Search Results: Exhibitions & Museum Collections from Bird's Books

Aberdeen: Aberdeen Art Gallery, 1968. First edition. Softcover. Very Good. 4to, illustrated card covers, 112pp. Colour frontispiece, 46 black & white pictures of items in the collection & 2 plans. Text on blue paper. A little edge wear to the spine, excellent condition inside.

London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1969. First edition. Softcover. Very Good. Slim 8vo, illustrated card covers. 51pp with coloured frontis 25 other plates, 12 figures throughout text. Generally very good, inner book is in excellent condition.

London : British Museum, 1973. First edition. Paperback. Very Good +. Yellow pictorial cover, British Museum publication. 47pp illustrated with pictures and figures throughout text. Contents include aspects of daily life and subsistence, religion and social life, trade and exchange, art etc.

Yale University Library, 1974. Softcover. Very good. 4to, illustrated card covers. 111pp, frontis and illustrated by 44 plates. Previous owner’s name on front endpaper.

Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1970. First edition. Softcover. Very Good. Illustrated card covers, 170pp with 130 illustrations from the extensive and varied collection.

4to, 196pp profusely illustrated with photographs of sculptures. 123 colour illustrations, 62 back and white photographs, map and references. Near fine inside with a little edge wear to corners. Dust jacket in very good condition, suitable as a gift copy. This presents art objects of exceptional aesthetic quality and discusses how we view them and the relationship with the creators.

London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1966. First edition. Softcover. Very Good. Slim 8vo, illustrated card covers. 31pp with coloured frontis, monochrome map of Sicily and a further 16 full page plates of the coins at the rear. Card covers are slightly discoloured, inner book is in excellent condition.

London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very Good. Hockney. 4to, dust jacket with portrait of Hockney on front over black cloth boards. 100pp illustrated throughout. Exhibition catalogue from a showing held at Whitechapel Gallery, London in 1970. Includes an interview with Hockney by Mark Glazebrook, also biographic note, list of exhibitions and selected bibliography. Slight chipping to edge of dustjacket, generally very good.

London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1955. Softcover. Very Good. 8vo tan paper boards with red titles on front and spine. Some light shelfwear, inner book is in very good condition +. 114pp illustrated with 48 plates.

Printed By Order Of The Trustees Of The British Museum, London, 1899. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Poor. Approx. 17.5'' tall, quarter leather binding in poor condition, front & rear board separated. 30 facsimiles with accompanying description. Includes various monarchs, scientists, philosophers & writers. Henry VIII, John Knox, John Milton, Handel, Elizabeth Barrett Browning etc. Inner book is in good to very good condition. Ex reference library with some of the usual treatments. ***Heavy & will require extra overseas postage***

London: HMSO, 1951. Softcover. Very Good +. Small 8vo, sunshine yellow illustrated card covers, 129pp illustrated with a map of central London and items from the various museums and galleries. Also line drawing of the frontages of the institutions. An attractive vintage book. Several pages of vintage adverts to front and rear.

London: Marlborough Fine Art (London) Ltd, 1972. First edition. Softcover. Very good . Exhibition catalogue profusely illustrated in colour and b/w, with pictorial card covers. 30pp.

London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1966. First edition. Softcover. Very Good. Slim 8vo, illustrated card covers. 32pp with coloured frontis and a further 16 full page monochrome plates. Card covers are slightly discoloured, inner book is in excellent condition. A study what is commonly believed to be the earliest cast medal of the Italian Renaissance and its role and impact upon contemporary art.

Edinburgh: HMSO, 1937. First edition. Softcover. Very Good. 8vo, 158pp plus adverts. Illustrated with frontis and 14 other figures / plans throughout the text. This includes a historical sketch as well as a description and guide.

Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1950. First edition. Softcover. Very Good. 4to, illustrated card covers and endpapers. Covers slightly age toned. 40 pp, 124 illustrated & catalogued works. The prints are in a variety of styles / eras / artists (Picasso, Gaugin, Ensor, Goya, Delacroix, Rembrant, Callot, Leyden, Hirschvogel etc.) and beautifully pictured.

Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1946. Softcover. 4to, illustrated card covers and endpapers. Covers slightly age toned. 142 pp, each work is illustrated by a full page plate with facing text. The prints are in a variety of styles / eras / artists (Munch, Nanteuil, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rembrant, Rounault, Redon, Blake, Manet, Klee, Ward etc.) and beautifully pictured.

St Andrews: St Andrews University, 1955. Softcover. Good +. Slim 8vo, blue card covers with tipped in photograph on front. 58pp illustrated with black and white plates. Some shelf wear, generally excellent inside.

Prestel, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Folio, 100pp, profusely illustrated. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth boards. Small nick to the spine, otherwise the book would be in near fine condition. Dust jacket has a couple of tears on the spine. ‘A retrospective volume of Susan Rothenberg's work, this addresses the progression of the artist’s unique methods and themes. Full-colour illustrations and foldouts of Rothenberg's best-known early works as well as exciting new paintings afford readers the chance to observe the evolution of the artist’s career. From her earliest horse paintings through her spinning figures of the 1980s and early 1990s to her most recent series of paintings of dismembered puppets.’

National Gallery of Australia, 1996. Softcover. Very good . Folio, 240pp, beautifully illustrated with Turner's work. J. M. W. Turner painted some of the most exciting and best-loved images in all Western art; this volume includes magnificent reproductions of oil paintings and watercolors from throughout his career, with contributions by Andrew Wilton, Evelyn Joll, David Blayney Brown, John Gage, Irena Zdanowicz, Margaret Plant, John Golding, and Andrew Sayers.