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Treasures of Art in Great Britain: Being an Account of the Chief Collections of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Illuminated Mss &C. In Three Volumes

Dr. Waagen · 1854 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)

London , John Murray, 1854. Cloth. Waagen's scarce seminal work, a journey of discovery into British art by an expert visiting England from Germany, cataloguing the art treasures in private collections of the 1850s. Bookseller's stamp of Knibb, Leamington to front pa...

Modes and Manners of the Nineteenth Century As Represented in the Pictures and Engravings of the Time. In Three Volumes

Oskar Fischel; Max von Boehn · 1909 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.33 | $653.93 | ¥104,424)

London, J.M.Dent, 1909. Leather. A fascinating and lavishly illustrated examination of nineteenth-century culture and fashion as depicted in art. Originally a work by German art historians Oskar Fischel and Max von Boehn, here translated into English for the first time. Featur...

The Arts in Early England. Volumes I - V.

Gerald Baldwin Brown · 1903 · Rooke Books

£249.99 (€299.65 | $330.25 | ¥52,737)

London, John Murrary, 1903-1921. Cloth. The first editions of the first five volumes of Baldwin Brown's comprehensive historical exploration of the Saxon arts and crafts in England. All first editions and remarkably uniform considering they were published over a period of...

A Finely Bound Collection of Plates Depicting the Lives of the French Aristocracy

Unknown · 0 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.09 | ¥21,094)

Unknown, Unknown, c1890. Leather. An attractively bound selection of aristocratic plates by French artists. The title page has been neatly removed, leaving the title and exact date of publication a mystery. With plates, in colour, sepia and monochrome, by P.-A. Baudouin, Claud...

English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century Volume I

Herbert Cescinsky · 1911 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, The Waverley Book Company, 1911. Leather. A work on the history of English furniture, profusely illustrated throughout. With the errata leaf after title page. This volume has a timeline outlining 'The Parallel History of Europe in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Ce...

Goethe&Apos;S Female Characters

William Kaulbach; G. H. Lewes. · 1805 · Rooke Books

£79.99 (€95.88 | $105.67 | ¥16,874)

Munich & Berlin, Frederick Buckmann, c1868. Leather. A beautiful and scarce collection of illustrated plates of Goethe's Female characters from William Kaulbach. Illustrated frontispiece with portrait of Goethe. Wilhelm von Kaulbach (1805 -1874) was a German painter, note...

Songs and Verses

G J Whyte-Melville · 1821 · Rooke Books

£37.99 (€45.54 | $50.19 | ¥8,014)

London, Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, c1890. Leather. An uncommon single volume edition of Songs and Verses by G. J. Whyte-Melville. New edition with numerous additions. Contained are numerous poems and hunting songs such as Hero and Leander, The Queen of the Rose, A Cavalier&apos...

The Watercolours of Ireland.

Anne Crookshank and the Knight of Glin · 1994 · Rooke Books

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

London , Barrie & Jenkins, 1994. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this essential reference work depicting the visual delights of Ireland. Includes works on paper in pencil, pastel and print from 1600 to 1914. Numerous colour illustrations and plates throughout. Contain...

Turner&Apos;S Rivers of France

J. M. W. Turner, Leitch Ritchie, John Ruskin and Alaric A. Watts · 0 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.69 | $297.24 | ¥47,465)

London , The London Printing and Publishing Company, c1880. Cloth. A study of the rivers of France, as painted by Turner. With an introduction by John Ruskin and steel engravings selected from the originals of J. M. W. Turner. Described by Leitch Ritchie, and with a biography ...

A Dictionary of Painters from the Revival of the Art to the Present Period

M . Pilkington; revised by Henry Fuseli · 1810 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.70 | $290.63 | ¥46,411)

London , J. Walker et al. 1810. Cloth. Fuseli's biographical dictionary of artists and painters. A new edition with considerable additions, an appendix, and an index. Including entries on Stephen Elmer, Albery Meyering, Lorenzo Lotto, and many others. Bookplate of Colston...

The Connoisseur, an Illustrated Magazine for Collectors Vol. XXXVIII and Vol. CCVIII

J. T. Herbert Baily · 1914 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,436)

London , Otto limited, 1914-1920. Cloth. Two scarce volumes of The Connoisseur, An Illustrated Magazine For Collectors. Vol. XXXVIII (January - April, 1914) and Vol. LVIII (September - December, 1920) With numerous illustrations, some of which are in colour. The original Conno...

Landscape

Philip Gilbert Hamerton · 1885 · Rooke Books

£420.00 (€503.43 | $554.85 | ¥88,602)

London , Seeley and Co, 1885. First edition. Cloth. A limited edition Large Paper edition 346/500 numbered copies in a paper vellum binding of Landscape by Philip Gilbert Hamerton, which traces the influence of landscape upon the mind of man. With original etchings and many il...

The Art of the French Book

Andre Lejard · 0 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, Paul Elek, c1947. First edition. Cloth. A first edition volume on the art of French books, edited by Andre Lejard. With and introduction by Philip James, director of art at The Arts Council of Great Britain, the work deals with volumes from early manuscripts up until t...

The Work of Charles Keene; with an Introduction and Comments on the Drawings Illustrating the Artist&Apos;S Methods

Ioseph Pennel · 1897 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, T. FIsher Unwin And Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. 1897. Cloth. A collection of 134 reproductions of the British artist's works, with an introduction and commentary. Keene has been called 'the artist's artist'; he had no formal training. Instead he found hi...

Advanced (Third Grade) Perspective: Comprising Angular and Oblique Perspective, Shadows and Reflections. Specially Prepared for the Use of Art Students. In Two Volumes

Henry James Dennis · 1896 · Rooke Books

£198.00 (€237.33 | $261.57 | ¥41,769)

London , Bailliere, Tindall, and Cox, 1896. Cloth. A scarce late Victorian technical drawing manual for art students, concerning perspective. The seventh edition. Volume I concerns 'Angular and Oblique Perspective', and Volume II 'Shadows and Reflections&apos. F...

Water-Colour Painting in Britain

Martin Hardie · 1968 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.84 | $151.92 | ¥24,260)

London, B. T. Batsford, 1968. Cloth. A study of Victorian watercolours from Martin Hardie. Edited by Dudley Snelgrove with Jonathan Mayne and Basil Taylor. With coloured frontispiece and numerous other plates and illustrations throughout. In a cloth binding with Brodart dustwr...

Catalogue of the Mr. And Mrs. Jack R. Dick Collection of English Sporting and Conversation Paintings Part One Which Will Be Sold by Auction by Sotheby & Co. Day of Sale, Wednesday, 31st October, 1973, at Nine-Thirty P. M

None · 1973 · Rooke Books

£24.99 (€29.95 | $33.01 | ¥5,272)

New York, Sotheby Park Bernet Inc, 1973. Hardback. This is a sale catalogue, describing the paintings up for auction by Sotheby and Co from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Jack R. Dick of sporting and conversation paintings. Sotheby's is the world's second oldest inte...

Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition of a Collection of Silversmiths&Apos; Works of European Origin

Burlington Fine Arts Club · 1901 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.48 | ¥94,931)

London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1901. Cloth. A large volume published by the Burlington Fine Arts Club, containing examples of the works of silversmiths from across the world. Illustrated throughout with one hundred and twenty photographic plates. The Burlington Fine Arts C...

Histoire de la Ceramique: Etude Descriptive Et Raisonne Des Poteries de Tous Les Temps Et de Tous Les Peuples

Albert Jacquemart · 1873 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Paris, Hachette, 1873. Leather. A beautiful copy of Jacquemart's illustrated research on the history of ceramics. A beautiful copy of Jacquemart's research on ceramics. With 12 plates, 200 figures, and 1000 illustrations. A scholar of ancient Babylonian, Egyptian, Gr...

Bacchanales

Nicos Nicolaidis · 1996 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)

Paris, Elyette Peyre, 1996. Cloth. An excellent and scarce proof copy of this collection of lithographs by artist Hastaire, a limited, signed edition. This is a scarce proof copy of this collection of lithographs by artist Hastaire. One of 115 limited edition copies signed by ...