A Selection from Dr. Abdul Latif Jassim Kanoo's Collection of Islamic Art.
(Bahrain): Beit Al Qur'an Publications, (1994). First edition, 4to, 260, (4) pp. Colour illustrations. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. More
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Karsh. American Legends. Photographs and Commentary by...
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1992). First edition, 4to, 156, (4) pp. 88 photographic illustrations, 44 in colour, inscribed from Karsh on the fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. More
"Everything You Do is a Portrait of Yourself". Dorothy Kay. A Biography.
[Cape Town]: Privately Published by Alec Marjorie Reynolds, (1989). First edition, large 8vo, (xiv), 490 pp. Illustrations in the text in both colour and black and white, inscribed on the half title from the author to Peggy Emary, Kay's erstwhile tutor in ceramics at Port Elizabeth Technical College. A two..... More
John Keane. Conflicts of Interest.
Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, (1995). First edition, large 8vo, 120 pp. Numerous coloured illustrations, inscribed from the artist on the half title. Pictorial wrappers, upper cover creased. More
Reservations. Photographs by...
London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1980). First UK edition, small 4to, (96) pp. 44 black and white photographic illustrations. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, spine sunned. More
Historical Notes of the Leeds Old Pottery, with a Description of its Wares: together with brief accounts of contemporary potteries in the immediate vicinity, hitherto unnoticed.
Leeds: J.R. Kidson, 1892. Limited edition, no. 147 of 250 copies, 4to, 161, (3) pp, 21 plates and a plan, signature to front blank, frontispiece foxed, large armorial bookplate, original cloth, spine ends rubbed. More
Munimenta Antiqua; or, Observations on Antient Castles. Including Remarks on the Whole Progress of Architecture, Ecclesiastical, as well as Military, in Great Britain: and on the corresponding changes in manners, laws, and customs...
London: Printed by W. Bulmer & Co., for G. Nicol, 1799. First edition, 4 volumes, folio. 167 plates, a number folding and a couple hand coloured. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplates of Charles Edward Keyser, old bookseller's description of this work pasted into the front of volume I, old damp stain..... More
Hotel-Hotel.
Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 1992. Limited edition, no. 881 of 950 copies, small folio, (246) leaves. Owner's brief inscription to half title. Original printed wrappers, a little browned and marked, label removed from the lower cover. More
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[Moscow: Iskusstvo], 1978. First edition. 4to. 399, (1) pp. Publisher's illustrated brown cloth, original black lettered clear plastic jacket. Illustrated with monochrome architectural photographs throughout. An excellent copy. More
Circling the Square. Avant-Garde Porcelain from Revolutionary Russia.
(London): Fontanka, (2004). First edition, 4to, 190 pp. Numerous illustrations, almost all in colour. Original pictorial wrappers, some very mild scuffing to the lower cover, near fine. More
Tropical Architecture.
New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Limited, (1982). Second reprint. Oblong 4to. Publisher's black cloth, yellow lettered to the upper board, dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with loss to the upper panel, occasional wear elsewhere,otherwise a decent copy. More
Painting Ireland. Topographical Views from Glin Castle. Edited by... With Contributions from: Deidre Conroy, Jane Fenlon, Peter Harbison, Emmeline Henderson, Judith Hill, Anne Hodge, Claudia Kinmonth, Simon Lincoln, Eve McAulay, Kevin Mulligan, Finola O'Kane, Brendan Rooney, Terence Reeves-Smyth, Yvonne Scott and Charlotte Yeldham.
Tralee: Churchill House Press, 2006. First edition. 4to. 269, (3) pp. Publisher's blue cloth, paler blue lettering to the spine, dust jacket, prior owner's inscription to the front free endpaper. Colour illustrations throughout. Very good. More
René Lalique. Enchanted by Glass. With Elizabeth Everton and Tina Oldknow.
Corning: The Corning Museum of Glass; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014. First edition. Square 4to. 383, (1) pp. Black paper backed pictorial boards, white lettered to the spine, dust jacket. Illustrated throughout, almost entirely in colour. An excellent copy. More
Sergio Larrain. Vagabond Photographer. Edited by Agnès Sire. Text by Gonzalo Leiva Quijada.
London: Thames & Hudson, 2013. First edition. 4to. 397, (3) pp. Publisher's grey cloth boards, black lettered to the spine and upper cover, the latter also featuring an inlaid black and white photographic illustration, gold card sleeve to the rear board. Black and white photographic illustrations throughout. Slight bumping to..... More
The Virginia Journals of... 1795-1798. Edited by Edward C. Carter and others.
Maryland Historical Society, 1977. Two volumes, large 8vo, with coloured and other illustrations, fine copy in original cloth with d.w.'s. The first two volumes in a projected ten volume selection from the writings, watercolours, and architectural and engineering drawings of the father of the American architectural profession. More
The Type Book of...
[1920s]. Folio, (41) leaves, printed on rectos only. Slight marks and staining to the lower edge. Sewn as issued in the original boards, these creased and worn but sound. Detailing 20 fonts and various bold and italic variants as well as a page of sample borders sold by the firm..... More
Edward Lear. Egyptian Sketches.
(Greenwich): National Maritime Museum, (2009). First edition, large oblong 8vo, 60 pp. Coloured illustrations. Cloth backed pictorial boards, fine. More
Edward Lear. The Corfu Years. A chronicle presented through his letters and journals. Edited and introduced by...
Athens & Dedham: Denise Harvey & Company, (1988). First edition, 4to, 244, (4) pp. 23 coloured plates tipped in plus black and white illustrations in the text. Cloth, d.w., spine sunned otherwise fine. More
Frederic Lord Leighton. Late President of the Royal Academy of Arts. An Illustrated Record of His Life and Work.
London: George Bell & Sons, (1904). Third edition, reprint, 8vo, (xiv), 144 pp. 74 of 87 plates called for, plus extra illustrated with 36 plates with captioned tissues (15 in colour), 10 of which replace the originally published plate. An autographed letter from Leighton is bound in at the front..... More
Early Black and White. I. Intérieurs. II. Extérieurs. Edited by Max Kozloff. Augmenté d'un Esssai de Jane Livingston.
Göttingen: Steidl; New York: Howard Greenberg Library, 2014. First edition. Two volumes. (204); (184) pp. Publisher's grey cloth, black lettered to the spines, dust jackets illustrated to the upper panels, glossy card sleeve replicating both upper covers to the upper panel. Black and white photographic illustrations throughout. Very light wear..... More
Early Color.
(Göttingen): Steidl, (2006). First edition, square 8vo, (160) pp. 78 coloured photographic illustrations. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. A record of Leiter's street photography between 1948 and 1960. More
Archaic Pottery of Chios. The Decorated Styles.
(Oxford): Oxford University Committee for Archaeology, 1991. Two volumes. First edition. 4to. xiv, 335, (1); (vi) pp. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spines, dust jackets. 5 colour and 245 black and white plates. Fine. More
Chartres. Révélée par sa Sculpture et ses Vitraux. Préface de Germain Bazin.
Zodiaque, 1987. First edition. 4to. 329, (7) pp. Publisher's dark blue cloth, silver lettered to the spine, dust jacket, small ownership inscription to the second free endpaper. Profusely illustrated both in black and white and colour. Small tear without loss to the lower panels of the dust jacket, minimal wear..... More