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This is a fine hardcover copy in a fine dust jacket with no wear at all. Completely clean. Text in Spanish. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at MALI in Lima from July 2016 to March 2017. This exhibition showcases the collection of watercolors assembled by Amédée Chaumette des Fossés, first Consul from France in Perú from 1827 to 1839. Over 100 full-page color plates + many additional illustrations in the text. Maps. 10" high X 9" wide, 212 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
This is a very good softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. Spine is not creased. Text in Italian. 800 black & white illustrations, mostly photographs of old Italian cameras and equipment. 12" high X 8" wide, 300 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full yellow cloth boards, slightly warped. Small tears on edge worn dust jacket. 8 3/4"w x 9 7/8"h. 296 pages.
Eight Volumes. XLib stamps on title pages and elsewhere. Bookplate of Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary on front paste downs. Age stained. Marbled endpapers. All edges marble. 8vo. 220mm. Original half leather over marbled boards. Gilt decorated spines with raised bands, rubbed. Original leather title and volume spine labels. Volume IV loss of some leather on spine. A few volumes loss of marbled paper on boards. Hardbound. Please email us directly about postal charges on these sets. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! ENGSETS BX 2
This is a very good softcover copy with just light wear. Soft crease to lower left corner of back cover. Very clean inside and out. Illustrated in black & white with Ray Metzker's photographs. Essay by Anne Wilcox Tucker. Biographical sketch. Bibliography. Booklet 'Checklist of the Exhibition' laid in. Book designed by Massimo Vignelli. 11" square, 143 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with some wear. The jacket is all there not price-clipped but has minor soiling, a few small closed tears and one tiny repaired hole at the lower edge of the front panel. Completely clean inside. Four pages have an indentation or wrinkle, at the lower edge, probably from the binder. Illustrated throughout in color and black & white. Classic study of the 'Theatre of Marvels' or popular street theater which was practiced in Europe from 1789 to the 1860's. This study grew out of the author's work at Harvard and later the Sorbonne on this fascinating subject. Profusely illustrated in color and black & white with about 200 prints and engravings. Preface by Marcel Marceau. Bibliography. 12" high X 9" wide, 208 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and sent with tracking.
Hardback, IV 237 p., 65 b/w ill. 170 colour ill., 220 x 280 mm, Languages: English. ISBN 9781909400153. The activities of Rogier van der Weyden (1399/1400-1464) were much wider in scope than the well-known painted oeuvre that has been the subject of so many publications. This book, with its focus on stone sculpture in Brussels at the time that Rogier was established there, an area of art history that to date has been little explored, offers a fresh and fascinating look at the context in which Brussels?s famous city painter operated. Bart Fransen leads you through a network of stoneworkers and craftsmen, from the stone quarry to the sculptor?s workshop, to discover a number of remarkable but unknown or misjudged sculptures now in churches, an abbey, a beguinage, a museum?s reserve collection and a castle chapel. With the various case studies in mind he goes on to examine Rogier van der Weyden?s direct involvement in sculptural projects, turning to the evidence revealed by archival documents, drawings and sculpture itself. The result is a highly readable and plentifully illustrated book that re-establishes the close relationship between the various art forms that existed in the fifteenth century. Bart Fransen holds a doctorate in Art History from the Catholic University of Leuven. He is currently head of the Centre for the Study of the Flemish Primitives, a specialized research unit and part of Belgium's Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA) in Brussels.. Distinguished Contributions to the Study of the Arts in the Burgundian Netherlands (HMDC 2)
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Name/address on reverse of half-title page. Light stain, no loss of text to five adjacent pages. No creasing to covers or to spine. Clean tight pages with bright green bevelled boards/gilt lettering, slight label mark to rear, two ink marks to top of dusty page edges, hinges shaken and no bumping to corners. 390pp. 'A sketch of life among the hills.' The author is attributed to also being the author of 'The Mountain Refuge', which book has as author Aunt Annie, a psuedonym of Annie Sykes. Extremely scarce.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Very clean very tight pages with rubbed green paper and faux vellum boards, sunned spine, dusty untrimmed page edges, many pages as yet uncut, a little foxing to front and end papers and tiny bump to upper front corner. 472pp. In the Early English Dramatists Series with the three Lost Tudor Plays - Wealth and Health, Impatient Poverty and John the Evangelist, unearthed in an Irish country house in 1906. The other plays are Mankind, Nature, Wit and Science, and Republica. plus a Note-Book and Word-List. Scarce first edition. One of a Limited Edition of 350 copies.
Three volume set. No marks or inscriptions to any volume. No creasing to covers or to spines. Three very clean very tight copies with unmarked dull green cloth boards, slight sunning to spines, dusty tops of page edges, a little foxing to end papers and page edges and minor bumping to one different corner of each volume. Fore and lower page edges untrimmed. Each copy with a spare replaceable spine title label at the rear of each. Total of 928pp. The plays of John Marston were written and first published around the end of the 16th and early 17th centuries. Volume I comprises Antonio and Mellida, Antonios Revenge and The Malcontent. Volume II has Sophonisba, The Dutch Courtezan, The Fawne and What You Will. Volume III has The Insatiate Countesse, East-Ward Hoe, Jacke Drums Entertainment and Histrio-Mastix. Publication dates of Volumes I, II and III are 1934, 1938 and 1939. A heavy set.
15 pages. The front cover has creases to lower corner, two very small tears to fore-edge, small loss to lower edge. Back cover has two 3mm tears to fore-edge.
15 volumes broch?s. Couvertures r?par?es. Quelques dos factices. Rousseurs.
Two volumes. Spine with 5 bands, gilt tooling. Both volumes faded down joint of spine and edges of covers. Volume I 307 pages, volume II has 368 pages plus two pages that appear misnumbered 305-307. Index. Signed dedication by author on free endpaper. Heavy books so extra postage for non-UK destinations.
2 vols., 8vo., with frontispieces, and titles in red and black; cloth gilt, gilt backs, a fine set.
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Paperback. Slightly chipped spine. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Ottoman script. 48 p. Osmanliligin âtisi: Dostlar ve düsmanlar. Roumi: 1331 = Gregorian 1915. Baykurt was a Turkish politician and soldier who served as deputy of first period of the Turkish Republican Parliament. He was first minister of Turkish foreign affairs in the Republican period. He participated as an officer in the Battle of Tripoli. The province of Tripoli and Fizan were accepted as places of exile in the last period of the Ottoman Empire. This tractate was previously serialized in Efham newspaper. "Future of Ottomanism". Ottomanism was a concept which developed prior to the First Constitutional Era of the Ottoman Empire. Its proponents believed that it could solve the social issues that the empire was facing. It was strongly influenced by thinkers such as Montesquieu and Rousseau and the French Revolution. It promoted equality among the millets. The idea originated amongst the Young Ottomans in areas such as the acceptance of all separate ethnicities in the Empire regardless of their religion, i.e. they were all 'Ottomans' with equal rights. Put simply, Ottomanism stated that all subjects were equal before the law. Ideally, all citizens would share a geographical area, a language, culture, and a sense of a 'non-Ottoman' party who were different than them. The essence of the millet system was not dismantled, but secular organizations and policies were applied. Primary education, conscription, head tax and military service were to be applied to non-Muslims and Muslims alike. The major precursors to Ottomanism were the Reformation Edict of 1856, which promised full equality regardless of religion, and the Ottoman Nationality Law of 1869, which created a common Ottoman citizenship irrespective of religious or ethnic affiliation. Ottomanism was rejected by many in the non-Muslim millets and by many Muslims. To the former, it was perceived as a step towards dismantling their traditional privileges. Meanwhile, the Muslims saw it as the elimination of their own superior position. There were claims that Ottomanism was a reaction to the Tanzimat, the era of intensive restructuring of the Ottoman Empire by the bureaucratic elite. The inauguration of the Ottoman Parliament contributed to the spirit of reform as all millets were represented in this bicameral assembly. Ottomanism was a form of nationalism, likely inspired and created as a reaction to European ideas of nationalism and the growing Western involvement in the Ottoman Empire. Ottomanism enjoyed a revival during the Young Turk Revolution of 1908, and during the Second Constitutional Era. It lost most of its adherents during the First Balkan War of 1912-13, when the Ottoman Empire lost most of its European territories inhabited by Christian minorities and large number of Muslims fled from those areas while many Christians fled from the remaining Ottoman territories. Disappointment in the failure of Ottomanism was integral to the birth of Turkish nationalism during the next decade. (Source for Ottomanism: Wikipedia). First and Only Edition. TBTK 5735.; Özege 16027.; OCLC: 32884462 / 222400228. Library of Congress, Karl Su?ssheim Collection, no. 362.
IN 4. BR AVEC COUV REMPLIEE [BE]. 176 PP. ENV 180 ILL EN NOIR ET EN COULEURS. [BE]. AVEC 5 DIAPOS
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legatura in mezza pelle con filetti e titoli oro al dorso, piatti marmorizzati, a fine volume allegate tre tabelle di ordini di battaglia ripiegate, minime spellature, lievi erosioni ai piatti, lievi fioriture diffuse occasionalmente più intense
2 voll. legatura moderna in mezza pelle con nervi, titoli oro entro tasselli oro ai dorsi, piatti marmorizzati, copertine cartacee originali conservate, minima spellatura al dorso del 2° vol., timbri di antica biblioteca
3 voll. legatura coeva in mezza pelle con piatti marmorizzati, titoli oro e tasselli ai dorsi, lievi fioriture
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9 voll. rilegati in tre tomi in 16°, mezza tela coeva con angoli, titoli oro al dorso, due buchi da chiodo senza mancanze al terzo volume (tomo I), segni di tarlo alle legature del II e III tomo, timbro Premio Treves ad ogni vol.
