Roma Romantica: Vedute di Roma e dei suoi dintorni di A. L. R. Ducros (1748-1810) by Chessex, Pierre, ed - 1985

Milano: Giuseppe Bernardoni, 1853. Second Edition. Hardcover. Dark red half-morocco, leather label stamped in gilt to front cover, ornate gilt spine, marbled edges and marbled endpapers. A description of the architecture of the Carthusian monastery of Pavia. Seventy copper engravings, eight of which are double spreads. Heavy wear to corners and along the spine on front panel, stains to fore and top edge (not affecting the plates), scattered foxing throughout. A good copy. ; Folio.

Venezia: Presso Giovanni Battista Sgava, 1648. First Edition. Hardcover. Volume one. [64], 406, [1]p. With some pagination errors. Contemporary full vellum with lettering in ink on the spine, sprinkled edges. Engraved title, frontispiece of the author and twenty inserted plates with copper engraved portraits. Initials, head-pieces and tail-pieces. Gamba mentions that the most sought after copies are the ones with the inserted plates, like this copy. About Ridolfi, he states: "... la presente opera lo palesa scrittore giudizioso ne' precetti dell'arte, chiaro ed esatto nelle descrizioni, e rare volta pecca in fatto di lingua... " An in-depth look at the life and works of painters such as Andrea Mantegna, Giorgione, Vittore Carpaccio, Palma il vecchio, Lorenzo Lotto, Tiziano Vecellio, Jacopo da Ponte da Bassano, and numerous others. Includes tables with the names of the Greek and Roman painters cited, of the lives of the various painters described, of their works and their locations. Light toning to… Read More

Los Angeles, 1927; Original Leo Cotton pen and ink drawing of Dorothy MacKaye, notorious actress at the center of the scandal that rocked Hollywood in 1927 when her husband, musical comedy star Ray Raymond, was beaten to death by popular actor Paul Kelly, with whom McKaye was involved in a love triangle. While serving time in San Quentin for her part in the crime, MacKaye wrote "Women In Prison," which in 1933 was made into the Warner Bros. film "Ladies They Talk About," starring Barbara Stanwyck and Preston Foster, and again in 1942 as "Lady Gangster," with Faye Emerson and Jackie Gleason. Artist Leo Cotton (1880-1946) was longtime art director of the Los Angeles Examiner where his illustrations for years were a regular feature of the newspaper’s format. In the fine arts arena he is noted for his California landscape paintings, in particular those of the Palm Springs desert region. Drawn on heavy stock and dated on the back 5-29-27, at the time of the trial. Signed… Read More

Rizzoli, New York, 1984; First Edition, First Printing; Quarto, 752 pages; deep blue cloth; gilt titles; illustrated. Art historian Pierre Schneider’s monumental work on Henri Matisse, fourteen years in the making. Profusely illustrated with 930 illustrations, 220 in full color, a number reproduced for the first time here. Premier authority on the subject. First American Edition, with text in English translated from the French by Michael Taylor and Bridget Strevens Romer. Not a later reprint. Very Good Plus in a Very Good Plus dust jacket that has a couple of minor surface wrinkles at the upper portion of the spine panel. Crisp, bright, glossy, corners sharp, no chips or tears, no price-clipping, no ownership signatures.

Fuller Museum of Art, 2001. Paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. Unmarked. Catalog for exhibition at the Fuller Museum of Art, Brown University, and the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Beautifully illustrated. This exhibit, based on Dion's strong ecological concerns, was culled from a series of pseudo-archaeological digs undertaken in Providence, Brockton and New Bedford. Contributions from Gregory Volk, Leah Rosenmeier, Denise Markonish, Antone G. Souza, Jr., and Murney Gerlach. Photography by Bob Braine. 49p.

Milano: Giuseppe Bernardoni, 1853. Second Edition. Hardcover. Dark red half-morocco, leather label stamped in gilt to front cover, ornate gilt spine, marbled edges and marbled endpapers. A description of the architecture of the Carthusian monastery of Pavia. Seventy copper engravings, eight of which are double spreads. Heavy wear to corners and along the spine on front panel, stains to fore and top edge (not affecting the plates), scattered foxing throughout. A good copy. ; Folio.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press [0-8020-0592-6] [1993]. (4to) 301pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Color frontispiece, black & white and color illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. The bottom corners are lightly bumped. Time Period Middle Ages. Locale:. (Art, Stained Glass).

Venezia: Presso Giovanni Battista Sgava, 1648. First Edition. Hardcover. Volume one. [64], 406, [1]p. With some pagination errors. Contemporary full vellum with lettering in ink on the spine, sprinkled edges. Engraved title, frontispiece of the author and twenty inserted plates with copper engraved portraits. Initials, head-pieces and tail-pieces. Gamba mentions that the most sought after copies are the ones with the inserted plates, like this copy. About Ridolfi, he states: "... la presente opera lo palesa scrittore giudizioso ne' precetti dell'arte, chiaro ed esatto nelle descrizioni, e rare volta pecca in fatto di lingua... " An in-depth look at the life and works of painters such as Andrea Mantegna, Giorgione, Vittore Carpaccio, Palma il vecchio, Lorenzo Lotto, Tiziano Vecellio, Jacopo da Ponte da Bassano, and numerous others. Includes tables with the names of the Greek and Roman painters cited, of the lives of the various painters described, of their works and their locations. Light toning to… Read More

Seattle: University of Washington / Henry Art Gallery, 2004 Signed by Santiago Calatrava. First edition / First printing. Poster in blue, red and black. 15" x 24 Very fine.

New York: Neue Galerie [3-7913-3390-9] 2005. (4to) 504pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Frontispiece, black and white and color photographs and illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. "This publication accompanies the exhibition 'Egon Schiele: the Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections,' which presents paintings and drawings from the collections of the co-founders of Neue Galerie New York....the finest gathering of works by Schiele in the United States.". Art of Egon Schiele. Collection of Ronald S. Lauder & Serge Sabarsky. (Art, Exhibition Catalog--Neue Galerie New York).