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Turkish Ceramics

OZ, TAHSIN · 1953 · Ultramarine Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Turkish Press. quarter cloth / paper boards, 13"x 9". c.1953. 142 pages; 75 plates, 85 color illustrations (some tri-fold) within the plates, more than 50 b&w photo-illustrations, usually architectural. Disbound. Damping to lower margins of pages not affecting plates. The illu...

Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557)

EVANS, HELEN C. (EDITED BY) · 2004 · Ultramarine Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2004, First Edition Paperback. (ISBN: 1588391140). Pictorial Wrappers (softcover), 12" x 9 ". Exhibition Catalogue, 658 pages; numerous color illustrations. A huge catalogue of faith art, Christian for a couple centries, then Islamic a...

Helen Gardner's Art Through the Ages

CROSBY, SUMNER MCK. (EDITORSHIP) · 1959 · Ultramarine Books

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥798)

New York, Harcourt Brace & World. 1959, Fourth Edition. Pictorial Cloth Boards, 9.5" x 6.5". 840 pages; more than 500 illustrations. Clean throughout; tight binding. Light wear to the dustjacket edges; price clipped. Very Good/Good.

The International Exhibition of 1862

V & A MUSEUM · 1962 · Ultramarine Books

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥798)

London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1962. Pictorial Wrappers (softcover), 7" x 4.75". Exhibition Catalogue, not paginated; 28 b&w illustrations with notes; short essay. Handprinted on the spine: "Exhibition 1982". Very Good.

Paul Gauguin: Exhibition of Paintings and Prints

(MORLEY, G.L. MCCANN) · 1936 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

San Francisco Museum of Art. 1936. Decorated Wrapper (softcover), 10"x 8". Exhibition Catalogue, 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 rein...

Western Art and the New Era, an Introduction to Modern Art

DREIER, KATHERINE S. · 1923 · Ultramarine Books

$325.00 (€294.87 | £246.00 | ¥51,898)

New York, Brentano's. 1923, First Edition. Decorative Cloth, 10" x 7". 139 pages. 60 b&w text illustrations; color frontispiece with glassine cover. Boards and text clean, bright and tight throughout. The dustjacket repaired at the joints; loss of material at head and tail of ...

The History of British Art, 600-1600

AYERS, TIM (EDITED BY) · 2008 · Ultramarine Books

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

London, Tate Publishing. 2008, First Edition. (ISBN: 9781854376503). Green Cloth, 11.5" x 9". 295 pages; more than 150 color illustrations but the text is the thing: 32 contributed essays in this series. This is the first in a 3-volume, History of British Art series. Clean and...

Thomas Sully, Painted Performance

RUDOLPH, WILLIAM KEYSE AND CAROL EATON SOLTIS · 2013 · Ultramarine Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Milwaukee Art Museum. 2013, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780300197419). Green Cloth, 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 180 pages; 160 color reproductions. Nineteenth-century portrait painter of many prominent and beautiful women, including Queen Victoria, Some prominent men, too. Clean and...

Renwick Craft Invitational 2011. History in the Making

BELL, NICHOLAS R.; ULYSSES GRANT DIETZ; ANDREW WAGNER; ELIZABETH BROUN (FOREWORD) · 2011 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Washington, D.C. Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum w/ Scala Publishers Ltd. 2011, First Edition. (ISBN: 9781857597035). Pictorial Wrappers (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 104 pages; numerous color images. Craft or art? This is craft because the art...

Contemporary Art, Wednesday, May 1, 1985

CHRISTIE'S · 1985 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Christie's New York. 1985. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Auction Catalogue, 65 lots; price notations in ink. Very Good.

Miró, the Experience of Seeing. Late Works, 1963-1981

APARICIO, CARMEN FERNÁNDEZ; BELÉN GALÁN MARTIN; [ET AL] · 2014 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Seattle Art Museum w/ Museo Nacional Central de Arts Reina Sofia. 2014, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780300204797). Pictorial Paper Boards, 11"x 9". Exhibition Catalogue, 104 pages; numerous full-page color illustrations. A section of text includes conversation with a "militant youn...

Gustave Courbet

DE FONT-RÉAULX, DOMINIQUE; LAURENCE DES CARS; MICHEL HILAIRE; BRUNO MOTTIN; BERTRAND TILLIER · 2008 · Ultramarine Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Ostfildernt, Germany / New York, Hatje Cantz / The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2008, First Edition. (ISBN: 9781588392343). Paper covered boards, Thick 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 480 pages; 506 illustrations, including 470 in color. "Spanning Courbet's entire artistic career an...

Etching & Etchers

HAMERTON, PHILIP GILBERT (EDITED BY) · 1912 · Ultramarine Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Boston, Little, Brown, and Company. 1912. Green Cloth, thick 8vo. 459 pages; 12 plates of etchings by various artists, including the author. Each etching has a glassine overleaf with red text, which explains the etching process in some detail. A second glassine protects the et...

The Hall of American Artists

PARIS, W. FRANCKLYN · 1944 · Ultramarine Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York, New York University. 1944, First Edition. Purple cloth, 9" x 6". 170 pages + 5 pages sketches of the Hall in progress. Volume III of The Hall.. Series. Includes La Frage, Sargent, Gaudens, Bartlett, MacMonnies, Beaux, Cassatt, Griffin, Wiley. Clean throughout; tight ...

English Painting with 202 Illustrations

WILENSKI, R.H. · 1933 · Ultramarine Books

$7.00 (€6.35 | £5.30 | ¥1,118)

Boston, Hale, Cushman and Flint. 1933. Black cloth, 8vo. 303 pages; The illustrations listed in Contents; all b&w. From Early Gothic (11th-century) to Blake (19th-century). Clean throughout, page edges toned as typical of age; binding tight; head of spine pulled. Very Good/No ...

Classic French Wrought Iron

LECOQ, RAYMOND; RICHARD J. WATTENMAKER (FOREWORD); GREGORY P. BRUHN (TRANSLATED BY) · 2005 · Ultramarine Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

New York, W. W. Norton & Company. 2005, First English Edition. (ISBN: 039373157x). Blue paper covered boards, 11.75" x 9". 128 pages; densely illustrated in b&w. All manner of leafwork, grillework, hinges, handrails, balconies, ballustrades, locks, keys, bolts and more. Includ...

The Architecture of the Classical Interior

SEMES, STEVEN W. · 2004 · Ultramarine Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

New York, W.W. Norton & Company. 2004, First Edition. (ISBN: 0393730751). yellow paper covered boards, 11" x 8.5". 192 pages; beautifully illustrated with full-page color plates and b&w text drawings. Covers doors and windows, ceilings, wall treatments, including paneling, mol...

Vicksburg's Long Shadow: The CIVIL War Legacy of Race and Remembrance

WALDREP, CHRISTOPHER · 2005 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Lanham, Maryland, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2005, First Edition. (ISBN: 0742548686). Paper covered boards, 8vo. 346 pages; b&w illustrations; bibliographic essay. Vicksburg was overshadoed by Gettysburg. Yet, the author states it was a more important battle. He reports ...

The House with Sixteen Handmade Doors

PETROSKI, HENRY · 2014 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York, W. W. Norton & Company. 2014, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780393242041). Paper boards, 8v. Ill.: Catherine Petroski (photographs). 297 pages; b&w photo-illustrations. The history of a handbuilt house on Arrowsic Island, Maine; the story authored by an engineer of more tha...

Navigating the West: George Caleb Bingham & the River

LUARCA-SHOAF, NENETTE; CLAIRE BARRY; NANCY HEUGH; [ET AL] · 2014 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Fort Worth / St. Louis, Amon Carter Museum of Art and Saint Louis Art Museum. 2014, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780300206708). Gray cloth with gilt titles, 11" x 10.5". Exhibition Catalogue, 200 pages; 60 color plates; numerous text illustrations. Traders and boatmen on the Missour...