![Item #43855 Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones (2 vols.) [WITH 254 PHOTOGRAPHIC COLOR PLATES]....](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/43855.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1525826689)
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1911. Limted first edition. Hardcover. 1/1000. Small folios.12.5x10.5". Vol.1: (xxxviii) + plates #1-135 [each with an unpaginated text page], Vol.2: [10] + plates #136-254. White buckram boards with gilt-stamped illustrations and lettering on the front covers, gilt lettering on spines. Top edges in gilt. This is copy..... More
Leipzig: Grimme & Hempel, [ca. 1890s]. Softcover. Oblong octavo. Unpaginated. [1] 48 plates [2]. Original brown buckram, over illustrated b/w wrappers. A phenomenal and scarce catalog of Diaphanies, produced by the Grimme & Hempel company, based in Leipzig. Diaphanies were the company's innovative alternative to stained glass. The patented product..... More
![Item #52611 Cristallerie de Sèvres. Anciene Verreries Royales (Two Parts in One) [WITH]...](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/52611_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1750709570)
Paris: Alfred Landier & Houdaille, n.d. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. (5pp.) 19 plates, (3pp.) 34 plates. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering and medallions, framed by stark black ruling with decorative corners. Gray endpapers. Illustrated title page with decorative border. All pages with decorative framing. The crystals, app. sixteen per..... More
Paris, London: Librairie de L'Art J. Rouam; Gilbert Wood & Cie. 1886. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant Folio. 2pp., 12 parts with 4 plates each, all in original light blue illustrated wraps as issued; housed in it original green cloth portfolio with elaborate gilt decor, flowers and birds, and lettering on..... More
![Item #24092 Dílo Josefa Drahoňovského [CZECH GLASS ART][SIGNED BY THE ARTIST]. Jindrich...](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/24092.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1693416720)
Praha (Prague): Vladimír Žikeš, 1933. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/500. Large quarto. 310, [4]pp. Contemporary three-quarter leather over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering on spine. Raised bands. Top edge gilt. Photo-illustrated title page in red and black lettering. Decorative initials. Original wrappers bound in at rear. This scarce work..... More
Paris: Ch. Massin, ND (ca 1914). First edition. Hardcover. 12pp (Text), 30 loose plates, as issued. Original 3/4 cloth over decorative paper covered boards with red and black lettering on front cover. String ties. Vignette on title page. Remarkable work displaying a large variety of modern porcelain from France's prestigious..... More
New York: Kerr Associates, 1989. First edition. Spiral_bound. Oblong Octavo. 184, Original spiral-bound, illustrated stiff wraps in variant colors with white and black lettering on covers. Endpapers in variant colors.Illustrated title pages. With illustrated essays by Michael D. Coe, Mary Ellen Miller, Linda Schele, David Stuart, Justin Kerr, and others..... More
Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (13 x 10 3/4"). [6], 50 leaves (Description of Plates), [50] leaves (Plates), [2]pp (List of Plates). Contemporary 3/4 blue morocco over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering to spine. Raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Original printed wrappers bound in..... More
Tokyo: Chuo-Koron Bijutsu Shuppan, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Sm. folio. 1-27, 87-3, [2], 181pp. Original tan cloth with black lettering in Japanese on spine. Profusely illustrated with color and b/w photographic reproductions of Islamic pottery, mainly from Japanese collections. Islamic pottery became popular in Japan in the mid 1920's when..... More
London: Privately printed for the Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1915. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. lv, 106 plates. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Gilt top edge. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Title page with publisher's device. Decorative initials, and head and endpieces. Printed by the Chiswock Press..... More
Preisbuch V. Auflage, 5. Auflage, 12.-17. Tausend (Fifth edition, 12th-17th thousand), 1909. Softcover. 4to. 100,[2],pp. Gold-stamped wraps with decoration string, protected in modern mylar. Title-page with emblem of the "Deutsche Werkstätten für Handwerkskunst." Rare work on "Dresdner Hausgerät," a cost-effective program designed to manufacture furniture which was easy to assemble..... More
Brussels: Tircher, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1860. First edition. Hardcover. Small Folio. [8] xxxviii, 2, 41-272, 206pp., 35, 2 plates. Original pebbled red half leather over marbled boards with gilt lettering and ruling on spine. Marbled endpapers. Decorative and historiated initials and endpieces. All text pages with decorative framing. Published under the patronage..... More
![Item #49627 Don Reitz. Clay, Fire, Salt, and Wood [SIGNED LIMITED EDITION]. Jody Clowes, Patricia...](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/49627.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1651247367)
Madison, Wisconsin: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Signed "Don Reitz" and hand-numbered 2/50 on bookplate on inside cover. One of fifty bound in linen. Quarto. 128pp. Original tan linen with brown lettering on cover and spine with color plate laid to front cover. Textured tan endpapers. Frontispiece..... More
Bern: Editions Kornfeld & Klipstein, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 198pp. Original texture beige cloth with black lettering on cover and spine, in original illustrated dustjacket, white lettering on spine. Third volume of original graphic work which in approach, material and technique is as novel as it is interesting. Pottery..... More
Berlin: NP, [ca. 1910]. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. Textured beige cardboard portfolio, with black lettering on the front cover. Six leporello-style folded leaves, each containing four b/w silver gelatin photographs. A total of 24 mounted and numbered prints displaying porcelain figurines (mainly of children and women), presented as a visual..... More
Darmstadt: Alexander Koch, 1911. First edition. Softcover. Quarto (11 1/2 x 8 3/8"). Original decorative stiff wrappers, with black lettering to front cover. Spanning 36 centuries, this lavishly photo-illustrated monograph explores the fascinating world of glass beads and beadmaking, one of the oldest human arts dating back 1,500 BC. This..... More
Berlin: Deutsche Keramische Gesellschaft, 1927. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 73pp. Original blue design with reverse white lettering on cover. Association's logo on title page. Exhibition catalog featuring master and student works from academy classes and experimental workshops. Arranged by the German Ceramics Association this exhibition provides an overview of the..... More
NP, ca. 1927. Softcover. Oblong 8vo. Unpaginated (24pp). Stapled printed wraps, as issued. Rare exhibition catalogue of the "Erste Frühjahrsschau für angewandte Kunst" which was held in Berlin in 1927. Illustrated with 10 tipped-in b/w photographic reproductions of metal, ceramic, glas, wood, weaving, and ivory art works. "Erste Frühjahrsschau für..... More
Rome: Jo. Mariam Salvioni Typographum Pontificium Vaticanum, 1752. Hardcover. 4to. xvi,130pp. + errata. Three-quarter calf over decorative paper-covered boards. Engraved title-page with coat of arms of Benedict XIV. and red and black lettering. Page edges uncut, as issued. Illustrated with 6 copper-engravings ( 3 folding ), & large engraved initials..... More
Venezia: Tipografia del Commercio, 1859. Hardcover. 8vo. xii,287pp. Original three-quarter leather over silk-moire covered boards with gold decorated spine. Binding protected by modern mylar jacket. Raised bands. Gold decoration on spine. Fore-page edges untrimmed. Some age wear and scuffing on binding. Bookplate of Baroness Rothschild, whose birth name was Veronika..... More
Leipzig: Verlag von E.A. Seemann, 1928. Hardcover. 4to. xi. 85pp. Followed by 112 numbered full-page plates. 3/4 blue cloth over black paper covered boards. Clear white endpapers. Exhibition catalog of European decorative arts, published in Germany during the "roaring twenties." Printed on yellow paper, with b/w photographic plates at end..... More
München: Porzellan-Manufaktur Allach-München GmbH, 1938. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. Unpaginated (24 leaves). Original stapled photo-illustrated wraps with white lettering on cover. Title page with triple frame. Catalog of porcelain products by Porzellan- Manufaktur Allach-München for 1938/39 produced at its plant in Dachau. Each page with regular header "SS - Allach"..... More
![Item #54055 A Catalogue of Rare Chinese Jade Carvings [INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR]. Stanley Charles...](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/54055_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1766521628)
Palm Beach, Florida: The House of Jade, 1940. Limited edition. Hardcover. 212/ Small Folio. xxii, 182pp., 44 plates, incl. frontispiece. Original green textured cloth with gilt and black lettering, gilt ruling on cover. Green endpapers. Double-framed preliminary and title page. Frontispiece photograph. Printed to heave Arches paper. Inscribed "Presented with..... More
New York: Stockton Press, 1989. First American edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (11 x 8"). 728pp. 824pp. Original half dark blue cloth over light blue cloth, with gold lettering to spine. Ribbon markerin each volume. Set housed in its original marbled paper covered slipcase. First published in Great Britain in 1989..... More
![Item #53665 The Louvre Museum. Chinese Ceramics. Han period to Ming period (206 B. C.-1643 [WITH]...](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/53665_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1735241678)
Paris: Albert Morancé, 1922. First edition. Small Quarto. [2] 31 [3]pp, 40 plates, [2] 29 [3],pp., 44 plates. Original quarter blue cloth over tan boards, string-tied portfolios with blue and light brown lettering on front, and light brown vignettes on back covers. Title pages pages printed in blue and black..... More