On the Art of Hunting: An Exceptional Set of Seven Tapestries, Inspired by "The Hunts of Maximilian"
Softcover. Pictorial wraps. Unpaginated. Numerous color plates. Text in French and English. More
Softcover. Pictorial wraps. Unpaginated. Numerous color plates. Text in French and English. More
Cuyahoga Falls, OH: N.L. Galvin, 1961, circa. Softbound. Patterned bw wraps with printed title. appx. 116 pp. Illustrated. This pattern book originally dates from the mid-1700s. A good reference, some translations provided. More
Totowa: Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications, 1979. Hardcover. Navy cloth. xi, 317 pp. + 95 bw plates. A complete history of textile making techniques, from ancient times to the present. More
Boston: Bulfinch Press, 1999. First North American Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth/boards; gilt lettering. Color-illustrated dj with black lettering on beige spine. 240 pp. with 778 illustrations, 551 in color. The history of the world can be read in textiles: the rise of civilizations and the fall of empires are woven..... More
London: B. T. Batsford, c. 1923. Hardcover. Red cloth, gilt lettering. xiv, 120 pp. 220+ color and bw plates. Provides comprehensive history of weaving techniques, developments, patterns, and materials. More
New York: Prestel, 1994. Softbound. Color illustrated wraps. 174 pp., profusely illustrated in color and bw. More
Tokyo, Japan: Gakken, 1979. Slipcased. Both volumes: Tan paper with green decoration/boards; maroon leather spine with gilt titling; La plante . . . 213 pp. with 2 gatefolds and 144 color plates; Les fleurs . . . 93 pp. with 2 gatefolds and 60 color plates. Both volumes houses together..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1929. Limited to 500 copies (sets), this being No. 30. Hardcover. Four volumes originally in four clamshell boxes with silver gilt Fleur design embossed on cover and spines. Each box with Title-page and explanatory text and index for the 50 mounted color plates in..... More
London: South Kensington Museum, 1882 - 1893. Purpose-made navy blue hardcover folio box with gold lettering on side; contents of 85 individual plates, titled and most with numbers; some plates are single-sheet, and some are double, folded in half; no text, as issued in original portfolios. Griggs invented the process..... More
Bern: Abegg-Stiftung, 1985. Softcover. Illus. wraps with white lettering; 121 pp. with bw and color illus.; map on rear end pages. includes a list of terminology; text in both German and French. More
Kobenhavn: Nordisk Forlag, 1950. Inscribed by the author. Hardcover. Original yellow card wraps with decoration and red lettering bound into green buckram library binding. 406 pp. with 450 bw figures (a few diagrams in red/black). Original yellow spine bound in at back. Extra booklet, "Etnografiske Bemaerkninger til Margrethe Hald: "Olddanske..... More
London: Thames and Hudson, 2003. Hardbound. Blue cloth with illus. dj; 255 pp. with 310 full-color illus. divided into 4 chronological sequences. More
Washington [D.C.]: Smithsonian Books, 2004. Softcover. Ilustrated wrap covers. 320 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps. Originally published: London : British Museum Press, 1993./ Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-311) and index. Contents: Survey of textile techniques / Jennifer Harris -- Mediterranean / Joan Allgrove McDowell -- Central and northern Europe..... More
New York: Abrams, 1993. Hardbound. Red cloth with gold lettering and illus. dj; 320 pp. with 425 illustrations, of which 327 are in full color;. includes useful maps. More
Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2009. Softbound. Color pictorial french flaps, 104pp, 47 color and 24 BW illustrations. From the publisher--The Diana tapestries are being shown to the public for the first time as a series of six in Rijksmuseum Maastricht. A publication by Ebeltje Hartkamp-Jonxis accompanies the exhibition. She examines the extent..... More
2001. Softcover. White wraps. 191 pp. Numeorus color plates. Text in Finnish, Swedish , and English. More
2001. Softcover. White wraps. 191 pp. Numeorus color plates. Text in Finnish, Swedish , and English. More
Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1964. `. First/Original Edition (1964); not a reprint or ebook. Paperback. Plain ivory wraps with color-illus. self-dust jacket. Bw lettering on spine. [3], bw map, 425 pp. with 137 bw images. Text in English. Copyright by The Norwegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities 1964. No. 14..... More
London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1926. Hardbound. Green embossed boards and tan cloth spine with black lettering. xxii 341, Well-illustrated in bw. A like-new copy of this book. From the library at Normandy Farm, once owned by the Strassburger Family in Blue Bell, PA. More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1918. limited (with no limitation given). Hardbound. Blue publishers illustrated cloth with embossed design and title on fron cover. xxii, 458 pp. with 27 color and 553 bw plates and illustration. "This limited edition has been printed from type and the type distributed."/ "The material..... More
Madrid, Spain: Fundacion Carlos de Amberes / Ediciones El Viso, 2011. Hardcover. Red & color illus. boards (looking & feeling like tapestry), 101 pp., many color illus., 4 fold-outs. Issued in conjunction with several 2011-2012 exhibitions of the Pastrana tapestries, "a series woven in Tournai (Flanders) in about 1470." (p..... More
London, England: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1970. Hardcover. Dark red cloth, red & BW illus. dust jacket, 134 pp. 158 bw plates. "In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Indian cotton-paintings or 'chintzers' shipped in vast quantities to Europe by the Dutch, English and French East India Companies not lonly..... More
London: L. Upcott Gill, 1900. Hardbound. Beige cloth with lace-theme spine area decoration and gold cobweb cover decoration and gold lettering; 245 pp. with 19 plates and over 200 engravings;. Subtitle reads: Dealing with the Origin of Lace, the Growth of the Great Lace Centres, the Mode of Manufacture, the..... More
Lausanne: Musee Cantonal des Beaux Arts, 1992. Softcover. Color-illus. black wraps with white lettering. 186 pp. with color illus. throughout. Text in French and English. With a preface and introductory essay. The catalogue features a small bw photo of each artist, very short biographic material, brief commentary about his/her work..... More
Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd., 1972. US Edition. Hardcover. Saddle cloth/boards. Dark brown dj with bw image and white lettering. Mylar cover. xvi + 312 pp. followed by 28 pp. bw illustrations. With contributions by 17 different authors of a symposium on aspects in the development of the wool..... More