Arti decorative e design

Inventing Leonardo

TURNER, A. RICHARD · 1994 · Ultramarine Books

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥799)

Berkeley, University of California Press. 1994, First Paperback Printing. (ISBN: 0520089383). Pictorial Wrappers (softcover), 9" x 7". 268 pages; b&w illustrations. Leonardo didn't write an autobiography (too busy with engineering drawings). So, how were his life and the criti...

Eric Gill, Autobiography

GILL, ERIC · 1945 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

New York, The Devin-Adair Company. 1945, Sixth Printing. Cloth, 8vo. 300 pages followed by about 25 pages of illustrations. An Excellent read. A Life. Small punctures to pages 175-176, possibly a staple. Otherwise clean through the text. Old inked price on the front endpaper; ...

Dibujos Espanoles Del Siglo XX: Colecciones Fundacion Mapfre

ALIX, JOSEFINA; CARMEN BERNARDEZ SANCHIS; TERESA CAMPS; EUGENIO CARMONS [ET AL]; PABLO JIMENEZ BURILLO (INTRODUCTION) · 2007 · Ultramarine Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Madrid, Fundacion MAPFRE / Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. 2007. (ISBN: 9788498440607). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), Square 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 180 pages; more than 70 plates with full descriptive entries illustrating the works of over 40 Spanish artists. Clean througho...

Fiery Pool , the Maya and the Mythic Sea

FINAMORE, DANIEL; STEPHEN D. HOUSTON · 2011 · Ultramarine Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

Salem / New Haven, Peabody Essex Museum ; Yale University Press. 2011, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780875772196). Gray linen boards, 12" x 10". Exhibition Catalogue, 328 pages; numerous illustrations, including 99, mostly full-page, color plates. Who connects the Ancient Maya with ...

Gold, Jasper and Carnelian - Johann Christian Neuber at the Saxon Court

KUGEL, ALEXIS (EDITED BY) · 2012 · Ultramarine Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

London, Paul Holberton publishing. 2012, First English Edition. (ISBN: 9781907372360). wine-red cloth, 11" x 9 1/2". 423 pages; lavishly color illustrated. Background history of Dresden, its Court and the tradition of fine work with gemstones in the eighteenth century. The lif...

Art in America (Number 3, 1961)

VARIOUS · 1961 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York, Art in America Company. 1961. Glossy Pictorial Boards, 4to. 152 pages; numerous illustrations, color and b&w. Before and After Columbus; Textiles and Metalwork; Hyman Bloom; Eakins in Washington; Shahn in Amsterdam; On Stage; much more. Clean throughout; tight bindin...

Arts Yearbook 1: The Turn of the Century

VARIOUS · 1957 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York, The Art Digest. 1957. Printed Paper Boards, 12" x 9". 144 pages; numerous illustrations, color and b&w. Modern Art at the Turn of the Century (Hilton Kramer); The World of the Eight (Leslie Katz); The Discovery of Primitive Art; From Pre-Raphaelism to Bloomsbury; New...

25th Art News Annual, 1956 ; XXV

VARIOUS · 1956 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York, The Art Foundation Press. 1956. Pictorial Card Wrappers, 12 1/2" x 9 1/2". 206 pages; numerous illustrations, color and b&w. U.S. Painting, Recent Directions; A Berenson Anthology; M. Nadar; The Etruscans (Robert Graves); Gauguin: return to Symbolism (Herbert Read) ;...

Arts Yearbook 2, Romantic Art

VARIOUS · 1958 · Ultramarine Books

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New York, The Art Digest. 1958. Printed Paper Boards, 12" x 9". 150 pages; numerous illustrations, color and b&w; numerous ads. Delacroix and Baudelaire, a New Epoch in Art and Poetry; History of Painting in Italy by Stendahl; Fantastic Art from Goya to Ensor; The Changing Lan...

Cimaise

VARIOUS · 1970 · Ultramarine Books

$6.00 (€5.44 | £4.54 | ¥958)

Paris, Societe Mondiale d'Impression. 1970. Pictorial Wrappers (softcover), 4to. Periodical, 86 pages; b&w illustrations. Issue: November-December 1970. De Stijl (several articles); Interview w/ Michel Seuphor; interview w/ Nelly van Doesburg; interview w/ Cesar Domela; L'Aube...

A Bicentennial Treasury: American Masterpieces from the Metropolitan / the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin

HOWAT, JOHN K. · 1975 · Ultramarine Books

$7.00 (€6.35 | £5.30 | ¥1,118)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1975. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Art periodical, pps. 165-244; well illustrated, in color and in b&w; paintings and decorative arts. MMA Bulletin Winter 1975/1976. Clean and tight, nearly as new. Very Good.

Furniture 1, Prehistoric Through Rococo with Furniture 2, Neoclassic to the Present

BISHOP, ROBERT & PATRICIA COBLENTZ; KETCHUM, WILLIAM C., JR. · 1979 · Ultramarine Books

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The Smithsonian Institution, Cooper-Hewitt Museum. 1979. quarter-cloth / paper boards, 11" x 8 1/2". Furniture 1: 128 pages; 26 color plates, 99 b&w photographs. Furniture 2: 128 pages; 31 color plates, 98 b&w photographs. Both volumes part of the Smithsonian's Illustrated Lib...

A History of Engraving & Etching from the 15th Century to the Year 1914

HIND, ARTHUR M. · 1963 · Ultramarine Books

$4.00 (€3.63 | £3.03 | ¥639)

New York, Dover Publications, Inc. 1963. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 8vo. 487 pages; 111 illustrations. Lists of Engravers, the Index lists over 2500 artists who are mentioned in the text. General Bibliography. Clean throughout; tight binding; no tears, pages flat. Very Good.

Piero Della Francesca, Poet of Form; the Frescos of San Francesco Di Arezzo

GUILLAUD, JACQUELINE AND MAURICE WITH MARGHERITA MORIONDO LENZINI · 1988 · Ultramarine Books

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

Paris / New York, Guillaud Editions / Clarkson N. Potter. 1988, First Edition. (ISBN: 0515571110). Embossed Silk-covered Boards, 11 1/4" x 11 1/4". 308 pages; 13 primary iillustrations with many additional detail illustrations, all color. The Guillaud standard of printing illu...

Van Dyck As Religious Artist

MARTIN, JOHN RUPERT; GAIL FEIGENBAUM · 1979 · Ultramarine Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Princeton Umiversity, The Art Museum. 1979. (ISBN: 0691003211). Printed Wrapper (softcover), 11"x 10.5". Exhibition Catalogue, 177 pages; 50 illustrated works; 49 comparative illustrations. All are b&w. Interesting connection is drawn from religious art to portraiture. Ex libr...

The Life of Eric Gill

SPEAIGHT, ROBERT · 1966 · Ultramarine Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, P.J. Kenedy & Sons. 1966, First Edition. Black cloth, 8vo. 323 pgaes; illustrtaions of Gill's work and of Gill. A are b&w. The author knew Gill personally and had access to personal papers, including diary notes. Clean throughout; tight binding. Very good/Very Good.

The Hudson River and Its Painters

HOWAT, JOHN K.; JAMES BIDDLE (PREFACE); CARL CARMER (FOREWORD) · 1972 · Ultramarine Books

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

New York, The Viking Press , A Studio Book. 1972, First Edition. Red cloth, 12" x 9.5". 208 pages; more than 100 color plates, the artwork of many artists. Published when conservationists were demanding attention to the pollution and other misuse and abuse of the Hudson and it...

Frederic Taubes

TAUBES, FREDERIC · 1946 · Ultramarine Books

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥799)

New York, American Artists Group. 1946. Pictorial Boards, 6.25" x 4.5". Monograph, Monograph Number 20 of the American Artists Group series. Numerous black&white illustrations of works, many including ownership; color frontispiece. Biography at the back. Worn at the edges; cle...

The Hudson River and Its Painters

HOWAT, JOHN K.; JAMES BIDDLE (PREFACE); CARL CARMER (FOREWORD) · 1983 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

New York, American Legacy Press. 1983. (ISBN: 0517422824). Cloth, 12" x 9.5". 208 pages; 100 plates, most color. First published in 1972 when conservationists were demanding attention to the pollution and other misuse of the Hudson and its surrounds: the book, a brainchild of ...

The Arts of South and Southeast Asia / the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin

LERNER, MARTIN (INTRODUCTION); STEVEN KOSSAK 9TEXT) · 1994 · Ultramarine Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1994. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Museum Bulletin, 88 pages, MMA Bulletin Spring 1994. Thoroughly ilustrated - 95 color photographs. Ancient India, Medieval India, Late India, The Himalayan Kingdoms, Southeast Asia. Clean and t...