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London & Paris: R. Ackerman; L. Janet, 1822. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo. Original pink boards, printed paper label to spine. Frontispiece and hand-coloured folding plate. Near-contemporary ownership inscription dated 1842. Boards rubbed and tanned at the edges with some small marks and spots, spine browned, ends of spine worn and chipped, corners bumped and worn, a few lights spots to early and late leaves, otherwise contents fresh. A very good copy. First edition of this guide to miniature painting designed for the education of young ladies. The author, Andre Leon Larue was born in 1785 and known professionally as Mansion. The son of a portrait painter, he worked as a miniaturist and also achieved remarkable results as a tinter of photographs during the 1840s and 50s. This was his first book on painting; the second was The Principles and Practice of Harmonious Colouring in Oil, Water, and Photographic Colours on Paper, Glass and Silver Plate. The present volume was…
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L'Ambiente Moderno. Mobile e Decorazione Interna
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Milan: Preiss , Bestetti & Co., 1907. Fine. 4to, decorative gray wrappers with lettering in mustard or rust. Fine. Complete first year in twelve numbers. Brief text in first number and a total of 96 fine photogravure plates on heavy stock plus advertisements. Furniture and room settings in Stile Liberty (also known as Stile Floreale) by architects and designers. Important names in the movement whose work is illustrated include Giacomo Cometti, designer, sculptor and cabinetmaker; Eugenio Quarti, a cabinetmaker of extraordinary originality; Galileo Chini, ceramist and painter; and A. Mazzucotelli, who was the leading figure in decorative wrought iron and exponent of design reform. Other designers are Enrico Monti, Giovanni Bistolfi, Ernesto Basile and Luigi Brunelli, among others. There are also several plates of installations at the "Casa dell'Arte" in Florence. Scarce. . Decorated Wrappers. Fine.. 4to.
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- Keywords DECORATIVE & APPLIED ARTS DESIGN ART NOUVEAU, , NOUVEAU FURNITURE, STILE LIBERTY, FLOREALE
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Letters Upon the Art of Miniature Painting.
by Mansion, [Andre Leon Larue]
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Moray, United Kingdom
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Técnica aerográfica: brocha de aire
by Juan Renau
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Ciudad de México, Mexico
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México, Centauro, 1946. 8vo, rústica, 214 pp., profusamente ilustrado en b/n, 48 planchas, varias de ellas con ilustraciones de Josep Renau. Imprenta Cosmos. Cubierta con raspones leves en los bordes, primeras hojas con pequeño doblez en la esquina inferior, por lo demás en excelente estado. PC: Exilio español, José Bolea, Leyenda, Atlántida
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Home Decoration: How to get beauty in house and furnishings at a reasonable cost
by Dorothy Tuke Priestman
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Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company (1st thus, 1915). Small hardcover with green boards; white titles and black decorations, 208 pages. No dust jacket, as issued. Lightly toned pages are clean and unmarked. Solidly bound with a straight spine. Minimal wear to covers. This is a very rare guide first written in 1909 on how to get beauty in your home at a reasonable cost, including hints on carpets and rugs, shelving, pictures and flower arrangements from a noted turn-of-the-century writer and trend setter, Dorothy Tuke Priestman.
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Contemporary Lampworking: A Practical Guide to Shaping Glass in the Flame Three Volume Set
by Bandhu S. Dunham
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Longmont, Colorado, United States
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Salusa Glassworks, Inc., 2011. 3 vols. Used - Near Fine condition. Text blocks are all bright, crisp, and unmarked. Spiral bound. Covers show minor shelf wear. Books appear unused / unread. Full three volume set. Scarce.
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A COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL MAGIC BOOKLETS
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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Octavo (9 1/4 by 6 1/4 inches) Various places: San Rafael, California; Springfield, Massachusetts; Chicago; Columbus, Ohio, 1931 - 1958 a sammelband of TWELVE INDIVIDUAL BOOKLETS (eleven specifically on magic) bound together in their original stiff paper wrappers (several of them decorated with illustrations), all in very good condition; bound in a professionally prepared binding in red cloth, with a black label and gilt title on spine.The titles include: "The Magic of Rezvani," "Joe Karson's The World's Fastest Card Trick" (with a signed presentation by Karson), "Ireland Writes A Book," "Le Paul Presents The Card Magic of Bro. John Hamman S. M. 'New and Different Effects With Playing Cards," "Thornton's "Secrets of Mental Magic," "How's Your Library? A Guide To Cataloguing And Caring For Books," "Rope Eternal, an encyclopedia on cut and restored rope tricks," "Sponge Ball Manipulation," "Tricks For Kid-Shows," "How To Do Headline Predictions,"Ireland's "Card Annual 1957-1958 (two volumes)"… Read More
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Cape Country Furniture; A Pictorial Survey of Regional Styles, Materials and Techniques in the Cape Province of South Africa
by Baraitser, Michael
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Cape Town: C. Struik Publishers [0-86977-109-4] [1982], 3rd printing, 2nd revised edition. (4to) 368pp. Fine in very good plus dust jacket. Black and white and color photographs, list of timbers used, bibliography, glossary, index. The dust jacket has minor edgewear, a small closed tear on the spine, and is lightly faded on the spine. Locale: South Africa. (Antiques, Collectibles, Furniture).
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20th Century Fashion : 100 Years Of Style By Decade And Designer, In Association With Vogue
by Watson, Linda
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Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, United States
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Boston, Massachusetts / New York, New York: Firefly Books. Very Good. 2004. First Edition. Soft Cover. 398 pages: 6 x 8.25 in.: 2.4: KB#005150: Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Copy is tightly bound and unread but plastic on front/back cover is slightly wrinkled. " 20th Century Fashion, published in association with Vogue magazine, is the definitive style bible for anyone interested in the past, present and future of fashion. It takes a fresh look at fashion history over the twentieth century and charts the evolution from corsets to Coco Chanel to punk. The book chronicles and explores one hundred years of developments and movements, including: 20s flappers * Christian Dior's New Look * Swinging Sixties * New Romanticism * 90s Eclecticism. Illustrated with eye-catching archive images, 20th Century Fashion also features the work of the photographers who helped immortalize seminal fashion images. An A-Z section profiles two hundred and fifty of the greatest fashion designers who…
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JODAI-GIRE, 7TH AND 8TH CENTURY TEXTILES IN JAPAN FROM THE SHOSO IN AND HORYU-JI
by Matsumoto, Kaneo
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- 9784879400123
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- 4879400122
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Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
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Japan: Shikosha Publishing Co. Near Fine. 1984. First Edition. Soft Cover. 4879400122 . Clean soft pictorial covers. Text tight, clean & intact. Illustrated with color plates & B/W photographs. Textile catalogue. Japanese and English text. Antiques, Textile. ; Color Plates; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 252 pages .
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AMERICAN FABRICS (1954)
by Carlyle, Cora (editor)
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Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
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New York: Doric Publishing Co.. Very Good+. 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean green buckram cloth with white title on spine. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Published quarterly by the Doric Publishing Co. Illustrated with color & b/w photographs and various fabric samples, designs and colors. 4 hard bound issues, 1954 (Nos 28-31). Catalogue; Ex-Library; Photographs, Cloth Samples; Folio 13" - 23" tall; Unpaginated pages .
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A Paper Home for Paper People (1909)
by Edith A. Root
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Frederick, Maryland, United States
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The Saalfield Publishing Co, 1909. Hardcover. Acceptable. Edith A. Root's early-century, over-sized "dollhouse" book with illustrations (furniture, etc.) that can be cut out and mounted in any of nine different rooms. Full-color lithographs comprise an entire house. Root deliberately limited the number of illustrations so that the house could be customized and furnished with illustrations cut out from magazines and other sources. Rare. No copies appear in WorldCat library database at the time of this posting. 30 pp. 15 5/8" x 10". Tight copy with considerable shelf wear. Corners bumped and worn through, as are about half the edges. Hinges pulled away from backing somewhat, not affecting binding integrity. First two leaves show evidence of having been detached and competently reattached. Two small crayon markings noted. Lacks one leaf of illustrations which have been cut out and mounted to one of the rooms. All other illustrations intact. All other rooms empty. A reasonably…
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MODERN FRENCH DECORATION
by Kahle, Katharine Morrison
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Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
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New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. 219 pages, including 27 pages of black and white photographs. An important and well-illustrated examination of of French design in furniture, textiles, lighting, ironwork, and accessories as decoration was moving from Art Deco to Modernism. The book is in excellent condition: clean, bright, and tight; with just a hint of toning of pages.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.
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Applied Art; A collection of designs showing the tendencies of American industrial art; Volume One
by MARTINI, Herbert E. (editor)
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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New York: F.K. Ferenz, 1919. Good. Folio. 42 (of 50) plates loose as issued plus front matter. Lacks original half-cloth case. Lacks the following plates: 2, 15, 20, 23, 29, 35, 38, 42. Each plate has a library embossment from Fieldston School of the Ethical Culture. Wear and creasing to some edges. Front matter has ragged edges. This is a collection of plates (most in color) showing the evolution of industrial and advertising art and printing in America.
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Five Centuries of Italian Majolica
by Liverani, Giuseppe
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Granville, New York, United States
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NY: McGraw Hill, 1960. First Edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: McGraw Hill, 1960. First American Edition. Folio. 9 1/2" x 12." 260pp., 83 tipped-in color plates and 52 b/w illustrations.A Very Good or better copy - clean, straight, tight, no markings, in a Good, heavily frayed dj with several small chips missing.. 1st. Hard. Very Good/Good. Folio. Illus.
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Five by Eight: New Ceramic Art From Japan
by Fischer, Felice [Introduction]
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Hopewell, New Jersey, United States
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Philadelphia: The Clay Studio, 2011. Small Quarto (9 7/8 x 8 1/4 inches; 250 x 210 mm), 71, [1] pages in printed dust jacket over black paper wrappers (soft cover). Exhibition of Japanese ceramics at the Clay Studio, Philadelphia, from September 23 to October 30, 2011. Eight Japanese artists each contributed five examples of their work. Nicely illustrated, with artists' statements and lists of their exhibitions. In English and Japanese. With an introduction by Felice Fischer, curator of East Asian Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, foreword by Jeff Guido, artistic director of the Clay Studio, and a preface by Makiko Maki, Five by Eight committee representative. This catalogue is scarce to the market. CONDITION: Light edge wear but internally clean, bright, and unmarked. Near Fine.
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Barris Kustom Techniques of the 50's: Top Chops Sectioning Dechroming and Fadeaways
by Barris, George
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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Barris Kustom Techniques of the 50's Vol. 1: Top Chops, Sectioning, Dechroming and Fadeaways. Barris, George ISBN-10: 0965200507. . Thaxton Press. Trade Paperback. EXLIB. 128 pages. 10 ½ X 8 1/4.This is volume I of a four volume set.
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Interiors of Virginia Houses of Colonial Times [Signed]
by Sales, Edith Tunis
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Granville, New York, United States
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Richmond, VA: William Byrd, 1927. SIGNED First edition, first printing. Hard cover. Published Richmond, VA: William Byrd, 1927. Signed and dated (September second, 1927) by author on half title. 4to., 7 1/2" x 10." Blue cloth with white lettering and design to cover, marble pattern end papers, color frontis with printed tissue guard, two-color title page. Illustrated with 371 original plates. Spine lettering mostly rubbed off, slight rubbing to the cover lettering, few spots/marks on rear cover, otherwise very good. Binding tight, hinges strong. Internally very good, pages clean, crisp. Very good minus overall.. Signed by Author. 1st. Hard. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. 4to.
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The Whispered Directory of Craftsmanship Vol. II: A Contemporary Guide to the Italian Handmaking Ability
by VV. AA
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Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
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Mondadori Electa, 2012. 6.82 x 0.7 x 9.73 inches. Like New. Mondadori Electa, Italy, in English, 6.82 x 0.7 x 9.73 inches, 200 pages An authentic guide to Italian craft skills compiled by Fendi, a name that has always been synonymous with in-depth research and good works made by hand. Condition: Like New Ships from Hawaii.
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Arte Popolare Italiana
by Toschi, Paolo
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new york, New York, United States
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Roma: Carlo Bestetti Edizioni D'arte, 1960. This is a very good hardcover copy in gray cloth covers printed in red and gold with tassel device on the front cover and title in faded gilt to the spine. Edges of the covers a bit toned. Small date on lower edge of front endpaper. Very clean inside. Text in Italian. The 2 page ENGLISH summary laid-in. This is a thorough survey of Italian craft and folk arts including sections on farm and agricultural implements, furniture, textiles and costumes, jewelry and personal ornament, ceramics and glassware, metalwork, cooking ware, wrought iron work, signage, theatrical and festival masks, religious arts, also a section on popular prints. Extensive bibliography. 553 illustrations including many color plates. Plus many more illustrations in the section on popular prints. List of craft makers and producers. 12" high X 10" wide, 451 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and…
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Design Is Where You Find It
by Chatt, Orville K
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Granville, New York, United States
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Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1972. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1972, first printing. Oblong 4to., 7 1/4" x 10 1/4." 124 pp., illustrated with over 170 photographs. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. 1st. Hard. Fine/Near Fine. 4to.
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American Decorative Arts: 360 Years of Creative Design
by Bishop, Robert; Coblentz, Patricia
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Granville, New York, United States
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NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1982. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Abrams, 1982, first printing. Folio, 10 1/4" x 13 1/2", 405pp., 443 illustrations, 160 in full color. Gift inscription on fly leaf, else fine in fine dust jacket.. 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. Folio.
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