European Art
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The Rape Of Europa
by Lynn H Nicholas
The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War is the title of a book and a subsequent documentary film. The book, by Lynn Nicholas, explores the Nazi plunder of looted art treasures from occupied countries, and the consequences.
Exposed
by Alison Smith
Alison Smith is a curator at Tate Britain and the author of The Victorian Nude: Sexuality, Morality, and Art. She lives in London, England.
European Art Books & Ephemera
Resonanzen : Aspekte der Klangkunst / Resonances : Aspects of Sound Art (includes CD)
by Schulz, Bernd (ed.), Helga de la Motte-Haber, Robin Minard, Michael Glasmeier, Bernhard Leitner (interview), Andres Bosshard, et al
Heidelberg, Germany: Kehrer Verlag / Stadtgalerie Saarbrucken, 2002. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 176pp, printed boards. Includes CD. Text in German and English. Includes contextual essays as well as coverage of specific artists. Nice copy (just about as new), CD does not appear to have been played. No markings, not a remainder.
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$200.00
English Popular and Traditional Art
by Lambert, Margaret and Mark, Enid:
William Collins London 1946 . First Edition. Part Of The Britain In Pictures set . Brown decorative boards with G DJ in same design. 7x9", 48 pages with eight color plates and 30 b/w illustrations.
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£15.00
Jean Muir
by Stempe, Sinty
Easthampton, MA: Antique Collectors Club, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. 4to. 176 pp. Bound in black boards stamped in silver on cover and spine in illustrated dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in full color and black and white. Includes chronology and index. Very Good+, previous owner's lengthy inscription to Table of Contents page, otherwise clean and bright, minor rubbing to extremities of binding, in Very Good dust jacket with minor wear to extremities and scuffing.
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$40.00
Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting
by Storr, Robert
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2003. 3rd pr.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 303 illustrations 138 in color. Essay by Robert Storr and with an interview of Richter by Storr as well. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations, artist chronology, list of previous exhibitions, and a selected bibliography. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY February 14-May 21, 2002. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Record # 353596
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$100.00
Emil Nolde
by Haftmann, Werner
DUMONT Literatur und Kunst Verlag, 1988. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 13x10x1. 1988 edition. The binding is tight, bottom corner of the front panel lightly bumped. German text is unmarked. Gift inscription on the FFEP. Tipped in color plates. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover. 4to. 140pp.
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$25.00
Original Watercolour for Highways & Byways in Surrey - Eashing, Surrey
by Hugh Thomson
1908. No Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. Hugh Thomson. This is the original watercolour, by Hugh Thomson, used for the picture of Eashing in chapter XI of the book by Eric Parker. The image is 11 X 8.5" and is framed and glazed by Edward Walker & Co of Coleraine, N.I., where Hugh Thomson originated. The image is clean and tidy although the inside of the glass has some spots on it and the picture would benefit from reglazing. This is a heavy item and will attract additional P&P if sent...
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£450.00
Art In Progress: Barbara Hepworth Signed & Dated by the Sculptress
by Michael SHEPHERD / Barbara HEPWORTH interest
48pp, with photographic illustrations. 1st Edition / 1st Printing. Near Very Good cndition with minor marks to covers. Handsigned in blue to the title page "Barbara Hepworth St Ives 31/10/64". No other inscriptions.
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£145.00
Chris Ofili. Weaving Magic
by Finaldi, Gabriele; Ofili, Chris
London: The National Gallery / Victoria Miro. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. 2017. First Edition. Illustrated hardback laminated board cover. 260mm x 220mm (10" x 9"). 124pp. Colour plates. The story of 'The Caged Bird's Song' - Ofili's acclaimed monumental tapestry. Christopher Ofili, CBE is a British Turner Prize-winning painter who has utilized resin, beads, oil paint, glitter, lumps of elephant dung, cut-outs from porn magazines as painting elements. His...
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£150.00
Jacob Jordaens
by Hulst, Roger Adolf D'
London: Mercatorfonds, 1982. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket and publisher's slipcase. Published London: Mercatorfonds, 1982, first printing. Folio, 10 1/4" x 13 1/4", 375pp., illustrated with 252 b/w and color plates. Brown and white cloth with gilt titles. "In this magnificently produced volume, R.-A. d'Hulst analyzes critically Jacob Jordaen's output, including the large number of works that have recently come to light. He also clarifies which works are authentic...
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$125.00
Frederic, Lord Leighton: Eminent Victorian Artist
by Ormond, Richard; Ormond, Leonee; Newall, Christopher; Jones, Stephen and Read, Benedict
NY: Abrams, 1996. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Abrams, 1996, first printing. Folio, 10 1/4" x 12 1/8", 256pp., 222 illustrations, 128 plates in full color. Fine in mylar sleeved, fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. Folio.
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$125.00
Flora Conspicua
by Richard Morris [William Clark illustrator]
Lovely copy of a very ornamental Georgian gardening book with plates by William Clark.
Complete with 60 finely hand-coloured engravings on steel of popular garden flowers including chrysanthemum, cyclamen, lily, lobelia, delphinium, amaryllis, azalea, wisteria, magnolia, rhododendron, poppy, peony, passionflower, Japanese quince, etc. One double page plate of a huge Chinese Moutan peony.
Drawn and engraved on steel from living specimens by William Clark.
First published in parts, each with four... Read more about this item
Complete with 60 finely hand-coloured engravings on steel of popular garden flowers including chrysanthemum, cyclamen, lily, lobelia, delphinium, amaryllis, azalea, wisteria, magnolia, rhododendron, poppy, peony, passionflower, Japanese quince, etc. One double page plate of a huge Chinese Moutan peony.
Drawn and engraved on steel from living specimens by William Clark.
First published in parts, each with four... Read more about this item
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$1950.00
A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings by the Late John Kay
by John Kay
Very good copy of the second edition of John Kay's idiosyncratic portraits of celebrities and eccentrics in Georgian Edinburgh.With 358 (of 360) engraved copperplates bound in four volumes. (Plates 84, Right Hon. Charles Hope, and 108, Robert Craig Esq., in Volume 2 apparently never bound in.)With many amusing caricatures of late eighteenth century Edinburgh society, including economist Adam Smith, aeronaut Vincent Lunardi, riding master Angelo Tremamundo, philosopher Thomas Paine, author William...
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$900.00
Flowers from an Indian Garden
by [Emily Eden]
A delightful Victorian botanical book by an aristocratic amateur artist living in IndiaTinted title page, 12 chromolithographic plates: preface printed in gold with botanical border, and 11 fine botanical plates each with text leaf printed in gold. Very fine botanical plates including group of flowers from Bombay, wild flowers from Mahableshwar, tulip tree, tuberose, Asian bleeding heart, jungle geranium, Bengal rose, crepe myrtle, tamarind, passionflower, lotus and the extinct Magnolia pterocarpa.Emily...
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$2000.00
REMBRANDT
by Meijer, E. R
New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1960. Part of the Gallery of Great Masters series. 64 plates, about 1/3 in color. Some of the black and white plates are followed by close-up studies of a part of the painting (see scan). Near fine (rubbed cover edges, one plate is loose but undamaged--it's the one in the scan) in very good+ dust jacket (slightly tanned flaps and rear cover; mild edgewear along top with one short closed tear on rear panel). . 1st American edition. Hard Cover.
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$12.00
Mountain Ecstasy
by SLINGER, Penny (1947- ); DOUGLAS, Nik
Paris: Dragon's Dream, March 1978. First Edition. Pictorial Wraps. Near fine. Printed in Holland by Chevalier Rotterdam. 4to (29 x 21cm). Pictorial card wraps. pp. 158. A startling, at times unsettling collection of photographic collage from found images, often in unexpected combinations of sexual encounter. Of the book, Slinger writes: "I discovered Tantric Art at an exhibition at the Hayward gallery in the early 1970s. Several years later I was able to explore this in depth with my partner, Nik...
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£152.10
The Tudor Image
by Howard, Maurice
Tate Gallery, 1996. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. pictorial gloss card covers, a very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text, illustrated in colour and b&w, 80pp.
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£5.65
The Western Front; Drawings by Muirhead Bone; with an introduction by Douglas Haig
by Bone, Muirhead; Haig, Douglas Haig
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1917. Very Good. 10 parts in 2 portfolios: illustrations, portraits; 32 cm. Brown cloth spine with printed paper spine label; brown paper over boards, printed in black. With original wrapper for each of 10 parts. Each portfolio contains 100 plates, with text, issued in fascicles of 20 plates each. Each portfolio lists the contents on the back board. Although the portfolios give George H. Doran as the publisher, the individual parts give Doubleday, Page & Co., except...
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$103.00
English Women
by Sitwell, Edith:
William Collins London 1942 . First Edition. Part Of The Britain In Pictures set . Blue decorative boards with G DJ in same design.Written by the celebrated poet from the well-versed Derbyshire family. Clean throughout. 7x9", 48 pages with eight color plates and 27 b/w illustrations.
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£28.00
The National Galley
by Geffroy Gustave
London: Frederick Warne 1904. First edition. Good condition with previous owner name to front free endpaper, some tissue guards creased, foxing to plates, toning to endpapers edge wear, corners worn through, soiling to covers, spine darkened and rubbed. See photos bx708
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$25.00
Cecil Rice. Venice, Sunlight and Water. Signed copy
by Cooper, Zoe
Harwich: Halsgrove / Obsession Publishing. VG : in very good condition with dust jacket. 2006. First Edition. Black hardback cloth cover. 250mm x 270mm (10" x 11"). 114pp. Signed by Cecil Rice on the fep. .
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£56.00
The Huntington Art Collection
by Wark, Robert R. (Compiler)
San Marino, California: The Huntington Library. Very Good. 1970. First Edition. Soft Cover. KB#006636: LCCN# 77-128364. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Cover corners are slightly creased. Content Chapters include BRITISH ART: Paintings * Miniature Portraits * Drawings and Watercolors * Sculpture * Silver * Furniture, Decorative Objects * Chelsea Porcelain - - CONTINENTAL ART: Renaissance Paintings * Renaissance Bronze Statuettes * French Eighteenth Century Sculpture * French Furniture, Tapestries,...
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$22.00
The Dun Emer Press, Later the Cuala Press
by Miller, Liam
Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1973. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo. 132 pp. Bound in full blue cloth, white paper title label printed in red and black on front cover, white paper title label printed in black on spine. Illustrations in black and white and red. This is #82 of a limited edition of 250 copies printed to mark the 70th anniversary of the Dun Emer Press and numbered and signed by Liam Miller. Very Good+, light bumping to corners, pages and binding clean and bright. Excellent copy...
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$125.00
Botticelli
by Ettlinger, LD & Helen S
London: Thames & Hudson. 1976. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Plates. 216 pages. This is a book that is as rewarding for those who already know Botticelli as for those who are coming to him for the first time. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition (Presumed). Hardback.
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A$20.00
Les Pots de pharmacie: Tome 2
by Fourest, Henri-Pierre ; Sainte-Fare-Garnot , Pierre-Nicolas
Paris: Les Éditions Roger Dacosta, 1982. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. 4to. 230, [2] pp. Bound in full navy cloth, decoration in gilt on cover, title in gilt on spine, in illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated in black and white and full color. Text in French. Includes bibliography. Volume 2 of a planned 9 volume set. Near Fine, light shelf wear, internally bright and clean, in Very Good+ dust jacket with minor shelf wear and scuffing.
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$65.00
The Naturalist's Miscellany:
by George Shaw, Frederick Nodder, Richard Nodder
Rare complete set of 26 volumes of this zoological masterpiece
24 volumes bound in 12 of the Naturalist's Miscellany and 2 volumes bound in 1 of The Zoological Miscellany by William Elford Leach (the continuation published after George Shaw's death with illustrations by Richard Nodder)
With all 1,185 engraved plates in superb hand-colour
Engraved dedication leaf to Queen Charlotte, 1,065 hand-coloured engraved plates in the Naturalist's Miscellany, and 120 hand-coloured engraved plates in The Zoological... Read more about this item
24 volumes bound in 12 of the Naturalist's Miscellany and 2 volumes bound in 1 of The Zoological Miscellany by William Elford Leach (the continuation published after George Shaw's death with illustrations by Richard Nodder)
With all 1,185 engraved plates in superb hand-colour
Engraved dedication leaf to Queen Charlotte, 1,065 hand-coloured engraved plates in the Naturalist's Miscellany, and 120 hand-coloured engraved plates in The Zoological... Read more about this item
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$35000.00
