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London & Paris: J.Thane & Chez Hannan et Potonant, 1785. Stiff Wraps. Very good. Kauffman, Angelica. Color stipple engraved on wove paper, plate 29 x 24 cm., total margin 51 x 38 cm. Sir Joshua Reynolds was one of her staunchest allies. As a woman and history painter, an unusual designation for a woman artist in the 18th century considering history painting was the elite and most lucrative category dominated by men. The genre required extensive learning in biblical and classical literature, a background in which most women were denied access. Engraved by John Ogborne. Margins dusty.

New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1983. First edition. Paperback. Orig. printed wrappers. Fine. 104 pp. Sixty-eight plates, many in full-color. Foreword by Thomas M. Messer. Index to Checklist. Works in the Exhibition. Artist biographies. One of 4000 copies.

Berlin: Amsler & Ruthhardt, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. full vellum, spine and cover lettered in gilt. Fine. Van Ostade, Adriaen. 5 pages in text. 37 x 29 cm, Limited edition, copy 7 of 16. Fifty plates. Van Ostade, a painter and etcher was a pupil of Frans Hals. Best known for his good humored scenes of peasant life, depicting their carousing and brawling. Clean and bright throughout, all plates with wide margins.

Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1980. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth. Near fine. Castagno, Andrea del. 224 pages. 134 plates and twenty-four text figures. Bibliography. Index of Works by Location. General Index. The first full study of Castagno to appear in English. FREITAG 1465.

London: George Bell & Sons, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. Pebble grained slate blue cloth spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Teg. Very good. 163 pages. 31.5 x 24 cm. Limited edition, copy 211 of 325 bound in Lady Margaret Critchton-Stuart Hand-Loom linen. Title page printed in red and black. Multitude of full page miniatures with multiple images per plate plus lettered tissue guards. Index. The two brothers were originally apprenticed as clock makers. Interior contents clean, fresh and bright. Slight nick to spine at foot. Bookplate of Kenneth Rapoport.

New York: Reinhold, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth. Very good in worn dust wrapper. 228 pp. Preface by Le Corbusier. Voluminously illustrated in black and white and with color plates. Index. Le Corbusier notes, "Neither architecture nor urbanismhave as yet manifested themselves in terms of decisive and universally accepted realities." (Unlike painting and sculpture). Le Corbusier admires Damaz'sattempt to focus upon these differences between disciplines. Owner inscription.

Washington,DC: GPO, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue leatherette cloth with front cover lettering in gilt. Near fine. 455 pages. Comprises a total of 744 works of art and other objects as of June 1964. This is an 88th Congress, 2nd Session publication. Updates Fairman's "Art and Artists," published in 1927. A profusion of black and white plates. Bears discard stamp of the Library of the US Supreme Court. Extensive Index. Owner inscription.

London: Phaidon, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth. Near fine in chipped dust wrapper lacking portion at front cover foot. 256 pp. 215 illustrations with an abundance of full-color plates. Bibliography. Index. The author traces thedevelopment of the Secession movement whose members included Klimt, Kokoschka, Schiele (visual arts), and Otto Wagner, Adolf Loos and Josef Hoffman (architecture and applied Arts).

Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. persimmon cloth. Very good in very good dust wrapper. 306 pages. 256 illustrations including thirty color plates. Bibliography. List of Exhibitions. Index. A unique, comprehensive survey and critical evaluation of the contributions made to the Theater by major painters and sculptors of the 20th century. Sets and costumes were designed by Munch, Schwitters, Picasso, Calder, Dali, Leger, Kandinsky and sixty-three other notable artists.

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.

Tokyo: Kodansha, 1972. Hardcover. Orig. decorated beige cloth. Fine in near fine dust wrappers in clear plastic overwrappers. 2 Vols. 236, 229 pages. Folio, 36.5 x 27 cm. Two monumental works with a host of black and white, color and tipped-in plates. Chronology of Japanese Art until 1568 (Vol.I) and Chronology of Japanese Art from the Sixteenth Century. Supplementary Notes and Glossary in each volume. Interior contents bright and fresh. Book label of Ursus Books.

London: The Fine Art Society, Ltd, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. Black cloth backstrip and brown cloth lettered in gilt. Teg. Very good. 176 pages. 27 x 21 cm. Haig, Swedish painter, draftsman, engraver noted for his architectural etchings lived in England, traveled widely, dying in 1921. Title page in red and black. Essentially a catalogue raisonne with note stating there will be no further reproduction of his etchings. Full page plates with lettered tissue guards, a few in color, balance in black and white. Index to his Etchings. Bookplate. Interior clean and bright.

New York: Abrams, 2002. First edition. Boards. Orig. illustrated boards. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 160 pages. Folio, 30 x 25 cm. 135 illustrations, including 125 plates in color. Chronology. Index.

New York: Christie's, 2015. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. stiff illustrated wrappers. Fine. Lucian, Freud. 153 pages. 28 x 26.5 cm. Profusely illustrated with color photographs. With commentary and criticism from Freud, concerning his models, He notes, "I like skin....It's so unpredictable." David Hockney who sat for and is pictured here says, "I was fascinated by his process.

Copenhagen: Galleri Faurschou, 2001. First printing. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. 30 pages. Nine color plates with letterpress descriptions, media and size printed on thick quality lustrous stock.

Boston: Marshall Jones, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. thick dark gray boards and black cloth. Teg. Very good. Hunt, William Morris. 165 pp. 20 illustrations in black and white. Limited edition, copy 1080 of 1500. Hunt painted and taught in Boston, and was a vital force in the development of American art. FREITAG 4530. Extremity chipping.

London: Quartet Books, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blackcloth. Very good in good dust wrapper. Clarke, Brian. 206 pages. Introduction by Professor Johannes Schreiter. Foreword by Patrick Reyntiens. Profusely illustrated; full color and black and white plates -- with all Clarke's major works since 1976 fully catalogued and described here. A contemporary, controversial British artist, his work in this monograph reflects early life drawings and the so-called "punk period", to the recent constructivist paintings and large scale architectural projects.

West Palm Beach: Norton Museum of Art, 2001. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Fine. 78 pages. 25 x 21 cm. Illustrated in color and black and white. Artists Biographies.

New York: Thames & Hudson, 2005. Hardcover. Orig. chocolate brown cloth decorated in blind. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Friedrich, Caspar David. 299 pages, 32 x 27 cm. 193 illustrations with 150 in color. A landscape painter of the 19th century within the framework of European romanticism. Chronology. Bibliography. List Of Illustrations.

Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. Black cloth, lettered in gilt. Fine. Cezanne, Paul. 125 pages. Folio, 39 x 29.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 214 of 250 on papier d'Arches. Black and white and tipped-in color plates, Original brown stiff wrappers laid-in. French text very bright and fresh as is the entire production. The author, also a poet and art critic is? best known for his writing about the artists of his era, particularly Cezanne whom he befriended during an 1895 exhibition at Aix-en-Provence. Bookplate from the Library of Mari Lyons. FREITAG 1525.