Category: Art

Academy Watercolourists (Soviet Artist Watercolours) [Rough translation of cyrillic script]

Price: £8.50

Publisher: Moscow, Russian State Museums : 1966

Seller ID: 009834

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Well illustrated with many plain and colour plates, a few folding, Russian captions with, at the rear, English translation of artists and titles, quarto, owner's bookplate on front endpaper, otherwise very clean internally, cloth slightly worn and age-toned. SCARCE.
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Batiks (Victoria & Albert Museum).

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Victoria and Albert Museum : 1975

Seller ID: 010249

ISBN-13: 9780112900511

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, tall slim 8vo, pp 50, paperback, upper cover slightly creased, otherwise a very good copy.
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La Voute de la Chapelle Sixtine

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Vatican City, L'Illustrazione Vaticana : 1935

Seller ID: 009877

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Illustrated, including a folding plate of the whole ceiling, large slim quarto, pp 42, a little worn and aged internally, lower corners of two pages with loss due to insect damage, paperback, covers rather worn, a bit stained (with slight staining internally also. [The Sistine Chapel is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the Pope, in Vatican City. Originally known as the Cappella Magna, the chapel takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV, who restored it between 1477 and 1480. Since that time, the chapel has served as a place of both religious and functionary papal activity....
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Tulipiana Grafica

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, Graphic Export Centre : 1966

Seller ID: 018554

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

[Not dated - 1966 ??]. Slim quarto, 8 pages, paperback, with three loose illustrations of seventeenth century tulips by Judith Leyster; the text comprises merely one page each in French, English and Dutch. A very good copy. SCARCE. The plates are reproduced from watercolours owned by Th. Hoog, Haarlem which are dated 1643 - it is unlikely that they have been reproduced elsewhere. [Judith Jans Leyster (also Leijster) (c. 1609 - 1660) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. She painted genre works, portraits, and still lifes. Although her work was highly regarded by her contemporaries, Leyster and h...
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Now, Where Are We ? 1967 - 2017

By: Armour, Jonathan (introduction)

Price: £4.00

Publisher: London, Androtechnie : 2017

Seller ID: 013216

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, small square 12mo, (measures 148mm x 148mm), pp (36), paperback, a very good copy. [Complete with illustrated price list, quarto, five pages, stapled]. An exhibition in response to the fiftieth anniversary of the decriminilisation of sex between men. {Postage will be reduced}
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Art Restoration : The Culture, the Business and the Scandal

By: Beck, James & Daley, Michael

Price: £5.00

Publisher: London, John Murray : 1993

Seller ID: 017868

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Poor

A few illustrations, octavo, pp xiv, 210, very clean internally, black cloth in very good condition, in a very bright dustwrapper. [This work deals with one of the most important and contentious issues in the world of fine art. Starting in the 1970s a flood has developed of restorations of works of art. London's National Gallery (first in this field by several decades), Washington's National Gallery, the Metropolitan, the Louvre, the Prado, the Uffizi, and others besides, are restoring their collections on a wholesale basis. Much of what is being done is radical and, in its effects, irreversib...
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The Language of Pictures

By: Bell, David

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, B.T. Batsford Ltd : 1953

Seller ID: 019571

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Illustrated, octavo, pp xii, 162, clean internally, red cloth with "file copy"blind-stamped otherwise good, in a dustwrapper by John Piper which is not price-clipped but is a bit worn and chipped and with a tiny piece missing from its spine head and two small pieces missing from its lower cover.
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David Bellamy's Coastal Landscapes - a practical guide to painting coastal scenery

By: Bellamy, David

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Collins : 2002

Seller ID: 016646

ISBN-13: 9780007121762

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Large horizontal octavo, pp 128, very clean internally, blue cloth in excellent condition, the dustwrapper is just very lightly bumped at the top edge. Really a very good copy. [This book is a practical guide to painting coastal and marine scenery in watercolour, oils and pastels.It contains many tips and techniques for artists of all levels but starts with fairly simple scenes, graduating to more complicated ones. Most of the landscapes are from around the British Isles, but there are also paintings of coastal scenery in Italy, East Africa, Greece and Iceland. Contents include: Sketching ou...
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David Bellamy's Watercolour Landscape Course - from first steps to finished paintings

By: Bellamy, David

Price: £3.75

Publisher: London, HarperCollins : 1993

Seller ID: 016573

ISBN-13: 9780004126470

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Second printing. Very well illustrated, large horizontal octavo, pp 160, fore-edge slightly thumbed, bottom edge a little stained, otherwise very clean internally, pale blue cloth slightly sunned, a good copy in a very slightly worn dustwrapper.
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The Horses of Antiquity, Middle Ages and Renaissance, from the earliest monuments down to the XVIth century

By: Berjeau, Ph. Charles

Price: £250.00

Publisher: London, Dulau & Co : 1864

Seller ID: 019589

Binding: Soft Cloth

Condition: Good

Quarto, pp 20 + 60 plates (of which one is coloured), clean internally, original printed soft cloth, bruised wrinkled and marked, the spine fraying and lacking a portion at the base, with a small hand-written totle label. The Hartland Library copy, with labels and manuscript notes attached to the front endpapers, and stamp on the verso ot the title page. RARE, and equally rare to be found in any better condition than this. [The Library was formed by Edwin Sydney Hartland, and was a diverse, but major, collection of herbals, archaeology and anthropology. It was donated to Gloucestershire Count...
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The Art of Satire - London in Caricature

By: Bills, Mark

Price: £32.50

Publisher: London, Museum of London & Philip Wilson Publishers : 2006

Seller ID: 017136

ISBN-13: 9780904818543

Binding: Paperback

Condition: As New

Well illustrated, small quarto, pp 228, paperback, a very brught clean copy throughout, virtually as new. [Includes illustrations from the collection of satirical and caricature images in the Museum of London, it encompasses research and uses historical and literary sources to place the satire of London in the context of English satire as a whole. Catalogue of an exhibition, Satirical London, held at the Museum of London, April-September 2006.]
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English Blake (Desmond Clarke's copy)

By: Blackstone, Bernard

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Cambridge at the University Press : 1949

Seller ID: 015444

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Illustrated with ten plates, octavo, pp xviii, 455, clean internally, black cloth slightly worn and bumped, binding leaning slightly, a small tear in the moddle of the spine. [From the library of the botanist Desmond Clarke, with his signature on the front endpaper.]
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The Art of Botanical Illustration

By: Blunt, Wilfrid (with William T. Stearn)

Price: £16.50

Publisher: London, Collins : 1967

Seller ID: 018323

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, octavo, pp xxxii, 304, the endpaper slightly unevenly faded, a tiny nick and crease to the margin of the last few index pages, otherwise remarkably clean internally, green cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped but is very lightly faded on the spine, otherwise extremely bright.
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Texture & Detail in Watercolour

By: Bolton, Richard

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, B.T. Batsford : 1995

Seller ID: 016817

ISBN-13: 9780713472226

Binding: Cloth

Condition: As New

Very well illustrated, quarto, pp 128, very clean internally, cream cloth, a very good copy in dustwrapper, virtually as new. [Complete, easy-to-follow guide by noted watercolorist covers papers, paints, brushes; also techniques: scratching-out, wax resist, split-brush, spattering, sponging and more. Full, detailed chapters on surface textures, trees, flowers, coastal scenes, reflections, other topics. Full-color illustrations throughout.]
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Dartington Hall - The History of an Experiment

By: Bonham-Carter, Victor

Price: £8.00

Publisher: London, Phoenix House Ltd : 1958

Seller ID: 019548

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Illustrated, octavo, pp 224, a folding map at the rear, ; a duplicate from East malling Research Station with stamps on the front endpaper but no other markings and otherwise extremely clean internally, a shelf number and label on the spine but the blue cloth covers very clean.
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An Introduction to Florentine Sculpture in the Fifteenth Century

By: Bulla, J.M.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: London, Rockliff : 1957

Seller ID: 009910

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, 8vo, pp 112, very clean internally, cloth very slightly faded at the spine head, otherwise very good, in a rather chipped and rubbed dustwrapper which is lacking a few small pieces.
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Henry Moore

By: Burt, Francis & Walter, Siegfried

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Cologne, Siegfried Walter

Seller ID: 009953

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Bilingual text - German/English. Well illustrated, large slim 8vo, pp 86, a very good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper.
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Western Sculpture - Definitions of Man (Hardback edition)

By: Butler, Ruth

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Boston, New York Graphic Society : 1975

Seller ID: 006793

ISBN-13: 9780821204290

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Well illustrated, quarto, pp xvi, 304, the slightest suggestion of marking to the cloth, otherwise a very good sound copy in a dustwrapper which is slightly worn and frayed and which has its rear foldover creased. The scarce hardback edition.
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Scar Lines - poetry by Griselda Cann

By: Cann, Griselda

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Cast Iron Press : 1993

Seller ID: 008190

ISBN-13: 9781898761006

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Large slender 8vo, pp (16), paperback, covers showing the slightest signs of wear, otherwise a very good copy. With prospectus loosely inserted. SCARCE. (EDITION LIMITED TO 200 COPIES, OF WHICH THIS IS A PROOF COPY]
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Puglia, (Attraverso l'Italia Nuova Serie)

By: Cassieri, Giuseppe (introduction)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Milan, Touring Club Italiano : 1967

Seller ID: 009956

Binding: Boards

Condition: Very Good

Very well illustrated, large 8vo, pp 256, a very good copy in a very slightly worn dustwrapper.[Italian text, but a fine photographic record of this region.]
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Category: Art

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