Search Results: Exhibition Catalogue from Veery Books

Toronto, 1967. 53 pp. including 16 b&w plates. 120 items. Light bumping to fore edge, inside fine. Contents: Introduction; Pharmacists and Apothecaries; Pharmacists Dispensing Medicines; Doctors Giving Medicine to Patients; John Bull and His Doctors; Patients Taking Medicines; The Taste of Medicines; Individual Subjects--Portraits; Individual Subjects--Caricatures; James Morison; Quacks and Quackery; Advertising; The Drug Store; Drug Store Interiors; Diseases and Illnesses; Death; Other Subjects. ''The group chosen for display in this exhibit includes caricatures, portraits, broadsides, and labels; there is even a card from a Victorian Peep Show. The prints include woodcuts, engravings and etchings, lithographs, and drawings. The people included range from the well-known (Napoleon, Gladstone, and Presidents Cleveland and McKinley) to the obscure; Many of the prints have some political significance while others comment on some of the social or professional problems of the day.''… Read More

Durham, North Carolina: Duke School of Medicine Library, 1956. 34 pp. 50 items. Bumping to top and bottom of spine, with short (less than 1/4-inch) spilits. Sewn wraps illustrated by a portrait of Thomas Gale from his Certain Workes of Chirurgerie, 1563 [No. 19]. From the Josiah C. Trent collection in the history of medicine, an annotated catalogue of the exhibition. Compiled by Henry Schuman and Martha Alexander. . Wraps. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Leo Castelli Gallery, 1983. unpag. [24 pp.] Catalog of an exhibition of 24 paintings. Thirteen paintings are illustrated in the book, and Sketch for Greene Street Mural, 1983, is shown on the dust jacket, going from flap to flap. Inner wraps stiff glossy-white stock with only the name Lichtenstein in black, dust jacket heavy, matte, textured white. ''Self-quotation is only one manifestation of a basic characteristic of Lichtenstein's work which is now, once again, of importance--it is his practice of adapting and reworking the art of others, irrespective of its artistic quality: bet it a questionable historical painting of the nineteenth century, such as Emanuel Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware or Albert Bierstadt's The Last of the Buffalo; or works by Western painters like Remington or Russell; or advertisements; or paintings by Picasso and Cezanne.''--from the essay by Ernst Busche. . Stiff wraps, illustrated DJ. Fine/Fine. 9" x 11''.

New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library and The Provost and Fellows of Eton College, 1990. 122 pp. 237 items. More than 60 illustrations including four in color. Light soiling with some bumps to corners. Heavy card stock covers, inside fine. Contents: Foreward by Charles E. Pierce, Jr.; Foreward By Chistopher Burge; Preface by Paul Quarrie; Eton College, School & Collections; From Foundation to 1600 (Nos. 1-11); The Seventeenth Century (12-30); The Eighteenth Century (31-82); The Nineteenth Century and Later (83-94); Oriental Manuscripts (95-97); Armenian Printing (98-104); Bookbindings (105-123); Schoolbooks, Calssical and Others (124-147); Schoolbooks Printed at Eton (148-154); Thomas Gray: The Poet of Eton (155-167); Etoniana (168-175); The Topham Collection (176-222); The Roman Drawings at Parrocel (211-222); English Watercolors (223-237); References cited. Highlight: early autograph dfaft of Gray's Elegy; Herodotus, Historiae, texxt in the hand of Joannes Argyropoulos, Florence,… Read More