Oriental Arts from Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA

Boston: A New York Graphic Society / Little, Brown and Company 1986. 4to. First Edition. 216 pp. Grey hardback with gilt lettering to boards and spine in colour illustrated jacket, within a colour illustrated slipcase. All clean and bright, in near fine condition inside and out. Handsomely produced book, very good colour photography: with 181 colour illustrations and 2 maps.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Essex: Scorpion Publishing 1994. 4to. First Edition. 303 pp. Hardcover in a colour illustrated jacket, not price clipped. Jacket minor yellowed and creased at edges. Slight wear to front board bottom corner. Internally clean. With colour and black & white illustrations throughout. Analysis and art historical study of the Persian myths and legends woven into rugs and carpets by villagers… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Sotheby Publications 1984. Large 4to. First Edition. 280 pp. Publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine in pictorial dust jacket. Minor curl to jacket edge, but clean. Boards clean. Internally fresh and clean, spotting to top edge. With 308 illustrations, including 111 in colour. This is a heavy item and may require additional postage if being shipped outside… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Dryad Press Limited 1987. Large 4to. 192 pp. Hardback in an illustrated jacket. Minor curl to jacket edge. Boards clean, internally clean. Illustrated in colour throughout. A history of shawls from the wife of anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss. 0852197594 . Very Good. Hardcover. 1987.

Paris: Imprimerie nationale 1985. 4to. French language. 383 pp. Blue boards with tipped on colour illustration and gilt lettering to spine. All in fine condition, clean and bright. French translation of the Bāburnāma, the memoirs of the founder of the Mughal Empire that would rule northern India for centuries. Illustrated throughout in colour and balck & white. . Near Fine.… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Thames and Hudson 1996. Square 4to.Illustrated. 315 pp. Blue cloth binding with pictorial jacket. Jacket fresh and bright. Boards clean and internally fresh. Illustrated with 158 colour photographs. This is a heavy item and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. 0500017115 . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1996.

London: The British Museum Press 2009. Square 4to.Exhibition Catalogue. Uncommon. xiii, 337 pp. Red hardback in colour illustrated jacket. All in fine condition. Full-colour illustrations throughout. Published to accompany the exhibition at the British Museum in London in 2009. Uncommon in hardback. This is a heavy item and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. 9780500514436 .… Saber más sobre este artículo

Beijing: Chinese bookstores 2000. Square 4to.Facsimile. Unpaginated. Text in Chinese and English. Leaves folded in continuous concertina style with two hardcover boards and patterned slipcase. Slight staining to the bottom edge of the slipcase. Some rubbing to the edges of the boards. internally clean, occasional minor rubbing to the folds. Beautiful facsimile of a Chinese scroll, depicting the Flourishing City… Saber más sobre este artículo

China: ca. 1900. 8vo.Illustrated. English and Chinese language. Unpaginated. Wooden boards with green painted Chinese character design in an early 20th century accordion-style binding. Front board slightly bowed and marked; internally clean. Ten ink printed and then hand-coloured paintings on silk, mounted on paper. A beautiful book . Very Good. Wooden Boards. 1900.

New York & Tokyo: Weatherhill 1978. 4to. 282 pp. Hardback with gilt device to board and gilt lettering to spine. Minimal marking to spine; all in near fine condition. Illustrated with 14 colour plates and 135 halftone plates. Second volume of Cahill's prospective series 'A History of Later Chinese Painting, 1279-1950'. 0834801205 . Near Fine. Hard Cover. First Edition. 1976.… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Thames & Hudson 1998. Oblong 4to.Illustrated. 161 pp., Hardcover with pictorial jacket. Jacket clean in protective cover. Some bumping to the spine ends and slight lean to binding. A clean and bright copy, illustrated throughout in colour. 9780500974568 . Very Good. Hardcover. 1998.

Oxford: Ashmolean Museum 2007. 8vo.Illustrated. xv, 159 pp. Illustrated softcovers. 127 Chinese prints and chronology of modern Chinese printmaking. Softcovers slightly creased. Clean inside and out. 1854442287 . Very Good. Softcover. 2007.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts 1857. Small 8vo. xv, 418; v, 422 pp. Blue pebble cloth binding, all edges gilt. Minor darkening to the spine and rubbing to the edges, otherwise bright. Owners name in ink and portrait of Burton pasted to the front endpapers of the first volume, with book plates to both volumes. Minor occasional spotting… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Asia Society Galleries 1989. Square 4to. 381, [xvii] pp. White cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and gilt decoration on the front board. Book in excellent condition, dust jacket has some marks on the back. Illustrated with a mix of both black and white and colour photographs. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1989.

Corning, NY: The Corning Museum of Glass 2010 / 2014. 4to. Volume One and Volume Two. Hardbacks in dust jackets. In As New condition. Still in shrinkwrap. This is a heavy set and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. 9781555953553 . As New. Hardcover. 2010.

London, United Kingdom: Robert G. Sawers Publishing 1970. 4to. 2 vols 567 pp, illustrated in colour and b/w in a split slipcase. 0903697025 . Very Good. Hardcover. 1970.

Tokyo: Kodansha Publishers 1962. 4to. 94 pp. Publisher's full buckram in dust wrapper. Jacket chipped & edgeworn. Internally clean. With 35 full-page colour and b&w plates. . Very Good. Buckram. 1962.

Paris: Editions du Regard 1986. 4to. 324 pp. Hardback in dust jacket. Jacket slightly edgeworn. Boards clean. Internally clean. Colour photography throughout. Text in French. 2903370303 . Very Good. Hardcover. 1986.

Wien / Vienna & New York: Springer-Verlag 2000. Large 4to. 200 pages, 157 beautiful illustrations. In the original card box. Still shrinkwrapped. The Indian temple styles are combined with traditional Chinese architectural forms in the Buddhist buildings of China, to provide an impressive symbiosis of cultures. With the spread and integration of Buddhism with Confucianism, devotional buildings underwent an evolution.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Wien / Vienna & New York: Springer-Verlag 2000. Large 4to. 184 pages, 130 beautiful illustrations. In the original card box. Stll shrinkwrapped. The traditional villages are familiar primarily as a popularmotif in Chinese literature. Now they are to be shown in their full astonishing variety for the first time. The range of colours and forms of vernacular dwellings in China… Saber más sobre este artículo