage Mid-Century Modern American collection of twenty five volumes Deluxe Edition Harvard Classics books, covered in red, green leather in good c...

Dennis Stock – California Trip, First Printing, Grossman Publishers, New York, 1970. A highly collectible first edition documenting California’s cultural landscape through the lens o...

Twelve issues 1965 Year of Bo Bedre (Live Better) Danish language vintage magazines of Scandinavian Home Style and Design. First published in March 1961. The magazines are in the Da...

Christie's Monte Carlo; Collection Akram Ojjeh. Monte Carlo: Christie's, 1999. Hardcover with French text. 328 pp. The single-owner sale of the collection of the late Akram Ojjeh the...

Adrian Alan Catalog. First edition hardcover. Adrian Alan was established in 1964, Adrian Alan is an international family run business and one of the world...

Travels Through the Western Country in the Summer of 1816 by David Thomas. Auburn, NY, Printed by David Rumsey, 1819. Dimensions: 4.25" x 1" x 6.75" (W x D x H)

Tina Modotti Photographs by Sarah Lowe. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1995. Harry N Abrams, NY. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. 160 pp., 119 plates and 29 text figures in duotone. T...

A quite scarce and coveted hardcover book in slipcase - "Dali: A Study of His Art-In-Jewels (The Collection of the Owen Cheatham Foundation)". Bound into the book are color photographs of 28 jewels designed by Dali with comments and captions written by the artist himself. The book was published by The New York Graphics Society in 1959 - a quite collectible first edition/first printing (with no other printings noted) of the art book. The book is boldly hand-signed and dated (in the year of publication - 1959) by Dali on the lower corner of the first blank page/ front free endpaper. As such, exceedingly rare (we only know of two other existing copies, and only one was also signed in the year the book was published). A scarce signed edition. Would be a great addition to any collector of Dali's work or those who appreciate his fine art jewelry...

Summer Cottages and Castles, Scenes from the Good Life by Patricia Corbin. New York: E.P. Dutton, Inc., 1983. Hardcover with dust jacket. 139 pp. Photographic overview of beautifully...

Author: FLEMING, Ian. Title: You Only Live Twice - UNCORRECTED PROOF. Publisher: London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, UNCORRECTED PROOF. 1 vol., perhaps limited to approximately 500 copies, neat ownership signature to page 3. Bound in the publisher's original pictorial printed wrappers. Condition: Slight slant to spine, general light...

Vinci, Leonardo da & Carlo Amoretti Trattato della Pittura di Lionardo da Vinci (Treatise on Painting by Leonardo da Vinci) Milano: Società Tipografica de' Classici italiani, 18...

David Hockney CH RA has always been closely associated with California, where he has lived for much of his life. This major study of his work redefines him as an important painter of...

Domestic Architecture of H.T. Lindeberg by H. T. Lindeberg. NY: Wm Helburn, 1940. Limited (1/1000) first edition hardcover, 1/4 maroon morocco over red cloth, no dust jacket as issued. Illustrated from photographs, drawings, plans, and elevations, including six plates in color; with a list of clients. The introduction by Royal Cortissoz. He designed for the rich and famous of the first half of the 20th century, Astor, DuPont, Morgan, Vanderbilt. Having worked at McKim, Meade & White, and as an assistant to Stanford White he learned the art of the selling his plans. A remarkable architectural monograph. Old owner's stamp (Franklin Adams...

The Ware Chair Makers by Sara Carlisle Watson. Signed by the Author. Bridgeton: Sara Carlisle Watson, 1986. Hardcover. 119 pp. A book on the collectable War...

The Second World War (Chartwell Edition-United States) by Winston Churchill from Houghton-Mifflin Company, Boston. A deluxe edition of Winston Churchill's six-volume memoir, The Sec...

HORST - Interiors is a book which features 52 of the most stunning Interior designs taken by famed fashion photographer Horst P. Horst during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. The images of these splendid houses, apartments and holiday homes - including a memorable portrait of each owner - provides a wonderful record of the changing styles of that period. Horst was invited into homes which many photographers would never have had access to, these included The Duke & Duchess of Windsor, Truman Capote, Jacqueline Onassis...

1 vol. Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, The Federalist on the New Constitution. Written in 1788. Bound in full tan calf leather with red leather onlay and gilt lettering ...

AUTHOR: CHURCHILL, Winston. TITLE: The Second World War. (The Gathering Storm - Their Finest Hour - The Grand Alliance - The Hinge Of Fate - Closing The Ring - Triumph and Tragedy)...

One-volume survey of "Austrian Applied Arts", primarily Secession, with an introduction by Josef Hoffmann. Published in 1930 by Heinz & Co. Organized by t...

Hard to find limited edition Disney "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" book with four serigraphs, circa 1978. This book is #2230 of #9500 distributed worldwide and is lavishly illustr...

Faust volume 1 & 2 by Johann Wolgang Goethe. Printed in these miniature version by Schmidt & Günther in Leipzig, Germany in 1907. The share the same distinct qualities as regular cla...

Treasury of Art Nouveau Design & Ornament, a pictorial archive of 577 illustrations, selected by Carol Belanger Grafton. Softcover book, published in 1980 by Dover Publications, Inc....

AUTHOR: EDMONDS, Cyrus R. TITLE: The Life and Times of General Washington. PUBLISHER: London: Thomas Tegg, 1839. DESCRIPTION: THIRD EDITION. Two volumes bound in one, 6-1/8" x 4-...

The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer translated by Alexander Pope, a New Edition with preface and notes by the translator. Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, 1810. The b...

The Definitively Unfinished Marcel Duchamp by Thierry De Duve. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1991. Pre-Publication advance first edition hardcover with dust...

Large folding sales brochure (12" x 9", opening to 36" x 24"), printed in color and black-and-white, published by The Widdicomb Furniture Company circa 1950 and distributed through M...

This is a soft covered exhibition catalogue which was produced in 1992 by Galerie Pierre Passebon and Galerie du Passage of an exhibition of 33 pieces designed and created by Argentinian designer Marcial Berro...

AUTHOR: POPE, Alexander. TITLE: The Works of Alexander Pope. PUBLISHER: London: by J. F. Dove for Richard Priestley, 1822. DESCRIPTION: NEW EDITION. 9 vols., 8-5/8" X 5-1/2", not...

A beautifully preserved medieval illuminated manuscript leaf on vellum (animal skin), dating to circa 1350–1450, originating from Europe. Italy. This striking example of Gothic craftsmanship features elegant textura script meticulously hand-lettered in rich brown ink across both sides, accompanied by vibrant rubrication and finely rendered initials in red and blue. The recto is adorned with a large illuminated initial, intricately decorated with geometric and foliate motifs, while delicate pen flourishes extend into the margins, demonstrating the skill and artistry of a professional scriptorium. The verso continues with carefully structured text and ornamentation, revealing the continuity of the manuscript’s original use. The presence of decoration on both sides highlights its authenticity as a working liturgical page rather than a later decorative fragment. Executed on supple vellum, the surface retains a beautiful natural patina, with subtle tonal variations and signs of age that enhance its historical character. The text is drawn from the Latin Psalms, traditionally used in devotional practice, adding both spiritual and cultural significance. The text translates in English as: “Lord, hear my prayer, and let my cry come to you. Do not hide your face from me; in the day when I am in trouble, incline your ear to me. On whatever day I call upon you, hear me quickly. For my days have vanished like smoke, and my bones have dried up like firewood. I am stricken like grass and my heart has withered, so that I forget to eat my bread. From the voice of my groaning, my bones cling to my flesh. I have become like a pelican in the wilderness; I am like an owl among the ruins. I lie awake, and I am like a solitary sparrow on a rooftop. All the day my enemies reproach me; those who praised me swear against me. For I have eaten ashes like bread and mingled my drink with weeping.” Presented in a custom frame, this rare...

Amazing collection of 8 extremely weathered vellum books, Spain/Italy 17th/ 19th century. Weathered and small losses and several old repairs. More photo's available on request, plea...

AUTHOR: HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. TITLE: The Complete Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes. PUBLISHER: Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1892. DESCRIPTION: THE AUTOCRAT EDITION. 13 vols.,...

The quintessential distillation of American Pop culture in the eighties, "Pictures" by Herb Ritts, circa 1988. The book is in very good vintage condition and measures 11.25" x 14.5". A must have! #4282 Herb Ritts was an American fashion photographer who concentrated on black-and-white photography and portraits in the style of classical Greek sculpture. Consequently some of his more famous pieces are of male and female nudes in what can be called glamour photography. Ritts was born in Los Angeles, California to a prosperous family. His parents, Herb and Shirley Ritts, owned a successful furniture business. He received an economics degree from Bard College in upstate New York in 1974 and soon after returned to Los Angeles to work as a sales representative for his family's business. He came out as gay to his parents while in college; they were accepting and supportive. However, Ritts started taking night classes in photography and decided to dedicate himself to the art in the late 1970s. His first break into the business occurred as a result of taking portraits of his actor friend Richard Gere. These photos gained national exposure on the covers of many magazines. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s he worked with magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair and Vogue on portraits of famous people and artistic photos of models. Subjects of his black-and-white celebrity portraits included Kofi Annan, Cindy Crawford, Tenzin Gyatso (the Dalai Lama), Madonna, Jack Nicholson and Elizabeth Taylor. In 1981, Ritts took photos for the album cover of Olivia Newton-John's Physical. He started his long term collaboration with Madonna in 1984, when he shot the ad for her movie Desperately Seeking Susan. In 1984, he photographed Eagles drummer and vocalist Don Henley for his second solo album Building the Perfect Beast. In 1986, Ritts shot the cover photo of Madonna's True Blue album. He later ventured into the world of music video at a suggestion of Madonna and filmed her video "Cherish". In 1988, he photographed Steve Winwood for his Roll With It album. In 1989, he photographed Belinda Carlisle...

32 vol. Charles Dickens, The Works of Charles Dickens. Large Paper Edition, Limited Edition limited to 500 sets, of which this is no. 35. With critical and bibliopgraphic introductio...

This is antique copy of Ovid's Art of Love. An English translation of a Roman elegy, dating to the Regency period, dated 1824. Originally written in Latin in 2 AD, Ars Amatoria - A...

by Sandra Dachs, Patricia De Muga & Laura Garcia Hintzo Focuses on Eileen Gray, a breakaway designer in a world dominated by male-centric style schools Besides an introductory essay, each title in the By Architects series is compiled by key modern architects through sketches, drawings, photos of the original productions, and ambient shootings A design-orientated book for a design-orientated series, Eileen Gray boasts an innovative layout and a special binding Neglected for most of her career, Eileen Gray (1878-1976) is now regarded as one of the most important furniture designers and architects of the early twentieth century and the most influential woman in those fields. Her work inspired both modernism and Art Deco. Eileen Gray was to stand alone throughout her career, first as a lacquer artist, then a furniture designer, and finally as an architect. At a time when other leading designers were almost all male and mostly members of one movement or another - whether a loose grouping like De Stijl in the Netherlands, or a formal one such as the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne - Gray remained staunchly independent. Her design style was as distinctive as her way of working. Gray developed an opulent, luxuriant take on the geometric forms and industrially produced materials used by the International Style designers, such as Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand and Mies van der Rohe, who shared much of her ideology. Her voluptuous leather and tubular steel Bibendum Chair and clinically chic E-1027 glass and tubular steel table...

AUTHOR: BACON, Francis. TITLE: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron Of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High Chancellor Of England. PUBLISHER: London: for W. Baynes and Sons, 1...

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT THE NATURAL HOUSE First Edition 1954 HORIZON Hardcover book nice original condition beautiful patina and pictures.

Practical size and fine looking briefcase for the urban professionals. This wonderful and slim design vintage briefcase is in very good condition. All hinges, clasps and also the lo...

Author: FITZGERALD, Edward. (Omar Khayyam) Title: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The Astronomer Poet of Persia. Rendered into English verse. Publisher: London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd....