Arti decorative e design

Muebles Venezolanos: Siglos XVI, XVII Y XVIII

Duarte, Carlos F. · 1966 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$175.00 (€158.78 | £132.46 | ¥27,945)

Caracas, Venezuela, 1966. Hardcover. Blue cloth with yellow lettering at spine and on front cover; BW pictorial cardboard slipcase; 189 pp.; 223 bw photos. Text is in Spanish. Presents examples of Venezuelan furniture from the 16th-18th centuries. Considers the histories of Cr...

Arts of the Pennsylvania Germans

Swank, Scott T. · 1983 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

Winterthur, Delaware, The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1983. stated first. Hardcover. Brown cloth/boards; gilt lettering on spine; 310 pp. with 49 color images and 297 bw illustrations. No dust jacket. Errata Sheet attached. Furniture, earthenware, metalwork, glass...

Vetro Veneziano, 1890-1990

Mentasti, Rosa Barovier · 1992 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Arsenale Editrice, 1992. Hardcover. Cream cloth, white & illus. dust jacket, 207 pp. many color illus. kept in matching glossy black and color illus. board slipcase. Text is in Italian. Explores the realm of Venetian glass across one century. Includes exquisite color close-up ...

The Great Spring Sale of Fine & Scarce Antique Arms, Amour and Militaria (2 Vols. )

Czerny's · 2013 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Sarzana, Italy, Czerny's, 2013. Hardcover. 2 vols. Color illus. and glossy boards, vol. I = 342 pp. vol. II = shrink wrapped, ca. 300+ pp. both highly illus. in color. The two-volume set detailing the military-oriented offerings at this May 2013 auction (catalogue A40). A tota...

Dress and Ornaments in Ancient Peru: Archaeological and Historical Studies

Montell, Gosta · 1929 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Goteborg, Elanders Boktryckeri Aktiebol AG (Printers), 1929. Inscribed. Hardcover. Original tan wraps bound into hardbound volume with grey cloth. Original front cover pasted onto cloth front cover. 262 pp. with 99 bw figures and a bw map; plus Appendix (with 3 bw images). Tex...

Wrought Iron in Architecture: An Illustrated Survey

Geerlings, Gerald K. · 1983 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

New York, New York, Dover, 1983. Softcover. Bw photographic card wraps with white lettering. 202 pp.; 324 bw figures. Includes examples of wrought iron architectural ornamentation from Italy, Spain, France, Holland, Belgium, England, Germany, and America, in photos and drawing...

Hemslojd: Den Svenska Hemslojden Fram Til 1800-Talets Slut

Nylen, Anna-Maja · 1972 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Lund, Hakan Ohlssons Forlag, 1972. Hardcover. Color-illustrated cream cloth/boards. Black lettering. 424 pp. with 63 color and 585 bw illustrations. No dust jacket. Swedish handicrafts until the end of the 1800s. Text in Swedish. Several chapters with sub-sections: Discusses H...

40 Under 40: Craft Futures

Bell, Nicholas R. et al. · 2012 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

Washington, D.C. Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum / Yale University Press, 2012. Hardcover. Cream canvas with green numbers on front cover, 260 pp. many color & BW illus. Issued in conjunction with a 2012-2013 exhibition that "examines the expanding role ...

Colonial Ironwork in Old Philadelphia: The Craftsmanship of the Early Days of the Republic

Wallace, Philip B. · 1967 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, New York, Bonanza Books, 1967. REPRINT EDITION. Hardcover. Blue cloth over boards with tan paper DJ; 147 pp.; 150+ bw photos and illustrations. Introduction by Fiske Kimball; Features over 150 photos and detailed drawings of examples of colonial ironwork in Philadelp...

The Handwrought Object, 1776-1976

Press, Nancy Neumann · 1976 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Ithaca, NY, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 1976. Softcover. Rust wraps. 55 pp. 91 bw plates. Exhibition catalogue from July to August 1976. Contains a preface and 4-page essay with 8 notes by Nancy Neumann Press, a bibliography, and a laid-in address lis...

Metalwork (Catalogue of Medieval Objects)

Netzer, Nancy and Richard Newman · 1991 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1991. Hardcover. Tan cloth, gilt letters on spine & front cover, gilt decoration on front cover; 198 pp. 66+ BW illus, some color plates. Title on spine: Medieval Objects - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. A single volume of at least a three-volume set...

The Hand of the Master: Craftsmanship, Ivory, and Society in Byzantium (9th-11th Centuries)

Cutler, Anthony · 1994 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$90.00 (€81.66 | £68.12 | ¥14,372)

Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1994. Hardcover. Cream canvas, olive & sage & illus. dust jacket, 293 pp. 247 BW illus. 8 color plates. "The first detailed study in fifty years of Byzantine ivory carving in the tenth and eleventh centuries, the era when work...

Double-Woven Treasures from Old Peru

Cahlander, Adele and Suzanne Baizerman · 1985 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

Minneapolis, Dos Tejedoras, 1985. Hardcover. Mottled, red leatherette boards with gilt lettering. 198 pp. with 20 color plates; bw illustrations of all sorts throughout, numbered by chapter. Pre-Columbian double cloth is one of the world's great textile traditions. This book t...

Tiffany Dreaming in Glass - Sale: N09242 Tiffany

Sotheby's · 2014 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, Sotheby's, 2014. Softcover. White & color illus. wraps, 116 pp. many color illus. Sale: N09242 TIFFANY. Issued in conjunction with a 2014 auction of 40 lots exemplifying Tiffany glass work. Includes essays by Sandy Van den Broek and Paul Doros. The offerings include ...

Lariqueza Del Bordado Eclesiastico En Checoslovaquia ; El Nino Jesus de Praga

Drobna, Zoroslava and Bohumir Lifka · 1949 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Prague, Sfinx, 1949. Hardcover. Red cloth/boards; gilt lettering. Color-illus. dj with white lettering on blue spine. 70 pp. text, followed by 103 color and bw plates. Two long essays in one volume. Text in Spanish. The Wealth of Ecclesiastical Embroidery in Czechoslovakia and...

Worcester Porcelain: A Description of the Ware from the Wall Period to the Present Day. Illustrated by Ninety-Two Collotypes and Seventeen Chromo-Lithographs

Hobson, R. L. · 1910 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$72.00 (€65.32 | £54.50 | ¥11,497)

London, Bernard Quaritch, 1910. Hardbound. Heavily embossed blue cloth with gilt letters on spine & front cover; gilt decoration on front cover; light blue paper dust jacket protected by tissue and mylar cover; xi, 208. 17 tipped-in chromo-lithographs & 92 collotype plates. "T...

Staffordshire Portrait Figures [of the Victorian Age]

Balston, Thomas · 1960 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

Newton, Massachusetts, Charles T. Branford Company, 1960. U.S. edition. Hardcover. Gray cloth with red title block and gilt letters on spine, olive and color illus. dust jacket, 93 pp. of text plus 51 BW plate pages. A survey of Victorian Staffordshire portrait figures, based ...

Staffordshire Portrait Figures [of the Victorian Age]

Balston, Thomas · 1960 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

Newton, Massachusetts, Charles T. Branford Company, 1960. U.S. edition. Hardcover. Gray cloth with red title block and gilt letters on spine, 93 pp. of text plus 51 BW plate pages. A survey of Victorian Staffordshire portrait figures, based on the author's own collection, whic...

Pouring Vessel Vagaries

Pickman, Dudley Leavitt · 1938 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Mythology Company, 1938. Hardbound. Black cloth with gilt letters on spine & front cover, and mounted color plate on front cover. 200 pp. profusely illustrated in bw, color frontispiece. With wax paper dust jacket, and in original pink paper slipc...

Porcelain of the Nineteenth Century

Antoinette Fay-Halle, Barbara Mundt · 1983 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

New York, Rizzoli, 1983. Hardbound. Blue cloth with gilt lettering; red, color-illustrated dustjacket with blue lettering, in Gaylord cover. 302 pp. with 405 bw and 80 color plates. Surveys the entire development of European porcelain between the Napoleonic era and the First W...