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2002Best.-Nr. 167104Strasbourg: Musees de Strasbourg 2002. Softcover. 189 pages. Text in French with contributions by Patrick Javault Georges Heck Maurizio Lazzarato Sandra Lischi Philippe Dubois Francoise Parfat and Anna Marx. . Includes illustrations of works by Vito Acconci Dennis Adams John Baldessari Roderick Buchanan Wim Delvage Rodney Graham Gary Hill Mike Kelley Paul McCarthy Les Levine Bruce Nauman Tony Oursler Nam June Paik Martha Rosler Bill Viola and others. A fine copy in wrappers. As new and still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Musees de Strasbourg unknown books
1999Best.-Nr. 25348NP: CIP 1999. Hardcover. Very good. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. Text in Chinese CIP hardcover books
1926Best.-Nr. 2293324Privately Printed / Murray Printing Co. Limited 1926. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Limited edition #933 of 1500 copies. Former copy of the Clifton Springs Medical Library with a few marks. 1926 Hard Cover. xxxviii 633 1 pp. 8vo. Photographic frontispiece of William Osler. A collection of essays published to honor the influential physician William Osler co-founder of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Osler's creation of the first residency program and emphasis on teaching students through clinical experience rather than lectures led many to call him the father of modern medicine. Privately Printed / Murray Printing Co., Limited hardcover books
2000Best.-Nr. 352012000. Softcover. VG Small sticker on back cover; Sticker residue on spine; Otherwise as new. Pictorial wraps. 528 pp. 343 bw and color plates`. Text in French. Includes critical analysis of oeuvre and chronology. paperback books
Best.-Nr. 28671ROYAL PAVILION ART GALLERY AND MUSEUMS. GOTHICK. Brighton: 1975. Square 8vo. Wrappers. 59 pages 24 pages of plates. First edition. Exhibition catalogue on Gothic architecture art furniture and decorative ar sponsored by the Brighton Festival Society 1975. Preface by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner. Very good. unknown books
1969Best.-Nr. 17890scsOttawa: Queen’s Printer for Canada 1969. Octavo stapled wrappers paperbound 10 pp. Near-Fine with former-owner signature. Contents: The Ecosystem; The Ecological Population; Quantifiable Variables; Other Variables; Culture and Ecology. Queen’s Printer for Canada, 1969. unknown books
1974Best.-Nr. 26518Stony Brook Long Island New York: The Museums at Stony Brook 1974. 20 pages; catalog for this exhibition; illustrated in sepia tones with slightly-larger-than thumbnail works of the artist. Includes section "The Unfinished Autobiography of William Sidney Mount" 3 pages. Accompanying each artwork's description is a title of piece media size and good specific-to-piece background; 135 items listed. Foreword by Melville A. Kitchin Curator 19th century American painting; artworks exhibited were the property of the Stony Brook Museums. Approx. 8 1/2" x 11" size illustrated stapled softcover; light wear; in very good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. The Museums at Stony Brook paperback books
1971Best.-Nr. 54361Brussells: Musees Royaux des Beaux Arts. Very Good. 1971. Paperback. Bruxelles: Musees Royaux Des Beaux-Arts De Belgique 1971. 128pp.illustrations wrappers Ex-museum Library light toning to wrappers Very Good. . Musees Royaux des Beaux Arts paperback books
1985Best.-Nr. 299034Vienna: Historischen Museums der Stadt Wien 1985. paperback. very good. Text in German. Illustrated in color and black and white. 801 pages thick square 8vo stiff pictorial wrappers extremities a bit worn; short tear at lower front joint. Vienna: Historical Museum of the City of Vienna 1985. A very good copy with ownership signature of Mildred Schmertz editior in chief of the Architectual Review. Historischen Museums der Stadt Wien unknown books
1980Best.-Nr. 016189New York New York: Museum of Modern Art 1980. First Edition. Quarto. 464p. A special gift copy given to guests with the original slipcase and the pastedown label from Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Lauder Estee Lauder Company at the Gala Dinner for the Exhibit May 29 1980. Each guest was given a copy before the copies were available to the public. Laid in is a dinner menu with a pastedown cover of Picasso work. Museum of Modern Art unknown books
1995Best.-Nr. 188821La Mandragora 1995-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. Clean has a good binding and crisp pages no marks or notations. Light wear. TP HS La Mandragora paperback books
1986Best.-Nr. 274473Stony Brook: Museums at Stony Brook 1986. paperback. very good-. Many photo Illus. several in color. 127pp. 4to pr. wrs. many pages slightly wavy in right margins otherwise very good. Stony Brook: Museums at Stony Brook 1986. Museums at Stony Brook unknown books
1987Best.-Nr. 274474Stony Brook: Museums at Stony Brook 1987. paperback. very good-. Many Illus. several in color. 174pp. 4to pr. wrs. pages slightly wavy throughout. Stony Brook Long Island: The Museums at Stony Brook 1987. Museums at Stony Brook unknown books
2000Best.-Nr. 271832Copenhagen: Living Architecture 2000. hardcover. fine/very good. Nagel Per. Hundreds of color photographs. 189pp. 4to black cloth d.w.; dust wrapper lightly rubbed and with small tear to upper rear margin Copenhagen: Living Architecture 2000. A fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. Living Architecture unknown books
1990Best.-Nr. 250078Brussels: Musee Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 1990. hardcover. very good-. In French. Profusely illustrated in color and black & white. 426 pages 4to blue pictorial-stamped cloth front cover bowed and cocked; tiny damp-stain on the right edge. Brussels: Musee Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 1990. A very good- copy with a pristine interior. Musee Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique unknown books
1954Best.-Nr. 245843Brussels: Musees Royaux D'Art et D'Histoire Bruxelles 1954. hardcover. very good/very good. Profusely illustrated in black & white with photos of artifacts. 8vo stiff pictorial wrapper wax paper jacket for protection. Wrapper is lightly worn. Brussels: Musees Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire Bruxelles 1954. A very good copy. Musees Royaux D'Art et D'Histoire Bruxelles unknown books
1759Best.-Nr. 4188Florence: Nella stamperia Imperiale 1759 Octavo: 19 x 14.3 cm. p. xiii i 236 1 errata; Collation: a8 -a8 blank A-P8 -P8 blank Complete. FIRST EDITION. A crisp bright copy in original three-quarter calf and speckled paper over boards spine with floral ornaments. The text is adorned with attractive woodcut initials and headpieces. First edition of the first guide to one of the world's most important museums. This guide to the Medici collections of the Uffizi Gallery was written by the museum's first custodian who had been appointed after the gallery's conversion to a public institution under the terms established by the last of the Medici the Palatine Electrix Anna Maria Ludovica in 1737. The custodian Giuseppe Bianchi is a notorious figure. He was later found to have robbed the Uffizi of works of precious metal which he melted down and sold. He was condemned to exile for his perfidy. See Barrochi and Bertelà "Danni e furti di Giuseppe Bianchi in Galleria Labyrinthos 13/16 1988-89 321-336. Bianchi's guide published in the same year that the British Museum opened to the public is an important record of the disposition and scope of the newly "public" collections in the period prior to their dramatic reorganization by Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Lorraine 1780-82. In some instances the notices in the guide are the earliest extant record for some works in the collections. The portable and scholarly guide is similar in format and composition to Pasquale Massi's 1792 guide to the Vatican Museums which Bianchi's guide predates by a generation. Bianchi prefaces his tour with a history of the construction of the Uffizi palace designed and begun by Vasari in 1560 and completed –following Vasari's design- by Alfonso Parigi and Bernardo Buontalenti in 1581. This is followed by a description of the various elements that make up the entire palace complex. The formal guide to the galleries begins with a detailed description of the decorative program of the frescoed ceilings and the series of portraits that line the walls beneath them. This is followed by descriptions and commentaries on each of the 62 statues and 92 busts housed in the galleries in this period. Francesco I was the first Medici to add ancient marbles to the newly completed Uffizi and these ancient sculptures were juxtaposed with contemporary Renaissance masterpieces. Thus we find in Bianchi's guide the famous Medici Venus the Niobe group Bandonelli's Laocöon and Michelangelo's Bacchus. The sarcophagus of Hippolytus is absent since it was still in the Palazzo Medici Riccardi in 1759. Next Bianchi takes us into the Camera dei Pittori. Yet here he is unable to give a comprehensive discussion. This is due in large part to the sheer size of the collection but also to the fact that the painting collection has changed so much over the years some of the paintings having been transferred to the Pitti Palace others that formerly hung in the Palace having come to the Gallery and others still having been given as gifts to great lords or used to decorate villas. Moreover the paintings are in many media: oil tempera fresco and encaustic. Bianchi decides to focus on the collection of artist self-portraits which are divided into the three principal schools arrived at by the consensus of the most famous scholars of the art of painting: Romana Lombarda and Oltramontana. Here we find the famous self-portrait of Raphael. From here we pause briefly in the Camera delle Porcellane before entering the Camera degl' Idoli with its collection of 300 Greek Roman Etruscan and Egyptian bronzes which Bianchi considers in detail. Next we enter the Camera delle Arti where we find paintings by Raphael Andrea del Sarto Leonardo Botticelli Mantegna and Fra Angelico. In the Camera de' Fiamminghi are housed 140 paintings by northern European artists: Albrecht Dürer Lucas Cranach Van Dyck Brueghel and Callot among others. The German Cabinet: The center of the Camera delle Arti is occupied by a wondrous machine for which Bianchi provides a two-page description. It is a magnificent octagonal cabinet over nine feet tall incorporating a clock a pneumatic organ and moving figures in silver. The architectural details are all composed of granatiglia an ebony-like luxury hardwood and the surfaces of the cabinet are inlaid with precious stone including lapis jasper and verde antico. The cabinet is adorned with painted scenes of the Old and New Testaments which are rendered so minutely and with such fine skill that they are believed to be by the school of Brueghel. Within the cabinet is a machine that rotates showing four scenes: birds and arabesques executed in stone-inlay; a wax relief of the deposition "the work of the immortal Buonarroti"; an amber relief of Jesus and the Apostles; and an amber crucifixion scene. The final ornament of the machine is a mirror box that produces an infinite number of reflections. Bianchi tells us that the cabinet was made in Germany "around a century ago" and was purchased by Grand Duke Ferdinando II 1610-1670. The sixth camera houses mathematical instruments and a pair of celestial and terrestrial globes. Among the marvels here are an enormous magnet and a huge burning mirror. It was with the addition of the mathematical and scientific collections that the Uffizi began to take on the aspect of a wunderkammer. Next we enter the heart of the museum the Tribuna the octagonal room that houses the most important treasures of the Uffizi. Bianchi begins with individual descriptions of the 14 marble statues among them the Medici Venus the Wrestlers the Dancing Satyr the Arrotino and the infant Hercules. After a brief description of the room itself designed by Bernardo Buontalenti for Ferdinando III Bianchi lists the artists whose paintings adorn the room: Correggio Titian Veronese Parmigianino and above all Raphael. There is also a detailed description of the famous table of pietre dure. Leaving the Tribuna we come to the Camera dell' Ermafrodita the focal point of which is the hermaphrodite in Parian marble acquired by Ferdinando II from the Ludovisi Collection. Our tour concludes with brief visits to the room of medals the arsenal and the room of the ciborium with the incomplete parts of that structure created by Buontalenti for the Medici mausoleum in San Lorenzo. Cicognara 4202; Murray Museums: their history and their use I 241; Schlosser 516. Literature: Florida Forestieri in Galleria: visitatori direttori e custodi agli Uffizi dal 1769 al 1785 Nella stamperia Imperiale, books
2002Best.-Nr. 32554Richmond VA: University of Richmond Museums 2002. Softcover. VG. Pictorial wraps. 71 pp. Numerous color plates. Marsh Art Gallery University of Richmond Museums April 3 to June 29 2002 and Muscarelle Museum of Art College of William and Mary March 30 - May 12 2002. University of Richmond Museums unknown books
1969Best.-Nr. 131940Paris: Reunion des Musees Nationaux 1969. Softcover. VG- ex-museum library with ink stamp on front cover or side. Minor wear and minor age toning to cover. White wraps with color illustration. 52 pp plus plates. 16 BW plates. Text in French. Exhibition at the Orangerie des Tuileries. Catalogue lists 295 works. Reunion des Musees Nationaux unknown books
1969Best.-Nr. 102531969. Softcover. VG one copy with sticker removed from inside back cover & back cover two small black marks on title page small tear at bottom back cover. Color wraps. 114 pp. 5 color 71 bw plates. Includes several fold-out tables. Each picture is annotated. Lists 47 works. Bibliography. unknown books
1792Best.-Nr. 3602Rome:: Presso Lazzarini 1792. FIRST EDITION. Octavo:. 15.5 x 10.8 cm. 4 216 pp. Collation: 2 a-m8 n12 the first leaf 1 is a blank and is present Printed on blue paper. In contemporary mottled calf the spine and boards tooled in gold. A very fine copy of the very rare first catalogue of the Museo Pio-Clementino - founded by Pope Clement XIV in 1771 and greatly expanded his successor by Pius VI- written for the use of visitors by the keeper of the museum Pasquale Massi of Cesena. Rare. The Museo Pio-Clementino was the first major curatorial museum within what are known today collectively as the Vatican Museums. In 1771 Pope Clement XIV had Michelangelo Simonetti adapt the Belvedere Pavilion to accommodate the papal collection of ancient art. When Clement’s successor the avid art collector Pius VI was elevated to the pontificate in 1775 the pace of acquisition increased dramatically and very soon the collections outgrew the rooms arranged for them by Simonetti. In 1776 Pius VI called for a radical restructuring of the existing museum and the construction of new grand spaces to house the ever-expanding collection. Massi’s catalogue a room-by-room guide of the museum with descriptions of all of the artifacts and artworks housed therein is an invaluable record of how the greatly expanded museum of antiquities looked in the late 18th century with its newly constructed series of rooms and the recently installed masterpieces of ancient sculpture -the fruits of some of the most important excavations in Italy including the excavation of Hadrian’s villa at Tivoli. In addition to providing a record of the arrangement of the exhibits Massi’s catalogue in which he provides details of provenance acquisition and attribution of each artwork described serves as a history of the museum’s formation and preserves valuable information about the art trade and the function of archaeology in the late 18th century. Massi has used a system of numbers and letters to indicate which works were added to the museums by Julius II and his various successors above all Clement XIV and the then-current pope Pius VI. In his introduction Massi tells us that he has designed his guide for portability and easy reference by tourists by arranging the descriptions of the objects in each room in the form of a walking itinerary. Since it is necessary at two points to retrace one’s steps Massi’s guide leads us along one side of each room as we proceed through the galleries. When it is time to reverse our course he leads us along the opposite side of the rooms already traversed thus keeping us engaged and entertained as we retrace our steps through the vast complex. Our tour begins at the new entrance to the museum in the corridor of Cleopatra also known as the corridor of the inscriptions just within the new entrance to the museum. We then pass through two vestibules. The first one is square with frescoes by Giovanni da Udine in the vault. In it we encounter the tomb of the Scipios and the Belvedere Torso. The second vestibule is round and in its center is a large bowl made of pavonazzetto. From here we proceed through a corridor into the porticoed octagonal courtyard of the Belvedere the site of Julius II’s first installation of ancient sculpture transformed by Simonetti in the 1770’s. Massi then leads us through the hall of the animals the gallery of statues the gallery of busts and the “loggia scoperta” the room of masks. We make our way back through these galleries to arrive at the series of rooms created by Simonetti in the 1780’s. The first of these is the hall of the muses. We then enter the breathtaking Sala Rotonda with its immense newly installed ancient porphyry basin from the Domus Aurea through which we make our way to the Sala of the Greek Cross where we find the newly installed ancient porphyry sarcophagus of Constantine’s daughter Constantia. From here Massi takes us via Simonetti’s new staircase up past the unfinished hall of the biga to Bramante’s vast gallery of the candelabra which is itself divided into numerous rooms with vases statuary and jewelry. Exiting by the stairs we visit the library and trace our way back through the new wing and via the Belvedere courtyard where we marvel at the Laocoön and the Belvedere Apollo to the cortile the great open court of he complex where our tour ends. Cicognara 3408. I have located 6 copies in the U.S.: Getty UC Riverside USC Cleveland NW Chicago Presso Lazzarini, unknown books
1767Best.-Nr. 3939Paris:: M. Lambert for Briasson 1767. SOLE EDITION. Three tall octavo volumes:. 19.5 x 12.8 cm. Vol I: xxxvi 571 pages.; Vol II: vj 656 pages; Vol III: vi 290 286 1 pp. Collation: I. a-b8 c2 A-Z8 Aa-Mm8 Nn6 plus 22 plates; II. a3 A-Z8 Aa-Ss8; III. a3 A-S8 T4 a-s8 plus 8 plates Bound in contemporary mottled calf spines gilt with morocco labels light wear small imperfections. Internally all three volumes are in excellent condition. All 30 plates are crisp and in fine impressions. First and sole edition of this comprehensive catalogue of the collection of Pedro Francisco Dávila. The Dávila catalog as it has become known describes 8096 mineral specimens that encompass a large range of localities including a suite of specimens from Potosí in Spanish America as well as many items from Canada Mexico and Paraguay. In addition the catalog lists 5253 shells 600 preserved animals 101 plants 3915 fossils 154 bezoars and calculi and 402 books. Over 12000 prints and engravings 1741 original artworks 441 maps as well as various scientific instruments and precious stones are also described. "Pedro Francisco Dávila possessor of the largest collection of natural history specimens in Paris and wishing to establish an institution in Spain to preserve it approached King Carlos III of Spain. But political difficulties and an approaching war with England distracted the king who declined the purchase. Because of debts incurred building the collection creditors forced Dávila to put the accumulation up for auction in Paris. For this purpose a detailed collection catalog was required. Dávila had already written many descriptions but it was his introduction through Balthasar Sage to the young Romé de l'Isle that created this remarkable record of the collection. "Romé de l'Isle took the existing material added considerably to the mineralogical descriptions and put the catalog into publishable form. In this task he was assisted by Abbé Duguat who helped with the mineralogical descriptions and Abbé Gua de Malves 1712-1786 who described the shells. Through their efforts two volumes describing natural history specimens were produced one of which was entirely devoted to minerals. In addition a third volume written by Romé de l'Isle probably with assistance from Pierre Remy describes the fossils artwork and books. The published catalog provides a detailed insight into his collection his special tastes and preferences. The major value of the collection lay in its superb mineral specimens many of which were finely crystallized examples. Romé de l'Isle fully described the many fine mineralogical specimens which included examples of native silver from Norway cassiterite from the Dutch East Indies crocoite from Siberia pyrite from Columbia and calcite from Saxony etc. Dávila had been a collector for over 20 years when his accumulation was auctioned. In that time he or his agents had acquired specimens at other auctions including those that liquidated the collections of Albertus Seba in 1752 the Abbé Joly de Fleury in 1755 Claude Geoffroy in 1753 and others. Dávila's catalog received wide distribution in Paris London Amsterdam Rotterdam and Basle. This helped push the total realized by Dávila to over 800000 Spanish reales more than enough to pay of his creditors and to finance a second collection which he immediately began to build. Within two or three years he had again amassed a sizable collection specializing in minerals and selected with more knowledge and experience than his first collection had been. Once again he dreamed of establishing the cabinet in Madrid. In October 1771 this became reality when King Carlos III agreed to take over his collections with Dávila serving as director for life. This enormous collection eventually passed into the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid where Dávila's specimens are still preserved today."The Mineralogical Record Conlon 67:1238; Nissen ZBI 1050; Sinkankas 1594; Wilson History of Mineral Collecting 1994: 136-40 166 & 209 provides a detailed history of the collections M. Lambert for Briasson, unknown books
1997Best.-Nr. 181454Glasgow: Glasgow Museums 1997. Softcover. VG slight bumping to corners. Illustrated glossy wraps; 32 pages : color illustrations. Exhibition catalogue held May 23 - September 7 1997. Includes bibliographical references. Glasgow Museums unknown books
1980Best.-Nr. 180995Paris: Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux 1980. Softcover. VG/G covers show wear and some foxing on edge of pages. Corners slightly bumped. Illustrated wraps. Approximately 500 pages : illustrations some color. Includes bibliographical references pages 142-147-Includes index. Accompanied exhibition Feb 5-April 1980. Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist most well known for his images of women. Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux unknown books
1974Best.-Nr. 131993Paris: Editions des Musees Nationaux 1974. Softcover. VG. edge-wear to covers & spine edges back cover scuffed. previous owners name to inside cover. Color illustrated wraps. 164 pp. 18 color many BW plates; select color. In French. Catalogue for 1974 Orangerie des Tuileries exhibition. Exhibition held July 19 to October 14 1974. Editions des Musees Nationaux unknown books
