The Silk Road: Fabrics From The Han to the T'ang Dynasty
Urumqi, China: Museum of the Sinkiang-Uighur Autonomous Region (Museum of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region), 1972. Slipcased. Everything very nice in general but for minor general shelf wear. The yellow single page is worn at the very top edge from sticking out. The very outer fore edges of the booklets are age toned. The main volume has art museum ex-lib. marks of bar code, blind stamp, title translation into English (in pencil) and off-white sticker remnant. Slipcase is age toned... Read More
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The Decameron of Boccaccio
no place noted: The Bibliophilist Society, nd. Hardcover. VG-/G, book in very good condition with light fading to edges, DJ scuffed, and tattered at edges. Black cloth, ill. salmon DJ. xii, 307 pp. Numerous bw plates. Two volumes in one.
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An Important Collection of Incunabula and XVI Century Books Partly from a Monastery Library and in Their Original Gothic Bindings
Vienna: Gilhofer & Ranschburg, 1925. Softcover. Interior clean but with front cover detached and back cover soiled and chipped;. White pictorial wraps with black lettering; 116 pp. with 28 bw plates and 152 bw illustrations;. Text in German; a catalogue of 227 works comprised of German woodcutbooks, many first editions, beautiful illuminated books, imprints of Schoeffer, Zainer, Sweynheym & Pannartz and Jenson; German Mystics, School Card-Games, early manuscrips, a chained binding and other rarities.
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The Family Herald; A Domestic Magazine of Useful Information and Amusement: Vol. VII
London: George Biggs. Hardcover. VG: Wear to the edges and corners. Creases on some pages. Slight tanning and foxing. Solid binding. Some pages with proud 'tags' from an error in the printing/binding process.. A green casebound book with gilt text on the spine. 832 pages. No. 313, Vol. VII to No. 364, Vol. II.
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CATHEDRALE D'ALBI, ALBUM SOUVENIR LL
Paris: Levy et Neurdein Reunis, no date. Softbound. Good-, minor chipping to extremities and corners, some tissue guards folded. Stiff card covers with large gothic title. 15 plates most with tissue guards, no text or pagination. A collection of 15 interesting and useful views of the cathedral and surroundings.
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Property From The New York Public Library Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
New York, New York: Sotheby's, 2005. Softcover. VG. Color illus. wraps; 80 pp.; 1 color gatefold; 3 bw, 34 color figures. Accompanied sale N08134, held on November 30, 2005; Contains paintings and sculpture of George Washington and other early American figures by John White Alexander, Samuel Colman, John Singleton Copley, Samuel F.B. Morse, James Peale, and more.
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Commercial Art and Industry: Index to Vol. XIV [14], January to June, 1933
London: The Studio Limited, 1933. Hardcover. G+. Some scuffing around edges and corners and soiling/staining along both boards fore edge. Interior clean and unmarked.. Quarto. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with beveled eges and gilt titles. VII, 256 pages with numerous articles on the state of the advertising industry, numerous b&w illustrations and many full page color plates. 29 cm x 20 cm.
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Vasily Kandinsky, 1866-1944, in the collection of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (Kandinsky at the Guggenheim Museum)
New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1972. Softcover. G (slight soiling to cover, some edgewear possible; plates are good; may have few marks from previous gallery owner.). Bright yellow wraps, unpaginated, BW & color illus. Title on cover: Kandinksy at the Guggenheim Museum. A survey of the entire collection of Kandinsky works in the Guggenheim.
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Masterpieces of French Painting From the Buhrle Collection
London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1961. Softcover. VG: Tanning to the edges. Clean pages and contents.. A tan softcover book. Unpaginated, [~64] pages. Illustrated profusely in black-and-white. Color frontispiece.
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Treasures of the Habsburg Monarchy: 140th Jubilee of the Friendship Treaty between Austria-Hungary and Japan
Tokyo: The National Art Center, Tokyo, 2009. Softcover. VG. Very light shelf wear, clean and tight interior.. Black glossy wraps with color illustrations, white letters/characters on spine. 268 pp. Approx 130 color plates and many BW illustrations. 2 gate-folds. Text mostly in Japanese with some English, little German and Hungarian. Catalogue of an exhibition held September 25-December 14, 2009 at The National Art Center, Tokyo and January 6-March 14, 2010 at Kyoto National Museum.
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European and American Paintings: Philadelphia Collection 46
Philadelphia: Schwarz, 1991. Softcover. VG. Color wraps. [48] pp. 42 color repros. Catalogue lists 42 works by about 40 artists. Wonderful annotations and vivid reproductions. Includes works by Borie, Brissot de Warville, Bunner, Richard Blossom Farley, Folinsbee, Garber, Charles Gruppe, Leo Hermann, Herzog, Lambdin, Louis Lozowick, Magni, Mittertreiner, Nordfeldt, Hobson Pittman, Theodore Robinson, George Sotter, Adolphe Weber and others.
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Kunst Der Ch'ing-Zeit 1644-1911
Köln (Cologne), Germany: Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst in Koln, 1973. Softcover. VG- (ex library with ink stamp on title page. rubbing to cover). Fusia wraps with color illustration on front. 168 pp. BW and a few color plates. In German. Ausstellung / exhibition 1973 of Chinese Qing Dynasty art.
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Arabic Calligraphy in Manuscripts: An Exhibition of Arabic Calligraphy at the Islamic Art Gallery
Riyadh: King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, 1986. Softcover. NF; Spine unbroken, clean copy, a small bit of age rubbing to covers. Glossy color-illustrated white wraps with Arabic calligraphic lettering; 267 pp. with color illustrations throughout. NOTE: THIS BOOK IS ENTIRELY IN ARABIC. Stunning catalogue from the exhibition of 1986. Examples of Arabic calligraphy texts/works of art throughout. Text descriptions of each work in the exhibition, along with introductory text material, various lists, and an index.... Read More
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ettore colla
New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1973. Softcover. VG, sm. tears in spine, slight soiling to covers. Color wraps. [42] pp. 7 color, 30 bw plates. Catalogue from the exhibition of Jan.-Feb. 1973.
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The Museum of Modern Art: Today and Tomorrow
NY: MoMA, 1960. Softcover. VG, some mild fading to cover spine. Color wraps. 44 pp. Numerous bw plates and duotone tables, charts and graphs. 35,000 copies printed to celebrate the MoMA's 30th anniversary.
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Recent Works by Setsuko
London: The Lefevre Gallery, 1992. Softcover. VG. Glossy orange illus. wraps with white lettering; unpaginated with 15 color plates. Includes a bw photograph of the artist and a copy of a letter by her; with a list of plates.
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Face To Face
Notre Dame, IN: Snite Museum of Art, 2003. Softbound. As New. C|White, color illustrated wraps. 88 pp., profusely illustrated in color. For this exhibition, selected faculty and museum curators were invited to choose and interpret portraits from the (museums) permanent collections. 19 essays are included and the works selected are quite diverse.
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Architectural League of New York Yearbook and Catalogue of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Exhibition
New York: Architectural League of New York, 1910. Hardbound. VG-, Ex Art library copy in library binding with spine label, bookplate, a few stamps on first and last several pages and text block, ink stamps on many (not all, thankfully) of the illustrations. Perf stamp on frontispiece. Some pages lightly toned near edges.. Black buckram boards with gilt spine titles. 308 pp., color frontispiece and profusely illustrated in bw. Title on spine: Architectural League of New York, 1910.... Read More
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The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation: 2007 Awards in Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking, Photography, Video, and Craft Media
New York: The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, 2007. Softcover. Fine. Green paper wraps with silver lettering, 76 pp., color illus. Showcases the work of the 30 winners of this Foundation's art-related awards for 2007. Each artist or collaboration gets a double-page spread with at least two color illus. Also includes a list of name of past winners, from 1979-2007.
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Helen Seibert: Eyes Wide Open
West Hollywood, California: Denenberg Fine Arts, 2005. Softcover. VG (May have label & few marks from previous gallery owner.). Black illus. stapled wraps; 14 pp.; 15 plates, 13 color, 2 bw; 2 bw photos. Explores the life and work of American modernist Helen Brooks Seibert (1914-1987). With a one-page bio/intro and a variety of illustrations of her paintings and drawings. A nice introduction to this artist.
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Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers to the Secretary of War for the Year 1874: Volume II
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1874. Hardcover. G: The back cover is detached but present. Significant wear to the spine and plate, with most of the text and parts of the plate rubbed off. Tears in the fabric wraps at the top and bottom of the spine. Stains to the covers. Pencil notations on front free end page and first page. Slight tanning to the pages. Readable text and solid binding.. A brown casebound book with black text... Read More
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Joseph Wesner at Mid-Career
Oakland, California: Oakland University, Meadow Brook Art Gallery, 1996. Hardcover. VG+/VG+. Hardcover with printed vellum dust cover. 40 pp with numerous B&W and color photographs. Autographed message from the artist.
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Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar
Moskva-Leningrad: Iskusstvo, 1937. Hardbound. VG, discreet withdrawn stamp on end freepaper, old call letters on lower spine. Tannish boards with brownish cloth spine. 9 bw, 25 color plates. Text is in Russian, with the exception of a brief biography at the front in French.
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Helen Lundeberg: Paintings through Five Decades
New York: Graham, 1982. Softcover. VG-. Some wear to covers.. Red & BW illus. stapled wraps, 32 pp., BW & color plates. Issued in conjunction with a 1982 (October 20-December 4) exhibition featuring selections from California Hard Edge painter Helen Lundeberg (1908-1999). With a brief intro, chronology, bibilgraphy, and exhibition catalog, as well as a representative number of illustrations.
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Robert Emmett Owen (1878-1957): The Seasons of New England
New York: Spanierman Gallery, 2000. Softcover. New. Color wraps. 56 pp. Numerous color plates. Short essay followed by stunning color plates. From the exhibition of June 24 to Aug. 26, 2000.
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