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1958401269London: Lund Humphries 1958. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Volume 6 only. Part of 7 volume set. Large size / weight. Contains 464 plates b&w of Chinese paintings. Red cloth hardcovers with gilt titles on cover and spine. Covers in very nice condition. With paper jacket ripped around edges with creases. Also with slipcase faded spine and yellowing around edges but very sturdy and well preserved. Grey endpapers. The pages are yellowed but flat and unmarked. Semi-glossy thick paper. VERY GOOD <br/> <br/> Lund Humphries hardcover
19807564The Swedish Literary Society in Finland 1980. 1st Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Step back in time and discover life in Sarvlaks a historic farm and village community in Finland from the 17th to the 20th century. This book brings everyday life work and traditions to life showing how the village and its farms grew thrived and changed over the centuries.<br /> <br /> Filled with fascinating stories historical details maps statistics photographs and tables.<br /> <br /> Text in Swedish only. 320 pp. The front cover has a small stain and slight yellowing. Inside the front cover there is a previous owner's Ex Libris. The Swedish Literary Society in Finland paperback
1950470585New York : Ronald Press Co 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; 223 pages 192 pages of plates : illustrations some colour ; 32 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references pages 215-219 and index. Subjects; Gardens Europe. Landscape gardening. China. History. Jardins. Architecture Europe. Design. Chinese. New York : Ronald Press Co hardcover
1949201886<p>Ronald Press Company 1949. Hardcover. Like New. Full green cloth with gilt lettering yellow endpapers b/w and color illustrations throughout together with the last section of the book being 208 stunning b/w photographic plates. Extra postage required for international or expedited shipping.</p> Ronald Press Company hardcover
1980KOS01203656TBD 1980. Soft Cover. Fine. KOS01203656 TBD paperback
193126106Edward Goldston Ltd 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Good and sound copy in the original publisher's paper covered boards. Ex reference library reserve stock very rubbed at corners boards generally dust soiled and worn. Usual library marks to spine endpapers versos of title and plate pages. 48 pages text plus 63 plates. Approx. size 12" by 9". Quantity Available: 1. Category: Art & Design; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 26106. . Edward Goldston Ltd hardcover
1931k1397London: Edward Goldston Ltd. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed and lightly maked with split to lower section of front external joint. Spine darkened. Slight bowing to boards. Scattered foxing. 1931. First Edition. Cream hardback cloth cover. 330mm x 250mm 13" x 10". 48pp 63pl. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . Edward Goldston Ltd hardcover
19562303230007The Ronald Press Co 1956. Hardcover. Very Good. 11x9x3. Part 1 3 Volume set. The First Millennium. Bound in red cloth. Gilt lettering. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Clean unmarked pages. Contents: v.1. Early Chinese Painting; v.2. The Sung Period; v.3. Plates. This is an oversized or heavy book which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. The Ronald Press Co hardcover
1928188191Paris/ Brussels: G. Van Oest 1928. Paperback. Good shelfwear to wraps light foxing to edges but plates are otherwise clear and all are present. Tan oversized portfolio wraps with black lettering text pages 53-66 followed by plates 81-120. Volume 3 only of a 5 volume set. G. Van Oest paperback
1973061700New York NY: Hacker Art Books Inc. 1973. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 3 Volume Set. Includes Volumes 1 2 and 3. Bound in salmon cloth boards with black and grey lettering on front covers silver lettering along spines. Shelfwear: light scuffing along edges and covers. All three volumes are tightly bound no marks. Set is in Very Good condition. Hacker Art Books Inc. Hardcover
1928199428Paris and Brussels: G. Van Oest 1928. Edition completely revised and updated" translation. Softcover. Good Vol. 1 cover is tender along hing minor chipping to base of spine and top. A superb reading set that still maintains shelf apppeal but not new. Brown paper wraps 3 Volumes. Volume 1: Text viii 210 pp. Volume 2: Plates 1-99. Volume 3: Plates 99 to 204. Shipping weight is 15 ppounds. Text is in French. A spectacular set of these three books penned and assembled by Swedish art historian Osvald Siren. With 204 BW illustrations of works rendered by Italian man of many talents Leonard da Vinci 1452-1519. This set includes both the text and the two plates volumes and is derived from old publisher stock. G. Van Oest paperback
1928185011Paris France: G. Van Oest 1928. Hardcover. Good leather worn & rubbed w/ some chips; areas of fading & smuding. bands rubbed. vol2 upper section of spine missing but included; larger rubbed area to lower section. vol2 back hinge split; binding joints firm; plate 191 nearly detached. vol2 & 3 have some cracking to pastedown/gutters. all volumes have evidence of binding repairs to sections of textblock. leather boards w/ inlaid marbled paper speckled in gilt; five raised bands; gilt printing. top edge gilt. Volume 1: Text viii 210 pp. Volume 2: Plates 1-99. Volume 3: Plates 99 to 204. Text in French. Foxing to textblock edges; remnants to page edges. Pages bright and appear clean but may have smudges marks etc. A skillfull high quality crafted rebound of the original soft cover versions. Very solid copies. A spectacular set of these three books penned and assembled by Swedish art historian Osvald Siren. With 204BW illustrations of works rendered by Italian man of many talents Leonard da Vinci 1452-1519. This set includes both the text and the two plates volumes and is derived from old publisher stock. G. Van Oest hardcover
191748658Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First English edition. Translated by Frederic Schenck. Complete in 2 4to volumes. Volume 1: Text volume 2: Plates 220. Bound in quarter white vellum lettered in gilt with a gilt lettered vellum label to upper cover of each volume over red heart patterned Italian paper boards. Top edges gilt spines darkened with the corners bumped and rounded and light edge-wear to the boards clean throughout and the bindings tight and square. Harvard University Press hardcover
191624592New Haven: Yale Univ. Press 1916. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. quarter vellum spine label printed in gilt and navy cloth. Very good. xviii 292 pages. 30 x 22 cm. Limited edition copy 14 of 200. List of Subscribers and List of Illustrations. 115 collotype plates. Index. The Jarves pictures were brought to America in 1860 and first exhibited in the so-called "Institute of Fine Arts in New York. The principal arrangement herein is first chronological and secondly that of schools. Printed on high quality stock and mostly unopened. Spot to front cover and slight spine darkening. Yale Univ. Press hardcover
192815185Paris & Bruxelles: Les Editions G. Van Oest 1928. Three volumes of an exceptional study of Leonardo da vinci the artist and man. Text in French. 3 vols. 4to. Vol I text volume: viii 211 1 pp.; Vols II: plates numbered 1-98; Vol III: plates 99-204. Superb plates reproduced after photographs by Alinar Marotte Anderson and othters. In original stiff printed brown paper wrappers with bold red and black lettering on cover and spine. Some wear to the paer of the spine inside crisp and clean printed on extra-heavy paper with only very minor foxing . A very well preserved set of one of the most thorough studies of Leonardo da Vinci. First Edition. Near Fine. Les Editions G. Van Oest unknown
1949454508New York : Ronald Press Company 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges lightly rubbed as with age. Remains remarkably well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; xiv 141 pages 219 pages of plates : illustrations plates some colour ; 32 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references page 138. Contents; The Chinese garden: A work of art in forms of nature -- Mountains and water -- Flowers and trees -- Architectural elements of the gardens -- Gardens in literature and painting -- Older gardens in Japan -- Some private gardens -- The parks of the sea palaces -- Yüan Ming Yüan -- The new Summer Palace and the Park of the Jade Fountain. Subjects; Gardens Chinese. Gardens -- China. Landscape gardening -- China. Garden architecture -- China. New York : Ronald Press Company hardcover
1978biblio2771<p>SECOND VOLUME ONLY! A History of Later Chinese Painting. Volume II - From the End of the Ming Period to the End of Chi'en Lung Reign c. 1620-1796. New York: Hacker Art Books 1978. IX328 pages242 B/W plates. AsNew Hardcover Illustrated Blue cloth Gilt lettering and stamping no dj. No Wear. Clean. Strong binding. 12.25"x9.3"x1.6". be70280.</p> Hacker Art Books hardcover
19501240326.01<p>Ronald Press Company NY 1950. Hardcover. As New. Folio hardcover. Slipcased; green cloth. Near fine condition. Slipcase lightly rubbed covers and contents clean unworn no marking or writing. Binding square and tight.</p> Ronald Press Company, NY hardcover
1949Steve-10New York: The Ronald Press Company 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. An important early work on the gardens of China by an expert in the history of Chinese art. Slight wear to sturdy slipcase with paper label faintest fading to edges of green cloth covers. Pages and plates clean and unmarked. xiv 141pp; 208 plates many taken from photographs by Siren. 12.75 x 10". As a large heavy book this order will be carefully packed and may incur additional shipping charges. The Ronald Press Company hardcover
194996253The Ronald Press Co 1949. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket. Covers shelfworn. The Ronald Press Co hardcover
19932083002115800161Peking University Press 1993. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Peking University Press paperback
194922039New York: The Ronald Press Company 1949. Cloth. Near Fine. A handsome copy of the 1949 1st edition. Tight and VG to Near Fine in its dark-green cloth with bright gilt-titling along the front panel and spine. Tasteful former owner bookplate at the front pastedown otherwise clean as could be. And in a bright VG example of the publisher's printed light-green slipcase and chemise with mild wear at the spine crown and along the bottom-edges. Tall quarto first-rate plates throughout many of them in rich gravure. The Ronald Press Company unknown
1928182632Paris and Brussels: G. Van Oest 1928. Edition completely revised and updated" translation. Softcover. As new. Pages are unopened books never opened with very minor foxing spots on page edges and endpapers. Old publisher stock. Brown paper wraps 3 Volumes. Volume 1: Text viii 210 pp. Volume 2: Plates 1-99. Volume 3: Plates 99 to 204. Shipping weight is 15 ppounds. Text is in French. A spectacular set of these three books penned and assembled by Swedish art historian Osvald Siren. With 204 BW illustrations of works rendered by Italian man of many talents Leonard da Vinci 1452-1519. This set includes both the text and the two plates volumes and is derived from old publisher stock. G. Van Oest paperback
19273554907247031927. First Edition. Paris and Bruxelles Librarie Nationale d'Art et d'Histoire G. Vanoest Editeur. Les Peintures Chinoises dans les collections Americaines 1927. First Edition. This is a scarce set of 40 large plates of Chinese paintings selected from American collections by Osvald Siren. Large folio size. Text in French. This large folio consists of an outer wrap of heavy brown/tan card with wear and tears to card wrappers but clean inside and with NO RESTORATION OR REPAIRS TO THE WRAPPERS. A VG copy of the first part of 5 parts of the famous Siren study on Chinese paintings in American collections Annales du Musee Guimet - Bibliotheque d'Art Nouvelle Serie II. There are 41 pages of text that provide an introduction together with detailed descriptions of the plates all printed on loose 4 page sections. This is followed by 40 full-page prints with none of the usual heavy foxing/wear usually encountered. The plates are all in VG or better condition. Text in French. Osvald Siren 1879-1966 was a renowned Finnish-Swedish art historian and one of the early Western scholars of Chinese art. He made 4 major travels to East Asia between 1918 and 1935. NB: this set is in the original wrappers and has not been rebound. Photographs/scans available upon request. unknown
1933153738London: The Medici Society 1933. 43/500. Hardcover. Contents good and clean but for faint age toning to some page fore edges. Art museum ex-lib. copy with ink stamps on reverse of each plate but no bleed-through/visibility on plate face. Museum bookplate very pretty! title page perforation stamp pocket and a small sticker from the original book shop in London where this volume was purchased. First signature of one folded leaf 3 blank sides colophon detached but laid in. Covers were detached as one piece from spine but that has been re-glued an d seems stable. A bit of rubbing to the cloth. Crimson cloth/boards. Gilt lettering on spine. TEG. 140 pp. text followed by 100 bw plates each on a single side of the page. Weighs 5 pounds and may require extra postage. Volume I only of a 2-volume set on the history of Chinese painting. This volume covers the period from the Han to early Sung dynasties. Includes a dedication to the Crown Prince of Sweden H.R.H. Gustav Adolf. With a preface an introduction Remarks about Painting and Calligraphy bibliography and list of illustrations all before the main text. Indices for both volumes appear at the end of VOLUME 2. The chapters each with sub-sections include The Han Period; The Period of the Three Kingdoms and the Six Dynasties; The Transition Period; The Early T'ang Period; The Middle T'ang Period; The Late T'ang and Five Dynasties Period; and Landscape Painters of the Five Dynasties and the Early Sung Period. Very comprehensive. The Medici Society hardcover