Search Results: Artbooks from Sam Gatteno Books

A Paris: chez Decrouan, [1825?]. Hardcover. Good. Folio. Volume three only. 63 plates. Contemporary quarter calf over boards, worn. Top and bottom of spine chipped and torn. Ex-library copy with call number on spine and library's name perforated on title. Plates clean. Quite good internally. Due to its size and weight, special arrangements at cost will have to be made for shipment.

A Paris: Chez J. Coucheì, graveur . . .: J. Bouillard, graveur . . ., 1786-1808.. Hardcover. Good. Large folio. Three volumes. Incomplete, volume three only. Contemporary green calf, rebacked. With 352 engravings; 130 in volume I, 143 in volume II, and 82 in volume III. The engraved plates are after paintings by various French, Dutch, Flemish and Italian masters by Couché and Bouilliard. Although the plate count total in the index is 355, only 352 plates are listed. Approximately 80 plates present.

Parisiis: sub oliva Caroli Osmont, 1733.. Hardcover. Good. Quarto. viii, 174pp. []2, a4, A4-Y4, Z2. First edition. Vignette on the title-page. With the half-title present. Title-page in red-and-black. With 3 leaves concerning the announcement of the publication of the complete works of St Jerome by the publishers Vallarsi and Berno of Verona. Contemporary calf, rebacked poorly, with parts of the original spine retained. With a vignette on the title-page, 8 engravings in the text, and 2 folding plates. Quérard, V., 424; Brunet, II, 1467.

London: Printed for T. Cadell, (Successor to Mr. Millar) in the Strand, 1770.. Hardcover. Good. Quarto. xxxiv, 723, [ii]pp. pi4, a4-c4, d2, B4-Z4, AA4-ZZ4, AAA4-ZZZ4, AAAA4-YYYY4, [ZZZZ] 1. First edition. Half brown morocco over boards. Boards somewhat worn. Graesse V, 292; Lowndes 1867; Chamberlin 1151; ESTC T144419.

Cambridge: Heffer and Sons, 1970.. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. 127, [i]pp. Moving from their old abode in Petty Cury, where their previous bookshop had stood for 74 years, this is a new beginning for the notable bookseller in their new location on Trinity Street. With the loose order form tipped in.

Alkmaar, Holland: Uitgeverij "Arti," n.d.. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. 60 pages. Red cloth. Dustwrapper, a couple of minor tears. Illustrated extensively, quite a number in color.

A Lausanne: André Gonin, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio. [iv], 140, 1, [iii]pp. On Rives wove paper. Sheets loose as issued. Copy number XX of an edition limited to 250 copies, signed by Erni and Gonin on the justification page.

Glasgow & London: Joseph Swan & Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1835.. Hardcover. Good. Large quarto. In a contemporary half brown calf binding over patterned boards. Binding rubbed on the spine, but overall in quite good condition. With 6 steel engravings by Joseph Swan.

New York: Tudor Publishing Co. 1937.. Hardcover. Good. Large quarto. 661 pages. Dustwrapper, with a couple of tears on top, but totally unobstrusive. Illustrated with 770 color and black and white illustrations. Fine copy.

Sofia: Sofia Press, 1989. Hardcover. Good. Large quarto. 222 pages. Cloth. With the dustwrapper. Illustrated extensively in color.

Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981.. Hardcover. Good. Large quarto. 232 pages. First edition. Original cloth. With the dustwrapper. Illustrated with over 350 illustrations.

Paris: Editions Cercle d'Art, 1964.. Soft cover. Good. Square octavo. 79 pages. Original decorated cloth. Illustrated. With a dedication by Jean Picart le Doux on the title-page.

In Napoli: Nella Stamperia Simoniana, 1758.. Hardcover. Good. Folio. [vi], xxxii, 462pp. []3, a4-d4, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Mmm4 (Mmm4 blank). Historiated woodcut initials. Quarter calf over cloth-covered boards. Bottom of spine slightly worn, lower end of upper cover bumped and a small part of the hinge cracked. With textual engravings and 25 folding plates. Engraved frontispiece in facsimile.

Paris: Ches Le Bas, Graveur du Roi,1771.. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. Two volumes. Engraved title-page and text (signed Le Maire) printed on one side of leaf only. Illustrations at top of page, followed by text in Latin and French. Contemporary quarter calf over boards. With engraved plates by Jean Le Maire and others. Volume I lacks plates 15, 39, 40, 41, 66, 84, 108, and 111. Volume II lacks 1, 6, 16, 17, 18, and 87.

Paris: Durand, 1746.. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. [iii], xiii, [5], 291, [13]pp. pi6, a8, b1, A8-T8 (T8+1). First edition. With a title vignette. Contemporary calf, spine gilt. Repaired. With a frontispiece and vignettes by Eisen after Delafosse. Cohen-DeRicci 120; Lewine 48; Brunet I, 701; Schlosser 650; Cicognara 6 (1747); Boissais et Deleplanque, p. 45.

Paris: J. Rothschild, 1888.. Hardcover. Good. Large folio. Edition limited to 225 copies; this is No. 93. In a library buckram binding. Illustrated with 45 etchings, 2 copperplates, and 325 textual illustrations. Shipping for this item, due to the weight and size of the book, will be at cost.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1947.. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. 480 pages. First edition. Red cloth. Illustrated. Fine.

London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1966.. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. 323 pages. First edition. Cloth. Illustrated. Fine.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964.. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. 373pp. Cloth. With the dustwrapper. With photographs. Presentation copy to Dr. John and Muriel Halick of Greenville, Michigan, with a beautiful portrait in ink on the half-title, dated Oct. 28, 1968. It is very possible that the portrait is of Muriel Halick, though I cannot attest to the veracity of this statement. Additionally, there are two photographs of Françoise Gilot tipped in. One shows her seated, working on some sort of easel, and the other shows her in front of a quasi-finished work, with a colored pen (?) in her hand, and dated Nov. 1968. Finally, there is a box of paints that she used when she was at the Halick's, with the word "Gilot" written on the upper cover. A large number of the paints, brush, cloth, etc. is still in it. The area where she mixed the colors is almost like a painting by Gilot. As for the Halick's, I quote from the Dec 15, 2014 Sotheby's Catalogue Sale of Modern Art: ". is the result of a… Read More

New York: Sterling Publishing Co. Inc. 1972.. Hardcover. Good. Large quarto. Decorated boards. Illustrated.