THE GREAT CENTURIES OF PAINTING: THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: CARAVAGGIO TO VERMEER XVII Century
by Dupont, Jacques and Francois Mathey
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Near Fine with no dust jacket
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NY: Skira. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1951. First American Edition. 1. Hard Cover. Hardcover without dust jacket (as issued). Publisher's full green cloth, gilt lettering on spine and cover. Small Folio. 135, (1) pp. Illustrated with 64 high-quality, tipped-in, color plates. Translated by S.J.C. Harrison. Both the text and the color plates were printed by the Imprimerie La Concorde in Switzerland. The volume is in excellent, unmarked condition, the covers are very lightly shelf-worn, else Fine+. NEAR FINE. This is a volume in the series The Great Centuries of Painting, conceived, planned and directed by Albert Skira. This volume includes Caravaggio, Saraceni, Ter Brugghen, Ribera, La Tour, Velazquez, Le Nain, Champaigne, Franz Hals, Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyck, Poussin, Claude, Baschenis, Baugin, Zubaran, Van Streeck, Seghers, Vermeer, Ruisdael and Hobbema. Includes Biographical and Bibliographical Notices; and Index.. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall .
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- Round Table Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4814
- Title
- THE GREAT CENTURIES OF PAINTING: THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: CARAVAGGIO TO VERMEER XVII Century
- Author
- Dupont, Jacques and Francois Mathey
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition. 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Skira
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- Art;, Art History, Painting, Xviith Century
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