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New York: New York Univ. Press, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. vermillion cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 218 pages. 26 x 20 cm. 220 illustrations. Index. A discussion of sculpture executed for the adornment of architecture during the "Golden Age.

New York: Abrams, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Fine in very good dust wrapper. 315 pages. 30 x 24 cm. 174 plates in color and black and white. Bibliography. Index. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER I62. "A comprehensive, authoritative survey of pre-Hittite and Hittite art up to c.760 BC. Superb plates.

New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth. Very good in chipped dust wrapper. 221 pages. 125 figures in the text. Extensive Bibliography. General Index. Museum Index. Primary stress has been given the vases in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The author includes new material from that of her two-volume catalogue, "Red Figured Athenian Vases in the Metropolitan Museum," published in 1936. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER M70. "A basic, chronological survey of Attic red-figured vases." LUCAS p21.

Paris: P-M. Lamy, 1778. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary mottled calf, covers rehinged. Very good. 8 & 10 pages in text. 22 x 17 cm. Engraved frontispieces, 283 plates. An antiquary of Flemish descent, his early interest in gem collecting as part of his cabinet of curiosities eventually spawned interest in Greco-Roman intaglio gems; his collection purchased in 1609 on behalf of Henry, Prince of Wales -- with more than a representative sampling of specimens here. His first work, "Dactiliotheca," published 1609. BRUNET Vol. II, p.1671. Index of plates in each volume, generally clean, wide margined plate pages, book label and small ownership inscription dated 1857 of same individual, corner wear, raised bands, leather spine label, spine compartments decorated in blind.

Baltimore: Princeton Univ. Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brick red cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 260 pages. 30.5 x 23.5 cm. Illustrated in color and black and white. Bright, very fresh copy/.

Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1978. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Very Good. 2 vols.. 221 pages. 29 x 21 cm. Copiously ilustrated in black and white. Bibliography.