Annotated Auction Catalogs

Annotated Auction Catalogs

Almost 200 catalogs published prior to 1909, with annotations on items for sale, successful bidders, and prices realized.
Catalogue des tableaux qui se trouvent dans les galleries du palais de S.A.S.E. Palatine, a Dusseldorff

Catalogue des tableaux qui se trouvent dans les galleries du palais de S.A.S.E. Palatine, a Dusseldorff, ca. 1756

This 39-page catalog describes the collections of the Elector Palatine in Düsseldorf, just prior to the Seven Years' War. Bound with Catalogue des tableaux qui sont dans les quatre cabinets de S.A.S.E. Palatine, a Mannheim.
Catalogue des tableaux qui sont dans les quatre cabinets de S.A.S.E. Palatine, a Mannheim

Catalogue des tableaux qui sont dans les quatre cabinets de S.A.S.E. Palatine, a Mannheim, 1756

This 46-page catalog describes the four cabinets (or galleries) of the Elector Palatine who resided in Mannheim at this time. Bound with Catalogue des tableaux qui se trouvent dans les galleries du palais de S.A.S.E. Palatine, a Dusseldorff.
Conservation Manuals

Conservation Manuals

Almost 100 pre-20th-century publications for artisans and artists describe methods and processes of artistic production using such diverse materials as paper, glass, textiles, wood, adhesives, and various kinds of paint.
Designs by El Lissitzky

Designs by El Lissitzky

Exploring Lissitzky's career as a typographer, book designer, and architect, this website takes its inspiration from and shows materials featured in the Getty Research Institute exhibition Monuments of the Future: Designs by El Lissitzky (November 21, 1998–February 21, 1999).
Emblem Books

Emblem Books

More than 400 illustrated books featuring symbolic pictures and explanatory texts.
Festival Books

Festival Books

Over 350 illustrated books and descriptive texts that describe court entertainments, civic events, historic occasions, and popular holidays.
Halsted B. Vander Poel Campanian Collection

Halsted B. Vander Poel Campanian Collection

Six hundred rare books drawn from the collector's vast collections of books, archives, and personal papers assembled for research on the archaeological excavations at Pompeii.
Russian Avant-Garde Books

Russian Avant-Garde Books

Thirty-five books produced by poets including Velimir Khlebnikhov, Alexei Kruchenykh, Vasily Kamensky, and Vladimir Mayakovsky in collaboration with such artists as David Burliuk, Natalia Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov, Kazimir Malevich, and Olga Rozanova.