American Decorative and Historical Prints. Property of Various Owners. New York Sotheby's: January 29, 1982. This auction included many Audubon and after-Audubon prints, some fine Currier & Ives prints, and many other important examples. Softcover. 8.5"x9.5", 83 pages, 251 lots, b/w illustrations prices realised sheet stapled to title page a nice copy.

Inventory #: 8561 Price: $ 25.00

American Historical Prints. New York Swann Galleries: April 23, 1998. Softcover. 6.5"x9.5", 353 lots, black & white illustrations. Minor soil.

Inventory #: 34516 Price: $ 20.00

[Benkard] Currier & Ives Prints. The Collection of the Late Col. J. Philip Benkard, New York City. New York American Art Association, Anderson Galleries: November 11-13, 1929. Sale 3789. The auction of a noted private collection with many rarities. Softcover. 7"x10.5", 76 pages, 395 lots, b/w illustrations. Light wear and soil. Small sticker on cover.

Inventory #: 31897 Price: $ 40.00

Dobson, Margaret. Block-Cutting and Print-making by hand: From Wood, Linoleum and Other Media. London Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons: 1930. A complete and charmingly-illustrated guide to everything you need to know about making woodcuts, from the period when the art form was experiencing a great renaissance. The text, which is really quite comprehensive, is illustrated with many examples drawn from a variety of sources, including English art schools. Hardcover. 6.5"x9.5", xix + 183 pages, black & white and some color illustrations. Moderate soil, some wear.

Inventory #: 34363 Price: $ 45.00

Doggett, Rachel, Julie L. Biggs & Carol Brobeck. Impressions of Wenceslaus Hollar. Washington Folger Shakespeare Library: 1996. An exhibition catalog devoted to the work of the famous 17th century engraver of architecture, topography and everyday life. With essays on "Impressions of Wenceslaus Hollar" and "The Techniques of Etching and Engraving", as well as an illustrated and descriptive catalog of the exhibition. Softcover. 10.5"x9", 124 pages, b/w illustrations light wear.

Inventory #: 9474 Price: $ 25.00

[Eberstadt Collection] American Historical Prints from the Stock of Edward Eberstadt & Sons. New York Parke-Bernet Galleries: November 21st, 1967. Sale 2621. Includes a nice selection of early Western views, Indian prints and city views. Softcover. 7"x10", 27 pages, 143 lots, b/w illustrations price list stapled to cover.

Inventory #: 7113 Price: $ 20.00

Ebert, John & Katherine. Old American Prints for Collectors. New York Charles Scribner's Sons: 1974. A very popular guide, primarily useful as a study of American lithographs from the 17th century to 1880. Of particular value to collectors are the chapters on the techniques and mechanics of printmaking. A standard work. Recommended. Hardcover. 8"x10", 277 pages, heavily illustrated in b/w, some color dj. Near fine signed by both authors.

Inventory #: 3694 Price: $ 85.00

Ebert, John & Katherine. Old American Prints for Collectors. New York Charles Scribner's Sons: 1974. A very popular guide, primarily useful as a study of American lithographs from the 17th century to 1880. Of particular value to collectors are the chapters on the techniques and mechanics of printmaking. A standard work. Recommended. Hardcover. 8"x10", 277 pages, heavily illustrated in b/w, some color dj bibliography. A very nice copy.

Inventory #: 8298 Price: $ 60.00

Fifty Sets of Prints from the Sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. London J.B. von der Becke: November, 1969. A printseller's catalog, illustrating and describing examples from a number of decorative print sets. An interesting survey. Softcover. 7"x8", 32 pages, b/w illustrations a nice copy.

Inventory #: 30420 Price: $ 15.00

Graphic Americana. New York Sotheby Parke Bernet: December 18, 1973. An auction including historical views, portraits, maps, atlases, maps & views of the West Indies, a series of plates from the Elephant Folio of Audubon's "Birds of America", and drawings and watercolors by Augustus Kollner, a Philadelphia lithographer. Softcover. 8.5"x9", 32 pages, 148 lots, b/w illustrations prices realised sheet stapled to title page a nice copy.

Inventory #: 8560 Price: $ 25.00

Gunn, Maurice James. Print Restoration and Picture Cleaning. London The Bazaar, Exchange and Mart: 1922. 2nd edition, revised. "An illustrated practical guide to the restoration of all kinds of prints -together with chapters on cleaning water-colors, print 'fakes' and their detection, anomalies in print values, and prints to collect". Of major interest to today's collector for two reasons- first, as a guide to the state of the art a century ago, and an aid in determining what might have been done to that antique print you are puzzling over secondly, as an interesting text on fakes and frauds in print selling during that collecting era. The second edition of this classic text. Hardcover. 6"x9", vi + 168 pages, plus 18 b/w plates publisher's blue covers lightly worn.

Inventory #: 9456 Price: $ 100.00

[Hall Collection] Etchings by Master Artists, Rembrandt, Durer, Whistler, Zorn, Buhot, Haden, Cameron, Brangwyn, Fitton, Maclaughlan, Meryon, Jacque, Haig, Howard, Webster, including the Collection of Mr. Trowbridge Hall, of New York City. New York American Art Association: March 9-10, 1921. An auction catalog. Softcover. 6"x9", about 80 pages, 444 lots, b/w illustrations soiled and worn, pencil notes.

Inventory #: 30360 Price: $ 35.00

[Ivins Collection] Old Master Prints and Drawings From the Estates of the Late William M. Ivins, Jr., Leroy M. Backus, Herman Muehlstein, and others. New York Parke-Bernet Galleries: March 14th, 1963. Sale 2175. Ivins was the Metropolitan Museum of Arts first Curator of Prints and author of several well-regarded and literate books on the subject. A very fine auction sale. Softcover. 7"x10", 56 pages, 222 lots, b/w illustrations a nice copy.

Inventory #: 7087 Price: $ 25.00

Ivins, William M., Jr. How Prints Look. Photographs with a Commentary. Boston Beacon Press: 1964. 3rd printing. First published in 1934, this is a classic text by the longtime Curator of Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art explains how to look at prints from a technical standpoint, with lots of close-ups showing how different techniques produce different results. Softcover. 5.5"x8", 164 pages, black & white illustrations. Light soil & wear, some pencil notes.

Inventory #: 33998 Price: $ 12.00

Ivins, William M., Jr. The Lovers by the Master bxg. An Undescribed Early German Engraving. Reprinted from Metropolitan Museum Studies, Vol.5, Part2. September, 1936. A reproduction and short description of a previously-unknown German engraving, attributed to an anonymous German printmaker known only as "Master b x g". Softcover. 9"x12", 1 page of text and a1 b/w plate with tissue guard light soil, a little wear.

Inventory #: 9876 Price: $ 20.00

Johnson, Malcolm. David Claypool Johnston. American Graphic Humorist, 1798-1865. Worcester American Antiquarian Society: 1970. An exhibition of the work of one of the most popular illustrators of the day. Dubbed "The American Cruikshank", Johnston had supplemented his income by acting early in his career, but by the time of "Charcoal Sketches" his work could be seen in many magazines, on sheet music, and illustrating books. Hardcover. 7"x9", 47 pages, b/w illustrations pictorial covers, slightly soiled. Inscribed by the author.

Inventory #: 30292 Price: $ 30.00

Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut. An Introduction to the Woodcut of the Seventeenth Century. New York Abaris Books: 1977. Lehmann-Haupt spent years preparing this re-appraisal of the oft-denigrated 17th century woodcut, which he found a "vigorous and delightful" subject. There is also a discussion of German 17th century woodcut broadsides. Hardcover. 8.5"x11", 282 pages, b/w illustrations light wear.

Inventory #: 9475 Price: $ 45.00

Long, Stephen. A Nation on the Move: Industrial Prints of America. Nassau County Museum of Fine Art: 1988. An exhibition examining how American printmakers in the 1930s celebrated and commented on America's growing industrialism. Softcover. 8.5"x11", 48 pages, b/w and color illustrations. Light soil.

Inventory #: 31556 Price: $ 60.00

Long, Stephen. A Nation on the Move: Industrial Prints of America. Nassau County Museum of Fine Art: 1988. An exhibition examining how American printmakers in the 1930s celebrated and commented on America's growing industrialism. Softcover. 8.5"x11", 48 pages, b/w and color illustrations. Name on first page, light soil.

Inventory #: 31557 Price: $ 60.00

Lugt, Frits. Les Marques de Collections de Dessins & d'Estampes. Mansfield Centre Martino Publishing: 2002. A facsimile of the 1921 Amsterdam edition. "This is a standard reference for all collectors of drawings and engravings, that includes a wealth of information on dealers, collectors, museums, and sales, with more than 3000 illustrations of collector's marks. Marques Estampiles et Ecrites de Collections Particulieres et Publiques. Marques de Marchands, de Monteurs et d'Imprimeurs. Cachets de Vente d'Artistes Decedes. Marques de Graveurs Apposees Apres le Tirage des Planches. Timbres d'edition etc. Hardcover. 7.5"x9", 596 pages. New.

Inventory #: 90241 Price: $ 80.00

Man, Felix H. Artist's Lithographs. A World History from Senefelder to the Present Day. New York G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1970. The Senefelder of the sub-title is Aloys Senefelder, born in 1771, the inventor of lithography. This very well illustrated history of artist lithography in the 19th and 20th centuries covers a wide topic with erudition and grace. Hardcover. 9"x12", 216 pages, profusely illustrated in black & white and color, dust jacket. Light wear.

Inventory #: 33955 Price: $ 25.00

[Michaelsen] Rare and Fine American Lithographs, Mainly the Work of N. Currier and Currier & Ives. A Collection Formed by Mrs. Rita Michaelsen, New York City. New York American Art Association, Anderson Galleries: December 18, 1930. The auction of a very fine collection. Softcover. 6"x9.25", 57 pages, 224 lots, b/w illustrations. Light wear, minor soil, small sticker on cover.

Inventory #: 31886 Price: $ 35.00

Middendorf, J. William II, Charles Montgomery, et al. Prints Pertaining to America. A List of Publications in English, Relating to Prints about that Portion of America now Included in the United States with Emphasis on the Period 1650-1850, and a Checklist of Prints in an Exhibition to Commemorate the 1962 Fall Meeting of the Walpople Society Selected from the Collection of the Henry Francis DuPont Winterthur Museum. Portland Printed for the Walpole Society by the Anthoensen Press in an edition of 1000 copies. 6"x9", 99 pages, 16 b&w plates, softcover edition.

Inventory #: 21379 Price: $ 50.00

[Nichols / Peters, et al] Etchings & Engravings by Old & Modern Masters. Property of the Estate of the Late George Livingston Nichols, Katonah, NY, Mrs. Samuel T. Peters, (and) Grace Rainey Rogers... New York Parke-Bernet Galleries: December 14th, 1943. Sale 510. Also property of F.W.M. Kamm, K.M. Neu, and several others. A wide range of etchings. Softcover. 6.5"x9.5", 72 pages, 356 lots, b/w illustrations, priced some soil notes on cover.

Inventory #: 3932 Price: $ 10.00

Norton, Bettina A. Prints at the Essex Institute. Salem Essex institute: 1978. A selection of landscape, portrait, historical and other prints of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries in the Essex Institute's collection. Softcover. 8"x8", 60 pages, black & white illustrations. Light wear.

Inventory #: 33485 Price: $ 20.00