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Sackville-West, Vita · 1947

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

London, Collins, 1947. Fifth printing. Illustrated paper-covered boards. 46, [2] pp. Illus. with 8 color & 23 b/w drawings. Sm. 4to. Britain in Pictures series, No. 15. A very good copy, with foxing an browing to the endpapers from the dust jacket, in a very good dust jacket w...

Vasari's Florence: Artists and Literati at the Medicean Court: An Exhibition to Accompany the International Symposium Organized by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

[Vasari, Giorgio] Gahtan, Maia W. ; Jacks, Philip J. · 1994

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

New Haven, Yale Univ Art Gallery, 1994. First edition. Paper wrappers. 63 pp. Illus. with b/w drawings. Sq. 4to. Yale University Art Gallery, 14 April-15 May 1994. Shelfwear else a fine copy.

[Als] James Montgomery Flagg to Writer and Editor Joe Chapple on Nostalgia and "the Night Before Christmas.

Flagg, James Montgomery · 1927

$300.00 (€272.18 | £227.04 | ¥47,912)

[New York], 1927. [1] pp. 8.5 x 11 inches. In this letter dated Nov 17 /27 Flagg confesses to his friend, Joe Chapple, his affinity for "The Night Before Christmas." Though declaring it doggeral, he continues:"The verse.. that came to my mind as having had a real truth for me ...

La Selva de Los Reptiles

Gonzalez, Joaquin V. Carmen Portela, Maria, ilus · 1953

$600.00 (€544.36 | £454.08 | ¥95,824)

Buenos Aires, Sociedad de Bibliofilos Argentinos, 1953. First edition. Loose quires in glassine covered printed wrappers within a portfolio in slip case. 36 pp. Illus. with 4 b/w plates. 4to. No. 6 of 88 numbered copies (of a run of 100). Printed with Garamond types and specia...

Warm and Cold

Sultan, Donald, and Mamet, David · 1985

$500.00 (€453.64 | £378.40 | ¥79,853)

New York, Fawbush Editions and Solo Press, 1985. First edition. Loose folded sheets as issued with tissue-guards in stiff paper wrappers in blue linen clamshell box. Illus. with 2 tipped-in color photographs and 9 lithographs, most hand-colored. Folio. Number XV of twenty roma...

Japanese Drawing

Bowie, Theodore · 1975

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Bloomington, Indiana Univ. Art Museum, 1975. First edition. Stiff paper wrappers. 165 pp. Illus. with 110 b/w plates and 35 figures. Sm. 4to. Indiana University Art Museum publication no. 1975/1. Published in conjunction with an exhibition and a symposium. Includes essay and d...

Mosaique [from] Recueil de Planches, Sur Les Sciences Les Arts Liberaux, Et Les Arts Méchaniques, Avec Leur Explication

Diderot, Denis and Alembert, Jean Le Rond d' · 1771

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

Paris, Chez Briasson, 1771. Removed. 6 leaves. Folio. Four single leaves of images 42 x 29 cm on 'works and tools', and one double leaf, 42 x 54 cm, Mosaic de Palestrine. Plus one leaf with explication of the engravings. One leaf loose else very good.

[Archive] Illustrations of Gothic and Ostiak Fibuale, Buckles, Pendants

[Medieval Crafts] · 1935

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

1935. 5 leaves. 12x18 inches. Four sheets on cardboard with detailed drawings, usually front and side views, of medieval artifacts. One with Ostiak penciled in, signed Wm. Brodsky dated approximately March 1935. One sheet embossed with words Germany and U.S. Patent. Off. One 8...

Studies in Connoisseurship; Chinese Paintings from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection in New York and Princeton

Fu, Marilyn and Shen · 1973

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

Princeton, The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1973. First edition. Paper wrappers. 384 pp. (375 pp + separate index pages 376-384). Illus. with color frontispiece and numerous b/w images, Folio. Includes the separately issued index usually not found in most copies. A near f...

Oriental Rugs and Carpets Sale 1986, April 29 2000

Skinner · 2000

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Boston, Skinner, 2000. First edition. Illustrated paper wrappers. 106 pp. 4to. 250 items. With prices realized. A very good copy.

The Japanese Sword and Its Decoration

Gunsaulus, Helen C. · 1924

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, 1924. First edition. Paper wrappers. 21 pp. Illus. with 4 b/w plates. 8vo. Field Museum Leaflet Number 20. Field Museum Leaflet Number 20. Gunsaulus was the assistant curator of Japanese ethnology at the Field Museum of Natural History...

The Architecture of the Greenwich Village Waterfront. An Archival Research Study

Kellerman, Regina M., ed · 1998

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, New York University Press, 1998. First edition. Photo-illustrated paper wrappers. v, [1], 138 pp. Folio. 12 x 9 inches. Undertaken for The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. "Most people think that New York City's historic Greenwich Village is total...

Great Merchants of Early New York: "the Ladies' Mile.

Devorkin, Joseph.; Neighbors, Dale L. · 1987

$175.00 (€158.77 | £132.44 | ¥27,949)

New York, Society for the Architecture of the City, 1987. First edition. Quarter cloth over decorated limp cards, laid on photo. Port. frontispiece, 101 pp. Illus. with approx. 200 b/w photos and drawings. 4to. 10 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches. Inscribed by the author on the half title. ...

New York: A Physical History

White, Norval · 1987

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, Atheneum, 1987. First edition. Quarter cloth over paper covered boards. xxx,[2], 269 pp. Illus. with b/w photos. Obl. 8vo. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

New York, New York: How the Apartment House Transformed the Life of the City

Hawes, Elizabeth · 1993

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. First edition. Cloth. xv, 285, [1] pp. 8vo. A fascinating study. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Arts of Asia. Vol. 16 , No. 5. September-October 1986

Nguyet, Tuyet, ed · 1986

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Hong Kong, Tuyet Nguyet, 1986. First edition. Paper wrappers. 144 pp. Illus. with color & b/w photos and reproductions. 4to. Special Japanese Issue. Contents: The Appreciation of Zen Art, by John Stevens; Japanese Potter: Kenji Funaki, by Sir Hugh Cortazzi; Antique Japanese Fe...

Rajput Painting

Montgomery, George, ed · 1960

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

New York, Asia House, 1960. First edition. Paper covered boards. 86 pp. + catalogue. Illus. with 85 color & b/w plates. Obl. Sm. 4to. Sherman E. Lee, intro. Exhibition catalogue from Asia House. 85 items described. Bibliography. Very good, boards rubbed, minor soiling to conte...

Japanese Art at Auction, August 28, 29 1981. Robert C. Eldred

Eldred, Robert C. · 1981

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

East Denis [MA], 1981. First edition. Illustrated paper wrappers. Illus. with color & b/w plates. 4to. 1013 lots, includes both estimate and prices realized. A very good copy.

Orientations. Volume 16 Number 4. April 1985. The Monthly Magazine for Collectors & Connoisseurs of Oriental Art

Orientations Magazine. Knight, Elizabeth, ed · 1985

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Hong Kong, Orientations, 1985. First printing. Illustrated paper wrappers. 73 pp. Illus. with color & b/w photos. Sm. 4to. Articles on: Chinese ceramics in the Matsuoka Museum of art, pt. 1; Japanese Calligraphy, Treasure Jewellery from Indonesia, more. A near fine copy.

Orientations. Volume 16 Number 1. January 1985. The Monthly Magazine for Collectors & Connoisseurs of Oriental Art

Orientations Magazine. Knight, Elizabeth, ed · 1985

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Hong Kong, Orientations, 1985. First printing. Illustrated paper wrappers. 74 pp. Illus. with color & b/w photos. Sm. 4to. Articles on Islamic tiles from the Victoria and Albert; Mughal tents, Three Mamluk Manuscripts of al-Hariri"s Maqamat, more. A near fine copy.