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Stockholm: Tryckeri Aktiebolaget Thule , 1941. This is a near fine hardcover copy of the first edition, not the later reprint, with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out, no previous owner markings. Bound in plain green polished cloth boards with the title in gilt on the spine. This title was issued as Publication 15, Volume VII Archaeology 2, of the Reports from the Scientific Expedition to the North-Western Provinces of China under the Leadership of Dr. Sven Hedin. Introduction by Folke Bergman. Appendix on 'Spinning tools' by G. Montell. Text in English. Glossary. Concordance (list of objects). 15 plates accompany the text, including 1 color plate with 20 pieces on it. Also 3 plates with the appendix. 2 maps. 34 drawings in the text. Bibliography. 12" high X 9" wide, 127 pages. This is a beautiful copy of the superior first edition. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. Hard Cover. Near Fine.
Mémoires concernant l'histoire, les sciences, les arts, les moeurs, les usages, &c. des Chinois: par les Missionaires de Pekin, 14. Tome Quatorzieme. by Amiot, Jean-Joseph-Marie (and others) - 1789
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Mémoires concernant l'histoire, les sciences, les arts, les moeurs, les usages, &c. des Chinois: par les Missionaires de Pekin, 14. Tome Quatorzieme.
by Amiot, Jean-Joseph-Marie (and others)
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Woolen Textiles of the Lou-Lan People
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Chinese Archaic Jades from the Kwan Collection
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Hong Kong: Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hong Kong: Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994. First edition. Very Good/good. A catalogue of the exhibition of Dr. Simon Kwan's collection, illustrated in colour throughout., text in Chinese and English. Now rare. D.j. a bit rubbed,minor crease to lower right corner of cover, interior with some foxing particularly on prelim pages, otherwise crisp, bright and tightly bound. A heavy book, it will incur increased postage charges, please contact us before ordering.
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China for the West: Chinese Porcelain & other Decorative Arts for Export illustrated from the Mottahedeh Collection (TWO VOLUMES)
by Howard, David; and Ayers, John; foreword by Rockefeller, Nelson A.
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Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications by Philip Wilson Publishers Limited, London, 1978 Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover (two hardcover volumes in buckram bound with dust jackets in splicase); 25.6 x 35 cm; 5.243 Kg; 704 pages with 103 colour plates and 100 monochrome illustrations; Used books wih signs of wear, namely on the dust jacket that show minor tears. Interior in very good condition.; This century has brought a growing awareness of the vast scale of Chinese export of decorative arts from the seventeenth century onwards. Until very recently however this subject had been very little studied, overshadowed as it was by the ever-widening perspectives of China's ancient past. It was nevertheless through this trade, and especially its ceramic wares, that the unique artistic creativity of the Chinese first became widely known and appreciated. This book aims to provide the most detailed and penetrating analysis yet made of the porcelains produced for Western markets during…
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Kaishien Gaden: (Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden, Second Collection)
by [Wang Gai]
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Kaishien Gaden (Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden) is an Edo-Era Japanese edition of the very popular Chinese painting guide Jieziyuan Huazhaun by Wang Gai, first published in the Qing Dynasty in China (1701). The manual was reprinted many times from 1748 onwards in Japan.Four volumes from the Second Collection, with drawing instructions and examples for ume plums and kiku chrysanthemums. (Lacks the four volumes on ran orchids and take bamboo.)Vol. 1 Plums: 28pp text, 22 b/w plates; 6pp text, 40 color platesVol. 2 Chrysanthemums: 16pp text, 22 b/w plates; 12pp text, 20 b/w plates The woodblock prints in the plum volume, part 2, are double-page full-color reproductions of botanical art by famous Chinese artists with their seals.Condition: Covers browned and scuffed with some minor worm damage, interior solid and woodcuts mostly clean and bright, but with some browning and worming mostly outside the image.
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A History of Later Chinese Painting 2 Volumes
by Siren, Oswald
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N. Y.: Hacker Art Books, 1978. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Fine but for ownership signature of a prominent Asian scholar, and some light wear to extremities. Covers the period 1350 to 1796. 352 pages of text ans 366 pages of plates. Blue decorated cloth. Packed weight about 4 kilos, so extra postage will be required..
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Woolen Textiles of the Lou-Lan People
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Stockholm: Tryckeri Aktiebolaget Thule , 1941. This is a near fine hardcover copy of the first edition, not the later reprint, with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out, no previous owner markings. Bound in plain green polished cloth boards with the title in gilt on the spine. This title was issued as Publication 15, Volume VII Archaeology 2, of the Reports from the Scientific Expedition to the North-Western Provinces of China under the Leadership of Dr. Sven Hedin. Introduction by Folke Bergman. Appendix on 'Spinning tools' by G. Montell. Text in English. Glossary. Concordance (list of objects). 15 plates accompany the text, including 1 color plate with 20 pieces on it. Also 3 plates with the appendix. 2 maps. 34 drawings in the text. Bibliography. 12" high X 9" wide, 127 pages. This is a beautiful copy of the superior first edition. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. Hard Cover. Near Fine.
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Chinese Archaic Jades from the Kwan Collection
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Hong Kong: Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hong Kong: Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994. First edition. Very Good/good. A catalogue of the exhibition of Dr. Simon Kwan's collection, illustrated in colour throughout., text in Chinese and English. Now rare. D.j. a bit rubbed,minor crease to lower right corner of cover, interior with some foxing particularly on prelim pages, otherwise crisp, bright and tightly bound. A heavy book, it will incur increased postage charges, please contact us before ordering.
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China for the West: Chinese Porcelain & other Decorative Arts for Export illustrated from the Mottahedeh Collection (TWO VOLUMES)
by Howard, David; and Ayers, John; foreword by Rockefeller, Nelson A.
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Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications by Philip Wilson Publishers Limited, London, 1978 Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover (two hardcover volumes in buckram bound with dust jackets in splicase); 25.6 x 35 cm; 5.243 Kg; 704 pages with 103 colour plates and 100 monochrome illustrations; Used books wih signs of wear, namely on the dust jacket that show minor tears. Interior in very good condition.; This century has brought a growing awareness of the vast scale of Chinese export of decorative arts from the seventeenth century onwards. Until very recently however this subject had been very little studied, overshadowed as it was by the ever-widening perspectives of China's ancient past. It was nevertheless through this trade, and especially its ceramic wares, that the unique artistic creativity of the Chinese first became widely known and appreciated. This book aims to provide the most detailed and penetrating analysis yet made of the porcelains produced for Western markets during…
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Kaishien Gaden: (Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden, Second Collection)
by [Wang Gai]
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Kaishien Gaden (Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden) is an Edo-Era Japanese edition of the very popular Chinese painting guide Jieziyuan Huazhaun by Wang Gai, first published in the Qing Dynasty in China (1701). The manual was reprinted many times from 1748 onwards in Japan.Four volumes from the Second Collection, with drawing instructions and examples for ume plums and kiku chrysanthemums. (Lacks the four volumes on ran orchids and take bamboo.)Vol. 1 Plums: 28pp text, 22 b/w plates; 6pp text, 40 color platesVol. 2 Chrysanthemums: 16pp text, 22 b/w plates; 12pp text, 20 b/w plates The woodblock prints in the plum volume, part 2, are double-page full-color reproductions of botanical art by famous Chinese artists with their seals.Condition: Covers browned and scuffed with some minor worm damage, interior solid and woodcuts mostly clean and bright, but with some browning and worming mostly outside the image.
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A History of Later Chinese Painting 2 Volumes
by Siren, Oswald
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N. Y.: Hacker Art Books, 1978. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Fine but for ownership signature of a prominent Asian scholar, and some light wear to extremities. Covers the period 1350 to 1796. 352 pages of text ans 366 pages of plates. Blue decorated cloth. Packed weight about 4 kilos, so extra postage will be required..
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Chinese Paintings
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Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover in slipcase. White cloth boards with bold stamped gilt Chinese characters on front. Text in Chinese and English. Slipcase shows some wear with rubs to orange side, Title spine minor separation of paper cover. Book in Jacket has no flaws. 15 inches tall (slipcase 15 ½ inches). 121 color and b/w prints. The editor is Liu Professor and Deputy President of Xian Art Institute. Artists represented: Yu Jigao, [21 prints] Ye Wei, [23 prints] Gai Maosheng, [23 prints] Li Kuhan, [54 prints] Other publishing information is difficult to determine. I have found that this same ISBN was used for a paperback of the same title but am unsure if it is similar or a different presentation. .
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Painting in the Chinese Manner
by Chang, Shu-Chi
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NY: Viking, 1960. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket. Published NY: Viking, 1960, first printing. 4to., 8 1/2" x 11 1/4", 80pp., illustrated with tipped-in color plates and b/w reproductions. English text by Helen F. Chang. Near fine in very good plus, price-clipped dust jacket with light edgewear and one closed tear. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to.
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Artworld of Chung, Kyung-Yeun
by Chung Kyung-Yeun
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Seoul: Hain Creative Agency, 1992. First Edition, first printing. Softcover in dust jacket. 1992 Lynn City Museum, Massachusetts Exhibition. Published Seoul: Hain Creative Agency, 1992. Oblong folio, 8 3/4" x 12." 106pp., profusely illus. color plates. Artist profile and critcal essays in Korean and English. Dark green card wrappers with black lettering, black art paper end papers. White enamel dust jacket printed in color. Additional three page, stapled 8 1/2" x 11" artist bio from Boston Fine Arts Gallery laid in. Book, dj and bio all pristine, near very fine. Scarce.. 1st. Hard. Very Fine/Very Fine. Folio. Illus.
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Between Two Cultures: Late-Nineteenth- And Twentieth-Century Paintings from the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
by Fong, Wen;Fong, Wen C
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NY/New Haven: Yale Univ Press/Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY/New Haven: Yale Univ Press/Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001. Folio, 9 1/2" x 12 1/8", xiii+286pp., 234pp., including 114 colorplates. Fine, as new in fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. Folio.
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China: Through the Looking Glass
by Andrew Bolton
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A lavish exploration of the evocative and complex fashions inspired by Chinese culture.For centuries, Chinas export artsjade, silks, porcelains, and, more recently, cinemahave fueled Western fantasies of an exotic East and served as enduring sources of inspiration for fashion. This stunning publication, which accompanied one of the most successful exhibitions in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's history, explores the influence of Chinese aesthetics on designers, including Giorgio Armani, Christian Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier, Karl Lagerfeld, Ralph Lauren, Alexander McQueen, and Yves Saint Laurent. Drawing upon Chinese decorative arts, cinema, and costumenotably imperial court robes,… Read More
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The Fan Zeng Paintings (upper and lower volumes)(Chinese Edition)
by Fan Zeng
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People's Fine Arts Publishing House, 2003, Two Volumes, Fine Hardcovers / Fine Dustjackets, 422 pages, 8.5" x 11.5". Chinese Text.
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 204, Number 6 (December 1959) - Special Issue : Red China, The First Ten Years
by Weeks, Edward A. (ed.), Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong), Michael Lindsay, Tao Chu, Ted Hughes, Isak Dinesen, Peter Ustinov, Wolf Mankowitz, et al
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Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Company, 1959. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 176pp, printed wrappers. A Special Issue devoted to China under Mao Zedong, includes poems by Mao and a profile of him, plus other content on Chinese culture and politics. Also a poem by Ted Hughes, a story by Isak Dinesen, and work from other important contributors. Unmarked copy, a bit of general wear and toning, minor closed tearing to covers.
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The Five Famous Imperial Wares of the Song Dynasty
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The Lokapala Hard cover in dust jacket. Published The Lokapala. 4to., 8 3/4" x 11 1/4", 27pp., illustrated with full-color plates. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a short, closed tear. . Hard. Fine/Near Fine. 4to.
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1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir. Signed Book Plus Broadside Print.
by WEIWEI, Ai. Translated by Allan H. Barr
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New York: Crown, 2021. Signed by Ai Weiwei. First edition / First printing. Black paper-covered boards. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket. Includes 8.5" x 18.125" 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows Letterpress Broadside. Requires additional shipping charge to ship book and print in the same box.
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Hidden Meanings in Chinese Art
by Terese Tse Bartholomew
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Hidden Meanings in Chinese Art is richly illustrated with photographs of art objects and original hand-painted drawings by the author and by Mulan Bartholomew, organized in numbered sectors for ease of reference, and enhanced with extensive bilingual indexes and other supporting materials, making it an indispensable reference book for anyone interested in Chinese art and culture.
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