Search Results: Art, Photography, & Antiques from Classic Books and Ephemera

1850. Fine. 1 print (16 x 14 cm.). Black-and-white print of Thomas Sully painting of 1843, Cinderella at the Kitchen Fire, showing Cinderella sitting in front of the fire playing with a cat, her stepsisters in the next room in front of a mirror. No date or other publication information; the paper suggests mid- to late-19th century. In Fine Condition: clean and crisp.

New York: X-iing Books, 2010. Paperback. Near Fine -. 128 p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Paperback with orange cover; illustration runs continuously across the covers. Title in silver on front cover and in silver printed in a mirror image on the back cover. Agriculture Reader is an arts annual founded in 2006. This volume contains works by Mary Jo Bang, Mark Bibbins, Evan Commander, Joshua Cohen, Douglas Crase, Jordan Davis, Benjamin De Casseres, Dan Elkind, Dan Hoy, Elaine Kahn, Noelle Kocot, Ben Lerner, Gary Lutz, Peter Markus, Chris Martin, Anthony McCann, Amy McDaniel, Mike McDonough, Ben Mirov, Gene Morgan, Jesse Nathan, Alec Niedenthal, Greg Purcell, Zachary Schomburg, Andrei Sen-Senkov, Peter Jay Shippy, Bianca Stone, and Eva Talmadge. Scarce. In Near Fine- Condition: small scrape in lower right-hand corner of front cover;cover is very lightly soiled; otherwise, clean and bright.

Frankfurt am Main: Prestel Verlag, 1934. Hardcover. Fine. xvii, [3], 56 p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Off-white cover with black spine and cover titles; color illustration on front cover. Contain 56 pages of full-page black-and-white illustrations of drawings by German artists of the 15th and 16th centuries, including Mathias Grünewald, Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein, and Lucas Cranach. In Fine Condition: clean and bright.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Co, 1924. Hardcover. Very Good +. 2 volumes: lxxxii, [2], 227, [1] p.; vii, [3], 265, [1] p.; 22 cm. Red cloth with paper spine labels printed in red and black. Lacking slipcase. Top page edges green. Title pages printed in red and black. Targ, Lafcadio Hearn, 59. Contains 53 stories and articles published by Lafcadio Hearn from 1874 to 1887 while living in the United States, as well as three pieces published in 1890 about his experience in the West Indies and his journey to Japan, where he spent the rest of his life. In Very Good+ Condition: paper spine labels are fragile, with loss in the center of vol. 1 label, and loss at edges of vol. 2 label, which has old tape repair; minor foxing along a few upper page edges; otherwise, clean and tight.

Paris: Librairie Hachette & Cie, 1911. Hardcover. Very Good. 190 p.: full-page and in-text illustrations; 26 cm. Maroon cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles and decoration. Edges of boards are bevelled. Top page edges gilt. Decorated endpapers. Title page in red and black. Series title on cover: Nouvelle Collection des Classiques de L'Art. Former owner's name on half title page: André Popoff. A detailed look at the work of Italian artist Andrea Mantegna (c. 1431-1506). Includes a chronology; a list of his works by location (museum, church, or other location); and an index by subject. In Very Good Condition: edges lightly rubbed; 2 leaves partially detached; light finger soiling in margins; otherwise, clean and tight.

Cambridge, Eng: Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1944. Paperback. Very Good -. Reprinted from the Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol. 64. 35, [1] p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Brown wrapper printed in black. Stamped at lower edge of front wrapper and p. 31: "Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College." The first report by the British School of Archaeology at Athens after the liberation of Athens and return to the school's location, which had not been bombed. Unfortunately, "the Villa Ariadne had been looted of practically every movable object and, apart from the fact that the Germans had installed electric light, was in a poor state." The majority of the report covers new finds during the period of the war. It does not cover damage done to monuments and museums during the war. In Very Good- Condition: wrapper is scraped along spine; ex-library; pages are clean and solid.

Paris: Durand, Pissot, 1752. Hardcover. Very Good. Title page continued: "Un Mémoire sur la Maniere de faire le Saffre; Le Secret des Vraies Porcelaines de Chine & de Saxe. Ouvrages ou l'on trouvera la maniere de faire le Verre & le Crystal, d'y porter des Couleurs, d'imiter les Pierres Prétieuses, de préparer & colorer les Emaux, de faire la Potasse, de Peindre sur le Verre, de préparer des Vernis, de composer des Couvertes pour les Fayances & Poteries, d'extraire la Couleur Pourpre de l'Or, de contrefaire les Rubis, de faire le Saffre, de faire & peindre les Porcelaines, &c. Traduits de l'allemand, par M. D***." [4], lv, [1], 629, [3] p., 16 leaves of copperplate engravings, including the frontispiece (most folded); 26 cm. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Orange leather spine label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title; gilt-tooled decoration in other… Read More

1890. Very Good -. 18.5 x 13 cm. card with pink-and-white embossed floral decoration on the front. Inside is a line drawing of a boy holding a buttercup under the chin of a girl, both in late 19th-century dress. Accompanied by a poem beginning "When the perfume of flowers is shed on the air." A former owner created a three-dimensional effect on the front by adding two layers of decreasing size. Although the original card is designed to be opened vertically, the additions create a horizontal effect. The middle layer is a chromolithographed view with a floral border. The top layer is a die-cut silver-and-white piece with a circular opening in the center framing the view in the layer below. A color cut-out of a child has been added on either side of the opening. Unique. In Very Good- Condition: loss at one corner of the original card; light soiling along edges of original card; otherwise, clean and bright.

Philadelphia: John Sartrain, 1835. Very Good -. 1 mezzotint engraving of Benjamin Carr (1768-1831), American composer, singer, music teacher, and music publisher. Sheet is 30 x 24 cm.; image is 14 x 11 cm. John Sartain (1808-1897) pioneered mezzotint engraving in the United States. He engraved this portrait of Benjamin Carr from a painting by John Clarendon Darley (1808-1863). Undated but probably produced in the 1830s. Number in pencil in lower right-hand corner: 7/882. In Very Good- Condition: light soiling and foxing; a crisp mezzotint image.

London: J. Jenkins, 1815. Very Good -. 1 hand-colored aquatint etching 262 x 328 mm (image is 154 x 222 mm); mat is 14 x 17 inches. Published July 1, 1815. From The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and Her Allies from 1799 to 1815. In Very Good- Condition: lightly soiled in margins; image is clean and bright.

London: J. Jenkins, 1815. Very Good. 1 hand-colored aquatint etching 262 x 328 mm (image is 152 x 226 mm); mat is 14 x 17 inches. Published Aug. 1, 1815. From The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and Her Allies from 1799 to 1815. In Very Good Condition: lightly soiled in margin; image is clean and bright.

London: J. Jenkins, 1815. Near Fine. 1 hand-colored aquatint etching 261 x 328 mm (image is 153 x 223 mm); mat is 14 x 17 inches. Published May 1, 1815. From The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and Her Allies from 1799 to 1815. In Near Fine Condition: very lightly soiled in margins; image is clean and bright.

London: J. Jenkins, 1815. Near Fine. 1 hand-colored aquatint etching 262 x 329 mm (image is 156 x 224 mm); mat is 14 x 17 inches. Published Oct. 1, 1815. From The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and Her Allies from 1799 to 1815. In Near Fine Condition: very lightly soiled in margins; image is clean and bright.

London: J. Jenkins, 1815. Near Fine. 1 hand-colored aquatint etching 261 x 328 mm (image is 153 x 218 mm); mat is 14 x 17 inches. Published Nov. 1, 1815. From The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and Her Allies from 1799 to 1815. In Near Fine Condition: very lightly soiled in margins; image is clean and bright.

New York: Malcolm & Hayes, 1982. Fine. 1 sheet 18 x 27 cm., intended to be folded once (but never folded), with an engraving of Benjamin Franklin walking on a city street, printed in blue and black. The image is 9.2 x 5.7 cm. "Engraved in 1956 it is here printed for the first time." In Fine Condition: clean and bright.

Berlin: Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. "51.-63. Tausend." [6], 346, [2] p., frontispiece and 9 leaves of plates (including portraits); 23 cm. Light brown cloth with dark brown spine and cover titles and decoration. Top page edges dark brown. Small bookseller's label on front fixed endpaper: Wohlthat'sche Buchhandlung K.u.H. Schild, Berlin. Former owner's name on reverse of frontispiece. Carl Ludwig Schleich (1859-1922) was a German surgeon, author, and painter. In Very Good Condition: tail of spine frayed; lacking front free endpaper; a few pages opened carelessly; clean and tight.

Portland, Me: Thomas Bird Mosher, 1898. Paperback. Good +. Printed by Smith & Sale, Portland, Maine. [6], 285-314, [4] p.; 16 cm. Blue-grey paper wrappers printed in black and red; sewn. Some pages are unopened. The Bibelot was published by Thomas Mosher from 1895 to 1914. This issue contains The School of Giorgione by Walter Pater. In Good+ Condition: wrappers are separated along spine (as is usual with issues in the original wrapper), with chipping along some edges; chip out of upper edge of first 3 leaves; pages are clean and bright.

London: Carpenter and Son; J. Booker; and Whittingham and Arliss, 1816. Hardcover. Very Good. "With the Ciphers, Monograms, and Marks, used by Each Engraver; and an Ample List of Their Principal Works. Together with Two Indexes, Alphabetical and Chronological. To Which is Prefixed, an Introduction, Containing a Brief Account of the Painters of Antiquity." Vol. I only. xlix, [1], 709, [1] p., 5 leaves of plates; 28 cm. Original? red cloth boards with later brownish-red cloth spine; gilt-stamped spine title: Bryan's Dictionary of Painters A-L. All page edges speckled red. This volume contains the monograms used by engravers and entries from Aalst to Luyken; an alphabetical index for vol. 1; and the Errata for vol. 1. Front pastedown bears small green and white bookseller's label for Foyles of Charing Cross Rd., London. Small pencilled marginalia. A very scarce copy of the second volume of this important set of reference books. In Very Good Condition: boards are rubbed and… Read More

London: R. Bowyer Historic Gallery, 1802. Very Good. 1 aquatint engraving 439 x 317 mm. (image is 221 x 312 mm.). In Very Good Condition: minor soiling in right margin; minor loss at lower right-hand corner; otherwise, clean and bright.

London: H. Berthoud, 1825. Hardcover. Good +. [72] p., frontispiece and 19 leaves of plates; 36 cm. Contemporary black leather spine with plain grey paper over boards. The publisher intended the plate of Mrs. Siddons to be bound as the frontispiece, but here the plate of Mr. Kean was bound as the frontispiece and that of Siddons before the text about her. Contains 20 engraved portraits by R. Cooper of famous contemporary actors and dancers, including Sarah Siddons as Lady Macbeth, Edmund Kean as Richard III, Samuel Simmonds as Baron Munchausen, dancers Lisa Noblet, Felicite Hullin, and Etienne Le Blond, opera singer Giuseppe de Begnis, and Henry Gattie, Maria Theresa Bland, Sarah Booth, Frances Copeland, and Charles Young. The plates have not been hand-colored. In Good+ Condition: front board and frontispiece are detached but present; lacking leather over spine; foxing, primarily in margins of plates; otherwise, clean and solid.