Michael Beurdeley (30 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued. First Edition. Hardcover, tan pictorial cloth win original publisher's card slipcase. 608pp., Glossary. Profusely illustrated throughout. First edition in English, translated by Elizabeth and Richard Bartlett. Includes chapters on India-Pakistan-Afghanistan-Bangladesh; Nepal; Tibet; Sri Lanka; Burma; Thailand; Loas; Cambodia; Indonesia; Champa; Vietnam; China; Korea; Japan. Small retail price stickers from the Strand Bookstore affixed inside front over and to side of slipcase. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy As new in a very good+ slipcase. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Second Printing. Tape shadows and previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, in edgeworn price-clipped dust jacket (in protector) ; Maroon cloth hardback. xii+220 pp. Color tipped in photos, B&W in-text illustrations. Appendix. History of porcelain exported from China; 4to; xii + 221 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. Second edition. 219 pages. Profusely illustrated. Fine condition in dust jacket that has edgewear, some chipping and a tape repair. In the original slipcase that has yellowing and title written in ink on spine. (H6).

Hard Back/Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Reprint. 608 pages including glossary. White laminated boards, black & orange titles to spine. Very light wear to spine-ends with one slight scuff. Very light wear to corners with one slight knock. Excellent detailed b/w drawings/diagrams throughout. Text is spotless. Very nice condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good +. 9 x 12 in. Paper boards. Color plates. Condition is NEAR FINE ; like near new on all points. DJ is VERY GOOD+ ; very clean, minor edge wear. Extra shipping may apply. Art. RGR.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. xii, 220p. A near fine copy, in a worn and torn d.j. Size: 4to - over 9 3/4" - 12" Tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. Reprint. First edition thus. A reprint; first published in 1969 in French under the title, Jeux des nuages et de la pluie. L'art d'aimer en Chine. Copyright 1969 by Office du Livre S.A., Fribourg, Switzerland. Translated from the French by Diana Imber. Printed and bound in Hong Kong. Approx. 13.25 x 10 inches. Tan buckram hardboards, with crisp black-stamped titling. Generally unbumped spine head and tail, and sharp corners. Exceptionally clean binding. Text block firmly bound in and quite tight, though with moderate page waviness. With xiii and 215 numbered pages on coated stock. All pages clean and crisp. Text includes Notes on Taoism and Sexuality; the Story of Ts'ui Ying-ying; Sung and Yuan Poems; and more. With 28 color plates and 103 B&W illustrations, some full-page and many fairly graphic. The color pictorial dust jacket with a bit of waviness along the top and bottom edges. A Very Good Plus copy in a Very Good Plus DJ. 3 lbs. 5 oz. In China, as elsewhere, love is no trivial matter. An abundant body of erotic literature proves that the Chinese were masters of the first of the arts, that of the "alcove" or the "bedroom," to use the expression favored by Chinese encyclopedists. The art of love in China, according to Chinese authors, is therefore what this collective of writers sought to convey through this magnificent work. En Chine, comme ailleurs, l'amour n'est pas une bagatelle. Une abondante littérature érotique prouve que les chinois étaient maîtres dans le premier des Arts, celui de l'"Alcôve" ou de la "Chambre à coucher", suivant l'expression consacrée des encyclopédistes chinois. L'art d'aimer en Chine d'après les auteurs chinois est donc ce qu'a voulu transmettre ce collectif à travers ce magnifique ouvrage.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Good plus condition oversize hardcover with good minus condition dust jacket. Dust jacket has some small tears on edges. 215 pages. 28 colour plates plus other black and white illustrations. Extra shipping charge required for priority or International shipping.

Condition: Very good. - Quarto, gilt paper covered boards titled in black on the spine, in a pictorial dust wrapper. There is a very small area of rubbing to the front cover. The dust jacket is very slightly soiled. 275 & [1] pages. Profusely illustrated in color & black & white. Near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First Edition. 288 pages. No dustjacket. Hardback binding has beige cloth covers with bronzing to edges especially to the front, and a few small marks and stains, mainly to the rear, slight blotches to spine. Page-edgess show light usage marks. Colour and B&W illustrations. Pages clean, sound and in nice condition.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Book is in Good condition with a tight spine and some wear to outside boards. 288pp. Colour and B/w illustrations.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with just light wear. The jacket is a little chipped at the top of the spine, and has some creasing to the back panel edges. Very clean inside and out. Text in German. 24 color plates + 117 black & white photogravure illustrations + 184 black & white photographs in the Catalogue. 12" high X 10" wide, 283 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Printing. This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. This is the 2nd printing. Long a standard work in the field, still one of the best surveys of the full range of Chinese furniture. Chronology. Glossary. Dynasty marks. Bibliography. 237 black & white illustrations, including many color plates. 11" high X 10" wide, 199 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Printing. Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1969. 220 pages; 24 color plates; 100 b&w illustrations; appendix catalogue of 244 items illustrated in b&w thumbnail with text descriptions; chronological table; bibliography; index. A comprehensive book of the trade, manufacture and design of the porcelain. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine. Second Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: good plus. Second Printing. Quarto; xii, 219 pages, cloth, inked name; dj torn at head of spine and front tips; publisher's stapled slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Copyright 1969. 215 pp. Solidly bound copy and dust jacket with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Light foxing on page edges, not affecting text. Dust jacket shows extensive wear and rips along the front and back.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Folio Size, Hardback with Clipped Dust Jacket and Original Slip Case. 210 Pages. Numerous Illustrations. Few Light Marks to Front End Papers & Slip Case. Overall A Very Good Plus Copy in Likewise dust Jacket. Heavy Book. Extra postage costs will apply to overseas orders. All books posted in sturdy book box.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First edition. Oblong 4to. Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian painter, Jesuit missionary, arrived in China in 1715 and passed his life at the Court of the Emperors K'ang-hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch'ien-lung. There he became pre-eminent among a group of European missionary-court painters who combined the propagation of the Christian faith (in the face of daunting difficulties) with professional dedication to the artistic commissions of the Emperors. Although trained as a Jesuit, Castiglione was an artist of high accomplishment and in the course of his long stay in Peking (he died there in 1766) he managed to achieve a remarkable synthesis between the traditions and techniques of European painting and those of Chinese painting. He excelled in religious painting, was famous as a portraitist and genre painter, and his paintings of animals, flowers and landscapes earned him an unprecedented honour--first painter at the Court of the Emperor K'ang-hsi. This book provides a catalogue raisonne of the work of Castiglione (called by the Chinese Lang Shih-ning) as well as an account of the meeting of two contrasted techniques of painting and theories of art. For that reason it is an important contribution to art scholarship. However, it is more than that because, partly through the journals and letters of eighteenth-century missionaries in China it offers a fascinating picture of daily life and the great ceremonial occasions at the Court of the Emperors, of the confrontation of two great civilisations, of the intellectual and philosophical disputes that arose from the encounter, of the hardships endured by the missionaries and of the rivalries between the European powers in the mission field. Illustrated. 204 pages. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket (price-clipped).

4°. 34 x 26 cm. 276 Seiten. Original-Pappband mit illustriertem Original-Schutzumschlag. 1. Auflage. Englischsprachige Ausgabe. Mit 40 farbigen und 100 schwarz-weißen Abbildungen (zum Teil ganz- und doppelseitig). Schutzumschlag leicht berieben, ansonsten sehr gutes Exemplar.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor in Protector. Profusely illustrated (illustrator). 1st Edition. A fine body of work with 287 pages with 24 coloured plates & many B&W pictures and photographs . the book is heavy and will incur extra postage costs . this is a very scarce book on the subject.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. New York, Weatherhill, 1975 (first English language edition). Quarto, 270 pages with a map and 169 illustrations (40 of which are tipped-in and in colour) from photographs by Hans Hinz. Cloth; initial leaves lightly cockled; an excellent copy with the unevenly sunned dustwrapper lightly rubbed and slightly torn.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. French text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 25.5 x 29 cm.; 1.5 kg.; 204 pages with black and white and colour illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. The dust jacket shows wear marks, edge wear, scuffs and scratches. The interior shows signs of wear. The top of the front free endpaper shows some scuffs. Remaining interior with minor signs of wear.; This book presents the first comprehensive catalogue of the works of the priest Giuseppe Castiglione, an Italian painter and Jesuit priest who spent most of his life at the court of Beijing, where he died in 1766.

fester Einband. 208 S., 28 Farbtaf., 103 s/w Abb. Lit.verz. Gr 4° Ln.mS. *Umschlag etwas angerändert*. Sprache: Deutsch.

fester Einband. 317 S., Taf., 159 Abb., 111 eingekl. Farbtaf., Markenverz. Ktn. 4° Ln.mS.iS. Sprache: Deutsch.

Folio with slipcase.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition In German. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 4to. pp 271. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout (the colour illustrations tipped in). Original publisher's oatmeal cloth lettered gilt at the spine. German text. Uncommon. The book in very good condition indeed with slight bubbling on pastedowns and minor rubbing of corners, the jacket a bit tatty and stretched.

Vollständige Ausgabe im original Verlagseinband: Festeinband / Pappband 8vo im Format 1 cm mit Rücken- und verziertem / farbfotoillustriertem bebildertem Deckeltitel. 223 Seiten, mit 28 Farbtafeln und 103 Schwarzweiß-Abbidlungen auf Kunstdruckpapier sowie Druckvermerk: Aus dem Französischen übertragen. Dieses Buch ist ausschließlich für solche Leser bestimmt, die sich dafür aus wissenschaftlichen oder kunstgeschichtlichen Motiven interessieren und als solche ihrem Buchhändler bekannt sind. Der Verkauf an Jugendliche unter 18 Jahren ist streng verboten". - Aus dem Inhalt: Wissenschaft, Magie und Mystik des Körpers. Der Taoismus und die Sexualität - Die Wissenschaft vom Körper Die Magie des Körpers. Heterodoxe Praktiken - Das orgiastische Ritual - Die Mystik des Körpers. Die göttliche Hochzeit - Die Libido der Mönche - Gedichte aus der Zeit vor der Sung-Dynastie - Die tiefe Empfindung für die Liebe in der Geschichte von Ying-Ying - Gedichte aus der Zeit der Sung-Dynastie - Der erotische Roman in China - Die Lust an der Erniedrigung. Ein Roman der Verworfenheit - Gedichte aus der Ming-Zeit - Die abgeschnittenen Ärmel - Die Liebe zur duftenden Gespielin - Der Fußfetischismus - Gedichte aus der republikanischen Zeit - Anhang - Bibliographie - Verzeichnis der Farbtafeln - Verzeichnis der schwarz-weiß-Abbildungen - Bildnachweis. - Illustrierte Bücher, Erotik, Sexualität, China, erotische Darstellungen, chinesische Liebeskunst. - Erstausgabe in sehr guter Erhaltung (einige wenige Seiten mit zarten Bleistiftanstreichungen, sonst sehr gut) Versand an Institutionen auch gegen Rechnung Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 2000.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy quarto xii + 220pp., col. & b/w pls., bibliog., index, Nice production with fine tipped-in plates.

München, Keysersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1969, Gr.-4°, 223 S., mit zahlreichen, teils farbigen Abbildungen, Original-Leinwandeinband (leicht lichtrandig, leicht angestaubt).

FIRST EDITION. CHINESE EROTIC ART, Charles E. Tuttle Company: Publishers, 1969, first edition, lower fore edge corner tips ever so gently bumped, else fine in like full color pictorial dust-wrapper and fine slip-case. Profusely illustrated in both color and black & white on just about every page, mostly the former with many tipped in illustrations.