Rome: "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 1956. First edition. Softcover. Large Quarto. xlii, 143pp., lxxv plates. Original gray, textured stiff wraps with vignette and black lettering on cover. Title page with vignette. "When the Catalogue of Engraved Gems of Classical Style was published in 1920 the collection was a comparatively modest one..... More
London: Phaidon Press, 1968, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. xii, (695, 876 gems), ix [i], 307pp., (783 gems). Original beige cloth with gilt-stamped and brown emblem on cover, gilt lettering and ruling on spine; first volume w/o dustjacket, second in original green illustrated dustjacket, black lettering on spine. Publisher's device..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970. Fourth edition. Newly revised. Hardcover. 8vo. xvi. 317pp. of text and plates followed by 853 figures, not paginated. Black cloth with lettering to spine in original dj. Corners slightly bumped. Heavy creasing and chipping to dj. "From its first publication in 1929 this has..... More
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1915. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. xli, 491[1]pp. Original stiff green wraps with black decorative border and lettering on cover, black lettering on spine. Green endpapers. Frontispiece. Selected bibliography at front. The preface by Richter illustrates the history of the Metropolitan Museum's collection, starting with..... More