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1993120354Washington DC: Faberge Arts Foundation 1993. Softcover. VG clean and tight with only blemish lifting of glossy layer at corners of covers. Black pictorial wraps; 476 pp. with 369 plates in color and bw. A lush catalogue published to accompany the exhibition held at the Hermitage the V&A and the Musee des Arts Decoratifs. This is the English edition. Includes a history and chronology of the House of Faberge essays on the Moscow workshops the London branch Faberge in America a section on the Imperial Easter Eggs and so much more. One special piece a revolving stand for photographs shows each separate bw photo of members of the royal family of Europe on facing page. Catalog of an exhibition at the State Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg Russia June 18-Aug. 15 1993; Museé des Arts Décoratifs Paris France Sept. 24 1993-Jan. 2 1994; and the Victoria and Albert Museum London England Jan. 26-April 10 1994./ Includes bibliographical references pages 462-464 and index. Faberge Arts Foundation unknown books
1993Embry 186513The State Hermitage Museum 1993. First edition first printing. Fine in custom mylar cover. Color photos. Oversized paperback. The State Hermitage Museum, 1993. First edition, first printing. paperback books
2016107725São Paulo: SESC São Paulo 2016. 26 cm. 335 pages color plates ports. bios. color pict. endpapers boards. This publication reflects the richness in the exhibition "Comun Comunal: Marina Abramovic MAI" Sesc Pompeia - São Paulo 2015 which exhibited works from more than forty years by acclaimed Serbian performance artist Marina Abramovic. With installations and sculptures films and a series of live events the exhibition stimulated encounters between visitors and performers activating an interaction inherent in the artist's propositions. Includes texts by art historian Sophie O'Brien philosopher Peter Pál Pelbart and anthropologist Regina Polo Müller who study the open and collaborative work between artist and spectator the concepts of presence and mystery transcendence transformation and Humor in the work of the Serbian artist. MAI Marina Abramovic Institute is home to the Abramovic Method a series of exercises designed by Abramovic over the course of 40 years to explore boundaries of body and mind. ENGLISH AND PORTUGUESE TEXT. CONTENTS: Apresentação -- Introdução -- The Artist is Present -- The House with Ocean Views -- Terra comunal -- A vida como iniciação -- 512 horas -- Estados da Guerra -- Workshop cleanning the house -- O metodo Abramovic -- MAI apresenta oito performances -- Space in between -- Sobre autores -- Credito e legendas complementares -- SESC São Paulo hardcover books
1973128529Albissola Italy: Grafiche Giors 1973. Softcover. VG. Pale blue wraps with blue design and black lettering silver mirror-like label approx. 130 pp. bw illustrations throughout. Catalogue of exhibition Villa Faraggiana Albissola Sea 20 August to 20 September 1973. Works by Valerio Adami Edward Arroyo Paul Baratella Enrico Bay Dino Buzzati Corrado Cagli Alexander Calder Arturo Carmassi Giorgio de Chirico Lucio Del Pezzo Gianni Dova Marcel Duchamp Luciano Fabro Virgilio Guidi Wifredo Lam Maurice Henry Paul Klee Man Ray Karl Plattner Aligi Sassu and others. Grafiche Giors paperback books
2002013105Richmond VA: Marsh Art Gallery 2002. Quarto. 71p. checklist of the artists' works at the exhibition with biographical sketches of each artist. The theme is of course the way in which the Russian artists broke free from the prescriptions of the ancien regimes views of art. A very nice item that is already scarce. Text in English and Russian. Bound in decorative stiff paper wraps near fine. Marsh Art Gallery unknown books
1994126465London: LLMS Ltd 1994. reprint of 1993 edition. Hardbound. VG small bump marks on the front cover. Color pictorial boards unpaginated; approx. 220 pp 52 color plates numerous figures. This is a weekly journal/calendar/datebook covering the end of 1993 all of 1994 and the very beginning of 1995. Published to support the London Lighthouse a residential and support center for all people affected by HIV/AIDS. Certain days throughout the diary contain messages celebrating friendships birthdays and anniversaries as well as remembering partners family and friends whose lives have been affected by HIV and AIDS. A great selection of color plates of modern British paintings. LLMS Ltd unknown books
198219128NY: Holt Rinehart and Winston. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1982. Hardcover. 0030624274 . Illustrated. First printing of the American edition. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket. . Holt, Rinehart and Winston hardcover books
1990209308New York: Rizzoli 1990. First. hardcover. fine/fine. Christo. 161 illustrations 133 in color. Slim 4to cream cloth d.w. New York: Rizzoli 1990. First Edition. Fine.<br/><br/> Boldly signed in red crayon on the title page.<br/><br/> Rizzoli unknown books
1860D130301860s. Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth morocco backstrip; folio 400x260mm; approx. pp. 100 full of manuscript entries by a single hand with permanent instructions and headings in ink and crew member names and station designations in pencil; numerous additional blanks at rear. Nonetheless a trove of information. Lined paper listing the 614 men aboard assigning each a number gun and location Fore Castle Port Main Top Mizzen Top etc.; listing division and stations; and recording details of every situation that might occur on the ship see examples below. The ship is unnamed but it appears to be a ship of the Line or a Frigate which had 3 masts as well as some minimal amount of steam power. There were 6 African-American members of the crew all of whom were Union Sailors during the Civil War Edward Turner Joseph Davis and Thomas Mills from Maryland; Henry Andres from the West Indies; Joseph Gordan from New York; Samuel R. Whittaker from Buenos Aires. Three of these men served on the USS Minnesota which may help identify the ship. Also includes the ship's Fire Bill crew member stations of Making Sail from Single Anchor Mooring and Unmooring and much more. A rich volume worthy of further study. Cloth torn; front hinge cracked; first few signatures loose. Alittle faint waterstaining and soiling but generally nice and clean. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1943291542Annapolis.: Unites States Naval Institute. 1943. 1st Edition. Blue cloth gold titles pictorial endpapers. Very good lower corner lightly bumped pencil name to half-title page in a good plus dust jacket with moderate edgewear and chipping. 23.5x15.5 cm. weight: 1.1 lb. Numerous illustrations. Unites States Naval Institute. hardcover books
1875248893Washington. : GPO. 1875. Half black calf over marbled boards gilt spine title marbled edges. . Moderate wear to cover extremities otherwise a near very good copy. . 8vo. GPO. hardcover books
185240064Washington DC: C. Alexander 1852. may18. ix 72 pp. <br /><br />This is a fascinating report as the Navy tries to figure out if dehydrated peas beans carrots turnips potatoes etc. would be useful. The experiments were based on processes developed in Europe. They found "Edwards' 'Preserved Potato' as positively bad. Of Masson's vegetables we found the cabbage carrots and green peas of good quality. Gannal's vegetables. proved good in our hands. Lewis' 'Preserved Potato' we found good though not so beautiful a preparation as that of Gannal." Contrary to the reports trials at sea of Edwards' potatoes were successful. However I don't believe dehydrated foods were widely used in the military until WW II. Worn half calf over marbled boards. Text clean and fresh with some contemporary manuscript notes. C. Alexander hardcover books
1873S11407Washington DC:: Bureau of Navigation Navy Department 1873. 1873. Second edition. 8vo. 6 xxxviii 262 pp. 36 tables; offsetting to pastedowns and free end-leaves. Half black calf over marbled paper-backed boards gilt-stamped spine; extremities worn spinal library label. Carnegie Institution of Washington Mount Wilson Observatory blind-stamp and ink number paper label on spine. SCARCE. Very good. Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department, 1873. hardcover books
1969BL2577Washington D.C.:: Naval History Division Navy Department 1969. 1969. 8vo. 41 pp. Photos and illustrations. Printed wrappers. Bookplate of the Burndy Library on rear cover. Fine. A brief brochure issued by the Navy offering highlights of their efforts from the Revolutionary War to Vietnam. Naval History Division, Navy Department, 1969. unknown books
1971230015Washington Naval History Division Navy Department 1971. 1971. First edition thus. 4to. Profusely illustrated with halftones. Index. Originally published in six parts between 1961-66 this is the whole chronology bound in one book. Original blue buckram with gilt stamping on spine and vignette on upper front cover; pictorial endpapers. Fine fresh copy. Bookplate of Charles S. Schwartz on the front pastedown. No signatures. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Washington, Naval History Division, Navy Department, 1971. hardcover books
1933D130311933-1941. Hardcover. Fine. Collection of 50 envelopes representing as many ships; displayed in archival sleeves ina 3-ring binder with printed notes on the ship and its fate. Postmarks range from 1933-1941 and the printed notes are uniformly formated. A few examples: "USS Maryland BB-46 Battleship. Hit by two bombs. Shot down one torpedo plane." -- and -- "USS Reid DD-369 Destroyer. Fired at enemy planes helping to shoot down one." Envelopes also include the occasional handwritten address many are typed and decorations celebrating St. Patrick's Day the New Year Independence Day and more. Ships include the USS Antares Arizona Bagley Blue Breese California Case Cassin Castor Chew Curtiss Dale Dobbin Gamble Grebe Honolulu Hull Jarvis Maryland Medusa Monaghan Mugford Nevada New Orleans Oklahoma Pelias Pennsylvania Perry Phelps Pruitt Raleigh Ramapo Reid Sacramento St. Louis San Francisco Schley Selfridge Shaw Solace Sumner Swan Tangier Tennessee Trever Utah Vega Vestal Ward Worden. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1917754551917. U.S. NAVY. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNING MARITIME WARFARE. Washington: U.S. Navy; printed by Government Printing Office 1917. 79pp. 8vo. forest green cloth title gilt-stamped to spine and front board. Small nick to lower front board along joint. Clean within. Very good. unknown books
1870198117WASHINGTON DC GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1870. 1870. ORIGINAL GILT STAMPED BLUE CLOTH; 379 PAGES; CONTEMPORARY SIGNATURE OF A.L. SPRAGUE USN WASHINGTON DC OCT 4 1870; BOOKPLATE ON THE FRONT PASTEDOWN FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. Hardcover. WASHINGTON, DC, GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, 1870. hardcover books
18971100971897. U.S. NAVY. Regulations governing the Uniform of Commissioned Officers Warrant Officers and enlisted Men of the Navy of the United States. 26 2 pp. With 52 full-page chromolithographic plates of military costume 1 full-page chromolithograph of an American Eagle. 8vo. 234 x 143 mm bound in original publisher's blue cloth. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1886. The plates are divided into two series the first for the Commissioned officers and the second for enlisted men. Note: Plates 20 and 21 of the second series relating to enlisted men were not issued and were omitted in the numbering. The volume was reprinted in 1897 by the Government Printing Office with revisions; the present volume documents the early version of the Regulations. Slightly worn at binding extremities. Quite scarce. hardcover books
185055632N.p.: publisher not identified 1850. First edition 8vo pp. 20; removed from binding wanting wrappers; very good. "Among the people of this country - on the floor of Congress and to some extent in the Navy itself there is a prevailing sentiment that our naval organization does not come up to the state of the times to the progress of the age or to the requirements of the country; does not for its millions of expenditure return a fair equivalent of practical efficiency or even of honorable reputation" p. 3. Sabin 93477. <br/><br/> [publisher not identified] unknown books
195936878n. p. 1959. 1st printing. Dark blue cloth binding with silver embossing to front board. Deployment map as front eps. Photographic rear eps. Minor extremity wear. A Nr Fine copy. Unpaginated though ~ 275 pp. Profusely illustrated with photographic images some in color. 11-1/4" x 8-5/8" <br/><br/>"The USS Forrestal CV-59 formerly AVT-59 and CVA-59 is a supercarrier that was named after former Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal and was the lead ship of her class of aircraft carriers. The other carriers of her class were the USS Saratoga USS Ranger and USS Independence. She superseded Shinano of World War II vintage as the largest aircraft carrier ever built by full load displacement and was the first to specifically support jet aircraft. The ship was affectionately called "The FID" because James Forrestal was the first ever Secretary of Defense FID standing for "First In Defense". This is also the slogan on the ship's insignia and patch. She was also informally known in the fleet as the "Zippo" and "Forrest Fire" or "Firestal" because of a number of highly publicized fires on board most notably a 1967 incident in which 134 sailors died and 161 were injured." Forrestal was commissioned 1 October 1955 and remained on the active Navy roles until her decommissioning in September 1993. This cruise book documents her "second tour of duty in the Mediterranean from 2 September 1958 to 12 March 1959 where Forrestal again combined a program of training patrol and participation in major exercises with ceremonial hospitality and public visiting. Her guest list during this cruise was headed by United States Secretary of Defense N. H. McElroy." Wiki. Scarce: OCLC records 5 institutional holdings. hardcover books
196336865Westbury NY: Howard Wohl Associates 1963. 1st printing. Blue cloth binding with photographic image of the ship to front board. Clear acetate wrapper with red & gold outline lettering. A VG copy in a VG wrapper. 330 2 pp. Profusely illustrated with photographic images some in color. 12-1/4" x 9-1/8" <br/><br/>The first nuclear-powered carrier and eighth vessel to carry the name Enterprise she was commissioned in 1961; for this 1963 cruise her second she deployed with the US 6th Fleet arriving in the Mediterranean in February. Scarce: OCLC records 5 institutional holdings all East of the Appalachians. Howard Wohl Associates hardcover books
SKU1036496Chief of Naval Operations Washington DC. PAPERBACK. Good. B001J4UXCG Minor wear to the covers. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. 263 pages. Chief of Naval Operations, Washington, DC paperback books
190731197N.p. Japan ca 1907. Pair of large trapunto banners both removed from original frames. First 82cm x 60cm ca 32" x 24"; embroidered in silk with trapunto elements on a black silk ground; photographic portrait on cabinet card inserted in embroidered pocket at center inscribed "Mellie McKeever" on verso. Silk ground fragile with a few thin tears but no significant losses; light soil; embroidered portions generally well-preserved and colors bright. Very Good. Second banner 65cm x 50cm ca 25" x 20"; photo-transfer on silk with embroidered ornaments. Slight fading to embroidered portions but generally well-preserved and sound; Very Good. Both banners with firm provenance purchased from the descendants of Mellie McKeever of Richwood West Virginia. Two exceptional and well-preserved examples of the ornamental trapunto banners that were popular souvenirs among U.S. sailors and marines during the late 19th and early 20th century. Yokohama was the principal point of production for these naval souvenirs but we have also seen examples from the Philippines and mainland China; Japanese examples such as these are generally distinguished by a higher quality of embroidery and more sophisticated composition. The banners became popular among British and American sailors beginning as early as the Boxer Rebellion and the Spanish-American War but seem to have reached their peak of popularity with the arrival in the Far East of Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet in 1908. Some 14000 sailors and marines made land at various Japanese ports-of-call in that year and given the regularity with which these textiles still appear one imagines that every sailor must have brought at least one of these souvenirs home with him. <br/><br/>The first example though of an unusually impressive size is of a type frequently seen displaying typical naval iconography right down to the hand-painted battleship portrait of a two-stack battleship of the Kearsarge class its hull painted white reflecting its peace-time mission at bottom center. The embroidered frame to hold a cabinet portrait of the sailor or perhaps a loved one is a typical feature found on more elaborate examples. The American Eagle in full battle stance is a nearly universal element of these banners. <br/><br/>The second banner is of a style we have not previously seen and for which we can find no analogues in the extensive literature of naval souvenirs. It is clearly a family portrait probably a composite made from cartes-des-visites carried by McKeever; the portraits are printed by silkscreen using a photo-transfer process with applied trapunto decorations. The likenesses are clearly enlarged -- it is highly unlikely that a common sailor would have had room aboard a battleship to carry full-size portraits -- and it strikes us that this must have seemed an almost magical process at the time of creation especially to a young man from a tiny lumber-and-coal town in central West Virginia. <br/><br/>Aside from their obvious virtues as objects of art and handicraft we regard these banners as compelling pieces of material culture from a period of tremendous social transformation in the United States. According to the Naval Historical Center U.S. naval rolls expanded by nearly 400% between the beginning of the Spanish-American War and the launching of the Great White Fleet. To meet this demand for the first time in its history the Navy began recruiting from the American heartland rather than solely from the Eastern Seaboard states. The generation of inland farmers and mechanics to follow was thus the first in American history to experience first-hand cultures as diverse and divergent from their own as those of Europe Asia and the Pacific Islands; they represented not only the beginning of the American imperialist enterprise but also the first stirrings of America's global consciousness. That so many of these banners have survived in good condition is evidence of the degree to which they were treasured by their owners for whom they represented an experience that must have been transformative and definitive. unknown books
194931130Kings Point: Bureau of Maritime Services 1949. First edition. Embossed Leather. Minor wear to tail of spine small dent in rear board rear hinge coming loose along with rear free endpaper. 430 pp. Illus. with b/w photos and drawings. 4to. Bureau of Maritime Services hardcover books
