Collections:
Rare Books, Prints, Documents, Archives
The papers and artwork of the distinguished and innovative children’s book writer and illustrator, who also worked as an artist in a number of other fields relating to children, designing environmental spaces, murals, sculpture, and textiles.
Current Scholarly Collections
The late Professor Gregory L. Possehl, University of Pennsylania. Full catalogue available soon.
Professor C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, Harvard University. Full catalogue available soon.
The late Professor Dr. Günter Grimm, Archaeologisches Institut, Universität Trier. Full catalogue now available.
Ars Libri is currently cataloguing the finest library and archive pertaining to Armenian Studies in private hands. In addition to a collection of over 10,000 volumes on Armenia and related fields such as Islamic/Near Eastern and Byzantine Studies, the collection has a large archival component covering such topics as Armenian manuscripts and illumination, the Armenian genocide, Armenian film, modern Armenian artists, musicians and the theatre, the Armenian diaspora. Among specific archives is a major William Saroyan collection including a large collection of Saroyan’s drawings and paintings and a large archive of the Armenian filmmaker Sergei Paradjanov including manuscripts, collages and film scripts. The archive also includes some 25,000 slides and photographs. There is also a substantial collection of historic maps of Armenia.
1249 titles in ca. 2100 physical volumes. Professor Dr. Günter Dreyer, the former head of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Kairo. Full catalogue now available.
3871 titles in ca. 4000 physical volumes. Including a comprehensive collection of books on the city of Rome, as well as a number of books from related disciplines
Sold Collections
2876 titles in over 3,000 physical volumes. Although primarily concerned with French art from the 16th to the 19th century, the library has also important concentrations of books on 19th European art (particularly Scandinavian and German) as well as Italian art of the late Renaissance and Baroque periods.
One of the most important libraries on the subject remaining in private hands. Over 3,000 titles in ca. 5,200 physical volumes.
Three collections of the work of modernist graphic designers
An archive of an important figure in modernist scholarship
Rare books from the library of Peter A. Wick
Ars Libri is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America, the Verband Deutscher Antiquare, the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, and the International Fine Print Dealers Association.
Federal Tax Identification: #04-2589548.
