Farcy, Louis de

La Broderie Du Xie Siecle Jusqu'a Nos Jours D'Apres Des Specimens Authentiques Et Les Anciens Inventaires. Second Supplement

Angers, France, Chez L'Auteur, 1919. Hardcover. Oversized tan boards with black lettering, tan cloth spine, pages 147-177, plates 180-264. Text is in French. Embroidery from the 11th Century to Our Days According to Authentic Specimens and Old Inventories. Second Supplement. Fair (heavy soiling, chipping and wear to covers, chipping along edges of pages with overall age toning, all plates are present) .

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Book number: 190501

Catalogue: European Decorative Arts

Keywords: European Decorative Arts ; Embroidery ; ; General Decorative Arts - European

Farcy, Louis de

La Broderie Du Xie Siecle Jusqu'a Nos Jours: Atlas

France, (not identified), (not listed). Hardcover. Oversized brown and red paper boards with brown leather spine; 5 raised bands on spine with gilt lettering and design in compartments; marble illustrated end papers; no text pages or title page, 35 plates with various paginations followed by plates numbered 1-145. Text in French. Embroidery from the 11th Century to Our Days: Atlas. Fair (leather corners of covers missing, heavy shelfwear to covers, leather spine missing section at top, leather spine is loose from hinges internally, first few pages are loose, no text pages, plates have light age toning with some instances of foxing but otherwise clean) .

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Book number: 191567

Catalogue: European Decorative Arts

Keywords: European Decorative Arts ; Embroidery ; ; General Decorative Arts - European

Ferrand, Franck

Jacques Garcia: Decorating in the French Style

Paris, Flammarion, 1999. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with debossed black lettering; colorfully illustrated DJ with gilt lettering; colorful frontispiece/photograph; 263 pp; richly illustrated. "Jacques Garcia, (born 25 September 1947) is a French architect, interior designer and garden designer, best known for his contemporary interiors of Paris hotels and restaurants." -- website. VG/VG(boards show mild shelfwear; DJ shows mild shelfwear with minor tear at top corner; pages are clean and bright; text block is solid) .

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Book number: 191766

Catalogue: European Decorative Arts

Keywords: European Decorative Arts ; Garcia, Jacques ; ; Interior Design and Designers - European Dec Arts

Ferrari, Giulio

Gli Stili: Nella Forma E Nel Colore, Rassegna Dell'Arte Antica E Moderna Di Tutti I Paesi. Volume II. Christiano Primitivo, Bizantino, Arabo

Torino, Società Italiana di Edizioni Artistiche, 1925. Hardcover. Oversized green cloth portfolio with gilt lettering and design; 14 pp text with bw illustrations, plates numbered 39-78. Text in Italian. Volume 2 of a 4 volume set. The Styles: In Form and Color, Review Of Ancient And Modern Art From All Countries. Volume II. Christiano Primitivo, Byzantine, Arabic. Good (shelfwear and tears to portfolio, light age toning throughout but plates are otherwise clean and clear) .

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Book number: 191499

Catalogue: European Decorative Arts

Keywords: European Decorative Arts ; Decoration and Ornament ; ; Interior Decoration - European Decorative Arts

Fischbach, Friedrich

Die Wichtigsten Webe-Ornamente Bis Zum 19. Jahrhundert (Volume 1 Only)

Germany, Mainzer Verlagsanstalt, 1900. Hardbound. Blue library buckram. Title page, 20 pp. of text, followed by an inserted smaller pamphlet titled "Ursprung der Buchstaben Gutenbergs" (by the same author and dated 1900 with appx. 40 pp text incl. 16 tabels and one large bw plate). This is then followed by mounted plates 1 - 53. Each plate bears a perforation stamp through the lower right hand portion. Part of a 5-volume or part set that was composed of 270 mounted plates. Oversized and heavy. Good, with noted exceptions. Plates are clean and vibrant. They have uniformly become detached from the binding en masse. First two or three sheets have missing corners, no plates are damaged from this.

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Book number: 125093

Catalogue: European Decorative Arts

Keywords: European Decorative Arts ; European Textiles ; ; Textiles - European

Flot, Marcelle

Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: France: Musee de Compiegne (Musee Vivenel)

Paris, Librairie Ancienne Edouard Champion, 1924. Hardcover. Portfolio, tan paper boards with red and black illustration and lettering, gray cloth spine; XIII, 32 pp text, 32 plates, Text is in French. At head of title: Union Académique internationale. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: France: Musée de Compiegne (Musee Vivenel). Good+ (shelfwear to portfolio, one of the ribbon tie closures is torn, pages age toned but otherwise clear) .

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Book number: 190306

Catalogue: European Decorative Arts

Keywords: European Decorative Arts ; Ancient Vases ; ; General Decorative Arts - European

Forray-Carlier, Ane

Le Mobilier Du Chateau de Chantilly

Dijon, Faton, 2010. Hardcover. Navy cloth boards with gilt spine lettering. Glossy color-illustrated dust jacket with white lettering. 308 pp. Color illustrations. Text in French. Includes bibliographical references and index. VG/VG .

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Book number: 173022

Catalogue: European Decorative Arts

Keywords: European Decorative Arts, Furniture, French Furniture ; French Furniture ; ; Furniture - European

Fortnum, C. Drury E.

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Maiolica Hispano-Moresco, Persian, Damascus, and Rhodian Wares in the South Kensington Museum. With Historical Notices, Marks, & Monograms

London, George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty. Sold by Chapman & Hall, 1873. Hardbound. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. cix, 699 pages : illustrations, color plates. A fantastic and rare reference, with a measured use of stunning chromolithographic plates. A superb addition to any European Ceramics Library, and a reference which will get much use. Extensive index and list of sources consulted. Please note that this is an original print copy and not an e-book, facsimile paperback, or print-on-demand title. Very Good. Cover has general wear, fading. Bookblock has age toning and darkening. Interior pages have age toning .

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Book number: 190756

Catalogue: European Decorative Arts

Keywords: European Decorative Arts ; Maiolica in South Kensington Museum ; ; Ceramics - European

Francis, Grant R.

Old English Drinking Glasses: Their Chronology and Sequence

London, England, Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1926. Hardcover. Green cloth over boards w/ gilt printing & gilt spine printing. top edge gilt. deckled edges. 214 pp.; 72 bw plates. A nice copy of this edition. Pages free of notations, with occasional instances of light foxing. Black & white plates are clean & bright..18th-century English drinking vessels, including Williamite portrait glasses, Jacobite glasses, political and commemorative glass, glasses for cordials, gin, ale, champagne, and much more; 385 drinking glasses and related items illustrated and described; Includes a glossary of terms; Heavy. Good. sunning to cover edges & spine. cover has scuffs & edge-wear. bk cover has black scuffing to edge w/ long scuff through center; w/ wear, scuffs & smudges. pastedown cracked at front hinge. spine split; textblock firm. pgs tanned.

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Book number: 176515

Catalogue: European Decorative Arts

Keywords: European Decorative Arts ; English Drinkware ; ; Glass - European

Franklin, M.J.

British Biscuit Tins, 1868-1939: An Aspect of Decorative Packaging

London, New Cavendish Books [Distributed by Schiffer Publishing Ltd], 1979. Hardcover. Bound in red cloth boards with gilt lettering and illustration, all edges are tinted purple; color illustrated frontispiece; 215 pp; profusely illustrated in color. Issued in a color illustrated slipcase. Contents include: Foreword; Preface; The Methods; The Shapes and their Makers; Designers and Artists; Collecting; Victorian; Edwardian; Twenties and Thirties; Ephemera; Acknowledgements; Biscuit Making Firms; Selected Bibliography; Index to Text and Plates. VG/VG (light scuffing to slipcase. Book is like new, very clean and clear. Binding tight.) .

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Book number: 187589

Catalogue: European Decorative Arts

Keywords: European Decorative Arts ; Tin Containers ; ; General Decorative Arts - European

Frantz, Susanne K. and Helmut Ricke

Czech Glass, 1945-1980: Design in an Age of Adversity

Dusseldorf / Stuttgart, Museum Kunst Palast/ Arnoldsche, 2005. Hardcover. White paper over boards with blue lettering and design; color illustrated dj; 448 pp; illustrations in bw and color, color maps, portraits. CD in envelope in rear. Contents: Why this exhibition / Helmut Ricke -- Twentieth-century Bohemian art in glass : the artistic and historical background / Susanne K. Frantz -- Czech specialized schools for glassmaking and schools of applied arts, 1945-1990 / Antonín Langhamer -- Painting and sculpture in glass : Czech design drawings from the 1950s and 1960s in the Corning Museum of Glass / Tina Oldknow -- The artist and industry, 1945-1960 : conditions, potentials and results of the artist-industry relationship / Jan Mergl -- Czech glass in the limelight : the great exhibitions abroad / Verena Wasmuth -- Czechoslovak glass : a subtle weapon in the superpowers' ideological struggle : the Czechoslovak Glass Exhibition, Moscow, 1959 / Old ich Palata -- Czech glass, 1945-1980 : development, features, location / Helmut Ricke -- Preliminary remarks on the catalogue -- Catalogue and plates -- Artists' biographies / compiled by Milan HlaveÅ¡ -- Artists' signatures -- The organization of production and development of design in Czechoslovak glassmaking (1940s-1980s) / Antonín Langhamer -- Glass industry A-Z : companies and institutions -- Directory of locations Czech-German -- Map of production places -- Bibliography / compiled by Anne-Marie Katins -- Glossary of technical terms / compiled by Helmut Ricke. VG/VG .

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Book number: 189554

Catalogue: European Decorative Arts

Keywords: European Decorative Arts ; Glass Art; Czech Republic Glass ; ; Glass - European

Frantz, Susanne K. and Jean-Luc Olivie

Philip Baldwin, Monica Guggisberg: In Search of Clear Lines

Berne, Benteli Verlag, 1998. Hardcover. Yellow cloth boards with stamped spine lettering. Glossy color-illustrated dust jacket with black lettering. 178 pp. Profusely illustrated in color and BW. "This richly illustrated volume with extensive texts provides an insight into the artists' way of working, the stations of their career and their goals." -Front Flap. VG/VG .

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Book number: 174332

Catalogue: European Decorative Arts

Keywords: European Decorative Arts, Glass ; Swiss Glass Artists ; ; Glass - European

Frauberger, Heinrich

Uber Alte Kultusgegenstande in Synagoge Und Haus

Frankfurt, 1903. Softcover. White and blue stiff wraps with silver lettering; 104 pp, 151 bw illustrations. Bookplate inside front cover of German publisher and philanthropist, Rudolf Mosse. Text is in German. Series: Mitteilungen d. Gesellschaft z. Erforschung jüdischer Kunstdenkmäler, III. IV. Good (pages are clean and clear, covers have overall soiling, soiling to ffep) .

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Book number: 190164

Catalogue: European Decorative Arts

Keywords: European Decorative Arts ; Synagogue Objects ; ; General Decorative Arts - European

Frederiks, Johan Willem

Dutch Silver; Embossed Plaquettes, Tazze and Dishes from the Renaissance Until the End of the Eighteenth Century

The Hague, Nijhoff, 1952. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and design elements on spine. 538 pages. Includes bibliographical references (pages xiii-xiv). Very Good. Cover has general wear, scuffing. Bookblock has age toning and corner darkening. Interior pages have age toning .

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Book number: 191102

Catalogue: European Decorative Arts

Keywords: European Decorative Arts, Silver ; Silver ; ; Fine Metalwork - European

Frey, Gilbert; Lichtenstein, Claude; Ruegg, Arthur

Schweizer Möbeldesign, 1927-1984 = Mobilier Suisse, Création de 1927-1984

Bern, Benteli, 1986. Hardcover. Black illustrated boards; no dj. 183 pages : illustrations, portraits. Text in German and French. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Musée des arts décoratifs de la ville de Lausanne, 15 April-21 May 1986 ; Museum für Gestaltung-Kunstgewerbemuseum Zürich, 4 June-20 July 1986 ; Gewerbemuseum Basel-Museum für Gestaltung, 23 September-9 November 1986./ Includes bibliographical references. VG/G+, covers show wear, small spot right edge of text block. Pages are clean and tight .

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Book number: 182146

Catalogue: European Decorative Arts

Keywords: European Decorative Arts; Furniture; Mobiles ; Mobiles, Furniture ; ; Furniture - European