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A Book of Famous and Beautiful Chinese Ladies from all Antiquities [Accordion Book with Hand-Painted Portraits on Silk]

By: N/A

Price: $200.00

Publisher: ., S.N.:

Seller ID: 1854595

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Minor loss from edges of title label on front board. Wooden boards, carved Chinese character within a circle on front board, along with paper title label. A collection of ten color portraits of Chinese ladies handpainted on silk, mounted on sturdier backing paper, and bound in the accordion style popular for such publications of Eastern art. Each portrait captioned with a brief biographical sketch in both Chinese and English. Subjects include: Chang Li Hua; Mu-Lan; Wu Chiang-Hsien; Yang Yu-Huan; Ch'eng I-Nin; An Honorable Maid of the Tang Dynasty; Su Hui; Hua Jui Fu Jen; Hsi Shih; Li-Chuan.
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Forty Etchings on Copper, Reproduced from the Most Noted Examples of Modern Art and Photographs of English Landscapes. Series I [1].

By: N/A

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Red Oak, The Osborne & Murphy Company, Art Publishers:

Seller ID: 2083653

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Boards faintly soiled, front hinge just beginning to weaken, portion of front free endpaper removed, front flyleaf creased. All image pages excellent with no marks, foxing, stains, or toning. Forty half-tone images photographically reproduced from original photographs, and copper plate etchings by various artists. In 1888, two enterprising young men, Edmond Osborne and Thomas D. Murphy, purchased a woodcut of the Montgomery County Courthouse that was under construction at the time. To offset the expense of the woodcut, they decided to sell advertising around the picture and add a calendar pad....
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Looking at Modern Painting

By: N/A

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Eureka Press: 1957

Seller ID: 2202896

Binding: Spiral-Bound Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Faint one inch stain to front wrapper, page corners lightly dog-eared. 1957 Spiral-Bound Softcover. 123 pp. While the chapters which follow are useful for individual study, they were expressly designed for use in informal group discussion. The writers raise issues, examine problems in contemporary art which have caused clashes of ideas, and explore conflicting ways of seeing and thinking. ...The four people who wrote these chapters brought to them four different points of view, and many other views are quoted. CONTENTS: Types of Judgment; The Independence of Form; The Search for the Absolute; ...
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And It Was So

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, The Westminster Press: 1958

Seller ID: 2279017

Binding: Small Softcover

Condition: Good

Wrappers heavily creased, small surface tear on front wrapper. 1958 Small Softcover. 48 pp. An illustrated collection of Bible verses, some of which have been adapted.
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The Art Journal for 1876. New Series. Vol. 2. [Volume Two]

By: N/A

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & Co., Publishers: 1876

Seller ID: 2284776

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Front joint repaired, edges rubbed, frontispiece foxed, ink name on title page. 1876 Half-Leather. vi, 380 pp. Leather spine and corners, gilt titles, blind stamped compartments, marbled endpapers. A collection of steel engravings and representing the work of a wide range of artists, with articles by various contributors.
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On Hokusai's Daily Exorcisms

By: N/A

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Tokyo, The Kokka Publishing Company:

Seller ID: 2291186

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Good

Former library copy - usual marks. Rear board partially broken away from binding. Light stain along edge of softcover supplement. Oblong. 88 prints, hand-numbered in pencil in top right margin, Japanese text introduction, softcover supplement with English intro and table of contents laid in. A collection of artwork by Hokusai, a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. He is especially known for his work, The Great Wave.
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Post, the Saturday Evening Post, December 14, 1963: John F. Kennedy, 1917-63, In Memoriam [Norman Rockwell]

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, The Curtis Publishing Company: 1963

Seller ID: 2296534

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good

A few light creases. No chips. Wrappers intact. 1963 Magazine. 84 pp. COVER: Norman Rockwell portrait of JFK. In Memoriam: A Senseless Tragedy; The New President. CONTENTS: Articles - Hate Knows No Direction (Speaking Out); When the Highest Office Changes Hands, by Dwight D. Eisenhower; The New President: He Ought to Try to Slow Up, Alsop Interviews L. B. J.; The Assassination; Death in Emergency Room No. One; A Eulogy: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, by Arthur M. Schlessinger, Jr.; A Profile in Family Courage; What's Ahead for the G.O.P.?; New Weapon against Muscular Dystrophy; Wacky Search for Gold...
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Yosemite and the Range of Light

By: Adams, Ansel; Brooks, Paul

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Boston, New York Graphic Society: 1979

Seller ID: 2307524

ISBN: 0821207504

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Subscriber's special edition with bookplate signed by Ansel Adams without inscription on front endpaper. Edges and front matter lightly foxed, minor wear to bottom jacket corner. 1979 Large Hardcover. 28 pp., with 9 photographs incorporated into foreword and introduction, and another 107 appearing unpaginated with captions. Yosemite and the Range of Light contains 116 impressive black-and-white prints demonstrating the mastery of Ansel Adams. The book contains poster classics like Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite Valley, 1944, Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite Valley, 1960, and Winter Sunrise, Sierr...
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The Portfolios of Ansel Adams

By: Adams, Ansel; Szarkowski, John

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Boston, New York Graphic Society: 1977

Seller ID: 2306299

ISBN: 0821207237

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Very Good

First printing. Jacket clipped, jacket edges rubbed. 1977 Large Softcover. xii, 124 pp. Ninety prints from the seven limited-edition portfolios of the noted photographer testify to Adams's sustained talent and continuing achievement.
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The Art of the Pitti Palace, with a Short History of the Building of the Palace, and Its Owners, and an Appreciation of Its Treasures

By: Addison, Julia de Wolf

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Boston, L.C. Page & Company: 1904

Seller ID: 2199664

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Early reprint. Spine toned. 1904 Hard Cover. ix, 389 pp. 8vo. Blue-grey cloth, gilt titles, decoration & rules, gilt top page ridge. A survey of the famous gallery which focuses on the Golden Age of painting in Italy.
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Birds

By: Anderson, Walter [Inglis]; Pickard, Mary Anderson

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Jackson, University Press of Mississippi: 1990

Seller ID: 2306197

ISBN: 0878054596

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket spine slightly faded. 1990 Large Hardcover. xxvi, 116 pp. A collection of paintings and designs of birds by American artist and writer Walter Inglis Anderson. Includes an introductory essay by Mary Anderson Pickard, the artist's daughter. A large portion of Pickard's collection of her father's works were damaged or lost during Hurricane Katrina. Here in a volume of great beauty is a collection of Walter Anderson's bird paintings and designs. The colorful array assembled here from the hundreds that he produced conveys the skill, the feelings, and the imagination of this fa...
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John James Audubon: The Birds of America, Christie's New York, September 14 and 15, 1987

By: Audubon, John James

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Christie's: 1987

Seller ID: 2304782

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Spine bumped. 1987 Large Softcover. We have more books available by this author!. Christie's catalog. John James Audubon: The Birds of America, Christie's New York, September 14 and 15, 1987.
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John James Audubon: The Birds of America, Sotheby's New York, January 28 and 29, 1985

By: Audubon, John James

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Sotheby's: 1985

Seller ID: 2304783

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Light smudges on top page. 1985 Large Softcover. We have more books available by this author!. Sotheby's catalog. John James Audubon: The Birds of America, Sotheby's New York, January 28 and 29, 1985.
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Image for The Original Water-Color Paintings by John James Audubon for The Birds of America: 431 Exact Reproductions in Full Color from the Original Collection

The Original Water-Color Paintings by John James Audubon for The Birds of America: 431 Exact Reproductions in Full Color from the Original Collection

By: Audubon, John James; Davidson, Marshall B. (Introduction)

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York / Boston, American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc. / Houghton Mifflin Company: 1966

Seller ID: 2306528

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Includes publisher's slipcase. Minor wear to slipcase corners. Books clean and unmarked with tight, square bindings. 1966 Large Hardcover. 431 plates. Two hardcover volumes in original publisher's slipcase. ABOUT THE ARTIST: John James Audubon (April 26, 1785 January 27, 1851) was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, hunter, and painter. He painted, cataloged, and described the birds of North America in a form far superior to what had gone before. Born in Haiti and raised in France as a youth, in his embrace of America, and his outsize personality and achievements, he represented the ...
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Cote, Sculpteur Sur Bois (Memoires de la Societe Royale du Canada, Troisieme Series - 1942, Tome XXXVI [36]) [Jean-Baptiste Ct]

By: Barbeau, Marius

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Ottawa, Imprime Pour La Societe Royale Du Canada: 1942

Seller ID: 2276905

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

Letter press invitation laid in, reading 'DaLiLa vous prie de venir Manger La Galette des Rois. 6 Janvier 1943, A 9 heures P.M., 260 MacLaren, R.S.V.P.'). This volume was acquired from the personal collection of Julian Street, Jr., whose wife Hella owned quite a few books by Marius Barbeau, several with notes from the author to her, indicating the two were either good friends or colleagues who worked closely together. 1942 Stapled Binding. We have more books available by this author!. 3-11, [1] pp, twelve plates follow text. French text, title translates as Cote the Wood Carver. A brief study ...
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Louis Jobin, Statuaire (1845-1928) (Memoires de la Societe Royale du Canada, Troisieme Series - 1943, Tome XXXVII [37])

By: Barbeau, Marius

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Ottawa, Imprime Pour La Societe Royale Du Canada: 1943

Seller ID: 2276907

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

Inscribed and signed to Hella Sachs by author on front wrapper. This volume was acquired from the personal collection of Julian Street, Jr., Hella's husband. Edges faintly creased. 1943 Stapled Binding. We have more books available by this author!. 17-23, [1] pp. French text. A brief study of the career of a Canadian sculptor. Barbeau, considered the founder of Canadian anthropology, was a Rhodes Scholar and advocate of the preservation and celebration of the traditions of native peoples.
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The World of Robert Bateman

By: Bateman, Robert; Derry, Ramsay

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1985

Seller ID: 2267905

ISBN: 0394546547

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Lightly rubbed. 1985 Large Hardcover. Showcasing his message of environmental protection, this testament to Robert Bateman's important work as an artist and conservationist features early paintings, most of which have never before been collected. Alongside the images, the artist comments on the pictures, offering the reader detailed explanations of how he uses art to relay meaning and beauty from the worlds of nature and wildlife. Also providing the different stages of a painting, from conception to completion, this gorgeous collection shows an artist at work - a rare insight in...
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Louvre: Masterpieces of Italian Painting

By: Bazin, Germain

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Greenwich, Connecticut, New York Graphic Society: 1956

Seller ID: 2199985

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Good

No jacket, boards toned, pages toned. 1956 Large Hardcover. 21 pp. Colored plates follow text. 54 illustrations with 46 in color. A look at Italian paintings found in the Louvre's collection.
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Since Cezanne

By: Bell, Clive

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace & Company: 1928

Seller ID: 2304562

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Former library copy - usual marks. No jacket. 1928 Hard Cover. 230 pp. A collection of essays, Since Czanne was written by Arthur Clive Heward Bell, who was an English Art critic, associated with the Bloomsbury group. Bell was one of the founders of the formalist theory of art. Arthur Clive Heward Bell (16 September 1881 18 September 1964) was an English Art critic, associated with formalism and the Bloomsbury Group. - Wikipedia. CONTENTS: I. Since Cezanne; II. The Artistic Problem; III. The Douanier Rousseau; IV. Cezanne; V. Renoir; VI. Tradition and Movements; VII. Matisse and Picasso; VIII...
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A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape

By: Belloli, Andrea P.A. (Editor)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. / Los Angeles Museum of Art / The Art Institute of Chicago / Reunion des Musees Nationaux: 1984

Seller ID: 2281339

ISBN: 0810908271

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket spine and front edge a bit faded. 1984 Large Hardcover. 375, [1] pp. Released in conjunction with art exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and Galeries Nationales d'Exposition du Grand Palais, Paris. Numerous color reproductions and black-and-white photographs throughout text, featuring the works of Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cezanne, Edouard Manet, Camille Pissaro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Georges Seurat, Vincent Van Gogh, and more.
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The Life of Sir Peter-Paul Rubens

By: Bertram, Anthony

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.: 1928

Seller ID: 2266621

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket, no publisher date (Introduction dated 1928), pencil name on front endpaper, pencil note on rear paste-down endpaper, pages faintly toned. xvi, 238 pp. Sir Peter Paul Rubens (/'ru?b?nz/;[1] Dutch: ['ryb?(n)s]; 28 June 1577 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist. He is considered the most influential artist of Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens' highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history. His unique and immensely popular Baroque style emphasized movement, color, and sensuality, which followed the immediate, dramatic artistic style promoted in t...
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Albert Bierstadt: Painter of the American West

By: Bierstadt, Albert; Hendricks, Gordon

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Harry N. Abrams: 1974

Seller ID: 2306310

ISBN: 081090151X

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Good

First edition. Sticker on front jacket flap. Stain along base. 1974 Large Hardcover. 360 pp. Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 - February 18, 1902) was a German-American painter best known for his large landscapes of the American West. In obtaining the subject matter for these works, Bierstadt joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion. Though not the first artist to record these sites, Bierstadt was the foremost painter of these scenes for the remainder of the 19th century. Bierstadt was part of the Hudson River School, not an institution but rather an informal group of like-minded pai...
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Robert Ryman Art Ed Books and Kit

By: Boris, Janet; [Ryman, Robert]

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Harry N. Abrams: 2001

Seller ID: 2290441

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Complete with publisher's box, still sealed in original plastic wrap. 2001 Large Hardcover. Includes: 24-page full-color book about the artist; 8-page full-color activity book; 5 tubes of nontoxic paint; 5 oil pastels; 10 sheets of art paper; 3 paint brushes; mixing palette; a frame to hang your work. Art Ed invites you to learn about modern art by looking at the lives and works of world-renowned artists. Inside this kit you will find everything you need to make artwork using the approach of Robert Ryman. A full-color book provides a biography of the artist discussing his life and works, with ...
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Philip Pearlstein: The Complete Paintings

By: Bowman, Russell; Kramer, Hilton; Sandler, Irving

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Alpine Fine Arts Collection, Ltd.: 1983

Seller ID: 2306195

ISBN: 093351669X

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Inscribed and signed by Philip Pearlman on front endpaper ('For the Johnsons, Philip Pearlstein'). Tiny spot on top edge. 1983 Large Hardcover. xxxv, [1], 361 pp. A complete collection of the work of the Modernist Realism painter known for his nudes. Philip Pearlstein grew out of Abstract Expressionism to become one of the most important and innovative artists of the contemporary Realist school. Born in 1924, he studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and received his Masters in art history at New York University. Since the early 1960's he has been constantly developing ...
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Leonardo: Discovering the Life of Leonardo da Vinci

By: Bramly, Serge; Reynolds, Sian

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Edward Burlingame / Harper Collins: 1991

Seller ID: 2299290

ISBN: 0060160659

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Book club edition. Edges lightly foxed. 1991 Hard Cover. xvii, 439 pp. First published in France, Serge Bramly's acclaimed biography reveals Leonardo to be as complicated, seductive, and profoundly sympathetic as the figures he painted. Bramly spent five years gathering evidence to reconstruct the artist's life--from his early years as an illegitimate child to his death in the arms of the King of France. Includes color and black-and-white images.
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The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti, Translated into Rhymed English

By: Buonarroti, Michael Angelo [Michelangelo]; Symonds, John Addington

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Lear Publishers: 1948

Seller ID: 2298300

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket edges rubbed with a few small chips and small tears. 1948 Hard Cover. 63 pp. 8 5/8 x 5 3/4. A definitive edition of the seventy-seven sonnets and their alternate readings in the renowned translation with an introduction and notes by John Addington Symonds, and 10 drawings in detail by Michael Angelo. Decorative endpapers.
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Art in Nature: The Clark Inside And Out

By: Cahill, Timothy

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Williamstown, Massachusetts, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute: 2005

Seller ID: 2295924

ISBN: 0931102634

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

A very nice copy. 2005 Large Softcover. 123 pp. Surrounded by 140 acres of expansive lawns, meadows, and walking trails in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute is home to exceptional collections of European and American painting and sculpture, master prints and drawings, English silver and porcelain, and early photographs. Published on the occasion of the Clarks 50th anniversary, this handsome book combines beautiful images with engaging narrative to capture the unique experience of art in nature that has made the Clark one of the countrys best...
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Christmas Treasures

By: Cannarella, Deborah

Price: $20.00

Publisher: ., Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc.: 1998

Seller ID: 2282970

ISBN: 088363838X

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Includes publisher's slipcase. 1998 Large Hardcover. 240 pp. Red cloth, gilt titles, all edges gilt, illustrated slipcase with dark green ribbon pull. A collection of prose, poems, carols, and art related to the virgin birth and the celebration of Christmas. Includes contributions by: St. Luke; Ben Jonson; Henry Van Dyke; John Milton; Nahum Tate; Axel Hambraeus; St. Matthew; William Carlos Williams; Christina Rossetti; Kenneth Grahame; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Robert Louis Stevenson; Charles Dickens; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; O. Henry; Robert Frost; Richard Paul Evans; William Shakespeare; Gr...
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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (One Volume Edition)

By: Cellini, Benvenuto; Symonds, J. Addington

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Roslyn, New York, Black's Reader Service Company: 1927

Seller ID: 2202907

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

No date (circa 1927), No jacket. A very nice copy. 403 pp. The classic autobiography by the Italian Renaissance goldsmith, painter, sculptor, soldier, and musician, still considered the most important memoir of the era.
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Cezanne: Forty Eight Paintings Reproduced in Full Colour

By: Cezanne; Taylor, Basil

Price: $7.00

Publisher: London, Spring Books: 1965

Seller ID: 2276126

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edge wear and small smudge to jacket. 1965 Large Hardcover. Color plates of Cezanne's work with biographical background and artistic appraisal.
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