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Galter, Juan Subias
El Arte Popular En Espana
This is a very good hardcover copy in an almost very good dust jacket. The jacket is complete except for two pieces missing at the top of the spine, edges worn. Very clean inside, last text page foxed, jacket a little faded, some soil to rear panel. Inner hinge professionally strengthened. Text in Spanish. Massive survey of traditional Spanish crafts. Covers architecture, sculpture, furniture, ceramics, glass, textiles, etc. 19 tipped-in color plates + 493 black & white illustrations. List of plates with descriptive entries. 11" high X 9" wide, 628 pages.This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Aa. Vv.
FAENZA. Bollettino del Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza. Anno LXXVIII No. 1-2 1992
This is a very good softcover copy in the original publisher's printed and decorated tan wrappers. This is the 1992, No. 1-2 issue. Foreword by Gian Carlo Bojani. Essays by S. Gelichi, P.A. Mariaux, A. Bettini, J. Triolo, Graziella Berti ans A. Mingotti. Illustrated with 20 plates, mostly color. 10" high X 7" wide, 128 pages.
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Behal,Vera
Mobel des Jugendstils. Sammlung des Osterreichischen Museums fur Angewandte Kunst
This is a fine hardcover copy in a near fine dust jacket with virtually no wear. Completely clean inside and out. Text in German. This is the 2nd revised and enlarged edition. Bibliography. 277 pieces of furniture catalogued and illustrated in black & white photographs + 11 color plates. Also a section on drawings and sketches for furniture and interiors with 23 illustrations. 10" high X 9" wide, 358 pages. A beautiful copy. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Macquoid,Percy
A History of English Furniture (v. 1-4)
This is a very good hardcover 2 volume set (complete) in a very good dust jackets with just light edge-wear. Completely clean inside and out. This is the two volume reprint of Macquoid's classic reference, 'A History of English Furniture. The Age of Oak and the Age of Walnut. The Age of Mahogany and the Age of Satinwood', first published in 1904-05. Volume 1 contains the first two of Macquoid's original four volumes, and volume 2 contains the last 2 of Macquoid's original 4 volumes. Illustrated throughout in black & white with approximately 1000 photographs in these volumes + 8 color plates (4 per volume). 11" high X 9" wide, about 243 & 255 pages. Large heavy books, foreign shipping will be extra. These books will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Harris, John
The Artist and the Country House
This is a very good hardcover copy with a very good dust jacket with almost no wear. Very clean inside and out. This is a survey and history of the English country house, from 1540 through 1870. With particular attention to the English landscape painters of the period. Select bibliography. 26 color plates + 420 black & white illustrations. 12" high X 11" wide, 376 pages. Heavy item, foreign shipping extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Diehl, Charles
Manuel D'Art Byzantin
This is an about very good 2 volume hardcover set with light wear. Completely clean inside and out. Top of spine of volume 2 chipped. Text in French. Both volumes bound in blue cloth with a red leather title labels with gilt letters on the spine, original tan softcovers bound in. This is the 2nd revised and expanded edition. Volume 1 published in 1925, volume 2 in 1926. 219 black & white illustrations. 9" high X 5 1/2" wide, 480 & 464 pages. (Both pages and illustratrations are actually numbered consecutively from volume 1). Small private collector bookplates on the inside front covers of both volumes.
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American Art Association
American Colonial Furniture & Silver the Property of Israel Sack Boston & New York
This is a very good softcover copy in the original tan printed paper wrappers with light wear. Some light cover soil. Very clean inside. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at American Art Association/Anderson Galleries in New York on October 15, 16 and 17, 1931. The sale consisted of the property of famed antiques dealer Israel Sack. Foreword by Charles Packer. The sale included Early American glass, furniture and decorative arts, and some English pottery and silver. 500 lots in the sale. Many illustrated in black & white photographs. No prices realized sheets, or price estimates. 11" high X 7" wide, 135 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Lackschewitz, Gertrud
Interior Design and Decoration a Bibliography
This is a very good softcover reference copy long ago released from a private reference library and bearing 3 small bookplates, one inside each cover and on the front cover. Also small discard handstamps and dates on a few pages. Not illustrated. Author index. 10" high X 7" wide, 86 pages. Ex-Library
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Quittenbaum
Hohepunkte Der Design Geschichte III Design Made in Germany
This is a near fine softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Quittenbaum in Munich on November 27, 2006. This was the third sale in their 'Highlights of Modern Design' series. Auktion # 62. Text in German. This sale was almost all German modern design. From German art nouveau through functionalism and the Bauhaus, the 'Good Design' period of the 1940's, to the Post-War designs of Braun and Dieter Rams, and Wilhelm Wagenfeld, the plastic furniture of the 1950's and 60's, and finally the post-modern period. 424 lots in the sale. All illustrated in color. No prices realized sheets, just price estimates for each lot. 11" high X 8" wide, 262 pages.
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Kennedy,Roger G.
Greek Revival America
This is now the major survey of Greek Revival architecture in America. Written by the Director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, very active in his role as a trustee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Small folio size, 12" high X 10" wide, 455 pages, illustrated mostly in color. Interesting appendices like,"A Speculation on Power and Sex in Greek Revival America". Another is a "Gazetteer of Important Greek Revival Buildings in the United States Today". Bibliography. Index. This is a near fine cloth copy in a very good dust jacket, completely clean, inside and out, just a few scuffs to the dust jacket, otherwise a fine copy.
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Hyde, Ralph
Getting London in Perspective
This is a very good softcover copy with just light cover wear. Completely clean inside and very clean outside. This catalog was prapared to accompany the exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery in 1984. The exhibition consisted of a historical survey of architectural drawings related to London buildings. Essay by Gavin Stamp. Checklist with 203 works in the exhibition. Most illustrated in black & white, some color. Bibliography. 12" high X 9" wide, 112 pages.
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Sotheby's
The Best of British Design from the 19th and 20th Centuries 2 Volume Set
This is a very good softcover set of both volumes of this two part auction held at Sotheby's London from March 14-20, 2008. The first volume is titled 'The Selling Exhibition'. The second volume is titled 'The Auction'. 'Selling Exhibition' volume has, minor scuffing to cover. 'Auction' volume has a soft crease to the back cover top corner affecting a few back pages. Completely clean inside and out. Short introductory texts by Paul Reeves, Mary Greensted, Linda Parry and Matthew Williams. The sale comprised the collections of Paul Reeves and his Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum. The collection was very strong in British Arts & Crafts material. The first volume 'The Selling Exhibion' 134 works from Paul Reeves's collections on view. The second volume 'The Auction" had 131 lots. All works illustrated in color, one fold-out. Prices realized sheet and the Price List for 'The Selling Exhibition" laid in. 11" high X 8" wide, 164 & 216 pages.
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Ville du Locle Museum
Collection d'horlogerie de la Ville du Locle
This is a very good softcover copy with just light cover wear. Completely clean inside and just light toning to the covers. Lower corner of catalog bumped. Text in French. This is a handbook to the Ville du Locle Museum's collection of clocks and watches. 1113 works catalogued. Many illustrated in black & white photographs. 8" high X 5" wide, 101 pages.
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Sotheby's
Genoese Silver and Furniture from a Private Swiss Collection
This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean inside and out. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Sotheby's London on May 27, 2009. The sale consisted of a private Swiss collection of Genoese silver and furniture. The Genoese furniture is 18th century parquetry work, several pieces. Also several Venetian painted lacquer work furniture. The Genoese silver, about 25 pieces: candlesticks, salvers, chalices, an incense boat, etc. 146 lots in the sale. All illustrated in color. Prices realized sheets included. 11" high X 8" wide, 99 pages.
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Bandinelli, Elena Capretti
La Torre Lanfredini
This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean inside and out. Text in Italian. The Lanfredini Tower is a medieval structure in Florence, Italy and is still standing today. Preface by Carlo Cresti. 9 color photographs of the Lanfredini Tower, both exterior views and interior rooms + 2 black & white illustrations. Bibliography. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies. 8" high X 6" wide, 35 pages.
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Quittenbaum
Jugendstil Art Deco
This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely cleab inside and out. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Quittenbaum's in Munich on October 22, 2007. The sale consisted of art nouveau and art deco glass, ceramics and metalwork. 859 lots. Almost all of them illustrated in color. The book lot section at end not illustrated. No prices realized just price estimates for each lot. 11" high X 8" wide, 286 pages.
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Quittenbaum
Eine Hamburger Privatsammlung 67 Auktion Oktober 20, 2007
This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean inside and out. Text in German. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Quittenbaum's in Munich on October 20, 2007. Sale number 67. 495 lots in the sale. Almost all illustrated in color. Some reference literature not illustrated. No prices realized sheets, just price estimates for each lot. 11" high X 8" wide, 156 pages.
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Quittenbaum
Jugendstil Art Deco Eine Suddeutsche Privatsammlung 68 Auktion Teil II
This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean inside and out. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Quittenbaum's in Munich on October 27, 2007. Sale number 68. Text in German. The sale consisted of art nouveau and art deco decorative arts: glass, ceramics, metalwork, etc. 344 lots in the sale. All illustrated in color. No prices realized sheets, just price estimates for each lot. 11" high X 8" wide, 108 pages.
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Feulner, Adolf
Farbige Raumkunst der Vergangenheit
This is a very good hardcover copy bound in dark green cloth with black title labels on the front cover and spine. Titles in gilt. Text in German. Very clean inside and out, but a previous owner name on the title-page, and a few faint marks on the front cover. 80 color plates, reproductions of watercolors of 18th century European interiors. All room settings and interiors identified. 12" high X 10" wide, xv text pages + color plates. Heavy item, foreign shipping extra.
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Gadd, David
Georgian Summer: Bath in the Eighteenth Century
This is a very good softcover copy with light wear. Completely clean inside and out. Light bump to bottom right corner. 61 black & white illustrations. Select bibliography. 8" high X 6" wide, 195 pages.
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Butterfield & Butterfield
The Warren Anderson Collection of Premier American & European Antique Firearms Parts 1 & 2
This is a very good softcover 2 volume set with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. No marks to lots or illustrations. These are sale catalogs for auctions held at Butterfield & Butterfield in San Francisco on March 23, and July 14, 1992. The sales consisted of Warren Anderson's Collection of antique firearms. Part 1: 63 lots. Part 2: 112 lots. All lots illustrated in color. Extensive entries for many lots. No prices realized sheets, just price estimates for each lot. 11" high X 8" wide, 97 & 125 pages.
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Antiquorum Auctioneers
20 Years 1974- 1994 Important Watches, Wristwatches and Clocks
This is a good softcover copy with some wear to the spine (clear taped at base). Completely clean inside and out. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Antiquorum in Geneva at the Hotel des Bergues on October 15-16, 1994. This catalog marked the 20th anniversary of the firm Antiquorum's existence. The sale was put together as a history of watchmaking. The sale also included the Glicken Collection of rare escapements previously the property of King Farouk and J.P. Morgan. 615 lots in the sale. All illustrated in color some with extensive entries, detail shots. No prices realized sheets, just price estimates for most lots. 11" high X 8" wide, 398 pages.
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Saint, Andrew
Richard Norman Shaw
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket. Completely clean inside and out. Jacket lightly sunned. Long considered to be one of the most outstanding architectural biographies of the late 20th century, Saint shows what an original architect Shaw was, in addition to being a master stylist. 291 black & white illustrations. Select bibliography. 10" high X 7.5" wide, 487 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Garnier, Edouard
Manufacture Nationale de Sevres Catalogue du Musee Ceramique Fascicule IV Serie D Faiences
This is a very good hardcover copy, that is, the original softcover catalog has been rebound in recent cloth, with original covers bound-in. Some chipping of the last few page-edges, and some foxing to the beginning pages, otherwise very good. This is a catalogue of maker marks of faience from all the European countries. This copy has been signed by Edouard Garnier and dated 1896, so it is probably a pre-publication copy, signed and inscribed by the author to a colleague. Text in French. Hundreds of facsimile marks. This catalog is Fascicule IV, from the series of seven fascicules that make up the complete publication of the Musee Ceramique's collection. There are two sections in this catalog: 1) Faiences Emailles with 1608 pieces described; and 2) Faiences Fine with 213 pieces described. Introduction by Garnier. 4to, 10" high X 6" wide, 636 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Roberts, Lynn Springer
English Silver Masterpieces By Omar Ramsden from the Campbell Collection
This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean inside and out. Catalog edited by Lynn Springer Roberts. Introduction by Eric Turner. This catalog was prepared to accompany the Smithsonian travelling exhibition, which went to Chicago, Montreal, Nashville and Williamstown, MA. 51 works in silver by Omar Ramsden catalogued and illustrated in black & white, with a number of additional color plates. Supplemental checklist (illustrated) of pieces in the Campbell Collection, but which did not travel with the exhibition. 12" high X 9" wide, 79 pages. Feels crisp and unread. A beautiful copy. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Heckscher, Morrison H.
American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. II Late Colonial Period: The Queen Anne and Chippendale Styles
This is a fine hardcover copy in a very good lightly sunned slipcase. Signed by Heckscher on the half-title page. Completely clean inside. The linen cloth covers of the book have titles in gilt and a red leather title label to the spine. This volume of the museum's survey of their American furniture collections deals with the mid-18th century. Curator Heckscher has prepared extensive entries for the 212 pieces included in this volume. Extensive bibliography. Illustrated in color and black & white. 12.5" high X 9.5" wide, 383 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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de Man, H.
Jacques Coeur Argentier du Roy
This is a very good softcover copy in the original publisher's cream colored stiff paper wrappers simply printed in black and red. Pages uncut. Completely clean inside, just light toning outside. Text in French. Illustrated in black & white. 9" high X 6" wide, 267 pages. Bibliography.
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Ricci, Seymour
Der Stil Louis XVI: Mobiliar Und Raumkunst
This is a very good hardcover reference copy in the original dark green boards with title label in gold on black. Very clean inside and out. Some chipping to page-edges. Text in German. 272 black & white plates with 480 photographs of furniture. Standard reference on Louis XVI room settings and furniture. 12" high X 9"wide, xviii + plates.
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Arwas, Victor
Glass Art Nouveau to Art Deco
This is a fine hardcover copy in a fine dust jacket with virtually no wear. Completely clean inside and out. This is one of Arwas' best works on modern design. With almost 500 illustrations, more than half in color. Arranged alphabetically like an encyclopedia, from Appert Freres and Argy-Rousseau to Friedrich Zitzmann. Pages of maker marks and facsimile signatures. Bibliography. Glossary. 12" high X 10" wide, 384 pages. A beautiful copy. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Merrill, George P.
Stones for Building and Decoration
This is a very good hardcover copy in the original gray cloth binding, ruled in blind, gilt title on the spine. Covers a little grubby. Inside completely clean. Title-page has old tape on the back side near the gutter, possibly to prevent the page from loosening. This copy has been signed by Merrill on the second blank endpaper, the signature at some point partially abraded. This is the 3rd and final edition, revised and enlarged. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. 33 full page plates + 24 figures in the text. 9" high X 6" wide, vi, 551 pages + 16 pg. John Wiley catalog of publications. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Chompret, J.
Repertoire de la Majolique Italienne
This is a very good two volume set of the original edition with just light wear. Completely clean inside and out, some light browning to the edges of the soft text pages, occasional offsetting from the color plates visible on facing text pages. Light wear to edges of spine of the plate volume. All text in French. Color plates tipped on to front boards. Text volume: vii, 227 pages + 13 color plates. Various indices: lists of faience artists, place names. Bibliography. Plate volume: 140 black & white photographic plates, with images printed in photogravure. 1100 pieces of majolica illustrated. This is a limited edition of 500 sets. This set is number 14. A beautiful set of the first edition. These books will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Ministerio de Educacion
Cuadernos De La Alhambra 1
This is a very good copy of volume 1 of the series, with just light wear. Completely clean inside and out. Orange and black covers fresh. Text in Spanish. Business card of the Director of the series, Jose Manuel Pita Andrade laid in. 3 fold-out maps + black & white illustrations. 11" high X 8" wide, 115 pages.
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Gomez-Moreno, Manuel
Catalogo Monumental de Espana Provincia de Salamanca
This is a very good two volume hardcover set in very good dust jackets. Both volumes came from the collection of Gomez-Moreno's daughter and bear her signatures on the front panel of the dust jackets, and the front endpapers. Otherwise compltely clean throughout. Text in Spanish. This is a thorough survey of the artistic patrimony of Salamanca, Spain, focussing on the architecture and sculpture. Indices of artists, and places, and notable persons. 649 black & white photographic plates. 10" high X 7" wide, xviii, 527 text pages + plates. This set will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Janneau, Guillaume
Historique du Meuble
Fine white cloth in a near fine dust jacket. Text in French. A general survey of world furniture put together with Janneau's unerring eye for important pieces. Illustrated in black and white. 10" high X 8" wide, 66 text pages + 165 plates.
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D'Onofrio, Cesare
Le Fontane Di Roma
This is a near fine hardcover copy in blue cloth with gilt fountain device and title on the front cover and spine labels still bright, in a very good hardshell slipcase. Completely clean inside and out. Slipcase has light wear. Text in Italian. This copy has the often missing pamphlet "Translation of text accompanying figures" in German and English laid-in. 251 magnificent black & white plates. The laid-in pamphlet translates the notes to these plates. Extensive bibliography. A classic in near fine condition. Folio, 12" high X 10" wide, 306 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Mostra Del Barocco Piemontese 3 Volume Set
This is a very good complete 3 volume set of this massive exhibition on Piemontese baroque architecture, set design, painting, sculpture, and furniture and decorative arts held in Torino, Italy from June through November of 1963. All volumes in original publisher's illustrated wrappers. Corners of volumes 1 & 3 bumped. Very clean inside and out, (one short neat name inside vol.1 on front endpaper). Text in Italian. Volume 1: Architettura e Scenografia, first section: Architettura, xix, 87 text pages + 201 plates, second section: Scenografia, 56 text pages + 66 plates. Volume 2: Pittura, Scultura, Arazzi, first section: Pittura, 128 text pages + 227 plates, second section: Scultura, 59 text pages + 86 plates, third section: Arazzi, 28 text pages + 30 plates. Volume 3: Mobili e Intagli, Tessuti e Recami, Maioliche, Porcellane, Argenti, Libri e Rilegature, Monete e Medaglie. First section: Mobili e Intagli, 27 text pages + 412 plates, second section: Tessuti e Ricami, 16 text pages + 27 plates, third section: Maioliche, 7 text pages + 47 plates, fourth section: Porcellane, 8 text pages + 56 plates, fifth section: Argenti, 32 text pages + 71 plates, sixth section: Libri e Rilegature, 28 text pages + 17 plates, seventh section: Monete e Medaglie, 44 text pages + 20 plates. Most plates in black & white, but generally at least one or two color plates per section, sometimes more. Appendices on Casa di Caccia, and Palazzo Reale. Massive documentation of the Piemontese Baroque. 9" high X 7" wide. These books will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Garnier, Edouard
Histoire De La Verrerie et de L'Emaillerie
Text in French. This is one of the standard reference works on European glassmaking and enamelling. Beginning with ancient Egyptian and Oriental models, it compares and contrasts these with medieval to late 19th century European methods. Work from Italy, France, Germany, the Low Countries, Holland, Belgium, Spain, China, Japan and Persia. Illustrated with 4 full-page chromolithograph plates and numerous black & white engravings. 4to size, 11" high X 7.5" wide, 573 pages. This is a very good softcover copy in the original paper wrappers with the glassine protective wrap. Small chips to front and back of covers, repair to front hinge. Very clean inside and out. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Gobbi, Ugo
Naturalistic Floral Decoration on XVIII Century Ceramic Il Decoro Floreale Naturalisico Del XVIII Secolo
This is a very good cloth copy in a very good dust jacket. One small closed tear and minor light soiling to the dust jacket, completely clean inside. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition of international porcelain and majolica from the 18th century organized by the Museo Internazionale Delle Ceramica in Faenza. Text in English and Italian. Profusely illlustrated with color plates. Presents the 147 examples of naturalistic floral decoration from the 18th century. Porcelain from these contries: Italy, France , Germany, Russia, Switzerland, England, The Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Hungary, Belgium and Spain. Maker marks and monograms, bibliography. 12" high X 9" wide, 259 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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El Marques De Lozoya
Santiago de Compostela La Catedral
This is a very good hardcover copy in light gray cloth boards with titles in gilt and a red device on the front cover and spine. Brown and gold marbled endpapers. Text in English, French and Spanish. Completely clean inside and out. No date, but ca. 1960. This is a beautiful photographic survey of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. Lavishly illustrated in color and black & white with over 100 photographs. Notes to the plates. 14" high X 10" wide, 32 text pages + plates. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Milwaukee Art Museum
American and European Silver from the Gilson Collection
This is a very good softcover copy with just light wear. Completely clean inside and out. Spine uncreased, binding firm. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum in the spring and summer of 1982. Curated by Marily Kroening, the catalog explores the complex history of the American silversmith's apprenticeship system. Most major designers and makers represented. Selected bibliography. 96 works in the exhibition. Many illustrated in black & white. 11" high X 8" wide, 51 pages.
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Binet
Soixante Vues Des Plus Beaux Palais, Monuments et Egises De Paris. Cathedrales et Chateaux De La France
This is a very good hardcover copy in the original marbled paper-covered boards with the title-page print reproduced and tipped-on to the front cover. Leather spine tooled in gilt with an elaborate device and title. Covers rubbed, edge wear and wear to top and bottom of spine. The map of Paris and 60 engravings (complete) are generally clean, but some light foxing and soil. Beautifully engraved plates ca.1820, engraved by Couche fils, depict well known monuments in Paris as well as other parts of France. Most plates are of Paris. Now in a mylar wrap in the French style. Oblong 8vo, 5 1/2" high X 8" wide. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Ferrari, Giulio
Il Legno e La Mobilia nell' Arte Italiana
This is a very good hardcover copy bound in the original green smooth cloth with a black and gilt title label on the front cover, title in gilt on the spine. Completely clean inside and out. No marks to covers. This is the 2nd enlarged edition. Text in Italian. 350 black & white plates, including 6 color plates. This large survey covers several centuries of Italian carved wood furniture and decorative sculpture as used in interior design. An indispensable reference for the history of Italian furniture. 12" high X 9" wide, 381 pages. A beautiful copy. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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McKearin, George S.and Helen
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass
This is a very good hardcover copy of the original, limited edition of 500 copies, signed by both authors. Completely clean inside and out, but for one tiny signature on the green front endpaper, and the spine just a bit faded. No dust jacket, no slipcase. Top page-edge gilt. This is a classic, with a full treatment of the origins of blown glass in the colonies, and the subsequent development of a great industry. Bibliography. Illustrated with 10 full-page color plates and 114 black & white plates. Large 4to, 11" high X 8" wide, 382 pages.
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Bursche, Stefan et al.
Europäisches Kunsthandwerk vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. Neuerwerbungen 1959-1969
This is a very good softcover copy, slight wear to spine, small creases at bottom corners, clean inside. Kataloge des Kunstgewerbemuseums Berlin, Band IV. Text in German. Covers material from the middle ages to 1922. European decorative arts including:metalwork, textiles, ceramics, pottery and porcelain, glassware, clocks, etc. 16 color plates, 144 objects catalogued and illustrated in black and white. 9" high X 7" wide, about 150 pages.
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National Terra Cotta Society
Terra Cotta of the Italian Renaissance
This is a beautiful survey of the best examples of Italian Renaissance architecture which use terra cotta decoration. Includes work by:Donatello, Brunelleschi, Filarete, Alberti, Bramante, Dolcebuono, Michaelangelo and Luca della Robbia, among others. Illustrated in black & white with 200 full-page plates. This copy was an office copy of the well-known New York architectural firm:Starrett and Van Vleck, the architects of many important early modernist buildings of the 1920's and 30's particularly in New York. There is an embossed blindstamp, the size of a quarter, on the title-page lower corner, but much more interestingly there is one of the Starrett and Van Vleck bookplates tipped-in on the inside of the front cover. About the size of a pack of cigarettes, and reminiscent of Rockwell Kent's work, it depicts a modern skyscraper, (think Gotham style, or Hugh Ferriss, with setbacks), against a much lower skyline. Many copies for sale on the net, but this one is unique. In good shape in the usual brown paper-covered boards, with gilt titles, black cloth spine with a small painted number at the bottom. Generally clean inside and outside, edges slightly abraded, and definitely used, by a very busy high profile firm. 12 1/2" high X 9" wide. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Liverani, Giuseppe
Five Centuries of Italian Majolica
This is a good reference copy of Liverani's classic study of Italian majolica, from about the 8th or 9th century to the late 18th century. With all 83 tipped-in plates and the frontis. Also 52 black & white illustrations in the text. This is a good copy in the polished vellum boards, but the back board has been stained a brownish color, and this is also on the bottom page-edges in drops here and there. But other than this, the book is fine inside, completely clean text and very fresh plates. Binding nice and tight. Folio size, 12" high X 9.5" wide, 258 pages.
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Gauthier, Joseph
Les Arts Francais Faiences et Poteries Rustique
This is a very good hardcover copy in color-printed boards. Very clean inside and out. Text in French. Introduction by Gauthier. 40 full-page plates in black and white with some heightened with color. Great material, mostly from French museums like: Musee de Sevres, Musee de Cluny, Musee Trocadero, etc. 13"high X 10"wide, 15 text pages + plates. Beautiful works. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Sotheby Parke Bernet
Papiers Peints Anciens et Tissus Anciens Collection Vital-Durand a Lyon
This is a very good softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. Text in French. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Sotheby Parke Bernet in Monaco on February 14, 1983. The sale consisted of several collections of antique 'papiers peints' or painted wallpapers and painted textiles. Lots 1 through 85 are from the Collection de la Maison Maigret, 114 lots in the Collection Vital-Durand from Lyon. The themes of the painted papers range from still lifes with floral motifs, neo-classical architectural decorations, some figures from myth, like Cupid and Psyche, Le Jardin d'Armide painted by Edouard Muller. Many examples illustrated in black & white (over 80) + 12 color plates. Estimates for each lot. No prices realized sheet. 10" high X 7" wide, 76 pages.
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Sokolova, T.
Russian Furniture in the Collection of the Hermitage
This is a fine hardcover copy in a near fine dustjacket and very good slipcase. Text in English and Russian. Introduction in English as well as descriptions of plates at end in English. 195 plates in black & white and color. All the furniture is 18th through late 19th century Russian work. Most photographs show the furniture in room settings, but close-ups of individual pieces. The book is organized into sections: 18th century, 19th century, to give the reader a sense of the development and styles. 12" high X 10" wide, 31 text pages + plates. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Universitat Zurich
Universitat Zurich Festschrift Des Regierungsrates Zur Einweihung Der Neubauten 18 April 1914
This is an about very good hardcover copy in the original elaborately gilt decorated gray boards with light wear. One small scrape on the edge of the spine. Spine tips have some wear. Completely clean inside and very clean outside. Text in German. Illustrated throughout in black & white with photographs of Zurich architecture and floor plans, ca. 1914. Photos unnumbered but about 100 photographic plates. 12" high X 9" wide, 208 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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