Softcover. Evansville, Evansville Museum of Arts & Science, First Edition, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages. Softcover SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY ARTIST to title page. Bright illustration to covers with french flaps, published to accompany the exhibition of the same title held at the Evansville Museum of Arts & Science, Evansville, Indiana, April 22 - May 27, 1990 among other touring locations.
Hardcover. Boston, New York Graphic Society , 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Folio, 160 pages illustrated with the plant paintings and drawings of Georg Dionysius Ehret. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Merrell Holberton/Natural History Museum, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages, 62 color plates, 33 b&w illustrations. A detailed monograph on this early 19th century natural history artist. In publisher's shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. Portland, OR, Timber Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 273 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped and pristine. Gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Clean inside and out. In excellent shape.
Hardcover. New York, George Braziller Incorporated, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Heavy damage on 2 inches of bottom right corner. Otherwise, tight copy. Color pictures throughout. Endlessly experimenting with design, composition, and color, Hiroshige captured in these paintings, as no where else in his work, his poetic and idyllic sense of nature.
Hardcover. London, George Routledge and Sons, unknown , nd., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, A small book, illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Soiling to spine & covers. Edgewear. Corners rubbed, bumped. Previous owner's bookplate and booksellers label front pastedown. Some soiling throughout, otherwise good. Spots on spine.
Softcover. New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery, Inc., 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 74 color and B&W illustrations. Foreword by Andrew J. Crispo. Overall very tight and clean copy.
Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated with b&w photos, maps, advertisements. Original yellow and black wrappers, spine with light wear, good to very good. Articles include: Our State Flowers (16 color pages), Our First Alliance, Madonnas of Many Lands.
Hardcover. London, Scriptum, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 335 pages illustrated in color. The story of this flower, from the hunt for new varieties in the wild in the 1800s to the development of the more than 100,000 hybrids that exist today, is related in fascinating detail in "Orchids". This beautiful book features text by one of the world's foremost orchid authorities alongside spectacular watercolor portraits of prize-winning orchids from the Royal Horticultural Society in London, which spearheaded orchid cultivation in Western Europe beginning in the 19th century. This exquisite collection of paintings commissioned by the RHS every year since 1897 represents the ultimate orchid pictorial history. "Orchids" is an indispensable sourcebook for those captivated by the beauty and infinite variety of this glamorous flower.
Hardcover. New York, P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 2nd, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 372 pages. Hardcover. Second edition, revised and enlarged with 152 b/w illustrations. Cover boards bound in deep red cloth. Gilt title on spine. Original owner's dated (Sept. 10, 1912) signature on front endpaper. flyleaf and back endpaper. In very good condition for its age. Half title page partially separated from gutter, but still attached. Binding still quite tight. Illustrations incredibly detailed. Pages slightly age-yellowed. A little bit of age-wearing to cover boards, but overall in great shape.
Hardcover. New York, Sterling Innovation, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 127 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Dust jacket sleeve present. Clean inside and out. In good shape. From the back cover: Achieving great artisitc succes and recognition, Edward Steichen brought enthusiasm, curiosity, and passion to the world of photography. This remarkable book offers a fresh take on Steichen by focusing exclusively on his color images from the collections of George Eastman House."
Hardcover. London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, reprint, 1849, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 284 pages, illustrated with 24 brilliant color plates including the frontispiece. Original green cloth with gilt decorated front cover, gilt design on spine, top edge gilt. Covers with light edge wear, chipping to top of spine. Title page states New Edition, so assumed a reprint. The plates do not appear to be hand-colored but chromolithographs, all brilliantly colored and except for the frontispiece (which has a touch of foxing) all are clean and unblemished. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. Cincinnati, OH/Rochester NY, L. Swormstedt & J.T. Mitchell, 1845, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, half leather with black boards. Spine with raised bands and the word Plates in gilt. A collection of chromolith plates from Vick's Monthly Magazine and b&w engravings from The Ladies Repository, two magazines from the mid to late 1800s. The first half of the volume contains 68 color plates (with issue guards) of flowers and fruit & vegetables from Vick's, the second half has approximately 80 b&w engravings from The Ladies Repository, mostly portraits and landscapes. Covers lightly worn, plates are all bright and clean. Previous owner's notation pasted to inside front cover.
Hardcover. New York, G.H. Buek, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong light beige cloth with gilt title and decoration. Non-Paginated. Illustrated with 288 clean full color plates. Front and rear hinges cracked but holding with spine cloth. Light wear to covers. Originally published in parts as a Botanical Fine Art Weekly publication.
Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume I, in 2 parts, 559 pages total. Green cloth covers, dark green and gilt titles to spine, 180 color plates, endpapers decorated with map of U.S., profusely illustrated with b&w illustrations. Slight edgewear to covers, otherwise very clean, pages extremely crisp and unmarked, stiff bindings; both books in great condition.
