[Rarebooks] FS- Vintage Catalogues:Art, Religion, Furniture, Printing

[Michelle Levick, Bookmaven]

For your consideration. Vintage Art Catalogues - Media Mail 3.75 unless 
stated otherwise. Will combine issues for postage- I will sell the lot- make 
an offer.



Parke-bernet Galleries: Important American & English Furniture, 
Straffordshire and Liverpool Ware, Oriental Lowestoft Porcelain, Early 
American Glass, Paintings, Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Art, Collected By the 
Late George Horace Lorimer

Blue wraps, spine. Tightly bound, profusely illustrated throughout with 
antique Persian rugs, illuminated writings and certificates from the 18th 
and 19th centuries, porcelain and glass, American and English furniture and 
decorations, etc. Many pages have penciled prices realized and notes in 
margin. Lower 2 1/2 inches of spine exposed, edges worn, bumped small closed 
tears, various corers dog-eared binding tight.  198 pp sm 4 to. NY 
Parke-Bernet 1944  $6.50



Japanese Paintings and Prints From the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. 
Gale, January 25 through March 5 1961. by Rueppel, Merrill C, Introduction; 
with Foreword by the Collectors. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 
Minneapolis, MN 1961, First Edition:

Twenty black and white prints from artist during the Tokugawa period: 
Moronobu, (1618-1695), A Samurai Followed by a Servant (1680); Kaigetsudo 
Artist, Portrait of a Woman Wearing a Kimono Decorated with Flying Geese, 
1715; Masanobu, A Courtesan with two Attendants, 1715; Kiyonobu 1, Scene 
from a Drama, 1718; Shigenaga, A Young Man Walking, 1730; Shunsho, The Actor 
Ighikawa Yaozo II, 1774;  Shunsho, Two Courtesans Writing A Letter, 1775; 
Utamaro, Kitchen Scene, 1798; Toyokuni, The Ghost, 1798, etc. Artist's works 
listed, along with many other artists of this period. Colophon: 300 of these 
catalogues were printed by the Bureau of Engraving of Minneapolis for The 
Minneapolis Institute of the Arts in January of 1961. One hundred forty five 
works cited. Richard Gale was a State Representative from Minnesota, 
(1900-1973). Tan paper wraps, looks like parchment, (is not) with Chinese 
Characters to background, black lettering.  One one-half chip to lower side 
edge of front wrap, 1.4 wide. End papers, green pattern Japanese paper. Very 
clean, tightly bound. tall 8 vo.  $20.00



HANDBOOK OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL ART, ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, 
Chicago, 1933: Clean tight catalogue of Chinese Bronze, Pottery, 
Paintings -Woodcuts;  ceremonial bronze vessels of the Chou Dynasty 
(1122-255 B.C.), Stone Bodhisattva, T'ang Dynasty (618-906 A.D.), Stone 
Tympanum of Doorway, T'ang Dynasty (618-906 A.D.), Stamped terra cotta 
tiles,  Summer and Winter Landscapes by Hsia Kuei, Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 
A.D.), Woman Standing Beside Cherry Tree, attributed to Hishikawa Moronobu 
(1625-1694), Persian Figural Velvet, Shah Abbas Period (1585-1628 A.D.), 
Japanese Robe Used in the No Drama Tensho Period, (1573-1591 A.D.), Stupa 
Containing Dharani Scroll (756-770 A.D.), Chinese Lacquer Inro with Ivory 
Netsuke 18th Century, Winday Day under Cherry Tree, Utagawa Toyokuni 
(1769-1825). 81 illustrations in all. Yellow wraps, red lettering and 
decorations. Upper and lower spine edges rear, closed tear, mild soil of 
wraps. Text and illustrations clean, no writing. Solidly bound. Very nice 
representation of Oriental Art. tall 8 vo, 62 pp. $17.00



Exhibition of Venetian Painting From the Fifteenth Through the Eighteenth 
Century. Heil, Walter; Howe Thomas Carr, Text by. California Palace of the 
Legion of Honor. San Francisco, 1938: An exhibition consisting of works from 
many noted collectors, galleries and museums including: Arnold Seligmann, 
Rey & Co; Mr. & Mrs. Booth Tarkington; Jakob Goldschmidt; M. Knoedler and 
Company; Mrs. Felix m Warburg; Joseph E. Widener, and many others. With the 
many works painted by: Bartholommeo Veneto; Giacomo Bassano; Giovanni 
Bellini; Veronese Bonifazio; Vittore Carpaccio; Cimi Da Conegliano; Dossi 
Dosso; Michele Giambono; Pietro Longhi; Andrea Mantegna; Giovanni Battista 
Pizzetta; Bernardo Strozzi; Giovanni Battist Tiepolo; Jacopo Tintoretto; 
Titian, and others. Short biography to each painter, Introduction; 
Explanatory Notes; List of Contributors. Color frontispiece 77 full page 
plates, reproductions crisp. Red wraps, lower spine end chipped, crease to 
lower edge, with mild crease to front corner. Clean, tightly bound. Not 
paginated. 4to. $12.50



American Furniture, Silver, Glassware, Porcelain;  A group of English XVIII 
Century Furniture; Furnishings of "Mayflower Lodge" Residence of H. Thomas 
Farrar, Westport, Conn. Sale Number 3953. Anderson Galleries, NY: Including 
a ladder-back mahogany chair originally owned by John Hancock. Willard-type 
inland mahogany grandfather clock and other examples in maple, pine and 
mahogany. Tan wraps, mildly soiled. Solidly bound, text clean.  tall 8 vo, 
65 pp $10.00



Gothic and Renaissance Works of Art. Property of Mrs. Stanley Grafton 
Moritmer: Ispahan Rugs, Near Eastern Pottery and Miniatures, Oriental 
Sculptures, Greek and Roman Antiquities. Parke-bernet Galleries Inc., NY. 
1948:  Twenty-eight black and white photo illustrations: Gorgan Iridescent 
Turquoise Blue Animalistic Jug; Gorgan Copper Lustre Ewer with Figural 
Decoration; Sultanabad Iridescent Turquoise Blue Four-Handled Jar.  Early 
Gothic Sculptured Limestone Figure of S. Denis; Nuremberg Renaissance 
Tapestry, etc. From the Estate of Mrs. Stanley Grafton Mortimer and others: 
Sculptures; bronze medals; Majolica; stained glass; furniture; tapestries 
and Ispahan Rugs. Reddish brown wraps, mild bumping of edges. Very clean, 
tightly bound. Many illustrations, sm 4 to, 64 pp. $10.00



Five centuries of print making. From the collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald, 
Print Club of Phildelphia, 1931. Outstanding examples of Print Making; 
commencing with the woodcut dated 1466 in the block, the history of print 
making is show to the present day. Illustrated throughout with the works of: 
Schongauer, Holbein, Callot, Rembrandt, Nanteuil, Tiepolo, Hogarth, Blake, 
Goya, Manet, Whistler, Durer, and others. Brown stiff paper wraps. Spine 
rubbed, tape to spine ends, rear wrap 5 inch closed tear to upper front 
joint, cover still solidly attached, closed tears to spine ends. Binding 
firm. Mild soil, clean text & reproductions. sm 4to, first ed. $12.50



Liturgical Arts, a Quarterly Devoted to the Arts of the Catholic Church, 
Vol. 25, No. 4, Liturgical Arts Society, NY 1957: Contents of this edition 
are: Chicago exhibition - March 1-5, & 3-5, 1957: Madonna and Child, Ivan 
Mestrovic; Annunciation, Tapestry, Morris de la Cerda; Saint Michael, metal, 
Patricia Watters; Angels with Lute, Sister Mary Helena; Crucifx of Wood, 
Joseph O'Donnell; Crucifix, terra cotta, Margaret Dagenais; Pieta, Egon 
Weiner; Stations, Mildred Tryba. Along with articles: Art and the 
Sacramental Principal; Qumran - Cradle of Christianity; Pentecostal Aspects 
of the Liturgy and more. Stapled creme color wraps, brown lettering, edges 
mildly bumped, with tiny closed tears. Corners creased. Tightly bound, text 
photos and illustrations clean. Many other photos, plus ads. Slim, 4 to. 
$12.00 (Media Mail $4.50)



The Print Collector's Bulletin an Illustrated Catalogue for Museums and 
Collectors, Volume Two, Number 6, M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., NY 1931: 
First Series; arranged by countries, centuries and alphabet. One hundred 
engravings, etchings, woodcuts and lithographs to celebrate M. Knoedler's 
85th anniversary of the foundation of their firm. The introduction is a 
reprint of the Preface of their first Catalogue issued 1854. In gray wraps, 
spotty damp stains, reinforced front & rear hinges. Overall edgewear, 3 inch 
closed to upper front joint. Text and reproductions clean & white. Binding 
tight. tall 8 vo, 147 pp Fair to Good. $5.50



Three issues of- "The Jewish Quarterly," Adler, Cyrus, Editor, Macmillan & 
Co., Ltd, London: Vol. XL., No. 2 October 1924; Contents: A fragment of the 
Yalkut of R. Machir Bar Abba Mari on Hosea; Two Documents of the 
Inquisition; critical Notices; Recent Orientalia & Judaica, written in 
Hebrew & English; Vol. XIV, July 1923, No. 1, Grey wraps, edges creased, 
small tears & chips to edging, 2 1.2 closed tear to lower front joint. 
Firmly bound, clean bright text. Contents: The unclean animals of Leviticus 
11 & Deuteronomy 14; Studies in Hebrew Roots; Ben Sira's conception of sin & 
atonement; Critical Notices: The Derivation of "Daven-En" & "Or-En"; "Mann's 
Jews under the Fatimid Caliphs"; Studies in the Beginnings of Christianity; 
Vol. XVII, July 1926, No. I, Contents: The Levitical impurity of the Gentile 
in Palestine before the year 70;  Note on some Judaeo-Arabic Legal 
Documents; Jewish Sacrifices & Festivals; Survey of recent Biblical 
Literature. $22.50 (Media Mail $4.50)





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