Arti decorative e design

The Early Chirico

SOBY, JAMES THRALL · 1941 · Ultramarine Books

$85.00 (€77.12 | £64.33 | ¥13,575)

New York, Dodd, Mead, & Company. 1941, First Edition. Cloth, 4to. 120 pp. followed by 69 b&w full-page plates; color frontispiece. With brief reference to Chirico's childhood the text covers, roughly, 1905-1920; the plates 1910-1917. Gift inscriptions on the front free endpape...

Fourteen Americans

MILLER, DOROTHY C. (EDITED BY) WITH STATEMENTS BY THE ARTISTS AND OTHERS · 1946 · Ultramarine Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

New York, The Museum of Modern Art. 1946, First Edition. Pictorial Paper Boards, 4to. 80 pages; 80 b&w plates. Aronson, Culwell, Gorky, Hare, MacIver, Motherwell, Noguchi, Pereira, Pickens, Price Roszak, Sharrer, Steinberg, Tobey. Clean throughout; tight binding, about fine wi...

The Sharples: Their Portraits of George Washington and His Contemporaries

KNOX, KATHARINE MCCOOK · 1930 · Ultramarine Books

$80.00 (€72.58 | £60.54 | ¥12,776)

New Haven, Yale University Press. 1930, First Edition. Cloth, 4to. 134 pages; 129 b&w portrait reproductions, including 35 of George Washington and 3 of Martha Washington. Each portrait of the Washingtons includes media (usually pastel) and owner. Fascinating story of a family...

Rembrandt

MENPES, MORTIMER, WITH AN ESSAY ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF REMBRANDT BY C. LEWIS HIND · 1905 · Ultramarine Books

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

London, Adam and Charles Black. 1905. Decorated cloth boards, 4to. 50 pp.+ 2 adverisements; 16 color plates laid-on with tissue guards; text and plates on heavy paper stock. Leaves unopened. First signature, including frontispiece and title page is loose. Boards are soiled and...

Handbook of the Collection - Walters Art Gallery

ANONYMOUS · 1936 · Ultramarine Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Baltimore, Maryland, Walters Art Gallery. 1936. Cloth, 4to. Collection Guide, 178 pages; b&w illustrations throughout. The collection of Henry Walters who built the Gallery. Laid-in loosely are two folded sheets: Guide to the Exhibitions, which have floor plans and a list of c...

Chardin

DENVIR, BERNARD · 1950 · Ultramarine Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York, Harper & Brothers. 1950, First American Edition. Cloth, Small 4to. 18 pages text followed by plates, 39 in-all, including 5 color. Very Good/Good.

Art of the European Iron Age: A Study of the Elusive Image

MEGAW, J.V.S. · 1970 · Ultramarine Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

New York, Harper & Row. 1970, 1st U.S Edition. Cloth, 4to. 196 pages text followed by 306 photographic plates, most b&w, some color; endpaper maps; chronological chart. All manner of objects, materials and design are catalogued. Clean throughout; tight binding; essentially unb...

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: Images of the 1890s

CASTLEMAN, RIVA AND WOLFGANG WITTROCK · 1985 · Ultramarine Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

New York, The Museum of Modern Art. 1985, First Edition. (ISBN: 0870705962). Cloth, 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 264 pages; 207 b&w, 84 color illustrations. His biography; he and the art of his century; his popularization. Chronology with illustrations. Pages are lightly age-dar...

Realms of Heroism: Indian Paintings at the Brooklyn Museum

POSTER, AMY G. WITH SHEILA R. CANBY; PRAMOD CHANDRA; JOAN M. CUMMINS · 1994 · Ultramarine Books

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

The Brooklyn Museum. 1994, First Edition. (ISBN: 0872731316). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 352 pages; 255 illustrations, color and b&w. The range of India's cultural heroes, from historical figures to mythic heroes and heroines; some works were com...

Jan Vermeer

WHEELOCK, ARTHUR K., JR. · 1988 · Ultramarine Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

New York, Harry N. Abrams. 1988, First Edition. (ISBN: 0810917378). Cloth, Tall 4to. 128 pages; 97 illustrations, including 40 full-page color plates; some b&w illustrations are photographs, including X-ray studies. The volume "contains every one of Vermeer's authenticated wor...

An American Gallery - Volume V

WIDING, ERIC P.AND RICHARD T. YORK (EDITORS) · 1989 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York, Richard York Gallery. 1989. Printed Wrapper (softcover), Square 8vo. Gallery catalogue, 38 color plates; 34 artists represented. Most surprising is the assemblage by Arthur Dove: pinecones, branches, bark, horseshoe crab shell, painted glass. Clean throughout; tight ...

American Masters: A Selection of Works from the Gerald Peters Gallery

PETERS, GERALD P. · 1990 · Ultramarine Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Santa Fe, The Gerald Peters Gallery. 1990. (ISBN: 0935937179). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. 55 color plares with catalogue entries on the opposite verso. 37 artists are represented, all justly called Masters. Clean throughout; tight binding. Fine.

Grandma Moses

KALLIR, OTTO · 1974 · Ultramarine Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

New York, Harry N. Abrams. 1974. (ISBN: 0810920530). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. 160 pages; 172 illustrations, color and b&w. New Concise NAL (New American Library) Edition. The art and personality, the life of Anna Mary Robertson Moses. The story of her life is woven ...

Patrick Henry Bruce, American Modernist

AGEE, WILLIAM C.; BARBARA ROSE · 1979 · Ultramarine Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, The Museum of Modern Art. 1979. (ISBN: 0870702602). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), Oblong 8vo. Exhibition / Sale Catalogue, 228 pages; 203 b&w illustrations, 35 color plates; Catalogue Raisonné at the back catalogues 183 works, including 56 lost paintings. American c...

Paul Mellon's Legacy: A Passion for British Art

ANONYMOUS (CHRISTIE'S) · 2007 · Ultramarine Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.05 | ¥1,278)

Yale Center for British Art. 2007. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 8vo. 23 pages; 9 color illustrations, b&w photo of Mr. Mellon. On the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of the Yale Center Center for British Art and remembering its founder. This small volum...

The Forgotten Collector, Augustus Wollaston Franks of the British Museum

WILSON, DAVID M. · 1985 · Ultramarine Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.05 | ¥1,278)

New York, Thames and Hudson. 1985, 1st U.S Edition. (ISBN: 0500550166). Cloth, 8vo. 64 pages; 39 b&w illustrations. Franks was Keeper of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography for the British Museum during the 19th Century; he is responsible for the purchase of many ...

Shakespeare's Flowers

KERR, JESSICA · 1969 · Ultramarine Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

New York, Thomas Y. Crowell. 1969, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo. Ill.: Anne Ophelia Dowden. 86 pages; more than 35 beautifully color-illustrated plants that pop-up in Shakespeare's plays. Captions by the author describe the plants' uses in Elizabethan England. Clean throughout; j...

The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection

LITTLE, NINA FLETCHER · 1957 · Ultramarine Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

Williamsburg, Virginia, Colonial Williamsburg. 1957, First Edition. quarter-cloth & marbled boards, 8vo. 404 pages; 165 full-page color reproductions with catalogue entries; 259 works not illustrated are listed and described. Bibliography; Notes on Conservation; Artists Repres...

Tutankhamen: Life and Death of a Pharaoh

DESROCHES-NOBLECOURT, CHRISTIANE · 1964 · Ultramarine Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

New York Graphic Society. 1964. Cloth, 4to. Ill.: F.L. Kenett (photographs). 312 pages; 75 color photographs; 187 b&w illustrations. At the back, List of Principal Characters; Notes on color plates by Dr. Anwar Shoukry. The author was Chief Curator of the National Museums of F...

Important American Paintings

SALERNO, LOUIS M. (PREFACE); JENNIFER C. KRIEGER (CATALOGUE); [ET AL] · 2005 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

New York, Questroyal Fine Art. 2005. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), Slim 8vo. Gallery catalogue, 52 works reproduced on color plates, full-page; 42 artists are represented. Bierstadt, Bricher, Cole Cropsey, Corot, Daubigny, Hartley, Gifford, Herzog, Inness, Kensett, Kent, Mora...