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By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The Genesee Valley Council On the Arts: 1976
Seller ID: 2275135
Condition: Very Good
Spine and wrappers lightly toned, minor ink underlining. 1976 Soft Cover. 63 pp. Number five in a Series published by the Genesee Valley Coucil of the Arts and the State University College at Geneseo, N.Y. Includes black-and-white illustrations. Art and history of Western New York dating from the 1700s to the 1900s. View more info
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By: N/A
Price: $75.00
Publisher: D. Appleton & Co., Publishers: 1875
Seller ID: 2284775
Condition: Good
Binding repaired, edges rubbed, some tiny tears and minimal loss from fore-edge corner of a few pages, ink name on title page. 1875 Half-Leather. vi, 384 pp. Leather spine and corners, gilt titles, blind stamped compartments, marbled endpapers. A collection of steel engravings and woodcuts representing the work of a wide range of artists, with articles by various contributors. View more info
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By: N/A
Price: $150.00
Publisher: D. Appleton & Co., Publishers: 1876
Seller ID: 2284776
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. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: L.C. Page & Company: 1904
Seller ID: 2199664
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. View more info
By: Bazin, Germain
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York Graphic Society: 1956
Seller ID: 2199985
Condition: Good
No jacket, boards toned, pages toned. 1956 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. 21 pp. Colored plates follow text. 54 illustrations with 46 in color. A look at Italian paintings found in the Louvre's collection.Keywords: LOUVRE FRANCE ITALIAN PAINTING ART ARTISTS View more info
By: Beckford, William [Thomas]; Gemmett, Robert J.
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press: 1971
Seller ID: 2198602
ISBN: 0838676480
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... View more info
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.: 1959
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2199945
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 naïve art styles. For this reason he is thought to have been instrumental in Yugoslavia's departure from the Soviet-style populist and heavily politic... View more info
By: Boardman, John
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Pelican: 1978
Seller ID: 2195636
Condition: Good
Wrappers rubbed. 1978 Trade Paperback. An examination of the oldest artistic artifacts from the Northern Mediterranean. View more info
By: Brown, Walter R.
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Birmingham Museum of Art: 1991
Seller ID: 2198682
ISBN: 0295971304
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.Keywords: STUART LEGACY ENGLISH ART HISTORY View more info
By: Byatt, A.S.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Chatto & Windus: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271605
ISBN: 0701173106
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages very faintly toned. 2001 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. ix, 101 pp. A remarkable, sumptuously illustrated exploration of the links between fiction, writers of fiction and portraits -- by the acclaimed Booker Prize winner. Portraits seem the opposite of fiction, fixed in time and space, not running with the curve of a story or a life. Yet since the birth of the novel, writers have been fascinated by portraits as icons, as motifs, as images of character and evocations of past time. A.S. Byatt delves into the co... View more info
By: Cirici-Pellicer, Alexandre
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Skira: 1965
Seller ID: 2051436
Condition: Near Fine
1 inch jacket tear. 1965 Large Hardcover. Great information on the timeless works of art and architecture that has defined Spanish culture. View more info
By: Cochin, Charles-Nicolas; Michel, Christian
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Ecole Française de Roma: 1991
Seller ID: 2198628
ISBN: 2728302359
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. View more info
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Chronicle Books: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2275622
ISBN: 0811854647
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Jacket edges lightly bumped. 2003 Large Hardcover. 63 pp. Send children on a search for tiny details hidden in full-color reproductions of some of the world's most celebrated works of art. Lift-the-flap keys reveal the solutions to each puzzle and the fascinating stories behind the works that helped art develop throughout the ages. View more info
By: Duclere, Teodoro; Martorell, Luisa; Russo, Mario; Fienga, Andrea
Price: $50.00
Publisher: con-fine edizioni: 2013
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2198627
ISBN: 8896427460
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. Dueler was born and died in Naples, Italy. He was part of the School of Posillipo and was known for his landscape paintings. View more info
By: Eco, Umberto
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Yale University Press: 1988
Edition: 4th Printing
Seller ID: 2290207
ISBN: 0300042078
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. View more info
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Abrams: 1975
Seller ID: 2204858
ISBN: 0810990075
Condition: Very Good
Tiny stain to jacket. 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. View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Abrams: 1975
Seller ID: 2264381
ISBN: 0810990075
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. View more info
By: Freeman, Margaret B.; Rorimer, James J.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: The Cloisters / The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1958
Seller ID: 2195558
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 (1... View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Princeton University Press: 1987
Edition: Third Edition
Seller ID: 2200645
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. View more info
By: Garrett, Wendell D.; Norton, Paul F.; Gowans, Alan; Butler, Joseph T.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York: 1969
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2165558
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. View more info
By: Ginzburg, Ralph
Price: $2.00
Publisher: Ace: 1958
Seller ID: 1538002
Condition: Very Good
Pages lightly toned. 1958 Mass Market Paperback. 115 pp. A survey of erotic art throughout history, based on the explosive Esquire magazine article. View more info
By: Ginzburg, Ralph; Reik, Theodor; Nathan, George Jean
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Helmsman Press: 1958
Seller ID: 2290622
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. View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Harper & Row: 1980
Seller ID: 2281305
ISBN: 0064300951
Condition: Good
Ink underlining. 1980 Trade Paperback. This encyclopedic guide explores the rich and varied meanings of more than 2,000 symbols—from amethyst to Zodiac. View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Paul Hamlyn: 1970
Seller ID: 2278875
ISBN: 060001245X
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. View more info
By: Gump, Richard
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Doubleday: 1980
Edition: 8th Printing
Seller ID: 2282785
ISBN: 0385017057
Condition: Good
8th printing. Ink inscription on endpaper, jacket lightly rubbed. 1980 Hard Cover. A history of the exotic stone, from its natural history through its appearance in culture, including information through the 20th century. View more info
By: Hale, Walter
Price: $25.00
Publisher: The Century Co.: 1916
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2265807
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Title page and frontispiece foxed, a few other pages foxed more lightly, small dealer bookplate on front endpaper. 1916 Hard Cover. xii, [4], 283, [3] pp. 8vo. A firsthand account of World War I France, with notes, drawings, and photographs. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Cambridge: 1986
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2204344
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Light edge wear to jacket. 1986 Large Hardcover. Masterpieces of early Netherlandish painting such as Jan van Eyck's Annunciation, Rogier van der Weyden's Saint George and the Dragon, and Gerard David's Rest 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. View more info
By: Jackson, John
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Gale Research Company: 1969
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2279191
Condition: Very Good
1969 reissue of 1861 second edition, which included a new chapter on contemporary artists by Henry G. Bohn. No jacket, front board slightly bowed, top page ridge and bottom page ride lightly foxed, ink marks on front endpapers. xvi, 664 pp. A Treatise on Wood Engraving: Historical and Practical with Upwards of Three Hundred Illustrations Engraved on Wood, by John Jackson. The Historical Portion by W.A. Chatto. With a New Chapter on the Artists of the Present Day, by Henry G. Bohn, and 145 Additional Wood Engravings. CONTENTS: Antiquity of Engraving; Progress of Wood Engravings; The Invention o... View more info
By: Janson, H.W.; Janson, Anthony F.
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Abrams: 1987
Edition: Third Edition
Seller ID: 2277495
ISBN: 0810910985
Condition: Very Good
Third edition. Light edge wear. 1987 Large Hardcover. For 40 years this widely praised work has remained unsurpassed as an introduction to art in the Western world. And now-with a more contemporary, more colorful design and with 30 percent more color illustrations than in previous editions-this newest update of the Janson classic is an enticing volume. The book features improved sections on ancient art, modern architecture, Mannerism, and Romanticism. Revised material on the late Renaissance reassesses the religious paintings of Rosso, Pontormo, Savoldo, Correggio, and Tintoretto. A primer sec... View more info
By: Kent, Rockwell
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Wise & Co., Inc.: 1939
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2207504
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Boards toned and lightly foxed along edges as usual, jacket edges rubbed with some loss, tape remnants on jacket flaps and endpapers. 1939 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. [iv, 402 pp.] A collection of one hundred color reproductions of famous paintings, all on tipped in glossy paper stock, with brief biographical sketches of the artists and information about each painting. Includes an introduction by Rockwell Kent, who earned fame as a woodcut artist, author, and book illustrator (the edition of Moby Dick bearing his cover design and illustrations ... View more info
