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1 Daumier et ses amis Republicains
Marseilles Musee Contini 1979 First Edition Heavy Card Covers Fine-Very Good  No Jacket - as Issued 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
174 pp. Full of b/w illustrations and several in full color. Cover has very minor wear. Interior pristine, several pages at the back of catalogue have small folds -- minor. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Musee Contini, in Marseilles, France, 1st June - 31 August 1979. 168 works--sculptures, paintings, drawings, prints. Extensive bibliography. Essays by leading scholars, including: Werner Hofmann, Jean Cassou, Jean Adheimar, Theodore de Banville. Rare to find in this condition.  
Price: 79.00 USD
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2 Girodet 1767-1824 Exposition du deuxieme Centenaire
Montargis, France Musee de Montargis 1967 First Edition Soft Cover Very Good  No Jacket - as Issued 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 
Exhibition catalogue of an exhibition of works by Girodet, a painter in 19th-century France. 165 works, 63 illustrations. Extensive bibliography and notes. Cover has minor edgewear, interior is pristine.  
Price: 42.00 USD
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3 Raphael et l'art Francais
Paris Editions de la Reunion des Musees Nationaux 1983 First Edition Soft Cover Fine-Very Good  No Jacket - as Issued 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Cover Fine to Very Good condition with minor shelf wear. Interior is pristine with no marks. A very nice copy of this amazing catalogue. 492pp. Hundreds of illustrations, some in color. An extensive bibliography and numerous notes chock full of information and further references. The catalogue was produced for a Grand Palais exhibition on Raphael and his influence on French art that took place in Paris from 15 November 1983, to 13 February 1984. An amazing compendium-- painting, decorative arts, sculture, architecture and much much more. Heavy, requires extra postage.  
Price: 74.99 USD
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4 Adams, Laurie Art on Trial From Whistler to Rothko
Walker and Company, 1976 Cloth Fine  Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Fine, fine, illustrated throughout in b/w. "A marvelous chronicle for anyone interested in seeing how art, money and personal obsessions mix-or explode." Tom Wolfe. Hard to find in this condition.  
Price: 34.99 USD
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5 Berthod, Claude Extravagance: The World of Whimsical Interiors
France Flammarion 2001 2080106422 / 9782080106421 First Edition Hard Cover As New  As New Folio - over 12" - 15" tall 
New in shrink wrap from the publisher. In a box since 2001. The book explores extravagance, what it terms as beyond interior design, as a state of mind. It can be inspired by anything from a Moroccan medina to Pop Art. What ever moves people. The book is full of color photographs of amazing interior spaces, both those of the rich and famous and those of ordinary people. An amazing book.  
Price: 60.00 USD
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6 Bishop, Philip E. A Beginner's Guide to the Humanities
Paramus, NJ, U.S.A.: Prentice Hall PTR, 2002 
V/G, fine. New, never used. Pristine interior.  
Price: 19.99 USD
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7 Brown, Jonathan, William Jordan et al El Greco of Toledo
Toledo Art Museum 1982 082121506X / 9780821215067 First Edition Soft Cover Very Good  No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 
vg, with no marks interior. Cover slight shelf wear, owner's name neatly printed inside cover. 273pp., numerous color and b/w illustrations throughout. Exhibit catalogue for Toledo Museum, Museo del Prado, Natiional Gallery of Art, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.  
Price: 10.99 USD
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8 Canaday, John Edwin Mainstreams of Modern Art
New York Holt Rinehart Winston Hard Cover - Cloth Good  No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 
Other than a missing title page, and a prev. owner's name inside cover, this book is in excellent condition. Some rubbing to edges of binding, and little underlining in text.  
Price: 7.99 USD
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9 Cellini, Benvenuto The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
New York Heritage Press Limited Decorative Cloth Fine  4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Fritz Kredel 
Decorative cloth covers fine, spine slightly darkened, interior pristine. Forward by John Addington Symonds with an introduction by Thomas Craven. Illustrated throughout with Kredel's distinctive pen drawings.  
Price: 12.95 USD
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10 Champdor, Albert The Book of the Dead from the Ani, hunefer and Anhai Papyri in the British Museum
New York Garrett Publications 1966 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good  Poor 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 
180pp. d/j in mylar cover, ex-lib. with the usual markings. d/j has cut to back. Interior is very good with no marks, some damp stain to first few pages, otherwise a very nice copy.  
Price: 18.00 USD
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11 Christie's The Gerald Godfrey Private Collection of Fine Chinese Jades
Hong Kong Christie's 1995 Hard Cover Fine  Fine 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 
Corners slightly bumped, otherwise perfect w/ no marks. 910 pp. plus bibliography. Color illustrations throughout. Mondy, 30th October, 1995.  
Price: 34.00 USD
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12 Cronin, Vincent The Flowering of the Renaissance
New York E.P. Dutton, Inc. 1969 First Edition Cloth Fine-Good  Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
F-VG/G, cover and binding tight, w/very minor corner bumping. d/j is rubbed on corners and top front has several small tears and jacket edges along spine rubbed. 332 pp. beautifully illustrated, delves into the turbulent and colorful history of Florence, Rome and Venice, the rise and flowering of Italian humanism, and issues, such as patronage, the status of the artist, theater, history, biography, epic poetry and more.  
Price: 49.00 USD
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13 Diderot & D'alembert L'encyclopedie Dissin-Peinture
Paris Biblioteque de l'Image 2002 2914239874 / 9782914239875 Soft Cover As New  No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 
Brand new in shrink wrap from publisher. Soft cover facsimile edition, almost entirely made up of explicit b/w plates.  
Price: 39.00 USD
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14 Downes, Willian Howe The Life and Works of Winslow Homer
Boston Houghton Mifflin Company 1911 Cloth Good  No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 
VG, ex-library, usual markings, original boards rubbed and spine re-inforced w/ buckram by library bindery. Interior is pristine, with no marks, no missing pages, and tissue guards still intact.  
Price: 69.00 USD
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15 Elsen, Albert E. Rodin
New York Museum of modern Art 1963 First Edition Cloth Good  No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
g, pristine interior, water stains to back cover, corners bumped, otherwise vg. Binding is tight. 228pp., bibliography, numerous b/w photos of the work and the artist, etc.  
Price: 24.99 USD
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16 Flexner, James Thomas Ameica's Old Masters
New York Dover 1967 Soft Cover Fine-Very Good  No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Minor covers wear, pristine inside and out. 365 pp., bibliography. Revised ediiton with 69 illustrations.  
Price: 8.99 USD
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17 Gerald Peters Gallery Edward Borein: Cowboy Artist
Santa Fe, NM Gerald Peters Gallery 2000 First Edition Soft Cover As New  4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 
Exhibition catalogue. 228pp. w/253 illustrations. 67 in color. Catalogue of 245 works, including 61 paintings, 92 etchings and 92 drawings. Borein (1872-1945) portrayed cowboy life from direct experience. The essay, by Harold G. Davidson, is informative and brings to light this outstanding artist and his work. Included are historical photographs. The colorplates are outstanding.  
Price: 65.00 USD
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18 Gerdts, William H. Twelve American Masterpieces
New York, NY, U.S.A. Spanierman Gallery 1998 0945936206 / 9780945936206 First Edition Buckram As New  As New Folio - over 12" - 15" tall 
Like new, never read and in pristine condition w/ absolutely no marks. Full of full color and b/w reproductions. Arstists include Chase, Ives, Cole, de Kooning, Eakins, Gifford, Hassam, Henri, Lane, Remington, Twachtman, and Robinson. Exhibition catalogue from Spanierman Gallery, New York, in 1992.  
Price: 19.99 USD
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19 Greenaway, Kate Language of Flowers
New York Avenel Books 0517221756 / 9780517221754 Hard Cover Fine  Fine 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall Greenaway 
F/F, with no marks inside or out. Pristine. Never used. 80pp. Criss-cross index in back w/ various attributes and the flowers that represent them, plus a description of the meaning of each flower. Reprint or original printed in 1884 at the apex of Kate Greenaway's career. Lovely drawings of children and flowers w/ beautiful detail and color.  
Price: 17.99 USD
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20 Havelock, Christine M. Hellenistic Art : The Art of the Classical World from the Death of Alexander the Great to the Battle of Actium
New York, NY, U.S.A. W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated 1981 0393014002 / 9780393014006 Cloth Fine  Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
No marks, d/j price clipped. Revised edition. 197 b/w plates, carefully chosen to illustrate the create vigor, the variety and diversity of Hellenistic art.  
Price: 19.99 USD
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