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Die Kunst Fur Alle 1913 - 1914
Hardcover Very Good
Book. 4to - over 9¾. No title page. 480 pp. Profusely illustrated, many color plates as well. Articles on Moreau, Van Gogh, Munich sculpture, Julius Diez, Secessionists (a movement concurrent with publication), miniatures, Wilhelm Liebl, H. Hahn, Alfred von Keller, and many others. It covered art from everywhere, with some emphasis on Teutonic, or German, artists. Half calf over yellow boards. Some soilage to boards. Pages clean. Binding tight.
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40.00 USD
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Die miniaturen-Sammlung Seiner Koniglichenhoheit Des Grossherzogs Ernst Ludwig Von Hessen Und Bei Rhein
Kurt Wolff Verlag 1917 First Edition Hardcover Near Fine
Book. Folio - over 12. No 315 of limited edition of 350. viii, 148 plates, 38 pp. Plates are 15 by 11 inches, or 39 by 28 cm. Plates can have one to half a dozen miniature images, some of which are in color. Each plate protected by tissue guard (more like wax paper) which also has caption. Plates and tissue guards are pristine. Binding is tight. Magnificent full orange morocco binding, with bright gilt symbol for Ernst Ludwig in center of front board. Spine has four thick raised bands. Slight fading to color of spine. A few minor scuffs elsewhere. Rear board, lower edge has dampstain, but this is minor defect in relation to whole. But for that, book is fine, and this is a splendid, regal copy. The book weighs 16 pounds, so expect extra shipping charges.
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825.00 USD
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Gardner, Sons & Co. Ltd. Catalogue No. 175 Issued March, 1936
Bristol, U.K. John Wright & Sons 1936 1st Edition Hardcover Very Good
Book. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Massive xl + 1088 page catalogue featuring buildier's hardware, fireplaces, heating and cooking appliances, sanitary ware, electrical goods, refrigerators, household ironmongery, water softeners, garden tools, constructional steel work, steel joists and sections, metal windows, art metal work, bronze founders, lifts and doors. Some color illustration, notably of tiles and door handles. Especially strong and/or useful from point of view of modern student of early/mid 20th century material culture in fireplace art deco design, plumbing fixtures and kitchen appliances such as ovens. Foxing on endpapers. Minor ink scribble on title. Some soilage to red cloth boards and to foreedges, but overall catalogue is tight and clean.
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85.00 USD
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Gebruder Thonet: Mobel Aus Gebogenem Holze
Hannover Verlag Th. Schafer 1999 388746396X / 9783887463960 Cloth Fine
4to - over 9¾. Book. 14 + 114 pp. Fine. This is a rare reprint of a 1904 catalogue from the universally celebrated maker of bent wood furniture and especially chairs, Gebruder Thonet.
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150.00 USD
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Importants livres illustres et oeuvres originales d'artistes modernes, gouaches, dessins, gravures. Barbier, Bissiere, Bonnard, Denis, Dufy, Dunoyer de Segonzac, Ernst, Laboureur, Laurens, Leger, Lepere, Maillol, Matisse, Picasso, Redon, Rops, Rouault, Stael, Teinlen, Ubac, Vieira da Silva, Villon, etc. Reliures Mosaiquees de P. Boney, P. Legrain, P.L. Martin, etc. - Reliures Decorees 1900
Paris Collections Fontaine, Leclercq, et. X 1978 First edition Wraps Near Fine
Unpaginated French auction 4to catalogue highlighting modernist, twentieth century book art, referring to both innovative designs for covers and to illustrations within. Inked on wrap cover in smallish print is "Modern Bindings". Otherwise, clean throughout. Some trivial wear.
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20.00 USD
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Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition, 1878 (5 volumes)
Washington Government Printing Office 1880 First Edition Decorated Cloth Good Plus
8vo - over 7¾. Book. 5 volumes profusely illustrated, with many fold-outs. Bindings with decorated green cloth, with medallion in center of each front and rear board. Shelfwear to volumes, with some roughness to spine tips. Some soilage to cloths. Two volumes with solid binding; two volumes with tape band repair of inner hinge and now tight; one volume with broken inner hinge and loose board. Generally pages age toned, clean. Overall, set is good plus.
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200.00 USD
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Schweizerische Landesausstellung in Bern: Illustriertes ausstellungs-Album 1914
Bern and Geneva, Respectively Phototechnik A. G.; Kunstanstalt Atar 1914 First Edition Hardcover Good
Book. Oblong 13 By 10 Inches. 558 pp. Large photographs document this regional fair, a smaller version of the world's fairs of the turn of the twentieth century. Particularly useful document on Swiss industry and arts. In German. Front hinge broken and binding detached there. Light soilage to light blue cloth. Pages clean.
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300.00 USD
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The Columbian Gallery. A Portfolio of Photographs from the World's Fair Including the Chief Palaces, Interiors, Statuary, Architectural and Scenic Groups, Characters, Typical Exhibits and Marvels of the Midway Plaisance. Correct and Graphic Descriptions
Chicago The Werner Company 1894 First Edition Hardcover Good
Book. Oblong 13.5 By 11 Inches. Unpaginated, with approx. 200 pages, most with full page photos and detailed captions. 10 pp. impressionistic article, "Within the Midway Plaisance", with text illustrations, in the back. Front hinge broken. Loose binding generally. Pages clean. Text block otherwise tight.
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90.00 USD
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The Silber & Fleming Glass & China Book
Ware, Hertfordshire, U.K. Wordsworth Editions 1990 First Edition Thus Hardcover Fine Fine Jacket Jacket
Book. Folio - over 12. Reprint of the classic Victorian illustrated pattern catalogue of English and foreign ornamental tableware, glassware, chandeliers, mirrors, flower stands, lamps, stained glass, sterling silver and electro-plated goods, and on and on. 283 pp, 14.5 by 10.5 inches. Many pages in color. One of the most extraordinary catalogues in an ideal reprint.
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65.00 USD
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Thomas Reynold & Son Limited Catalogue No. 132. Builders' and Plumbers' Merchants. Wholesale Ironmongers. Iron and Steel Merchants. We also Specialize in Engineers, Smiths, Motor Engineers and Body Builders' Requirements. Paints, Oils and Colours.
Bristol, UK St. Stephen's Bristol Press, Limited 1st Edition Hardcover Very Good
Book. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Undated, from the 1930s. 392 pp. Large trade catalogue for hardware, fireplaces, plumbing fixtures, tools, etc. Especially strong and useful to today's student of material culture in areas of fireplace and heater design and in bathroom fixtures. With some color of fireplace suites and tiles. Wear along rear gutter, and mild soilage to red cloth boards. Otherwise, tight and generally clean. A very good copy. With an order form loosely inserted contained handwritten order.
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90.00 USD
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Wallpaper Sample Folio
Germany 1917
German wallpaper book featuring Art Nouveau or Jugendstil era wallpapers, with base papers presented in sets with suggested borders and/or complementary papers. No company name given. Date stamped on FEP. The thick folio is comprised with well over 100 sets of paper, or full panels, with sets including up to a half dozen other papers cut in small dimensions. These small swatches are every bit as interesting as the large samples, and the combinations implied should also have interest for what they have to say about decorative taste of the era. The patterns contained herein offer an intriguing mix of those that would widely be regarded as dated today and others that are very much akin to papers currently available. It is impossible to generalize about these papers which include stripes, florals, , geometrics, and combinations of these. Perhaps one point that can be distilled is that a certain formality tends to pervade the papers notwithstanding the languidity thought to characterize Art Nouveau, but this merely demonstrates that tastes did not move in lockstep with heralded fashionable movements when it came to domestic decoration. Over 13 inches tall and 9 inches across, the folio is in very good state of preservation. There are two papers which are torn with only small portions remaining by the spine, and it is possible other papers have vanished, although it should be apparent the total amount of loss can not much exceed that which has occurred since the binder is quite full. Soome light shelf wear and rubbing to the boards which are a patterned paper paste-down.
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650.00 USD
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Audsley, George A. and James L. Bowes Keramic Art of Japan
London Henry Sotheran & Co. 1881 First Edition Decorated Cloth Very Good
4to. xii, 304 pp. With 32 plates, 17 of which are color chromolithographs. Defunct gutta percha binding replaced and now solidly bound, with original red decorated cloth binding preserved in its entirety and newer black endpapers. The leaves are age toned and somewhat brittle, as inevitable given the acidity of the paper used. Spine slightly sunned, and text block with a slight cocking. Comes with two inserts: a Prospectus for "The Pictorial Arts of Japan" by William Anderson, and the same for "Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings" by Edward Morse. These inserts are foxed.
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95.00 USD
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Bancroft, Hubert Howe The Book of the Fair: An Historical and Descriptive Presentation of the World's Science, Art, and Industry, as Viewed Through the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893 (4 Volumes)
Chicago and San Francisco The Bancroft Company 1893 Blindstamped cloth Very Good
Book. Elephant Folio - over 15 (16 by 12 inches). 4 volumes, complete, 1,000 pp. (including index), profusely illustrated mostly with photographs, probably the best of the many accounts of the Chicago Fair of 1893. Original brown blindstamped cloth bindings with gilt titles on front boards. Bindings of Vol 1 and 2 and in case of Vol 1, affects the word "of" in the gilt title. A few discreet repairs to spine extremities, now stabilized and attractive. A light and narrow band of soilage across front board of Vol 1. Shelfwear to corners. Notwithstanding these defects, the bindings remain handsome and desirable. The interiors are all tight and clean, with all foreedges gilted. Interiors are in other words fine, and the set is very good overall.
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625.00 USD
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Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts;Dulwich Picture Gallery William Beckford, 1760-1844: An Eye for the Magnificent
Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A. Yale Univ Pr 2001 0300090684 / 9780300090680 First Edition Cloth Like New Like New Jacket
4to - over 9¾. Book. Like new in all respects. 448 pp. , profusely illustrated. Book is especially heavy so I may have to adjust postage if overseas. William Beckford was one of the richest men in Regency England, the heir to a fabulous Jamaican sugar fortune, and a man of outsized talent, effete sensibility, extravagant ambitions and hedonism. For all his self-indulgence, he was not merely a frivolous fop, but the author of a minor classic, Valtek, and also a voracious bibliophile. He was a book buyer who actually attempted to read everything he bought. In the end, he ended up burning through much of his inherited fortune, and his fabulous Fonthill Abbey, a tourist attraction in its day, collapsed during his lifetime. In any case, this book in a series of essays addresses the multifaceted Beckford and how he fit into his society, etc.
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175.00 USD
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Behncke, W., O. Von Falke, E. Pernice and G. Swarzenski (Vol 1); E. W. Braun, M. Dreger and J. Folnesics, O. Kummel, G. Lehnert (Vol 2) Illustrierte Geschichte Des Kunstgewerbes (2 Vols), Vol 1: Im Altertum, Im Mittelalter and Zur Zeit Der Renaissance, Vol 2 Im Barock, Rokoko, Louis XVI, Empire Und Neuester Zeit, Im Gebiete Des Islams Und in Ostasien
Berlin Verlag Von Martin Oldenbourg 1907 First Edition Hardcover Good
Book. 4to - over 9¾. N.d. Circa 1907. Ambitious German survey on all the decorative arts and interior design from leading experts on the subject from the early twentieth century. Some emphasis on the business aspect, or the trade of, these various media. Profusely illustrated with full page plates, a good many in color, most photographs, some chromolithography, and many text illustrations and photographs. A great part of this survey's achievement is its synthesis of these disparate forms of the decorative arts, and it brings to everything a scholarly discipline that was still novel at the time of publication. Both volumes are tight internally and clean, with age toning to the pages. Decorated full vellum has some soilage and wear. Vol 1 has some starting at lower front board and perhaps a little shake.
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125.00 USD
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