Dust jacket in clear protector. The catalog of the collection of renaissance and baroque bronzes in the Herzog-Anton-Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig, Germany. Text in German. 352pp 3.82lb 11.9x8.7x1.1in View More...
not issued with a dust jacket. The new edition edited and revised by James David Draper. The text section has 129 pages with 102 illustrations and the plate section has 266 full page black & white illustrations. 111pp 7.47lb 14.0x10.7x1.5in EXTRA SHIPPING CHARGES NECESSARY View More...
lightly foxed on top edge of text block and with small bookstore sticker at bottom of front pastedown, dust jacket with short tears at top of spine, repaired tear at rear bottom corner, and fading to spine. Dust jacket in clear protector. This catalogue aims at presenting a complete record of the Museum's collection of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman bronzes at the time of publication. Every object is illustrated and accompanied by a brief description that places it in its artistic and historical context. Profusely illustrated in black & white. 511pp 3.16lb 9.3x7.9x1.5in View More...
bookplate on front pastedown, dust jacket price-clipped. Dust jacket in clear protector. With 161 illustrations in black and white and 16 in color. 160pp 2.01lb 11.0x8.9x0.7in View More...
dust jacket with tiny chipping to laminate at extremities. Dust jacket in clear protector. The medals catalogued and reproduced in the present volume were assembled by Gustave Dreyfus (1837-1914), an enthusiastic French collector of impeccable taste. Recognized as one of the finest private collections of Renaissance medals in existence, they were purchased by the Kress Foundation and given to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., in 1957. The collection is remarkable for the range it covers as well as for the superb quality of the single medals it contains. The largest part consist... View More...
1974 and 1980 price revision lists laid-in; corners bumped, dust jacket with wear to extremities, small chip at top edge of front panel at spine. Dust jacket in clear protector. Profusely illustrated in black and white. 339pp 3.75lb 11.0x8.7x1.0in View More...
in shrinkwrap. The small bronze figures known as Vienna Bronzes are unique to that city on the river Danube and they are still being produced today according to the same procedure as in the middle of the 19th century. Profusely illustrated in color and black & white with parallel text in German, English, and French. 192pp 2.68lb 12.2x9.5x0.7in View More...
dust jacket with light wear at foot of spine and small tear at bottom of back fold. Dust jacket in clear protector. The catalogue for a travelling exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago 75 bronzes are described and illustrated in color. 304pp 3.00lb 11.0x8.2x0.9in View More...
unbound in folding box; text pages uncut and plates clean, folding box toned and worn with repairs to spine. With 90 full page plates. Text in German. 49pp 4.85lb 13.0x9.7x1.3in View More...
Dust jacket in clear protector. With chapters organized by animal represented, this book is profusely illustrated with 55 color and over 900 black and white illustrations and contains a biographical index of sculptors. 424pp 4.32lb 11.0x8.7x1.2in View More...
not issued with a dust jacket; spine faded, wear to head of spine and edges and corners of paper covered boards, owner's name on front free endpaper, interior clean and bright. The catalogue of an exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan from October 18 to November 10, 1940. 96 pieces, loaned by C. T. Loo & Co., are described and illustrated in black and white on 41 plates. [78pp] 1.24lb 11.2x8.7x0.4in View More...
tape shadow on front endpaper (from attached note), dust jacket with small scratch to front panel. Dust jacket in clear protector. 30 bronzes are described and illustrated in color. 159pp 2.20lb 11.2x8.8x0.8in View More...
Antoine-Louis Barye (1796-1875) is considered to be a Romantic sculptor whose naturalistic portrayal of animals gives them the spirit, action, and freedom of the wild. The Corcoran Gallery of Art has a significant collection of Barye bronzes, most of which were acquired in the last part of the 19th century: William Wilson Corcoran, the founder of the Gallery, encouraged the acquisitions committee to purchase 120 Barye bronzes. The text has 85 black and white illustrations, while the catalogue section has illustrations of items not already shown in the text. 90pp 0.90lb 11.0x8.5x0.3in View More...
dust jacket with faint scratch to front and back panels. Dust jacket in clear protector. Rolley surveys ancient bronze-working from the tenth to the first centuries B.C. As Professor Boardman says in his Foreword: there has been no comprehensive and detailed account of Greek bronzes for over 50 years. This book rectifies that omission. There are 262 illustrations in black and white and 40 in color; a Glossary of technical terms; an Iconography; 3 maps; and a comprehensive Bibliography. There is a List of Museums where the objects illustrated may be seen. 269pp 4.65lb 12.3x9.9x1.1in View More...
not issued with a dust jacket; faint scratch on back cover, red remainder mark on bottom of text block. A survey of various types of Vienna Bronzes, organized according to motif. Profusely illustrated in black & white and 18 color plates. Text in German. 154pp 1.45lb 10.1x8.5x0.6in View More...
dust jacket with 1 inch tear at bottom edge of front panel, foxing to back panel, and rubbing at head and foot of spine and corners. Dust jacket in clear protector. This book describes the development of statuary bronze casting in this country from its humble beginnings around the middle of the nineteenth century to the turn of the century, when it had become a prosperous industry. Contains 14 appendixes, a checklist of nineteenth-century American bronze foundries, and an extensive bibliography. Illustrated with 157 black and white figures. 207pp 2.73lb 12.3x9.3x0.8in View More...
light foxing to covers and first and last white pages. Published on the occasion of an exhibition organized by the National Museum of American Art and shown at: the National Museum of American Art, September 18, 1981 to January 3, 1982; the Denver Art Museum, January 23 to March 14, 1982; Amon Carter Museum, May 7 to July 4, 1982. With 74 black and white illustrations. 128pp 1.09lb 10.3x8.5x0.4in View More...
in slipcase, not issued with a dust jacket, limited to 500 copies. Russian Bronze is the first book in the Encyclopedia of Russian Antiques. Written by Igor Sychev of the Hermitage Museum, one of the leading specialists on Russian bronze, this book presents the first complete picture of the history of Russian bronze and lamps from the age of Peter the Great to the early 20th century. It is especially valuable for its numerous illustrations of the finest examples of Russian decorative bronze and lamps from the museum collections of Moscow and St. Petersburg, many of which are published here ... View More...
Dust jacket in clear protector. The catalogue of renaissance plaques in the National Museum of Bargello, Florence, Italy. 400 plaques (324 Italian, 17 French, 15 Netherlandish, and 44 Germanic) are described and illustrated. Text in Italian. 244pp 4.10lb 12.0x8.7x1.0in View More...
