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Fine French Furniture & Chinese Ceramics

Durand, Pierre and Conor Mahony (Foreword) · 2003 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, The Chinese Porcelain Company, 2003. Hardcover. Quarto. Hardcover. Grey cloth, white ill. DJ. 84 pp. 26+ color plates. Published to accompany the Fall 2003 exhibition. VG. A few small tears around top of dj. May have bookplate .

Handwoven Textiles of Early New England: The Legacy of a Rural People, 1640 - 1880

Bogdonoff, Nancy Dick · 1975 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Harrisburg, Stackpole Books, 1975. Softcover. Yellow pictorial wraps. 192 pp. Numerous bw ills. Author examines early homeweaving techniques, products and uses. Reveals information about early practices of weaving, as well as social, economic and political factors. VG, signed ...

From Paris to St. Petersburg: Important French and Russian Furniture and Works of Art: An Exhibition and Sale : 6-31 October 1998

Goodbody, Richard; Cummings, James · 1998 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

The Chinese Porcelain Company, 1998. Hardcover. Quarto. Hardcover. Black cloth boards in illustrated jacket with gilt titles. 106 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm. VG. Bookplate inside.

The Art of German Stoneware, 1300-1900: From the Charles W. Nichols Collection and the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Hinton, Jack · 2012 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2012. Softcover. Glossy, color-illus. grey wraps with white lettering. 60 pp. with numerous illustrations. Beautiful and eminently useful, stonewares produced in the German-speaking lands from the Middle Ages onward were highly va...

The Influence of Ottoman Turkish Textiles and Costume in Eastern Europe with Particular Reference to Hungary (History, Technology, and Art, Monograph 4)

Gervers, Veronika · 1982 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Toronto, The Royal Ontario Museum, 1982. Softcover. Dusky rose and cream decorated wraps, 168 pp. 85 BW illus. "A considerably enlarged version of an essay presented at the symposium on 'Islam and the Balkans' organized in connection with the World of Islam Festival in July 19...

American Furniture 1995

Beckerdite, Luke · 1995 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$44.00 (€39.92 | £33.30 | ¥7,027)

Hanover, NH, The Chipstone Foundation, 1995. Softcover. Color pictorial wraps with white lettering; xii, 298 pp.; Numerous bw & color plates. "In recent years American furniture history has become a vital, evolving, and increasingly popular area of inquiry focusing not just on...

Historical Costumes of England; from the Eleventh to the Twentieth Century

BRADFIELD, NANCY. · 1970 · The Old Bookshelf, UK

£85.95 (€103.04 | $113.57 | ¥18,138)

United Kingdom: Harrap, 1970. Third Edition; Fifth Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0245599363. Near Fine 1985 3rd Edition reprint hardcover (stated) in Very Good dustjacket. Clean black cloth boards, very lightly bumped to spine ends. Internally, no writing or stamps. Clean, bright...

Ways of Seeing

BERGER, John (1926-1917) · 1972 · Fine Editions Ltd

$499.00 (€452.73 | £377.64 | ¥79,693)

Harmondsworth & London British Broadcasting Corporation & Penguin Books Scarce true First Edition ("First published 1972) of this provocative art history text, based on the BBC television series. The first hardcover edition, published in New York, appeared only the following y...

Researches on Light: an examination of all the phenomena connected with the chemical and molecular changes produced by the influence of the solar rays; embracing all the known photographic processes, and new discoveries in the art [Robert Were Fox's copy]

HUNT, Robert (1807–1887) · 1844 · Fine Editions Ltd

$1,774.00 (€1,609.50 | £1,342.55 | ¥283,319)

London Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster-Row First Edition of this key scientific study of the action and effect of solar rays on various chemicals used in photography, and generally considered the first history of that art, uncut and entirely unopened in the or...

A Guide to the Windows of King's College Chapel Cambridge

JAMES, Montague Rhodes (1862–1936) · 1899 · Fine Editions Ltd

$424.00 (€384.68 | £320.88 | ¥67,715)

London C. J. Clay and Sons Scarce First Edition of this description and brief history of the stained-glass windows in King's College chapel, together with explanations of their symbolism. 8vo (): 38pp. Publisher's sage green paper wrappers printed in black. A Fine copy (except...

The Vein in the Marble

TENNANT, Stephen (1906-1987); Pamela Grey (1871-1928) · 1925 · Fine Editions Ltd

$724.00 (€656.86 | £547.92 | ¥115,627)

London Philip Allan & Company First Edition First (and only) Printing of this scarce book of verse, tales, and illustration, a collaboration between Tennant, "brightest" of the "Bright Young People," and Pamela Grey, Lady Glenconner (famously painted by John Singer Sargent) an...

Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms used in architecture, civil, architecture, naval, building and construction, early and ecclesiastical art, engineering, civil, engineering, mechanical, fine art, mining, surveying, etc. To which are added explanatory observations on numerous subjects connected with practical art and science

WEALE, John (1791-1862) · 1849 · Fine Editions Ltd

$349.00 (€316.64 | £264.12 | ¥55,737)

London J. Weale Scarce First Edition of this dictionary of architectural terms, summing up mid-century practice and terminology. Complete in four parts over two volumes. Foolscap 8vo (177 x 109mm): 4,276pp; 277-564pp, with frontispiece, tables, and numerous text engravings. Pu...

Proses et bois originaux

BELOT, Gabriel (1882-1962) · 1919 · Fine Editions Ltd

$176.00 (€159.68 | £133.20 | ¥28,108)

Paris E. F. D'Allignan One of 300 numbered copies on Rives à la forme, from a limited edition of 347, of Belot's fourth book. Text in French. 8vo (285 X 210mm): [68]pp on double-fold sheets, divided into seven sections and profusely illustrated with woodcuts in black and illum...

The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even. A Typographic Version by Richard Hamilton of Marcel Duchamp's Green Box, Translated by George Heard Hamilton; [together with] The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even Again: A Reconstruction by Richard Hamilton of Marcel Duchamp’s Large Glass

DUCHAMP, Marcel (1887-1968); Richard Hamilton (interprets); George Heard Hamilton (translates) · 1963 · Fine Editions Ltd

$649.00 (€588.82 | £491.16 | ¥103,649)

London Percy Lund, Humphries & Co. First British Edition On offer are two complementary works: the artist Richard Hamilton's typographic interpretation of Marcel Duchamp's Green Box (1963) and the scarce documentation of Hamilton's yearlong reconstruction of Duchamp's "The Lar...

AHH 2: Love the ART HATE: ART HATE Graphics 1972-2010 [Signed]

CHILDISH, Billy (b. 1959); Harry Adams · 2010 · Fine Editions Ltd

$274.00 (€248.59 | £207.36 | ¥43,759)

London L-13 First Edition (so stated), one of only 500 copies privately published for subscribers. Oblong royal 8vo (210 x 230): [2],7-230pp, copiously illustrated in color throughout. Publisher's saffron quarter-cloth over thick card boards, spine lettered in black, paper AHH...

Mornings in Florence: Being Simple Studies of Christian Art, for English Travellers. I. Santa Croce II. The Golden Gate III. Before the Soldan IV. The Vaulted Book V. The Strait Gate VI. The Shepherd's Tower. 1877

RUSKIN, John (1819-1900) · 1875 · Fine Editions Ltd

$649.00 (€588.82 | £491.16 | ¥103,649)

London George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent [through 1881] First Editions (excepting Santa Croce, which is a second edition, with preface folios in Roman numerals), complete in six parts, of this great classic on Renaissance art. Crown 8vo (172 x 115mm): iv,23,[1]; [4],25-...

[Auction Catalogues] The W. H. Bruton Collections. Catalogue of the very choice collections of printed books, autograph letters and book illustrations, also drawings by Thomas Rowlandson : the property of the late Henry William Bruton, Esq., Bewick House, Gloucester . . . including one of the finest known copies of The Pickwick Papers . . . very fine unpublished drawings . . . by Thomas Rowlandson . . . books illustrated by George Cruikshank . . . ; [with] frontispiece to Roland’s Comic Songs by Cruikshank; [and with] The Chignon, etching by Cruikshank.

SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE [BRUTON, Henry William, 1843-1920] · 1921 · Fine Editions Ltd

$949.00 (€861.00 | £718.20 | ¥151,561)

London Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge Limited Edition Large Paper copies, each number 3 of 125 sets of which 60 were for sale, with printed prices and buyer’s names. Complete in two volumes (Printed Books and Old Engravings). Royal 8vo (277 x 182mm): [2],iv,62,[2],vii,[1], with po...

Living Painters. With an Introduction by Roger Fry

GRANT, Duncan (1885-1978) · 1930 · Fine Editions Ltd

$1,024.00 (€929.05 | £774.96 | ¥163,539)

London Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 52 Tavistock Square New Edition, bound from first edition sheets with cancel title page and newly printed covers reproducing the design of the first edition. Total print run, combining first and new editions, was only 101...

Nine Abstract Artists, their Work and Theory

ALLOWAY, Lawrence (1926-1990) · 1954 · Fine Editions Ltd

$274.00 (€248.59 | £207.36 | ¥43,759)

London Alec Tiranti First edition.  Slim foolscap 8vo (179 x 124mm): 38pp and 56 full-page plates. Publisher's original pictorial paper-covered boards, dust jacket repeating cover design by William Scott (one of the nine artists), priced 7s / 6d. Neat ownership inscription and...

Panoramic San Francisco, from California Street Hill, 1877; [Photobook] [offered with:] One City / Two Visions : San Francisco panoramas, 1878 and 1990 [Signed]

MUYBRIDGE, Eadweard (1830-1904); KLETT, Mark · 19101990 · Fine Editions Ltd

$851.00 (€772.09 | £644.03 | ¥135,910)

San Francisco Thomas C. Russell [and] Bedford Arts Folding halftone (11 panels) of Eadweard Muybridge’s famed 360-degree panoramic view of San Francisco made from the original seventeen-foot-long photograph. With margins, the folding halftone measures 1511 x 171mm and folds in...