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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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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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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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From the Mouth of the Dark Cave: Commemorative Sculpture of the Late Classic Maya

By: Bassie-Sweet, Karen

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Norman, University of Oklahoma Press: 1991

Seller ID: 2305664

ISBN: 0806123230

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. 1991 Large Hardcover. xv, 287 pp. Argues that scenes found on late classic sculpture represent cave rituals performed by the Mayan elite and discusses the Mayan world view and the role caves played in it.
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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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The Art of Ancient Greece and Rome: From the Rise of Greece to the Fall of Rome

By: Becatti, Giovanni

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc.: 1967

Seller ID: 2297705

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket and endpapers faintly toned. Jacket edges bumped. 1967 Large Hardcover. 441 pp. By a series of cross-sections of Classical civilization at different times, he clarifies the many currents and connections throughout the ancient world during its lengthy history, and expands the theme of Classical art as a unifying force. Greece and Greek influences, East and West; Etruscan and Italic; Rome and Roman influences, East and West--the whole world of Western art is displayed in his text and illustrations, making a vast yet unified picture of the Classical style. ...The work of major sculptors an...
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Dreams, Waking Thoughts and Incidents

By: Beckford, William [Thomas]; Gemmett, Robert J.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Rutherford / Madison / Teaneck, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press: 1971

Seller ID: 2198602

ISBN: 0838676480

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Owner bookplate on front endpaper, jacket lightly rubbed and toned, jacket price clipped. 1971 Hard Cover. 328 pp. 8vo. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Robert J. Gemmett. A travel memoir by the British writer best known for Vathek, a pseudo-Oriental Gothic novel, but also notable for his extensive collection of art (much of which now resides in museums), and his construction of Fonthill Abbey and Lansdown Tower. Practically a verbatim reprint of the suppressed edition of 1783... [published] in 1834 as the first volume of Italy; with some Sketches of Spain and Portugal. The 1783 edit...
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Modern Primitives: Masters of Naive Painting

By: Bihalji-Merin, Oto

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc.: 1959

Seller ID: 2199945

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Cloth boards faintly toned. Large tear across front and rear of jacket, chip to jacket front. 1959 Hard Cover. 290 pp. Oto Bihalji-Merin was an acclaimed Yugoslav and Serbian writer, art historian, painter and art critic. In the aftermath of World War II, when art circles in Yugoslavia were pressured to adopt the socialist realism state-approved policies of the Soviet Union, Bihalji-Merin used his influence to defend modernist and nave art styles. For this reason he is thought to have been instrumental in Yugoslavia's departure from the Soviet-style populist and heavily politica...
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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 Stuart Legacy: English Art 1603-1714

By: Brown, Walter R.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham Museum of Art: 1991

Seller ID: 2198682

ISBN: 0295971304

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Very Good. 1991 Large Softcover. 176 pp. The purpose of this exhibition and catalogue is to take a broad look at the art of the Stuart era and to draw attention to the traditions that it inherited and developed, as well as to the extraordinary innovations and advances that took place during little more than a hundred years from the accession of James I in 1603 to the death of his great-grand-daughter, Queen Anne, in 1714.
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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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Maya: Treasures of an Ancient Civilization

By: Clancy, Flora S.; Coggins, Clemency C.; Culbert, T. Patrick; Gallenkamp, Charles; Harrison, Peter D.; Sabloff, Jeremy A.; Johnson, Regina Elise

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Harry N. Abrams: 1985

Seller ID: 2305363

ISBN: 0810918269

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Top corner faintly bruised. 1985 Large Hardcover. 240 pp. Includes 245 illustrations, 81 plates in full color. Essays on Mayan culture, iconography, sculpture, ceramics, and architecture are accompanied by photographs.
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Civilisation: A Personal View

By: Clark, Kenneth

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1969

Seller ID: 2304594

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Light stain to bottom edge of front jacket panel, general light wear to jacket. Page ridges very lightly foxed. 1969 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. xviii, 359 pp. Numerous photographs & illustrations. The impulses, ideas, discoveries and beliefs which have formed and nurtured Western civilisation since the collapse of the Classical World are most powerfully revealed, and most readily accessible, in its world of art, its buildings, books, and great individuals. That is why in this remarkable volume, in which hundreds of carefully selected illustrations underscore...
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Le Voyage d'Italie de Charles-Nicolas Cochin (1758) (Collection de l'Ecole Francaise de Rome 145)

By: Cochin, Charles-Nicolas; Michel, Christian

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Roma, Ecole Franaise de Roma: 1991

Seller ID: 2198628

ISBN: 2728302359

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1991 Large Hardcover. viii, 510 pp. 57 black-and-white plates. French text. A 1991 facsimile of the 18th century Italian travelogue, originally published in 1758. Edited by Christian Michel. Cochin was a French engraver, designer, writer, and art critic who worked for King Louis XV and traveled with the famous Madame de Pompadour on a study tour of Italy, and later toured the excavations of Herculaneum.
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Sacred Circles: Two Thousand Years of North American Indian Art

By: Coe, Ralph T.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Missouri, Nelson Gallery of Art - Atkins Museum of Fine Arts: 1977

Seller ID: 2305947

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Good

First edition. Surface tear on spine and front wrapper, stain on page ridges. 1977 Large Softcover. x, 252 pp. North American Showing 1977. Exhibition organized by Ralph T. Coe in cooperation with the Arts Council of Great Britain with the support of the British-American associates.
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Inside the Bungalow: America's Arts and Crafts Interior

By: Duchscherer, Paul; Keister, Douglas

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Penguin Studio: 1997

Seller ID: 2306300

ISBN: 067087373X

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First printing. One inch tear along top edge of rear jacket panel. 1997 Large Hardcover. vii, [1], 184 pp. Color photographs and black-and-white floor plans throughout. Shows interior architectural details, furnishings, and built-in features of a variety of Craftsman style houses.
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Teodoro Duclere, 1812-1869: Disegni e Dipinti dell'Italia Meridionale nelle Collezioni Correale (Museo Correale di Terranova)

By: Duclere, Teodoro; Martorell, Luisa; Russo, Mario; Fienga, Andrea

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Sorrento, con-fine edizioni: 2013

Seller ID: 2198627

ISBN: 8896427460

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition - a paperback original. 2013 Large Softcover. 351 pp. Italian text. A history of the artistic works of Teodoro Duclere over a period of nearly sixty years, with over 350 images reproduced from the collection in the Museo Correale di Terranova. Duelerwas born and died in Naples, Italy. He was part of theSchool of Posillipoand was known for his landscape paintings.
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Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages

By: Eco, Umberto

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press: 1988

Seller ID: 2290207

ISBN: 0300042078

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

4th printing. Lightly rubbed. 1988 Trade Paperback. In the first English translation of this authoritative, lively book, the celebrated Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco presents a learned summary of medieval aesthetic ideas. First published twenty years ago and now translated into English for the first time, the book juxtaposes theology and science, poetry and mysticism, in order to explore the relationship that existed between the aesthetic theories and the artistic experience and practice of medieval culture.
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Pleasing the Spirits: A Catalogue of a Collection of American Indian Art

By: Ewing, Douglas C.; Bates, Craig; Brasser, Ted J.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Ghylen Press: 1982

Seller ID: 2292799

ISBN: 1558217932

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Near fine. 1982 Large Hardcover. 401, [3] pp. The study of the native arts of North America is still in its infancy, and it will be many years until a sufficient number of objects is published to permit an overview of this artistic heritage. A principal purpose of this catalogue is to increase the number of objects easily available for study and comparison, and to introduce a large number of exceptional works of art. Pleasing the Spirits is a catalogue of a collection of American Indian art.
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Art Nouveau

By: Fahr-Becker, Gabriele

Price: $20.00

Publisher: ., H. F. Ullmann: 2007

Seller ID: 2307035

ISBN: 383313545X

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Spine head bumped. 2007 Large Softcover. 425 pp. With this volume, Gabriele Fahr-Becker delivers a complex portrait of the Art Nouveau phenomenon in all of its fantastic variety. It features different national variations of Art Nouveau in Scotland, England, France, Germany, Austria, the United States and other countries. It offers a comprehensive portrayal of famous individual artists including Louis Comfort Tiffany, Edward Munch, and Rene Lalique. It contains biographies of the most significant artists, and an extensive glossary. The unity of art and life was the expressed goal of the Art Nou...
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The Art of Walt Disney: New Concise Edition

By: Finch, Christopher

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Abrams: 1975

Seller ID: 2264381

ISBN: 0810990075

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Spine base a bit stained. 1975 Hard Cover. 160 pp. A loving tribute to the world of Walt Disney & his creations, drawing on unprecedented access to the Disney archives, interviews with current & past employees, & previously unpublished art work.
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The Belles Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry, Prince of France, at the Cloisters

By: Freeman, Margaret B.; Rorimer, James J.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Cloisters / The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1958

Seller ID: 2195558

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Includes original slipcase. Book excellent. Slipcase label lightly toned, gift card affixed to front slipcase panel with handwritten note ('a very merry / Christmas to my / favorite teacher / Gretchen Boland'). A few tears and a 1 inch chip along edges of onion skin jacket, with some Japanese tissue repairs on reverse. 1958 Hard Cover. Unpaginated. 8vo. The Belles Heures, from which the ex libris and thirty-two illuminations are here reproduced in facsimile, is one of the celebrated Books of Hours created in the second decade of the fifteenth century for Jean, Duke of Berry, Prince of France (...
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Studies in Connoisseurship: Chinese Paintings from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections in New York, Princeton and Washington, D.C.

By: Fu, Marilyn & Shen

Price: $30.00

Publisher: ., Princeton University Press: 1987

Seller ID: 2200645

ISBN: 0691038929

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

1987 third edition. xvi, 378 pp. A scholarly work of art history focusing on exhibitions of Chinese art that feature 41 works by 24 artists from the 14th to 20th centuries. Color frontispiece, black-and-white reproductions throughout text, with an emphasis on the historical context of the works and their value in artistic study.
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Ironwork, Part II. Being a Continuation of the First Handbook, and Comprising from the Close of the Mediaeval Period to the End of the Eighteenth Century, Excluding English Work

By: Gardner, J. Starkie

Price: $25.00

Publisher: ., Chapman and Hall: 1896

Seller ID: 2299762

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

No jacket. Top edge lightly stained, one plate loose but included, top page ridge and a few pages lightly foxed. 1896 Hard Cover. xvi, 202 pp. With 134 illustrations. CONTENTS: Italian Art Renaissance Ironwork; German Renaissance Ironwork; Renaissance Ironwork in the Netherlands; Spanish Ironwork; Renaissance Ironwork in France; The Baroque and Rococo Periods in France, and Their Influence; Appendix: Alphabetical List of Illustrations of Ironwork Published in France, and in Germany, between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries; Index.
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The Arts in America: The 19th Century

By: Garrett, Wendell D.; Norton, Paul F.; Gowans, Alan; Butler, Joseph T.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1969

Seller ID: 2165558

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Faint wrinkle to jacket spine. Very Good. 1969 Large Hardcover. 412 pp. A study of various artistic disciplines during America's first full century as an independent nation, featuring chapters by four writers with diverse backgrounds related to art history. Bibliography and index follow text.
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An Unhurried View of Erotica

By: Ginzburg, Ralph; Reik, Theodor; Nathan, George Jean

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Helmsman Press: 1958

Seller ID: 2290622

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Collector's edition. Slipcase lightly rubbed, with repair along top slipcase edge. 1958 Hard Cover. A survey of erotic art throughout history, based on the explosive Esquire magazine article.
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Symbolism

By: Goldwater, Robert

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1980

Seller ID: 2281305

ISBN: 0064300951

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Ink underlining. 1980 Trade Paperback. This encyclopedic guide explores the rich and varied meanings of more than 2,000 symbolsfrom amethyst to Zodiac.
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The French Empire Style

By: Gonzalez-Palacios, Alvar

Price: $7.00

Publisher: London, Paul Hamlyn: 1970

Seller ID: 2278875

ISBN: 060001245X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Lightly rubbed, small wrinkle to endpaper. 1970 Hard Cover. Full-color photographs and historical information on the art of the Empire period of French history.
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1975 New York Art Deco Exposition at Radio City Music Hall, January 28, 29, 30, 31, February 1 & 2: Catalogue

By: Greenberg, Cara

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Big Apple Events, Inc.: 1975

Seller ID: 2303868

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

Ink name on title page, minor ink marks on exhibitor list pages. Faint stain and minimal wear to top corner. 1975 Stapled Binding. [64 pp.] A catalog of an important exhibitor of Art Deco pieces by several dozen dealers, most specializing in this area. Black-and-white photographs throughout. A catalogue of the exhibits at the Art Deco Exposition held at Radio City Music Hall, January & February of 1975. Catalogue includes exhibits of Medallions, Illumination, Clocks (March of Time), Furniture, Bronzes & Metals, Ceramics, Silver, Glass, Smoke, Chrome, Jewelry, Design for Reading, Paintings, Lou...
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Early Netherlandish Painting

By: Hand, John Oliver

Price: $15.00

Publisher: ., Cambridge: 1986

Seller ID: 2204344

ISBN: 0521340160

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Light edge wear to jacket. 1986 Large Hardcover. Masterpieces of early Netherlandish painting such as Jan van Eyck'sAnnunciation, Rogier van der Weyden'sSaint George and the Dragon, and Gerard David'sRest on the Flight into Egypt--among the greatest examples of northern Renaissance panel painting in North America--are included in this volume. The social, economic, and religious contexts of the paintings are explored, and questions of attribution and iconography are addressed.
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