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Musee Du Louvre Inventaire General Des Dessins Des Ecoles Du Nord - Ecole Hollandaise

Frits Lugt · 1929 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

Paris, Albert Morance, 1929-1933. Cloth. A scarce complete three volume set of this inventory of the Louvre Museum with reference to the Dutch school, in the original French language. French language. Three volumes. Scarce collection. Written by Frederik "Frits" Lugt, a Dutch ...

Die Kunstwerke Von Dem Alterthum Bis Auf Die Gegenwart in 120 Kupferstichen: Zweiter Band

Dr. C. A. Menzel · 1794 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Leipzig, J. A. Romberg's Verlag, c1860. Cloth. Volume II of this scarce and comprehensive history of art, written in the original German. Volume II of this scarce work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Ink inscription to the front free end paper. Illustrated...

A Letter from George Dunlop Leslie

George Dunlop Leslie · 1894 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

Riverside, Wallingford, None, 1894 . Loose Pages, Articles. A signed letter from the British painter, illustrator and author George Dunlop Leslie, discussing alterations to a paragraph apparently published in the Times. Addressed to the "men and women of the Times", the letter...

Inventaire Du Fonds Francais

Andre Linzeler; Jean Adhemar · 1932 · Rooke Books

£245.00 (€293.67 | $323.68 | ¥51,687)

Paris , Maurice Le Garrec; Bibliotheque Nationale, 1932-1938. First edition. Leather. Two rebound first edition copies of this inventory of engravers, in the first edition. Two volumes of Inventaire du Fonds Francais, containing an inventory of gravers of the sixteenth century...

Monuments Nouveaux de L&Apos;Art Antique

S. Reinach · 1924 · Rooke Books

£235.00 (€281.68 | $310.47 | ¥49,578)

Paris, Simon Kra, 1924. Leather. A scarce complete two volume set of this illustrated study into monuments in ancient art, in the French language. French language. Two volumes. Scarce work. Illustrated throughout with over four hundred and fifty figures including black and whi...

The Flemish Tapestries at Wawel Castle in Cracow: Treasures of King Sigismund Augustus Jagiello

Professor Jerzy Szablowski [editor] · 1972 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

Antwerp, Fonds Mercator, 1972. Cloth. A detailed work on the Jagiellonian tapestries of the Netherlands and Flanders, illustrated throughout. Illustrated with eighty-eight colour plates, sixteen of which are folding, and forty-three black and white plates, some of which are do...

Holiday Photographs with Images of Blackpool Tower

None · 1900 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

Sheffield, Sheffield Photo Co. c1910. Cloth. A scarce photographic album of a holiday in Blackpool circa 1900, with images of the Blackpool Tower. Scarce work. Photographic album from a family holiday to Blackpool. With forty-eight black and white photographs on twenty-four pa...

George Baxter the Picture Printer

C. T. Courtney Lewis · 1925 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London , Sampson Low, Marston & Company , 1925 . Cloth. A smart copy of George Baxter The Picture Printer, with illustrations. George Baxter was an English artist and printer who is credited with the invention of commercially viable colour printing. This volume explores his li...

The Picture Printer of the Nineteenth Century George Baxter 1804-1867

C. T. Courtney Lewis · 1911 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London , Sampson Low, Marston & Company , 1911. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of the history of George Baxter, the colour picture printer, with illustrations. A first edition copy. This volume details the history of George Baxter, the picture printer of the Ninet...

George Cruikshank&Apos;S Table-Book

Gilbert Abbott A Beckett [ed.] · 1869 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Bell and Daldy , 1869. Leather. A new edition of this work celebrative of caricaturist and illustrator George Cruikshank's career. Showcasing the extremely successful career of George Cruikshank, famous British illustrator of the nineteenth century. He is known pa...

Printing Types Their History, Forms, and Use; a Study in Survivals

Daniel Berkeley Updike · 1937 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, Geoffrey Cumberlege Oxford University Press, 1937 . Cloth. The second edition, second impression of this two volume set on Updike's typography work. Second edition, second impression of Printing Types Their History, Forms, and Use; A Study in Survivals in the orig...

The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art

John Ruskin · 1859 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Smith, Elder and Co. 1859 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of lectures on art and its application by art critic John Ruskin. First edition of The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered ...

Seals

Walter De Gray Birch · 1907 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Methuen & Co. 1907. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this work on the history of seals, by Walter de Gray Birch. First edition. Illustrated throughout with frontispiece and fifty-two plates. Collated complete. A guide to the history of seals, with referen...

Matthew Digby Wyatt an Inaugural Lecture

Nikolaus Pevsner · 1950 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Cambridge, Cambridge at the University Press, 1950. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this lecture on Matthew Digby Wyatt, with illustrations to the rear. First edition. Illustrated with six plates to the rear. Collated complete. A lecture on Sir Matthew Digb...

The Nude in Art

Clarence Lansing · 1896 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€898.99 | $990.85 | ¥158,227)

London, H. S. Nichols, 1896. First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition of this very scarce study on nudity in art and how the human body has been depicted in paintings across the centuries. The first edition of this very scarce work.An intriguing study on depictions of the ...

The Letters of Paul Gaugin to Georges Daniel de Monfreid

Paul Gaugin; Ruth Pielkovo [Translator]; Frederick O'Brien · 1922 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1922. Cloth. A very scarce work containing the letters exchanged between Paul Gaugin and George-Daniel de Monfreid between 1891 and 1903. A very scarce volume containing the epistolary exchanges between Paul Gaugin and George-Daniel de Monfrei...

Our Old Nursery Rhymes

Alfred Moffatt · 1911 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Augener Ltd, 1911. First edition. Cloth. Alfred Moffatt provides accompanying harmonies to over twenty nursery rhymes in this illustrated score. A first edition, with sweet illustrations by Dutch illustrator Henriette Willebeek Le Mair. A first edition of this musical ...

Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain

Edmund Lodge · 1823 · Rooke Books

£1,350.00 (€1,618.19 | $1,783.54 | ¥284,808)

London, Harding, Mavor and Lepard, 1823-1834. First edition. Leather. A complete twelve volume first edition of Edmund Lodge's impressive collection of portraits of famous individuals, uniformly bound in half morocco. The first edition of this work, bound from the origina...

Die Silberarbeiten Von Anton Eisenholt Aus Warburg

1879 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Berlin, Paul Bette, 1879. First edition. Cloth. A scarce volume of illustrations by Anton Eisenhoit.  A scarce volume of works by Anton Eisenhoit. Anton Eisenhoit was a German painter and engraver who flourished at Tome in about 1590. This volume is a collection of his silv...

Staffordshire Portrait Figures and Allied Subjects of the Victorian Era

P. D. Gordon Pugh · 1987 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

Suffolk, Antique Collectors' Club, 1987. Cloth. An extensive catalogue of Staffordshire Portrait Figures, with many illustrations. A reprint copy. This is an extensive volume for the collector of Staffordshire portrait figures, with a definitive catalogue. These figures ...