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L'Assiette Au Beurre -- Les Anglais Chez Nous No 92 -- 3 January 1903
by Beurre, Paris L'Assiette Au
American Painting History and Interpretation
by Barker, Virgil
New York: Bonanza Books. No Date, circa 1950. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Light wear to dustjacket edges and corners and spine faded. Illustrated with Black and White plates. Previous owner's blindstamp to half-title page. 717 pages. A scholarly and comprehensive work. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Hardback.
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£23.79
The Pocket Gallery of Art : Mothers
by Howarth, Eva
London: Garamond. 1990. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near fine condition in pictorial laminated boards in a Very Good Dustjacket. Dustjacket now protected in our purpose made plastic sleeve. Full page colour reproductions. Gift inscription to preliminary pages. Unpaginated.. Portraits of mothers arranged chronologically, showing how painters have approached this subject. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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£9.51
Paris: Capital of the Arts-1900-1968
by Sarah Wilson, Nicholas Hewitt, Galdys Fabre, Et Alia
Royal Academy publication to accompany exhibition. Fully illustrated and with a year by year timeline by Kathleen Brunner. Laid in Gallery Guide included. 448 pages, softcover with gatefold flaps, no marks, slightest wear noticeable on matte blue back cover. Striking oversized work.
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£24.00
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE 1922-1927. 10 Volumes, 60 magazine issues
by Howard V. Brown (Illustrator), Orson Desaix Munn II (Editor)
[HOWARD VACHEL BROWN]. SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE. Munn & Co., New York, 1922-1927. 60 magazine issues professionally bound in 10 volume books with cover art work on most issues by the famous Science Fiction pulp artist Howard V. Brown. First Edition (s). Three-quarter black Morocco and cloth covered boards. Titles and volumes in gilt on spine. Vol. 126-133 (1922-1925 complete set) Vol. 135/136 (July-Dec. 1926, Jan-June 1927). Condition: Fine / Near Fine. Appears unread, pages are clean, bright and...
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£1,456.74
Islamic Art (Revised Edition)
by Rice, David Talbot
London: Thames and Hudson. 1979. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with colour and black & white photographs as well as diagrams. 288 pages. Part of the 'World of Art' series. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Reprint of Revised Edition. Softcover.
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£7.93
The Age of Rubens and Rembrandt: Old Master Prints from the Art Gallery of South Australia. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
by Robinson, Julie
Adelaide: Art Gallery Board of South Australia. 1993. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Full page black & white reproductions. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 87 pages. The informative and well illustrated catalogue of the 1994 exhibition. . 1st Edition. Card Covers.
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£18.50
Catalogue of The Mr and Mrs Jack R Dick Collection of English Sporting and Conversation Paintings Part Two
by Sotheby & Co
New York: Sotheby & Co. 1974. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition. No dustjacket. Illustrated with colour and black & white reproductions. 109 pages. Part 2 of items for sale in the auction on 26 June 1974. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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£9.51
The Age of Sultan Suleyman The Magnificent
by Veinstein, Gilles; Bittar, Therese; Kalus, Ludvik; Taylor,Marthe Bernus
Sydney: of Australia Limited. 1990. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Foreword by James Leslie and Preface by Edmund Capon. 144 pages. The beautifully illustrated catalogue of the Exhibition of the same name, presented in association with the Turkish Government for the 75th anniversary of Gallipoli. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Softcover.
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£10.57
Victorian Olympus
by Gaunt, William
London: Jonathan Cape. 1975. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with colour plates. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 176 pages.. . Revised Edition. Hardback.
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£6.34
The Rediscovery of Greece. Travellers and Painters of The Romantic Era
by Tsigakou, Fani-Maria
New Rochelle, NY: Caratzas Brothers, Publishers. 1981. Quarto Size [approx 23x27cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with colour and black & white reproductions. Introduction by Sir Steven Runciman. 208 pages. A recreation of the reality of the myth of Greece as perceived, reflected and shaped by artists, architects, archaeologists and writers from England, France, Germany and Italy in the nineteenth...
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£15.86
![Catalogue of the important collection of objects of art, antiquities, armour and arms formed by S.E. Kennedy who is giving up his residence 24 Upper Brook St W. [ Christie, Manson & Woods, auction catalogue, sale date: 18 March 1918 ]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/334/072/1402072334.0.b.jpg)
Catalogue of the important collection of objects of art, antiquities, armour and arms formed by S.E. Kennedy who is giving up his residence 24 Upper Brook St W. [ Christie, Manson & Woods, auction catalogue, sale date: 18 March 1918 ]
by Christie, Manson & Woods
Christie, Manson & Woods, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 18th March 1918. Printed boards, 8vo, 27 cm,. 91 pp, 15 plates. 713 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: Boards heavily browned at edges and a little edgeworn, contents Good.
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£42.08
Sloan's Constructive Architecture; A Guide to the Practical Builder and Mechanic. In Which Is Contained A Series Of Designs For Domes, Roofs And Spires, etc..
by Sloan, Samuel
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1866. Second edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's cloth with front cover gilt decoration bright and clean. Very good. 148 pages. 30 x 24 cm. Sixty-six plates, most of which are colored lithographs, and one, a large fold-out [uncolored]. Glossary. Geometrical Definitions. The second edition is identical to the first, published in 1859. KARPEL B295. "Before this work appeared in 1859, the standards for carpentry and building construction were largely set by foreign...
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£505.81
Le premier Livre des Cachets, Marques et monogrammes dessine's
by Auriol,George
2 volumes.
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£202.33
William Blake (World of Art)
by Kathleen Raine
216 pages. By leading Blake scholar and critic, Kathleen Raine. 156 Plates, 28 in colour. First edition, paperback. In wonderful condition, neat owner inscription on half-title, otherwise unmarked. In very good condition.
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£10.00
Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford 1: German, Dutch, Flemish, French and Spanish Schools
by Pacht, Otto; Alexander, J.J.G
Oxford: Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press, 1969 2021-04-05. Reprint Ed.. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1969 reprint, 108p. + plates. Sound binding, bright interior, light bowing to boards, bowing to edges of pages. DJ worn/clipped. Well packaged in a box, ships with tracking.
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£60.70
Kandinsky: the Path to Abstraction
by Hartwig Fischer (Editor), Sean Rainbird (Editor)
Art book published by Tate Gallery for exhibition in 2006. 224 pages, beautiful. Near fine first edition hardcover book in near fine jacket. Heavy, may need extra shipping.
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£30.00
Correspondence of Isabella Stewart Gardner at the Gardner Museum
Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1973 2023-01-29. First Edition. Paperback. Fine . A checklist of persons who wrote to Isabella Stewart Gardner (and John Lowell Gardner jr. - marked with an asterisk) compiled from the museum's archives." 12 pp., tall slim 8vo. pamphlet, rear wrap folds out with gallery layouts of displayed correspondence. ; Bright, sharp copy with no ownership markings. ; Well packaged in a box, ships with tracking.
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£24.28
The Domestic Architect: Comprising A Series Of Original Designs For Rural And Ornamental Cottages, With Full And Complete Explanations And Directions To The Builder, etc..
by Smith, Oliver P
New York: Phinney & Co., Buffalo, 1854. Second edition. Hardcover. Contemporary full red morocco front cover decorated and lettered in gilt. Very good. 123 pages. 27.5 x 22 cm. Forty two plates. Plates and text generally clean, wide text margins. Glossary of Technical Terms. The author attacks the conventional architecture of the day. Lacks free front endpaper, rubbing to backstrip head. HITCHCOCK 1221.
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£526.04
Hermitage and Tretiakov: Master Drawings and Watercolours
by Nemirovskaya, M.A. (Catalogue)301629; Zhukova, E.M. (ArtistBiographies)
Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria. 1978. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition. Card Covers. Colour and black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 199pages.. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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£7.93
Joan Miro: The Ladder of Escape
by Gale, Matthew; Malet, Rosa Maria; Serota, Nicolas
Miro! To accompany 2011 exhibition that started at the Tate Modern. First edition hardback in dust jacket, all in near fine condition. Oversize, 240 pages.
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£50.00
A list of portraits painted by Ethan Allen Greenwood : Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society for April 1946
by Marianne Bartholomew
Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1947 2023-01-18. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Compiled by Marianne Bartholomew from the painter's diary subsequently destroyed". 8vo., green wraps, 27 pp. : Firm binding, bumped along edges, crease to bottom fore-edge corner, name in pen on front wrap, light notations in margins. ; Well packaged in a box, ships with tracking.
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£36.42
Van Dyck & Britain
by Hearn, Karen
Published for Tate Exhibition, 256 pages, heavy. Softcover first edition in very good condition.
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£18.00
Monet: The Seine and the Sea
by Richard Thomson
Published to accompany exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy, a catalogue of the works shown with articles by Richard Thompson and Michael Clark plus a chronology. 176 pages, colour illustrations. 24 x 30cm, oversize. In near fine condition.
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£10.00
British prints : dictionary and price guide
by Mackenzie, Ian
Woodbridge, Suffolk : Antique Collectors' Club, 1988. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 359 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm. Subjects; Prints, British ; Catalogs. Printmakers Great Britain ; Biography ; Dictionaries.
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£27.19
An Invitation to See 125 Paintings from the Museum of Modern Art
by Franc, Helen M. (Introduction and Comments by)
New York: The Museum of Modern Art. 1974. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with colour plates. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 159 pages. . 2nd Printing. Hardback.
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£9.51
