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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.

Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. two-toned cloth. Fine. 236 pages. One hundred plates, including three in color and a map of Africa. With Foreword by Paul S. Wingert. Surveys the development of sub-Saharan African art from the colonial period to the present. Glossary of Names. Bibliography. Index.

New York: Abrams, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Very good. 263 pages. Voluminously illustrated with photographs in black and white and color, with a color map of the climatic zones of Africa. Examines African and Oceanic art, focusing on sculpture, masks, and figures. Bibliography.

Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. white cloth. Very good in lightly soiled dust wrapper. 312 black and white illustrations. Index. Large sections of the book are devoted to product design -- lights, cookers, food-mixers, clocks -- and another large section isdevoted to tools, instruments, office equipment and transport. Ex-library.

Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum, 1977. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Kuniyoshi, Utagawa. 32 pages. Twelve full-color reproductions. Woodblock prints from a prolific and inventive ukiyo-e artist. His satire remains alive and humane today.

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.

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: 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.

London: John Murray, 1841. New Edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth front cover lavishly illustrated in gilt borders and arabesques. Teg. Near fine. Jones, Owen. Unpaginated, approx. 200 pages in text. Four full-page chromolithograph illustrations with borders, colored titles, and ornamental vignettes [all are color lithographs] designed by Owen Jones. Numerous text illustrations from drawings by William Allan, David Roberts, William Simson, Henry Warren, C.E. Aubrey, and William Harvey. A new edition, revised: first published 1823. One of the earliest and most attractive of Victorian color plate gift books. A work of true scholarship with the author best known for his biography of his father-in-law Sir Walter Scott. Slight rubbing to corners.

Firenze: Sansoni, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth lettered in gilt. Near fine. Pisani. 87 pages in text, 163 illustrations. Index of Names. Index of Places. Text in Italian. FREITAG 591. LUCAS p78.

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: Society of Antiquaries of London, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brick cloth. Very good. 189 pages. Fifty-one plates, many are gate-folds. Contents include: "Christian Antiquities of Tripolitania." "The Temple of the Imperial City of Luxor," "Roof-bosses in St. George's Chapel, Windsor," Some Seventeenth-century Houses in Great Yarmouth." Index. Volume 95 (Second Series, Vol. 45).

New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1852. Hardcover. Orig. green publisher's cloth decorated in blind, front cover chairs in gilt. Very good. 484 pages. 24 x 15 cm. This edition, 15th thousand not noted by HITCHCOCK .327. illustrations, many tinted, many full page plates with plans to scale. KARPEL B223. "One of the most important and influential mid-nineteenth-century house pattern books, including designs for cottages, farm houses, and villas with remarks on interiors, furniture, and the best mode of warming and ventilating." Owner inscription free front endpaper, interior contents clean and fresh, backstrip foot chipped. Toning to front few and at very end, spime faded to brown. Two centimeter loss title page head lettering not affected.

New York: Praeger, 1971. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Orig. sandlewood cloth. Very good in nicked dust wrapper. 161 pages in text. 216 photographs and 108 maps and plans. Bibliography. Index. The author surveys Polish architecture from its medieval beginnings to buildings completed in 1969, and describes the great brick churches of the Baltic coast. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER J266. "A scholarly, well-written survey of architecture within the present boundaries of Poland....

New York: George Braziller, 1966. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Very good. 232 pages. Illustrated with drawings. Index. A sensible, sensitive and only reliable approach of checking the accuracy of the design plan.

New York: Hastings House, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. 598 pages. With 993 line drawings and over 100 plates. Comprehensive survey of Europe's architectural heritage. Glossary. Index. All the major historical styles are examined in this survey.

London: Faber and Faber, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth. Near fine in chipped dust wrapper. 222 pp. Illustrated with ninety-six pages of photographic reproductions and numerous line drawings in the text. Index. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER I53. "An extended essay on the fundamental problem of monumentality in the art of the ancient Near East (Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete)." Small owner blind stamp.

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: 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.

New York: Pantheon, 1947. First edition. Orig. black cloth. Near fine. 268 pages in text. 153 black and whiteplates. Bibliography. Index to Text and Illustrations. Chronological Table. CHAMBERLAIN 531. "Based on the author's earlier work, `Monuments Of The Early Church,' but does not entirely supersede the first work....." LUCAS p32.