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Importante Vente D'Art Africain Collection a Et J-P Jernander Fourneau De Pipe Kuba Sifflet Suku Statuette Feminine Luba Rare Objet De Parure Hungaan Rare Masque Lula Etc 26/06/1996
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Cote D'Ivoire Premiers Regards Sur La Sculpture 1850-1935
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Introduction To American Indian Art To Accompany the First Exhibition Of American Indian Art Selected Entirely With Consideration Of Esthetic Value
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Primitive Art Books & Ephemera
Primitive Painters in America 1750-1950 An Anthology
by Lipman, Jean and Alice Winchester (Editors)
New York: Dodd Mead, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. crimson cloth. Very good in chipped dust wrapper. 182 pages. With four full-color illustrations and over seventy pages of black and white illustrations. Record of Primitive Painters. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER M502. "An anthology of essays by ten authors, most of which are devoted to a single artist." CHAMBERLAIN 1466. "A compilation of 20 essays by various authors, each devoted to one artist. Well illustrated." KARPEL I1823, I1910, I1938, I1972, I2030....
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NZ$76.60
Faces of the Amur.
[Leningrad?], [1979].
This unusual book was a birthday gift from colleges to archaeologist and ethnographer, full member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Alexey Okladnikov (1908-1981). He was an expert in the ancient cultures and history of Siberia, Far East and Mongolia. Okladnikov made numerous important discoveries, including the first Neanderthal remains in the USSR at Teshik Tash (Uzbekistan) and unique figurines at the Upper Palaeolithic site of Buret' in the Angara River basin (Eastern... Read more about this item
This unusual book was a birthday gift from colleges to archaeologist and ethnographer, full member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Alexey Okladnikov (1908-1981). He was an expert in the ancient cultures and history of Siberia, Far East and Mongolia. Okladnikov made numerous important discoveries, including the first Neanderthal remains in the USSR at Teshik Tash (Uzbekistan) and unique figurines at the Upper Palaeolithic site of Buret' in the Angara River basin (Eastern... Read more about this item
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NZ$765.99
African and Oceanic Art
by Trowell, Margaret and Hans Nevermann (Text)
New York: Abrams, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Very good. 263 pages. Voluminously illustrated with photographs in black and white and color, with a color map of the climatic zones of Africa. Examines African and Oceanic art, focusing on sculpture, masks, and figures. Bibliography.
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NZ$68.09
The Picture-Bible of Ludwig Denig A Pennyslvania German Emblem Book
by Yoder, Don (Editor)
New York: Hudson Hills, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Very good in near fine slipcase. 2 vols. 180 pages in text, Vol. I, and with illustrations in the text. Vol. II, plate volume in facsimile of Denig's bible -- sixty full-page, ink and watercolor plates, dated 1784, portrays biblical scenes and religious emblems and is accompanied by explanatory notes written in the everyday German of colonial Pennsylvania. Backstrip feet rubbed, otherwise fine.
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NZ$42.56
Miss Carter Came With Us
by Bradley, Helen
London: Jonathan Cape. 1975. Oblong Quarto Size [30x27cm approx]. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ has some mild wear to bottom corner of front panel & is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Wonderful colour illustrations in the Primitive Style by the author. 31 pages. Helen Bradley did not begin to paint seriously until she was in her sixties - and this was to show her small granddoughter what life was like when she was a child. Many of her paintings feature the character called...
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NZ$33.38
Henri Rousseau Portrait of a Primitive
by Alley, Ronald
Ware, Hertfordshire: Omega Books. 1984. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket. Dustjacket now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with colour and black & white reproductions. 80 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Hardback.
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NZ$27.82
Southwest Indian Craft Arts
by Tanner, Clara Lee
Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Orig.decorated blue cloth. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. 206 pages. Copiously illustrated in black and white and in color with photographs, drawings, and maps. Bibliography. Index. Baskets, Textiles,Pottery, Silver and Jewelry, Kachina Dolls and Carving, and Minor Crafts are covered. KARPEL A1038.
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NZ$68.09
Art in the Ice Age; Spanish Levant Art & Arctic Art
by Maringer, Johannes & Hans-Georg Bandi
New York: Praeger, 1953. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Very good. 167 pp. Illustrated with sixteen color plates, as well as 216 half-tones and line cuts. Translated by Robert Allen. Bibliography. Index. Chronological Table. Thebook is based on an idea of Professor Hugo Obermaier, the eminent expert on prehistoric art, and incorporates his approach and his discoveries.
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NZ$59.58
Ancient Arts Of The Andes
by Bennett, Wendell C
New York: MOMA, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Orig.gray cloth. Near fine in worn dust wrapper. 188 pages. 208 plates with six in color. Introduction by Rene D'Harnoncourt. Bibliography. Maps. A survey by a leading anthropologist who died prior to the volume'spublication.
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NZ$59.58
Ancient Art of The Andes
by Bennett, Wendell C
New York: MOMA, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated gray cloth. Very good in worn dust wrapper. 187 pages. Small 4to, 206 plates. Bibliography.
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NZ$34.04
And Miss Carter Wore Pink, Scenes From an Edwardian Childhood
by Bradley, Helen
London: Jonathan Cape. 1976. Oblong Quarto Size [30x27cm approx]. Very Good in Near Very Good Dustjacket. Age-toned DJ has some mild wear to bottom corner of front panel & is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Wonderful colour illustrations in the Primitive Style by the author. 31 pages. Helen Bradley did not begin to paint seriously until she was in her sixties - and this was to show her small granddoughter what life was like when she was a child. Many of her paintings feature the...
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NZ$33.38
Pig Parade
by Green, Jonathon (Quotes Compiled by)
London: Elm Tree Books. 1985. Oblong Octavo Size [approx 22.8 x 15.3cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with full page colour reproductions of various artists' work. 60 pages. Some of the works featuring pigs displayed by the Portal Gallery, specialists in naive, primitive and fantastic art, with appropriate quotes for each picture. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all...
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NZ$31.15
Primitive art.
by CHRISTENSEN Erwin O. -
New York, 1955, 4to tutta tela , pp. 384 con 348 fig. in tav. f.t.
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NZ$87.54
The Totem Pole Indians
by Wherry, Joseph H
New York: Wilfred Funk, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated boards and cloth. Fine. 152 pages. Profusely illustrated in black and white. Index of Northwest Coast Mythology. Index. Examines the history and traditions of the least known and studied of all theaboriginal peoples of North America -- the Indians of the Pacific Northwest Coast. KARPEL A660.
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NZ$68.09
African Art The Years Since 1920
by Mount, Marshall Ward
Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. two-toned cloth. Fine. 236 pages. One hundred plates, including three in color and a map of Africa. With Foreword by Paul S. Wingert. Surveys the development of sub-Saharan African art from the colonial period to the present. Glossary of Names. Bibliography. Index.
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NZ$51.07
Primitive Painters in America 1750-1950
by Jean Lipman and Alice Winchester
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1950. First edition, 1950. Rust-colored cloth, 182 pages, no dustjacket. Light shelfwear, mainly rubbing to the spine ends, good hinges, sound text block, rear endpapers toned from the clippings, pages generally clean with some of Snow's pencil notes. Collected essays by ten authoritative authors on the subject of American primitive painters, illustrated throughout in black and white plus a color frontis. Invidual artists discussed include: Eunice Pinney; Ruth...
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NZ$149.78
Africa's Vanishing Art
by Mary D. Leakey
1983 large format hardcover as pictured. Binding is firm. Dark gray cloth boards with gold stamping show light edge wear. Text is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is rubbed with tears and small chips along edges. Includes many b&w and color photographs and illustrations. Would be as good except for wear to DJ. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sAR
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NZ$54.47
'In the beginning' said Great-Aunt Jane
by Bradley, Helen
London: Jonathan Cape. 1975. Oblong Quarto Size [30x27cm approx]. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. Ag-toned DJ has some mild wear to bottom corner of front panel & is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Wonderful colour illustrations in the Primitive Style by the author. 32 pages. Helen Bradley did not begin to paint seriously until she was in her sixties - and this was to show her small granddoughter what life was like when she was a child. Many of her paintings feature the...
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NZ$33.38
Primitive Painters in America: 1750-1950, An Anthology
by Lipman, Jean; Winchester, Alice
New York, New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1971. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 9x6x0. No jacket. Ink stamp on front endpaper. 1971 Hard Cover. 182 pp. Includes illustrations. CONTENTS: Why American Primitives? Primitive Painters of the Eighteenth Century; Eunice Pinney; Ruth Henshaw Bascom; Edward Hicks; Mary Ann Willson; Rufus Porter; James Sanford Ellsworth; Erastus Salisbury Field; William Matthew Prior; Deborah Goldsmith; Joseph H. Davis; Thomas Chambers; Joseph Whiting Stock; James and John...
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NZ$17.02
