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Three Hundred Years of American Painting

ELIOT, ALEXANDER · 1957 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York, Times Books. 1957. Cloth, 4to. 318 + x pages. Introduction by John Walker, director of National Gallery. Printed and bound by Lakeside Press. 1/4 faux leather with linen boards; gilt titles. A survey of American art from the 17th century portraits to Edward Hopper's ...

One Hundred Great Masterpieces of the Mexican National Museum of Anthropology

BERNAL, IGNACIO · 1969 · Ultramarine Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

New York, Abrams Comicarts. 1969. (ISBN: 0-8109-0349-0). Cloth, 13" x 10". Ill.: Photographs by Constantino Reyes. Not paginated but 100 color photographic reproductions of those chosen as masterpieces. Only pre-Hispanic objects were among the choices Also, only objects that o...

Picasso

DIEHL, GASTON · 1967 · Ultramarine Books

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥798)

Paris, Flammarion. 1967. Cloth, 4to. 95 pages; 74 illustrations, including many in color, some tipped-in. Contents clean and tight, plates bright. Slight soiling to the fore edge; jacket lightly sunned but with the original onionskin covering, niether chips nor tears to either...

English Furniture from Gothic to Sheraton

CESCINSKY, HERBERT · 1968 · Ultramarine Books

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New York, Bonanza Books. 1968, 3rd Edition. Cloth, 4to. 406 pages, over 900 illustrations. Some fading to outer edges, otherwise very good. Subtitled," A Concise account of the development of English furniture and woodwork from the Gothi of the fifteenth century to the classic...

Indian Art

DENECK, MARGUERITE-MARIE · 1967 · Ultramarine Books

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥798)

London, Paul Hamlyn. 1967. Cloth, 4to. 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...

Mexican Art

FERNANDEZ, JUSTINO · 1965 · Ultramarine Books

$7.00 (€6.35 | £5.30 | ¥1,118)

London, Spring Books. 1965. Cloth, 4to. Ill.: Photographs by Constantino Reyes. 43 pages with 59 color plates. A general survey of Mexican art and architecture of nearly 2000 years, including ancient pottery, jade, gold, wall painting, sculpture, pyramids, as well as palaces, ...

Art Before Columbus: The Art of Ancient Mexico from the Archaic Villages of the Second Millennium B.C. To the Splendor of the Aztecs

EMMERICH, ANDRE · 1963 · Ultramarine Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, Simon and Schuster. 1963, 2nd printing. Embossed Cloth Boards, 8vo. Ill.: Photographs by Lee Boltin. Association Copy, 256 pages. A survey of Mexican pre Columbian art and artifacts illustrated with photographs of objects and ruins. Inscribed by Emmerich to LEWIS GIL...

Objects of Desire: Sheila Metzner Photographs

METZNER, SHEILA · 1986 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

New York, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. 1986. (ISBN: 0-517-56234-0). Cloth, Oblong 4to. Unpaginated. 54 full-color reproductions printed by unique Fresson printing process which gives the photographs a grainy, tactile texture. Very Good/Good; jacket chipped.

Sandburg

STEICHEN, EDWARD (EDITOR) · 1966 · Ultramarine Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

New York, Harcourt Brace & World, Inc. 1966. Cloth, 4to. 113 pages. Edward Steichen and Carl Sandburg were brothers-in-law and knew each other for some 60 years. This is Steichen's tribute to the poet; nearly all the photographs of Sandburg are by Steichen. Very Good/Dustjacke...

Furniture Treasury

NUTTING, WALLACE · 1948 · Ultramarine Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

New York, Macmillan. 1948. Cloth, 4to. 2 vols in slipcase. Some fading and rubbed spines. Edge of slipcase worn. One of the classic investigations of the development of American furniture styles. Very Good/No Jacket but a Slipcase.

Robert Mapplethorpe

(MAPPLETHORPE, ROBERT); DAVID HERSHKOVITS (INTRODUCTION) · 1987 · Ultramarine Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Tokyo, Parco Co. Ltd. 1987, First Printing. (ISBN: 4-89194-149-9). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 8vo. Unpaginated. 72 photographs including several color prints that were among the first ever collected in book form. Many portraits, including Patti Smith, Ken Moody. Text in En...

David to Delacroix

FRIEDLAENDER, WALTER · 1968 · Ultramarine Books

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Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1968, 5th Printing. Cloth. 136 pages with 83 plates. First published in German in 1930, Friedlaender first introduced the terms 'Poussinist' and 'Rubenist' to describe the dominant trends in French art from the 17th century. This classi...

Impressionism: Reflections and Perceptions

SCHAPIRO, MEYER · 1997 · Ultramarine Books

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New York, George Braziller. 1997. (ISBN: 0-8076-1420-3). Cloth, 4to. 359 pages. Schapiro explores Impressionism and its relationship to contemporary cultural events and features, including photography, the railroad, urban life, science, and literature. An expansion of Schapiro...

The Art of Patronage: The Arts in England 1660-1750

FOSS, MICHAEL · 1972 · Ultramarine Books

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥798)

Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press. 1972. (ISBN: 0-8014-0684-6). Cloth, 8vo. 234 pages. A study of the interrelation of the arts, politics, and society in the century following the Restoration as old patronage systems were abandoned and new ones developed. Figures from...

The Arts Compared: An Aspect of 18th Century British Aesthetics

MALEK, JAMES S. · 1974 · Ultramarine Books

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Detroit, Wayne State University Press for The Jewish Museum, New York. 1974. (ISBN: 0-8143-1519-4). Cloth, 8vo. 175 pages. An examination of 18th century English aesthetic theory, focusing on the works of both well-known writers such as Dryden and Adam Smith, as well as less f...

The Great Age of Fresco: Giotto to Pontormo

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART · 1968 · Ultramarine Books

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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1968. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 8vo. Exhibition Catalogue, 233 pages. A landmark exhibition of Early Renaissance Tuscan masterpieces that was organized in collaboration with the Soprintendenza of the Florentine Galleries. Includes ess...

Print Review 11: Honoré Daumier: A Centenary Tribute

STASIK, ANDREW (EDITOR) · 1980 · Ultramarine Books

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New York, Pratt Graphics Center. 1980. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. 160 pages. A tribute to the leading caricaturist of 19th century. Several essays chart Daumier's career and his impact on American graphic art. Very Good.

The Arts of Ancient China

HEARN, MAXWELL AND WEN FONG · 1973 · Ultramarine Books

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥798)

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. N.d. Unpaginated. An overview of Chinese art from Neolithic through the T'ang Dynasty (7-10th centuries A.D.) with objects from the Metropolitan Museum representing the various eras. MMA Bulletin No. 2 1...

Treasures from the Bronze Age of China: An Exhibition from the People's Republic of China

FONG, WEN · 1980 · Ultramarine Books

$6.00 (€5.44 | £4.54 | ¥958)

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1980. (ISBN: 0-87099-230-9). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 192 pages. This is the popular, abridged version of the scholarly catalogue which accompanied the exhibition, The Great Bronze Age of China. Entries for...

The Edo Culture in Japanese Prints

LEE, GEORGE; ET AL · 1972 · Ultramarine Books

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Yale University Art Gallery. 1972. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 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 powe...