Jubako (food boxes) with Taro Plants and Chrysanthemums: detail of chrysanthemums

Shibata Zeshin; gold and silver hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, and colored togidashimaki-e on lacquered wood

Catalogue of the private library of the late Mr. A.A. Smets, Savannah, Ga. : comprising one of the most valuable and extensive collections of books ever offered to the American public : containing very rare and elegant editions of early printed works, ranging from the XV. century : also, many early manuscripts and missals, with gorgeous illuminations : a large assortment of modern illustrated works, standard biographies, travels, histories, etc., etc., of the best editions : the whole to be sold by auction, at the Clinton Hall Book Salerooms and Art Galleries, Leavitt, Strebeigh & Co., auctioneers, Monday, May 25th, and following days, commencing at 4 o'clock P.M. each day.

"A southern library. A statement read before the New England historical and genealogical society ... Oct. 5, 1859" (4 p., bound at end of copy 1) relates to the present library.

Illustrated catalogue of the exhibition of portraits on loan in the new galleries of art, Corporation buildings, Sauchiehall Street.

Exhibition of portraits from Scotland and England "of deceased persons, especially of those who have been connected with Glasgow...." -- P. [iii].

A treatise on the art of painting, in all its branches; accompanied by seventy engraved plates, and exemplified by remarks on the paintings of the best masters, illustrating the subject by reference to their beauties and imperfections.

Plates by John Carwitham after Lairesse. They are numbered I-LXXI, with II/III and IV/V on single leaves.

The art of speaking : containing, an essay, in which are given rules for expressing properly the principal passions and humours, which occur in reading, or public speaking, and lessons, taken from the ancients and moderns ... /

Bookseller's advertisements: p. [4]-[7] at end.

Dix années du salon de peinture et de sculpture, 1879-1888 /

"Tirage à petit nombre, plus vingt-cinq exemplaires sur papier de hollande"--Half-title verso.

Beschrijving van de schilderij voorstellende den veldslag bij Waterloo : op den 18 junij 1815 /

Date from online catalog of Niederländische Nationalbibliothek, consulted 2/12/09.

L'imitation de Jésus-Christ.

Chromolithographs by Lemercier.

Sinnbilder und Kunstvorstellungen der alten Christen /

Includes 12 lithographs and 1 copper engraving.

Les artistes cambresiens du IXe au XIXe siècle et l'école de dessin de Cambrai /

Added lithographed title page dated 1873.

Gothic furniture : consisting of twenty-seven coloured engravings /

Despite the title page, these are black and white engravings.

Museum etruscum : exhibens insignia veterum Etruscorum monumenta aereis tabulis C.C. nunc primum edita et illustrata /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Architektonisch-mythologische Kunst-Sammlung : ein Modell und Taschenbuch für Stein- und Bildhauer, Töpfer Gürttler und Eisengiesser, so wie auch für Tüncher und Stukaturer.

Mode of access: Internet.

Ars pictoria, or, An academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, etching : to which are added XXXI copper plates, expressing the choicest, nearest, and most exact grounds and rules of symmetry /

Errata for Ars pictoria, p. [8] of preliminaries. Errata for Appendix, p. 39.

A practical treatise on painting : in three parts : consisting of hints on composition, chiaroscuro, and colouring : the whole illustrated by examples from the Italian, Venetian, Flemish, and Dutch schools /

Pagination, part 1: 31 pages, 9 leaves of plates; part 2: vi, 45 pages, 8 leaves of plates; part 3: ix, 64 pages, 8 leaves of plates.