Lions, Eagles & Bulls

Catalogue complimenting the exhibition entitled Lions & Eagles & Bulls: Early American Tavern & Inn Signs, that includes illustrations and essays by prominent scholars of American art and cultural history. It is published in association with Princeton University press, edited by Susan P. Schoelwer
 

$29.95 

The Carriage Collection

Softcover, 127 pages, black and white & color reproductions. Contents: The Carriage Era; European Vehicles; Personal Transportation in Pre-Industrial America; Personal Transportation in Industrial America, The Gypsy Wagon; Coachmen Driven Vehicles, Pleasure Driving Vehicles, Sleighs; Freight and Trade Vehicles; Public Transportation; Fire-Fighting Vehicles. Appendices: Major Parts of a Vehicle, Springs, Glossary, Further Readings, Index.
 
$15.00

19th Century American Carriages Their Manufacture, Decoration and Use.  Softcover, 174 pages, black & white & color reproductions. Contents: From Carriage Shop to Carriage Factory: The Effect of Industrialization on the Process of Manufacturing Carriages; A Harmony of Parts: The Aesthetics of Carriages in Nineteenth-Century America; A Ride Into History: The Horse-Drawn Vehicle in Selected Counties of New York State; The Spirit of Progress: Horse-Drawn Transportation on Long Island, 1800-1900; Before the Cart: The Relationship Between Horses and Carriages.    $15.00

William Sidney Mount: 
Works in the Collection
of The Long Island Museum

Softcover, 96 pages, black & white and color reproductions. Contents: Forward; Introduction  William Sidney Mount (1807-1868); Chronology; Paintings; Drawings; Further Reading. 


$8.00

Shepard Alonzo Mount:
His Life and Art.

Softcover, 63 pages, black & white & color reproductions. Contents: Forward; Introduction; Shepard Alonzo Mount (1804-1868); Still Life; Landscape; Portraits; Notes.
 
 
 
 

$7.50

Catching the Tune: Music and William Sidney Mount
Softcover, 67 pages, black & white & color reproductions. Contents: Catching the Tune: Music and William Sidney Mount; The Place to Make and Artist Work: Micah Hawkins and William Sidney Mount in New York City; Rusticity and Refinement: Music and Dance on Long Island, 1800 - 1870; Instrument Innovation and William Sidney Mount's "Cradle of Harmony."    $7.50

The Museums at Stony Brook: Highlights of the Collection

Softcover, 72 pages, color reproductions. Contents: Introduction; The Art Collection and Archives; The History Collection; The Carriage Collection. 



 
 
 
 

$5.00

Joseph Reboli

Hardcover, 84 pages, six black & white & 50 color reproductions. Contents: Essay about the artist's career; Exhibition Record. 
 
 

$44.95

William Sidney Mount: Painter of American Life
Hardcover, 84 pages, six black & white & 50 color reproductions. Contents: William Sidney Mount : Painter of American Life; Boys Will Be Boys: Notes on William Sidney Mount's Vision of Childhood; Mount's Patrons; Translation and Transformation: THe Prints After William Sidney Mount. Index, Selected Bibliography. 
$29.95

Tile Club..
From The Ron Pisano Exhibit



 
 
 
 
 
 
 

$19.95

George Washington, 
American Symbol
Softcover, 160 pages, 78 black & white & 30 color reproductions. Contents: Life Portraits of George Washington; An Icon Preserved. Washington as the Master of His Lodge: History and Symbolism of a Masonic Icon; At Home with George; Commercialization of the Washington Image, 1776-1876; The Marketing of an Icon; George Washington: The Modern and Postmodern Image of George Washington. Selected Bibliography, Index.
$19.95

Gunner's Paradise: Wildfowling and Decoys on Long Island 

Softcover, 152 pages, black & white & color reproductions. Contents: The Sporting Life; The Working Life; Duck Hunting on Long Island; Snipe Hunting on Long Island; Getting Geese and Brant; Paradise Lost; Decoys: A Short History; Long Island Decoy Carvers; Map; Glossary; Catalogue of The Museums' Decoy Collection; Appendices: William Bowman, and Obediah Verity; Sources; Index. 
 
 
 
 

$5.00

Whistler....
From the recent exhibit

Long Island, Our Story
From Newsday Series
$44.95

Dover Books
Poems
Starting at $1.00

Old Nassau County
In Early Photographs

Dover Books
"Classics"

Long Island Railroad
In Early Photographs

Old Suffolk County
in Early Photographs

Old Queens
In early photographs

Antique Toys

Old Brooklyn
in Early Photograhs

Dover Kids
Favorites
Starting at $1.00
We also have books on the current exhibit - Norman Rockwell