Clifton-Mogg, Caroline
A PASSION FOR COLLECTING: Decorating with Your Favorite Objects
NY: Bulfinch Press, 2002

First American edition. Quarto. 192 pp; profusely illustrated with color photographs; sources and museums; index. Hardcover with jacket. Near fine/Near fine. This book explores the ways in which collectibles as diverse as antique maps, ceramics, and seashells can be used in interior design.
Inventory number #004333

Cahiers de la Ceramique de Verre et des Arts du Feu, No. 25
Sevres: Societe des Amis du Musee Natl de Ceramique, 1962

No. 25. Small folio. 62 pp; numerous b/w & 7 tipped-in color plates. Text in French, with English summaries. Card covers. Light soiling & wear to off-white covers. Contents include: "En avant-propos sur la majolique italienne" by Fourest; "Les majoliques de la collection Paul Gillet au musee lyonnais des Arts Decoratifs" by J. Giacomotti, and "Les Arts du Feu dans la decoration du paquebot 'France'" by M. Gaume.
Inventory number #003629

Nordenfalk, Carl
SEVRES ET LES CINQ SENS
Stockholm: Nationalmusei Skriftserie, 1984

Octavo. 120 pp; 94 b/w & color illustrations; notes; index. Text in French. Illustrated hardcover. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; slight sunning to spine.
Inventory number #003302

Christie's
THE CONTENTS OF BENJAMIN GINSBURG, Antiquary Including the Property of Cora Ginsburg
NY: Christie's, 1983

Quarto. 254 pp with 781 lots illustrated in b/w & color. Cloth with dj. VG/VG. Auction held October 14 & 15, 1983. An important sale of fine American and English furniture, English and Continental ceramics, Chinese export porcelain, textiles and related decorative arts.
Inventory number #003023

Bayard, Emile
L'ART APPLIQUE FRANCAIS D'AUJOURD'HUI: Meuble, Ferronnerie, Ceramique, Verrerie, Tissus, Etc.
Paris: Ernest Grund, 1926

Quarto. 317 pp; illustrated throughout with b/w photos; index of designers. Text in French. Tan cloth with green-stamped lettering, top edge gilt. Backstrip worn, 3 1/2" split at bottom but holding.
Inventory number #002728

Twitchett, John
DERBY PORCELAIN
London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1980

First edition. Quarto. 319 pp; 79 color & 400 b/w illustrations; appendix; notes and references; glossary; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy, minor wear at base of spine & bottom corners; unclipped jacket shows light scuffing. The author's copy - his bookplate on front pastedown. The history of the first century of derby porcelain, from 1748 to 1848.
Inventory number #002648

Sotheby & Co
THE RENE FRIBOURG COLLECTION:I. CATALOGUE OF EUROPEAN PORCELAIN PART I
London: Sotheby & Co., 1963

Sale June 25, 1963, lots 1-68. Quarto; 80 pp; 58 plates, 13 in color. Paper covered boards with dj. VG-/G+. Small closed tears and minor chipping to top edge of dj, crown bumped, short tear to top of dj back. List of prices and buyers tipped in with yellowing cello tape on ffep.
Inventory number #002088

Honey, W. B.
FRENCH PORCELAIN OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
London: Faber & Faber, 1972

Second edition. Octavo. 78 pp; 8 color plates including frontispiece & 96 b/w plates; bibliography; index. Cloth with dust jacket. VG/VG. A clean, unmarked copy; Watson Guptill publisher sticker over Faber imprint on spine of price-clipped jacket, minor soiling to jacket. The authoritative study of the soft-paste wares of Saint-Cloud, Chantilly, Mennecy, Vincennes and Sevres. The author, who was Keeper of the Department of Ceramics at the Victoria and Albert Museum, combines detailed historical information about the factories and their wares with a deep aesthetic appreciation of their rare qualities. First published in 1950, this edition includes four new color plates and the bibliography has been brought up to date. Includes a comprehensive chapter on marks and a short chapter on forgeries.
Inventory number #002045

Ballu, Nicole
LA PORCELAINE FRANCAISE
Paris: Editions Charles Massin, n.d.

n.d. (1950s). Quarto. 16 pp; 37 plates some in color. Text in French. Cloth with dj. VG/VG- some soil and wear to dj.
Inventory number #002043

Meister, Peter Wilhelm & Horst Reber
EUROPEAN PORCELAIN OF THE 18TH CENTURY
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983

First edition. Quarto. 320 pp; illustrated in color and b/w; notes; bibliography; maps and chronological tables; index. White cloth with black titles. Lacking dj. VG. minor soiling to covers.
Inventory number #002022

Sanchez-Pacheco, Trinidad, Maria Dolors Giral, et al
CERAMICA ESMALTADA ESPANOLA
Barcelona: Labor, 1981

Quarto. 207 pp; profuse color photographs; bibliography; index. Text in Spanish. Blue cloth with gilt lettering in dustjacket.VG/VG, jacket shows light edgewear, small dampstain on inside of jacket near bottom of rear panel, not visible on exterior. Former owner name on front free endpaper.
Inventory number #001933

Peirce, Donald C.
ENGLISH CERAMICS The Frances and Emory Cocke Collection
Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 1988

Quarto. 255 pp; 235 objects described and illustrated in color; bibliography; index. Paperback. VG. A well-rounded collection of 18th-century English porcelain and pottery.
Inventory number #001932

Hurst, A.
A CATALOGUE OF THE BOYNTON COLLECTION OF YORKSHIRE POTTERY
: Yorkshire Philosophical Society, 1922

Octavo. 71 pp; 36 b/w illustrations. Wraps. VG. The collection presented to the Yorkshire Museum 1916 and 1920 together with notes on some of the Yorkshire Potteries and the marks used by them.
Inventory number #001703

Davidson, Marshall B. & Elizabeth Stillinger
THE AMERICAN WING at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985

First edition. Quarto. 352 pp; profusely illustrated with 524 color & b/w photographs; bibliography; index. Cloth with dj. VG/VG. A well-illustrated survey of the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum, home of America's most important collection of painting, sculpture and decorative arts, dating from 1630. Separate chapters on the Period Rooms, furniture, silver, pewter, ceramics, glass, paintings, prints, drawings and watercolors, and sculpture.
Inventory number #000905

Hillerin, Jean de & Alfred Marie
STYLES DE FRANCE: Objets et Collections de 1610 a 1920
Paris: Le Rayonnement Francais, n.d.

Quarto. 218 pp; several color & many b/w illustrations. Text in French. Hardcover in slipcase. Slipcase is worn along edges, with splits at corners & along top edge; book is very good. A well-illustrated survey of bronzes, hardware, clocks, lighting, silver, ceramics, glass, and mirrors.
Inventory number #000770