Condition: Good

80 Masterpieces from the Gold Museum

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Bogota, Colombia, Banco de la Republica : 1954

Seller ID: 002026

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Good

The pieces appear in full page photos, 3 color, remainder b&w. Pre-Hispanic, or pre-conquest, goldwork collected by the Banco de la Republica and allowed to leave the country the first time for this exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. One sees roots of the Met's popular reproduction jewelry. Front edge damp-stained and rippling some page edges, but confined to the margin edge and not affecting the plates. Otherwise clean and tight, very good condition.
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Paul Davis Exhibition

By: (Davis, Paul)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Japan Art Museums : 1975

Inscription: Inscribed by the artist.

Seller ID: 001963

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Good

150 catalogued images in b&w; 18 color plates. An exhibition that toured four Japanese museums during 1975 and 1976. Paul, Upper outside corner of first 10 pages, mostly preliminaries, rippled. Inscribed with given name, Paul.
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The Frick Collection Handbook of Paintings

By: (Focarino, Joseph, editor)

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, The Frick Collection : 1978

Seller ID: 000532

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Good

175 pages. Contents clean and tight, one instance of a name underlined, lower margin of title page lightly dimpled. Covers show light wear, corners bent. Illustrations in color and in black and white.
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Paul Gauguin: Exhibition of Paintings and Prints

By: (Morley, G.L. McCann)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: San Francisco Museum of Art : 1936

Seller ID: 005192

ISBN: no

Binding: Decorated Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Good

28 pages folloowed by 25 b&w full-page illustrations; Bibliography; List of 139 works in the exhibition; short esay. Spine heavily worn; binding is tight; appears to have been reinforced.
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Traditional and Western American Paintings...of the 18th, 19th & Early 20th Centuries

By: (Sotheby, Parke-Benet)

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Sotheby, Parke-Benet : 1972

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 000912

Binding: Printed Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Good

179 lots including works by Bierstadt, Cassatt, Hassam, Inness, Eastman Johnson, Kensett, Peale, Salmon, Peto, Stuart, and dozens others. The prices realized list is loosely inserted. Clean and tight except for a few small marks such as checks or circles. Wrappers worn at the tail; a name in ink on the front panel.
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The House and Home, A Practical Book - Vols. I & II

By: Abbott, Lyman, Dr.; L.W. Betts; Elizabeth Bisland; H.C. Candee; ]et al]

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1896

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 004485

ISBN: no

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

pp. 400; 397. 400 illustrations, color and b&w. Two volumes that aspire to cover all knowledge an adult may need for the beginning of the twentieth century: home; social life; garden; dress; education; books and reading; house building; furnishing; rugs; hygeine; housekeeping; children; china; occupations; outside opportunities; business affairs. Chapter One is "Occupations for Women" of which of which Art, Architect; Physician, Lawyer, Dressmaking, the Stage are some that are considered. Clean text block; tissue guards on most color illustrations; tight binding. Removal of bookplates on the ...
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Childe Hassam

By: Adams, Adeline

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, American Academy of Arts and Letters : 1938

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 002960

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

144 pages; 28 b&w illustrations; color frontispiece. An intimate portrait. Endpapers cracked at the hinges; hinges still tight, but broken one-inch at the top front; spine-top pulled away; one interior illustration creased along the outside margin. Other illustrations and text clean and tight.
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The Painter as Historian. Mythological, Religious, Secular: Paintings of the XV to XIX Centuries

By: Anonymous

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Wildenstein : 1962

Seller ID: 003788

ISBN: no

Binding: Printed Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Good

69 pages; 42 b&w plates. Preceding the plates an essay on each places the painting (i.e. the subject of the painting) in its historical context. The exhibition was for the benefit of two French-American organizations. Wrappers worn and soiled; clean throughout within; lengthwise fold down the middle of the catalogue.
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The Cloisters / The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin

By: Barnard, George Grey

Price: $6.00

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

Seller ID: 001808

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Good

52 pages, generously illustrated in color and in b&w. MMA Bulletin Summer 1979. Clean but a 2-inch clean cut as with a razor to the front cover and the first two leaves; repaired with tape.
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American Polo

By: Bent, Newell

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company : 1929

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 003166

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

407 pages; numerous b&w photographs; frontispiece portrait of Mr. Devereux Milburn on his Argentine bred Potrillo. Text and photos are in very good condition. The green cloth boards with gilt titles are spotted and discolored.
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The Maya Civilization

By: Brainerd, George

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Southwest Museum : 1954

Seller ID: 000305

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

93 pages; b&w illustrations; foldout maps of Mesoamerican archeological sites and a perspective drawing of the monument at Tikal. Previous owner's name on front pastedown; ghost of blue pencil writing on the front free endpaper ( about 1 sq. in.)
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An Analysis of Gothic Architecture - New Edition - 2 Volumes

By: Brandon, Raphael and J. Arthur

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, John Grant : 1903

Seller ID: 003206

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

"Illustrated by a Series of Upwards of Seven Hundred Examples of Doorways, Windows, Mouldings, Roofs, Arches, Crosses, Panels, Butresses, Seats, Screens, Etc., and Accompanied with Remarks on the Several Details of an Ecclesiastical Edifice." Vol. 1, 120 pages of text, including Index to Churches Referred to and Index to Illustrations followed by plates. Vol. 2, entirely plates, not paginated. The cloth of both volumes is heavily worn at the joints, probably from rubbing along the desktop; the joints, themselves, and the hinges are strong. Corners are also worn. Pages are well-bound: tight an...
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The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton: The Story of Her Life - Fifth and Cheaper Edition

By: Burton, Isabel, Lady; W.H. Wilkins

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co : 1898

Seller ID: 003039

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

778 pages; 2 pages advertisements. Frontispiece portrait. Boards and backing faded and soiled, but little worn. Innards clean; signatures at the center are open due to book's thickness but well bound; top edge dusty.
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Advertising Spot Illustrations of the Twenties and Thirties: 1,593 Cuts

By: Cabarga, Leslie (Edited by)

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Dover : 1989

Seller ID: 003272

ISBN-13: 9780486260983

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Good

The spine is worn; one cut is cut-out. Otherwise, clean within.
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Brushstrokes on the Plateau: An Overview of Anglo Art on the Colorado Plateau

By: Chase, Katherin L.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Museum of Northern Arizona Press : 1984

Seller ID: 004022

ISBN: no

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Good

32 pages; 25 illustrations, most color; 24 artists. Clean throughout; light ripple to an outside corner from damp.
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Old Musical Instruments

By: Clemencic, Rene; David Hermges (translated by)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons : 1968

Seller ID: 001652

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

120 pages; 128 illustrated instruments. Ex-library with few markings but pocket at the back and a paper spine label; the jacket is fixed to the endpapers. The book is clean and tight.
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The Woman in White

By: Collins, Wilkie

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, folio Society : 1956

Seller ID: 005216

ISBN: no

Binding: Blue cloth

Condition: Good

519 pages; litho illustrations. Seemingly Collins' favorite book. Clean throughout; repair to joint; wear to head and tail of spine. spine faded.
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Gardner's Art Through the Ages - Eighth Edition

By: Croix, Horst de la; Richard G.Tansey

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Fort Worth, Harcourt Brace : 1976

Seller ID: 002562

ISBN-13: 9780155037632

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

1008 pages; numerous illustrations in color and b&w; Glossary; Bibliography by chapter. Occasional highlighting.
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Chateaux De France: Régions Centre et Sud

By: de Ganay, Ernest

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Editions «Tel » : 1950

Seller ID: 005243

ISBN: no

Binding: Pictorial Wrappers (softcover)

Condition: Good

40 pages text followed by 96 chateaux photographs and a map locating each. Damp stain to the bottom edge and corner of the French-fold jacket. The damping does not affect the text or plates. Clean, unmarked within; binding tight. French text.
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Indian Art

By: Deneck, Marguerite-Marie

Price: $5.00

Publisher: London, Paul Hamlyn : 1967

Seller ID: 000209

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

40 pages with 48 full page color reproductions. Some foxing to outer edges, otherwise good. Part of series The Colour Library of Art. A general survey from the Indus civilization through the 19th century; objects illustrated date from the 2nd century B.C. to early 19th century.
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