Decorative Arts, Photography: Catalogs, Monographs, Coffee-Table Books, including a rare collection dedicated to Henri Cartier-Bresson

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Decorative Arts, Photography: Catalogs, Monographs, Coffee-Table Books, including a rare collection dedicated to Henri Cartier-Bresson

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1 - "The Decorative Arts from 1790 to 1850" - Léon de Groër - Chêne, Paris - 1985

2 - "Great French Scenes, 1650–1800: Reconstructed in England, the United States, South America, and France" — Bruno Pons — Éditions Faton, Dijon — 1995

3 - "Styles, Furniture, and Decor from the Middle Ages to the Present" (Volume I: From the Middle Ages to the Louis XV Period) — edited by Pierre Verlet — Librairie Larousse, Paris — 1972

4 - "Interior Architecture and Decoration in France from Its Origins to 1875" - Jean Feray - Berger-Levrault / National Fund for Historic Monuments and Sites, Paris - 1988

5 - "The Great Illustrated Encyclopedia of Furniture: A History of Furniture from Ancient Egypt to the 20th Century" - Helena Hayward (and others) - Éditions Princesse, Paris - 1980

6 - 2 vols.: "Bibliography of Furniture (French Civil Furniture)" - Jacqueline Viaux - Society of Friends of the Forney Library, Paris - 1966 / "Bibliography of Furniture (French Civil Furniture): Supplement 1965–1985" - Jacqueline Viaux - Paris Cultural Agency, Paris - 1988

7 - 2 vols.: "Styles, Furniture, and Decor from the Middle Ages to the Present" (Volumes I and II: From the Middle Ages to the Louis XV Period; From the Louis XVI Period to the Present) — edited by Pierre Verlet — Librairie Larousse, Paris — 1972

8 - "Architectural Antiques" - Alan Robertson (photographs by Douglas Unwin) - Chronicle Books, San Francisco - 1987

10 - "The Furniture of the Carnavalet Museum" - Anne Forray-Carlier (foreword by Jacques Garcia, photographs by Jean-Yves and Nicolas Dubois) - Éditions Faton, Dijon - 2000

11 - "The Splendor of Russian Furniture, 1780–1840" — Antoine Chenevière (in collaboration with Emmanuel Ducamp) — Flammarion, Paris — 1989

12 - 2 vols.: "Furniture 1: Prehistoric through Rococo" - Robert Bishop & Patricia Coblentz - Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York - 1979 / "Furniture 2: Neoclassical to the Present" - William C. Ketchum Jr. - Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York - 1981

13 - "18th-Century Cabinetmakers: Their Works and Marks" - Count François de Salverte - F. de Nobele, Paris - 1985

14 - "The Art and Craft of the French Master Cabinetmakers of the 18th Century" (Volume II) - Jean Nicolay - no publisher, no place - no date

15 - "Parisian Cabinetmakers (1795–1830): Their Works and Marks" — Denise Ledoux-Lebard — Librairie Gründ, Paris — n.d.

16 - "The French Headquarters" - Madeleine Jarry (photos by Pierre Devinoy) - Office du Livre, Fribourg - 1973

17 - "The Art of the Chair in 18th-Century France" - Bill G. B. Pallot (preface by Svend Eriksen, foreword by Karl Lagerfeld) - ACR-Gismondi Éditeurs, Courbevoie - 1987

18 - "Stylistic Analyses and Attempts at Attribution of Anonymous 18th-Century French Furniture" - André Boutemy - University of Brussels Press, Brussels - 1973

19 - "The Art and Craft of 18th-Century French Master Cabinetmakers" (Volume I: "Truquages": How to Recognize the Authenticity of Antique Furniture) - Jean Nicolay - Éditions Pygmalion, Paris - n.d.

20 - "A Gothic Treasure: The Reliquary of Nivelles" - Exhibition catalog (Cologne, Schnütgen Museum, November 24, 1995–February 11, 1996; Paris, Musée national du Moyen Âge–Thermes de Cluny, March 12–June 10, 1996) – Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris – 1995

21 - "Il mobile romano" - Goffredo Lizzani (foreword by Mario Praz, introduction by Alvar González-Palacios) - Görlich Editore, Milan - 1970

22 - "18th-Century French Furniture" - Pierre Verlet - Presses universitaires de France, Paris - 1982

23 - "From Versailles to Paris: The Fate of the Royal Collections" - Jacques Charles (ed.) - Panthéon Cultural Center / City Hall of the 5th Arrondissement, Paris - 1989

24 - "Collections of Louis XIV: Drawings, Albums, Manuscripts" - Exhibition Catalog (Orangerie des Tuileries, October 7, 1977 – January 9, 1978) - Éditions des musées nationaux, Paris - 1977

25 - 2 vols.: "Louis XVI Furniture" - Francis J. B. Watson - Les Beaux-Arts, Éditions d'études et de documents, Paris (L'Art français series) - 1963 / "Famous Collections of Artworks Drawn and Engraved from the Originals" - Édouard Lièvre - Goupil & Cie, Paris - 1866

26 - "French Royal Furniture: Crown Furniture Preserved in France" (Volume I) - Pierre Verlet - Les Éditions d'art et d'histoire, Paris - 1945

27 - "French Royal Furniture: Crown Furniture Preserved in France, with a Study of the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne" (Volume II) - Pierre Verlet - Éditions d'histoire et d'art / Librairie Plon, Paris (Ars et historia series) - 1955

28 - "French Royal Furniture I: Crown Furniture Preserved in France" - Pierre Verlet - Picard, Paris - 1990 (2nd ed.)

30 - "The 18th-Century Home in France: Society, Decoration, and Furniture" - Pierre Verlet - Baschet et Cie, Paris - 1966

31 - "Furniture from Upper Normandy: From Its Origins to 1700" - Daniel Lavallée - Éditions Bertout, Luneray - 1990

32 - "Furniture in Belgium, 1500–1800 / Meubelkunst in België / Belgian Furniture" — Thibaut Wolvesperges — Éditions Racine, Brussels — 2000

34 - "Domestic Civil Objects: Vocabulary" (Principles of Scientific Analysis) - General Inventory of France's Monuments and Artistic Treasures - Imprimerie nationale, Paris - 1984

35 - "The Tin Mines: From Their Origins to the Early 19th Century" - Philippe Boucaud and Claude Frégnac - Office du Livre, Fribourg - 1978

36 - "Pharmacy Jars from Around the World: Pharmaceutical Earthenware and Porcelain, 1150–1850" — Rudolf Drey (trans. Anne Durand) — Vilo / La Porte verte, Paris — 1984

37 - "Kitchen Brassware" - Jean-Claude Renard (in collaboration with François Zabaleta; photographs by Henri-Alain Ségalen) - Les Éditions de l'Amateur, Paris - 1997

38 - "Keys" - Gabriele Mandel - Ars Mundi, Paris - 1992

39 - "600 Collectible Corkscrews" - Bernard M. Watney and Homer D. Babbidge - Edita, Lausanne - 1993 (revised edition)

40 - "The Tobacco Grater" - Exhibition Catalog (Saint-Omer, Musée de l'Hôtel Sandelin, November 10–December 30, 1984) - n.p. - 1984

41 - "Éventails" - Françoise de Perthuis and Vincent Meylan - Hermé, Paris - 1989

42 - "French Styles: Curtains and Draperies" - [René Briat] - Baschet et Cie, Paris - n.d.

43 - "Arabesque Wallpapers of the Late 18th Century" - Bernard Jacqué (ed.), with a foreword by Alain Gruber - Éditions de la Martinière, Paris / Musée du Papier Peint, Rixheim - 1995

45 - "Goldsmithing and Jewelry" - The French Tradition series, edited by André Lejard - Éditions du Chêne, Paris - 1942

46 - "The Treasures of Portuguese Goldsmithing" - Exhibition Catalog (Paris, Musée des Arts décoratifs, November 1954–January 1955) - Les Presses Artistiques, Paris - 1955

47 - "Ornamenta Ecclesiae: Art and Artists of the Romanesque," vol. 3—Anton Legner (ed.)—Exhibition catalog (Cologne, Schnütgen Museum, Josef Haubrich Art Gallery)—Cologne—1985

48 - "The Treasure of St. Mark's in Venice" - Exhibition catalog (Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais) - Olivetti, Milan - 1984 (dedications - see photos)

49 - "The Treasury of Basel Cathedral" - Timothy Husband, with Julien Chapuis - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York / Yale University Press, New Haven - 2001

50 - "Artistic Copperwork: A Catalog of Medieval Un-Enameled Copper Works from Public Collections in the Limousin" - Véronique Notin, with Bernadette Barrière - Exhibition catalog (Limoges, Musée de l’Évêché – Musée de l’Émail) - “Trésors du Limousin” series - Limoges - 1996

51 - "New Acquisitions of the Department of Decorative Arts, 1985–1989" — Exhibition Catalog (Paris, Musée du Louvre) — Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris — 1990

52 - "Treasures of Ireland: Irish Art 3000 B.C.–1500 A.D."—Michael Ryan (ed.)—Royal Irish Academy, Dublin—1983

53 - "The Spezieria di San Benedetto in Montefiascone: From the Collections of Palazzo Venezia in Rome" - Maria Selene Sconci and Romualdo Luzi - Belriguardo, n.p. - 1994

54 - "Copper & Bronze" - Onno ter Kuile - Rijksmuseum Amsterdam / Staatsuitgeverij, The Hague - 1986

55 - "Silver Flatware: English, Irish, and Scottish, 1660–1980" — Ian Pickford — Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge — 1983

56 - "The Price Guide to Antique Silver" - Peter Waldron - Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge - 1982 (2nd ed.)

57 - "The Victorian Catalogue of Household Goods: A Complete Compendium of Over Five Thousand Items to Furnish and Decorate the Victorian Home"—introduction by Dorothy Bosomworth—Studio Editions, London—1991

58 - "Gold and Silver from the Hermitage" - Alfons Egli (ed.) - Exhibition catalog (Lugano, Villa Favorita, 1986) - Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection / Electa International, s.l. - 1986

59 - "Ori e tesori d'Europa: A Thousand Years of Goldsmithing in Friuli-Venezia Giulia" - Giuseppe Bergamini (ed.) - Exhibition catalog - Electa, Milan - 1992

60 - "Les ivoires" - Philippe Delaune - Jacques Grancher, Paris - 1987

61 - "Stained Glass: Legends of Light" - Sophie Martineaud, photographs by Michel Maliarevsky - Flammarion, Paris - 2001

62 - "French Stained Glass"—under the general direction of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris; Marcel Aubert, André Chastel, Louis Grodecki, Jean-Jacques Gruber, Jean Lafond, François Mathey, Jean Taralon, Jean Verrier—Éditions des Deux Mondes, Paris—1958

64 - "The Limoges Workshop: Medieval Limousin Enamels" - Exhibition catalog (Paris, Louvre Museum, October 23, 1995 – January 22, 1996; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 4–June 16, 1996) — Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris — 1995

65 - "Selected Works: Early German Porcelain, French Furniture, Art, and Interiors. Masterpieces from the Höchst Faience and Porcelain Manufactory of the Electorate of Mainz" (catalog) - Röbbig, Munich - 2005

66 - "Period Rooms in the Metropolitan Museum of Art"—Amelia Peck, James Parker, William Rieder, Olga Raggio, et al.; photographs by Karin L. Willis—The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Harry N. Abrams, New York—1996

67 - "Maritime Ex-Votos Around the World: From Antiquity to the Present" - Musée de la Marine / CNRS / Association for the Preservation and Study of Maritime and River Ex-Votos - Musée de la Marine, Palais de Chaillot, Paris - 1981

68 - "Mediterranean Seafarers' Ex-Votos" - Exhibition catalog (Collioure, Royal Castle, May–July 1978; Antibes, August–October 1978; Marseille, Vieille Charité, October 1978–January 1979) – n.p. – 1978

69 - "Images of Power: Ceramic Floor Tiles in France from the 13th to the 17th Century" - Exhibition catalog (Bourg-en-Bresse, Musée de Brou, June 24–September 24, 2000) — edited by Jean Rosen and Thierry Crépin-Leblond — Réunion des musées nationaux / Musée de Brou, Paris - 2000

70 - "The Opera House by Charles Garnier: Architecture and Interior Design" - Gérard Fontaine; photographs by Jean-Pierre Delagarde and Jacques Moatti - Éditions du patrimoine (Monum series), Paris - 2004

71 - "When Orpheus Sang: An Ancient Bestiary" - Debra Noël Adams, Emma C. Bunker, Trudy Kawami, Robert Morkot, Dalia Tawil - Geuthner, Paris - 2004 (signed copy - see photos)

72 - "The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale" - Christopher Gilbert - Studio Vista / Christie's, London - 1978

73 - "The Davide Halevim Collection"—with contributions by Nello Forti Grazzini, Alberto Levi, Titta Pasinetti, Patrizia Piro, and Vittorio Sgarbi; English translation by Judith Landry—Franco Maria Ricci, Milan—2001

74 - "Perrin" (catalog) - Perrin Antiques - Perrin, Paris - n.d.

75 - "Sculptures and Precious Works of Art from the 6th to the 16th Century" (catalog) - Brimo de Laroussilhe; catalog compiled by Étienne Bertrand - Brimo de Laroussilhe, Paris - 1992

76 - "Pietre Dure and the Art of Florentine Inlay" - Annamaria Giusti - Thames & Hudson, London - 2006

77 - "Carl Fabergé: Goldsmith to the Imperial Court of Russia" - A. Kenneth Snowman - Debrett's Peerage Limited, London - 1980

78 - "Limoges Enamels with Secular Motifs: Exploring Cardinal Guala Bicchieri’s Collections" - Exhibition Catalog (Paris, Musée de Cluny, April 13–September 26, 2016) - Simonetta Castronovo and Christine Descatoire - RMN-Grand Palais / Musée de Cluny / Palazzo Madama, Paris - 2016

79 - "Enamel Treasures: Catalog of Acquisitions, 1977–1992" — Musée municipal de l'Évêché, Limoges — 1992

80 - "The Art of Lighting" - Jonathan Bourne and Vanessa Brett, translated from English by Jean-Paul Mourlon - Flammarion, Paris - 1992

81 - "Collectible Perfumes: Two Fragrant Centuries" - Bernard Gangler, photographs by Brice Agnelli - Le Chêne / E/P/A, Paris - 2011 (signed copy - see photos)

83 - "At the Russian Court: A Mirror of Elegant Life in St. Petersburg"—Jacqueline Onassis, in collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, introduction by Audrey Kennett, French adaptation by Yvan de Riaz—Edita / Vilo, n.p.—1977

84 - "The Great Tradition of Ancient and Modern Russian Woodcarving: A Collection from Soviet Museums" - Exhibition Catalog (Paris, National Galleries of the Grand Palais, February–April 1973) - n.p. - 1973