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Japan Air Lines Presents Pictorial Guides to the Orient; Entertainment, Shopping,. Travel, Food
Japan Air Lines 1977 Soft Cover Fine in Good-plus Envelope
Four beautiful, as new books, each dedicated to a different aspect of Asian travel. They were printed in 1976 and 1977 and issued as a set in '77. The books each have 23 pages and are lavishly illustrated with gorogeous color photography, but also much text. They measure 8-1/2" high and 12" across and fit neatly into their original decorative envelope. The envelope shows wear at corners, but is otherwise clean and nice. Topics are entertainment, shopping, travel, and food. All cover other Asian countries in addition to Japan.
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30.00 USD
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The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art (January, April, November, December 1966)
Cleveland, Ohio The Cleveland Museum of Art 1966 Soft Cover Very Good
Four, clean, bright issues of the The Bulletin of the Cleveland Art Museum. Bulletins measure 7-1/2"x9" and are illustrated primarily in black and white, though November features a color two-page spead and January a bound-in insert featuring an additional ten works of Ming art. Topics covered include: Literati and Professionals: Four Ming Painters; Japanese lacquer art; Calvary with a Carthusian Monk; Jusepe De Ribera's The Death of Adonis; Gothic sculptures; Stone Buddhas; Austrian altarpieces, and Bartolome Esteban Murillo's Laban Searching For His Stolen Household Goods in Rachel's Tent.
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16.00 USD
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The Nepalese-Tibetan Carpet
The Nepal Traveller 1995 1995 Soft Cover Good-plus 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
This is a hard-to-find magazine, the entire issue of which is published annually in January by the Nepal Traveler magazine. Designed for the carpet trade, but also for collectors, as much information of value is included, as well as color photographs. This issue is clean and tightly bound with a small bit of wear to crown and tail of spine, isolated edgewear, a flat crease to upper front corner, and a crease next to spine which in no way impinges on the integrity of the binding. Among the topics covered in this issue are the cosmopolitan Tibetan aesthetic, the wool trade throughout the Himalayas, old Tibetan carpets, an early origin of Tibetan carpets, social responsibility and the industry, a negative view of carpet washing, and Nepal carpets in the North American market. 106 pages. Measuers 8-1/2"x11-1/2"
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Bastin, John Sturgus;National Museum (Singapore) Lady Raffles By Effort & Virtue (Original Unused Raffles Hotel Singapore Luggage Label laid-in)
Singapore National Museum 1999 9813002840 / 9789813002845 Third Impression Hard Cover Fine No DJ, as Issued
Crisp, clean, book. Handsomely designed with burgundy cloth spine enhancing red cloth boards, the front of which is decorated with a painted portrait of Lady Raffles in a gilt "frame." Book measures 5-1/2"x8" and has pristine pages and page edges. Large color portrait of subject at frontis. Tells the story of Sophia Raffles, the second wife of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles with handsome illustration throughout. She and her husband traveled extensively in Asia where he founded Singapore. VERY NICE BONUS too -- an unused, pristine luggage label for the Raffles Hotel Singapore from the Golden Age of Travel (1920s-30s)laid-in.124
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Dorgeles, Roland On the Mandarin Road
The Century Company 1926 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good No DJ
Very clean, attractive book with handsome gilt and black design to front board. Only exterior fault is slight darkening to spine. Contents tightly bound. Former owner's name and the date 1928 written on front free endpaper. Handsomely illustrated with 31 black and white photographs. Text translated from the French. Book is a travel memoir of th author's visits to Vietnam and Cambodia. 332 pages.
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30.00 USD
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Hanfmann, George M.A. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (Lot of 6,Covering 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 11th and 12th Harvard-Cornell Archaeological Expeditions at Sardis 1964-70)
Jerusalem, Jordan American Schools of Oriental Research Soft Cover Near Fine
Lot of six including Number 174, April, 1964; Number 177, Feb. 1965; Number 182, April 1966; Number 186, April 1967; Number 187, October 1967; and Number 199, October 1970. Clean as a whistle inside and out with just a small bit of tiny writing to upper fornt corner of each. Contents pristine. Illustrated with maps, charts and photographs. All concern the same archaeological exacavations conducted by Harvard and Cornell in association with the Corning Glass Museum. Complete coverage of Lydian residential architecture, the great synagogue, evidence of urban planning and works of art discovered during excavations 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 12.
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20.00 USD
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Illing, Richard Later Japanese Prints : 65 Illustrations, with 33 in Colour
Phaidon 1978 0714818534 / 9780714818535 Soft Cover NEW Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Brand new book still in original publisher's shrinkwrap, purchase from a collector who never opened it. Book is soft cover and measures a whopping 11-1/2"x16-1/2". Contains 65 prints, each of which is removeable for framing. and 33 of which are in full color. The author offers an anlaysis of printmaking in Japan during the upheavals of the 19th and 20 centuries and provides notes for each plate. Subjects include the Samurai heroes, courtesans of the Yoshiwara and Japanese landscapes.
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20.00 USD
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Nguyet, Tuyet (editor) Arts Of Asia Magazine 1982 (Full Run -- 6 Issues)
Hong Kong Arts of Asia Publications 1982 Soft Cover Very Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Six complete issues of what was then a bimonthly magazine, all in nice clean condition. Includes the Bangkok Bicentennial Issue. Absolutely gorgeous publication with quality articles and beautiful, large photos. Topics covered include, but are not limited to, Chinese snuff bottles, the art of calligraphy, Thai mother-of-pearl, Burmese opium weights, Negoro lacquer, Chinese soft paste or steatitic porcelain, decorative roof ceramics in Chinese archietecture, brass boxes of the southern Philippines, Bandha textiles, antique weavings of the Lao Neua, prehistoric collections in Muzium Negara and Kuala Lumpur, jewelry of Thailand, Ban Chiang painted pottery and Thai costumes and textiles.
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60.00 USD
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Nguyet, Tuyet (editor) Arts Of Asia Magazine 1984 (Five of Six Issues)
Hong Kong Arts of Asia Publications 1984 Soft Cover Very Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Five complete issues of what was then a bimonthly magazine, all in nice clean condition. Includes Jan.-Feb.; May-June; July-Aug.; Sept.-Oct; and Nov-Dec.. Absolutely gorgeous publication with quality articles and beautiful, large photos. Topics covered include, but are not limited to, the Punjab Sikh school of painting; Budda Sakyamuni in Asian art; overseas Chinese silversmiths; Sadaik-Burmese manuscript chests; Turkish embroideries; the contemporary movement in Nepalese art; Nepalese cottage crafts; the ancient Ts'Ung jade tube; the art of Thanka painting; the arts of the Islamic book; the cricket story; and metalwork of the Shanghai Bund.
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50.00 USD
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No author Stated Islamic Art from the Collection of Edwin Binney 3rd
Washington D.C. Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service 1966 Soft Cover Very Good
Very handsome book in clean, tightly bound condition. No names or writing andno tears, chips or creases. Measures 8-1/2"x9". Illustrated handsomely in both color and black and white. Discusses bindings of beautiful texts, calligraphy, illuminations, earliest Islamic miniatures, 14th century Persian miniatures, Timurid andTurkman miniatures of the 15th century, 16th centurty Persian minuatures, later Persian miniatures, Turkish minuatures, Indian miniatures, ceramics and metalwork. Binney was a very noted collector in thsi field.
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25.00 USD
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No author Stated Korean Ceramics An Art's Variety; Collection Of Mr. And Mrs. Gregory Henderson
Columbus, Ohio Divisions of Art Gallery Ohio State University 1969 Soft Cover Very Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
A rather scarce catalog of unique interest, as Korean ceramics are not covered as extensively as those from Japan and China. The catalog is clean and tightly bound with no names or writing. Faults include a tiny bit of wear to top of spine and a sprinkling of faint spots of foxing in outer margin of color photograoh at frontis (see picture). Catalog was published to accompany an exhibit which was shown from Feb. 9 to March 9, 1969.. Text includes map of Korea, general characteristics of Korean ceramics, prehistoric examples, the Three Kingdoms, United Silla, Koryo, and Yi Dynasty. Catalog includes 143 ittems each pictured in black and white with description. 60 pages.
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75.00 USD
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Rogers, Howard and Lee, Sherman E. Masterworks of Ming and Qing Painting from the Forbidden City
Lansdale, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Intl Arts Council 1988 0962106119 / 9780962106118 First Edition Soft Cover Fine Wraps, Very Good Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Crisp, beautiful copy. Very clean copy with protective plastic over wraps. Pages and page edges pristine. No names or writing. A showcase of fine art from the Palace Museum in Beijing's Forbidden City represenative of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Published to accompany an exhibit, the first collection of fine Chinese paintings ever to be brought to the United States from the People's Republic of China in honor of the 10th anniversay of full diplomatic relations between the U.S. and China. Much explanatory text. 208 pages. TWO LIKE COPIES AVAILABLE.
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14.95 USD
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Sugden, Philip; Echert, Carole Visions from the Fields of Merit: Drawings of Tibet and the Himalayas
Floating Temple Press 1999 0967250307 / 9780967250304 Limited Printing 241/2000 Soft Cover Very Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Sugden, Philip
Beautiful book, very clean and nice, with faint evidence of something having been erased on signature page. SIGNED by the artist, Philip Sugden, thus, " 241/2000 P. Sugden." Message from Dalai Lama at front with photo of Dalai Lama with Sugden and Echert at back. Book is a compilation of drawings and studio works resulting from eleven trips to Tibet and the Himalayas augmented by journal entries and a few color photos. Printed on exceptionally beautiful paper. Sugden lectures nationally on art and Tibetan culture.
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50.00 USD
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Tuyet Nguyet Arts of Asia Magazine (January-February 1975)
Kowloon, Hong Kong Arts of Asia Publications 1975 Soft Cover Very Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Very nice clean magazine -- large quarto porinted on glossy paper. Only fault is flat crease to upper front corner of cover. Beautifully photographed throughout in both black and white and color. Articles cover Chinese Cloisonne; Cloisonne and the T'ai Myth; the bronze drums of Laos; the Museum of the University of Santo Tomas; and the Daniells (Thomas and William) in India. 96 pages. Numerous other issues available from the 70's and 80's.
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