London: Privately Printed at the Curwen Press, 1953. xxi,427,[1]pp. Colored frontispiece plus thirty-two fine collotype plates. Large quarto. Original buckram, t.e.g. Very good. In worn dust jacket. Number 80 from an edition limited to 400 copies. The most comprehensive work in its field, carefully describing over 600 books, panoramas, periodicals.....
![Item #WRCAM62443 YOUR ST. LOUIS AND MINE [wrapper title]. African Americana, Nathan B. Young](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCAM62443_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1685732936)
[St. Louis: N.B. Young, 1937]. 80pp., including extensive photographic illustrations and printed advertisements. Original illustrated stiff wrappers. Wrappers tanned and a bit worn at edges and around staples. Later gift inscription from the author on first leaf. Internally clean. Near fine. An inscribed copy of this rare, thorough, and inventive.....
[N.p., but near present-day Prampram, Ghana. Between 1819 and 1836]. Three pencil sketches on wove paper, each approximately 7 x 10 inches. Central vertical crease to each drawing, the first two titled in a contemporary hand in pencil to verso, the third similarly titled below the image. Very good. An.....
[Philadelphia. 1967]. Broadside printed in brown on light blue paper, 18 x 12 inches. Minor edge wear, small bump along left edge, occasional mild spotting. Overall very good. An attractive and rare poster promoting a series of public events for Philadelphia-area African-American artists held at the Lee Cultural Center, 440.....
Boston: Haskell & Post, 1886. Two volumes. [1],vii,152; [1],[3],[153]- 308pp., plus 130 plates including frontispieces. Half titles. Folio. Contemporary three- quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt, raised bands, a.e.g. Boards and morocco scuffed. Dampstain in lower margin of rear eight leaves in first volume, not affecting images or text.....
Santa Rosa Island & Pensacola, Fl. [ca. October 9, 1861 - May 10, 1862]. Six pencil drawings. Various sizes as detailed below. Three of these drawings are found on the backs of printed rolls for New York volunteer regiments. A few small edge or corner tears and light stains. Overall.....
Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1980. xxviii,244pp. Illus. Text in England and French. Quarto. Pictorial softcover. As new. An excellent study, with extensive annotations. Contains 104 entries of views and portraits printed in Canada up to 1850.
Boston. 1976. 320pp. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. Quarto. Cloth. In dust jacket. A very good copy. Issued in conjunction with the Bicentennial exhibition of early American art at the Yale Art Gallery.
[New York or Philadelphia? N.d., ca. 1830]. Broadside, 9 x 8 inches. Old folds, a few small edge tears, light soiling and foxing. Good plus. An early decorative American broadside providing directions for "Grecian painting," describing ways to color engravings. Printed in two columns, the text includes a supply list.....
New York: George P. Putnam, 1849. [2],vi,49,[1]pp. plus 6pp. of advertisements. Half title. Original printed wrappers. Front wrapper detached, rear wrapper lacking. Chipping along backstrip. Scattered foxing and tanning. Good. Three essays reprinted from periodicals on the Old Masters and theories and practitioners of "modern art:" Turner and the like.....
Philadelphia: J.W. Moore, 1851. 144pp. plus [2],8pp. of publisher's advertisements. Original green cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, spine gilt. Corners bit bumped. Light scattered foxing. Very good. Although this work was published anonymously, Hinckley is listed as the illustrator. Whether or not he also wrote the text is debatable.....
[ca. 1938]. Bronze medal, 1 1/4 inches in diameter. Struck on the obverse: "DANIEL WEBSTER / LIBERTY AND UNION. NOW AND FOR EVER. ONE AND INSEPERABLE." Struck on the reverse: "1788- 1938 / NEW HAMPSHIRE CONSTITUTION SESQUINTENNIAL / OLD NORTH MEETING HOUSE,CONCORD." Golden brown patina. Very good condition. A handsome.....
![Item #WRCAM43461 COMMODORE HOPKINS, COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE AMERICAN FLEET [caption title]....](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCAM43461.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593711647)
London. 1776. Mezzotint engraving, 14 x 9 1/4 inches; mounted and framed to 21 x 16 1/2 inches. Trimmed to edge of image, mounted and matted. Quite clean. Very good. Engraved three-quarter length portrait of Commodore Esek Hopkins, showing him in his Continental uniform with one hand upraised and pointing.....
[Philadelphia. ca. 1900]. 48pp. plus two-sided folding leaf and two- sided printed wrappers, containing approximately 150 photographic images (over seventy in color). Original printed wrappers. Spine neatly repaired with black cloth tape. Some wear, small chips in wrappers. Very good. Richly illustrated color catalogue for W.T. Smith & Son, Philadelphia-based.....
Philadelphia. May 9, 1803. [1]p. autograph letter, signed, on a folded folio sheet. Addressed for mailing on the fourth page, with two postmarks, and docketed in manuscript in Trumbull's hand. Old folds. Lightly tanned. Very good. An interesting letter written to John Trumbull, the "Painter of the Revolution," by his.....
New York: Underwood & Underwood, 1908. 64pp. plus two maps (one folding) and eighteen stereoviews on captioned stiff mounts. Narrow 12mo. Original brown cloth, gilt. Lightly shelfworn. Folding map with slight wear and a small closed tear along the left edge. Very good, with the stereoviews in fine condition. In.....
[Providence]: Knowles, Anthony & Company, 1852. 7,[1]pp. Original printed wrappers. Slightly dust- soiled. Very good. A catalog of 147 pictures by Italian masters offered for sale, including two by Leonardo da Vinci. Understandably quite rare, OCLC locates only one copy. The paintings were sold at auction Oct. 28th, 1852...
New York. 1849. [4]pp. Minor creasing to edges. Near fine. Promoting "the taste for the Fine Arts", this small pamphlet outlines the General Plan of the International Art-Union. In exchange for an annual fee of five dollars, the subscriber received an engraving equal to the value of the subscription as.....
Philadelphia. 1852. [4]pp. on a single folded quarto sheet. Illustrated. Small chip to top margin, a few marginal stabholes, soft creasing. Very good. A rare promotional work advertising a new engraving by Alfred Jones, after Rothermel's famous painting, commemorating Patrick Henry's famous "If this be treason, make the most of.....
Boston. 1849. 36pp. folding plate. Original printed wrappers. A trifle dust soiled. Some chipping at spine. Else very good. Exhibition guide issued for the Boston showing of Brunetti's model of ancient Jerusalem. The folding plate is a map of the model. There was also an engraving published which this explained.....
Washington. 1834. 22pp. Dbd. An occasional fox mark, else very good. One of the first detailed proposals for national patronage for the arts, including in- depth descriptions of forty paintings displayed in the rotunda of the Capitol to encourage the establishment of a national gallery of art. With a testimonial.....
Boston. 1838. [8],296pp. 12mo. Original ribbed cloth. Head and toe of spine rather frayed. Armorial bookplate. Some scattered foxing. Otherwise very good. Includes biographical sketches of da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rubens, among others. Attributed author is Hannah F. Lee.
New York & Washington. 1902. [29]pp. plus 34 color plates. Oblong octavo. Original cloth backed boards. Pasted illustration to front cover. Negligible shelf wear. Very good. A color plate book illustrating the mural art in the Library of Congress.
[New York]. 1848. 11pp. plus six line drawings plates by Darley. Oblong folio. Original printed wrappers. Somewhat foxed, but still very good. The first edition of this handsome production of detailed line drawings.
[Philadelphia. ca. 1836]. Broadside, 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. Some light edge wear. A bit of soiling. Very good. A scarce broadside advertising the Philadelphia exhibition of sculptures copying art from the Parthenon which had been absconded by Lord Elgin and put on display at the British Museum. The.....
