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Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1965. First edition. Paperback. Orig. blue wrappers. Fine. Copley, John Singleton. 142 pages. 103 color and black and white reproductions. Exhibition Sept. 18, 1965 -Mar. 6, 1966. Bibliography. Catalogue. FREITAG 1765. KARPEL H262. "....commemorates the 150th anniversary of Copley's death.

New York: American Heritage, 1976. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth. Fine in near fine publisher's slipcase. 2 vols. 24 x 16.5 cm. Both volumes illustrated: photos, drawings, maps. Silouettes of Adams and Jefferson decorated in gilt front covers of both volumes with backstrips also gilt decorated.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Orange brown cloth, front cover lettered in silver, black spine label lettered in silver. Fine. 368 pages. 21 x 14.5 cm. Landmark work on the American economy, reasoned and unpolitical, facing a future in pursuit of goods rather than investing in people. It is perhaps truer today than than the day published. Unclipped dust wrapper $5.00 price, pristine almost as new copy.

Washington, DC: Preservation Press, 1994. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Near fine. 633 pages. An illustrated state by state guide with an extensive index. Bookplate.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth. Very good. 368 pages. With several color and over 150 black and white illustrations. Notes. Index. KARPEL H50. "When this book was published in 1947, it was the mostcomprehensive general history of American Painting to 1775, and it remains of value today...

Indianapolis & New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Very good. 262 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Approximately 40 illustrations. Notes. Index. KARPEL B33. "Perhaps the best early general survey." Clean, fresh copy, owner inscription, some pencil underlining.

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 320 pages. Prefaces by Roy Strong and Alan Shestak. With forty-four color and 280 black and white illustrations. Fivee ssays by specialists in American Art at Yale University. Exhibition April 3 - September 26, 1976. Index.

New York: American Heritage, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Very good in rubbed dust wrapper. 399 pp. More than 700 illustrations in black and white and color. Index. The volume startswith Colonial life in the early 1600's and ends in the late 1960's: American society with all its pimples, quirks and extravagances.

New York: The New York Public Library, 1933. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Near fine. 327 pages. 26 x 18 cm. Voluminously illustrated in black and white with reproductions of maps, paintings, watercolors, engravings, and lithographs. List of Towns and Cities. Index of Artists, Engravers, etc. Index of Subjects. KARPEL K317. " In 1930, I.N. Phelps Stokes presented his collection of American historical prints to The New York Public Library. This magnificent catalog was printed serially in the Bulletin of the New York Public Library 1931-1932, then issued as a separate volume. The introduction is a survey of the most important items in the collections, and discusses the general field and its importance to the study of American culture and history." Laid-in is the "Index To Illustrations In The Catalogue of The Stokes Collection of American Historical Views," 14pp. Owner inscription.

Garden City: Garden City Publishing, 1937. Hardcover. Orig. two-toned cloth. Very good. 127 pages. Forty-eight plates. A Biographical Dictionary of The Arts by Theodore Bolton. General Bibliography. Index. KARPEL H145. "After brief chapters on the appeal and origin of miniatures and the use of ivory, Wehle organizes the subject by century and region. Wehle's and Bolton's work remain useful." Minor rubbing and stain to front cover.

Princeton: D. Van Nostrand, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Near fine. 132 pages. More than seventy illustrations [drawings by the author and photographs by Hilda Borcherding]. The five main techniques, namely, Country Painting, Freehand Bronze, Stenciling, Floating Color and Gold Leaf are described.

New York: Castle Books, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Bookplate.Orig. cloth and boards. Near fine in slightly chipped dust wrapper. 271 pages. Illustrated with photographs of interior and exterior views. A tribute to the preservation movement and a warning to maintain vigilance: to protect the remaining historical landmark buildings.

Baltimore: John Hopkins Univ. Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 246 pages. 24 x 16.5 cm. More than 100 illustrations. Index. Most of Godefroy's life in America, 1805-1819 was spent in Baltimore. KARPEL B1097a. "... describes Godefroy's masterful reconciliation of the blunt demands of the industrial age with the tastes of the `ancien regime.

Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue-green cloth. Near fine in illustrated dust wrapper nicked at spine with some loss at head. 241 pages in text. 30.5 x 23 cm. 250 plates, most of which contain two or more illustrations per plate; many withdrawings and plans to scale. With key map, a paste-down at back cover. Notes. Index. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER J309. "An exemplary history of the architecture of atown. Meticulous scholarship." KARPEL B755. "This won the Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award... A great book... Contains superb illustrations.

Utica: Munson - Williams - Proctor Institute, 1960. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated cloth. Very good. Approximately 150 pages. 111 black andwhite illustrations. Foreword by William C. Murray. Introduction by Howard Mumford Jones. Text by Richard B.K. McLanathan. Catalogue designed by Leonard Baskin. KARPEL F53.

New York: W.W. Norton, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Very good in slightly rubbed dust wrapper. 256 pages. Lavishly illustrated with color and black and white plates. A survey of 300 years of American Art with essays by experts. Introduction by Lloyd Goodrich.

Hebron & Philadelphia: Feather and Good & American Philosophical Society, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth rubbed at extremities. Very good in worn dust wrappers. 2 vols. Peale, Charles Wilson. 293 & 468 pages. 8vo, 23 x 16 cm. Twenty-six and forty-five illustrations, respectively. Index in each volume. Extensive bibliography Vol. II. In his early career Peale was a portrait painter, soldier and politician, and in later life turned his attention to the establishment of a museum of natural history. Franklin encouraged his project; Jefferson befriended and promoted it. KARPEL H416-H417. "...these volumes remain the standard work on Peale." Vol. I, a signed presentation copy.

Topsfield: Walpole Society, 1932. Hardcover. Orig green cloth. Fine with original glassine wrappers. 2 vols. 323 & 331 pp. 8vo, Series I-II, total of seventy-one illustrations. Indexes in each volume. Limited editions: First Series, one of 500 and Second Series, one of 400. A mine of information for the antiquarian. KARPEL K66-K67. Entries are arranged according to the last name of the advertiser, and the full text is printed together with the source ofthe advertisement." KARPEL H87. A basic source for regional artists, including miniaturists." Unusually fresh copies, glassine overwrapper of Vol.II worn, scattered light foxing, fore-edges age-toned.

New York: Overlook Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 256 pages. 125 black and white photographs and drawings, and fifty-eight color photographs. Index. An architectural and social tour. Bookplate.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth. Fine in slightly chipped dust wrapper. West, Benjamin. 525 pages. Illustrated. Extensive Bibliography. Index.