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Washington,DC: GPO, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue leatherette cloth with front cover lettering in gilt. Near fine. 455 pages. Comprises a total of 744 works of art and other objects as of June 1964. This is an 88th Congress, 2nd Session publication. Updates Fairman's "Art and Artists," published in 1927. A profusion of black and white plates. Bears discard stamp of the Library of the US Supreme Court. Extensive Index. Owner inscription.

New York: Pantheon, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Very good. 300 pages. Sixty-two illustrations. Index. An account of the history, achievement and problems of Art Museums in the USA. A final chapter covers Latin-American art and museums.A supplement lists the art museums in the USA.

Paris: Charles Massin, 1956. New edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Very good. 4to, 18 pages in text and 100 colorplates with descriptive text. Note by Yvonne Brunhammer. Originally published, 1928, this new edition updates and corrects the earlier one. Text in French.

Oxford: Phaidon, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 480 pp. Small 4to, 240 illustrations and fifty-two maps. Foreword by H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh. Comprehensive alphabetical-classified index. Covers 616 square miles of London's heritage of art and architecture.

Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. persimmon cloth. Very good in very good dust wrapper. 306 pages. 256 illustrations including thirty color plates. Bibliography. List of Exhibitions. Index. A unique, comprehensive survey and critical evaluation of the contributions made to the Theater by major painters and sculptors of the 20th century. Sets and costumes were designed by Munch, Schwitters, Picasso, Calder, Dali, Leger, Kandinsky and sixty-three other notable artists.

New York: Praeger, 1953. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Very good. 167 pp. Illustrated with sixteen color plates, as well as 216 half-tones and line cuts. Translated by Robert Allen. Bibliography. Index. Chronological Table. Thebook is based on an idea of Professor Hugo Obermaier, the eminent expert on prehistoric art, and incorporates his approach and his discoveries.

New York: Atheneum, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Origtwo-toned cloth. Very good in very good dust wrapper. 514 pp. 208 black and white illustrations. Index. This is the story of the growth of American arts from infancy to adulthood in the course of a century.

Tokyo: Charles E.Tuttle, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated cloth. Near fine in very good dust wrapper. 201 pages. Eleven color and 109 black and white plates. With a List of Plates, Bibliography and Index. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER I557."An introduction to the major arts and the most highly developed crafts in Japan. Well-chosen illustrations.

New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth. Very good in chipped dust wrapper. 221 pages. 125 figures in the text. Extensive Bibliography. General Index. Museum Index. Primary stress has been given the vases in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The author includes new material from that of her two-volume catalogue, "Red Figured Athenian Vases in the Metropolitan Museum," published in 1936. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER M70. "A basic, chronological survey of Attic red-figured vases." LUCAS p21.

New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1835. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary quarter black roan and midnight blue speckled boards Very good. Lafever, Minard. 139 pages in text. 27 x 18 cm. Forty-eight engraved plates. The rare first edition. This monograph consists of a section entitled "Architectural History" extracted from Elmes's DICTIONARY, a glossary of names and terms used in architecture from the ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITTANICA, and a series of elegantly drawn and engraved designs for doors, windows, and partitions, the orders, etc. Also of interest is a new Greek order of Lafever's own invention [illustrated in HAMLIN, pl.XCI]. "It is in THE BEAUTIES that the true talent of Lafever reaches final maturity....here Lafever's genius appears at its fullest." -- HAMLIN, "Greek Revival Architecture in America," pp.351-352. HITCHCOCK 687. Scattered foxing throughout, wear to corners and two inch loss at head of front cover.

London & New York: Frederick Warned And Company & Scribner, Welford And Company, 1870. Hardcover. Quarter brown morocco and marbled boards. Very good. Lear, Edward. Unpaginated. 25 x 22.5 cm. Host of color plated by Edmund Evans printed recto or verso only. Two owner inscriptions free front endpaper one dated 1876. Some small repairs, plates bright and clean.

New York: Walker, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 228 pages. 25 x 32 cm. 107 color plates, and ninety-one text figures. Bibliography. Extensive notes on the plates. Excellent photographs, well-crafted color plates and quality printing -- a lovely monograph.

New York: Abrams, 1991. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 321illustrations, including 170 plates in color. Preface by Bernard Lorenceau. Bibliography. Index. Presents a complete survey of Caillebotte's known works, and a detailed treatment of French garden design and practice during the latter half of the 19th century.

New York: Braziller, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. two-toned cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 2 vols. in one. More than100 illustrations. Subject Index. Index of Names. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER I527. "Exceptional for illustrations. Focuses on a branch of art in each period asrepresentative of the aesthetic achievement of the period." LUCAS p. 25.

New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. crimson cloth. Fine in very good dust wrapper. 397 pages. 26 x 21 cm. More than 300 illustrations, some in color. Index.

New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. cloth and boards. Near fine in slightly rubbed dust wrapper. 341 pages. More than 150 photographs. Bibliography. Index. The author argues that each of these capitals was a deliberate work of art, and proposes a different use to which the streets were put in each of these cities.

Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Orig white cloth. Near fine. Lorrain, Claude. 33 pages in text. Illustrated in black and white and color. Bibliography. Presents works which span Lorrain's entire life, showing his depth and growth as an artist.

Washington, DC: GPO, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue leatherette cloth with front cover lettering in gilt. Near fine. 426 pages. Comprises a total of 744 works of art and other objects as of June 1964. This is an 88th Congress, 2nd Session publication. UpdatesFairman's "Art and Artists," published in 1927. A profusion of black and white plates. Bears discard stamp of the Library of the US Supreme Court.Extensive Index.

London: Thames & Hudson, 1965. 1st English edition. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. 259 pp. Twenty-three colorplates and 133 illustrations in black and white. Translated by Jean Carroll and Sheila Hatton. Bibliography. Index. Wessel has compiled a comprehensive and penetrating study of Egyptian art at a time when paganism was ending and Christendom was preparing to assume sole mastery of the Roman Empire.

Ramat Gan: Massada Press, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. tan cloth. Fine in very good dust wrapper. 237 pages. Fifty illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Professor Barasch, founded theDepartment of the History of Art at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER K87. "A scholarly study of surviving Crusader sculpture in the Holy Land, some of which have been recently discovered.