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This important art history covers the major Japanese art forms in great detail, supported with lavish plates, illustrating 116 individual items in color and hundreds in black & white. With copious index to artists, subjects, techniques & a host of others. Some major areas covered are drawing, painting, engraving, printing, embroidery, textile, fabrics, lacquer, incrusted, metal work, sword fittings, cloisonne enanmel, modelling and carving, sculpture, heraldry & Japanese woodblock prints. This grand work has been hailed as the most beautiful art book of the late 19th century. $4,552.00
Volume One - India & Nepal 655 pages with 766 illustrations (749 colour, 17 half-tone); bound with slip-case Volume Two - Tibet & China 675 pages with 987 illustrations (949 colour, 38 half-tone); bound with slip-case includes maps, glossary, bibliography, chronological tables and extensive index [limited & numbered edition] Unsuspected by the outside world, the dark chapels and storerooms of Tibet's temples and monasteries continue to shelter a vast number of ancient Buddhist sculptures in a diversity of styles hitherto unimagined. Until now, these Tibetan monastic collections have remained almost entirely unpublished. As demonstrated by the material that has come out of Tibet in the last fifty years, these institutions served as depositories not only of sculptures manufactured on the plateau, but encompass images from every region of the Himalayas, including Nepal, in addition to North-Western and North-Eastern India, and China. $1,450.00
Technological Museum, 1915 Crown 4to. [2 (1 blank)], viii, [9] - 84 [2] pages. 29 coloured plates and illustrations, 39 black & white illustrations, head and tail pieces, half-title vignette. Original light tan cloth, spine lettered in gilt, upper lettered in gilt, decorated in gilt and blind, patterned endpapers. Many of the illustrations are those of Lucien Henry, a fiery and engaging personality (once reprieved from a death sentence in his native France), who had an intense interest in Australian flora, particularly the waratah. Together with Baker, the author of many standard works on Australian timbers, they highlight the artistic potential of Australian flora in applied art. A pristine copy. $532.63
A guide to collecting and pricing, from the origin of American art collecting. Grouped by artist, with example(s) of painting, with bar-charts showing price performance, and record prices paid. Over 820 artists, more than 1020 color plates, 40,000 auction sales transactions analyzed, and biographical sketch on each artist. Glossary. Biblio. Index. $360.00
University Of California Press, 1979 Hard Cover. As New/Fine. First Edition. 276 pp, 11 ¼" x 8 ¾", dust jacket protected by mylar sleeve. This is an exceptional copy of this scarce title, the only flaw being that the price is clipped. This book was published in conjunction with a major traveling exhibition of the same name which was held at the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery in Los Angeles in the late 70's. The book contains many color and b/w photographs of the items included in the exhibtion, along with stills from the various dance videos and essays on various aspects of the exhibition. $120.00 |
University of Toronto Press Toronto 1966 4to, 443 pages, illustrated. Edition limited to 150 copies, this copy in a unique deluxe pictorial binding by Vianney Belanger of Montreal. Bound in sea-green oasis with orange, blue, red, black and brown onlays depicting a painter's palette with crossed paintbrushes; six-panel spine decorated with multi-color onlays; black paintbrush motif onlays at corners of turn-ins, which are scored in gilt; hand-dyed endleaves; gauffered edges brightly gilt. Felt-lined marbled slipcase. Inscribed by the binder to the Canadian bibliophile Lawrence M. Lande as "specially bound" for him. Inscribed by the author to Lande. Spine somewhat discolored. $1,200.00
Delhi, India: B. R. Publishing Corp. & Indian Society of Oriental Art, 1985 Cloth in DJ with Pastedown. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Thus. Periodical. 4to. Each volume approximately 106pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w, including many tipped-in plates with vellum overlays. Text in English. This exquisite set of eleven volumes reproduces in full all forty-four issues of this highly important scholarly journal devoted to the arts of the Indian Subcontinent, Himalayas, China & Islam. Originally published between January 1920 and October 1930 (in English), subjects of discourse from only the first volume include the craftsmanship of Konark, Kangra miniatures, Mughal painting, the Ajanta Frescoes, South Indian temple architecture, Buddhist sculpture, as well as Chinese, Tibetan and Persian arts .$850.00
Nantucket Historical Association Nantucket, MA 1982 xvi, 269 pp, 266 ill., many color. Introduction by Stuart Feld. Lists of Nantucket Artists, List of Illustrations by Artist, Bibliography, Index of Artists, Index of Titles, General index. Number 1967 of a limited edition of 2000. Near fine in dust jacket. $150.00
Tata Steel, 1988 Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. 14 ½" x 12 ½", 336 pp, copy is in near-mint condition in good condition heavy printed slipcase, dust jacket is protected by a mylar sleeve, profusely illustrated with colorplates, very scarce. This is the definitive monograph on the life and art of the great Indian artist Maqbool Husain. Note that this is an oversized folio and you should email us regarding the shipping options before ordering. $1,200.00
Toronto Macmillan Company of Canada 1926. First edition. Papercovered boards. Hinges cracked, and edges of the boards well-worn, a fair only copy lacking the dustwrapper. Tipped to verso of the half-title is an original photogravure of the Group of Seven at the A.S.L. Club, neatly identifying the members in pencil along the outside of the margins of the photo. First edition. $275.00
Arts Council of Great Britain, 1979- Exhibition catalogue. 270x210mm 320 pages with index. Illustrated mainly in black and white, some color. Softback. Very good indeed. A superbly researched and lavishly illustrated important catalogue documenting British Art & Design before the World War II. This was published to accompany the major exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, 25 October 1979 - 13 January 1980. Seminal reference work for collectors and historians of this creative period in British art and design. $105.91 |
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