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REGARD SUR L'EUROPE. L'Europe et la peinture allemande du XIXe siècle
Ostfildern Hatje Cantz 2007 in 4 (32x24,5) 1 volume reliure cartonnée de l'éditeur sous jaquette illustrée en couleurs, 413 pages [1], avec de nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc, et en couleurs. Très bel exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
Bookseller reference : 25314
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ROBERT DELAUNAY SONIA. ROBERT ET SONIA DELAUNAY. Le centenaire
Paris Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris MAM 1985 in 4 (24x21) 1 volume broché, couverture en couleurs, 309 pages [1], avec de nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc et en couleurs, dont hors-texte. 357 oeuvres décrites. Catalogue de l'exposition Robert et Sonia Delaunay présentée au Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, du 14 mai au 8 septembre 1985. Bel exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
Bookseller reference : 30995
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ROBERT DELAUNAY SONIA
Ottawa La Galerie Nationale du Canada - The National Gallery of Canada 1965 in 4 (25,5x20) 1 volume broché, couverture illustrée en couleurs, 178 pages, avec des illustrations en noir et blanc et en couleurs, dont hors-texte. Catalogue de 93 numéros décrits. Autobiographie inédite de Robert Delaunay. Extraits de textes sur l'artiste de Cendrars, Princert, Apollinaire, Gleizes, Léger. Catalogue de l'exposition Robert Delaunayet Sonia '' organisée à La Galerie Nationale du Canada en 1965. Texte en français et en anglais de Bernard Dorival et Charles F. Comfort (English and French text). Bon exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
Bookseller reference : 058204
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RÉTROSPECTIVE MAGRITTE. Bruxelles, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 27 octobre - 31 décembre 1978; et à Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre National, d'Art et de Culture, Georges Pompidou, 19 janvier au 9 avril 1979
Charleroi (Belgique) imprimerie Graphing 1978 in 8 carré (22,5x24) 1 volume broché, couverture illustrée en couleurs, 295 pages [2]. Catalogue de 206 numéros décrits et reproduits. Exposition à Bruxelles, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 27 octobre - 31 décembre 1978; et à Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre National, d'Art et de Culture, Georges Pompidou du 19 janvier au 9 avril 1979. Textes par Louis Scutenaire, Jean Clair et David Sylvester; Catalogue; Chronologie; Bibliographie sommaire. Bel exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
Bookseller reference : 21071
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SONIA ET ROBERT DELAUNAY
Paris Bibliothèque Nationale 1977 in 4 (27x23,5) 1 volume broché, couverture illustrée en couleurs, 178 pages, avec des illustrations en noir et blanc et en couleurs, dont hors-texte. Catalogue de 541 numéros décrits. Catalogue de l'exposition Robert et Sonia Delaunay organisée à la Bibliothèque Nationale à l'occasion de la Donation Sonia Delaunay. Préface de Georges Le Rider, notices de Florence Callu, Jean Toulet, Sabine Coron, Françoise Woimant, Marie-Cécile Miessner, Marie Avril. Biographie, inventaire sommaire de la donation. Les albums de photographies de Sonia Delaunay; Les écrits de Robert Delaunay; Les Delaunay et leurs amis poètes et peintres (Le douanier Rousseau, Blaise Cendrars et la prose du transsibérien, amitiés étrangères avant 1914, les hôtes du boulevard malesherbes, Tristan Tzara, Joseph Delteil, livres illustrés); Sonia Delaunay, la mode et les poètes; Les Delaunay et le spectacle; Recherches graphiques (Les premières gravures de Sonia Delaunay: 1905-1910, 1913-1914, Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay, les reliures de Sonia Delaunay); La période hispano-portugaise: 1914-1920; 1922-1939; Sonia Delaunay après 1941. Etat de neuf ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
Bookseller reference : 11891
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TOMBEAU DE CÉZANNE
Paris Société Paul Cézanne 1956 in 4 (28,5x23) 1 volume broché, couverture rempliée (petite auréole claire sur le bord de la marge latérale externe de la couverture), 49 pages [1]. Textes inédit de: Edouard Aude, Marcel Brion, Jean Cocteau, Frénaud, Marie Gasquet, Pierre-Jean Jouve, André Masson, Henri Mondor, Pierre Tal-Coat, Vercors, Berger, Cassou, Paul Eluard, Gachet, Jourdain, Lhote, Milhaud, Georges Rouault, Jean-Louis Vaudoyer, Jacques Villon. Tirage limité à 2000 exemplaires, celui-ci non numéroté. Bel exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
Bookseller reference : 48107
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UTRILLO
Milan Electa / Monte dei Paschi di Siena 1997 in 4 (28,5x25,5) 1 volume broché, couverture souple illustrée en couleurs, 314 pages [1], avec de nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc et en couleurs, dont hors-texte. Catalogue de l'exposition au Musée de Lodève, du 28 juin au 26 octobre 1997. Très bel exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
Bookseller reference : 27144 ISBN : 884356210
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WIFREDO LAM
Madrid - Paris - Bruxelles Museo Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo - Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris - Musée d'Ixelles 1982 in 4 (28x22) 1 volume broché, couverture illustrée, 180 pages, avec des reproductions d'oeuvres. Catalogue édité à l'occasion de l'exposition ''Exposición antológica: Homenaje a Wifredo Lam. 1902-1982. Madrid - .Paris - Bruxelles. Edition bilingue, texte en français et en espagnol. Bel exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
Bookseller reference : 47944
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YURI KUPER
Paris Association pour la promotion des arts de l'Hôtel de Ville de Paris (imprimerie Union) 1986 in 4 (29,5x21) 1 volume broché, couverture à rabats illustrée en couleurs, non paginé, avec 73 illustrations en noir et blanc et en couleurs, dont hors-texte. Introduction de Marie-France Latarjet. Texte et propos de Kuper recueillis par Michel Cournot. Catalogue édité à l'occasion de l'exposition présentée à l'Hôtel de Ville de Paris, du 99 janvier au 23 mars 1986, par l'Association pour la promotion des arts. Avec une liste des oeuvres exposées et une biographie de l'artiste. Bel exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
Bookseller reference : 48919
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( Direction des Archives de France )
L'ACTION ÉDUCATIVE ET CULTURELLES DES ARCHIVES
Paris La Documentation Française 2007 in 8 (24x16) 1 volume broché, couverture illustrée en couleurs, 311 pages, avec des illustrations en noir et blanc Actes du Colloque '' Quelle politique culturelle pour les services éducatifs des Archives ?'', Hôtel de Ville de Lyon les 1ert et 3 juin 2005. Bel exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
Bookseller reference : 34493
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( D'Ancona, P )
Beato Angelico 1387-1455
24pp + bibliografia + LXX tavv. + indice VG/G Prima edizione, III volume della serie la Piccola Silvana, Edizioni D'Arte Amilcare Pizzi. Cartonato editoriale con sovraccopertina, sovracc. lievemente ingiallita dal tempo e con piccolo strappo al margine superiore nel retro, iscrizione proprietario alla sguardia, altrimenti in ottime condizioni. Volumetto dedicato a fra Giovanni da Fiesole, detto il Beato Angelico, con presentazione di Paolo D'Ancona e 70 tavole f.t., alcune delle quali a colori.
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( HOUSSAYE Arsène ) / CLARETIE Jules ( préface de )
CATALOGUE DES TABLEAUX, PASTELS, DESSINS - MINIATURES - SCULPTURES - OBJETS D'ART DE LA GALERIE DE M. ARSENE HOUSSAYE, dont la vente aura lieu à Paris Hôtel Drouot, salle n°6, les Vendredi 22 et Samedi 23 mai 1896
Paris Imprimerie de l'Art, E. Moreau et Cie 1896 in 4 (30x20,5) 1 volume broché, couverture imprimée, 84 pages, avec des reproductions hors-texte en noir et blanc d'oeuvres, petit restauration ancienne sur le centre du plat inférieur de la couverture. Préface de Jules Clarétie. Catalogue des Tableaux, Pastels, Aquarelles, Dessins, Gouaches dispersés lors de la vente de la collection de M. Arsène Houssaye à Paris Hôtel Drouot, salle n°6, les Vendredi 22 et Samedi 23 mai 1896. Bon exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
Bookseller reference : 34162
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(ALDRICH). AUCTION CATALOGUE.
Modern Paintings and Drawings from the Larry Aldrich Collection. Auction catalogue.
Hardcover in-4°, 97 pp. 57 lots. Illustrated in color and black and white. NO DW - VG. [P-25] Works by Bonnard, Chagall, de Stael, Gauguin, Kandinsky, Miro, Picasso, Signac, Utrillo, etc.
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(British Painting)
The New Gallery of British Art . From the Works of Distinguished British Painters
New York: D. Appleton and Company 1880. With 121 steel-engraved plates. List of engravings and letterpress leaf of descriptive text facing each plate. 2 vols. Folio. Publisher's full morocco elaborately stamped in gilt and blind a.e.g. Corner crease to engraved title vol 1 internally clean. With 121 steel-engraved plates. List of engravings and letterpress leaf of descriptive text facing each plate. 2 vols. Folio. D. Appleton and Company unknown
Bookseller reference : 311089
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(Butler, Adam. (Text))
ARS KUNST A-Z. 500 Künstler - 500 Bilder. (Aus dem Englischen von Rolf Legler).
(Mchn.), ars ed. 1995). 4°, 511 S., mit zahlr. farb. Abb., OPp. m. OU., nur geringe Gebrauchsspuren. Ein alphabetischer Führer zu großen Werken der Kunst vom ausgehenden Mittelalter bis heute.
Bookseller reference : EEzz8125n
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CHAPELLE DU ROSAIRE DES DOMINICAINES DE VENCE PAR HENRI MATISSE.
Vence Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence 1953 in 8 (25,5x18) 1 fascicule broché, non paginé, couverture illustrée (imprimée par Mourlot Frères, Paris). Nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc (photographies de H. Adant et Berard). Bel exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
Bookseller reference : 15491
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CHAPELLE DU ROSAIRE DES DOMINICAINES DE VENCE PAR HENRI MATISSE.
Vence Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence 1955 in 8 (25,5x18) 1 fascicule broché, non paginé, couverture illustrée (imprimée par Mourlot Frères, Paris). Nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc (photographies de H. Adant et Berard). Bel exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
Bookseller reference : 15492
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(CEZANNE Paul) / ADHEMAR Hélène - SERULLAZ Maurice
Cézanne dans les musées nationaux
Paris, Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1974, 20 x 21, 163 pages cousues sous couverture illustrée. Iconographie noir & blanc. Catalogue de l'exposition à l'Orangerie des Tuileries du 19 juillet au 14 octobre 1974.
Bookseller reference : PEINTUREEE55211116
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(CHAMPAIGNE (de) Philippe) / LE LEYSOUR Philippe, LESNE Claude & al.
Philippe de Champaigne et Port-Royal
Paris, Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1995, 16 x 24, 206 pages cousues sous couverture rempliée illustrée. Iconographie couleurs. Catalogue due l'exposition au Musée national des Granges de Port-Royal du 29 avril au 28 août 1995.
Bookseller reference : PEINTUREE7423020617
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(Chinese Silk Painting)
A Book of Famous and Beautiful Cbinese Ladies from all Antiquity
China: n.p. 1900. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo. 22 unnumbered pages using verso only. Accordion book bound in Asian style. Wooden boards the upper board carved with the character for Good Luck. Top and bottom edges gilt.<br /> <p><br /> This is followed by 11 sets of two pages the right hand page with the story of a particular lady in Chinese and English and the left hand with a painting on silk illustrating the story and bordered in brocade. The silk paintings are bright and unfaded showing vibrant pigmentation and artistically executed with lovely shading effect Includes the story of Mu Lan basis for the Disney film.<br /> <br /> <p><br /> The typesetting and spelling of the English translation are poorly accomplished the word 'Cbinese' in the title being perhaps the most glaring example. Misspellings misuses of quotation marks and unusual word separations lead us to believe this is the first issue of a title preprinted into the 1930's. <br /> <p><br /> A fine example.<br /> <p><br /> Scarce. n.p. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 22170
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(COBWEB, PAINTING ON). "GEMALDE AUF SPINNENGEWEBE
PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN FROM THE LOWER INN VALLEY IN HER TRADITIONAL COSTUME
Innsbruck ca. 1870. Folder: 240 x 206 mm; 9 1/2 x 8 1/8"; painting: 133 x 102 mm. 5 1/4 x 4". <br/> Matted and housed in a black cloth-backed folder with black paper boards. Front pastedown with a sample of the cobweb material and a large paper label in three languages; lower right corner of mat stamped with the name "F. Unterberger / Innsbruck." Edges and head and tail of spine slightly worn and bumped light foxing to the mat and interior of the folder a hint of toning to the lightly colored sky a tiny hole just grazing the hairline of the subject small closed tear at the bottom of the image but all of these imperfections quite trivial the fragile painting IN ESPECIALLY FINE CONDITION with the colors very bright and an altogether remarkable survival.<br/> <br/> Featuring a comely wistful young peasant woman this highly unusual piece of art redefines our notion of the term "fine" being both skillfully executed and painted on a whisper thin canvas consisting of actual spider webbing. While the earliest such cobweb paintings are purported to have been done by monks and nuns in the 16th century the form later became a kind of peasant art geared toward the tourist trade in the 19th century. It seems to have been a particular specialty in the areas near the Tyrolean Alps where the Agelenidae or "Funnel-Web" spiders produced webs that were gathered then layered wound and stretched producing a fabric that was then strengthened by the brushing on of diluted milk. The result was a very fragile fabric but one sturdy enough to withstand delicate brushstrokes applied by the careful hands of skilled artisans. Our piece almost certainly passed through the hands of one of the most successful purveyors of these paintings Franz Unterberger 1838-1902. Best known as a painter in oils of Italian scenery Unterberger also ran a small workshop located in Innsbruck where he commissioned and sold cobweb paintings done by accomplished locals. Anonymously painted the present piece is characterized by particularly fine brushwork a bright color palette and charming subject matter no doubt chosen to appeal to tourists seeking a cheerful memento of their travels. Due to the obvious fragility of the material involved these kinds of paintings are uncommon on the market and when they do appear are often defective. The present painting is significantly larger than the few other examples we have been able to find. There are two paintings in the McCormick Library at Northwestern each measuring 4 x 3" and larger than recent examples at auction which ranged in size from 3 1/4 x 2 1/4" to 4 1/2 x 3 1/4". According to Lauren Hock's article on the McCormick Library website 22 July 2008 there are fewer than 100 known extant cobweb paintings and most of them reside in private collections. unknown
Bookseller reference : ST11417
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(ENSOR James) / MADELINE Laurence, SWINBOURNE Anna & al.
James (art) Ensor
Paris, Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Musée d'Orsay, 2009, 22 x 27, 272 pages cousues sous couverture souple illustrée. Iconographie noir & blanc et couleurs. Catalogue publié à l'occasion de l'exposition présentée au Museum of Modern Art du 28 juin au 21 septembre 2009 et au Musée d'Orsay du 20 octobre 2009 au 4 février 2010.
Bookseller reference : PEINTURE616110221
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(Fore Edge Painting). Scott, Sir Walter
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott Bart. Notes and life of the author included
London: Charles Daly n.d. Hardcover. Fine condition. Bound in full black pebbled morocco with elaborate stamping on front and back covers in gilt and in blind. Gilt inner dentelles. 564 pp. plus notes and advertisements in the rear. All edges gilt. A striking vertical fore edge painting of a golfer brightly dressed in a red coat and with a hat on his head. He's leaning on his driver while his caddy tees up his ball in the background. Great color great sky and an unusual and delightful work of art. <br/><br/> Charles Daly hardcover
Bookseller reference : 9026272
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(FORE-EDGE PAINTING). [SCOTT, SIR WALTER]
MINSTRELSY OF THE SCOTTISH BORDER
Edinburgh: Printed by J. Ballantyne and Co 1810. Fourth Edition Second Large Paper Impression. 241 x 146 mm. 9 1/2 x 5 3/4". Three volumes. <br/> Pleasing contemporary black straight-grain morocco covers with gilt floral frame enclosing central panel with blind-stamped thistle cornerpieces raised bands spines heavily gilt in compartments with much swirling foliage gilt turn-ins marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Volume I WITH AN ATTRACTIVE FORE-EDGE PAINTING OF THE MERCAT CROSS IN MELROSE ROXBURGHSHIRE. Front pastedown of volumes II and III with engraved bookplate of W. J. Denison see below; volume I with evidence of bookplate removal; copy of an engraving of Boston Church Lancashire laid in at rear of volume II. Todd & Bowden 8Ag. ◆Joints and extremities a bit worn boards with a number of abrasions well masked with dye minor foxing here and there in the text nine gatherings with faint overall browning due to poor quality of paper but still an excellent set the leaves clean the once quite dazzling bindings still sound and very pleasing on the shelf and the fore-edge painting well preserved.<br/> <br/> Apart from the fore-edge painting here this is an important work in the Scott canon offered in pretty contemporary bindings that once belonged to a person of great wealth and influence. Scott collected traditional ballads on his trips to the Borders region and in 1796 began compiling this work in an effort to preserve folklore of his native land that might otherwise be lost. Our fourth edition contains 27 historical ballads 52 romantic ballads and 20 imitations written by Scott and his friends. According to Day "The whole bent of Scott's later imaginative writings both in verse and prose was governed by this ballad spirit. Probably this work was Scott's greatest contribution to poetry." The handsome fore-edge painting depicts in a realistic style the mercat cross marking the central marketplace in Melrose a town in the Scottish Borders near Scott's home at Abbotsford. A 12th century law required that all goods for sale be presented at a town's mercat market cross a tall column usually topped with a small statue. Such is the cross at the center of our painting which is rendered in subdued grays and browns. Two streets lined with thatched houses and shops wend away from the central marketplace and a large gray-green mountain looms in the background. A small Scottish terrier trots across the center of the scene; a couple of merchants chat beside the cross; a woman and small boy head up one of the streets while an old man with a cane walks up the other. It is a tranquil scene but enlivened by the townsfolk and the cheerful little Scottie. It is unusual for only one volume in a set to be so decorated; something must have interrupted the artist before he could complete the commission. Perhaps the print laid in volume II was intended to be an inspiration for its fore-edge decoration. Former owner W. J. Denison 1770-1849 was a banker and politician who was one of the richest men in Britain; he left an estate valued at £2.3 million. A staunch Whig member of parliament for 38 years he was a strong advocate for parliamentary reform and was one of the founders of the Reform Club. He acquired vast estates in Yorkshire and Surrey but declined a peerage when it was offered in 1820. Printed by J. Ballantyne and Co unknown
Bookseller reference : ST17640cc
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(FORE-EDGE PAINTING - EDWARDS OF HALIFAX). CARDONNEL, ADAM DE
PICTURESQUE ANTIQUITIES OF SCOTLAND PARTS I AND II
London: Printed for the Author and sold by Edwards in Pall Mall; Also by Edwards's in Halifax 1788. FIRST EDITION quarto issue with the etchings printed directly above the text. 257 x 205 mm. 10 1/8 x 8 1/8". iv 27 1 pp. 25 leaves; 11 1 pp. 25 leaves. Two parts bound in one volume. <br/> HANDSOME ORIGINAL ESTRUSCAN CALF BY EDWARDS OF HALIFAX covers with central panel of tree calf enclosed by a gilt Greek key border and a frame of stenciled dark brown palmettes on light tan calf this surrounded by graceful gilt ivy roll on dun-colored calf all within a gilt pentaglyph-and-metoped border smooth spine divided into panels by strips of inlaid black morocco tooled with gilt Greek key roll panels with inlaid central oval medal featuring an Etruscan vase calligraphic gilt flourishes at corners black morocco label bright pink endpapers all edges gilt expertly rebacked preserving original spine. WITH A FINE BRIGHTLY COLORED FORE-EDGE PAINTING OF THE CRAIGMILLAR CASTLE RUINS WITH EDINBURGH IN THE DISTANCE. WITH 50 ENGRAVED VIGNETTES 60 x 85 mm. of the ruins of Scottish castles and abbeys. A Large Paper Copy. Front pastedown with engraved armorial bookplate of Christopher Turnor Stoke Rochford Library. Lowndes 370; ESTC T153718 but with a variant title page. Front cover with a couple small areas of lost patina from insect activity rear cover just slightly marked upper corners a bit bumped faint freckled foxing in the margins more noticeable on the first two leaves slight offsetting of engravings on facing blank versos. A few condition issues but still a very attractive book the lovely binding retaining virtually all of its antique appeal and the contents with nothing approaching a significant problem.<br/> <br/> This is an excellent atypically large example of an Edwards of Halifax binding enhanced with a most appealing early fore-edge painting depicting one of the castles pictured in this attractive quarto edition. Scottish surgeon and antiquary Adam de Cardonnel 1746/7 - 1820 wrote and illustrated the present work "to preserve from oblivion the ancient remains of Caledonian splendour." Originally intended as a supplement to the popular "Pennant's Tour" of Scotland it appeared in four parts the first two in 1788 in a few different forms including an octavo edition and the second two published in 1793. The fore-edge painting features Craigmillar castle a Medieval fortress located a few miles from Edinburgh whose most famous guest was Mary Queen of Scots. One of her stays resulted in the so-called "Craigmillar bond" which set in motion plans to dispatch Mary's husband Henry Stuart. By the late 18th century the castle had fallen into disrepair and it appears in the present painting as an idyllic ruin with sheep and cows grazing in the fore-ground and the city with Edinburgh Castle rising in the distance. The Edwards of Halifax bindery was founded by William Edwards 1723-1808 and continued by several of his brothers half-brothers and sons by far the most important of the sons being Thomas who lived from 1762-1834. This famous firm produced a number of important innovations in binding design the most significant being the idea of concealing a painting under the gilt of the fore edge. This hidden treasure could be revealed once the edge was fanned out as a special surprise element of the volumes the Edwards firm bound--typically in Etruscan calf as here or in their patented transparent vellum. Although bindings produced by the Edwards workshop are almost never signed the present item is surely Edwards' work as indicated by the characteristic binding style and by the fact that our volume was actually sold by the Edwards firm. As usual there is no clear way to assign a precise date to the painting; while it is not done in the soft grays that can be firmly associated with the earliest Edwards examples it clearly is a painting done before 1850. While fore-edge paintings likely produced at the Edwards bindery and especially produced by their imitators appear in the marketplace with some regularity most offered are octavo or duodecimo in size. Of the fore-edge paintings attributed to Edwards of Halifax that have appeared in RBH over the past 65 years fewer than one in 10 were on quarto volumes. This copy was previously owned by the MP Christopher Turnor 1809-86 a member of the House of Commons and owner of more than 20000 acres in Linconshire where he built the grand Stoke Rochford Hall. Printed for the Author, and sold by Edwards, in Pall Mall; Also by Edwards's, in Halifax unknown
Bookseller reference : ST19954
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(FORE-EDGE PAINTING). STEVENS, REV ROBERT
SERMONS ON OUR DUTY TOWARDS GOD OUR NEIGHBOUR AND OURSELVES; AND ON OTHER SUBJECTS
London: Printed for John Booth 1814. FIRST EDITION. 225 x 133 mm. 8 7/8 x 5 1/4". 1 p.l. lviii 416 pp. <br/> Pleasing contemporary midnight blue straight-grain morocco covers framed by plain gilt rules outlining Greek key and palmette blind rolls raised bands compartments with central gilt fleuron radiating densely blind-tooled foliage gilt-ruled turn-ins all edges gilt; WITH AN EXCELLENT FORE-EDGE PAINTING OF DOVER CASTLE. A PRESENTATION COPY with slightly foxed signed autograph letter bound in opposite title with letter offsets: "The Author / begs Mr. E. S. Stephenson's / acceptance of this Volume / as a token of his / friendship and esteem. / R. S." Front pastedown with unidentified armorial bookplate. Full list of subscribers including addenda. ◆A bit of wear to corners and joints a very small ink stain to edge of preliminary leaves visible at upper left background of fore-edge painting not affecting primary image otherwise a fine copy clean and fresh internally in a lustrous binding.<br/> <br/> This is a decorative binding highlighted by an atmospheric fore-edge scene of Dover Castle painted by a skilled artist. The view depicts a cottage along a country road in the foreground with Dover Castle looming in the background against a hazy sky; a small figure presumably the cottage owner stands right of center. The scene is well designed with the eye moving from the cottage and castle towers at left toward the sea at the far right the foreground landscape's more saturated color anchoring the composition. Of particular note is how this foregound contrasted with the background's washed color creates the illusion of perspective. Despite the light browns and greens at the bottom of the scene the painting is essentially gray and particularly tranquil as a result. The skill of the painter here is seen most notably in his delicate and subtle shading a challenge that defeats even very able practitioners of the fore-edge painting. As always the dating of the painting is difficult but we think that it was done much closer to the time of publication than to the present day. Our author the Rev. Robert Stevens was a celebrated speaker who ultimately rose to become the head of the chapter of canons at Rochester Cathedral. Printed for John Booth unknown
Bookseller reference : ST12630
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(Fore-Edge Painting)
The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments
London: Published For John Reeves Esq 1809. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary diced calf cover tooled in gilt with wide outer roll border enclosing blind-tooled border spine in 5 compartments with 4 double raised bands gilt-lettered in 2 gilt ornaments in the rest a.e.g. with DOUBLE FORE-EDGE painting of Durham and Cromer Beach. Re-hinged contents fine. Bookplate of Charles Stirling. 1 vols. 8vo. With a double fore-edge paintings identified by an earlier owner as Durham and Cromer Beach. Griffiths 1809:1 Published For John Reeves Esq unknown
Bookseller reference : 257577
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(Fore-Edge Painting)
The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the Use of the Church of England: together with the Psalter or Psalms of David
Edinburgh: Printed by Sir J.H. Blair and J. Bruce 1800. 1 vols. 18mo. Near contemporary blue cloth with floral gilt tooled border rose silk endsheets with gilt tooled braid borders title page with ornamental gilt tooled border a.e.g. wih a vertical fore-edge painting of a flower. Provenance: Ownership signature of "Mary Lister May 18 1804" on first blank. 1 vols. 18mo. An early cloth binding with the unusual addition of gilt tooling on the endleaves and title page. Printed by Sir J.H. Blair and J. Bruce unknown
Bookseller reference : 227046
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(Fore-Edge Painting) Bickersteth, Edward
The Christian Healer
London: Steely 1826. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in full contemporary maroon cross-grained morocco with double fore-edge entitled "The Village of Catskill Hudson River. 1 vols. 8vo. Steely unknown
Bookseller reference : 42725
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(FORE-EDGE PAINTING) RUSKIN, JOHN
The Ethics of the Dust. Ten lectures to little housewives on the elements of crystallization.
<p>With a charming fore-edge painting of Dove Cottage William Wordsworth's Lake District home. Wordsworth lived there with his sister Dorothy from December 1799 to May 1808. In 1802 the poet married and his wife and her sister joined the Wordsworths at the Cottage. By 1808 the family had outgrown the house and it became the longtime home of their friend Thomas De Quincey.</p><p><em>The Ethics of the Dust</em> presents an imagined conversation with and series of lectures to the young ladies of Winnington Hall the finishing school Ruskin supported. He casts himself as the "Old Lecturer" talking about diamonds antiquities minerals and crystals which serve as jumping-off points for a metaphorical exploration of Ruskin's philosophical social and political ideals.</p><p>Eighth edition. Blind-tooled blue calf all edges gilt. Near fine.</p> George Allen hardcover
Bookseller reference : 42820877
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(Fore-Edge painting) Beloe, William
The sexagenarian: or The recollections of a literary life
London: F.C. and J. Rivington 1817. no title-page. 8vo. Full calf with gilt roll boarder to the covers marbled endpapers and fore-edge painting of cricket players. Spine renewed to plain style near fine. no title-page. 8vo. F.C. and J. Rivington unknown
Bookseller reference : 266902
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(FORE-EDGE PAINTING). VIRGIL
WORKS. P. VIRGILIUS MARO: IN USUM SCHOLARUM / AD NOVISSIMAM HEYNII EDITIONEM EXACTUS
Londini: Impensis J. Johnson et al. 1809. 248 x 146 mm. 9 3/4 x 5 3/4". 2 p.l. 700 pp.With commentary by Christian Gottlob Heyne. <br/> HANDSOME CONTEMPORARY NAVY BLUE STRAIGHT-GRAIN MOROCCO DENSELY GILT covers with thick and thin gilt rule border and large central laurel wreath that on the front with the Latin motto "Honoris Causa" "For the sake of honor" that on the rear with the name Thomas T. Churton and the date 1817 raised bands spine lavishly gilt in compartments filled with foliage and small tools emanating from a central fleuron gilt titling and turn-ins all edges gilt. WITH A SPLENDID LATER PAINTING OF MOUNT ETNA ON THE FORE EDGE. In a recent plush-lined blue folding cloth box with gilt spine titling. With ink stamp of Bolton Public Library on verso of title and first page of text. Lowndes IV 2777. Corners slightly bumped boards a little faded first two gatherings mildly foxed isolated rust spots or faint freckled foxing but still AN ESPECIALLY DESIRABLE COPY the handsome binding virtually unworn the text clean and smooth and the unusual fore-edge painting very well preserved.<br/> <br/> This scholarly edition of Heyne's acclaimed Virgil comes in a fine contemporary binding with a noteworthy fore-edge painting. Dibdin Gibbon and Sandys all praise Heyne's edition of Virgil and Sandys credits him with being "the first who with any decisiveness attempted . . . to read in the writings of the Ancients not their language alone or even their detached opinions and records but their spirit and character their way of life and thought." First published in Leipzig in 1767-88 Heyne's edition was deemed "incomparable" by Dibdin and even inspired a poem by William Cowper "On Receiving Heyne's Virgil from Mr. Hayley." Our painting shows a coastal landscape in Sicily rendered in strong greens and deep blues. There is a bay on the left and a tiny village perched above the sandy beach with white-capped Mount Etna emitting a thin wisp of smoke in the background. Purplish clouds are gathering in the distance which combined with the smoking volcano lend a frisson of foreboding to an otherwise tranquil scene. As often the age of the painting is difficult to determine: not the work of any recognizable painter it is very probably not as old as the binding yet is almost certainly not something done during the last 100 years. In any case the quality of its execution is high and the subject matter--which is something quite different from the typical fore-edge design--is entirely appropriate for the classical contents of the book. The attractive binding indicates a milestone in the life of its owner Thomas Townson Churton 1798-1865. The phrase "Honoris Causa" on a 19th century binding or bookplate is often found in conjunction with an academic prize being granted and in 1817 Churton then a top student at Rugby School was awarded a prestigious "leaving exhibition" to support his further education which he duly started the same year at Brasenose College Oxford. He was one of only two students in his year granted the full seven-year exhibition funding that was more than sufficient to support undergraduate studies and beyond at the university. In keeping with the content of the book at hand and with the subject of its fore-edge painting Churton was a classicist and he excelled at Oxford as he had at Rugby being elected Dean of Brasenose in 1828 and being a Fellow from 1821 to 1852. Not emblazoned with the Rugby arms this exceedingly fine binding was possibly commissioned privately perhaps by family to commemorate Churton's superb performance at Rugby and in hopes of a bright future at Oxford. Impensis J. Johnson et al. unknown
Bookseller reference : ST12251
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(Foredge Painting) Hemans, Mrs F
The Poetical Works of Mrs. F. Hemans
Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis 1885. Hardcover. Near fine. Illustrated with full page engravings on steel. Full green morocco. Spine in six compartments gilt and with red leather lettering labels gilt. Gilt rules on the board borders All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers and with the original decorated cloth cover as the front pastedown. A couple of pages at beginning and end with very light foxing else this is a fine copy.<br /> <p><br /> With a foredge painting of a sailing ship under the gilt. <br /> <p><br /> Felicia Dorothea Hemans 1793-1835 was a prolific poet of the Romantic Era. Her most famous poem Casabianca about a young boy on a burning ship during battle in included. Her poetry used vivid imagery as it explored various themes such as patriotism domesticity and the emotional lives of women.<br /> <p><br /> "The boy stood on the burning deck. Whence all but him had fled; <br /> The flame that lit the battle's wreck. Shone round him o'er the dead."<br /> <p>. Gall & Inglis hardcover
Bookseller reference : 23716
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(GILLET Roger-Edgar) /GILLET Thérèse & al.
R.E. Gillet
Paris, J.F. Guyot, 1980, 23 x 29, 271 pages sous reliure éditeur toilée et jaquette illustrée. Iconographie noir & blanc et couleurs.
Bookseller reference : PEINTURE44430217
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(Glücksman, Rafal)
Canaletto. The Painter of Warsaw.
(Warschau), Pánstwowy Instytut Wydawniczy 1954. 4°, 37 S., mit 4 mont. Farbtaf. u. 117 ganzseit. Abb., OPp. m. ill. OU., an diesem Gebrauchsspuren, Vorsätze u. Spiegel gebr., innen frisch. In Englisch.
Bookseller reference : EEzz6902
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(HOUSE PAINTING)
Painting and Decorating Working Methods: a text book for Apprentice Journeyman House Painter Decorator
New York: Theo Audel Publishers 1940. Hardcover. 8vo. Black blind-ruled cloth with gilt spine lettering. xii 294pp 8pp ads. Numerous illustrations and line drawings sample sheet with 20 tipped-in glossy color swatches. Very good. Couple small smudges to rear board else tight and handsome; ownership initials on front pastedown. Second edition of this guide first published in 1922 under the auspices of the International Association of Master Painters and Decorators a hefty text on exterior and interior house painting and wallpapering. Spine title: "Elementary Studies in House Painting Decorating and Paper Hanging." The leaf preceding title page bearing twenty tiny tipped-in glossy color swatches is a delight. Theo Audel Publishers hardcover
Bookseller reference : 46903
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(INDIAN EROTIC PAINTING) ANONYMOUS ARTIST
20th CENTURY INDIAN JAIPUR/RAJASTANI PAINTINGS
Erotic painting of a couple copulating. Tantra position from the Kama Sutra. 10 3/4 x 7. Framed. unknown
Bookseller reference : 155
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(MASUREL Geneviève et Jean) / BERTHIER Francis & al.
Donation Masurel
Paris, Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1980, 19,5 x 21, 136 pages cousues sous couverture souple illustrée. Iconographie noir & blanc. Catalogue de l'exposition au Musée du Luxembourg du 14 mars au 25 mai 1980, suite à la Donation Geneviève et Jean Masurel à la Communauté urbaine de Lille.
Bookseller reference : PEINTURE44444441116
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(Marine Painting) Brewington, MV and Dorothy M V
Marine Painting and Drawings in the Peabody Museum
Salem Mass: Peabody Museum 1981. Revised Edition. 150illustrations 60 in color. xviii 535 pp. 1 vols. Thick 4to. Cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket. Revised Edition. 150illustrations 60 in color. xviii 535 pp. 1 vols. Thick 4to. <br/><br/> Peabody Museum hardcover
Bookseller reference : 28802
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(MINIATURE BOOK). (FORE-EDGE PAINTING, SPLIT). TASSO, TORQUATO
LA GERUSALEMME LIBERATA
Firenze Florence: David Passigli 1844. 85 x 53 mm. 3 3/8 x 2 1/8". 3 p.l. 326 2 section title 327-659 pp. <br/> Contemporary stiff vellum charmingly gilt covers with graceful gilt frame of volutes and flowers central ornament formed by similar tools smooth spine tooled with gilt volutes and flowers forming central panel with gilt lettering a small gilt bird of paradise above and below this marbled endpapers all edges gilt. WITH SPLIT FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS visible when the book is open at the section title for part II the painting on the first half of the leaves A SWEEPING CITY VIEW OF JERUSALEM that on the second part featuring THE DOME OF THE ROCK ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT. With engraved frontispiece portrait of the author and two engravings depicting scenes from the poem all with original tissue guards. Front pastedown with engraved armorial bookplate of William Dunville see below. Doris Varner Welsh A Bibliography of Miniature Books 6611. Corners lightly bumped one spot of light rubbing to gilt on upper cover isolated spots of faint foxing but A VERY FINE SPECIMEN clean and bright inside and out the fore-edge paintings well preserved.<br/> <br/> This delightful miniature edition is adorned with two fore-edge paintings showing different views of the title city both visible when the book is open to the title page of part II of Tasso's Crusader epic "Jerusalem Delivered." Given the restricted area available for a "canvas" our artist has done a remarkable job both in the level of detail and the sense of space and grandeur the scenes evoke so it is not surprising that this volume was in the Irene Winterstein Collection of Important Miniature Books Christie's sale of 10 March 2000 lot 277 fetching $1455 all in. This is a rare miniature edition: Welsh records only one copy in her bibliography. Our copy belonged to Irish bibliophile and philanthropist William Dunville 1812-1874 who was also a whiskey magnate and magistrate. After its first founder John Dunville died William Dunville his only surviving son became the next chairman of Dunville & Co Belfast who are still famous for their whiskey today. He headed the company from 1851 to 1874. David Passigli unknown
Bookseller reference : ST18420a
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(original Chinese painting)
ORIGINAL CHINESE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY BRILLIANTLY COLORFUL PICTURE OF 5 MANCHU WOMEN ONE OF THEM BREAST-FEEDING AN INFANT
c. 1860. Picture painted in thick intensely colorful tempera or watercolor on unusual thin paper believed to be pith paper. The painting is mounted on piece of rice paper by means of a 1/2 inch wide blue silk ribbon. Image bordered by the ribbon is 8 x 13 inches 20x32 cm. The paper is 9-1/2 x14-1/2 inches 24x36 cm. The image is Fine the paper is very thin and slightly aged so overall VG. Clearly a family of the nobility with great wealth. Women all have bound feet. Lovely fine detail in faces clothing and furniture. Museum quality. Pictures available on request. . hardcover
Bookseller reference : a87539
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(original Chinese painting)
ORIGINAL CHINESE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY BRILLIANTLY COLORFUL PICTURE OF FAMILY OF 6 PERSONS AND A BABY WITH BLUE VASE OF FLOWERS ON TABLE
c. 1860. Picture painted in thick intensely colorful tempera or watercolor on unusual thin paper believed to be pith paper. The painting is mounted on piece of rice paper by means of a 1/2 inch wide blue silk ribbon. Image bordered by the ribbon is 8 x 13 inches 20x32 cm. The paper is 9-1/2 x14-1/2 inches 24x36 cm. The image is Fine the paper is very thin and slightly aged so overall VG. Clearly a family of the nobility with great wealth. Women all have bound feet. Lovely fine detail in faces clothing and furniture. Museum quality. Pictures available on request. . hardcover
Bookseller reference : a87538
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(Painting and engraving auctions) Delteil, Leo, Auctioneer
Annuaire des Ventes d'Estampes Guide de l'Amateur. Première Année Octobre 1911-Juin 1912 bound with Deuxième Année Novembre 1912-Juin 1913
Paris: Leo Delteil & A. Le Corbeiller 1913. Illustrated with plates. 1 vols. 8vo. Two volumes bound in one. Later half red morocco gilt. Some minor wear else very good. Illustrated with plates. 1 vols. 8vo. Volumes I and II of Delteil's yearbook of painting and engraving sales. JC-NY/Biblio/5 Leo Delteil & A. Le Corbeiller unknown
Bookseller reference : 30809
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(Painting) Alston, J W
Hints to Young Practitioners in the study of Landscape Painting.to which are added Instructions in the Art of Painting on Velvet
London: Printed for Longman Hurst Rees & Orme 1820. Third edition. Illustrated by Five engravings intended to show the Different Stages of the Neutral Tint title vignette. 1 vols. 8vo. Original rose paper-backed blue boards printed paper label on upper cover Price 10s.6d. Boards.". Rubbed spine and edges worn interior quite fresh. A very good copy of this unusual work. Third edition. Illustrated by Five engravings intended to show the Different Stages of the Neutral Tint title vignette. 1 vols. 8vo. There are instructions and recipes for making the colors needed for painting on velvet at the back. A source for Theorem painters Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme unknown
Bookseller reference : 17384
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(SISLEY Alfred) / STEVENS MaryAnne, DUMAS Ann & al.
Alfred Sisley
Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts/ Paris, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2002, 23,5 x 29,5, 416 pages cousues sous couverture rempliée illustrée. Iconographie noir & blanc et couleurs. Catalogue publié à l'occasion de l'exposition au Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon du 6 janvier 2003. BILINGUE français-anglais.
Bookseller reference : PEINTURE66546541118
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(Uematsu, Keiji)
Lieu. Marc Angeli - Andre Delalleau - Nancy Haynes - Philip Huyghe - Anne-Marie Klenes - Heiner Kuhlmann - Bernd Lohaus - Guy Mees - Uwe Olsen - Francis Schmetz - Keiji Uematsu - Cecile Vandresse - Dan van Severen - Wilhelm Weiner - Marthe Wery.
Liege., Ancienne Liniere / Yellow Now., 1987. 27 x 21 cm. 107 S., 2 Blatt. OKarton., 62731AB 1. Auflage. Umschlag am Rücken etwas berieben. Gutes Exemplar. Editions Yellow Now.
Bookseller reference : 62731AB
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(Xt) Jianu, Ionel.
ZADKINE [INSCRIBED BY THE ARTIST]
1st Edition. Original Boards with Original Dust Jacket. 4to. 207 pages ; 28 cm. Includes 97 plates of Zadkines work. In English. Ossip Zadkine (1890 1967) was a Russian-born artist who lived in France. He is primarily known as a sculptor, but also produced paintings and lithographs. He was born to a Jewish father and a mother of Scottish origin
His best-known work is probably the sculpture The Destroyed City (1951-1953) , representing a man without a heart, a memorial to the destruction of the center of the Dutch city of Rotterdam in 1940 by the German Luftwaffe. (Wikipedia, 2016) This copy is warmly inscribed by Zadkine in 1965 to the notable Judaica Collector Michael M. Zagayski and his wife. Zagayski began collecting as a youth in Poland and had accumulated an impressive number of valuable items which were looted by the invading Nazis, in 1939, when he was attending a Jewish Agency meeting in Geneva. Only a year later he began a new collection
Mr. Zagayski came to the United States during World War II to serve as a vice-consul of the Polish Government in Exile. (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) Two items laid in. First, a 1955 catalog from Mr. Zagayskis sale of a 1150 AD eition of Josephus The Jewish War and Volume II of the fist Hebrew Bible printed in Spain. Second, an additional set of photographs of Zadkines sculptures printed in 1958. SUBJECT(S) : Sculpteurs -- France -- Biographies. Zadkine, Ossip. Dust Jacket has a very small tear, but on the whole this is a very beautiful copy. Jacket, book, plates, inscription, and additional laid in materials are all in Very Good Condition. (FR-2-16)
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(Xt) Shachar, Isaiah
JEWISH TRADITION IN ART; THE FEUCHTWANGER COLLECTION IN JUDAICA
4to. 335 pages. 28 cm. First English edition. Translated by R. Grafman. Heavily illustrated catalogue of the Feuchtwanger Collection of Judaica at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; consisting of 1, 132 items, consisting of liturgical objects, coins, furniture, etc. ; most are reproduced herein in facsimiles, many in color; compiled and written by Yeshayahu Shachar (born Isaiah Stengel) (1935 1977) an Israeli historian and bibliographer; he published miscellaneous monographs, including one establishing the authenticity of the personal seal of Nachmanides (found in a field in Israel) . His varied interests included the early history of Hasidism; Jewish iconography and portraiture, and Jewish/Hebrew bibliography. He held teaching posts at Hebrew University and University College, London, and at the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies. Subjects: Liturgical objects - Judaism - Exhibitions. Jewish art and symbolism - Exhibitions. Judaism - Liturgical objects - Exhibitions. Jewish art and symbolism - Exhibitions. Feuchtwanger, Heinrich, 1898-1963 - Art collections. Jerusalem. Israel Museum. Muzeon Yisrael (Jerusalem) . OCLC lists 26 copies. Ex-library with Jewish Institutional Bookplate and usual markings. Light wear to wraps, including slight crease on back wrapper. Overall in very good condition. (BIBLIOG-33-41C)
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, , Shintaro Suzuki painting and text Summer Boat Trip 2 colors 4 pages, Jun Takami Heavenly Flute (11)
Sunday Mainichi July 27 1947 cover picture Kohei Miyamoto <Japanese Version>
Mainichishinbunsha 1947. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Mainichishinbunsha paperback
Bookseller reference : 2110502150415255
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, , written by Shizuo Tamagawa, Sudo Heavy painting Koya Family Cheerful Conference 6 pages in 2 colors, , , , ,
Women's Club Feb. 1940 cover art by Takuichi Kadowaki Emergencies <Japanese Version>
Great Japan Oratorical Society Kodansha 1940. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Great Japan Oratorical Society Kodansha paperback
Bookseller reference : 2110502150414214
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