An unusually handsome, wide-margined copy of this marvelous collection of views of early eighteenth-century Vienna. The series begins with a beautifully designed allegorical plate consisting of a panoramic view of the city in the form of a relief panel on a monument surmounted by an eagle, with two figures...
A beautifully designed volume illustrated with a splendid series of one hundred stereographic photographs of ancient ruins. British photographer Francis Frith (1822–1898) made three trips to the Holy Land between 1856 and 1859. His photographs, many of them masterful works that established him as a major photographer, sought to...
First edition of this scarce compendium of house designs largely in the Queen Anne style, intended in part to promote Albert Fuller’s architectural firm, one of the finest in Albany, New York in the late nineteenth century. This scarce pattern book is illustrated with heliotype plates of Fuller’s richly...
A handsome house portrait album documenting a plantation-style, Georgian revival home in Palm Beach, Florida, designed by Wyeth and King, Architects, for Dr. John Vietor and his wife, Eleanor, built in 1934. The photographs are by Samuel Gottscho, one of the leading architectural photographers of the day, and portray...
An extraordinarily poignant association copy of this art instruction manual illustrated by William Morris Hunt, inscribed by Hunt to Celia Thaxter, just a month before she discovered his body in a shallow reservoir on Appledore Island after he had gone missing, with six of the plates initialed by Hunt as...
A rare portfolio of photographs documenting Schliemann’s discovery of the great treasure at Hissarlik. One of 500 copies. “Apart from the value of the Atlas caused by its extreme rarity, it also has the additional interest of being the first archaeological work illustrated with actual photographs…The plates forming the...
One of 492 copies “printed upon Japan paper for private distribution” of this sumptuous volume produced by Tiffany himself. According to the preface, Tiffany compiled this volume at the urging of his children. Most copies were distributed for promotional purposes. Included are chapters on Tiffany’s paintings, stained glass, favrile...