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New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth, backstrip very slightly rubbed. Near fine. Quercia, Jacopo della. 146 pages in text. 134 black and white plates, 116 illustrations hors texte. Yale University Publications in Art 23. Critical Bibliography. Index. The first book in English about this major artist who ranks with Ghiberti and Donatello as a leading sculpture of the early Italian Renaissance. FREITAG 19127.

London: John Lane, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. orange cloth. Very good in worn dust wrapper. Steen, Jan. 82 pages. 32 x 24 cm. Forty full-page plates with tissue guards. Translated by G.J. Renier. FREITAG 9126. Fresh, very bright copy: plates and text, corners slightly bumped, bookplate.

Florence: Leo S. Olschi, 1926. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. parchment over wrappers. Very good. 80 pages in text. 24.5 x 17.5 cm. With 344 illustrations on 220 plates with one in color, three in bistre, plus 15 figures in the text, two in color. Printed in red and black, interior contents: text and plates fresh and bright. Scholarly review covering England, Germany, Spain, France, Italy and Pays-Bas. Small nick lower front cover center, slight toning at cover margins.

Verona: Per Giovanni Berno, 1718. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary half black calf and marbled boards. Near fine. (8), 313, (3) pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. With woodcut title vignette of the Piazza dei Signori with the Basilica Palladiana. Early collector's small stamp on title page. Presents "The lives of artists from Verona, and descriptions of the art treasures of the city, including private collections and decorative paintings in buildings. Based on documents and earlier sources. Index of artists at the beginning of the volume." ARNTZEN-RAINWATER H116. "Libro accreditato, e scritto un coltissimo amatore cose patrie." CICOGNARA 2351. "Brief biographies of the important artists of Verona, many architects among them, from the fourteenth century to the beginning of the eighteenth." FOWLER 254 (with Aggiunta). UNIVERSAL CATALOGUE OF BOOKS ON ART. Vol.II, p.1646. One quire slightly toned, balance very fresh, clean and sharp. The short 44 page supplement (Aggiunta all Vita) was published the same year… Read More

Np: Np, 1935. Hardcover. Orig. brown boards lettered and decorated in gilt. Near fine in original, slightly nicked glassine. 12 leaves. Small folio, 31 x 23 cm. Limited edition, one of 100 privately printed in New York. The original letter cannot be traced but the greater part of this epistle was first published in 1536 and established in all the biographies of More. Text in Latin and English, the translation made by Laverne Madigan. At the end of this letter Erasmus terms Cicero a sycophant. Some mottling to covers, interior very clean and fresh. Laid-in calling card of Mr. Philip Hofer.

Paris: Veith & Hauser, 1854. First edition. Hardcover. Quarter black morocco and marbled boards. Near fine. Folio, 43 x 29 cm. Engraved title and 114 engraved plates, each with small publisher's blind stamp in lower margin, a few plates with light spotting, balance exceptionally bright and clean. Provenance: Furstliche Furstenbergische Hofbibliothek at Donaueschingen with inkstamp on lower corner of title and verso of final leaf. Asselineau's collection of illustrations of furniture and objects of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The work includes examples of domestic furniture, arms and armor, and metalwork from private and royal collections as well as the stock of several Parisian dealers; each illustration features the object's provenance.

New York: New York Univ. Press, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. crimson cloth. Near fine. 157 pages. 106 black and white illustrations. Index. The primary purpose of this book, "has been to bring together a varied array of decorated gables from all regions where Netherlandish craftsmen worked at home and abroad and to arrange them chronologically...." Owner inscription.

London: Sir Isaac Pitman, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth lettered in gilt. Near fine. 290 pages. 28.5 x 23 cm. 60 full-page plates, photographs and drawings, plus illustrations in the text. Historical overview of the two universities and their buildings reviewed in chronological order and the modifications as time proceeded. Armorial bookplate, scattered toning mostly marginal.

New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 186 pages. 30 x 23 cm. More than 165 plates, seven in color. Co-published by the Morgan Library, written by a noted Piranesi scholar. As new copy in publisher's shrink wrapped protective plastic.

New York: New York Univ. Press, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. crimson cloth. Near fine in chipped dust wrapper. Rembrandt, H. van Rijn. 225 pages. 181 black and white plates. Bibliography. Index. First volume of The Wrightsman Lectures, New York University Institute of Fine Arts. The author discusses the influences of the great Italians of the 15th and 16th centuries on Rembrandt.

New York: Theodore B. Donson Ltd, 1981. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. 50 pages. 25 x 19 cm. Each page with black and white illustration of etching, medium and size with descriptive text.

Verona: Limited Editions Club, 1976. Hardcover. Ecru linen spine stamped in gold and red, covers in light brown Varese paper hand printed from original woodblocks. Fine in fine maroon slipcase. Martino Mardersteig. 278 pages. 30 x 22.5 cm. With eight color reproductions of Renaissance masterworks. Introduction by Kenneth Clark. A Martino Mardersteig production printed in Italy bound by Stamperia Valdonega on paper by Cartiere Enrico Magnani. Limited edition, copy 1267 of 2000 signed by Mardersteig. Laid-in LEC eight page Monthly Letter. NEWMAN & WICHE 496. As new copy.

New York: Abrams, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Verrocchio, Andrea del. 125 pages. Square 4to, profusely illustrated in color and black and white. The painter-sculptor-goldsmith Andrea del Verrocchio of Florence.

New York: Abrams, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 200 pages. Folio, 35 x 27 cm.21. 188 illustrations including 150 photgraphs in color. Foreword by Sir Harold Acton. List of Villas. Bibliography.