Beograd (Belgrade): Muzej primenjene umetnosti, 1953 51 pp. 27 pages of plates, bibliographical notes. Text in Serbo-Croatian (Cyrillic); summary and captions also in French. Includes a museum catalog listing 235 items (pp. 38-[52]). CONDITION: Sewn binding (tight). Bumps to ends of spine and edges. Light chipping along edges of card cover. Moderate overall wear and soiling.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 24 x 18 cm. (more information)

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Beograd (Belgrade): Narodni muzej, 1972 25 pp. 12 leaves of plates (color facsimiles tipped in), bibliography. Text in both Serbo-Croatian (Cyrillic) and French; English summary. A short study of the ornamental initials in the "Miroslavljevo Jevandelje" (Miroslav's Gospel; written for Miroslav, Prince of Hum, circa 1190 AD), one of the oldest and best-preserved Serbian books in Cyrillic characters. CONDITION: Sewn binding. Light overall wear.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 21 x 18 cm. (more information)

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Thessaloniki, Greece: Patriarchal Institute de recherches patristiques, 1977. xxvii, 404 pp. Bibliography, footnotes, index, 81 black-and-white plates. Text in French. A scarce, valuable and beautiful study by a leading scholar of the Byzantine religious art of Mount Athos. High-quality production. CONTENTS: Introduction: la tonalité religieuse et ascétique fontamentale de l'art au Mont-Athos. 1) La vénération des icônes sur la Sainte-Montagne. 2) Le jardin enchanté et le miroir déformant de la légende athonite. 3) Le plan d'un monastère souverain. 4) Les autres bâtiments conventuels. 5) Introduction générale: les mosaiques monumentales de Vatopédi. 6) Les fresques des monastères: fresques et liturgie: datation des cycles de fresques. 7) Les fresques des monastères: les écoles "macédonienne" et "crétoise." 8) Aperçu sur l'évolution de la peinture a fresque au Mont-Athos. 9) Description de quelques fresques en particulier Protaton et Chilandari. 10) Description de quelques autres fresques en particulier. 11) Le peinture de chevalet au Mont-Athos: les icônes. 12) Les icônes portatives sur bois au Mont-Athos. 13) Les icônes d'iconostase au Mont-Athos. Mon rêve athonite. CONDITION: Very minor wear to boards; internally fine. OVERSIZED.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket (as issued). 25 x 19 cm. (more information)

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Beograd (Belgrade): Publicisticko i Izdavacko Preduzece "Jugoslavija", 1953. 87 pp. Illustrations (black-and-white and color; several color plates tipped in). Text of articles in German. CONDITION: Sewn binding. Light overall wear to covers; tips of upper outside corners and small areas on spine abraded.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 33 x 24 cm. (more information)

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Beograd (Belgrade): Publicisticko-Izdavacki Zavod "Jugoslavija", 1959. 112 pp. Illustrations (black-and-white and color; one illustration tipped in). Text in English. CONTENTS: The art of Krst Hegedusic [Oto Bihalji-Merin]. Porec mosaics [Milan Prelog]. Medieval primitive sculpture [Alojz Benac]. Renaissance artists from the Yugoslav littoral [Kruno Prijatelj]. CONDITION: Sewn binding. Light overall wear to covers; tips of upper outside corners of pages abraded.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 33 x 24 cm. (more information)

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Beograd (Belgrade): Publicisticko-Izdavacki Zavod "Jugoslavija", 1959. 144 pp. Illustrations (black-and-white and color). Text in English. CONTENTS: Naive art in Yugoslavia [Oto Bihalji-Merin]. Men of nature in quest of nature [Sinisa Paunovic]. Particulars about men and their works [Mirjana Gvozdanovic]. CONDITION: Sewn binding. Light overall wear to covers; tips of upper outside corners abraded.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 33 x 24 cm. (more information)

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Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Art Museum, 1975. 165 pp. Introductory, scholarly essay surveying the history of Japanese drawing (pp. 9-51), glossary, notes, bibliographical note, list of lenders, plates, descriptive catalog, photo credits. Produced in conjunction with an exibition of Japanese drawings held at the Indiana University Art Museum. CONDITION: Very light overall handling/shelving rubbing; spine sunned. No creasing to spine; text clean and free of all marks.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 26 x 22 cm. (more information)

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New York: The Asia Society, 1972. 137 pp. Illustrations (some color), list of lenders, editor's introduction, essay ("Images of the Buddha," by A. B. Griswold), chronology, map, catalogue and plates (notes by M. C. Subhadradis Diskul), appendix, selected bibliography. The catalogue for an exhibition held at the Asia House Gallery in the fall of 1972. CONDITION: Sewn binding (no creasing). Very light overall handling rubbing. Several tissue guards present between plates. Some moderate sunning along spine and edges of covers.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 28 x 22 cm. (more information)

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Denver, CO: Denver Art Museum, 1982. 151 pp. 151 black-and-white and color photographic illustrations, list of further reading. This beautiful exhibition catalog of the Plains Indian art collection held by the Denver Art Museum was published in conjunction with an exhibition held 1982-1985. Sewn binding. Light overall wear to covers. Oversized.. First Edition. Paperback. Good to Very Good. 23 x 28 cm. (more information)

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Vilnius, Lithuania, 1968. xxxvii, 286 pp. This is a nice catalog of Lithuanian graphic art and painting. Includes 273 plates (several in color), introduction in (Romanized) Lithuanian (followed by an abridged Russian translation), bibliographical notes, plate titles in Lithuanian and Russian. Plates divided into two sections: graphic arts and paintings. Binding is tight. Minor bumps to corners of boards and ends of spine. Very light discoloration to cloth at edges of boards and along spine. Mild warp to boards. Small nick in cloth with associated fraying at upper corner of front board. Light darkening to pages due to age. Moderate darkening and foxing to endpapers. Dustjacket shows moderate overall wear, soiling, and edge chipping. Oversized.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 24 x 30 cm. (more information)

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Bucharest, 1974. 137 pp. This guidebook provides a narrative introduction to the museum collections. Sewn binding. Moderate overall rubbing to oversized card covers; crease along middle of spine.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 21 x 15 cm. (more information)

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Beograd (Belgrade): SRpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, 1970 139 pp. Illustrations (some color), bibliographical footnotes. Each article in both Serbo-Croatian (Cyrillic) and French. CONTENTS (French titles): Notre art populaire. Traitement figuratif et plastique dans l'architecture rurale. Pierres tombales en Serbie. Caracteres plastiques due costume populaire. Ceramique populaire en Serbie. Oeufs colories (oeufs de Paques). Icones sur verre. CONDITION: . First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 23 x 17 cm. (more information)

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T'bilisi (Georgia): Mec'niereba, 1989 113 pp., 72 leaves of plates (many in color). Parallel texts in English, Georgian and Russian (including captions on plates). A survey of fine arts in the Republic of Georgia (former Soviet Union). CONDITION: Light overall shelf wear to cloth covers (no fraying); text clean.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 21 x 16 cm. (more information)

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Beograd: The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 1989. viii, 500 pp. Bibliographical references. Text in Serbo-Croation (Cyrillic) text with English summary. A scholarly study of Serbian artistic and literary aesthetics from the Middle Ages to ca. 1865 (rise of the intellectual, Svetozar Markovic). Sewn binding. Top of spine bumped and torn; minor bumps to back corners.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 17 x 24 cm. (more information)

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Los Angeles, CA: Institute of Archaeology, University of California, 1976. ix, 81 pp. 31 black-and-white plates, bibliographical notes, appendix. In this scholarly, thematic work (out-of-print), the author examines the legacy of Skopas of Pharos (4th century BC), the reputed sculptor of a famous monumental sculptural group with a marine subject (referred to as a "marine thiasos") depicting Poseidon, Thetis, Achilles, Nereids and other marine creatures. Now destroyed and in fragments, the group apparently adorned a temple in Rome dedicated to Poseidon (although it had probably been removed from its original location in Asia Minor) and it formed the inspiration for many marine-related subjects in later Hellenistic and Roman art. CONTENTS: 1) The career and style of Skopas. 2) Skopas' marine group in Rome. 4) The marine thasos in Greek art. 4) The motifs of the marine thiasos in Greek sculpture. Bound in brown cloth with quarter imitation-leather spine. CONDITION: Book itself in near new condition (gently read) with very minor edge wear only. Dustjacket has several tears along edges (no missing material); light overall rubbing and minor soiling/aging.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 29 x 23 cm. (more information)

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New York: Weatherhill, 1992. 236 pp. Color and black-and-white illustrations, bibliography, index. A finely produced reprint edition (now also out-of-print) of the original published by Kodansha International in 1981. An important reference book as well as providing a fascinating, comprehensive look into the life, training, techniques, and designs of a celebrated modern master carver of netsuke (small, carved wood or ivory toggles or buckles used by the Japanese to attach pouches to kimono belts). According to Bushell, Masatoshi reluctantly divulged information about his life and art over the course of many years and many conversations, the first such account by a netsuke carver. This lavishly illustrated book also serves as a catalog to the major part of Masatoshi's beautiful artistic creations. CONDITION: Book itself is in "fine" condition; illustrated slipcase shows minor shelf rubbing only. OVERSIZED.. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine (Like New)/Near Fine (Slipcase). 31 x 23 cm. (more information)

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Copenhagen, Denmark: C. A. Reitzels Forlag, 1994 Now out of print and difficult to find. 480 pp. Maps, illustrations. Bilingual English and Danish text on facing pages (English text translated into Danish by Ann Kirstin Pedersen). A guide to the little-known but rich artistic, religious and cultural heritage of Denmark's medieval churches. CONDITION: Book is virtually like new, with imperceptible handling wear. Very light rubbing to dustjacket. OVERSIZED.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 26 x 19 cm. (more information)

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New York: Meredith Press, 1967. 160 pp. Illustrations, index. Text translated into English from Italian. Profusely illustrated. Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum has an unrivalled collection of art from the Low Countries. This volume covers many of the finest paintings by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Steen and Frans Hals, and shows the development of Dutch art from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Mild tobacco pipe smoke odor, else near fine. Dustjacket chipped and browned along edges. Original Italian edition published in 1964. Oversized.. First English Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 22 x 28 cm. (more information)

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Koln, Germany: Konemann, 1995. 2-volume slipcased set. Vol. 1 (320 pp.; color plates), Vol. 2 (320 pp.; color plates). Oceania comprises three cultural areas: Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia. The art of the island populations of the South Pacific takes such diverse forms such as masks and jewelry, household utensils and weapons, canoe prows and overmodeled skiffs, tapa and major representations of the deities. Most of the works are shown here for the first time and were photographed specifically for this book. Parallel English, German, and French texts. A sumptuous production. Oversized.. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New, in Slipcase. 28 x 32 cm. (more information)

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Basel: Pharos-Verlag Hansrudolf Schwabe, 1974. 146 pp. Footnotes, glossary, bibliography, illustrations. Text in German. This is a scholarly, ethnographic study of the art of ikat (tye-dyeing yarn and weaving) in Aleppo, Syria. Light overall wear and rubbing to covers. Bumps to lower corners of covers with light creasing. Sewn binding.. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good. 17 x 24 cm. (more information)

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Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998. 480 pp. Illustrations (color and blacl-and-white), footnotes. Text in German. In these 12 scholarly conference essays, the authors examine the symbolic representation of various social groups in texts, pictures, and objects during the Middle Ages and early modern times. Very minor bumps to upper outside corners of boards, else in "fine" condition. Very light overall rubbing to dustjacket. This is a beautifully produced volume. Oversized.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine to Fine/Near Fine. 18 x 25 cm. (more information)

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Muenchen: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1924. Volume 1 (of 2) only. ix, 180 pp. 12 black-and-white plates with tissue guards, bibliography, errata. Text in German. CONDITION: Light overall wear and soiling to cloth covers (no fraying). Spine lightly sunned. Paper lightly age-toned. OVERSIZED.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 32 x 24 cm. (more information)

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New Castle, DE / London: Oak Knoll Press / The British Library, 2000. xiv, 378 pp. 220 black-and-white illustrations, color plates, bibliographical notes, index. In publisher's original, clear plastic protective jacket. Twenty-six of the world's most prestigious bookbinding experts have contributed essays reflecting Mirjam Foot's own research interests, particularly the placement of bindings in their historical context. CONTENTS: Mirjam Foot [Robin Myers]. A Romanesque blind-stamped binding at the Queen's College, Oxford [Michael Gullick]. Medieval manuscript leaves as publishers' wrappers in the 1920s [Christopher de Hamel]. Fragments found in bindings and their role as bibliographical evidence [Lotte Hellinga]. Crutched Friars, lambs, roses, and crosses: Brussels incunables on the shelves of the Crutched Friars at the turn of the sixteenth century [Elly Cockx-Indestege]. The advent of gold tooling in English bookbinding and the intermediary role of Thomas Linacre [Giles Barber]. Plaquette and medallion bindings: a second supplement [Anthony Hobson]. Commissioni Dogali: Venetian bookbindings in the British Library [Laura Nuvoloni]. Some unrecorded sixteenth-century French bookbindings [Nicolas Barker]. Tacketed bindings--a hundred years of European bookbinding [Nicholas Pickwoad]. Bookbinding in Cambridge in the second half of the sixteenth century [David Pearson]. Seventeenth-century Cambridge pyxides [Elisabeth Leedham-Green]. A Bible bound in 1661 by Patrick Erskine for the Earl and Countess of Caithness [John Morris]. Putting book structures within an historical context: a note on the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century paper bindings in the Wolf Collection, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Hamburg [Vanessa C. Marshall]. It glitters and is more than gold: fore-edge paintings in the Dutch Royal Library [Jan Storm van Leeuwen]. The autograph album of a journeyman bookbinder: Alexander Troschel of Nuremberg (1758-69) [David Paisey]. Scott bindings on the 1770 Foulis Milton [Richard Ovenden]. John Whittaker's edition of the Magna Carta, its printing, and his bindings on the Wormsley copies [Bryan Maggs]. Four bindings and a will: Thomas Jones Ellison and some notes on nineteenth-century signed rolls [John Collins]. John Hannett's "Bibliopegia and Inquiry," and Salt Brassington's revision [Paul Morgan]. The bookbindings of Benjamin West (1804-83) [Esther Potter]. A mid-nineteenth-century book-trade binder: Florent Pollender and the firm of Hanicq-Dessain in Mechelen [Christian Coppens]. The book cover designs of William Harry Rogers [Edmund M. B. King]. The mysterious Mr de Sauty [Marianne Tidcombe]. Secret, loud and clear [Anna Simoni]. The Keatley Trust Collection of modern British bindings [Dorothy A. Harrop]. A Jean de Gonet binding at the British Library [P. J. M. Marks]. Bibliography of the writings of Mirjam Foot. OVERSIZED.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine (Like New)/No Jacket (as issued). 29 x 23 cm. (more information)

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Pisa, Italy: Nistri-Lisci Editori, 1960. 220 pp. Footnotes. Text in Italian. This small monograph address the philosophy of art and aesthetics. Inscibed by author to friend. Light overall wear and soiling to covers. Spine moderately discolored from exposure and handling. Some chipping to top of spine. Small gouge in cover near base of spine. Crease down spine (sewn binding).. First Edition. Paperback. Fair. 15 x 21 cm. (more information)

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Moskva (Moscow): Gosudarstvennoe nauchno-tekhnicheskoe izdatel'stvo tekstil'noi, legkoi i poligraficheskoi promyshlennosti, 1946. Rare. 380 pp. Illustrations, footnotes, bibliography, notes. Text in Russian. A historical, scholarly study of Russian book imprints from the 16th to the early 20th century, generously illustrated with facsimiles. CONTENTS: 1) Obshchie voprosy oformleniia knigi. 2) Oformlenie russkoi pervopechatnoi knigi XVI v. 3) Oformlenie russkoi staropechatnoi knigi XVII v. 4) Oformlenie russkoi knigi XVIII v. 5) Oformlenie russkoi knigi XIX v. 6) Oformlenie russkoi knigi kontsa XIX i nachala XX v. CONDITION: Minor moisture rippling to edges of lower corners of pages with minimal staining (primarily noticeable in second half of book; pages separate cleanly; no ink running--rippling does not extend to printed text). Original cloth spine with paper-covered boards. Light overall wear; moderate browning to covers and interior pages.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 27 x 18 cm. (more information)

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Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. 84 pp. Illustrations (including 6 in color), notes, bibliography. Constantin Guys (1802-1892) was a prolific and highly regarded illustrator of the 19th century. From 1854 until 1856, Guys covered the Crimean War for "The Illustrated London News." Included among his sketches is an eyewitness study of the charge of the Light Brigade, probably the best-remembered episode of the war. To view Guys' watercolors today is to see the dim record of history come to life. His written notations, reproduced in this exhibition catalog, extend the testimony of his drawings. CONDITION: Very light overall handling wear. Text clean.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 19 x 22 cm. (more information)

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Paris: YMCA-Press, 1965 161 pp. 1 color plate, footnotes. Text in Russian. These three seminal studies of Russian religious icons were originally written by Prince Trubetskoi in 1916-1917. Sewn binding. Light overall wear to card covers.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 19 x 14 cm. (more information)

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Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, 1961. "Reprinted with changes from 'Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin', vol. LIX, no. 317, 1961." 36 pp. Illustrations (black-and-white), endnotes. A brief but informative exhibition catalogue of extraordinary Chinese paintings held by the National Palace Museum and the National Central Museum in Taiwan. CONDITION: Stapled pamphlet. Very light overall handling wear.. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. 27 x 17 cm. (more information)

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Praha (Prague), Czechoslovakia: Artia, 1965. 341 pp. Illustrations (color and black-and-white; several fold out); bibliographical references. Text translated into German from the original Czech (published as "Pribeh zidovskeho muzea v Praze"). (This book has also been translated into English as "A Story of the Jewish Museum in Prague," 1968.) This beautiful, heavily illustrated book tells the story of the Jewish Museum in Prague, remarkable not only for its exhibits but also for the story they tell about the people who owned and used these objects. We are informed of the unhappy circumstances in which the Museum came by its large collections and gain insights into the life and customs of past ages. As thousands of Jewish men, women and children were transported to the concentration camps from what the Nazis called the "Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia," thousands of objects from the dissolved Jewish communities throughout the country began to flow into the Central Jewish Museum in Prague, founded by a group of Jewish writers, historians, librarians, Hebraists and antiquarians in the hope that everyone would safely return from the camps after a time, that some or all communities would be restored and would be able to reclaim their property. The space in which the story is set is bounded by distinctive Prague landmarks: the Old Jewish Cemetery, the Old-New Synagogue and four other synagogues, the Old, Klausen, High and Pinkas Synagogues. Some light water damage to bottom edges of boards, spine, and pages. Some minor discoloration and spotting to cloth elsewhere as well. Dustjact is chipped at ends of spine and corners, and shows some light water damage along bottom edges. Pages lightly darkened from age. Despite these flaws, this is still a beautiful and fascinating book. Oversized.. First German Edition. Hardcover. Fair/Fair. 25 x 28 cm. (more information)

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