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Chicago: Laidlaw Brothers , 1917. reprint. VERY GOOD. HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents A HISTORY OF ART by CHARLES GOODYEAR. This is the first and only reprint published by Laidlaw. At the same time, A S Barnes, the book's long time publisher, came out with this same "newly revised and enlarged" 23rd edition, "with new illustrations." This was the last year the book was published. 6 1/8" x 9 3/8", 394 page hard cover with numerous black and white photos and... Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION THUS, FIRST PRINTING VIA NUMBER ROW, with ORIGINAL UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. AS NEW/FINE. HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents a FIRST PRINTING of ARTS OF WOOD, an illustrated survey of everyday wooden artwork made by various primitive cultures. 8 1/8" x 8 1/8", 64 page hard cover, including numerous sepia Illustrations and maps, together with the ORIGINAL UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. The overall book is AS NEW. The... Read more about this item

A complete subscription portfolio of 20 chromolithographs, each 22" x 28", issued in ten monthly installments of 2 prints reproducing orig. watercolors of American birds by Pope with captioned guard leaves reprinting descriptive texts from a variety of sources incl. Alexander Wilson's "American Ornithology" and Audubon's "Birds of America". Each installment bound-in with orig. illus. wrpps., prints tipped-in on larger plates of heavy card, some plates with pigment transfer to opposite leaf, 2 with... Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1937. FIRST EDITION THUS, THIRD PRINTING STATED. Includes HANDWRITTEN NOTE AND SIGNATURE FROM VAN LOON. Hardcover. NEAR FINE/GOOD+. HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents THE ARTS by Hendrik Willem van Loon. This RARE COPY includes the following HANDWRITTEN NOTE from Van Loon on back of dust jacket, referring to his timeline of the arts on reverse of doubled dust jacket: "To S & S--Last Minute Note--IMPORTANT--Please be sure that this is printed where... Read more about this item

Ravensburg, Germany: Otto Maier Verlag/Paris: Eyrolles, 1959. Square quarto (29.7 x 31.2 cm). Stamped cloth; XXVII introduction followed by 100 numbered full-color plates. Some light splitting to interior along spine, very minor toning, overall very good. Ex-libris bookplate for Italian architect and designer Aldo Cosmacini, with hand-written signature to title page. This volume is an invaluable resource on color printing and color theory. The table of contents clearly lays out - in German, English,... Read more about this item

Exquisite unpag. example of Art Deco book design, detailing a 3-month journey the artist undertook with Jean Dunand aboard the schooner Peau-Brune, sailing from St. Nazaire in Brittany, around the Iberian Peninsula and through the Strait of Gibraltar, to the town of La Ciotat on the coast of Provence, fashioned as a logbook with chronological entries related to specific dates, table of contents. Illustrated throughout with approximately 100 beautiful engravings in brilliant colors from various points... Read more about this item

Nuremberg: Christian Sigmund Froberg for Wolfgang Michahelles, 1710. 12mo (127 x 77 mm). [16], 145, [7] pp. Gothic types. Woodcut illustration of a pantograph (p. 8). Overall discoloration, some soiling and fraying to first and last few leaves. Contemporary speckled parchment over pasteboards (worn, covers bowed and darkened).*** A popular and now commensurately rare German translation of Claude Boutet's guide to miniature painting, the Traité de Miniature pour apprendre aisément à peindre sans... Read more about this item

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1969?. Presumed Reprint. NEAR FINE. HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents TWENTIETH CENTURY ART by MICHAEL BATTERBERRY. From Matisse to Chagall and beyond, this unique art book provides full color plates of the Masters along with explanatory notes about the work of each artist. 9 5/8" x 12 1/8" (may require additional postage), 191 pages, including index, 244 full color photos of the paintings, with no dust jacket. Per Worldcat, photos are... Read more about this item

London: Tegg et. al, 1824. Second edition. 8vo, with 9 engraved plates (4 folding). Bound in rubbed contemporary 3/4 calf, some foxing and soiling, generally a very good copy. Second edition of "the first modern book on dyeing and the first general theory of its principles."-Duveen, p. 74. Berthollet was most noted for applying the [then] newly- discovered oxygenated muriatic acid to vegetable colors for the purpose of bleaching. The revolutionary results of Berthollet's experiments, conducted in... Read more about this item

New York: METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, 1976.FINE. Softcover. Lee Boltin, photographer. HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents a descriptive and photographic record of arguably the greatest touring art exhibition of the Twentieth Century: TREASURES OF TUTANKHAMUN. It was organized by Egypt's Organization of Antiquities and the six participating museums, the National Gallery of Art, the Field Museum of Natural History, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of... Read more about this item

New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1980. Limited ed. Hardcover. Good/good. Hardcover facsimile, limited edition, in dustjacket. A good copy with wear and mild bumping to the corners. Spine ends bending slightly inward. Clean and tight. The jacket is also about good with a tear at the top of the front panel that lays down a bit and some scuffing and soiling to the cream colored panels. 71 pp. plus introductory matter, color frontispiece, reproduced from the 1756 printing.