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PAGLIA, Camille.:  SEXUAL PERSONAE - Art and decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickenson
Book Number: 3358
Penguin Books, 1991 paperback in fair condition. 720pp. 8vo.
Keywords: botticelli, byron, balzac, beach boys
Price: $15.00
Yciar, Juan de:  Arte subtilissima
Book Number: 3384
oxford 1960 A facsimile of the 1550 edition of Arte subtilissima. With a translation by Evelyn Shuckburgh and an introduction by Reynolds Stone. Original maroon cloth. Reprint of 1958 lion and unicorn press editon which was limited to 200 copies.
Keywords: art calligraphy books on books art engraving
Price: $80.00
HAWLEY, H.:  Faberge and His Contemporaries - The India Early Minshall collection of the Cleveland museum of Art
Book Number: 3442
The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967 141pp, 7 tipped in colour plates and numerous b&w plates. This book is a catalogue of the India Early
Keywords: Minshall Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art and includes items by other St. Petersburg Makers and Faberge's Moscow Branch.
Price: $30.00
Cellini:  THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENVENUTO CELLINI
Book Number: 3536
Folio London: Folio Society, 1970 third reprint. 351pp. Plus 17 full page plates. Near fine.
Keywords: sculpture italian cellini
Price: $28.00
TURNBULL, Clive.:  ART HERE.
Book Number: 3578
Melbourne. Hawthorn Press. 1st ed. 1947.  38pp. b/w frontis, and eight b/w illus. d/w. po name on ffl. very good. What is Art? The author looks at Australian art from Louis Buvelot to Sidney Nolan. Notes, Illustrations.
Keywords: australia art, What is Art, Springtime, decline and Variations, Art Today,
Price: $25.00
BURGESS, ANTHONY:  On Going to Bed
Book Number: 3587
Andre Deutsch London, 1982 illustrated in colour with bed-details from paintings of some of the great artists. 96pp. Small quarto. Cloth. Colour plates.
Keywords: Exploration of beds, bed accessories and 'bed-lore'
Price: $18.00
BARROW, Terence.:  THE ART OF TAHITI. and the neighbouring Society, Austral and Cook Islands.
Book Number: 3596
Thames and Hudson. London. 1979. First Edition 93, bibliogaphy, index; 48 colour and 50 b/w illustrations. pictorial cardcover; fine condition.
Keywords: cooking utensils, hunting weapons, fishing, clothing, wood carving, carved woodem figures, mythology, legend.
Price: $30.00
[Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de] Huisman, Philippe and M.G. Dortu:  Toulouse-Lautrec
Book Number: 3634
 London Thames and Hudson. Oversize plastic boards. 95pp. Illust. Colour & b/w. very good with a sunmark across front cover. Light foxing to endpapers
Keywords: art Toulouse-Lautrec french france
Price: $25.00
AYERS J:  English Naïve Painting 1750-1900
Book Number: 3656
 1980 UK Thames & Hudson, 4to. 168pp. Illust. Colour & b/w. Very good, (very light foxing to edges, previous owners inscription on fly). Good d/w.
Keywords: art niave painting English
Price: $33.00
BLISS (Douglas Percy):  The Devil in Scotland, being four great Scottish stories of diablerie along with an introductory essay and thirty-nine original wood engravings
Book Number: 3679
London: Alexander Maclehose, 1934 cloth in d/w with spine missing, rough cut pages, light foxing. 8vo, [vi]+108p. 39 original wood engravings by Bliss, Bliss's vibrant wood-engravings provide darkly and amusing set of illustrations.
Keywords: Burns Tam O'Shanter, Scott Wandering Willie's Tale, and Stevenson Thrawn Janet and The Tale of Tod Lapraik, preceded by an essay: The Devil and his Folk in Scottish Life and Literature.
Price: $66.00

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