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The Imperial Porcelain Wares of the Late Qing Dynasty (2 volumes)
by Kwan, Simon S.M
University of Hong Kong, 1989 Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover (without dust jacket); 22 x 29.8 cm; 4.6 Kg; Volume 1 with 407 pages; Volume 2, pages 408 to 487 followed by a list of 276 plates (each with caption) from the author collection comprising Wares from Daoguang, Xiaofeng, Tongzhi, Guangxu and Xuantong. Black and white illustrations throughout.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. The hardcover front covers is turning inwards at the top right side....
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€600.00
Letters Upon the Art of Miniature Painting.
by Mansion, [Andre Leon Larue]
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...
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£150.00
Frank Lloyd Wright/Steelcase; Text by David Allen Hanks
by Wright, Frank Lloyd (Ephemera)
Np: Steelcase, 1981. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Very good. 6 pages. 20 x 19 cm. Promotional piece for desk designs by FLW re S.C. Johnson Building. Color illustrations plus three page fodlout of black and white sketches of Steelcase designs with explanation of the desk design. Slight toning and small stain front cover.
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$25.00
THE COMPLETE BOOK OF HOME DETAILS
by Barbara Winfield
New York: Crescent Books, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 11 x 12 in. Tan paper boards. Lavish color photos. Condition is VERY GOOD ; corners and ends of spine bumped with slight wear, covers clean. Binding tight and text spotless. DJ is VERY GOOD ; mild edge wear, rubbed and a touch sunned. Deco. Stax.
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$20.00
Worcester Blue and White Porcelain 1751-1790; An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of the Patterns
by Branyan, Lawrence (With Neal French & John Sandon.)
London: Barrie & Jenkins [0-09-144060-2] [1981], 1st edition. (4to) 367pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Color frontispiece, illustrations, tables, bibliography, index. The dust jacket is price-clipped. (Antiques, Collectibles, Porcelain, Tableware, Worcester Porcelain).
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$288.75
The Modernist Textile; Europe and America 1890 - 1940.
by Troy, Virginia Gardner
Aldershot: Lund Humphries [0-85331-900-6] 2006. (4to) 192pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Black & white and color illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. (Art, Textiles--Modernist).
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$126.00
Winterthur Portfolio 10
by Quimby, Ian M. G
Virginia: University Press Of Virginia, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Green cloth hardcover with gilt titles, lacking dustjacket. A clean tight copy of this 10th title in the Winterthur series with minor wear at the corners and spine ends. No interior markings. Minor thumbing at the front edge. 242 pp., black and white photos throughout, indexed. A themed collection of articles on 19th century American decorative arts.
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$20.00
Premier – (II.me) recueil de chiffres inventés par de Saint Aubin, dessinateur du roi.
by Saint-Aubin, Charles Germain de
13 numbered etched plates by Clément-Pierre Marillier after Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin, all beautifully handcoloured, published in two suites the first comprising 7 plates, the second 6 plates. Loosely contained in cont. yellow brushed stiff wrappers. Folio (435 x 315 mm). Guilmard, p. 211 (no date); Berlin Cat. 5297 (no date); Émile Dacier. Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1929), vol. I, 12. First edition, etchings in subtle yet brilliant contemporary coloring show highly imaginative initals and...
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€4250.00
Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul: A Complete Catalogue (3 VOLUMES)
by Krahl, Regina in collaboration with Erbahar, Nurdan; Edited by Ayers, John with historical studies by Yucel, Unsal and Raby, Julian
Philip Wilson Publishers, London for Sotheby's Publications, 1986 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket in slipcase).; 28 x 39 cm; 17 Kg.; 1381 pages with 5,000 black-and-white and colour illustrations, including 200 large-size colour plates.; 3 volumes comprising: Volume 1-Yuan and Ming Dynasty, Celadon Wares; Volume 2-Yuan and Ming Dynasty Porcelains; Volume 3-Qing Dynasty Porcelains.; Used books with signs of wear on the slipcases, dust jackets and on...
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€2750.00
Archaeological Research in Indo-China
by Olov R. T. Janse
Harvard University Press, 1947. Volume 1 only. VG+. Minor shelf and handling wear; name inside front cover (else clean and free of marks); text block slightly age-toned throughout. Overall a clean, solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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$350.00
![Deutsche Volkskunst. Hrsg.: Staatliche Kommission für Kunstangelegenheiten, [Berlin].](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/898/473/1393473898.0.b.jpg)
Deutsche Volkskunst. Hrsg.: Staatliche Kommission für Kunstangelegenheiten, [Berlin].
(Dresden, Sächsische Zeitung, 1952). . Die Ausstellung deutsche Volkskunst wird veranstaltet anläßlich der Deutschen Festspiele der Volkskunst 1952. Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter: Adolf Spamer u.a.- Außen gebräunt, innen gut und sauber
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€18.00
Volkskunst in Westfalen.
by Borchers, Walter
Münster, Aschendorff'sche Verlagsbuchhhandlung, 1970. . Schmuckformen des Bauernhauses, Bauernmöbel (Truhen, Schränke, Betten, Sitzmöbel...); Holzgerät ( Schnitz-, Drechsel-, Böttcher-, Stellmacherarbeiten...); Eisengerät, Kupfer u. Messinggut, Zinngießerwaren; Glas und Keramik; Weberei, Zeugdruck, Blaufärberei, Spitzenklöppeln: Trachten; Schmuck; Hungertücher, Kreuze und Bildstöcke, Andachtsbilder; Weihnachtskrippen, Patenbriefe und Bilderbogen, Scherenschnitte; Schützenwesen; Backwerk,...
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€25.00
Fontainebleau. Les Petits Appartments de Napoleon et Josephine
by D'Esparbes, G. (preface)
Versailles: A. Bourdier Hardbound portfolio of 100 loose plates. Published: Versailles: A. Bourdier, no date c.1900. Folio case, 11 1/2" x 15 1/4", 18pp., text plus 100 loose plates - most on heavy stock. Plates are numbered from 1-225, but 100 plates are present. (The publisher released other variant works and selected the plates to be used from a pool of illustrations.) Much of the spine for the case lacking, lower spine has old tape repair. A few plates have minor edge fray/chipping, all are...
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$150.00
![[Art Nouveau chromolithographic pharmaceutical catalogue] Katalog No. 4.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/018/470/1174470018.0.b.jpg)
[Art Nouveau chromolithographic pharmaceutical catalogue] Katalog No. 4.
by Michael Birk, Tuttlingen Deutschland
Tuttlingen, Germany: Michael Birk, [c. 1890s]. Quarto. Original limp cloth wrappers blocked in gilt, grey, black, and white, blue endpapers, blue top-stain. 15 double-sided leaves of chromolithographic, metallic-printed, and embossed designs, of which 6 are folding, engravings throughout the other 290 pages. Minor bumps at the corners. A superb, fresh copy in unused condition with many of the leaves unopened and still delicately adhering to each other at the edges. A superb, unused Art Nouveau...
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£500.00
Intérieurs II & Intérieurs III
by Léon Moussinac
Intérieurs II & Intérieurs IIITwo volumes from a set by Léon Moussinac, which provides an important documentation of furniture and interiors by notable French Art Deco designers, each volume with an introduction by Moussinac followed by a large number of plates (52 in II, and 53 in III), many of which are done in pochoir, depicting a variety of interiors and associated types of furniture, including designs for studies, bedrooms, bathrooms, living rooms, nurseries, dining rooms, salons, men's and...
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$875.00
Dunbar Mining The Surfaces
by Lucie-Smith, Edward
New Orleans: New Orleans Museum of Art, 1997. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. 48 pages. 10 x 8 1/2". Host of color plates.
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$15.00
Spirit Of Han
by Lau, Aileen (Editor)
Sigapore: Sun Tree Publishing Co, 1998. Hardcover. Orig. white cloth lettered in silver. Fine in fine dust warpper. 190 pages. 31 x 23.5 cm. 211 illustrations in color and black and white printed on glossy stock. Ceramics for the After-LIfe. Catalogue. List of Lenders. Glossary.
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$45.00
JAPANESE CERAMICS.
by AYERS, John. Alfred BAUR.:
Geneva, Collections Baur; London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner [distributor], 1982.. FIRST EDITION 1982, THE BAUR COLLECTION, LIMITED EDITION BOUND IN FULL BROWN LEATHER LIMITED TO 50 DELUXE NUMBERED COPIES, THIS BEING No. 38. FROM AN EDITION EDITION OF 1600. 4to, approximately 280 x 225 mm, 11 x 8¾ inches, profusely illustrated in colour and black and white, pages: (176), Introduction in French and English, in original publisher's full brown leather, gilt lettered to spine. Very faint browning to...
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£275.00
The World of Japanese Ceramics
by Sanders, Herbert
Kodansha International, 1983 4to (25 c), 267 pp, plates. Laminated wrappers. "This is a very valuable boo dealing more thoroughly with the techniques of the Far Eastern potter, more especially Japanese, than any book hitherto published." (Bernard Leach)
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zł300.00
Paul Storr, 1771-1844: Silversmith and Goldsmith
by Penzer, N. M
Spring Books, 1971 4to (30.5 cm), 292 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear). "Just as the great Paul de Lamerie reigned as the supreme artist in silver and gold in the early 18th century, so did Paul Storr hold sway in the Regency period. The late Dr Penzer's book is the definitive work on this great craftsman and must find a place in the library of any lover of old silver and gold. One of the most important features is the splendid collection of 124 illustrations, all...
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zł95.00
At Home with Art How Art Lovers Live with and Care for Their Treasures
by Ellis, Estelle et al
New York: Clarkson Potter, 1997. First edition. Boards. Orig. patterned white boards. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 246 pages. 30 x 23 cm. Profusion of color photographs Index.
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$20.00
The Art of Fire
by James McKelvey
Third Degree Press, 2006. Good condition. Minor shelf and handling wear; overall a clean, solid copy with minimal signs of use. Note by author(?) on title page; proofreading notes penned into upper half of inside of back cover. No other marks. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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$345.00
Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
by Eliasson, Olafur. Madeleine Grynsztejn, Editor. Foreword by Neal Benezra, Director
San Francisco / New York: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art / Thames and Hudson, 2007. First edition / First printing. Illustrated paper-covered boards. Very fine. Issued without dust jacket, a clear archival jacket is supplied. A large, heavy Art book, extra shipping charges will apply.
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$100.00
Técnica aerográfica
by Juan Renau
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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$200.00
Dale Chihuly: Chihuly: Glass.
by CHIHULY, Dale. Introduction by Linda Norden
(Pawtuxet Cove, RI): Dale Chihuly, 1982 Signed by Chihuly and inscribed : For Chuck My very best Chihuly 1984. First edition / First printing. Green cloth. Fine in a about fine dust jacket. Back panel of the jacket has a wrinkle in the laminate, which was common with this title. The first monograph on the artist, preceded only by by an exhibition catalogue for the Renwick Museum (1978).
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$120.00
