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By: N/A
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Self Published: 1965
Seller ID: 002489
St. Thomas Church, Fifth Ave. and 53rd St., New York City. 63 pages; orange cloth backing with tan paper-covered boards; black title and orange escutcheon on the front board. Many b&w photos with text describing the history and the architectural and ornamental elements of the church: "A Key to the Figures on the Reredos of Saint Thomas" loosely laid in. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Tokyo, St. Ignatius Church: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 003467
96 pages; numerous color photographs. A picture book commemorating the construction of the new St. Ignatius Church in Kojimachi, Tokyo. Includes statements from the Provincial of the Society of Jesus, parish priest, architect, designer, chairman of the building committee. Statements in Japanese and English; all other text is Japanese. View more info
By: Anderson, M.D.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: London, John Murray: 1951
Seller ID: 003021
328 pages; b&w illustrations, including photographs. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: London, Routledge & Kegan Paul: 1961
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 004957
214 pages; numerous drawings, some b&w photo plates. The evolution of the parish church in England from the time of Christianity arrival through Saxon, Norman, Gothic, Reformation and Renaissance, Classical, Georgian and Victorian, then since 1900. A small section at the back includes comments on "church appurtanances" including, altar, linens, vessels, candles, etc. Light pencil mark on front endpaper, otherwise clean throughout; tight binding. View more info
By: Chong, Alan; Giovanna De Appolonia; [et al]
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Boston, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: 2001
Seller ID: 003249
104 pages. 5 opening essays, including The Origins and Iconography of the Cross; Italian Metalwork Crosses from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century. 16 catalogued crosses each with more than one illustration and essays that usually run a few pages. Bibliography. Clean. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: London, B.T. Batsford: 1974
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 004958
272 pages. 128 illustrations, most are photos. Straight-forward subjective valuations and criticisms of churches: their architecture, reuse, remodeling, etc. One sentence suggests the author's directness: "Classical churches left unraped by the Victorians are unfortunately not very common." Previous owner's embossed library stamp on the title page. Clean throughout, tight binding. Jacket is clipped and with some small wear at edges. View more info
By: Darby, Michael
Price: $25.00
Publisher: World of Islam Festival Trust: 1983
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 005039
146 pages; 117 illustrations with catalogue entries; Biographies. Islamic design and British enthusiasts who viewed the design as a link to more imaginative architecture. An exhibition at the Leighton House Gallery, London. Clean throughout; tight binding. View more info
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Milano, Federico Motta Editore: 2008
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 003675
384 pages; numerous color reproductions. The works of the fifthteenth century painters of Ancona, an area on Italy's Adriatic coast. A chapter with catalogue is devoted to each artist or small group of artists. Italian text. View more info
By: Dillenberger, Jane ; Joshua C. Taylor
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Berkeley, University Art Museum: 1972
Seller ID: 003306
192 pages; 123 works are discussed, more than half are illustrated. An exhibition that reveals religion is a theme that runs strongly through the work of American artists, including the most famous. View more info
By: Dillenberger, Jane; Joshua C. Taylor
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Berkeley, University Art Museum: 1972
Seller ID: 004811
192 pages; color and b&w illustrations. 123 artworks in the catalogue. The authors say that this art is basic to our national heritage. One aspect of the exhibition was to generate scholarship and popular interest in the genre which has been neglected while in "basement storage". View more info
By: Douthat, Ross
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 2018
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 004983
234 pages. Liberal or conservative. Orthodoxy or change. Clean throughout; tight binding. View more info
By: Harrsen, Meta
Price: $9.00
Publisher: New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library: 1944
Seller ID: 003305
The sixteen illustrations in b&w with text. The back panel of the wrapper is chipped; top corner of the front panel is repaired. View more info
By: Hood, William; Leon Wieseltier (Essays by)
Price: $26.00
Publisher: New York, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries: 2004
Seller ID: 003251
39 pages; color and b&w illustrations, including a color fold-out full view of the painting at the end of the book. Bibliography. View more info
By: Howard, Linn; Mary Jane Pool
Price: $22.00
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 003756
80 pages; numerous full-page color photographs, one 4-panel color photo displaying the entire tree and surround. Clean throughout, binding tight. View more info
By: Husband, Timothy; Julien Chapuis (with contributions by)
Price: $25.00
Publisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press: 2001
Seller ID: 003769
182 pages; 150 illustrations, including 105 color. The fascinating story of 14th-century Basel; its cathedral; the gold, silver, bejewelled, enameled treasury of altar furnishings and liturgical hardware; earthquake; iconoclastic threat of the Reformation; then dispersal from a nineteenth-century auction. Now, some of the 75 examples in the catalogue are now in the Historisches Museum Basel, others are in various European collections; most have never before been seen i... View more info
By: Le Pogam, Pierre-Yves (direction); Christine Vivet-Peclet ( assisté)
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Paris, Musée du Louvre Éditions: 2009
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 004998
280 pages; numerous color illustrations. Retables, reredoses, altarpieces, altar screens of various material in often dramatic presentations as decoration and stage for the liturgy. Comprehensive bibliography Clean throughout; tight binding. Entirely FRENCH text. View more info
Price: $28.00
Publisher: Venezia, Edizioni d'Arte: 1980
Seller ID: 003466
62 pages; 41 mosaics reproduced in color, many full-page, four 2-page foldouts; floor plan of the basilica. Italian, German, English, French text. Clean throughout; tight binding. View more info
By: Morgan, David and Sally M. Promey
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Valparaiso, Indiana, Brauer Museum of Art / Valparaiso University: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 003462
130 pages; 48 illutrative plates; historical essay; exhibition overview; bibliography. Images representative of many forms of American religious faith. Clean and tight; one corner of cover is bent. View more info
By: Werner, Elsa Jane (Selected and Arranged by)
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1946
Edition: First Printing
Seller ID: 003632
124 pages; dramatically illustrated throughout. Large format, good paper, good font, exciting illustrations, nice layout: readable for young eyes. Blue crayon marks on page 9 (in keeping with the illustration); edges and corners of the boards are worn. View more info
