Lot Details & Additional Photographs
To include:
Pierre-François Hugues D'Hancarville. THE COMPLETE COLLECTION OF ANTIQUITIES FROM THE CABINET OF SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON. Köln: Taschen, 2004. Hardcover. 17 11/16 x 12 in.; 550pp. (Good overall condition; boards scuffed and very slightly bowed, several small dents, edgewear and wear at head and tail of spine, light creasing at joints; interior clean and unmarked except for unfortunate damp staining at top edge as well as fore-edge and outer margin, with associated marks and small amount of foxing; lacking jacket. An oversize title with many fold-out plates.)
Wilhelmina F. Jashemski. THE GARDENS OF POMPEII: HERCULANEUM AND THE VILLAS DESTROYED BY VESUVIUS. New Rochelle, NY: Caratzas Brothers, Publishers, 1979. Hardcover. Brown cloth-covered boards, in jacket. 12 1/4 x 9 3/8 in.; 372pp. Photographs, drawings, and plans by Stanley Jashemski; with fold-out map at the end. Inscribed by Wilhelmina and Stanley Jashemski on the front free endpaper verso. (Corners bumped, slight separation from text block; clean interior; jacket toned and scuffed, with edgewear, one small tear, and damp staining at bottom edge. Very good in good jacket.)
Raymond Cazelles and Johannes Rathofer. ILLUMINATIONS OF HEAVEN AND EARTH: THE GLORIES OF THE TRÈS RICHES HEURES DU DUC DE BERRY. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1988. Hardcover. Navy blue cloth-covered boards, in dust jacket. 12 3/4 x 10 in.; 239pp. Foreword by Umberto Eco. (Occasional mark or scuff to interior, overall clean and unmarked; jacket with light creases and scuffs, toned with area of edgewear at top and price sticker on front. Near fine in very good jacket.)
Klaus Bussmann and Heinz Schilling, eds. 1648, WAR AND PEACE IN EUROPE. Exh. cat. Münster/Osnabrück, 1998. Hardcover, no dust jacket. 12 x 9 3/8 in. (Like new; still in shrink wrap.)
Ronni Baer. CLASS DISTINCTIONS: DUTCH PAINTING IN THE AGE OF REMBRANDT AND VERMEER. Boston: MFA. 2015. Hardcover, in dust jacket. 11 1/4 x 9 1/4 in. (Near fine with light edgewear; still in shrink wrap.)
Elizabeth Franzen, et al., eds. RUSSIA! NINE HUNDRED YEARS OF MASTERPIECES AND MASTER COLLECTIONS. Exh. cat. New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2005. Paperback. 10 5/8 x 9 3/8 in.; 426pp. (Very good with edgewear and creasing at spine.)
Serge Fauchereau, ed. MOSCOW: 1900-1930. NY: Mallard Press, 1988. Hardcover. Red cloth-covered boards, in jacket. 10 1/2 x 9 1/4 in.; 275pp. (Jacket scuffed with light edgewear, residue on back cover; very good in very good jacket.)
Rein Jansma. STAIRS. Amsterdam: Elffers, 1982. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Cloth-covered boards, in slipcase. Artist book with fold-out stairs. (Boards with light foxing and staining; pages clean with minor creasing; slipcase scuffed with minor edgewear.)
Heinrich Nicolaus. ICH WILL DAS INNERE FEUER. Carini, San Giovanni Valdarno, 1990. Signed limited edition. Hardcover. Quarter green cloth, no jacket. 8 1/2 x 7 in.; [60]pp. Signed by the artist on the first free endpaper. Text in German. (Boards toned, one small dent and mark, light edgewear; one small mark on title page otherwise pristine; very good.)
From the Collection of Professor Roberto Severino, Washington, D.C.