Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1958. Illustrated in color & in black & white. 67 pages. 8vo, spiral bound stiff wrappers, wrappers lightly soiled, otherwise very good. Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1972. More about A Handbook on Chinese Art Symbols
Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1958. Illustrated in color & in black & white. 67 pages. Slim 8vo, gray boards with red-stamped cover. Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1972. A fine copy. More about A Handbook on Chinese Art Symbols
New York: Weatherhill, 1973. Translated, annotated, and illustrated by Elaine Spaulding Atwood. Foreword by Arthur W. Hummel. 152 pages, small 4to, decorative red cloth, dust wrapper (dust wrapper rubbed and with some soiling to back panel). New York: Weatherhill, (1973). First English edition. A fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. More about The Five Happinesses: Symbolism in Chinese Popular Art
Paris: Robert Laffont, 1969. Text in French. In text illustrations in black and white. 844 pages, very thick 4to, olive cloth, dust wrapper (very light edgewear). Paris: Robert Laffont, (1969). A fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper. More about Dictionnaire des Symboles: Mythes, Reves, Coutumes, Gestes, Formes, Figures, Couleurs, Nombres
New York: Helblun, 1949. 181pp., many black & white and spot color illustrations. 4to, two-toned cloth (spine slightly darkened, else fine), slipcase. New York: William Helburn, 1949. Limited Edition. Very good (+). An un-numbered copy from an edition of 750. More about Anthology of Pattern
New York: Putnam, 1969. Translated from the German. Illustrated. 613 pages, small 4to, yellow cloth, d.w. New York: Putnam, (1969). Third Edition Revised. A very good (+) copy in a very good dust wrapper. More about Sign, Symbol and Script.; An Account of Man's Efforts to Write
New York: Braziller, 1975. Illus. by the author. 8vo, black cloth, d.w., spine ends of cloth are faded. New York: George Braziller, 1975. A very good copy, with ownership signature of Mildred Schmertz, who was the editor-in-chief of Architectural Record. More about Architecture, Mysticism and Myth
Middleton: Wesleyan University, 1966. More than 250 black-and-white illsutrations. xxxi + 482pp., thick 4to, cloth-backed pictorial boards; a few spots of wear along the edges. Middleton: Wesleyan University Press, (1966). First edition. Internally fine, a very good copy. More about Graven Images: New England Stonecarvings and its Symbols, 1650-1815
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1898. 19 volumes, title-pages with decorative red borders. 8vo. Publisher's deluxe binding, gold-decorated full blue crushed morocco, ornately gilt spines and covers, full finely tooled burgundy leather inside all covers, top edge gilt, deckled fore - and bottom edges. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company 1898-1918. Near Fine. Autograph Edition limited to 150 copies. Volume 1 signed by Maeterlinck on blank leaf. Previous owners bookplates, More about Works
London: Thames & Hudson, 1977. With 111 illustrations in black and white. 144 pages slim small 4to. London: Thames & Hudson, 1977. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. With the ownership signature of Mildred Schmertz, editor in chief the the Architectural Review. More about Psychology of the House
London: Williams and Norgate, 1881. Volume I: Egyptian Origines ib the British Isles, viii + 503 pages & Volume 2: Rgyptian Origones in the Hebrew, Akkado-Assyrian and Maorin vi + 684 pages. 4to, rust cloth with decorative borders; corners bumped, minor spots on rear cover. London: Williams and Norgate, 1881. A very good copy. More about A Book of the Beginnings. Containing An Attempt To Recover And Reconstitute The Lost Origines Of...
New York: Hacker Art Books, 1986. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs. 263 pages, tall 8vo, pictorial gray cloth. New York: Hacker Art Books, 1986. Near fine. More about Symbolism in Ancient Chinese Art
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1936. Folding table as frontispiece, and illustrated with many b/w figures, a few with red spot coloring. 117 + 2 pages of ads. 12mo, original red-lettered boards with red cloth spine and paper label. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1936. First edition. A near fine copy of this scarce and important book. Psyche Miniatures, General Series No. 83. 'The Austrian economist, Otto Neurath working at the Vienna Social and Economic Museum... More about International Picture Language: The First Rules of Isotype; Psyche Miniatures, General Series No. 83
New York: Garland, 1976. Illustrated a rear with b/w images. 291 pages. 8vo, blue cloth (lightly rubbed at spine ends). New York: Garland Publishing, 1976. College ownership information of Nan Rosenthal who went on to become curator of Modern art at the Metropolitan Museum and the National Gallery. Reprint of the famous dissertation. Very scarce. Garland Series: Outstanding Dissertations in the Fine Arts. More about Occult Symbolism in France: Josephin Peladan and the Salons de la Rose-Croix
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. Illustrated. Small 4to, pictorial wrappers. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, (1979). Fine. Presentation copy to art historian Meyer Schapiro- "40 years ago you....gave excellent advice to a recent and destitute immigrant from Vienna which enabled him to establish a little niche in America. All this has not been forgotten..." More about Musical Instruments and Their Symbolism in Western Art
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