COLMAN, SAMUEL. Nature's Harmonic Unity: A Treatise on Its Relation to Proportional Form.

2088095: SCARCE STUDY OF FORM COLMAN, SAMUEL. Nature's Harmonic Unity: A Treatise on Its Relation to Proportional Form. 302 illustrations exploring the unifying principles of science and math on nature and man-made structures. 4to, publisher's gilt-stamped olive cloth, fading to spine and top and right sides of covers, only minor rubbing to extremities, otherwise a tight, clean copy. New York and London: Knickerbocker, 1912

extremely scarce first edition by the multi-talented Hudson River School artist. A successful painter who studied under Asher B. Durand, Colman became an accomplished etcher, publisher, interior decorator, and was a known expert and collector of Asian art and porcelain. His only other authored work was Proportional Form.