Bihalji-Merin, Oto

Maske Sveta: Preobrazavanje, Skrivanje, Zacaravanje

Beograd, Vuk Karadzic, Ljubljana, Mladinska knjiga, 1970. Hardcover. Tan cloth boards with gilt lettering, color illustrated dust jacket with white lettering, 73 pp plus unnumbered pages of color and bw plates. Written in Croatian. Includes bibliographical references. "Masks of the World. Transformation, hiding, enchantment. VG+/VG+ .

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Book number: 175360

Catalogue: European Art

Keywords: European Art ; Masks ; ;

Bijl, Arnoud and Marlies Kleiterp

Classic Wraps: Artists, Italy and the Esthetic Ideals of the 18th Century

Amsterdam, Netherlands, Hermitage Amsterdam, 2018. Softcover. black wraps w/ white illustration, copper printing & embossed printing. 207 pgs w/ color illustrations. Vibrantly illustrated. Numerous essays. Text in English. VG (light edge-wear, light rubbing to corners. bump/rub to lower spine; spine creased at opening textblock) .

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Book number: 188289

Catalogue: European Art

Keywords: European Art, Italian Art ; Italian Art ; ;

Billington, James H and Larry E. Sullivan

Vision of a Collector: The Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Library of Congress

Washington, D. C. Library of Congress, 1991. Hardcover. green & black cloth w/ spine title plate. 427 pgs w/ 100 color & bw plates. 99 essays on the various pieces within the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. A nice, bright copy. VG+ (faint sunning to upper board edges. small shelf-wear/scuff to lower pg edges) .

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Book number: 188410

Catalogue: Collections - European Art

Keywords: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection ; Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection ; ;

Bing, Siegfried

Collection Bing. Catalogue Des Tableaux Modernes; Oeuvres de Besnard, Cottet, Thaulow, Brangwyn, Maurice Denis, Duez, Ibels, Johanson, le Sidaner, Henri Martin, Osbert, Ten Cate, Vallotton, Angrand, Cavallo Peduzzi, Conder, Couturier, Georges de Feure, Degouve de Nuneques, Forain, H. Guerard, Jules Jacquemand, Leheutre, Maxime Maufra, Mellerie, René Ménard, Nonell, Charles Pepper, Rippl Ronai, Shannon, Paul Signac, Vincent Van Gogh, Jeanniot, Maurin, Rops, Toulouse Lautrec, Van Rysselberghe

Paris, (not identified), 1900. Hardcover. Oversized and bound in 3/4 brown leather and green cloth boards, five raised bands on spine with gilt tooling and lettering;all edge gilt; green and brown marble illustrated end papers; 116 pp, 18 leaves of plates with protective guard sheets. Text is in French. "Sale of which will take place at Hotel Drouto on Thursday, May 17" translated from title page. The private collection of Siegfried Bing, a German-French art dealer. VG (bumping and scuffing to boards, several pages are dog eared along bottom; lightly age toned as expected but text and plates are otherwise very clean and clear. Bookplate of previous owner, George J. Gould, inside front cover.) .

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Book number: 187574

Catalogue: European Art

Keywords: European Art ; Bing Collection ; ; Collections - European Art

Binyon, Laurence; Vanessa Bell; Paul Nash and Seiichi Taki

Catalogue of the Loan Collection of English Water-Colour Drawings Held at the Institute of Art Research, Ueno, Tokyo, October 10-24th, 1929

Tokyo, Privately printed for the Binyon Reception Committee, 1929. 3/200. Softcover. Oversized black cloth portfolio with Japanese text on an off-white title block with two clasps. Inside portfolio is the softcover book in tan cloth with gilt design, white title block with black lettering and white string bindings; black Japanese lettering frontispiece, XVIII, 13 pp, 54 plates. Printed in edition of 200 numbered copies, this being number 3. Contents: Two poems [in Japanese characters and English] / Baron Kishichiro Okura -- Preface / The Binyon Reception Committee -- Foreword / John Tilley -- Note / Seiichi Taki -- English water-colour drawings / Laurence Binyon -- Catalogue -- Plates. "Foreword" by John Tilley. "Note" by Seiichi Taki. Good- (light scuffing to portfolio, dampstaining to top left corner of front cover, pages prior to plate XXIX have light age toning but are otherwise clean. Starting at plate XXX through end of book including rear cover is dampstaining to top 4 inches of pages and cover) .

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Book number: 191194

Catalogue: General European Art

Keywords: General European Art ; Watercolor Painting ; ;

Blackburn, Henry (editor)

Academy Sketches: Containing Nearly 200 Illustrtions Drawn by the Artists from Various Exhibitions

London, England, W. H. Allen & Company, 1883. Softcover. Gray wraps with black and red lettering, 160 + 44 pp, illustrated in black and white. Contains sketches of paintings in the Royal Academy and shown in various exhibitions in 1883. VG (overall shelfwear and tanning to wraps and pages, but VG for age) .

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Book number: 175307

Catalogue: European Art

Keywords: European Art; British Art; 19th Century ; Royal Academy ; British Art ; 19th Century Annual Exhibitions - Other

Blanc, Charles and Paul Mantz

Histoire Des Peintres de Toutes Les Ecoles; Ecole Florentine

Paris, Librairie Renouard, 1876. Hardcover. Bound in 3/4 burgundy leather and marble paper over boards; 5 raised bands on spine with gilt lettering; marble illustrated end papers; XX, pagination varies throughout; bw illustrations. Volume 9 of a 14 volume set; Ecole Florentine. Text is in French. The history of painters from all schools. Good+ (shelfwear to boards mainly to leather; bookplate inside front cover; writing behind title page. Light age toning but pages are otherwise clean.) .

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Book number: 188056

Catalogue: European Art

Keywords: European Art ; Painting History ; ;

Blanc, Charles; W. Burger; Marius Chaumelin and Auguste Demmin

Histoire Des Peintres de Toutes Les Ecoles; Ecole Venitienne

Paris, Vve. J. Renouard, 1877. Hardcover. Bound in half red leather boards and red and white marble paper boards, 5 raised bands and gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt, color illustrated end papers, original yellow paper covers bound in, various paginations throughout, bw plates throughout. Text in French. History of Painters of All Schools; Venetian School. This is the 14th volume of a 14 volume set. Good (scuffing and shelfwear to covers, front cover loose, leather spine torn with pieces missing, light foxing spots throughout, bookplate of architect, Ogden Codman, Jr. insdie front cover) .

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Book number: 191676

Catalogue: General European Art

Keywords: General European Art ; Painting History; Artists Portraits ; ;

Blanc, Charles and J.E. Reed

The Masterpieces of Italian Art Illustrated: Being a Biographical History of Art in Italy from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. Volume II

Philadelphia, Gebbie & Co, 1880. Hardcover. Oversized 3/4 burgundy leather and cloth boards; 5 raised bands on spine with gilt lettering; marble illustrated end papers; unpaginated, 50 plates, 80 pages. Each plate is accompanied by a leaf with descriptive text and guard sheet. Volume 2 only of a 2 volume set. Text is in English. Includes a list of photogravures and wood engravings. Index of painters is included in the rear. Good+ (boards have heavy shelfwear, leather spine torn almost completely off, front cover is loose, binding is secure and plates are still very clean and clear. The rear pages numbered 23-30 are crinkled and torn along the bottom edge not affecting any of the text or engravings.) .

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Book number: 189029

Catalogue: General European Art

Keywords: General European Art ; Italian Sculpture: Italian Painting ; ;

Blistene, Bernard and Marc Dachy, et al.

Busy Going Crazy: Collection Sylvio Perlstein

Paris, France, Fage / La Maison Rouge, 2006. Softcover. black & red illustrated wraps, white & black spine printing. 160 pgs w/ color & bw illustrations. text primarily French. Closing section has partial English translation of opening essays, but does include the forward, introduction, interview with Mr. Perlstein and an essay. Interior clean and remains tightly bound. From the reference library of an international auction house. VG- (ex-auction house library w/ stamps to opening pg & ID to back cover edge. edge-wear to covers. corners rubbed. spine ends rubbed. back cover at ID has ink smear from discard mark) .

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Book number: 187141

Catalogue: Collections - European Art

Keywords: Collection Sylvio Perlstein, Sylvio Perlstein ; Collection Sylvio Perlstein ; ;

Blistene, Bernard and Lisa Dennison

Rendezvous: Masterpieces from the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Guggenheim Museums

Pars, Centre Georges Pompidou, 1998. Softcover. Color illustrated wraps with red and tan lettering on cover and spine, 709 pp. color and bw illustrations throughout. "A joint Guggenheim and Centre Pompidou initiative, Rendezvous reunites several masterpieces of twentieth-century art for the first time, including final paintings and their studies, and several works in a series. Unique parallels between the works of different artists, linked across the Atlantic by subject, form, and spirit, are established." - from preface. Contents Include: Monuments for a Mass Cult / Jean-Louis Cohen -- Better Late than Never / Yve-Alain Bois -- From Simplicity to Complexity: Changing Museum Architectures / Mark C. Taylor -- The World as Things: Collecting Thoughts on Collecting / Stanley Cavell -- Pompidou/Guggenheim: A Dialogue for an Exhibition / Bernard Blistene and Lisa Dennison -- Catalogue / Craig Houser -- Artist Biographies and Catalogue Entries / Susan Hapgood. VG (minor shelf wear, otherwise all pages clean and intact) .

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Book number: 180720

Catalogue: Museum Exhibitions - European Art

Keywords: Centre Georges Pompidou, Guggenheim, Modern Art ; Centre Georges Pompidou, Guggenheim, Modern Art ; ; Centre Georges Pompidou, Guggenheim, Modern Art

Blum, Andre Salomon

La Gravure En Angleterre Au Xviiie Siecle

Paris, G. Van Oest, 1930. Softcover. Pale green wraps, black illustration on front cover, green and black lettering; mounted color illustrated frontispiece; x, 89 pp followed by LXXXVIII bw plates. Text is in French. 18th century engravings in England. Includes a preface by M. Campbell Dodgson. Also includes a list of the plates with plate titles, engravers, and painters. VG (light shelfwear to wraps, pages are very clean and clear.) .

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Book number: 182795

Catalogue: General European Art

Keywords: General European Art ; English Engravings ; ;

Bocquillon Ferretti, Marina and Christophe Duvivier, et al.

Neo-Impressionism: From Light to Color

Osaka, Japan, Abeno Harukas Art Museum / Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 2014. Softcover. white illustrated wraps. french flaps. 168 pgs w/ color illustrations. Text in Japanese; art works have English translations. Wonderfully illustrated exhibition catalogue. Catalog of exhibitions held at Abeno Harukasu Bijutsukan, Osaka, October 10, 2014 - January 12, 2015 and Tokyo-to Bijutsukan, Tokyo, January 24 - March 29, 2015. VG+. light scuffs & rubbing to corners. interior clean & bright.

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Book number: 179036

Catalogue: Museum Exhibitions - European Art

Keywords: Neo-Impressionism; Neo-Impressionistic Artists ; Neo-Impressionism Art, Neo-Impressionist Artists ; ;

Bode, Wilhelm Von and Oscar Hainauer

Die Sammlung Oscar Hainauer

Berlin, W. Buxenstein, 1897. Hardcover. Oversized, 3/4 brown leather and gray cloth boards, gilt stamped design on front cover, 5 raised bands and gilt lettering on spine, gray and white illustrated end papers; 157 pp, 34 unnumbered leaves of plates, bw illustrations throughout. Text is in German. The Oscar Hainauer Collection. VG- (light scuffing to boards, leather worn, pages are lightly age toned but otherwise very clean and clear) .

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Book number: 190078

Catalogue: Collections - European Art

Keywords: European Collections ; Hainauer, Oscar ; ; European Collections

Bogemskaya, K.G. (editor)

The Museum of Private Collections: Museum Guidebook

Moscow, Russia, Otdel Lichnykh Kollektsiy, 2004. Softcover. glossy illustrated and blue wraps w/ white printing. 159 pgs w/ bw & color illustration. Text in English. A comprehensive guide to the The Museum of Private Collections (Otdel Lichnykh Kollektsiy) of Moscow. As New. minor rubbing to upper corner; scuffs to back cover.

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Book number: 179944

Catalogue: Museum Exhibitions - European Art

Keywords: Museum of Private Collections, Russia; Russian Museums; Otdel Lichnykh Kollektsiy ; Museum of Private Collections, Russian Museums, Otdel Lichnykh Kollektsiy ; ;