[Rarebooks] FS: Books on Near, Middle & Far Eastern Arts
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Al-Jadir, Saad. "Arab & Islamic Silver" London; Stacey International:
1981. A supremely well illustrated study of antique and traditional silver
of North Africa and Spain, the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Mesopotamia,
Persia, Turkey, Caucasia, and Central and South-east Asia. One of the few
reference works on this subject, so it's nice that it's a good one.
Hardcover. 10.5"x12", 216 pages, hundreds of color and b/w illustrations,
dj; blue slipcase with silver lettering; a fine copy. [31097] $175.00
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Ames, Frank. "he Kashmir Shawl and its Indo-French Influence" Woodbridge;
Antique Collectors' Club: 1988. Revised edition. A beautifully illustrated
history of the Kashmir shawl, following it from its Eastern origins to
19th century France and Britain, where it had a major influence on both
textiles and design of the period. The text covers classification of shawl
types, manufacturing techniques, symbolism, the shawl trade, shawl weaving
in France, and related topics. Hardcover. 8.5"x11", 347 pages, 86 color
and 262 black & white illustrations, dust jacket. Jacket with some
rubbing, but otherwise in clean, tight, nice condition. [32285] $85.00
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Atil, Esin, W.T. Chase & Paul Jett. "Islamic Metalwork in the Freer
Gallery of Art" Washington; Freer Gallery of Art: 1985. The catalog of an
exhibition based on the Freer's collection of Islamic metalwork. The
catalog is divided into three parts, covering the 7-9th centuries, the
11-13th centuries, and the 14th-18th centuries. In addition, the text
addresses the general history and development of Islamic arts in metals,
techniques and materials and includes a glossary of technical terms.
Softcover. 10"x10", 273 pages, black & white illustrations. In fine, clean
condition. [32397] $50.00
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Azadi, Siawosch. "Turkoman Carpets and the ethnographic significance of
their ornaments" Wales; The Crosby Press: 1975. A standard book on
Turkoman carpets, with much information of types of carpets, their uses
and origins. The original German edition had fewer illustrations. O'Bannon
1515. Hardcover. 8.5"x12", 140 pages, 55 color illustrations, line
drawings, dust jacket. Jacket a bit soiled and dinged at the corners,
otherwise in clean, fine condition. [32301] $250.00
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Ballard, James F. "Illustrated Catalogue and Descriptions of Ghiordes Rugs
of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries from the Collection of James
F. Ballard, St. Louis, Mo." St. Louis; The Oriental Publishing Company:
1916. Edition limited to 100 numbered and signed copies.
James F. Ballard was a perfectly happy and wealthy St. Louis drug
manufacturer when he bought his first oriental rug while walking down a
street in New York in 1905. From there he went on to rapidly amass one of
the greatest and most important private collections of oriental carpets in
American history. As O'Bannon points out in an article for Oriental Rug
Review (Vol.II/3), one of the things that makes the
Ballard Collection unique, aside from the large number of great rugs it
contained, was that it was put together with the intent that it would be
donated to museums for the enjoyment and education of the public.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the St. Louis Museum of
Art were the primary benefactors; in fact, the first rugs were donated to
the Met. in 1922 when Ballard invited Joseph Breck to take as many as he
chose. Breck took 125, which doubled the size of the Met's
collection at the time. This is the first, and rarest, catalog of rugs
from the Ballard Collection, published by Ballard himself in an
edition of just 100 copies and quite scarce these days. O'Bannon 1166.
Hardcover. 9"x11.5", 2 pages of text plus 36 b/w plates with tissue
guards and facing descriptions; bound in old half leather and green cloth,
covers somewhat worn, spine head and base chipped, leather
along the top front spine hinge corroded; several old newspaper
columns regarding the collection pasted to the endpapers; piece of paper
pasted to and then removed from front free endpaper, just above a
pasted-in photo of Ballard. [08316] $900.00
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Beach, Milo Cleveland. "The Grand Mogul. Imperial Painting in India,
1600-1660" Williamstown; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute: 1978.
The catalog to an important loan exhibition, based entirely on American
private and public collections. "This exhibition focuses on the central
achievement of the Mughal school, the exploration of naturalism in the
early seventeenth century. In being severely limited to just six decades,
and to one school...the extremes of style and taste which so enliven the
wide-ranging survey are replaced by the exploration of one small, but
absolutely central, phase of the Mughal tradition". Softcover. 8.5"x11.5",
199 pages, black & white and several color illustrations. Covers with a
little light rubbing, otherwise in very nice, clean condition. [32296]
$50.00
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Benardout, Raymond. "Nomadic Persian and Turkoman Weaving" London;
published by the author: 1977. An exhibition of tribal rugs and other
weavings organized by a noted London rug dealer. O'Bannon 1524. Hardcover.
7"x9", 36 pages, 54 color and 14 black & white illustrations of weavings.
In fine, clean condition. [32369] $60.00
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[Bernat Collection] "Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art. The
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Bernat" New York; Sotheby Parke Bernet:
November 7, 1980. Sale 4462. The auction of this famous private
collection. Hardcover. 9"x9.5", about 125 pages, 172 lots, color and b/w
illustrations, dj; light wear, jacket a bit rubbed. [30586] $65.00
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Binyon, Laurence. "Asiatic Art in the British Museum (Sculpture and
Painting)" Paris; G. van Oest: 1925. A very interesting catalog, with an
informative and frank introduction by Laurence Binyon, noted poet and
Curator of Oriental Prints and Paintings at the British Museum. He
describes at some length not only the strengths and deficiencies of the
collection, but also candidly details the history of the British Museum's
collecting of Asian arts. At the time this catalog was written there was
still not, in fact, a department devoted to Asian art at the British
Museum. The Japanese, Chinese, Indian and other pieces were scattered
amongst other departments, and chiefly treated as items of religious or
ethnographic interest rather than art, a situation Binyon obviously found
completely frustrating and indefensible.
Binyon was a champion of Eastern arts, having written "Painting in the
East", the first book on the subject in English, in 1908. He was also a
poet of note, and after leaving the British Museum he became the Norton
Professor of Poetry at Harvard University. He is perhaps best remembered
today, at least in Britain, for his war poetry. A volunteer with the Red
Cross on the Front during the First World War, his 'For the Fallen' was
penned at the war's start, in September 1914. The
poem's fourth stanza is inscribed on countless monuments across
Britain- "They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall
not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in
the morning, We will remember them."
From the war Binyon returned to the arts, and brought his perceptive
and sensitive mind to work on the problem of Asian arts at an often
indifferent British Museum, which is where we find him in this
catalog. Despite Binyon's obvious dissatisfaction with the state of
affairs he helps oversee, he catalogs the Museum's truly fine holdings of
paintings from China, Japan, Persia and India, and sculpture from China
and India, with admiration and the care of a scholar and poet who loved
the subject.
Hardcover. 11"x14", 74 pages of text plus 64 b/w plates; light soil.
[07790] $150.00
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Blair, Dorothy. "A History of Glass in Japan" Kodansha International and
the Corning Museum of Glass: 1973. Japanese pottery and porcelain are both
well documented with an entire library full of books, but what of Japanese
glass? This is the definitive English reference to this fascinating and
often-ignored subject, a wide-ranging, meticulously researched, pioneering
study. The author surveys the art and craft of the Japanese glassmaker
from ancient to modern times, including both material which was influenced
by Western designs and pieces which are of undiddled Japanese design.
Includes an extensive and exceptionally useful bibliography. Hardcover.
9"x11.5", 479 pages, 37 color and 203 b/w illustrations. [07781] $150.00
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Buckley, Chris. "Tibetan Furniture" Warren; Floating World Editions: 2005.
The only comprehensive history and survey of antique Tibetan furniture,
its makers, motifs & designs, forms and uses. Hardcover. 8.5"x11", 227
pages, color illustrations, dj. Fine. [90270] $60.00
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[China Institute/Tonying] "Chinese Porcelains including the Superlative
Kuan Yin and Child. Jades, Paintings, Lamps, Rugs, Belonging to China
Institute in America, including the Mrs. Alfred E. Erickson Bequest [and]
Tonying and Company, and other sources" New York; Parke-Bernet Galleries:
December 1, 1962. Sale 2147. The Kuan Yin was a unique 45-inch five-color
porcelain statue made for the consort of the Emperor K'ang His; also
included in the sale was an Imperial famille-rose 8-peach bottle from the
J. Pierpont Morgan Collection. Softcover. 7.5"x10.5", 77 pages, 195 lots,
b/w illustrations and 4 color plates; light soil. [09278] $50.00
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on the decorative and fine arts & design
Post Office Box 239
Northampton, Massachusetts 01061 USA
telephone (413) 247-5080
Our website-
<http://www.joslinhall.com>
Our Latest Catalogs-
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FOLK ARTS & AMERICANA
<http://www.joslinhall.com/Catalog_302.htm>
BOOKS ON GLASS
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BOOKS ON CERAMICS
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the first book, and $2.00 for each additional book. Shipments outside the
U.S. will be billed at cost. We accept returns if we are notified within
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