Art Reference
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Ancient Mysteries Described, Especially the English Miracle Plays, Founded On Apocryphal New Testament Story, Extant Among the Unpublished Manuscripts In the British Museum
by W ; Burghers, M ; Cruikshank, G Hone
Art Reference Books & Ephemera
L'Assiette Au Beurre -- Les Anglais Chez Nous No 92 -- 3 January 1903
by Beurre, Paris L'Assiette Au
The Age of Sultan Suleyman The Magnificent
by Veinstein, Gilles; Bittar, Therese; Kalus, Ludvik; Taylor,Marthe Bernus
Sydney: of Australia Limited. 1990. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Foreword by James Leslie and Preface by Edmund Capon. 144 pages. The beautifully illustrated catalogue of the Exhibition of the same name, presented in association with the Turkish Government for the 75th anniversary of Gallipoli. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Softcover.
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SGD 18.09
The Domestic Architect: Comprising A Series Of Original Designs For Rural And Ornamental Cottages, With Full And Complete Explanations And Directions To The Builder, etc..
by Smith, Oliver P
New York: Phinney & Co., Buffalo, 1854. Second edition. Hardcover. Contemporary full red morocco front cover decorated and lettered in gilt. Very good. 123 pages. 27.5 x 22 cm. Forty two plates. Plates and text generally clean, wide text margins. Glossary of Technical Terms. The author attacks the conventional architecture of the day. Lacks free front endpaper, rubbing to backstrip head. HITCHCOCK 1221.
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SGD 895.05
German and Spanish Art to 1900 - The Book of Art Volume 4 : A Pictorial Encyclopedia of Painting Drawing and Sculpture
by Vey and De Salas [ed]
New York: Grolier, 1969. minimal library marks, otherwise book clean and tight. DJ: slight wear. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library.
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SGD 19.90
The Illustrated History of Art
by Piper, David (Editor)
London: Bounty Books. 2000. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near fine condition in pictorial laminated boards in a very good dusjacket. DJ spine very lightly faded and is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with colour and black & white plates. Colour maps. 538 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Reprint. Hardback.
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SGD 27.13
Paris: Capital of the Arts-1900-1968
by Sarah Wilson, Nicholas Hewitt, Galdys Fabre, Et Alia
Royal Academy publication to accompany exhibition. Fully illustrated and with a year by year timeline by Kathleen Brunner. Laid in Gallery Guide included. 448 pages, softcover with gatefold flaps, no marks, slightest wear noticeable on matte blue back cover. Striking oversized work.
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SGD 41.44
The Qin Dynasty Terra-Cotta Army of Dreams
by Zhang Lin
Xi'an, China: Xian Press. 2005. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition, card wraps. Illustrated with colour photographs and drawings. Book is signed in Chinese characters on the title-page, but whose signature is not clear but presumably the author. 129 pages. A thorough guide to the excavation and history of the Qin Dynasty terra-cotta soldiers. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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SGD 18.09
Great Artists A Treasury of Paintings by the Masters
by No Author Noted
Sydney: Golden Press. 1987. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ spine a little sunned & now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Illustrated with colour and black & white reproductions and photographs. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. 452 pages. Foreword by Melvyn Bragg. As well as the paintings includes substantial information about the artists. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all...
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SGD 16.28
The Age of Rubens and Rembrandt: Old Master Prints from the Art Gallery of South Australia. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
by Robinson, Julie
Adelaide: Art Gallery Board of South Australia. 1993. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Full page black & white reproductions. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 87 pages. The informative and well illustrated catalogue of the 1994 exhibition. . 1st Edition. Card Covers.
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SGD 31.65
Catalogue of The Mr and Mrs Jack R Dick Collection of English Sporting and Conversation Paintings Part Two
by Sotheby & Co
New York: Sotheby & Co. 1974. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition. No dustjacket. Illustrated with colour and black & white reproductions. 109 pages. Part 2 of items for sale in the auction on 26 June 1974. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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SGD 16.28
Painting in Scotland. The Golden Age
by Macmillan, Duncan
Oxford: Phaidon Press Limited. 1986. Quarto Size [approx 22cm x 28cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with full-page colour plates and black and white drawings. Includes Index. 206 pages. Published to coincide with the exhibition at the Edinburgh Festival and the Tate Gallery, London in 1986 as a celebration of the painters of Scotland's Golden Age from the early 18th to the 19th centuries. . 1st Paperback Edition. Softcover.
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SGD 16.28
The Rediscovery of Greece. Travellers and Painters of The Romantic Era
by Tsigakou, Fani-Maria
New Rochelle, NY: Caratzas Brothers, Publishers. 1981. Quarto Size [approx 23x27cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with colour and black & white reproductions. Introduction by Sir Steven Runciman. 208 pages. A recreation of the reality of the myth of Greece as perceived, reflected and shaped by artists, architects, archaeologists and writers from England, France, Germany and Italy in the nineteenth...
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SGD 27.13
New Worlds From Old : 19th Century Australian and American Landscapes
by Johns, Elizabeth; Sayers, Andrew; Kornhauser, ElizabethMankin; Ellis, Amy
Canberra and Hartford, Connecticut: National Gallery of Australia and Wadsworth Atheneum. 1998. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with colour and black & white reproductions. 271 pages. Exhibition catalogue featuring many fine colour reproductions of landscape paintings by American and Australian 19th Century artists. Robust, professional packaging and...
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SGD 22.61
Renaissance Art in Switzerland
by Crivelli, Aldo [Text]
Geneva: Editions D'Art Lucien Mazenod. 1947. Folio Size [approx 27x36cm] . Very Good in Good+ dustjacket. DJ lightly tanned and rubbed at spine ends - now protected in a purpose made clear archival plastic sleeve. Minor foxing to endpapers and some faint age-toning to book edges. Illustrated with 85 color and black and white plates. Includes fold-out index. Scarce title. 85 pages. A study of art of the renaissance period in Switzerland by noted Swiss archaeologist, painter and author. . 1st...
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SGD 72.35
Islamic Art (Revised Edition)
by Rice, David Talbot
London: Thames and Hudson. 1979. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with colour and black & white photographs as well as diagrams. 288 pages. Part of the 'World of Art' series. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Reprint of Revised Edition. Softcover.
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SGD 13.57
Monet: The Seine and the Sea
by Richard Thomson
Published to accompany exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy, a catalogue of the works shown with articles by Richard Thompson and Michael Clark plus a chronology. 176 pages, colour illustrations. 24 x 30cm, oversize. In near fine condition.
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SGD 17.27
Joan Miro: The Ladder of Escape
by Gale, Matthew; Malet, Rosa Maria; Serota, Nicolas
Miro! To accompany 2011 exhibition that started at the Tate Modern. First edition hardback in dust jacket, all in near fine condition. Oversize, 240 pages.
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SGD 86.33
American Painting History and Interpretation
by Barker, Virgil
New York: Bonanza Books. No Date, circa 1950. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Light wear to dustjacket edges and corners and spine faded. Illustrated with Black and White plates. Previous owner's blindstamp to half-title page. 717 pages. A scholarly and comprehensive work. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Hardback.
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SGD 40.70
Van Dyck & Britain
by Hearn, Karen
Published for Tate Exhibition, 256 pages, heavy. Softcover first edition in very good condition.
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SGD 31.08
The Pocket Gallery of Art : Mothers
by Howarth, Eva
London: Garamond. 1990. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near fine condition in pictorial laminated boards in a Very Good Dustjacket. Dustjacket now protected in our purpose made plastic sleeve. Full page colour reproductions. Gift inscription to preliminary pages. Unpaginated.. Portraits of mothers arranged chronologically, showing how painters have approached this subject. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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SGD 16.28
British prints : dictionary and price guide
by Mackenzie, Ian
Woodbridge, Suffolk : Antique Collectors' Club, 1988. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 359 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm. Subjects; Prints, British ; Catalogs. Printmakers Great Britain ; Biography ; Dictionaries.
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SGD 46.27
William Blake (World of Art)
by Kathleen Raine
216 pages. By leading Blake scholar and critic, Kathleen Raine. 156 Plates, 28 in colour. First edition, paperback. In wonderful condition, neat owner inscription on half-title, otherwise unmarked. In very good condition.
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SGD 17.27
Leonardo Da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan (National Gallery London)
by Larry Keith; Luke Syson
Gorgeous first edition softcover art book produced for exhibition at The National Gallery. 320 pages. In very good condition.
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SGD 25.90
Kandinsky: the Path to Abstraction
by Hartwig Fischer (Editor), Sean Rainbird (Editor)
Art book published by Tate Gallery for exhibition in 2006. 224 pages, beautiful. Near fine first edition hardcover book in near fine jacket. Heavy, may need extra shipping.
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SGD 51.80
From Manet to Gauguin. Masterpieces from Swiss Private Collections
by Kosinski, Dorothy et al
London: Royal Academy of Arts. 1995. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Illustrated with colour reproductions. Small ink annotation to half-title page. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 150 pages. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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SGD 13.57
Great Paintings in Themes of Colour : The Magic of Light , The Language of Colour, Adoration, The Elements, Hunting, War, Cities, Touch, Bathing, Outdoor Life.
by Mullins, Edwin [ed]
London: British Broadcasting Corp., 1981. minimal library marks, slightly affected by moisture at bottom of book, otherwise book clean and tight. Extra may apply to any quoted postage due to weight and size of book.. First Australian. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library.
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SGD 25.32
