Art And Architecture from Focloir

Georgia aceg Amiranachvili, Chalva. Les emaux de Georgie. (Series:Collection Merveilles de l'art en Orient). Paris, Editions du Cercle d'Art, 1962,123 pages, bib, illus.Very nice copy in dust jacket.Large, heavy volume,about 10.25 inches by 13x 10" or 26 x 33 cm; weighs about 2 pounds or 1.9 kilograms. Gorgeous illustrations, number tipped in. $20.00 Front hall Amiranachvili was… Read more about this item

Central Asia Turkoman. Thatcher, Amos Bateman. Turkoman rugs; An illustrative monograph on the rugs woven by the Turkoman tribes of Central Asia. A Publication of the Hajji Baba Club. London: Holland Press, 1977, 155 pages, 55 black and white plates, glossary, bib. Fine copy of the hardcover. (Originally published in 1940 in New York by E. Weyhe). $23.50 Box 2424

India zmdp Zebrowski, Mark. Deccani painting. Berkeley: Sotheby Publications/ University of California Press, 1983, 296 pages: illustrations (some color), bib, index. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. Neat signature of previous owner on front free endpaper. A large and heavy volume, $50.00 In front hall closet.

HBS 31-32 Catholic Church. The Stowe Missal: MS. D. II. 3 in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. Edited by Sir George F. Warner. Suffolk(Series: Henry Bradshaw Society, Volumes 31-32). ; Wolfeboro, N.H., USA: Boydell Press for the Henry Bradshaw Society, 1989, lviii, 45 pages, illus., facsim. Liturgical text in Latin; editorial matter in English. Two volumes in… Read more about this item

Americana mgjs Miles, George A. James Swan, cha-tic of the Northwest Coast: drawings and watercolors from the Franz and Kathryn Stenzel collection of western American art. New Haven, Conn.: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University; [Hanover, N.H.]: Distributed by University Press of New England: 2003, 60 pages: color illustrations, maps. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. … Read more about this item

Persia graai Ghirshman, Roman. The arts of ancient Iran : from its origins to the time of Alexander the Great. Translated by Stuart Gilbert and James Emmons. New York: Golden Press, 1964, xxi, 439 pages (some folded) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color). Fine copy in like dust jacket. Very bright red cloth cover, a large heavy volume -… Read more about this item

Persia fwwp Floor, Willem M. Wall paintings and other figurative mural art in Qajar Iran. Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda Publishers, 2005, 221 pages, ill, bib, index. Like new copy in green library buckram. A friendly inscription from Floor to a librarian/bibliophile who helped him locate some sources. Original wrappers bound in. $20.00 Box B 18

Persia fwpt Floor, Willem. The Persian textile industry in historical perspective, 1500-1925 VIe-XIXe s) Paris: L'Harmattan. 1999, 399 pages, bib, tables. Like new copy in green library buckram with black lettering. Original covers of the paperback bound into this hardcover volume. From the personal library of a bibliophile/librarian

Persia whtc Wulff, Hans. The Traditional Crafts of Persia. Their Development, Technology, and Influence on Eastern and Western Civilizations. Cambridge, Massachusetts.: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1966, xxiv, 404 pages, illus, maps, glossary index. Hardcover, in very good condition. Dust jacket is present but part of the upper edge of dust jacket front cover has been torn off.

Persia ggdsp Guest, Grace Dunham. Shiraz painting in the sixteenth century. (Series: Oriental studies (Freer Gallery of Art). Washington, D.C., Freer Gallery of Art, 1949, 70 pages plus 50 pages of black and white plates, usually 2 plates to a page. Tall thin volume 10 1'2 " x 14" Attractive book. $20.00 Box B12

Ancient world aeah Akurgal, Ekrem. The art of the Hittites. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1962, 315 pages, illustrations, plates (some color), map, plans, notes, bib, index. 174 plates in total, 24 plates in color, rest in black and white. The book is in good to very good condition with some minor ruffling to bottom page corners at the back… Read more about this item

Americana hopi Powell, John Wesley; Jesse Walter Fewkes; J. N. B. Hewitt. Twenty-first annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology: to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1899-1900. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1903, xl. 360 pages, 62 brightly colored plates of Hopi Katcinas plates (these are plates Number II to Plates Number LXIII. The Plate Number 1 is… Read more about this item

Americana rrbv Reed, Roger. Building Victorian Boston: The Architecture of Gridley J. F. Bryant. Amherst & Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007, xiii, 224 pages, illus, notes, bib, index. Very good in dust jacket. NOT EX-LIBRARY. $20.00 Box 8181. "In Building Victorian Boston, Roger Reed focuses on representative projects by Bryant, presenting them in a chronological narrative that both… Read more about this item

Americana gfwr Grubar, Francis S. William Ranney: Painter of the Early West. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1962, iv, 65 pages, notes, bib, index. This is the catalogue raisonne of the paintings and drawings by the Connecticut-born landscape artist (1813-57). Foreword by Hermann Warner Williams, Jr., Director of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Very good in dust jacket. $6.50… Read more about this item

Art hdmcl Heath, Dudley. Miniatures. (Series: The Connoisseur's Library). London: Methuen and Company, Ltd, 1905, xl, 319 pages, 42 plates (all present), many colored, illus., index. Most pages still uncut. Gilt illustrations on spine and front cover panel, illustrated frontispiece. Large, heavy volume (too heavy for overseas shipment). An impressive book. $13.50 Box 21.

Art rsin Ringbom, Sixten. Icon to narrative. The rise of the dramatic close-up fifteenth-century devotional painting. (Series: Acta Academiae Aboensis). Åbo: Åbo Akademi, 1965, 233 pages, bib, index, 196 black and white plates at back. Paperback volume, some minor chipping to edges of back cover. Good to very good copy else. $42.50 Box A 122 Note: In 1983,… Read more about this item

Catholic Church kpzl Elm, Kaspar, Peter Joerissen, Hermann Josef Roth, editors. Die Zisterzienser. Ordensleben zwischen Ideal und Wirklichkeit. Eine Ausstellung des Landschaftsverbandes Rheinland, Rheinisches Museumsamt, Brauweiler: Aachen, Krönungssaal des Rathauses 3. Juli-28. September 1980. (Series: Schriften des Rheinischen Museumsamtes; Nr. 10). Bonn: Rheinland & Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 1980, 708 pages, with plates, illus, 21 plates are in color. A… Read more about this item

Ancient World lkms Lapatin, Kenneth. Mysteries of the Snake Goddess: Art, Desire, and the Forging of History. New York: Da Capo Press, 2003, xi, 274 pages, illus, bib, index. Good to very good copy of the paperback. $5.00 Box 2129. Lapatin was a Curator of Antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

England rjdg Rosenberg, John D. The darkening glass; a portrait of Ruskin's genius. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962 (1961), 274p, notes, bib, index. Good to good plus clean tight copy in good dust jacket. $8.50 Box 10

Art wjjf Wirth, Jean. La jeune fille et la mort: recherches sur les thèmes macabres dans l'art germanique de la Renaissance. (Series: Hautes études médiévales et modernes; 36). Genève: Librairie Droz, 1979, 194 pages, [32] leaves of plates: ill., bib, index. Paperbound volume in very good condition. Has signature of former owner on front free endpaper. $45.00 Box A… Read more about this item