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The Rape Of Europa
por Lynn H Nicholas
The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War is the title of a book and a subsequent documentary film. The book, by Lynn Nicholas, explores the Nazi plunder of looted art treasures from occupied countries, and the consequences.
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Giuseppe Castiglione,: A Jesuit Painter at the Court of the Chinese Emperors
por Cecile Beurdeley, Michel Beurdeley
C.E. Tuttle Co, January 1971. Slipcase Hardcover. Used Like New/Very Good. The cardboard slipcase has wear, rubbing, tanning, and split corners. The book has very light wear to cover, pages clean and unmarked. All tip-ins appear intact and undamaged. We carry new and used books in our storefront. We want you to be satisfied with your purchase. Please contact us if you have questions regarding this item.
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€ 56,83
Tagliapietra: A Venetian Glass Maestro.
por TAGLIAPIETRA, Lino. Edited by Marino Barovier. An Appreciation by Thomas A. Buechner. Essay by Susanne K. Frantz
Dublin: Vitrum / Links for Publishing, 1998. Signed on the half-title page by Lino Tagliapietra. First edition / First printing. Black cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Rare signed. Ours appears to be the only signed copy online.
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€ 331,59
Drawings by Mervyn Peake
por Peake, Mervyn
"Drawings by Mervyn Peake." [London]: The Grey Walls Press, [1949]. (Introduction by Mervyn Peake). First published in 1949. pp. 11 + 62 b. & w. plates (some with colour). Hardcover, green/grey cloth with black title on spine (corners square, covers pretty clean but for a smudge to front lower corner, spine bumped & bottom a bit frayed, covers bowed outwards, top edge foxed, interior is clean & unmarked, though the paper throughout has darkened). d.w., unclipped (spine darkened, spine chipped some to...
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€ 124,61
Bon a Tirer :
por Vidali, Leoni
A 1st bilingual ed. very good paperback (spiral-bound) art book, minor signs of wear on cov. as in image, text/block clean, Signed by the artist. 16,5x24cm. 400gr. TEXT Greek/Ellinika, English.
Five different zing plates 18×24″ each, carved, etched and engraved, were printed in one operation with both intaglio and surface colors simultaneously on the same plate. Many proofs were printed. The quest for the B o n A T i r e r is the very work itself.
Five different zing plates 18×24″ each, carved, etched and engraved, were printed in one operation with both intaglio and surface colors simultaneously on the same plate. Many proofs were printed. The quest for the B o n A T i r e r is the very work itself.
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€ 100,00
Emil Nolde
por Haftmann, Werner
Marlborough Fine Art Limited, London, 1964. Book. Near Fine. Wrappers. 52 page softcover catalogue, with numerous illustrations--about half of which are in full color. Binding is tight and solid, and dustjacket with tipped in color plate is in fine, bright condition. The dustjacket, being of a paper that is not archival, has caused some discoloring to the covers and portions of the endpapers where it has come into contact with them. Published in conjunction with the exhibition from February -March, 1964...
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€ 23,69
The Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Hummingbirds
por Sir William Jardine
Complete set of the two Hummingbirds volumes from Sir William Jardine's ambitious Victorian series The Naturalist's Library
With all 68 steel engravings engraved by Scottish engraver William Lizars after illustrations by Jean-Gabriel Pretre
In the description to the very first plate, Jardine writes "This fine specimen has been figured in the beautiful work of Mr. Lesson, from which we have borrowed so largely for the illustrations of this present volume." Rene Primevere Lesson's seminal studies of... Leia mais sobre este item
With all 68 steel engravings engraved by Scottish engraver William Lizars after illustrations by Jean-Gabriel Pretre
In the description to the very first plate, Jardine writes "This fine specimen has been figured in the beautiful work of Mr. Lesson, from which we have borrowed so largely for the illustrations of this present volume." Rene Primevere Lesson's seminal studies of... Leia mais sobre este item
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€ 615,81
Flowers from an Indian Garden
por [Emily Eden]
A delightful Victorian botanical book by an aristocratic amateur artist living in IndiaTinted title page, 12 chromolithographic plates: preface printed in gold with botanical border, and 11 fine botanical plates each with text leaf printed in gold. Very fine botanical plates including group of flowers from Bombay, wild flowers from Mahableshwar, tulip tree, tuberose, Asian bleeding heart, jungle geranium, Bengal rose, crepe myrtle, tamarind, passionflower, lotus and the extinct Magnolia pterocarpa.Emily...
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€ 1.894,80
SOME OF THE MODERNS
por Wedmore, Frederick
London: Virtue & Co., 1909. Very good- (very worn covers, tear in the spine covering, but tight internally) without dust jacket. 1 of 750 copies printed. 80 black and white illustrations taken from contemporary artists who were not well-known at the time of publication, such as William Nicholson, Walter Sickert, David Muirhead, Philip Connard. Some influence of impressionism seems apparent in the illustrations (see scans). Wedmore introduces each artist with a brief essay. Oversize 9 x 12, may...
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€ 28,42
A Geographical Present
por Mary Anne Venning
Very good copy of the second edition (first published in 1817) of this popular educational book by woman writer Mary Anne Venning
Complete with 60 charming handcoloured wood engravings of costumes of the world
There are fine gentlemen and ladies of London and Paris, Bohemian peasants, Catalonians dancing the Fandango (possibly flamenco?), Hungarian hussars, itinerant Savoyards, Laplanders (Saami) riding reindeer-driven sleds, Greeks, Russians, Armenians and Turks.
There are many fascinating plates of... Leia mais sobre este item
Complete with 60 charming handcoloured wood engravings of costumes of the world
There are fine gentlemen and ladies of London and Paris, Bohemian peasants, Catalonians dancing the Fandango (possibly flamenco?), Hungarian hussars, itinerant Savoyards, Laplanders (Saami) riding reindeer-driven sleds, Greeks, Russians, Armenians and Turks.
There are many fascinating plates of... Leia mais sobre este item
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€ 426,33
James for Juliet
por Norman-Butler, Belinda
1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. Softcover, Mint, she was a social activist, dynamic aristocratic galvaniser of committees on social issues, sat on musical, architectural and literary bodies, author, here the biographer for her brother who died at Dunkirk in 1940, family photos, unpaginated, life of wealthy Edwardian family, she also wrote on Victorian novelists and here dedicates this booklet to Robert Colby, also a writer on Victorian culture, Margaret Oliphant, Eliot and C. Bronte, nice...
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€ 81,09
Les Modes Parisiennes sous le Directoire
por Francois Claudius Compte-Calix
Very good copy of Compte-Calix's suite of fashion plates of the French Directory era
Complete with all 15 very finely handcoloured fashion plates, 13 belles and two dandies
The women dressed in bonnets and gowns decorated with frills, bows and ribbons, a few Merveilleuses in Roman style robes. The gentlemen, or Royalist Incroyables, in tricorne or top hat, riding coat, gilet, breeches and boots, armed with cudgels.
All the plates drawn by Francois Claudius Compte-Calix, an artist who worked for the... Leia mais sobre este item
Complete with all 15 very finely handcoloured fashion plates, 13 belles and two dandies
The women dressed in bonnets and gowns decorated with frills, bows and ribbons, a few Merveilleuses in Roman style robes. The gentlemen, or Royalist Incroyables, in tricorne or top hat, riding coat, gilet, breeches and boots, armed with cudgels.
All the plates drawn by Francois Claudius Compte-Calix, an artist who worked for the... Leia mais sobre este item
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€ 378,96
Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vol. 115
por Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
Very good copy of Volume CXV (45 of the Third series) of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 1889.
Complete with all 59 (13 folding) hand-coloured botanical plates (No. 7033-7092).
All plates drawn by talented woman botanical artist Matilda Smith, lithographed by John Nugent Fitch.
Includes many exotic flowers and plants including the licuala, pandan, broad thatch and carludovica palm trees, blue bird of paradise flower, prickly pear, sarsaparilla, dragon tree, stapelia, Australian stinging tree and the voodoo... Leia mais sobre este item
Complete with all 59 (13 folding) hand-coloured botanical plates (No. 7033-7092).
All plates drawn by talented woman botanical artist Matilda Smith, lithographed by John Nugent Fitch.
Includes many exotic flowers and plants including the licuala, pandan, broad thatch and carludovica palm trees, blue bird of paradise flower, prickly pear, sarsaparilla, dragon tree, stapelia, Australian stinging tree and the voodoo... Leia mais sobre este item
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€ 1.136,88
The Naturalist's Miscellany:
por George Shaw, Frederick Nodder, Richard Nodder
Rare complete set of 26 volumes of this zoological masterpiece
24 volumes bound in 12 of the Naturalist's Miscellany and 2 volumes bound in 1 of The Zoological Miscellany by William Elford Leach (the continuation published after George Shaw's death with illustrations by Richard Nodder)
With all 1,185 engraved plates in superb hand-colour
Engraved dedication leaf to Queen Charlotte, 1,065 hand-coloured engraved plates in the Naturalist's Miscellany, and 120 hand-coloured engraved plates in The Zoological... Leia mais sobre este item
24 volumes bound in 12 of the Naturalist's Miscellany and 2 volumes bound in 1 of The Zoological Miscellany by William Elford Leach (the continuation published after George Shaw's death with illustrations by Richard Nodder)
With all 1,185 engraved plates in superb hand-colour
Engraved dedication leaf to Queen Charlotte, 1,065 hand-coloured engraved plates in the Naturalist's Miscellany, and 120 hand-coloured engraved plates in The Zoological... Leia mais sobre este item
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€ 33.159,00
The Compleat Drawing Book
por [Robert Sayer]
Good copy of this seminal 18th century English art tutorial With 90 (of 100) copperplate engravings (plates 68/69 bound out of order, lacking plates 42, 44, 45, 52, 55, 56, 61, 66, 86, 95.)Sayer includes 50 prints from Sebastien Le Clerc's Principes de dessein (1700), as well as drawings by the "best masters" of the day, such as Francis Barlow and Charles Le Brun.In addition to anatomical studies of the human body, heads, limbs, facial expressions, etc., there are groups of figures by Johann Sebastian...
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€ 663,18
Portraits of the Female Aristocracy of the Court of Queen Victoria (Vol. I & II)
por [William and Edward Finden, et al.]
London: J. Hogarth, 5 Haymarket, 1849. Hardcover. Very Good. Ex-library (non-circulating). Rebound in quarter black leather with green faux-leather cloth sides. Spine gilt stamped (matching call number), with raised bands. Outer hinges rubbed. Library bookplate on front pastedowns. Pinhole library stamps on title pages, dedication page, and on one additional text-only leaf in each volume. Edges of leaves are toned; scattered foxing; dampstains in the margin of the first four plates in Vol. II. Tissue...
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€ 663,18
The Naturalist's Library: Mammalia: Dogs
por Charles Hamilton Smith, Sir William Jardine
Complete set of all two volumes on Canines from Sir William Jardine's ambitious Victorian series The Naturalist's Library
With all 71 steel engravings (62 handcoloured plates, 5 b/w plates, 2 b/w title vignettes and 2 b/w portraits) engraved by Scottish engraver William Lizars after illustrations by Lt.-Col. Charles Hamilton Smith and James Stewart
Includes the Falkland Island aguara-dog, Dusicyon australis, that was described as extinct around 1870, as well as the endangered Sumatran dhole, Canadian... Leia mais sobre este item
With all 71 steel engravings (62 handcoloured plates, 5 b/w plates, 2 b/w title vignettes and 2 b/w portraits) engraved by Scottish engraver William Lizars after illustrations by Lt.-Col. Charles Hamilton Smith and James Stewart
Includes the Falkland Island aguara-dog, Dusicyon australis, that was described as extinct around 1870, as well as the endangered Sumatran dhole, Canadian... Leia mais sobre este item
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€ 663,18
Life of Blake. Gilcrest.
por Alexander Gilcrest
Brown leather spine with gilt decoration, banding and title on the spine. Mottled marble boards.
Volumes 1 and 2. Renewed and First Edition
Volumes 1 and 2. Renewed and First Edition
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€ 118,71
The Naturalist's Library: Ichthyology: British Fishes
por Robert Hamilton, Sir William Jardine
Complete set of all two volumes on British Fish from Sir William Jardine's ambitious Victorian series The Naturalist's Library
With all 72 steel engravings (68 handcoloured plates, 2 b/w title vignettes and 2 b/w portraits) engraved by Scottish engraver William Lizars after illustrations by James Stewart
Most fish are depicted lying on the seashore having been caught by fishermen, and include many edible species such as perch, mackerel, seabream, salmon, trout, halibut, sole, etc. Includes the critically... Leia mais sobre este item
With all 72 steel engravings (68 handcoloured plates, 2 b/w title vignettes and 2 b/w portraits) engraved by Scottish engraver William Lizars after illustrations by James Stewart
Most fish are depicted lying on the seashore having been caught by fishermen, and include many edible species such as perch, mackerel, seabream, salmon, trout, halibut, sole, etc. Includes the critically... Leia mais sobre este item
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€ 757,92
Modern Painters. Volumes I-II, III, IV & V.
por John Ruskin LLD
Red half calf, marbled boards. Gilt titles on the spine.
Modern Painters (1843–1860) is a five-volume work by the eminent Victorian art critic, John Ruskin, begun when he was 24 years old based on material collected in Switzerland in 1842. Ruskin argues that recent painters emerging from the tradition of the picturesque are superior in the art of landscape to the old masters. The book was primarily written as a defence of the later work of J. M. W. Turner. Ruskin used the book to argue that art should... Leia mais sobre este item
Modern Painters (1843–1860) is a five-volume work by the eminent Victorian art critic, John Ruskin, begun when he was 24 years old based on material collected in Switzerland in 1842. Ruskin argues that recent painters emerging from the tradition of the picturesque are superior in the art of landscape to the old masters. The book was primarily written as a defence of the later work of J. M. W. Turner. Ruskin used the book to argue that art should... Leia mais sobre este item
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€ 107,92
Iconographie du règne animal de G. Cuvier
por F. E. Guérin
Scarce four-volume set of the plate volumes to Felix-Edouard Guérin-Méneville's Iconographie du règne animal de G. Cuvier, (Iconography of the Animal Kingdom by G. Cuvier). Lacking the text volume as often.
Total of 440 (of 448) handcoloured copperplate engravings and two engraved portraits of Cuvier and Latreille (lacking the portrait of Guerin)
The plates were printed and hand-coloured by Remond, engraved by Jean-Dominique-Étienne Canu and Eugene Giraud after illustrations by Edouard Travies,... Leia mais sobre este item
Total of 440 (of 448) handcoloured copperplate engravings and two engraved portraits of Cuvier and Latreille (lacking the portrait of Guerin)
The plates were printed and hand-coloured by Remond, engraved by Jean-Dominique-Étienne Canu and Eugene Giraud after illustrations by Edouard Travies,... Leia mais sobre este item
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€ 2.084,28
Turner's Early Sketchbooks. 1789 - 1802.
por Gerald Wilkinson
Original dust sheet. Green cloth with gilt title on the spine.
One hundred and seventy-six early Turners, most in colour and reproduced for the first time, and 22 other reproductions.
Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colourisations, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. He left behind more than 550 oil... Leia mais sobre este item
One hundred and seventy-six early Turners, most in colour and reproduced for the first time, and 22 other reproductions.
Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colourisations, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. He left behind more than 550 oil... Leia mais sobre este item
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€ 106,72
Edwards's Botanical Register, Vol. 33
por John Lindley
Very good copy of Volume XXXIII (33) of Edwards's Botanical Register, 1847.
Complete with all 64 (2 folding) hand-coloured botanical plates (No. 1-64).
The majority by talented woman botanical artist Miss Sarah Drake.
Includes 20 exotic species of showy orchids (Coelogyne, Dendrobium, Cattleya, Staurochilus, Bletilla, Encyclia, Pinalia, Rhynchostylis, Oncidium, Calanthe, Brassia, Ascocentrum, etc.), as well as iris, hibiscus, bindweed, ginger lily, primrose, columbine, forsythia, Oriental paper bush,... Leia mais sobre este item
Complete with all 64 (2 folding) hand-coloured botanical plates (No. 1-64).
The majority by talented woman botanical artist Miss Sarah Drake.
Includes 20 exotic species of showy orchids (Coelogyne, Dendrobium, Cattleya, Staurochilus, Bletilla, Encyclia, Pinalia, Rhynchostylis, Oncidium, Calanthe, Brassia, Ascocentrum, etc.), as well as iris, hibiscus, bindweed, ginger lily, primrose, columbine, forsythia, Oriental paper bush,... Leia mais sobre este item
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€ 1.136,88
Turner's Rivers, Harbours and Coasts.
por Eric Shanes
In the original dust sheet. Blue cloth with silver title on the spine.
Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colourisations, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. He left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper. He was championed by the leading English art critic John... Leia mais sobre este item
Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colourisations, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. He left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper. He was championed by the leading English art critic John... Leia mais sobre este item
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€ 131,90
Italian painting : the creators of the Renaissance / by Lionello Venturi and Rosabianca Skira-Venturi
por Venturi, Lionello (1885-1961). Skira-Venturi, Rosabianca
Geneva : Skira, 1950. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very good cloth copy with slightly stained boards in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 205 pages, 109 leaves of plates. Notes; Translated from the Italian. Contents; Volumes 2-3 have imprint: Geneva, New York, A. Skira. Subjects; Painting, Italian. Painting, Italian History 15th century. Painting, Italian History 14th century. Painting, Italian History...
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€ 39,79
2 billets autographes signés à Jean-Paul Brunet à propos de sa poésie, 1901
por Breton, Jules (peintre et poète français, 1827-1906)
Paris, 1901. Autographe. Très bon. Aucune reliure. Signé par l'auteur. Ed. originale. in-24. 1 lettre autographe signée sur bristol vert à coins ronds, 2 pp. in-24, 16 juin 1901. On joint 1 billet autographe signé sur sa carte de visite à l'adresse du 136 rue de Longchamp, 2 pp. in-48, sd [ca 1901]. Dans le premier billet, il indique à son correspondant (Jean-Paul Brunet, critique à l'hebdomadaire "Le Mondain bordelais") que...
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€ 83,00
