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Elder, William Voss III
Maryland Queen Anne and Chippendale Furniture of the Eighteenth Century
This is a very good softcover copy with light cover wear. Completely clean inside and out. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art in March- April, 1968. Curated by William Voss Elder, III. Essay. 78 works in the catalog. All illustrated in black & white. Each piece with full entry including dates, materials, provenance, etc. Fold-out map. Facsimiles of known labels of Maryland cabinet-makers. 8" square, 128 pages. Scarce. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Jacques, Renate
Deutsche Textilkunst in Ihrer Entwicklung Bis Zur Gegenwart
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket and glassine wrapper with just light wear. The glassine wrapper has a few chips. Very clean inside and out. Text in German. Standard survey of the history of German textile design. 225 black & white illustrations + 6 color plates. Index. 11" high X 8" wide, 319 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and sent with tracking.
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Brosio, Valentino
Porcellane e maioliche italiane Dell'ottocento
This is a very good hardcover copy of the first edition bound in green cloth with black title labels and gilt titles on front cover and spine. Completely clean inside and out. Text in Italian. Signed in purple ink by Valentino Brosio on the copyright page. Illustrated throughout in black & white and color with photographs on almost every page. Preface by Aldo Palazzeschi. Essay by Valentino Brosio. Bibliography. 11" high X 9" wide, 139 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Baldin, V.
The Architectural Ensemble of the Trinity St. Sergius Lavra
This is an about very good hardcover copy with some wear to edges and base of spine. Completely clean inside and out. Text in Russian with English summary at the end and captions to the plates. The Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius is the most important Russian monastery and the spiritual centre of the Russian Orthodox Church. The monastery is situated in the town of Sergiyev Posad, about 70 km to the north-east from Moscow by the road leading to Yaroslavl, and currently is home to over 300 monks. Illustrated in black & white and color with photographs, architectural plans, elevations, old engravings, etc. 10" high X 8" wide, 142 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Quittenbaum
Henry van de Velde. Wegbereiter, Zeitgenossen und Nachfolger
This is a near fine softcover copy with virtually no wear. Completely clean inside and out. Text in German. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Quittenbaum in Munich on December 10, 2013. Sale number: 112. The sale consisted of works designed by Henry van de Velde and his contemporaries. Henry van de Velde (1863- 1957) was a Belgian painter, architect and interior designer. Together with Victor Horta and Paul Hankar he could be considered as one of the main founders and representatives of Art Nouveau in Belgium. Van de Velde spent the most important part of his career in Germany and had a decisive influence on German architecture and design at the beginning of the 20th century. 150 lots in the sale. All illustrated in color. Prices realized sheets included. 10" high X 8" wide, 100 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Sotheby's
Important American Silver. January 27, 1989
This is a very good softcover copy with just light wear. Completely clean inside and out. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Sotheby's New York on January 27, 1989. Sale code: 5809 "SAMET". The sale consisted of 18th, 19th and 20th century American silver. 134 lots in the sale. All illustrated, some in color. No prices realized sheets, just price estimates for each lot. 11" high X 8" wide. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Guichard, Ed.
Les tapisseries décoratives du Garde-Meuble (Mobilier National).
This is a very good hardcover copy in brown marbled paper covered boards and a red leatherette spine. Long ago released from a university reference library and bearing a bookplate and small handstamps to the margins of plates. Text by Alfred Darcel in French. Textile examples chosen by Ed. Guichard. 100 full-page plates, including 6 chromolithographs. Each plate with descriptive text. No date on title-page, but ca. 1910. No photographic plates of the pieces of furniture, just close-up detailed plates showing the decorative fabrics that cover the furniture. Massive reference work weighs 15 lbs. 19" high X 13" wide, 13 text pages + plates. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and sent with tracking. Ex-Library
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Royal Commission on Historical Monuments.Volume 2: London West
This is a very good hardcover copy with just light wear. Contains the material in the Royal Commission's survey of English antiquities and monuments that are in London. Very good condition, with the printed gray cloth covers toned but clean. Volume 2: London West (Excluding Westminster Abbey). This book is complete with the large folded map in the pocket in the inside rear cover present and in very nice condition. Color plate as frontispieces. Volume 2 has 235 black & white plates. Extensive index and glossary. 11" high X 9" wide, 194 text pages + plates. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Horsia, Olga & Paul Petrescu
Artistic Handicrafts in Romania
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dustjacket with light edge wear. Very clean inside and out. Signed and briefly inscribed by one of the authors, Olga Horsia, on the title-page and dated New York 1990. Also Dr. Horsia's business card laid in. Text in English. Sections on textiles, rugs and carpets, wall-hangings, lace, clothing and accoutrements of traditional dress, pottery, wood, baskets, leather, metal, glass, bone and horn and painting. Illustrated in color and black & white with 203 plates and illus. Maps. List of Romanian Folk Art Cooperatives and descriptions of their activities. (One six leaf section, so 12 pages, at the end is mis-bound upside-down. This is part of the captions to the plates and some text in the 'Prospects for the Future' section at the end. 8" high X 9" wide. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Trachtenberg, Marvin
Dominion of the Eye: Urbanism, Art, and Power in Early Modern Florence
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dustjacket with just light wear. Completely clean inside and out. The jacket has two tiny closed tears to the top edge. Jacket now protected in mylar. 240 black & white illustrations, including at least 50 published here for the first time. Bibliography. 11" high X 9" wide, 358 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Goncalves, Antonio Nogueira
As Pratas Da Se De Coimbra No Seculo XVII
This is a very good softcover copy with just light foxing. Generally clean inside, but some foxing. Text completely in Portuguese. This is a catalog of the Portuguese 17th century silver collection in the Machado de Castro Museum. 137 objects catalogued. NOT ILLUSTRATED. Pages are uncut, never opened. 9" high X 7" wide, 73 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Sotheby's
The Theodore H. Kapnek Collection of American Samplers
This is an almost very good softcover copy with light wear. Very clean inside and out. Spine has some stress marks from rough handling and rear cover creased.This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Sotheby's York Avenue showroom on January 31, 1981. Sale # 4531Y. The sale consisted of the remarkable collection of American samplers assembled by Theodore Kapnek. A large group of these samplers were exhibited at the Museum of American Folk Art in the winter of 1978-79. 172 lots in the sale. All illustrated in black & white, some in color. Prices realized sheet included. 9" square. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Gaspar Jaen I Urban
One Century of Photography and Preservation in Catalonia: The Service for Local Architectural Heritage
This is a very good softcover copy with almost no wear. Signed in pencil with a little drawing by the author, Gaspar Jaen I Urban, inscribed to an art library, also his card laid in. Illustrated in color with a dozen photographs of Catalonia. 12" high X 8" wide, 23 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Fendi, Anna with Carla, Franca, Alda & Paola
Le Fontane Di Roma
This is a vert good hardcover copy in a very good dustjacket with kight wear. Completely clean inside and out. Short closed tear to top left corner of dustjacket, and small scraped area on the front endpaper (probably price sricker removal). Otherwise clean throughout. Text is in Italian, English & Japanese. Illustrated with 19 full-page black & white photos of Rome's famous fountains. Includes: Fontane di Palazzo Ruspoli, Fontane delle Najada, Fontana di S. Maria in Tractevere, Fontana del Pantheon, Fontana di Trevi, Fontana della Palla di Cannone, Fontana di Piazza San Pietro, Fontana del Moro, Fontana del Fiumi, Fontan del Nettuno, Fontana del Tritone, Le Quattro Fontane, Fontane de Piazza Farnese, Fontana del Facchino, Fontana dells Botte, Fontana delle Tartarughe, Fontana delle Api, Fontana del Marscherone and Fontana della Barcaccia. A number of the fountains were designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. 13" high X 12" wide. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Earle, Major Cyril
The Earle Collection of Early Staffordshire Pottery
This is a very good hardcover copy in brick red cloth with gilt titles and front cover device still very bright. Top page-edge gilt. Very clean inside but two tan marks in inner margins from small pieces of paper left as bookmarks, not affecting text or plates. Small piece missing from edges of back endpapers, now restored Contains over 270 sepia plates with 740 pieces illustrated + 10 full-page color plates. Introduction by Frank Faulkner and Supplementary chapter by T. Sheppard. Bibliography. 13" high X 10" wide, 240 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Orlandi, Giulio Lensi
Le Ville Di Firenze Di La' D'Arno (2 Vol set)
This is a fine hardcover two volume set in fine dustjackets and a fine hardshell slipcase. Completely clean inside and out. Text in Italian. This is the second revised and enlarged edition. Illustrated in black & white with 235 & 278 black & white plates. Maps. 11" high X 9" wide, 128 & 177 text pages + plates and maps. Massive survey of villas in Florence, Italy. Large heavy book, 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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Cotte, Sabine
Sharl-Lui Klerisso : arkhitektor Ekateriny Velikoi : risunki iz sobraniia Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha : katalog vystavki/ Charles-Louis Clérisseau, Catherine the Greats Architect: Drawings from the Collection of the Hermitage
This is a near fine softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. Text in RUSSIAN. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Louvre in Paris in 1995 and at the Hermitage Museum in Moscow in 1997. Charles- Louis Clerisseau (1721-1820) was a French architectural draughtsman, antiquary and artist. He had a role in the genesis of neoclassical architecture during the second half of the 18th century. Catherine the Great was a patron of Clérisseau. The drawings and studies exhibited at the Hermitage depict ruins in Italy, architectural fantasies, and arabesque interior designs. The largest cache of Clérisseau drawings by far is in the collection at the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. Bibliography. Illustrated with 64 black & white figures, 78 color and b/w plates.11" high X 9" wide, 191 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Tarn, John Nelson
Five Per Cent Philanthropy: An Account of Housing in Urban Areas between 1840 and 1914
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dustjacket with just light wear. Completely clean inside and out. The jacket has one short closed tear to the top edge of the front panel. An important study of Victorian working class urban housing throughout England. Hundreds of black & white photographs, engravings, town maps, aerial views, ground plans, details, etc. 12" high X 9" wide, 211 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Keil, Herman
Mainzer Ornamentik. Die Stilwandlung im 18. Jahrhundert.
This is a good only hardcover copy in the original brown paper-covered boards printed in gilt. The gilt has faded, the corners are worn. Very clean inside and out. Text in German. 21 black & white plates + 114 illus. in the text. 10" high X 7" wide, 123 text pages + plates. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Philippe, Joseph
Le Val Saint Lambert. Ses cristalleries et l'art du verre en Belgique
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dustjacket with light wear to the edges. Completely clean inside and out. Text in French with English summaries, foreword, table of contents, and descriptions of illustrations. Illustrated throughout in black & white with some color. 260 black & white + 40 color plates. Pages of facsimile signatures. 12" high X 9" wide, 349 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Vasi, Giuseppe
Le Porte e le Mura di Roma.
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dustjacket with just light wear and a small chip out of the front panel near the spine. Very clean inside and out. Later reprint of Giuseppe Vasi's original work of 1747 on Roman walls and the main entrances to the city, through the city gates. About 20 black & white engravings and maps reproduced. 10" high X 13" wide. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Kayyem, Marisa
Victorian Pleasures: Nineteenth-Century American Board and Table Games from the Liman Collection
This is a very good softcover copy with just light cover wear. Completely clean inside and out. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at Miriam and Ira D. Wallace Art Gallery, Columbia University from November 1991 through January 1992. Checklist of the exhhibition has 192 works catalogued. 15 black & white illustrations. Black wire spiral binding. 8" high X 11" wide, 80 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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David, Massimiliano
Frammenti di Roma antica: Nei disegni degli architetti francesi vincitori del Prix de Rome 1786-1924 (Italian Edition)
This is a fine hardcover copy in a fine hardshell slipcase with no wear at all. Completely clean inside and out. Text in Italian. This book presents drawings by French architects, all winners of the Prix de Rome, which depict aspects of ancient Rome and its' monuments. Illustrated in color, and some black & white photographs. Bibliography. List of Roman monuments. Index of architects. 15" high X 11" wide, 223 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Gutierrez, Ramon
Fray Domingo Petres y su obra arquitectonica en Colombia (Spanish Edition)
This is a very good softcover copy with just lght wear to the lower page edges. Completely clean inside and out. No marks to text. Text in SPANISH only. Fray Domingo Petres (1759- 1811) was Colombia's first architect and built several notable buildings in baroque or neo-classical styles. The most well known are the Catedral de Santa Fe de Antioquia in 1799 and the Cathedral of Colombia, in Bogota, designed in 1807 and finally completed in 1823, 12 years after Fray Domingo Petres died. He also designed the Casa de Moneda and an astronomical observatory. Illustrated in black & white with many photographs of Fray Domingo Petres' buildings and reproductions of his architectural drawings and floor plans. 11" high X 9" wide, 191 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Sotheby's
American Folk Art from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. G. William Holland of Pennsylvania.
This is a very good softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Sotheby's New York on January 28, 1995. The sale consisted of the folk art collection of Mr. and Mrs. G. William Holland of Pennsylvania. Bill Holland's career as a photographer spanned 40 years, he took the photographs for Bernard Barenholtz's book American Antique Toys, among other books. 211 lots in the sale. All illustrated, many in color. No prices realized sheets, just price estimates for each lot. 11" high X 8" wide. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Christie's
Pennsylvania German Folk Art and Decorative Arts from the Collection of Mr.and Mrs. Paul Flack
This is a very good softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. This is a sale catalog for an auction held on site in Holicong, Pennsylvania, at the Paul Flack residence. All of the Flack family collections of Pennsylvania German folk and decorative arts not acquired by museums, were sold off here. One of the best collections of it's kind, it was outstanding in Bucks County work. Essays on the collection. Bibliography. 375 lots in the sale. All illustrated, many in color. Prices realized sheets included. 11" high X 8" wide, 163 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Corrieri, Giovanni
Il Museo Delle Ceramiche Di Castelli
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with just light cover wear. Completely clean inside and out. Text in Italian only. Text by Giovanni Corrieri. Catalog of the collection of majolica at the Museo Ceramiche di Castelli. Hundreds of color plates. 11" high X 10" wide, 279 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Bellabarba, Renato
Edicole Sacre nelle Strade Marchigiane
This is an about very good softcover copy with light wear, soft crease to back cover. Previous owner name and date on front endpaper. Otherwise very clean throughout. Text in Italian. 20 page essay. 174 black & white plates. These are photographs of roadside memorials in one province of Italy, the Marches. 10" high X 6" wide. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Palais Galliera
Les Accessoires Du Temps. Ombrelles Parapluies
This is a very good softcover copy with only light cover wear. Completely clean inside and out. Spine not creased. Text in French. Esays by Annie Sagalow, Jean-Paul Desroches, Sylvie Legrand, Catherine Camboulives and Marc-Alain Deschamps. This exhibition examines the design of umbrellas in 17th through early 20th century France. Glossary. Bibliography. 275 works in this fascinating exhibition, many of them illustrated in color. 10.5" high X 8.5" wide, 127 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Casa de America: Rehabilitacion del Palacio de Linares (Spanish Edition)
This is an almost very good softcover copy with light cover wear. The back cover lower corner is a little curved. Completely clean inside and out. Text in Spanish. Published on the 500th anniversary of the Casa de America, Palacio de Linares in 1492 in Madrid, Spain. This 19th century palace is the residence of the Marquis and Marchioness of Linares. This book examines the decorative arts collections of the Palacio de Linares with special emphasis on the paintings and frescoes, including the restoration of the frescoes. Essays by Miguel Arias, Virginia Tovar Martin, Pedro Navascues, Javier Baron, Maria Alvarez Garcillan, Enrique Arias Angles, Wilfredo Ricon, ROA Estudio, and Marisa Gomez. Illustrated throughout in color. Bibliography. 11" high X 10" wide, 261 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Montgomery,Florence
Printed Textiles. English and American Cottons and Linens 1700-1850
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket. Completely clean inside and out. Bibliography. 11" high X 8.5" wide, 379 pages, 39 color plates and 428 black & white illustrations. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Hyde, J. A. Lloyd
Oriental Lowestoft: With Special Reference to the Trade with China and the Porcelain Decorated for the American Market
This is a very good hardcover copy in the publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles with almost no wear. The cloth covers are not faded or worn. Top page-edge gilt. The book internally is completely clean and free of marks. No foxing. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Color frontispiece + 30 plates with many black & white photographs of individual pieces. 12" high X 9" wide, 161 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Hersey, George
Architecture, Poetry, and Number in the Royal Palace at Caserta
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with light edgewear and a repaired chip out of the top of the spine. Completely clean inside and out. Major monograph on the history of the Royal Palace at Caserta, near Naples, Italy, begun in 1752. The most well known architects associated with Caserta are Mario Goffredo and Luigi Vanvitelli. Illustrated in black & white. Bibliography. 8" high X 11" wide, 318 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Christie's
Oeuvres Médiévales provenant de la Collection Marquet de Vasselot
This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean inside and out. Text in French and English. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Christie's Paris on November 16, 2011. Sale code: VASSELOT- 1047. The sale consisted of medieval works of art from the Marquet de Vasselot collection. 24 lots in the sale. All illustrated in color, some fold-outs. Prices realized sheet included. 11" high X 8" wide, 110 pages.
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Mergl, Jan & Lenka Pankova
Moser 1857-1997 (German Edition)
This is a very good softcover copy with just light wear to the rear cover which has a crease to the lower corner. Completely clean inside and out. Spine is not creased. Massive documentation of 140 years of art glass production by Moser the Czechoslovakian manufacturer. Text in GERMAN. Chronological presentation of Moser glass products decade by decade. Illustrated with 346 color plates. Designers identified, techniques specified, materials, etc. Bibliography. 12" high X 9" wide, 351 pages. Large heavy book foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Sessions, Ralph
The Shipcarvers' Art: Figureheads and Cigar-Store Indians in Nineteenth-Century America
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with almost no wear. Very clean inside and out. Text page top edges just starting to yellow a bit. Illustrated with 90 color plates + 32 black & white. Carvers' biographies. Bibliography. 12" high X 9" wide, 240 pages. Publisher's promotional brochure laid in. Large heavy book foreign postage will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Pevsner, Nikolaus; Richards, J. M.
The Anti-Rationalists
This is a near fine hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. Jacket spine slightly sunned. 1st English edition of this classic. Edited by Nikolaus Pevsner and J. M. Richards with essays by over a dozen scholars including David Mackay, Otto Antonio Graf, Eduard Sekler, Reyner Banham and Julius Posener among others. Illustrated in black and white. 12" high X 10" wide, 208 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Gardner, Paul V.
The Glass of Frederick Carder
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket. The book is very clean throughout. Signed, but not inscribed, in ink by the author, Paul Gardner, on the front endpaper. The jacket has tiny edge tears (closed). Now in an acetate protector. Text by Gardner. Introduction by Paul N. Perrot. Glossary. Bibliography. Over 7,000 illustrations including 400 photographs with 32 full-page color plates showing 80 pieces. The rest of the illustrations are black & white photographs, and profiles or line drawings of the shapes of pieces. 11" high X 8.5" wide, 373 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Ward, Gerald W. R.
American Case Furniture in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale
This is a fine hardcover copy in a fine dust jacket with no wear at all. Completely clean inside and out. Foreword by Mary Gardner Neill. Preface by Patricia E. Kane. Catalogue of 233 examples in the collection, organized by type, by Gerald Ward. All works illustrated in black & white + a color plate section with 25 full page plates. The pieces range in date from the 1650's to the 1950's, with the vast majority dating to before 1850. Bibliography. Concordance. 10" square, 485 pages. Large heavy book foreign postage will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Mencl, Vaclav
Lidova Architektura v Ceskoslovensku
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with just light wear. Very clean inside and out. Page edges just starting to yrellow. Text in Czechoslovakian only. Encyclopedic treatment of Czechoslovakian traditional rural, mostly wooden architecture. Illustrated throughout in black & white + color plate section. Hundreds of photographs. Large heavy book foreign postage will be extra. 12" high X 9" wide, 630 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Clara Santini
Mille mobili veneti. L'arredo domestico in Veneto dal sec. XV al sec. XIX. Venezia
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. Text in Italian. This is Volume 3 only of Santini's three volume series on Venetian furniture. 611 color photographs of Venetian furniture from the 15th century through the 19th century. Bibliography. Large heavy book foreign shipping will be extra. 13" high X 10" wide, 335 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Ionescu, Grigore
Istoria Arhitecturii in Rominia. Volume I Only
This is a very good hardcover copy with almost no wear. Missing dust jacket. This is volume 1 only of this 2 volume set. This volume at one time belonged to the architectural historian G.E. Kidder Smith, and is signed by him and dated 1965 on the front endpaper. Otherwise completely clean inside and out. Gilt title on spine faded. Text in Romanian with Russian and French summaries at the end. Volume 1 covers the beginnings of Romanian architecture through the 16th century. 8 color plates + 311 black & white illustrations including photographs, engravings, elevations, plans, facades, etc. 10 1/2:" high X 8" wide, 539 pages. Errata slip tipped in. Heavy book, foreign postage will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Eaton, Allen H.
Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands
This is a fine hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with a tiny repaired chip to the lower edge of the front panel. Signed by the author, Allen Eaton, with an inscription to someone at the publishing house, dated September 22, 1937. First edition with the dust jacket price of $3.00 on the inside lower corner of the front flap. Completely clean inside and out. 58 beautiful black & white photogravure plates by Doris Ulmann. Also color plates of decorative arts from the Southern Highlands. Scarce in the dust jacket, and still more so signed. 9" high X 6" wide, 370. A beautiful copy. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Quintero, Francesco
Giuliano da Maiano "Grandissimo Domestico"
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with just light wear. One short previous owner name on the half title-page, otherwise completely clean imside and out. Text in Italian. Monograph on the Italian Renaissance architect Giuliano da Maiano (1432- 1490) who worked in Florence both as a sculptor and stone carver and later as an architect. Illustrated in black & white with hundreds of photographs, drawings, elevations, details, etc. Bibliography. Large heavy book foreign postage will be extra. 10" high X 7" wide, 613 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Lyttelton, Margaret
Baroque Architecture in Classical Antiquity (Studies in Ancient Art and Archaeology)
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with only light cover wear. Completely clean inside and out, no marks anywhere. Illustrated in black & white with photographs, architectural drawings, elevations, details, prints, etc. Bibliography. 10" high X 8" wide, 336 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Jacobson, Dawn
Chinoiserie
This is a fine hardcover copy of the first edition, in a fine dust jacket with virtually no wear. Completely clean. Illustrated in color and black & white. Glossary. Bibliography. 11" high X 9" wide, 240 pages. A beautiful copy of this standard reference. Large heavy book, foreign shipping extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Harwood, Barry R.
The Furniture of George Hunzinger: Invention and Innovation in 19th Nineteenth-Century America
This is a very good softcover copy with just light cover wear. Covers a bit rubbed. Completely clean inside and out. The spine is not creased, binding firm. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition that opened at the Brooklyn Museum in November 1997 and ran to February 1998. This was the first large exhibition of the designs of George Hunzinger (1835- 1898), one of the most innovative and influential 19th century American furniture designers. 10 color plates + over 200 black & white photographs and reproductions of pages from trade catalogs, interiors with Hunzinger furniture, etc. Bibliography. 12" high X 8" wide, 168 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Fessas-Emmanouil, Helen
Ideological and Cultural Issues in the Architecture of Modern Greece
This is a very good softcover copy with just light cover wear. Clear plastic wrapper over black paper covers. Completely clean. Text in Greek and English. Illustrated with black & white photographs of modern Greek architecture from 1827 to 1940. 8" high X 6" wide, 111 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and shipped with tracking.
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Mesut Gok
Ab-i Hayat : Gecmisten Gunumuze Istanbul'da Su ve Su Kulturu
This is a very good softcover copy with light wear. Signed by one of the authors, Dr. Ercan Topcu, on the title-page and inscribed in the year of publication. Otherwise completely clean. Text in TURKISH. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition in Istanbul, which explored the history of Turkish baths. Ten essays by scholars. Color photographs on practically every page of interiors of Turkish baths, and especially the pitchers, iron or bronze waterspouts ceramic tiles, linens, etc. 11" high X 9" wide, 252 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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González-Palacios, Alvar
Fasto Romano dipinti, sculture, arredi dai Palazzi di Roma
This is a very good softcover catalog with some wear. Front cover creased. Completely clean inside and out. Text in Italian. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Palazzo Sacchetti in Rome in the summer of 1991. Curated by Alvar González-Palacios, with essays by him and Carlo Petrangeli, Federico Forquet, Giulio Briganti, and Eduard A. Safarik. 227 works catalogued and illustrated in the exhibition. About 80 color plates. The exhibition explored the interior decoration of palaces of the Italian nobility from the 16th through the 18th century. 12" high X 10" wide, 236 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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