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Art Before Columbus: The Art of Ancient Mexico from the Archaic Villages of the Second Millennium B.C. To the Splendor of the Aztecs

EMMERICH, ANDRE · 1963 · Ultramarine Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, Simon and Schuster. 1963, 2nd printing. Embossed Cloth Boards, 8vo. Ill.: Photographs by Lee Boltin. Association Copy, 256 pages. A survey of Mexican pre Columbian art and artifacts illustrated with photographs of objects and ruins. Inscribed by Emmerich to LEWIS GIL...

Furniture Treasury

NUTTING, WALLACE · 1948 · Ultramarine Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

New York, Macmillan. 1948. Cloth, 4to. 2 vols in slipcase. Some fading and rubbed spines. Edge of slipcase worn. One of the classic investigations of the development of American furniture styles. Very Good/No Jacket but a Slipcase.

David to Delacroix

FRIEDLAENDER, WALTER · 1968 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1968, 5th Printing. Cloth. 136 pages with 83 plates. First published in German in 1930, Friedlaender first introduced the terms 'Poussinist' and 'Rubenist' to describe the dominant trends in French art from the 17th century. This classi...

Impressionism: Reflections and Perceptions

SCHAPIRO, MEYER · 1997 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York, George Braziller. 1997. (ISBN: 0-8076-1420-3). Cloth, 4to. 359 pages. Schapiro explores Impressionism and its relationship to contemporary cultural events and features, including photography, the railroad, urban life, science, and literature. An expansion of Schapiro...

The Art of Patronage: The Arts in England 1660-1750

FOSS, MICHAEL · 1972 · Ultramarine Books

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥799)

Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press. 1972. (ISBN: 0-8014-0684-6). Cloth, 8vo. 234 pages. A study of the interrelation of the arts, politics, and society in the century following the Restoration as old patronage systems were abandoned and new ones developed. Figures from...

The Arts Compared: An Aspect of 18th Century British Aesthetics

MALEK, JAMES S. · 1974 · Ultramarine Books

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥799)

Detroit, Wayne State University Press for The Jewish Museum, New York. 1974. (ISBN: 0-8143-1519-4). Cloth, 8vo. 175 pages. An examination of 18th century English aesthetic theory, focusing on the works of both well-known writers such as Dryden and Adam Smith, as well as less f...

The Great Age of Fresco: Giotto to Pontormo

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART · 1968 · Ultramarine Books

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥799)

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1968. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 8vo. Exhibition Catalogue, 233 pages. A landmark exhibition of Early Renaissance Tuscan masterpieces that was organized in collaboration with the Soprintendenza of the Florentine Galleries. Includes ess...

Print Review 11: Honoré Daumier: A Centenary Tribute

STASIK, ANDREW (EDITOR) · 1980 · Ultramarine Books

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥799)

New York, Pratt Graphics Center. 1980. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. 160 pages. A tribute to the leading caricaturist of 19th century. Several essays chart Daumier's career and his impact on American graphic art. Very Good.

The Arts of Ancient China

HEARN, MAXWELL AND WEN FONG · 1973 · Ultramarine Books

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥799)

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. N.d. Unpaginated. An overview of Chinese art from Neolithic through the T'ang Dynasty (7-10th centuries A.D.) with objects from the Metropolitan Museum representing the various eras. MMA Bulletin No. 2 1...

The Edo Culture in Japanese Prints

LEE, GEORGE; ET AL · 1972 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Yale University Art Gallery. 1972. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 46 pages; 14 black and white reproductions representing over 75 prints in the exhibition. Under the Tokugawa shoguns, Edo (Tokyo) became the world's most populous city; a place of powe...

The Great Bronze Age of China: An Exhibition from the Peoples Republic of China

FONG, WEN · 1981 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1981. (ISBN: 0-87099-226-0). Cloth, 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 386 pages. One of the earliest exhibitions following the restoration of relations between China and the US, this was a major scholarly undertaking between the Met's curators, a...

The American Federation of Arts: Exhibitions Program 1999

VARIOUS · 1999 · Ultramarine Books

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New York, American Federation of Arts / Yale University Press. 1999. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), Oblong 8vo. 127 pages.Brief history of this important institution which organizes and supports travelling exhibitions to American museums. With illustrations of future, current,...

Monet in the 20th Century

TUCKER, PAUL HAYES; GEORGE T.M. SHACKELFORD; MARYANNE STEVENS · 1998 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Boston; London; New Haven, Museum of Fine Arts; Royal Academy of Arts; Yale University Press. 1998. (ISBN: 0-900946-65-2). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Exhibition Catalogue, 304 pages; numerous color illustrations, including 4- and 6-page foldouts. Monet's landmark series of...

Winslow Homer Watercolors

HOOPES, DONELSON · 1976 · Ultramarine Books

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥799)

Oxford, Phaidon Press. 1976. (ISBN: 0-8230-2326-5). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. 87 pages. A discussion of Homer's career in watercolor medium from the 1870s to the end of his life in 1910, using the collections of the Brooklyn and Metropolitan Museums. Includes 32 colo...

William Caxton: The First English Editor

DEACON, RICHARD · 1976 · Ultramarine Books

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥799)

London, Frederick Muller Limited. 1976. (ISBN: 0-584-10022-1). Cloth, 8vo. 198 pages. A biography of translator and printer as well as editor William Caxton is set against the tumultous 15th century in England. Small tears in jacket's bottom edge. Very Good/Good.

The Four Londons of William Hogarth

BERRY, ERICK · 1964 · Ultramarine Books

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥799)

New York, David McKay Company. 1964. Cloth, 8vo. 232 pages. Somewhat fictionalized biography of Hogarth. Very Good/Very Good.

The Influence of Spiritual Inspiration on American Art

VARIOUS · 1977 · Ultramarine Books

$7.00 (€6.35 | £5.30 | ¥1,118)

Washington, Smithsonian and Vatican Museums. 1977. Printed Wrapper (softcover), 8vo. Symposium Proceedings, 301 pages. Text in English and Italian. Papers by art historians, museum curators, and artists addressed the impact of religion on American art from the 18th to the 20th...

The Stavelot Triptych: Mosan Art and the Legend of the True Cross

VOELKLE, WILLIAM · 1980 · Ultramarine Books

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New York, Pierpont Morgan Library. 1980. (ISBN: 0-87598-071-6). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 45 pages with 9 color plates. Very Good.

Shaping an American Landscape: The Art and Architecture of Charles A. Platt

MORGAN, KEITH N.; [ET AL] · 1995 · Ultramarine Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Hanover, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College. 1995. (ISBN: 0-87451-705-2). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, pp.xiii; 199. Very well illustrated. Platt was etcher, painter, architect and landscape designer. He helped define the American Renaissance at...

Modern Painters 1931-1970

GLEESON, JAMES · 1979 · Ultramarine Books

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N.p. Lansdowne Australian Art Library. 1979. (ISBN: 0-7018-0501-3). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 8vo. 128 pages. 88 plates.A survey of Australian painting from Modernism through Minimalism. Very Good.