Rare Books

[Verve (Vol VIII, Nos. 33-34] 30 lithographs, including the cover (18 in color). Text in French by Jean Wahl and Meyer Schapiro. No dust jacket. some damage to the spine but lithogra...

You talking to me? Previously unseen photographs from Scorsese's masterpiece. Taxi Driver has long been regarded as a cinematic milestone, and Robert DeNiro’s portrait of a tri...

Author: POTTER, Beatrix. Title: The Tailor of Gloucester. Publisher: London: Privately Printed by Strangeways & Sons, 1902. PRIVATELY PRINTED BY THE AUTHOR, LIMITED TO 500...

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...

Hard back book with dustjacket in very good condition. 191 pages lavishly illustrated throughout with colour and black & white photographs which show the interior designs and furniture by Jules et Andre Leleu...

This book was published concurrently with a retrospective exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. This is a 1st edition copy which is in good condition and still has the origin...

Julia Child MASTERING THE ART OF FRENCH COOKING VOL. ONE New York: Alfred A. Knopf. First Publishing 1961; Sixth Printing 1964. Hardcover. Autographed fro...

This is an antique copy of The Life & Explorations of Dr. Livingstone. An English language African travel and history book, dating to the Victorian period, circa 1875. A Victorian p...

Art at Auction : The Year at Sotheby's 1981-1982. Published by Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1982. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. This annual reference work provides a view of the year's...

This handsomely bound volume collects six issues of Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes — Nos. 755 through 760, covering January through June 1923 — published in London by Vinton...

A hard-cover book with dust-jacket on abstract American artist Frank Stella, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970, New York, NY. This book presents a decade of Sella's work from 1959 - 1...

Jacques Emile Ruhlmann was one of the greatest and most prolific Art Deco cabinet makers and interior designers of the first half of the twentieth century. Ruhlmann was known for his...

This monograph is about the life and works of Charlotte Perriand who was one of the most influential designers whose life (1903-1999) spanned of the 20th century. In the late 1920's ...

Art Nouveau Sculpture by Alastair Duncan. Softcover book, published in 1978 by Rizzoli. Printed in Great Britain, illustrated, 95 pages.

A striking pair of 15th–16th century antiphonal leaves, executed on vellum (animal skin), originating from a large-format choir book used in ecclesiastical settings. These manuscript...

Sotheby sale Paris Thursday 30th September & Friday 1st October 2004. This is the sale catalogue produced by Sotheby's in 2004, for sale of the property of Madeleine Castaing, pr...

The very scarce first edition of Samuel Croxall's translation of the fables of Aesop, illustrated throughout and in a handsome full calf binding. The very scarce first Croxall trans...

This is 2 antique volumes of Morant's History of Essex. An English, county reference book, dating to the Regency period, dated 1816. Full title: The History and Antiquities of the C...

Tricia Guild's Country Color. Hardcover book with dustjacket. First edition, published in 1994 by Rizzoli of New York. Printed and bound in Verona, Italy. Illustrated, 192 pages.

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-...

3 Vol. Thomas L. McKenney, History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Embellished with one hundred portraits fro...

Van Gogh in Arles by Ronald Pickvance. Hardcover book with dustjacket, published in conjunction with the exhibition held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, between October ...

A fine Mars bookmark. By Tiffany & Co. In sterling silver. In the form of the Mars symbol, used in modern day as the representation of the Male and Masculinity. Simply wonderful ...

Rare 1998 monograph "Tenreiro," edited by Soraia Cals with an introductory text by fellow designer Sergio Rodrigues, published by Bolsa de Arte do Rio de Janeiro. This 223-page vol...

A highly desirable signed example of Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donald J. Trump, written with Tony Schwartz and published by Random House in 1987—arguably the most recognizable bu...

This is a three volume boxed set of sale catalogues which were produced by Sotheby's in 1999 for the disposal of the effects of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. It ranges from large scale pieces of furniture from their homes in France to many personal items...

Complete four-volume set of musings on design and life by noted American design consultant and writer Ralph Caplan (1925-2020), printed on faux notebook paper with faux marginal anno...

AUTHOR: DODGSON, Charles L. (Lewis Carroll). TITLE: Alice's Adventures In Wonderland. PUBLISHER: New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1866. DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION SECOND ISSUE....

'De Indische Archipel: Tafereelen uit de natuur en het volksleven in Indië' by C.W. Mieling. This is a very rare first edition (only 1 copy in Nederlandse Centrale Catalogus – NCC and only 1 copy in JAP, sold in 1974) of a sumptuous work originally published in 12 instalments (started in 1865 by C.W. Mieling and completed in 1876 by J.M. van ‘t Haaff, both in The Hague). It was in January 1862 that a Prospectus was issued by C. W. Mieling, The Hague, announcing the publication of what is the most spectacular of the plate works of Indonesia, De Indische Archipel, which commenced publication in The Hague in 1865. The work contains 24 large chromolithograph plates which are among the largest published on Indonesia. From both a topographical and artistic point of view the plates are of considerable interest as they present a comprehensive series of views in the archipelago, ranging through Java. Borneo, Sumatra and Minahasa, after drawings by virtually all the prominent mid-19th century artists of Indonesia: Raden Saleh...

This unique book is very rare and terrific edition which goes back to late 19th century, approximately 1870-1875. This is one of two volumes of Complete Works of W. Shakespeare. This...

AUTHOR: ABRAHAM LINCOLN ASSASSINATION. TITLE: Trial of the Assassins and Conspirators for the Murder of Abraham Lincoln, and The Attempted Assassinations Of Vice-President Johnson ...

Annotated Bavarian Schreib-Kalender, Munich 1766 – With Contemporary Handwritten Accounts A rare surviving example of a Bavarian Schreib-Kalender (writing calendar) for the year 176...

Alberto Pinto was one of the most celebrated interior designers at work in the late 20th century and the early years of the 21st century. In this book he looks to the wonders of the ...

Frank Lloyd Wright Schumacher wallcovering books catalogue reference 1986-1999 - ‘Prints inspired by nature’ Anyone with an ounce of interest i...

This is a set of 3 antique fiction books, Popular Tales by Maria Edgeworth. An English language, hard bound 3 volume set of novels, dating to the Georgian period, published 1814. A prolific novelist of adult and children's literature, Maria Edgeworth (1768 - 1849) was born in Oxfordshire before moving to Ireland. Her best-known work Castle Rackrent was an Irish Catholic...

Mansfield, Katherine & Marie Laurencin, illustrator The Garden Party and Other Stories London: The Verona Press, 1939. LIMITED EDITION 4to, 10 x 7 inches (255 x 175 mm); (i–x), 316,...

Chahine, Edgar & Maurice Barrès LA MORT DE VENISE; Illustré de vingt-six eaux-fortes originales Paris: Société Nouvelle des Éditions d'Art Devambez, 1926 SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 4to,...

London: John Murray, 1819. First Edition. 4to, 8 3/4 x 7 inches (220 x 180 mm); 100 pp with "1819" watermark clearly visible on many pages. Contemporary straight-grained crimson mor...

ABOUT First edition coffee table book of Robert Mapplethorpe's early photographs taken between 1970 and 1974. The photographs are finely reproduced. One of the scarcer titles on Map...

Presenting a gloriously rare book …. Tarzan and The Lost Empire First Edition by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Metropolitan 1929 1st Edition. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-313 [314: blank], i...

Set of old bound books dating from the 19th century. From an old protestant library near Le Havre in France. These beautiful books are perfect to fill a nice library. Sizes may vary.

A distinguished and decorative complete set of The American Educator Encyclopedia, published in 1943, bound in richly embossed burgundy cloth with gilt lettering. This substantial mi...

One of Britain's foremost interior designers, David Hicks sets down , for the first time, both the principles and the practicalities of his profession. With a combination of sound gu...

Publisher: Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de Place / Date: Dordrecht, Abraham Blussé, 1766-1799 Size: 38 parts in 21 volumes. Large 4to. With more than 1100 hand-coloured engraved ...

The Second World War by Winston Churchill from Houghton-Mifflin Company, Boston. A vintage edition of Winston Churchill's six-volume memoir, The Second World War, for which he was a...

Every since he made his first portraits and self-portraits at the age of sixteen, David Hockney has been fascinated by people "the human clay," as W. H. Auden put it, and how that ha...

Three books on Violins and Violin Makers. Known Violin Makers by John H. Fairfield. New York: The Bradford Press, Inc. 1942. Stated first edition hardcove...

"Hansel and Gretel" references the famous fairy tale characters created by Brothers Grimm in 1812 about a woodcutter's children who are abandoned in the woods by their stepmother and...

The House and Garden Book of Classic Rooms by Robert Harling, Leonie Highton, and John Bridges. Vendome Press, NY, 1990. First Edition hardcov...

Step into the mysterious world of literature with the vintage book "Bag of Bones," a second installment of the captivating saga penned by the renowned author Stephen King. Originatin...

This edition, enriched by Cara Tice's racy and whimsical illustrations, is an "Exact reprint of the earliest English text" and was printed in Holland by the Johann Ecnchedé en Zonen ...

Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894. Limited Edition Octavo, 8 1/4 x 5.5 in (206 x 140 mm) 392 pp. Edited by F.S. Ellis. One of 300 copies on Flower paper, printed in red and black i...

A precursor of Benjamin Franklin's famous and popular POOR RICHARD's ALMANAC Rider, Cardanus Rider's (1726) British Merlin; Adorned with many delightful Varieties and Useful Veritie...

This is a vintage copy of 'Castles' by Charles Oman. An illustrated reference book published by the Great Western Railway (GWR) in 1929, presented in intact, original order with char...

Three Centuries of Furniture in color by J. A. Kenworthy-Browne and H. D. Molesworth. Published by Viking a Studio Book, New York, 1972. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Beautiful photos of European and American furniture from the 17th century through the Art Nouveau period, to the present. From a Philadelphia mahogany...

AUTHOR: DICKENS, Charles. TITLE: A Christmas Carol In Prose Being A Ghost Story of Christmas. PUBLISHER: London: Chapman and Hall, 1843. DESCRIPTION: THIRD EDITION. 1 vol., 6-5/8...

This is the sequel to The Nonesuch Press' first book of Blake's Pencil Drawings, published in 1927. The Max Reinhardt / Nonesuch list 1956 remarked: ‘Du...

First edition, stated, of Slim Aarons’s first book of photographs, published in 1974 by Harper & Row. “Attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places,” in the artist’...

A collection of 26 Swedish decorative antique leather-bound library books from the from the 1920s-1940s.The books are wrapped in leather-bound covers, comprised of a selection of war...

7 Houses - John Hejduk - first edition - 1980. "a must for any design library". Book in generally good condition - cover is soiled. "New York: Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, 1980. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran January 22 through February 16, 1980. Introduction by Peter Eisenman...