New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition (so stated) of Abbott's photo essay on the streets, store fronts, artists, alleyways, restaurants, and bars of New York City's Greenwich Village. With text by Henry W. Lanier, editor, writer, and son of southern poet Sydney Lanier. Demy 8vo..... more

Paris: E. F. D'Allignan, 1919. Illustrated Wrappers. One of 300 numbered copies on Rives à la forme, from a limited edition of 347, of Belot's fourth book. Text in French. 8vo (285 X 210mm): [68]pp on double-fold sheets, divided into seven sections and profusely illustrated with woodcuts in black and..... more

London: Boosey and Sons, 1825 / 1827. Paper-Covered Boards. Uncommon English translations of these two works by German educator Bernhard Heinrich Blasche, providing "Instructive Amusement for young persons," calculated to "introduce children to the most common and practical applications of geometry." (Preface) Papyro-Plastics: Second Edition, "greatly enlarged and improved." 16mo..... more

London: published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. Quarter-Calf. Greatly revised and expanded Second Edition of Christie's treatise, linking Greek vase shapes and iconography to mystery cults, the Hindu festival of Diwali, and lantern celebrations in China. Demy 4to (270 x 210mm): x,[2],146pp, with sixteen engraved plates..... more

London: printed for Bernard Lintott, between the Temple Gates, in Fleetstreet, 1716. Cambridge-style Calf. Second Edition, revised and enlarged, of Dryden's prose translation of du Fresnoy's poem on the art of painting, prefaced by Dryden's Parallel of Poetry and Painting and with Richard Graham's biographical chronology of painters, "A short..... more

London: B. T. Batsford, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Scarce First Printing of this chronology, listing more than 600 literary references to wallpaper during the past 450 years. Royal 8vo (246 x 150mm): 211,[1]pp, with colored frontispiece and 126 further illustrations (some in color). Publisher's navy cloth, spine ruled and lettered..... more

London: printed for R. Blamire, in the Strand, M.DCC.XCII [1792]. Early Reprint. Quarter-Morocco. Fourth Edition (so stated) of the first standard guide on print collecting in England. 8vo: xiii,[3],174,xi,[1]pp. Contemporary quarter black morocco over marbled boards, flat spine in six compartments between gilt rules, gilt urn stamped in each but..... more

London: Phaidon Press, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of this path-breaking work in the psychology of perception that influenced thinkers as diverse as Carlo Ginzburg, Nelson Goodman, and Umberto Eco. Thick royal 8vo (254 x 187mm): xxxi,[1],466pp, with 319 illustrations, some folding and in color. Publisher's original scarlet linen..... more

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster-Row, 1844. Decorative Cloth. First Edition of this key scientific study of the action and effect of solar rays on various chemicals used in photography, and generally considered the first history of that art, uncut and entirely unopened in the original binding. Demy 8vo..... more

Milano: Published by Electa Editrice, 1955. Limited Edition, No. 48 of 1000 copies, of Berenson's bibliography of books and articles on the history of art, notably Renaissance Italian painting. Royal 8vo (249 x 174mm): 74 French-folded leaves (printed on one side of the leaf), with four tipped-in facsimiles of holograph..... more

New York: Published by Howard Greenberg Gallery, 2005. Stiff Wrappers. First Printing of a catalogue for an exhibition, "Jinx Allen in Florence," September 16 to October 22, 2005, at Howard Greenberg Gallery, in New York, devoted entirely to images Orkin made over the course of a day, one of which..... more

New York: George Braziller, 1975. Second printing. Hardcover. Reproduced from the illuminated manuscript in the Peirpont Morgan Library, with 57 color plates. 8vo: 359, [1]pp, with 160 full-page color reproductions. As New (and unread) in As New slipcase. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in..... more

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1920. Quarter-Cloth. Limited Edition (2,000 unnumbered copies printed, of which 1,200 for sale in Great Britain and 800 in the United States), collecting portraits of Rothenstein's friend and contemporaries (including Max Beerbohm, Joseph Conrad, Sir Edward Elgar, André Gide, Thomas Hardy, A. E. Housman, T. E...... more