Category: Art-Asia

Great National Treasures of China: Masterworks in the National Palace Museum

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Taiwan, Republic of China, National Palace Museum : 1993

Seller ID: 002663

ISBN-13: 9789575620868

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

340 pages; 173 "treasures" illustrated full-page in color. Enclosed in a pictorial slipcase, fine condition. Chinese and English text.
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Master Lee Sun-Don: 2007 Autumn-Winter Exhibitions

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Taiwan, Sun Boy International Company : 2007

Seller ID: 003402

ISBN: no

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Fine

118 pages; essays; 69 color plates; text illustrations. Totemic art.
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Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang, The First Qin Emperor

Price: $10.00

Publisher: China, National Museum of History : 2000

Seller ID: 002511

ISBN-13: 9789570273519

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Fine

242 pages; numerous color photographs. Chinese text; some English captions. Accompanied an exhibition in Taiwan.
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Shin SangHo 1996-2002: Dream of Africa

By: Anonymous

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Ana : 2002

Seller ID: 003379

ISBN-13: 9788995141632

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

130 pages; numerous color plates. The ceramic sculpture of SangHo Shin, focusing on the numerous figures in his Dream of Africa series. Text is Korean and English.
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A Reader's Guide to the Arts of Japan

By: Barnet, Sylvan; William Burto

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, The Asia Society : 1986

Seller ID: 004919

ISBN: no

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Fine

8 pages. General Works; Specialized Works on Forms of Art (e.g. painting, prints, calligraphy, etc.); Studies of Periods of Japanese Art. Periods include: pre-Buddhist, Asuka, Nara, Heian, Kamakura, Nambokucho, Muromachi, Momoyama, Edo, Meiji. A slim pamphlet-style publication.
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Minol Araki

By: Brown, Claudia; Richard Barnhart; Steven D. Owyoung

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Phoenix Art Museum : 1999

Seller ID: 003381

ISBN-13: 9780910407366

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

131 pages; 62 color plates, including a 4-page foldout. The artist is a modern Chinese painter using ink and color on a paper ground. His subjects include Lotus, Landscapes, Flowers and Birds, Faces and Figures.Clean throughout, no marks, tears, creases.
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Love's Picture Book, The History of Pleasure and Indignation - Vol. III

By: Brusendorff, Ove and Poul Henningsen

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Lyle Stuart : 1969

Seller ID: 003609

ISBN: no

Binding: quarter cloth / paper boards

Condition: Very Good

160 pages; b&w illustrations. "Exotic Horizons": Asia, India, Africa,
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China Today and Her Ancient Treasures

By: Cohen, Joan Lebold and Jerome Alan Cohen

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Harry N. Abrams : 1973

Seller ID: 002757

ISBN-13: 9780810901575

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

400 pages; 357 illustrations, including 336 color plates. Joan Cohen taught Oriental art history at Tufts; Jerome Cohen was Director of East Asian Legal Studies at Harvard. Both speak Chinese and travelled extensively in China. Nearly fine condition.
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The Great Bronze Age of China: An Exhibition from the Peoples Republic of China

By: Fong, Wen

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art : 1981

Seller ID: 000133

ISBN-13: 9780870992261

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

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, academic scholars, and the Shanghai Museum. Beautifully illustrated, including full page photographs of the objects, this remains a standard reference on the subject. Some fading to the cover. Includes map of China's administrative divisions.
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Treasures from the Bronze Age of China: An Exhibition from the People's Republic of China

By: Fong, Wen

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art : 1980

Seller ID: 000140

ISBN-13: 9780870992308

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good.

192 pages. This is the popular, abridged version of the scholarly catalogue which accompanied the exhibition, The Great Bronze Age of China. Entries for 105 objects.
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Hiroshige / Eisen, The Sixty-Nine Staions of the Kisokaido

By: Izzard, Sebastian

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, George Braziller Publisher : 2008

Seller ID: 004835

ISBN-13: 9780807615935

Binding: Embossed Cloth

Condition: Fine

160 pages; 71 plates are illustrated as the series includes a second version of some. The plates appear on a recto with commentary on an opposite, facing verso. This set was published from early impressions found in fine condition. Keisai Eisen signed his prints, indicating that they are first editions. Beautifully done; informative commentary. Clean throughout; tight binding.
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Two Thousand Years of Oriental Ceramics

By: Koyama, Fujio and John Figgess

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Harry N. Abrams

Seller ID: 002410

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

379 pages; 173 illustrations, including 54 tipped-in color plates. Clean and tight; a huge book, and beautiful. Jacket is lightly worn at the edges.
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The Edo Culture in Japanese Prints

By: Lee, George; et al

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Yale University Art Gallery : 1972

Seller ID: 000135

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good.

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 power, commerce, and pleasure. These prints span about a century, from Masunobu and Harunobu of the mid-18th century, to Hokusai and Hiroshige of the mid-19th century; from views of the city to its actors and beautiful women. Glossary of terms.
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The Arts of South and Southeast Asia / The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin

By: Lerner, Martin (introduction); Steven Kossak 9text)

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art : 1994

Seller ID: 004895

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Fine

88 pages, MMA Bulletin Spring 1994. Thoroughly ilustrated - 95 color photographs. Ancient India, Medieval India, Late India, The Himalayan Kingdoms, Southeast Asia. Clean and tight, about as new.
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Man and the Renaissance

By: Martindale, Andrew

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Paul Hamlyn : 1967

Seller ID: 002731

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

176 pages; 204 illustrations, 100 color; endpaper maps; glossary. From the series Landmarks of the World's Art.
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Twelve Japanese Screens / The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin

By: Meech-Pekarik, Julia

Price: $9.00

Publisher: New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art : 1979

Seller ID: 005250

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good.

64 pages. MMA Bulletin Fall 1979. Well illustrated in color and in b&w. Clean and tight; a half-inch of the top corner back cover is torn.
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Ai-Mitsu

By: Otani, Shogo; Aya Fujisaki; Ikuo Arikawa

Price: $65.00

Publisher: The Mainichi Newspapers : 2007

Seller ID: 003386

Binding: Stiff Card Pictorial Wrappers

Condition: Fine

not pagtinated but about 231 pages; 119 catalogue color plates, including three 2-page foldouts; numerous other illustrations. The exhibition to mark the 100th anniversary of the artist's birth; Ai-Mitsu died in 1946. Japanese and English text. Clean throughout.
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Out of China's Earth: Archeological Discoveries in the People's Republic of China

By: Qian, Hao; Chen, Heyi; Ru, Suichu

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York / Beijing, Harry N. Abrams / China Pictorial : 1981

Seller ID: 003673

ISBN-13: 9780810907669

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

206 pages; 286 illustrations, including 226 color plates.Yin Ruins and the Tomb of Fu Hao; Long Forgotten State of Zhongshan; Qin Dynasty Warriors and Horses; more. Clean throughout, nearly fine condition.
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Treasures from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

By: Roberts, Laurence

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, China Institute in America : 1979

Seller ID: 003368

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

96 pages; 64 "treasures" described fully and illustrated in b&w: medallions, handscrolls, textiles, plates, bowls, vases, album leaves, bronzes.
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he Enduring Crafts of Japan: 33 Living Treasures

By: Sugimura, Tsune (photographs by); Masataka Ogawa (text); Tsuneari Fukuda (introduction); Gordon B. Washburn (foreword)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Tokyo, Walker/Weatherhill - A Weathermark Edition : 1968

Seller ID: 004814

ISBN: no

Binding: Decorated cloth boards

Condition: Very Good

230 pages; numerous full-page illustrations, some color, most b&w. Potters, weavers, dyers, Sendai weaver, Lacquer Maki-e, Choshitsu, Swordmakers, metal casters, Bamboo craftsman, Japanese doll craftsmen. Clean throughout, pages and illustrations bright; boards faded at edges and with light wear at the bottom of the spine. Dustjacket worn at edges; 1-inch paper loss at bottom.
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Category: Art-Asia