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FRESCO DECORATIONS AND STUCCOES OF CHURCHES & PALACES IN ITALY, DURING THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES. [bound with] DESCRIPTIONS OF THE PLATES . . . WITH AN ESSAY BY J. J. HITTORFF ON THE ARABESQUES OF THE ANCIENTS AS COMPARED WITH THOSE OF RAPHAEL AND HIS SCHOOL

FRESCO DECORATIONS AND STUCCOES OF CHURCHES & PALACES IN ITALY, DURING THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES. [bound with] DESCRIPTIONS OF THE PLATES . . . WITH AN ESSAY BY J. J. HITTORFF ON THE ARABESQUES OF THE ANCIENTS AS COMPARED WITH THOSE OF RAPHAEL AND HIS SCHOOL by (FRESCOES AND STUCCOES - RENAISSANCE ITALY). GRUNER, LEWIS

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Title
FRESCO DECORATIONS AND STUCCOES OF CHURCHES & PALACES IN ITALY, DURING THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES. [bound with] DESCRIPTIONS OF THE PLATES . . . WITH AN ESSAY BY J. J. HITTORFF ON THE ARABESQUES OF THE ANCIENTS AS COMPARED WITH THOSE OF RAPHAEL AND HIS SCHOOL
Author
(FRESCOES AND STUCCOES - RENAISSANCE ITALY). GRUNER, LEWIS
Seller
Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description
London: Thomas McLean, 1854. New Edition, "largely augmented by numerous plates, plain and colored.. 578 x 406 mm. (22 3/4 x 16"). 4 p.l. (comprising an engraved title page, printed dedication, preface, and list of plates); xvi, 76 pp. (all of the text in the second work inlaid to size). Two related works (a large folio plate volume and a quarto text volume) bound in one volume.. Decorative contemporary dark brown half morocco, marbled paper sides, broad decorated raised bands, spine elaborately gilt in compartments featuring a very large and complex lozenge composed of antique tools as well as large scrolling cornerpieces, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt (joints possibly, but not certainly, with very expert repairs). First work with illustrated title page and 56 LARGE-FOLIO PLATES, NINE OF THEM ATTRACTIVE CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS, original tissue guards. Avery Architectural Library, p. 414 (citing the edition of 1844). Corners and portions of the board rather rubbed and chafed, some occasional light foxing and other trivial imperfections internally, but still quite an attractive copy, the text and plates clean and pleasing, the binding completely solid, with joints only slightly worn and the spine quite well preserved. This volume combines a visual survey of major decorative art of the Italian Renaissance with a scholarly account of the same, the latter text published in quarto and here inlaid to the giant folio size of the plate volume. The plates picture some of the best wall decorations and architectural elements of palaces and churches constructed in Italy in the 15th and 16th centuries. Works of Raphael in Rome are featured here, in particular the decoration of the loggias of the papal apartments at the Vatican and of the Villa Madama. The three chromolithographs of the loggias are little short of magnificent. Also included are the wall treatments of the Ducal Palace and Palazzo Te, both in Mantua, by Raphael’s pupil, the mannerist painter Giulio Romano. Among churches, pride of place is given to the elaborately decorated Carthusian monastery, the Certosa of Pavia, by Ambrogio da Fassano and others. The plates are, for the most part, adapted from the work of two German architects, Thürmer and Gutensohn, executed two decades previously, and completed and explicated by Gruner. The final two plates display in brilliant color many small sections of the previous black and white plates, the idea being that purchasers should try their hands at coloring, using this elaborate and colorful chart as a guide (an early owner seems to have made a tentative effort in that direction, with some success, in plates 20 and 44). Wilhelm Heinrich Ludwig Gruner (1801-81) was an art historian specializing in the Italian Renaissance and a designer of great houses, gardens, and furniture, who came to England to advise Prince Albert, the German consort of Queen Victoria, on his decorative projects. The second part of the present volume contains an essay comparing Roman and Renaissance wall painting. Its author, called J. J. Hittorff on the title page, was Jacques Ignace Hittorff (1792-1867), an architect and archaeologist, and the first person to argue that ancient statuary had been brightly colored..
Womankind in Western Europe from the Earliest Times to the Seventeenth Century

Womankind in Western Europe from the Earliest Times to the Seventeenth Century by Wright, Thomas

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Womankind in Western Europe from the Earliest Times to the Seventeenth Century
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Wright, Thomas
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Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Bands, edges, and corners rubbed and scuffed, small tear to head of spine and rear gutter, marbled endpapers heavily scuffed wit
Description
London: Groombridge and sons, 1869. First edition. Full red morocco with raised bands, elaborate gilt decorations and rules. All edges gilt. Bands, edges, and corners rubbed and scuffed, small tear to head of spine and rear gutter, marbled endpapers heavily scuffed with loss especially at gutters, hinges started but still tight, light scattered foxing, plates bright, leaves crisp. A good solid copy in an elaborate binding.. xii, 340 pp. Illus. with 10 chromolithographs and extensive b/w drawings. 8vo. Thomas Wright (1810-1877), English antiquary and scholar, helped found the Camden, Percy, and Shakespeare Societies, and wrote often of the middle ages; this was his penultimate work.
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The artistic guide...illustrated by Chicago. World's Columbian Expo

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The artistic guide...illustrated
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Chicago. World's Columbian Expo
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J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Chicago: L.P. Miller, 1892. Hardcover. Very Good. Beautiful cover illus. in gilt. Well illus. Incl. the history of Chicago, 1779-1812, 1816-1891. Frontispiece exised.
[AMERICANA] A BRIEF HISTORY OF MERCER COUNTY

[AMERICANA] A BRIEF HISTORY OF MERCER COUNTY by Kyle McCormick (author)

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[AMERICANA] A BRIEF HISTORY OF MERCER COUNTY
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Kyle McCormick (author)
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Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Very Good binding
Description
Stapled Pamphlet. Very Good binding. Light soiling to pamphlet; illustrated with map and black and white photographs. No markings in text. Very Good binding.
Under the Southern Cross in South America

Under the Southern Cross in South America by Buckman, Williamson

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Under the Southern Cross in South America
Author
Buckman, Williamson
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Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: The Book Publisher's Press, 1914. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Octavo. 482 pages. Illustrated throughout with photos by the author. Bound in a pictorial blue cloth, depicting a palm tree with stars, lettering gilt. Front inner hinge cracked, owner private library stamp front paste-down; otherwise a handsome copy.
ROBERT PENN WARREN TALKING. INTERVIEWS 1950-1978

ROBERT PENN WARREN TALKING. INTERVIEWS 1950-1978 by Warren, Robert Penn

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ROBERT PENN WARREN TALKING. INTERVIEWS 1950-1978
Author
Warren, Robert Penn
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Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780394510101
Condition
Near Fine
Description
NY: Random House, 1980. First edition, first prnt. Edited with Introduction by Floyd C. Watkins and John T. Hiers. Inscribed by Warren in a shaky hand at the bottom of the title page. "for Ken regards Robert Penn Warren." Beginning page edge foxing; dustjacket with touch of shelfwear. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Interviews conducted by Harvey Breit, Dick Cavett, Ralph Ellison, William Kennedy, Edwin Newman, et al. Inscribed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Emilio Vedova by -

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Emilio Vedova
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-
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Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Collectible; Fine
Description
Frankfurt: Galerie Neuendorf, 1989. 1st. Original Wraps. Collectible; Fine. The catalogue based on the April-May 1989 exhibition at Frankfurt's Galerie Neuendorf. Bright and Near Fine in its pictorial wrappers.
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Allenby in Egypt;
by Wavell , Archibald Percival .

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Allenby in Egypt;
Author
Wavell , Archibald Percival .
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Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
[London, etc.]: G.G. Harrap & Co., 1944. (c1943). Cloth. Good. 154 pages. Photographic illustrations. Chipped and Torn DJ.
Gone to Texas.
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Gone to Texas. by WORCESTER, Don.

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Gone to Texas.
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WORCESTER, Don.
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Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780871316974
Condition
Fine in Fine dust jacket
Description
NY:: M. Evans & Company,. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 0871316978 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. .

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