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1926H8RD5MZ5V5YMParis & Brussels 1926. G. Vanoest Publisher's original printed blue paper wrappers. With 12 plans and 2 maps mostly folding and a total of 274 collotype plates. 3 volumes. VI 73 3 blank; 3 1 blank; 3 1 blank pp. First edition in French of a work on the imperial palaces of Beijing by the Finnish-born Swedish art historian and professor Osvald Sirén 1879-1966. Besides the Italian Renaissance Sirén was very interested in Chinese art and culture and wrote various books on the subject mostly in English. The photographs were all taken by Sirén himself and he wrote an accompanying 40-page introduction on the so-called "Forbidden City" with two small chapters on the seaside and summer palaces. The collotypes show mostly palaces some from several angles but also monuments pavilions statues interiors and gardens with short descriptions in both French and English. They give a unique view of the city in the early 20th century since some of the buildings have vanished or are now settled in completely different surroundings.With the bookplate of W.A.S. Swets 1902-1992 in each volume. Minor foxing throughout original paper wrappers heavily discoloured. Overall a good copy wholly untrimmed and with the bolts unopened.l R. Thiriez Barbarian lens: Western photographers of the Qianlong Emperor's European palaces p. 182. ABE CAT Art History unknown
192427086New York: Orientalia 1924. First edition of this work limited to 800 copies. Quarto original half cloth over papered boards. brown morocco label to the spine. Title page printed in red and black folding map 128 photogravures on 109 plates 53 plans and elevations. In excellent condition with some rubbing to the bottom cloth. and light rubbing to the extremities. Rare. Osvald Sirén was a Finnish-born art historian whose interests included the art of 18th century Sweden Renaissance Italy and China. In the area of Chinese art his major work was The Walls and Gates of Peking. Sirén was an early member of the theosophist movement. In 1956 he was awarded the Charles Lang Freer Medal. In The Walls and Gates of Peking provides historical records of the walls and gates of Beijing and has 109 photos taken by Osvald Siren and 50 architectural drawings made by Chinese artists. “Superb historical description of the substantial stone monuments in the Peking area probably the most important work and the only photographic monograph on the subject from this period by one of the greatest authorities on Chinese art history and architecture" Western Travellers in China. Orientalia hardcover
19242105020006London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1924-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Imperial Beijing during the Qing Dynasty Limited edition of 800 copies. Quarto. Bound in publisher's cloth backed boards. Shelf wear to cover. Some fray to spine cloth. Solid binding. With 128 photogravures on 109 leaves; 2 color plates & 51 text illusts; folding plan of Peking. "Superb historical description of the substantial stone monuments in the Peking area probably the most important work and the only photographic monograph on the subject from this period by one of the greatest authorities on Chinese art history and architecture" Western Travellers in China 116. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head hardcover
1925399506London: Ernest Benn 1925. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcovers four volume set complete. Matching gray-brown buckram cloth with gilt front cover decoration and gilt spine lettering. Set from architect Albert Kahn's library with his pencil signature on each fly leaf. Vol. 1 Text cxlvi plus 168 page index with detailed descriptions of plates. B&w frontispiece. Vol. II Plates 1-205. Vol. III Plates 206-421. Volume IV Plates 422- . Small stickers on bottom of spine. An exceptional set and reference. Very heavy volumes. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Record # 399506 Ernest Benn hardcover
1928140299Paris: Les Edition 1928. Hardcover. very good. 1st Edition. 109pp. Tall folio 33.5 X 41 cm. Original blue cloth binding with gilt title on spine. Top edge gilt and others untrimmed. Top and bottom of spine with a bit of minor repair. Foredge a bit foxed and with a bit of light foxing on a number of the plate margins. Boards a bit bumped and with slight soiling. A total of 200 full page illustrations all printed in photogravure. Overall a very nice copy of a title difficult to find in good condtion. very good Although there is no limitation we can assume this was printed in quite small numbers due to its scarcity. It seems the book may also have been issued in 5 portfolios as well. The quality of the plates is very good indeed. No complete copy at auction in over 20 years and then it seems that most copies that surface are x-library of which this copy is not. 1928 Les Edition hardcover
1925251666New York: Scribner 1925. First. hardcover. near fine. Illustrated with 418 finely printed collotype plates some with multiple objects. Almost no text. Very thick 4tos original gilt-lettered gray cloth with gilt figure on cover with beveled edges. New York: Charles Scribner 1925. Spine ends somewhat faded on volume 4 still a near fine clean copy of this very uncommon book.<br/> <br/> The final 2 of 4 volumes in this monumental work containing plates 206-623. Northern C'hi and Northern Chow Dynasties years 550-581: Shansi 206-232; Honan 233-241; Chili 242-259 Shantung 260-264; Shensi 265-283. Sculptures in the manner of the period of the six dynasties though executed later 284-289. Sui Dynasty years 581-618: Shansi 290-303; Shensi and Honan 304-323; Chili 324-333; Shantung 334-364. Tang Dynasty years 619-906: Shensi 365-553; Honan 451-484; Shansi 485-509; Shantung 510-526; Chili 527-553. The Five Dynasties years 907-960 and the Sung Dynasty years 960-1127: Honan 554-561; Shantung 562-566; Chili 567-577. Liao Dynasty years 907-1119 and Chin Dynasty years 1115-1234: Chili 578-585; Statues in Wood 586-592. Wu Yueh years 908-978 and Sung and Southern Dynasty years 960-1279: Kiangsu and Chekiang 593-608. Yuan Dynasty years 1280-1367 609-623.<br/> <br/> Scribner unknown
192595174London: Ernest Benn 1925. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 4 volumes text volume plus three plate volumes. Original cloth. 32 cm. Modest foxing half-title leaf in Volume 1 heavily foxed. Backstrips and lettering somewhat faded. Light dampstain along bottom of pages in the text volume. Covers lightly soiled. No jackets. Ernest Benn hardcover
19562110502151000611The Ronald Press 1956. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 7 The Ronald Press paperback
1928zh52Van Oest 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. predominantly French text. 112 pages of preliminary text sheets followed by 200 numbered plates. all plates have English and French sub-titles. housed in a folding box which is secured with lace. all plates are present except one number 99 the box is rather worn and battered but the contents are in good condition for their age. they have light foxing and a few of the edges are a little knocked. no inscriptions. condition is given in terms of the age of this item. extremely heavy not really suitable for airmail. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Van Oest hardcover
192788494Paris: G. Vanoest 1927. Cloth binding 44 cm. Ills.: black and white illustrations. 109 pp text en originally 200 plates. In this copy the following plates are missing: 13 19 22 23 24 125 141. Cond.: goed / good. The pages are not bound as published. . G. Vanoest hardcover
1938145347London: The Chiswick Press 1938. Inscribed by the collector Limited edition number 294 of 750 copies inscribed by A. W. Bahr on the limitation page: "the 18th September 1958. To Marjorie Phelps Starr every good wishes for your gifted appreciation and understanding of the great Chinese pictorial art. With great hopes for your own personal expressions. Sincerely your well wishing friend O. W. Bahr Ridgefield Conn.". Born to a German civil servant in China the coal merchant Abel William Bahr 1877-1959 began to develop his interest in Chinese art in 1905 and started to build his collection which in breadth and scope came to have few equals among westerners. In 1908 he promoted the first exhibition of Chinese art in Shanghai. He moved to England in 1910 but continued to make trips to China and further developed his collection. Much of the Chinese artwork was purchased by the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1947 with other Bahr material now in museums and galleries across the world. This catalogue of Bahr's early Chinese Paintings is introduced by the Finnish-born Swedish art historian Osvald Sirén 1879-1966 one of the pioneers of Chinese art scholarship in the West. This volume accompanies his larger works including Chinese Sculpture from the Fifth to the Fourteenth Centuries 1925 The Imperial Palaces of Peking 1926 and the monumental seven-volume Chinese Painting 1956-58. The recipient of this copy Marjorie Phelps Starr was a native of Bahr's adopted Ridgefield home and though little is forthcoming about her life she made a large bequest to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York which the museum cites as contributing to the acquisition of many artworks. This copy is from the Garden collection of Haven O'More with his black morocco monogram book label to the front pastedown. One of the greatest book collectors of the latter part of the 20th century O'More's collection focused both on the finest specimens of printing and the great moments in the development of literature and thought. Folio. With 25 mounted colour plates. Original black cloth spine and front cover lettered in gilt. With the black card slipcase. A fine copy. Slipcase somewhat worn with tape repair but all holding. hardcover
200377716Rakennustieto; Et Al. New. 2003. Hardcover. 9516827187 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- - Corresponds to ISBN: 9516827187. Text in English Finnish and Swedish. 160 pp. With 90 ills. 81 col. . 24 x 27 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . Rakennustieto; Et Al hardcover
2016116564Albright-Knox Art Gallery. New. 2016. Hardcover. 1887457208 .IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - -- with a bonus offer; 191 pages . Albright-Knox Art Gallery hardcover
191784706Harvard University Press. As New. 1917. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - TWO 2 VOLUME SET. Vol 1: xi 285 pages text. Vol 2: 220 plates 4to. -- with a bonus offer-- . Harvard University Press hardcover
192256869Berlin: Verlegt Bei Paul Cassirer. As New. 1922. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - Text in German. 340 pages followed by 130 b/w plates. Leather binding and trim; decorated coverboards. -- with a bonus offer-- . Verlegt Bei Paul Cassirer hardcover
1937009612London and New York: The Medici Society - E. Wyhe 1937. Two volumes both bound in red buckram with gilt letterd spines in buff dustwrappers with black lettering. Top edges gilt. Volume one : From the end of the Yuan period to the end of the Wan Li period c. 1350-1620. xi 247 Pages followed By 124 plates. Volume two : From the end of the Ming period to the end of the Ch'ien Lung rein c. 1620-1796. ix 328 pages including the index followed by 242 plates. 9.5 X 12.75 inches.The books are both very good copies with bent or pushed in corners. The dustwrapper of volume one is in fair condition with staining to the sides of the spine and along the lower edge of the front panel and worn at the cornes and spine ends with some loss. Volume two has the same wear and stains as volume one and also has an irregulat piece missing from the spine with loss of most of the title lettering. A photo copy of the missing spine fragment with the lettering has been inserted neatly beneath. Both dustwrappers are in clear paperlined removable jackets and present well. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Poor. The Medici Society - E. Wyhe Hardcover
192537284London: Ernest Benn Limited. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1925. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; Folio ; Over 900 specimens in stone bronze lacquer and wood principally from Northern China. With Descriptions and an introductory essay. By Osvald Siren Professor in the University of Stockholm. Includes plates 422-553 of the Tang Dynasty; Plates 554-561 Honan Plates 562-566 Shantung; Plates 567-577 Chili; Plates 578-93 Liao Dynasty 907-1119 and Chin Dynasty 1115-1234; Plates 593-608 Wu Yeh 908-978 Sung and Southern Sung Dynasty 960-1279; Plates 609-623 Yuan Dynasty 1230-1367. Plate 527 with frayed lower edge apparently marginally miscut. Otherwise sound and tight. Occasional light foxing mainly affecting margins of the leaves. Plates in Collotype. Publisher's grey-brown buckram cloth with gilt front cover decoration and gilt spine lettering. Art: : Sculpture: : China . Ernest Benn, Limited hardcover
19762083002115800417AMS 1976. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 AMS paperback
1928129114.1Paris: G. Van Oest 1928. Hardcover. Good Cover has staining general wear darkening. Interior pages have some age toning. Unbound in five parts as issued. iv 112 pp. 200 bw plates. Oversized and heavy. In each section the plates are described with an attribution a short physical description and any notable comments on the work's history aesthetics or provenance. The descriptions are printed together in a short section of letterpress pages which is followed by the plates. G. Van Oest hardcover
193843152The Chiswick Press LTD 1938. Limited. Hardcover . Fine/No Jacket. Limited to 750 copies this is outside the print run. Book is clean and tight. Deckle edges plates with tissue cover. Size: Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23' tall. The Chiswick Press LTD hardcover
B18758-3London Privately Printed 1938. 115 1pp. 25 tipped-in plates partly in color. Sm. folio. Cloth. Uncut. Edition limited to 750 numbered copies finely printed on uncut wove paper at the Chiswick Press. Presentation copy inscribed by the collector on the title page. London (Privately Printed), 1938. hardcover
stela1971London: The Chiswick Press Ltd. 1938. Edition limited to 750 copies. This copy is un-numbered. folio. pp. 115 1. 25 tipped-in b/w & colour plates. original gilt-stamped cloth London: The Chiswick Press Ltd., 1938 hardcover
1925198880London England: Ernest Benn Limited 1925. Hardcover. Good scuffs scratches & smudges to boards; two light stain splatters to front board; shelf-wear to edges . corners rubbed; upper frayed. spine ends crinkled & rubbed; spine scuffed & scratched; bump to back lower edge w/ crimp/creasing to lower gutters. slight split to textblock; pgs firm. pg 127 has two open tears to lower edge. grey cloth beveled boards w/ gilt stamped illustration gilt spine printing. book clii 168 pgs w/ frontispiece. Lower textblock has abrasions with light rubs creasing to associate page edges. Textblock edges have scattered foxing with remnants to page edges. Pages lightly tanned with instances of light smudges marks and some foxing to edges. Ernest Benn Limited hardcover
1925198882London England: Ernest Benn Limited 1925. Hardcover. Good scuffs scratches & smudges to boards; light stain spots; edge-wear. spine ends crinkled & rubbed; spine scuffed & scratched. corners bumped & rubbed w/ some fraying. lower textblock has abrasions w/ fine rubbing to associated pg edges. scattered speckled foxing to textlbock edges w/ remnants to page edges. crack to textblock at plate 459; few binding threads holding. crack to upper textblock at plate 506 remaining splitting. splitting to textblock at plate 498. grey cloth beveled boards w/ gilt stamped illustration gilt spine printing. plates 422-623. Pages have dark tanning to edges with instances of light marks smudges; pages may have instances of spotted or speckled foxing. Ernest Benn Limited hardcover
199885896SDI Publications 1998. Hardcover. Like New. As new two volume set in matching slipcase one of a limited edition of 999 copies red pebbled hardcover boards with gilt titles and decoration sewn in markers. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos. SDI Publications hardcover
