MARILYN BRAITERMAN

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with much on landscaping and city planning. The first volume
gives background material on Colonial and Spanish Mission
architecture, H. H.Richardson, Daniel Burnham and the
Chicago World’s Fair; analysis of the luxurious country house,
gardens, apartment houses, garden cities and worker’s villages,
gentlemen’s farms, hotels and clubs. The second volume deals
with commercial buildings, railroad stations, universities,
libraries, museums, churches, expositions, government buildings
and commemorative monuments.
Buildings include the New York Municipal Building, Princeton,
Woolworth Building, Pennsylvania Station, Morgan Library,
New York Public Library and Forest Hills Gardens. Architects
include Jefferson, Richardson, McKim Mead & White, Goodhue,
Hopkins, Hastings, Lowell, Pope, Gilbert and Lindeberg. $525
55. (GREENHOUSES) American Greenhouses. Brooklyn:
American-Moninger Greenhouse Mfg. Corp. (1927). Large
folio, green cloth with mounted color illustration. Minor
spotting and fraying along several edges and spine ends. An
elaborate catalogue by a leading manufacturer of greenhouses,
solariums, palm houses and conservatories from small to
enormous for commercial florists and growers; the U.S.
Botanic Gardens; conservatory of the Hotel Pennsylvania, NY;
institutions, cemeteries and private homes across the country.
Hundreds of photographic illustrations (some in color) and
measured drawings on blue print-like paper. $500
56. HAMILTON, EDWARD. The Flora Homeopathica; or,
Illustrations and Descriptions of the Medicinal Plants Used As
Homeopathic Remedies. London: H. Bailliere... & Edinburgh:
George Allshorn... 1852. Two volumes. 8vo, contemporary
three-quarter green morocco and boards; gilt-decorated and
lettered spines. Rubbed at joints but an attractive set. Text
and plates clean and coloring fresh. Some misnumbering but
complete with each plate facing the proper text.
Illustrations and descriptions of 66 medicinal plants used in
homeopathic remedies. A botany book and a materia medica
with 66 hand colored plates. First and only edition (apart from
a modern reprint). $2500 SEE COLOR INSERT
57. HARING, KEITH. (New York) 1981. 8vo, stiff pictorial
wrappers, slight soiling. An
early booklet (without text)
published in 1981 by the
artist, Appearances Magazine
and The Beards Fund.
Fifteen pages of illustration
by Haring displaying many
of his famous graffiti images
and showing the link
between his art, cartooning
and the short narrative
styles that were
developing in the art and
prose of downtown New
York. $250
58. HIRSCHFELD (AL) Harlem As Seen by Hirschfeld. Text
by William Saroyan. New York: The Hyperion Press, 1941.
Folio, tan pictorial cloth with a hand-colored Hirschfeld
illustration. Cover with some age-darkening but in very nice
condition; interior fresh. One of 1000 copies .
The vibrant life of Harlem in the Swing Era of the 1930s is
depicted in 24 original mounted color lithograph illustrations
(five are of Balinese dancers) on hand made paper plus black
and white illustrations in the text. $4500 BACK COVER
59. HOCKNEY, DAVID. Hockney’s Alphabet. London: Faber
and Faber for the AIDS Crisis Trust (1991). 4to, quarter vellum
and handmade Fabriano paper-covered boards, spine lettered in
gilt; as new in matching slipcase with paper label. One of 300
copies of the deluxe edition published to raise funds for people
living with AIDS.
Full page designs in color by Hockney, one for each letter of
the alphabet plus an ampersand, with a literary contribution on
each facing page. Signed by Hockney, Stephen Spender and
22 authors, including Doris Lessing, Martin Amis, William
Golding, Seamus Heaney, Iris Murdoch, V.S. Pritchett, Arthur
Miller, Susan Sontag, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, Norman
Mailer, and others. (Not signing were Burgess, Eliot, Hughes
and Vidal.) $2000
60. HOFFMANN, HERBERT. Die Neue Raumkunst in
Europa und Amerika. Stuttgart: Julius Hoffman (1930). 4to,
green buckram with red labels. Spine label a little rubbed;
bookseller’s rubber stamp on end paper and title page and
small ink signature; otherwise clean and bright.
Architecturally inspired furniture in architecturally fine, functional
interiors, mostly domestic with some theaters, bars and restaurants.
Excellent design documentation of 1920s International Style with
work by Aalto, Breuer, Le Corbusier, Djo-Bourgeois, Gropius,
Hilberseimer, J. Hoffmann, Lurçat, Mendelsohn, Neutra, Bruno
Paul, Ruhlmann, Saarinen, et al. $375
61. (HOMER, WINSLOW) Proceedings of the Reception and
Dinner in Honor of George Peabody, Esq. of London, by the
Citizens of the Old Town of Danvers. October 9, 1856. Boston:
Henry W. Dutton & Son, 1856. 8vo, blind-stamped cloth with
elaborate gilt cartouche on front cover with gilt lettering.
Moderate wear to extremities and light staining to covers with
dampstaining to front and back blank leaves;
minor occasional foxing. Seventeen tinted lithographic plates
with two by Winslow Homer, signed with his initials, on
which he worked when he was an apprentice at Bufford, the