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Julia Margaret Cameron’s photographic portrait of Julia Jackson facing the camera, hair loose, half her face in shadow
Taschen

Annie Leibovitz

The collector’s edition of a career that defined the modern portrait.

$2,500.00

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Julia Margaret Cameron’s photographic portrait of Julia Jackson facing the camera, hair loose, half her face in shadow
Taschen

Annie Leibovitz

The collector’s edition of a career that defined the modern portrait.

$2,500.00
Albert Bierstadt's luminous panorama of the Rocky Mountains, snow peaks rising over an encampment beside a lake
Assouline

Aspen Style

Aspen from silver town to the mountain of American style.

$105.00
Joan Blaeu's twin-hemisphere world map from the Atlas Maior, allegorical figures around the celestial borders
Taschen

Blaeu. Atlas Maior of 1665

The most expensive book of the seventeenth century, reproduced in full.

$200.00
A colour plate from Oliver Byrne's 1847 edition of Euclid, the proof drawn in red, yellow and blue
Taschen

Byrne. Six Books of Euclid

Geometry in primary colours: the most beautiful mathematics book ever printed.

$70.00
Painting of the Blue Grotto of Capri, boats gliding on glowing blue water inside the sea cave
Assouline

Capri Dolce Vita

Capri as the island of the dolce vita.

$105.00
Watercolour of a jaguar at full run by the animalier Antoine-Louis Barye
Assouline

Cartier Panthère

The panther as Cartier's emblem, from Jeanne Toussaint to today.

$195.00
Ferenc Szisz driving his Renault to victory in the first Grand Prix, Le Mans, 1906
Taschen

Ferrari

The official Ferrari book, made like a Ferrari.

$6,000.00
Polo players converging at the gallop, mallets raised, in an early twentieth-century press photograph
Rizzoli

Ralph Lauren

Fifty years of an American idea of style.

$135.00
Giovanni Segantini's Midday in the Alps, a shepherdess standing in high mountain light
Assouline

St. Moritz Chic

The alpine resort where winter society was invented.

$105.00
Toulouse-Lautrec's Divan Japonais poster, a woman in black watching the cabaret stage
Rizzoli

Studio 54

The club that defined a decade, told by the man who ran it.

$150.00
Bates Hall of the Boston Public Library around 1900, the barrel-vaulted reading room lined with green lamps
gestalten

Temples of Books

The most magnificent libraries around the world.

$75.00
Vermeer's Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, morning light through a leaded window on linen and brass
Phaidon

The Art Book

Five hundred artists, A to Z, one page each.

$60.00
Hiroshige's Plum Garden at Kameido, white blossom seen through the dark fork of a plum tree
Phaidon

The Japanese Garden

The garden as philosophy, across a thousand years.

$80.00
Paolo Uccello's Saint George and the Dragon, the knight's lance piercing the winged dragon before a cave
HarperCollins

The Lord of the Rings

The book, with the author's own paintings, in one volume.

$75.00
Giovanni Boldini's portrait of Count Robert de Montesquiou, the dandy in immaculate evening tailoring with a cane
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Rizzoli

Tom Ford

The Gucci and YSL decade, in the book that set the standard for designer monographs.

$150.00