Ballot, Marie-Juliette
La Ceramique Francaise : Bernard Palissy et les Fabriques du XVIe Siecle
Pairs: Albert Morance, 1924

Octavo. 37 pp; 48 plates, both color & b/w; bibliography. Text in French. Brown cloth with gilt-titled spine. VG, blind stamp on title page, bookplate on front pastedown, plates are clean & unmarked; covers show light wear to extremities, remnants of gilt-stamped leather label over gilt-lettered spine. Originally issued as a portfolio, it has been skillfully bound in cloth using tabs to attach the pages and plates.
Inventory number #013575

Turpin, John K. & W. Barry Thomson. Intro. by Mark Alan Hewitt
NEW JERSEY COUNTRY HOUSES : The Somerset Hills. Vol. 1
Far Hills, NJ: Mountain Colony Press, 2004

Quarto. xv, 248 pp; illustrated with nearly 250 vintage b/w and contemporary color illustrations. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy; jacket bright with no wear. This book chronicles sixty country estates that were built in the countryside of Somerset and Morris counties from the 1870s up to World War I. It describes the wealthy families who built or owned the houses and the architects and landscape architects who designed them. Somerset Hills includes the greatest concentration of the domestic commissions of George Browne Post and his sons, as well as houses by Carrere & Hastings, Delano & Aldrich, Cross & Cross, Guy Lowell, Mott B. Schmidt, and many others.
Inventory number #013572

Turpin, John K. & W. Barry Thomson. Intro. by John H. Beyer
NEW JERSEY COUNTRY HOUSES : The Somerset Hills. Vol. 2
Far Hills, NJ: Mountain Colony Press, 2005

Quarto. x, pp 250-562; illustrated with nearly 300 contemporary color & vintage b/w illustrations. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy; jacket bright with no wear. This book chronicles the estate-building activity in the countryside of Somerset and Morris counties between the wars. Noted architects are George B. Post and his sons, Carrere & Hastings; Grosvenor Atterbury; Delano & Aldrich; Cross & Cross; John Russell Pope; Guy Lowell; and Mott B. Schmidt, among others. The work of some of the finest landscape architects of the period - including the Olmsted firm, Ellen Biddle Shipman, James Leal Greenleaf, Ruth Bramley Dean, and Brinley & Holbrook - is well represented. It also includes a complete index and bibliography covering both volumes 1 & 2.
Inventory number #013571

Bloom, Harold (Essay); Introduction by Ealan Wingate
ANSELM KIEFER: Merkaba
NY: Gagosian Gallery, 2002

Large quarto. 120 pp; fully illustrated. Gray cloth with blind-stamped lettering on cover & spine, no jacket as issued. A fine, crisp, unmarked copy. An exhibition of new works by Anselm Kiefer, "Merkaba" is composed of eight large-scale paintings and two monumental sculptures made of concrete and steel. The works are inspired by Kabbalist literature dealing primarily with the afterlife. The Merkaba and Hechaloth literature, as discussed in the Kabbalah texts, deal specifically with the ascent up to seven heavenly palaces or temples, which represent the seven attainments of divine spirituality. For Kiefer, the Merkaba, or mystical chariot used for this passage, is not the vehicle towards a single apocalyptic Judgment Day but, rather, a means to the ongoing process of working at art. Catalogue designed by Bruce Mau Design, Toronto.
Inventory number #013569

Taaffe, Philip, Enrique Juncosa, Robert Rosenblum & Robert Creeley
PHILIP TAAFFE
Valencia: IVAM (Institut Valencia d'Art Modern), 2000

Large quarto. 204 pp; profusely illustrated in color; list of exhibitions; bibliography. Text in English & Spanish. Blue cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy; jacket with minute wear at head of spine & top corners; rear flap with narrow crease. Exhibition catalogue of retrospective at IVAM Centre del Carme April 19 to July 9, 2000. Includes essays by curator Enrique Juncosa, and Robert Rosenblum, as well as a conversation between Philip Taaffe and Robert Creeley.
Inventory number #013568

Rykwert, Joseph
THE PALLADIAN IDEAL
NY: Rizzoli, 1999

Quarto. 226 pp; full of color photographs. Gilt-lettered brown cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine in same jacket. A clean, unmarked copy; bright jacket with no tears. This volume celebrates Palladio's architectural achievements and his lasting influence on subsequent centuries of design.
Inventory number #013564

Wheeler, Monroe, Ed.
Modern Painters and Sculptors as Illustrators
NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1938

Second edition, revised. Octavo. 115 pp; illustrated with [70] b/w plates; catalog; bibliography. Illustrated paper boards with maroon cloth spine; lacks dustjacket. VG+, a clean, unmarked copy, top corners lightly bumped; covers clean, minor wear to spine ends. Edition of 2000 copies.
Inventory number #013563

Seeler, Katherine & Edgar
NANTUCKET LIGHTSHIP BASKETS
Nantucket, MA: Deermouse Press, 1972

Second edition. Octavo. 124 pp; 1 full-page color photograph, 52 b/w plates. Illustrated white cloth. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; covers lightly soiled.
Inventory number #013562

Lanz, Bernhard, Sabine-Daniele Schmid & Werner Strahalm
Silber der Osterreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie = Silver from the Austro-Hungarian monarch = Objets en argent de la monarchie austro-hongroise = Gli oggetti d'argento della monarchia Austro-Ungarica
Strahalm: Graz, 1987

Quarto. 212 pp; color & b/w photographs; appendix includes assay marks and official hallmarks. Text in German, French, Italian & English. Illustrated paper-covered boards with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; top & bottom edges of jacket lightly toned.
Inventory number #013558

Bazin, Germain & Eiko Ishioka
TAMARA DE LEMPICKA
Tokyo: Parco Co., 1980

Parco View 10. Folio. Approx. 203 pp; 70 color & 43 b/w plates, 10 photographs, and a catalogue of the works. TEXT IN JAPANESE. Paperback with wrappers. Near Fine/Near Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy; wrappers with minimal edgewear. Partial belly band laid in - lacks 6 in. of front cover portion/spine. Stapled copy of English translation laid in. The book contains over 110 works painted between the 1920s and 1960s that were selected from the 200 oil paintings held by museums & private collectors. It includes the only existing interview with the artist, done by Eiko Ishioka in Mexico in September 1979.
Inventory number #013556

Rosenthal, Mark
ANSELM KIEFER
Munich: Prestel, 1987

Quarto. 171 pp; 85 color plates & numerous b/w illustrations; list of exhibitions; bibliography; index. Paperback. A fine, unused copy with no writing or marks, tight binding, covers glossy with no wear.
Inventory number #013553

Nelson, Christina H.
Directly from China: Export Goods for the American Market, 1784-1930
Salem, MA: Peabody Essex Museum, 1985

Octavo. 120 pp; b/w photographs throughout; bibliography. Paperback. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; Slight wave to top 2-in. of covers and pages due to the way book was stored, edges lightly rubbed, old price stick on back cover & inside of front cover. Errata sheet laid in.
Inventory number #013548

Batterberry, Ariane & Michael
The Bloomingdale's Book of Entertaining
NY: Random House, 1976

Second printing. Octavo. viii, 208 pp; 5 color & numerous b/w photographs. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy, top & bottom of spine a bit sunned; unclipped jacket has narrow sunned strip on both sides of spine, short slit in center of front panel.
Inventory number #013546

Christie's
Jewellery and Silver by Bulgari. St. Moritz, Feb 17 & 18, 1993
Geneva: Christie's, 1993

Quarto. 177 pp; profuse color photographs. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy, minor wear to jacket. This auction featured 16 lots of silver by Bulgari, and 211 lots of jewelry. Introductory essay by Diana Scarisbrick. The auction was held at St. Moritz, Geneva, on February 17 &18, 1993.
Inventory number #013545

Sotheby's
Venetian Glass 1910-1960 an Important Private Collection Geneva November 10th 1990
Geneva: Sotheby's, 1990

Quarto. Contains 141 lots, all illustrated with color photographs. Essays by Rosa Barovier-Mentasti & Roberto Pedrina. Silver-lettered blue cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy.
Inventory number #013543

Gilborn, Craig
DURANT: The Fortunes and Woodland Camps of a Family in the Adirondacks
Blue Mountain Lake, NY: Adirondack Museum, 1986

Second printing. Quarto. 170 pp; 101 b/w photographs; fold-out map; sources; appendices; index. Paperback. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; covers have minor soiling, spine slightly sunned. This book tells of a prominent New York family and of the "grand camps" that were built by members of the family in the Adirondacks during the last quarter of the 19th century.
Inventory number #013537

Harrison, Martin & Rebecca Daniels
FRANCIS BACON: Incunabula
NY: Thames & Hudson, 2009

Quarto. 199 pp; profusely illustrated in color. Gray paper-covered boards with dustjacket. Fine/Near Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy; jacket crisp & bright with minimal wear. This book presents a unique collection of Francis Bacon's source material and working documents for the first time.
Inventory number #013535

Reed, Henry Hope & Sophia Duckworth
CENTRAL PARK: A History and a Guide
NY: Clarkson N. Potter, 1972

Rev. ed. Octavo. xv, 165 pp; illustrated with photographs, engravings and maps. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG. Charming book of New York City's Central Park contains a history of the park as well as two extensive walking tours--one of the southern section, and one of the northern section, along with several appendices, one of which gives the approximate dates of leafing, budding, blossoming and fruiting of the plants.
Inventory number #013524

Hulten, Pontus, Editor
Paris 1937-Paris 1957: Creations en France : [exposition], Centre Georges Pompidou, 28 mai-2 novembre 1981
Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1981

Quarto. 527 pp; profuse b/w & color photographs; biographies & bibliographies. Text in French. Paperback. Near Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Centre Georges Pompidou from 28 may to 2 november 1981.
Inventory number #013523

Rennert, Jack
100 POSTERS OF PAUL COLIN
NY: Images Graphiques, 1977

First printing. Folio (16" x 11"). 112 pp; 100 color plates; notes. Paperback. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; light wear to top & bottom of spine, minor edge wear.
Inventory number #013521