Sims Reed Rare Books

Ceramics, Glass, Metal & Woodwork


ALCOUFFE, Daniel, Anne Dion-Tenenbaum & Gérard Mabille.

Les bronzes d'ameublement du Louvre.

Dijon. Faton. 2004. 4to. pp. 322. Colour plates throughout. Cloth, dust jacket, slipcase.

164 examples from the collection illustrated in colour and catalogued with historical and descriptive entries.

£140
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ref: 37379

ALLAN, James W.

Nishapur: Metalwork of the Early Islamic Period.

New York. 1982. 28.5 x 22cm. pp. 120. 209 illustrations, map. Cloth. Fine.

A catalogue of the silver, bronze, lead & iron finds, mainly personal & household objects, from the medieval town of Nishapur.

£54
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ref: 37892

BARRADAS, Jose Perez de.

Orfebreria Prehispanica de Colombia. Estilo Tolima y Muisca.

Madrid. 1958. 4to. 2 vols. pp. xv, 385; 20. Plate volume with 287 fine black-and-white photographic plates; text volume with 10 colour plates & 145 illustrations. Publisher's cloth.

Well-illustrated study of Pre-Hispanic Columbian bronze and other metallic ornaments and jewellery drawn from the collection of the Museo del Oro del Banco de la Republica in Bogota. Examines each of the decorative forms in detail.

£45
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BAUER, Ingolf.

Treuchtlinger Geschirr.

Munich. 1971. 8vo. pp. 198. About 100 illustrations, a fold-out map and diagrams in the text. Cloth, dust jacket. Ex library, tape marks on the cloth binding, labels, one stamp.

97 pieces illustrated and catalogued.

£15
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BERLIN PORCELAIN. Lenz, Georg.

Berliner Porzellan die Manufaktur Friedrichs des Grossen 1763-1786.

Berlin. Hobbing. 1913. 2 vols. Folio. pp. 78, 44 . 162 plates in colour and monochrome printed on rectos only, each with a leaf of text. Original morocco-backed cloth, minor rubbing on hinges, otherwise a fine copy. With the engraved book plate of Karl Bittner.

£1,200
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ref: 38078

BLAETTLER, Roland (editor).

Paques Imperiales. Les oeufs en porcelaine de l'Ermitage de Saint-Pétersburg. Imperial Eggs. Porcelain eggs from the Hermitage Miseum.

Geneva. Musées d'Art et d'histoire. 1996. Large 8vo. pp. 232. All but a handfull of the 177 exhibits illustrated ib colour or duo-tone. Hardbound, dust jacket.

Catalogue of the Geneva exhibition.

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ref: 33580

BOCK, Dr. Franz.

Die Kleinodien des Heil-Romischen Reiches Deutscher Nation nebst den Kroninsignien Bohmens Ungarns und der Lombardei.

Vienna. Aus der Kaiserlich-Koniglichen Hof-und Staatsdruckerei. 1864. 2 vols. folio. (text and ... (more)


A finely produced record of sacred objects, textiles, swords and decorative panels.

£1,600
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ref: 39896

BOUCHARDON, Edme.

Premier (Second) livre de vases.

Paris. Huquier. (c.1735). Folio. 24 etched plates including two titles, in two suites lettered A ... (more)

Series of urns (etched by G. Huquier) of relatively simple basic shape usually with one complex ... (more)

£2,250
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ref: 19501

BULGARI, Costantino

Argentieri Gemmari e Orafi d'Italia. Partie prima - Roma. [vol. 2 only].

Rome. Fratelli Palombi. 1980 4to. pp. 633. 34 colour and monochrome plates; drawings and hundreds of makers' marks reproduced in the text. Cloth, dust jacket.

The reprint of the second volume only of Part One of this authoritative work which includes ... (more)

£120
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BURLINGTON FINE ARTS CLUB Higgins, Alfred (Introduction).

Catalogue of a Collection of European Enamels, from the Earliest date to the End of the XVII. Century.

London. Burlington Fine Arts Club. 1897. Folio. xxxi, 82 pp. Folded frontispiece & 72 colour & monochrome plates, printed on rectos only, each with its own guardleaf. Cloth, spine faded, with staining to covers. Internally fine.

£25
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ref: 38210

CASEY, Andrew.

Art Deco Ceramics in Britain.

Woodbridge. Antique Collecrors' Club. 2008. 28 x 23cm. pp. 264. Colour illustrations throughout. Hardback in dust jacket. New.

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ref: 37913

CASEY, Andrew.

Art Deco Ceramics in Britain.

Woodbridge. Antique Collecrors' Club. 2008. 28 x 23cm. pp. 264. Colour illustrations throughout. Hardback in dust jacket. New.

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CASEY, Andrew.

Art Deco Ceramics in Britain.

Woodbridge. Antique Collecrors' Club. 2008. 28 x 23cm. pp. 264. Colour illustrations throughout. Hardback in dust jacket. New.

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ref: 37915

CASIMIR-LEFEBVRE.

Peinture sur porcelaine. Decoration et impression de toutes les couleurs d'un ... (more)

Paris. Desloges. 1858. 8vo. pp. 64. Wrappers, lacking rear wrapper.

£65
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COOKWORTHY

Memoir of William Cookworthy formerly of Plymouth, Devonshire. By his Grandson.

London. William and Frederick G. Cash 1854. 8vo. pp. 208; [4 - publisher's ads.] A few diagrams in the text. Publisher's embossed cloth, spine faded and worn at top and base. Marginal tears in 2 leaves; otherwise a very good copy.

A previous owner has drawn part of the Cookworthy family tree on the front endpapers. Cookworthy ... (more)

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Applied Arts
Applied Arts

The Applied Arts section houses an array of titles on design, craftsmanship and manufacturing. All areas and periods of the applied arts are covered. As well as a good stock of reference books on the subject, we hold many rare and original design books by leading artists, furniture-makers, and ornamentalists.