Kyoto: Hoshino Publishing, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. 332p, ca. 300 black-and-white photos + 2 color plates of decorative patterns. Slightly shaken, first gathering detached, guardsheets over color plates torn, pencil scribbling on endpapers and in some margins, ink stamp of former owner. Covers rubbed. No jacket, if issued. Photographic survey..... More
Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago (copyright American Art Association), 1889. Verestchagin. First edition. Soft cover. 3 items: 80p with many ills., 14p, 35p. Second Appendix covers are soiled and sunned; owner's small ink stamp on two covers; small pin- or staple holes in most margins and sometimes in the text..... More
Leipzig; Paris: Baedeker; Paul Ollendorff, 1902. Third edition. Hardcover (limp cloth). The last edition of La Russie. xlix, 476p, 19 maps (most folding), 32 plans, all in color. Split to rear joint mended; ca. 2-inch tear to rear folding map, suitable for mending. Else very good and crisp, with no..... More
New York: Rosa Esman Gallery, 1978. First edition. Soft cover. [16]p, several ills. Outer pages foxed; covers soiled. Catalogue of 42 works on paper and books by Malevich, Exter, Goncharova, Larionov, El Lissitzky, Rodchenko, Tatlin, and others. Published on the centenary of Malevich's birth. Can be sent outside the US..... More
Paris: Jouvet, 1893. Oudart, Felix. First edition. Soft cover (original wrappers, with crude but serviceable rebacking). 108p, 36 line ills. by Felix Oudart. Five tales from Japan: "Le Chercheur des tresors," "Le Joueur de flute," "Poisson d'avril," "La Petite Servante," "La Foret enchantee." A nice example of Japonisme. Can be..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. Gauguin, La Farge. First edition. Hardcover. 329p, 122 ills. + 16 color plates. Brings together the "modernist primitivism of the French painter Paul Gauguin, the nostalgic exoticism of the American artist John La Farge, and the elite tourism of the American writer Henry Adams"..... More
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New York: Christie's, 1994. First edition. Soft cover. 100p, many ills., some in color. Lots 401-570, following a morning art sale (not Rewald's). Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and Modern drawings by Cezanne, Valadon, Giacometti, Morandi, Brauner, Balthus, Hockney (the catalogue cover), and many more; a few prints and paintings; African objects; fine..... More
Syracuse: Design Center, Syracuse University, n.d. [1962]. First edition. Soft cover. [72]p, many black-and-white ills. Short texts by Laurence Schmeckebier, Director of the Syracuse School of Art. Catalogue of the "collection of ceramics organized by Professor Ruth Randall and exhibited for the first time as a part of the University's..... More
Innsbruck: Wagner'sche Universitat, 1891. First edition. Soft cover. 55p, 3 line ills. In German. On wood construction in antiquity--Assyria, Egypt, Greece--based on ancient texts and other evidence. Passing references to Gottfried Semper. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate. Reference copy... More
Moscow: Detgiz [State Publishing House for Children's Literature], 1958-59. Unstated editions. Soft cover; hardcover. Most are 16-20p. All soft cover except Cat's House, which is 48p and in boards. Cat's House is a play; the others are verse about animals (About Everything in the World is also an ABC book)..... More
Paris: Bibliotheque Nationale, 1979. Bakst. First edition. Soft cover. 168p, many ills. + 4 color pls. and color cover. In French. Catalogue of the huge exhibition mounted to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Diaghilev's death, covering his entire career. Over 400 costumes, photos, manuscripts, scores, and other artifacts, drawn mostly..... More
Nanjing: Yilin Press, 1992. First edition. Hardcover (plasticized boards). 176p, dozens of color photos and short captions. No jacket, as issued. Photographic survey of dark red pottery teapots, a specialty of Yixing in China's Jiangsu Province. Includes traditional examples from the 16th-century Ming Dynasty on, and many contemporary examples. Heavy;..... More
London: Maggs Bros. 1921. First edition. Soft cover. 172p, a few line ills. Bookseller catalogue, items 567-1153. DEFECTIVE: most of one page in the Turkey section is cut out, with loss of items 1100-1114. Part I of this series (Cat. 412), which was devoted to America, is readily available. Part..... More
London: Maggs Bros. Spring 1940. First edition. Soft cover. 96p + 23 ills. 264 items "written mainly on clay, papyrus, vellum and paper; but also on linen, leather, bamboo leaves, etc." Issued early in what became the year of the Battle of Britain. Second photo shows the summary table of..... More
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1998. First edition. Hardcover (textured fabric). 104p, 23 text ills.; 66 color ills. (chiefly large detailed photos). No jacket (as issued?). Photo is slightly cropped. Analysis and beautiful presentation of these sumptuous, shimmering fabrics. They are grouped by type: transparent, dyed, reflective, printed, sculpted..... More
![Item #30099 Zakko Hinagata [Templates for Carpenters] -- 2 books. Taiga Hankoku Ochiai, Sentaro...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30099.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1661437969)
Sendai, Miyagi, Japan: Seibundo, N.d. [ca. 1876]. No stated edition. Japanese stab paper binding. N.p. [each ca. 24p], many line ills., partly printed in red. Two carpentry manuals showing details and proportions of traditional Japanese wood construction and carving. Originally printed in two 2-volume sets. Ours are volume 1, number..... More
N.p. [Moscow?]: No stated publisher, n.d. [ca. 1910?]. No stated edition. Matted photograph. Gelatin silver print (ca. 9 x 7 inches) within contemporary embossed mat (ca. 13 x 11 inches). The photographer's name and "Moscow" are printed on the mat. A few long shallow scratches to the photo, but overall..... More
Tokyo: Kodansha, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. 200p, many photos and line ills., 52 in color. Comprehensive, well-illustrated survey of Indonesian woven-patterned and resist-dyed fabrics--warp-ikat, other ikat cloths, tie-dyeing, weaving and woven patterns, and batik. Covers the motifs and techniques of textiles chiefly from Sumatra, Sulawesi, Bali, Java, and West and..... More
