Clarence Lansing (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress. 24 p., 45 leaves of plates : ill. ; 48 cm. First edition, first printing. Original decorated cloth boards, fragile hinges with webbing showing, boards rubbed and marked, scratch to front cover, plates generally very good with occasional finger prints and smudges to edges, small '2/18' sticker to front cover, no inscriptions. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging. Heavy book, will require extra shipping costs for overseas purchase.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Wear to covers and spine, corners bumped and worn, boards showing, top and bottom of spine bumped and worn, some wear to sides of spine including a few small holes, some small marks and stains to surface of covers, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear, all plates (45) present and in good condition, a few have fingerprints on edges, and a few bent and creased corners, front end paper ripped and creased, front and rear hinge webbing showing. 48.5 cm x 35 cm. The price includes postage and packing to a UK Mainland address, due to the weight (3.4kg) and size there will be an additional charge for everywhere else, please ask for a quote.

Condition: Bon état. Ouvrage broché, exemplaire sur velin supérieur, bel état, ( mémoires de guerre de r. lansing, secrétaire d'état au cabinet du président woodrow wilson, les évènements de la politique étrangère des etats-unis conduits du 23 juin 1915 au 13 février 1920 ), 318 pages, format: 23 x 14.5 cm - largeur/hauteur : x cm - poids : g - nombre de pages : p. - langue :

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Folio; 52 cm. 3/4 leather over black boards. Gilt ruled, gilt front cover title. Hinges cracked, boards detached. Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress. pages 1-78. Volume I. has parts I - XII. A collection of 39 photogravures and typogravures of celebrated paintings by the most distinguished artists of the age; with biographical, critical and descriptive text, by Clarence Lansing. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.

1st Ed. Folio. Title page device, 45 plates. Rear f.e.p. partially detached, light age toning, front f.e.p. with some marginal loss, hinges cracked, gilt lettered brown cloth, marked, dampstained to edges with bubbling along fore-edge of upper board, gilt tooled spine rubbed. Paintings depicted include Profane Music by Guillaume Dubufe, Night by A. Rebouet, Leda and the Swan by Charles Auguste Sellior, A Libation to Pan by A. Serres, Cupid and Pysche by William Adolphe Bouguereau, Diana by Louis Perrey, Undine by Eugene Deully, etc. Additional postage may be necessary US$369.

Hardcover. Vol. 2 only. Black library buckram. Pages 79-150 + 35 of 36 monochrome plates. Contains additional textual illustrations. Oversize. Of interest to students and connoisseurs of 19th century European and American art. It features work by artists like Edward Grutzner, David Neal, Joseph Edouard Dantan, Hendrik Willem Mesdag, and Maude Goodman, and draws heavily from Academy artists. Good+ (ex-library with expected marks. no library marks on plates. severe wear to title page from glue or moisture, resulting in loss of page surface at the bottom. moderate finger smudges/soiling in page margins. The plate "Undine" has been cut out of book. Tear in upper corner of "A Critical Moment").

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Various (illustrator). First edition. 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 nude human body in paintings, looking at master painters use of nudity in their art and what they portray, depicted across forty-five bright and detailed plates.Complete with forty-five photogravures.Art included in this volume include Guillaume Dubufe's 'Profane Music', Charles Auguste Sellier's 'Leda and the Swan', William Adolphe Bouguereau's 'The Youth of Bacchus', 'Nymphs and Satyr', and 'The Daughters of Menestho', Solomon J. Solomon's 'The Judgment of Paris', A. Falero's 'The Vision of Faust', Leon Perrault's 'Nymph and Cupid', Felix Joseph Barrias' 'Venus Triumphant', G. P. M. Van Den Bos' 'The Spring's Awakening', Hans Makart's 'The Wedding of Bacchus and Ariadne', Jules Joseph Lefebvre's 'Diana Surprised by Actaeon', Eugene Deully's 'Undine', and more.With an introduction by Clarence Lansing. In a full cloth binding, rebacked with the original boards and spine restored. Externally, generally smart. Light marks to the boards and spine. Minor rubbing to the extremities and spine. Front board is cocked. Dampstain to the rear board. Cloth to the front joint is a little cockled. Gilt to the front board and spine is very lightly faded but otherwise bright. Front endpaper has been excised. Some spotting to the endpapers. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with the occasional light handling mark. Very Good. book.

No Binding. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Large folio volume is missing the spine and boards. Marbled end papers present with a little edge chipping on first few pages. Contents have no markings or stains very clean and tight. We are selling for the print value. The photogravures are proofs with no title but have a remark. We did notice a couple missing prints. There is a great Tadema and many others with over 70 photogravure fine proof prints in this.