Search Results: 19th Century from Carnegie Hill Books

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1988. Quarto. 160 pp; more than 60 color & 50 b/w illustrations throughout; bibliography; index. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. The illustrated history of absinthe. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

NY: Viking Press, 1966. First edition. Quarto. 497 pp; 491 b/w photographs; 127 illustrations of inlays in color; 21 room settings (11 in color; 46 cabinetmakers' labels and 39 furniture details for regional identification; cabinetmakers' biographies; bibliography; index. Cloth with dj. VG/VG, light chipping at top & bottom of dj spine & bottom corner, dj price clipped. The important reference book on American Federal furniture; and an essential work for the serious student of American decorative arts. Arntzen P218, Franklin 2300. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good-.

NY: Crown Publishers, 1975. Quarto. 240 pp; 227 illustrations. Cloth with dustjacket. Edges of pages age toned, else very good in very good jacket.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1985. Quarto. 90 pp; 60 color & b/w plates; notes on the artists, index of artists. Paperback. VG, light edge wear.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1989. Quarto. 320 pp; 121 objects or sets of objects illustrated in color, with a few details in b/w; bibliography. Cloth with dj. VG/VG. Exhibition catalogue, Metropolitan Museum of Art.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. First edition. Quarto. xiv, 397 pp; 1508 b/w & color illustrations; notes; indexes. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: Simon & Schuster, 2000. First printing. Octavo. 284 pp. Cloth-backed hardcover with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket shows minor rubbing, no tears or chipping.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good+.

NY: Thames & Hudson, 2007. Reprint. Quarto. 336 pp; 15 drawings; 506 b/w photographs; glossary; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine. A superb photographic survey of the forms taken by cast iron ornamentation, its national variations, its relationship to architecture, and its contribution to the attractiveness of buildings. Includes many examples in several Australian cities. Originally published in 1977.. Reprint. Hard Cover. New/New.

NY: Westvaco, 1986. Limited edition. Octavo. 343 pp; 44 reproductions of sleel engravings by F.O.C. Darley. Dark green cloth in illustrated slipcase. Top edge gilt, illustrated endpapers. VG/VG. Privately published by Westvaco, Christmas 1986.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

NY: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 2004. Quarto. 32 pp; [23] color illustrations; exhibition catalogue. Paperback. Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy. Landscape painter Charles De Wolf Brownell (1822-1909) is one of the least known and most underappreciated American artists of the mid-19th century. Many of Brownell’s best known paintings reflect the spirit and talent of a Rhode Island renaissance man who compiled an impressive collection of artistic works during his fifty-year career.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine.

Santa Barbara, CA: Peregrine Smith, 1978. Small folio. 146 pp; over 100 color & b/w illustrations; biographies of artists; bibliography; index. Paperback. Near Fine. Exhibition and catalogue organized and published by Rutgers University Art Gallery, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in cooperation with The Boston Public Library.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

NY: Rizzoli, 1991. Quarto. 96 pp; 64 color illustrations; bibliography. Paperback. A near fine, unmarked copy - looks new. The designs are from The Drawings Collection, The British Architectural Library, and The Royal Institute of British Architects. C.F.A. Voysey (1857-1941) . First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1980. First edition. Quarto. 319 pp; 79 color & 400 b/w illustrations; appendix; notes and references; glossary; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy, minor wear at base of spine & bottom corners; unclipped jacket shows light scuffing. The author's copy - his bookplate on front pastedown. The history of the first century of derby porcelain, from 1748 to 1848.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1972. First edition. Quarto. 343 pp; nearly 200 color & b/w illustrations; notes; bibliography. Red cloth with gilt lettering in dustjacket. VG/VG.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Longmans Green and Co., 1951. First edition. Octavo. 199 pp; color frontispiece from an aquatint by W.L. Leitch; notes; index. Cloth with dj. VG/VG. The book presents a brilliant picture of the social life and personalities of Edinburgh from 1769 to 1832, a period known as that city's "Golden Age." Some of the men portrayed -- David Hume, Adam Smith, Henry Mackenzie, Robert Burns, Francis Jeffrey, Sydney Smith, Henry Raeburn, Sir Walter Scott and others.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: Oxford University Press, 1956. First edition. Octavo. 292 pp, several b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Black cloth with silver-stamped spine lettering with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket has small loss at head of spine & slight wear to corners, inked price next to printed price on front jacket flap. The biography of A. Oakey Hall, who served as mayor of New York City from 1869 to 1872. A lawyer, he was the prosecutor in the notorious Burdell murder case, and a chief defender of August Belmont when Belmont sued the Evening Post for libel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

NY: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989. First U.S. edition. Small quarto. 192 pp; numerous color & b/w illustrations. Cloth with dustjacket. Front free endpaper has vertical crease, top corner gently bumped, else VG/VG. Biographies of Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold, and General Gordon.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971. Octavo. 256 pp; 32 color & 204 b/w photographs; bibliography. Tan cloth with gilt lettered-spine, no dj. VG. This book is the second of a pair by Wills describing the development of English furniture since the 16th century.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 1988. Quarto. 255 pp; 235 objects described and illustrated in color; bibliography; index. Paperback. VG. A well-rounded collection of 18th-century English porcelain and pottery.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Cambridge, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1969. Third printing of new illustrated edition (1955). Octavo. xvii, 565 pp; 14 b/w illustrations. Map on endpapers. Blue cloth with gilt image of man wearing hat on cover and spine, gilt lettered-spine, in dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket - spine faded, corners & spine ends lightly chipped, folds lightly rubbed. This is the fictionalized tale of Martha "Patty" Cannon (circa 1760-1829), the leader of a gang in the early 19th century that kidnapped slaves and free blacks from the Delmarva Peninsula and transported and sold them to plantation owners located further south.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.