The Arts Of Japan An Illustrated History
by Munsterberg, Hugo
Tokyo: Charles E.Tuttle, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated cloth. Near fine in very good dust wrapper. 201 pages. Eleven color and 109 black and white plates. With a List of Plates, Bibliography and Index. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER I557."An introduction to the major arts and the most highly developed crafts in Japan. Well-chosen illustrations.
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A Dictionary Of The Print Trade In Ireland 1550-1775
by Munter, Robert
New York: Forham Univ. Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. dark green cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 340 pages. An important book for the study of Irish books and the print trade.
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Bruegel The Drawings Complete Edition
by Munz, Ludwig
London: Phaidon, 1961. 1st English edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth front cover lettered in brown. Fine in nicked dust wrapper. Bruegel, Pieter. 240 pages. 30.5 x 23 cm. Small folio, 240 illustrations. Translated from the German by Luke Hermann. Critical catalogue of Bruegel's own drawings. FREITAG 1120. Chips to dust wrapper backstrip head.
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Venetian Villas
by Muraro, Michelangelo & Paolo Marton
Koln: Konneman, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. tan cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 497 pages. Folio, 463 illustrations, 438 in color. Index of Names, Places and Subjects. A meticulously detailed survey of nearly eighty villas in the province of the Veneto -- many are Palladian. The arrangement is chronological. The color photographs, excellent. English text.
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Prolegomena to Servius 5 - The Manuscripts
by Murgia, Charles E.
Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1975. First edition. Paperback. Orig. printed wrappers. Very good. Publications: Classical Studies. Vol. II. With 16 plates. Short Titles and Other Works Referred to Frequently. Index Codicum Sigorumque.
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English And Scottish Wrought Ironwork; A Series of Examples Of English Ironwork Of The Best Periods, Together With Most Of The Examples Now Existing In Scotland With Descriptive Text
by Murphy, Bailey Scott
London: B.T. Batsford, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. dark green cloth. Near fine. 14 text pages. Folio, 57 x 39 cm. Sixty eight plates of measured drawings are supplemented by seventy two collotype reproductions of photographs -- all printed recto only. Bright, very clean interior. Title page printed in red and black. Many of the images to scale.... Read More
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Micro-Cosmographie or A Piece Of The World Discovered In Essayes And Characters by John Earle
by Murphy, Gwendolen (Editor)
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. Hardcover. Original red buckram. Small rear cover spot. Near fine. 73 pages. 27 x 20 cm. Written at the age of 27 in 1627 and published anonymously when a Fellow of Merton College, it presents the experience of a man of the world as well as a cleric, and is even... Read More
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The Romantic Vision 19th Century American Landscape Painting
by Minneapolis. Walker Art Museum
Minneapolis: Walker Art Museum, 1978. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Fine. 32 pp. Illustrated in color and black and white.
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Catalogue Of Japanese Lacquer; Part I. General
by London. Victoria And Albert Museum
London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1924. First edition. Wraps. Orig. light blue wrappers. Very good. 193 pages in text. 24.5 x 19 cm. 48 plates representing some of the 778 items in the catalogue. Glossary of Technical Terms. Index of Names of Artists. Interior clean, small loss (one centimeter) upper corner back cover at fore-edge.
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History * Collection * Activities
by Minneapolis. Walker Art Museum
Minneapolis: Walker Art Museum, 1971. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Fine. 24 pp. Illustrated. Opening of the new building, history, etc.
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Architect Frank Lloyd Wright
by New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1960. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Unpaginated. 25.5 x 20 cm. Host of black and white illustrations and large fold-out. FLW essay, "An Experiment In The Third Dimension," plus his original statements on his concept of the Guggenheim Museum.
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Acquisition Priorities Aspects of Postwar Painting in Europe
by N.Y. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1983. First edition. Paperback. Orig. printed wrappers. Fine. 104 pp. Sixty-eight plates, many in full-color. Foreword by Thomas M. Messer. Index to Checklist. Works in the Exhibition. Artist biographies. One of 4000 copies.
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Regency Furniture 1800 to 1830
by Musgrave, Clifford
London: Faber and Faber, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth. Near fine in nicked dust wrapper. 157 pages in text. Illustrated with ninety-six black and white plates as well as four in full color and several line drawings in the text. Short Glossary of UnusualTerms. Bibliography. Index. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER P189. "The author considers historical, social, and psychological influences... Read More
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Two Dissertations. I. On The Graecian Mythology. II. An Examination Of Sir Isaac Newton's Objections to the Chronology of the Olympiads
by Musgrave, Samuel
London: J. Nichols, 1782. First Edition. Hardcover. Tan cloth reback with original faded spine leather label and original marbled boards. Very good. 231 text pages & [xxii] preceding pages noting Names of The Subscribers, many of note including Dr. Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Richard Brinsley Sheridan et al. The book was published posthumously for the benefit of his... Read More
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Casa Marzini Proposta di Adattazioni 1878
by Mutinelli, E.
Np: Np, 1882. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown stiff boards printed in black with four cloth ties intact and loose plates laid-in. Near fine. Folio, 32 x 24 cm. Group of nine original hand-colored ink drawings, each titled and drawn to scale, signed and dated by E. Mutinelli -- the plates in sequential order are noted -- Cantine,... Read More
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Stage And Film Decor
by Myerscough-Walker, R.
London: Sir Isaac Pitman, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige, basket-weave cloth. Very good. 192 pages. Ten tipped-in color plates, and ninety-one black and white illustrations. Forword by Charles B. Chochran. An historical overview of decor from the symbolic simplicity of the Greeks to modern times. Also presents six short studies of the work of contemporary stage and... Read More
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Standards in Building
by Nagarajan, R.
New York: John Wiley, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. 173 pages. 24 x 16 cm. An attempt to towards framing a rigorous theory of standardization in the face of the swift changes in building styles and construction methods. Illustrated with charts and photographs. Index. Small portion at dust wrapper rear... Read More
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Figures Form and Fiction
by Nahas, Dominique
Syracuse: Emerson Museum of Art, 1988. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Near fine. 57 pages. 28 x 19 cm. Illustrated in black and white -- Magdalena Abakanowicz et al.
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Notes And Sketches Of An Architect Taken During A Journey In The Northwest of Europe
by Narjoux, Felix
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1877. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth rebacked with front corners renewed, gilt deorated front cover image. Very good. 442 pages. 21 x 15 cm. 214 black and white illustrations. Translated by John Peto. A survey with sketches of contemporary architecture in Holland, Germany and Denmark presented to the French public. Beveled edges,... Read More
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Opera Omnia
by Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Amsterdam: Sumptibus Societatis, 1702. leather_bound. Contemporary gilt ruled speckled brown calf. Very good. 3 Vols. 832, 805, 810 pages with Indices at the end of each volume. 20 x 12.5 cm. Additional engraved titles, portrait and 15 plates. DIBDIN, Vol. II, p.110. "This is emphatically called the variorum edition, and is professed to be an improvement upon N.... Read More
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Opera Omnia; With Notes by Jakob Moltzer, Ercoli Cofani, Daniel and Nicolaus Heinsius. Edited by Pieter Burmann
by Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Amsterdam: R. & J. Wetstenios & G. Smith, 1727. leather_bound. Contemporary brown calf. Aeg. Very good. 4 Vols. 25.5 x 21. cm. Vol. 1 [863]: pages. Vol. 2 [1102 (4)]: pages. Vol. 3 [900] pages. Vol.4 [167 (IBIS), 163 (ADDENDA) (INDEX RERUM ET VERBORUM), 582 (INDEX IN OVIDIUM) pages. Three additional engraved titles with title page printed in red... Read More
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The Matchmaker's Lament And Other Astonishments; Drawings By Leonard Baskin * Poems By Leonard Nathan
by Nathan, Leonard
Northampton: The Gehenna Press, 1962. First edition. Boards. Brown boards. Fine in clear acetate cover.. Baskin, Leonard. Unpaginated. 28.5 x 21 cm. Printer's Copy noted by Baskin "Harold: picture printer from Leonard: type printer 1968." Laid-in an extra sheet off leaves five through six (four pages). Label on front cover pastedown of Nancy E. Hugo. As new copy.... Read More
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The Concert
by Nathan, Robert
New York: House of Books, Ltd, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth cover and spine lettered in gilt. Fine in orig. glassine wrapper. Approx. 30 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Limited edition, copy 12 of 250 signed by Nathan in black ink: No. Six of The Crown Octavos printed by the Harbor Press. Purports to be a... Read More
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Early American Stone Sculpture Found in the Burying Grounds of New England
by Neal, Avon & Ann Parker
New York: Sweetwater Editions, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. 114 pages. Oblong quarto, 30 x 42 cm. Limited edition, copy 288 of 475 signed by Neal and Parker, with an original rubbing, "Pompey Brenton, 1772, Rockport, Rhode Island," also signed by Neal and Parker laid-in. Forty-two plates with the names of the deceased. Glossary of Symbols... Read More
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Views of the Most Interesting Collegiate and Parochial Churches in Great Britain
by Neale, John Preston & John Le Keux
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary three quarter dark olive morocco and matching aubergine cloth. Teg. Very good. 2 vols. Unpaginated. 25 x 16 cm. Ninety-eight plates on India paper. Scattered. marginal plate toning. text generally clean, offsetting to Vol.II title and frontispiece. A review of English church architecture including screens,... Read More
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