Category: Decorative Arts, Antiques and Collectibles

Die Kunst Fur Alle 1913 - 1914

Price: $25.00

Seller ID: 000972

Condition: Very Good

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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Die miniaturen-Sammlung Seiner Koniglichenhoheit Des Grossherzogs Ernst Ludwig Von Hessen Und Bei Rhein

Price: $600.00

Publisher: Kurt Wolff Verlag : 1917

Seller ID: 000970

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Near Fine

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, bu...
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Gebruder Thonet: Mobel Aus Gebogenem Holze

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Hannover, Verlag Th. Schafer : 1999

Seller ID: 000105

ISBN-13: 9783887463960

Binding: Cloth

Condition: 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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Geschichte des Kunstgewerbes Aller Zeiten und Volker in Verbindung mit Zahlreichen Fachgelehrten Herausgegeben von Dr. H. Th. Bossert (6 volumes or Bande)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth : 1928

Seller ID: 001069

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Profusely illustrated, with many plates, some in color, throughout six volumes. Some foxing, not affecting most pages but on foreedges generally. Volumes are tight. Spine leather dry and cracked and some chips. A very good copy of German art and decorative art history.
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Image for 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

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

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Paris, Collections Fontaine, Leclercq, et. X : 1978

Seller ID: 001256

Binding: Wraps

Condition: 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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Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition, 1878 (5 volumes)

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office : 1880

Seller ID: 000239

Binding: Decorated Cloth

Condition: Good Plus

8vo. 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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Schweizerische Landesausstellung in Bern: Illustriertes ausstellungs-Album 1914

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Bern and Geneva, Respectively, Phototechnik A. G.; Kunstanstalt Atar : 1914

Seller ID: 000924

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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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The Great Exhibition -- London 1851: The Art-Journal Illustrated Catalogue of the Industries of All Nations

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Bounty Books, Crown Publishers, Inc. : 1970

Seller ID: 000851

ISBN-13: 9780517027905

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good Plus

4to. Facsimile of the 1851 Edition of The Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue of the Industries of All Nations. Tight, and generally clean. Some minor soilage on red spine band. DJ with tears, crumpled edges, but still intact.
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The Silber & Fleming Glass & China Book

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Ware, Hertfordshire, U.K., Wordsworth Editions : 1990

Seller ID: 000807

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

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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Image for 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.

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.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Bristol, UK, St. Stephen's Bristol Press, Limited

Seller ID: 001161

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

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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The Encyclopedia of Furniture

By: Aronson, Joseph

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers : 1965

Seller ID: 000885

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

4to - over 9¾. 484 pp. Profuse illustration. Standard text, with both short definitions and longer articles.
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Keramic Art of Japan (Two Volumes)

By: Audsley, George Ashdown and James Lord Bowes

Price: $900.00

Publisher: London, Henry Sotheran & Co. : 1875

Seller ID: 007315

Binding: Half Morocco

Condition: Very Good

The first comprehensive overview in English of Japanese ceramics, covering Hizen, Satsuma, Ise, Kioto, Kaga and Owari wares, and still an indispensable work on the subject, both for the beauty of its plates and illustrations and its majesterial authority. And not least, an outstanding example of Victorian chromolithography and book production. Folio. 41.5 by 31 cm. Introduction Volume.: lxxi, [1], 61 pp. Plates A to M, two of which are chromolithographs (althouth not colorful ones), and numerous illustrations throughout the text, some of which feature color. Example Volume.: 51 plates,...
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Furniture 1: Prehistoric Through Rococo (The Smithsonian Illustrated Library of Antiques)

By: Bishop, Robert; Patricia Coblentz; Brenda Gilchrist, General Editor

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Cooper-Hewitt Museum, The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design : 1979

Seller ID: 000893

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

4to - over 9¾. 26 colorplates, 99 black and white photos, 128 pp.
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Das Ornamentwerk: Eine Sammlung Angewandter Schmuckformen Fast Aller Zeiten Und Volker. 120 Tafeln, Davon 80 in Mehrfarbigen Originalgetreuen Wiedergaben Ausgewahlt Und Mit Erlauterungen Versehen

By: Bossert, H. Th.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Berlin, Verlag Ernst Wasmuth : 1937

Seller ID: 000057

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Book. Folio - over 12. F, VG DJ. 48 pp., plus 120 full page plates, 80 of which are in color. This is a sequel to Bossert's "Volkskunst in Europa", here extending that work's pathbreaking work at collecting specimens of European folk art to the rest of the world. So here are fine examples of folk art, all media, from Africa, Asia, Turkey, South America, Oceania. A very important work in the discovery and appreciation of folk art.
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English Furniture from Gothic to Sheraton. a Concise Account of the Development of English Furniture and Woodwork from the Gothic of the Fifteenth Century to the Classic Revival of the Early Nineteenth with the Minimum of Descriptive Text and the Max ...

By: Cescinsky, Herbert

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Garden City, N.Y., Garden City Publishing Company, Inc. : 1937

Seller ID: 000817

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Book. 4to - over 9¾. With slipcase. 406 pp, with over 900 photo illustrations of English furniture, bibliography, etc. A popular and highly readable treatment of subject. Corner cut out of rear free endpaper, and raw spot near bottom of title page. Otherwise solid, clean. Slipcase also sturdy, attractive.
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Josiah Wedgwood: Master Potter

By: Church, A. H.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Seeley and Co. Limited : 1894

Seller ID: 000412

Binding: Wrappers

Condition: Very Good Plus

4to. 104 pp., profusely illustrated with photographs. Blue wraps, bibliography. Early study of Wedgwood. Discreet library stamp of Bradford Library and Literary Society on title, and lower plate margins and backs. Stamp hardly noticeable and doesn't detract. Otherwise, fine,
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English Furniture and Furniture Makers of the 18th Century. Illustrated

By: Clouston, R. S.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, Hurst and Blackett : 1906

Seller ID: 001259

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xii, 362, [2] pp. Useful source because chapters devoted not just to the likes of Chippendale, Hepplewhite, Sheraton and Robert Adam, but also to Robert Manwaring, Ince and Mayhew, Mattias Lock, Robert and Richard GIllow, and others, designers who also were influential with their pattern or design books as well as in the case most obviously of Gillows, actual manufacturing. Also written in an almost conversational style, notwithstanding what now might come across as a quaintness of phrasing, inviting to the non-specialist. Throughout photographic illustrations of furniture and patterns. Th...
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Rockingham 1745-1842

By: Cox, Alwyn;Cox, Angela

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Easthampton, Massachusetts, U.S.A., Antique Collectors Club Ltd : 2002

Seller ID: 000134

ISBN-13: 9781851493722

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Like New

4to - over 9¾. Book. 431 pp. Definitive work on subject. Perfect copy.
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English Papier Mache of the Georgian and Victorian Periods

By: DeVoe, Shirley Spaulding

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Middletown, CT, Wesleyan University Press : 1971

Seller ID: 000641

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

4to. xx + 193. Profusely illustrated (black and white in text, color on DJ). Thorough and definitive source about a most attractive genre of furniture and decor. With fine list of references.
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Der Ornamentenschatz. Ein Musterbuch Stilvoller Ornamente Aus Allen Kunstepochen. 100 Tafeln Mit Uber 1500 Meist Farbigen Abbildungen Und Erlauterndem Text

By: Dolmetsch, H.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: : 1897

Seller ID: 000813

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

3rd, enlarged and best edition, with 100 color chromolithographic plates, each measuring 13 by 10 inches, and these are accompanied with one page of text explanation. This is the last of the great 19th century chromolithographic plate books on the decorative arts and ornament which began with Owen Jones' "Grammar of Ornament". With original decorated burgundy cloth with late Medieval/baroque gilt and black decoration of fleur-de-lys diaper, etc. Slight cocking to binding, which tight. Minimal shelfwear, with pinprick spots of greater wear in a few corner points, and slight rubbing...
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Category: Decorative Arts, Antiques and Collectibles