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This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket. Completely clean inside and out. Jacket lightly sunned. Long considered to be one of the most outstanding architectural biographies of the late 20th century, Saint shows what an original architect Shaw was, in addition to being a master stylist. 291 black & white illustrations. Select bibliography. 10" high X 7.5" wide, 487 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
192 pages. Published in connection with an exhibition at the Costume Institute of The Metropolitain Museum of Art from 14 December, 1983, through 2 September 1984. "Features over 200 of Saint Laurent's couture designs, more than 70 in full colour photographed especially for this volume by noted photographer Duane Michals. Also included is a fully illustrated survey of Saint Laurent's Pierre Boulat and Nicholas Vreeland, supplemented by historically important photographs published in the fashion magazines of the era." - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Binding sound. A worthy reference copy. Book
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original full brown morocco in its period with a flap. Decorative embossed flowers on boards, and lines on borders. Minimal wear on the spine. Demy 8vo. (22 x 15,5 cm). In Ottoman script (Turkish with Arabic letters). [3], [4], 259, [2] p. Calligraphic title 'Üss-i zafer 1241' in ornamental sarlavha (head). It starts with basmalah, and a long eulogy to Sultan Mahmud II. Traditional framed text. Book design in the style seen in the transition period from manuscript to printing. An early printed book on fine paper. This is the earliest account of Sultan Mahmud II's disbandment of Janissaries in 1826 written by Ottoman 'vak'anuvis' [i.e. chronicler, or, historian], and the minister of Takvîm-i Vekâyi which is the first formal Ottoman newspaper, Sahhaflar Seyhizâde Mehmed Es'ad Efendi, (1789-1848). He was the son of a bookseller and lately the president of the Ottoman booksellers' guild. His father died in 1804 when the ship on which they were traveling sank in Suez when he was appointed as the qadi [i.e. judge] of Medina. When Esad Efendi presented the manuscripts of his work called Üss-i Zafer, he was given the rank of the foundation's inspectorate and 'Üsküdar Mahreci'. The Auspicious Incident (or Event), Vaka-i Hayriye, "Fortunate Event"; (in the Balkans) Vaka-i Serriyye, "Unfortunate Incident") was the forced disbandment of the centuries-old Janissary corps by Sultan Mahmud II, (1785-1839), on 15 June 1826. Most of the 135,000 Janissaries revolted against Mahmud II, and after the rebellion was suppressed, its leaders were killed, and many of its members exiled or imprisoned, the Janissary corps was disbanded and replaced with a more modern military force. By the early 17th century the Janissary corps had ceased to function as an elite military force and had become a privileged hereditary class, and their exemption from paying taxes made them highly unfavorable in the eyes of the rest of the population. The number of Janissaries grew from 20,000 in 1575 to 135,000 in 1826, about 250 years later. Many were not soldiers but still collected pay from the empire, as dictated by the corps since it held an effective veto over the state and contributed to the steady decline of the Ottoman Empire. Any sultan who tried to diminish its status or power was immediately either killed or deposed. When Mahmud II began forming a new army and hiring European gunners, the Janissaries mutinied as usual and fought on the streets of the Ottoman capital, but the militarily superior Sipahis charged and forced them back into their barracks. Turkish historians claim that the counter-Janissary force, which was great in numbers, included the local residents who had hated the Janissaries for years. Historians suggest that Mahmud II purposely incited the revolt and have described it as the sultan's "coup against the Janissaries". The sultan informed them that he was forming a new army, the Sekban-i Cedit, organized and trained along modern European lines (and that the new army would be Turkish-dominated). The Janissaries saw their institution as crucial to the well-being of the Ottoman Empire, especially to Rumelia, and had previously decided they would never allow its dissolution. Thus, as predicted, they mutinied, advancing on the sultan's palace. Mahmud II then brought out the Holy Banner of the Prophet Muhammad from inside the Sacred Trust, intending all true believers to gather beneath it and thus bolster opposition to the Janissaries. In the ensuing fight the Janissary barracks were set ablaze by artillery fire, resulting in 4,000 Janissary deaths; more were killed in the heavy fighting on the streets of Constantinople. The survivors either fled or were imprisoned, their possessions confiscated by the Sultan. By the end of 1826 the captured Janissaries, constituting the remainder of the force, were put to death by decapitation in the Thessaloniki fort that soon came to be called the Blood Tower Özege 22434.; OCLC 13900808, 838101965. Rare First Editi
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2 vols., roy. 4to., brown buckram, gilt backs, small paint mark on backstrip of first volume else a near fine copy. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1951. Sadleir's justifiably famous collection is particularly strong in Dickens, Hardy, Jefferies, Kingsley, Marryat, Peacock, Reade, Thackeray, Trollope and many others.
Bulino, 1600 circa, firmato nell’immagine, in basso al centro "B. Spranger invent. / Fig. Sadeler sculp.". Nel margine inferiore, quattro versi in latino su due colonne “Non datur; eximas veneret, ut inscius artes, solus eas quaerens noscere, gestit amor…” e al centro “Inscius non honorabitur” Da un dipinto di Bartholomäus Spranger, 1596 circa, conservato a Vienna Magnifica prova, ricca di toni, impressa su carta vergata coeva, rifilata alla linea marginale, restauri perfettamente eseguiti agli angoli, tracce di piega orizzontale, per il resto in buono stato di conservazione. La composizione rappresenta l’allegoria della vittoria della saggezza sull’ignoranza. La saggezza è nelle sembianze di Minerva che ha un piede sull'ignoranza - un uomo con le orecchie d'asino, con le mani legate da una corda. Un putto la onora con una corona di alloro. Intorno a loro ci sono sette personificazioni delle sette arti libere: astronomia, musica, geometria, pittura, scultura e retorica, tra le altre. Sotto la rappresentazione c'è una didascalia latina di quattro righe che sottolinea che gli ignoranti sono incapaci di adorare le arti. Bibliografia Hollstein, XXI,115; Wurzbach 82. Engraving, 1600 circa, inscribed "B. Spranger invent. Fig. Sadeler sculp." in the plate, bottom centre. In margin below, four Latin lines in two columns “Non datur; eximas veneret, ut inscius artes, solus eas quaerens noscere, gestit amor…”, at centre: “Inscius non honorabitur”. Magnificent proof, rich in tone, printed on contemporary laid paper, trimmed at the marginal line, perfectly executed restorations at the corners, traces of horizontal crease, otherwise in good condition. After the painting by Bartholomäus Spranger, around 1596, in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien Wisdom is in the form of Minerva with one foot on ignorance, a man with donkey ears. A putto honors her with a laurel wreath. She has tied the hands of the man with a rope. Around them are seven personifications as a variation on the seven liberal arts: astronomy, music, geometry, painting, sculpture and rhetoric. Under the representation a four-line, Latin caption emphasizes that ignorant people are incapable of worshipping the arts. Literature Hollstein, XXI,115; Wurzbach 82.
New Turkish Original bdg. HC. 4to. (29 x 21 cm). In Turkish. [xxx], 592, [1] p., examples of Ottoman demographic documents (Defter in romanized Ottoman Turkish with facsimile in Ottoman Turkish.). Ünye nüfus defteri, (1834). Demographic registers of Ottoman Ünye (district of Ordu city) in 1834, after 3 years later from the first census in the period of Sultan Mahmud II. A very heavy volume.
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Very Good Russian Original cloth bdg. Roy. 8vo. (23 x 16 cm). In Russian. 293 p. Ocerki istorii Oguzov i Turkmen Srednej Azii IX-XIII vv. Essays on the history of Oguz and Turkmen Central Asia between 11th-20th centuries. A very important study on Oghuzs in the Central Asia. Agadjanov was a historian of medieval Turkmenistan, who worked at the Institute of History since 1976. He was very important one among the Russian Turcologists. First Edition. Rare.
Hardcover IV+247 pages , 22 b/w ill. + 195 colour ill., 220 x 280 mm, Languages: English, Italian. ISBN 9781909400894. Raised to the status of an international luminary by her contemporaries and now revered as one of the defining talents of the seventeenth century, Artemisia Gentileschi poses urgent questions for today?s scholars. The recent outpouring of new attributions and archival discoveries has profoundly enriched our knowledge of the artist, but it has also complicated, and sometimes contradicted, the former storyline. If she was illiterate and unschooled, how did she befriend Galileo and court playwright Jacopo Cicognini? If she could not pay her bills, why did she continue to spend lavishly? How can we define her authorship if we admit workshop productions to her oeuvre? In these essays, an international cast of scholars and experts grapples with these problems, opening new paths of inquiry and laying bare their methodologies in fields as diverse as laboratory analysis, archival research, cultural history, literary analysis, and feminist art history. Among these approaches, connoisseurship takes center stage. By reconstructing the chronology and rationale of Artemisia?s artistic iter, connoisseurship reveals the richness of her visual dialogues, including those with prominent contemporaries such as Caravaggio, Annibale Carracci, Vouet, Cristofano Allori, and Stanzione; with past artistic giants like Donatello and Michelangelo; and with the various hands who passed through her workshop as collaborators and assistants. These essays infuse our understanding of Artemisia with complexity and nuance, yet they also trace her characteristic mix of intelligence and verve in her art, her correspondence, and her deft social maneuvering, running like a thread through all stages of her life. Sheila Barker, Ph.D. (Columbia University, 2002) is the founding director of the Jane Fortune Resarch Program on Women Artists, based at Medici Archive Project in Florence. Her previous publications include "Artiste nel chiostro" (Nerbini, 2016) and "Women Artists in Early Modern Italy: Careers, Fame, and Collectors" (Harvey Miller / Brepols, 2016). Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Sheila Barker Identifying Artemisia: The Archive and the Eye Mary D. Garrard Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy and the Madonna of the Svezzamento: Two Masterpieces by Artemisia Gianni Papi Deciphering Artemisia: Three New Narratives and How They Expand our Understanding Judith W. Mann Unknown Paintings by Artemisia in Naples, and New Points Regarding Her Daily Life and Bottega* Riccardo Lattuada Artemisia Gentileschi?s Susanna and the Elders (1610) in the Context of Counter-Reformation Rome Patricia Simons Artemisia?s Money: A Woman Artist?s Financial Strategies in Seventeenth-Century Florence Sheila Barker Artemisia Gentileschi: The Literary Formation of an Unlearned Artist Jesse Locker Women Artists in Casa Barberini: Plautilla Bricci, Maddalena Corvini, Artemisia Gentileschi, Anna Maria Vaiani, and Virginia da Vezzo Consuelo Lollobrigida ?Il Pennello Virile?: Elisabetta Sirani and Artemisia Gentileschi as Masculinized Painters? Adelina Modesti Allegories of Inclination and Imitation at the Casa Buonarroti Laura Camille Agoston Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy by Artemisia Gentileschi. A Technical Study Christina Currie, Livia Depuydt, Valentine Henderiks, Steven Saverwyns, and Ina Vanden Berghe
Honoré Daumier (1808-1879): the master of caricature. Numerous illustrations. Ex libris plate on top corner of front pastedown. Browning to covers and text page
185 pages including notes, bibliography, index and black and white illustrations. The perilous 600-mile flight of the eight helicopters to Desert One, the secret rendezvous in the Iranian desert, is retraced, along with the disastrous events that followed, which stamped the endeavor with tragedy. Until all records are declassified, this book will stand as the most useful source available on the subject. Book clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Attractive maroon cloth boards. Moderate wear to dust jacket with closed one inch tear to bottom edge of front panel. Book
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No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright boards, slight rubbing to rear and minor bumping to one corner and lower edge. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with signs of storage. 235pp. The life of the great Polish astronomer Copernicus against the background of the times (fifteenth/sixteenth centuries), the world in which he lived and the planet he launched on its orbit round the sun, thus initiating the Copernican era and a revolution in man's concept of the universe. With a number of tipped-in coloured plates, sixty pages of text and around 170 pages of captioned black & white photographs.
Ex reference library book with usual (minimal) marks and stamps - library plate inside front cover, stamp to rear of title page and a very small circular stamp to a few other pages. No other inscriptions or marks. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked tape-free grey cloth boards and a bump to upper corner of rear cover. Dust jacket not price clipped with small piece missing from top of spine and rubbing to edges. 184pp. Cosima Tura was the leading master of the Ferrarese school in the fifteenth century and works by him are to be found in key galleries around the world. His artistic style is closely related to that of the Expressionists, his colours seem to burn and flicker and a passionate restlessness warps the outlines of his figures. Illustrated with 85 coloured and black & white full-page plates.
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Bound, hardcover, 304 pag., 22 x 28 cm, bound, ca. 150 ill. mostly colour fine condition !. ISBN 9789059971004. The collection of Dutch Old Master paintings in the Szepm?veszeti Muzeum, Budapest, is one of the largest in the world outside the Netherlands and Belgium. This first volume of its catalogue raisonne series discusses one hundred and five Dutch and Flemish portraits from 1600 to 1800, an abundant and varied section of the collection. Represented are such great masters like Anthony van Dyck, Frans Hals, Thomas de Keyser, Bartholomeus van der Helst, and it includes fine works by leading portraitists from nearly all the famous centres of Dutch painting. The core of this material comes from the Prince Esterhazy collection purchased in 1871, which was subsequently enriched by gifts and bequests of further Hungarian aristocrats and bourgeois collectors. Until recently the collection of portraits has been augmented through resolute or occasional aquisitions by gallery directors, starting with Karoly Pulszky, Gabriel Terey and others. This volume is the first systematic overview of that special part of the Budapest collection, containing new achievements of research: several new attributions, names of sitters, and unknown data to the provenance of the paintings. The text is in English and Hungarian. Rudi E.O. Ekkart, director of the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie in the Hague, is the leading authority on seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish portraits, author of scholarly catalogues and co-curator of special exhibitions. He is professor of arthistory at the Utrecht University.
This is a very good softcover copy with just light cover wear. Completely clean inside and out, but tiny hard to see title inked in on spine. This catalog was prepared to accompany the travelling exhibition that circulated through Germany, Austria and Switzerland in 1978-79. Short texts by Elisabeth Rucker and Inge Asenbaum. Half of the show was devoted to Wiener Werkstatte jewellery and silverwork from 1904-08, the second half of the show presented Austrian jewellery and silverwork from the 1970's. About 100 pieces in the Wiener Werkstattte part of the show, designed by Josef Hoffmann, Carl Otto Czeschka, Koloman Moser, Otto Prutscher, E.J. Wimmer, among a dozen others. The Austrian jewellers from the 1970's included Gerhard Bogner, Anna Heindl, Fritz Maierhofer, Gert Mosettig, Manfred Nisslmuller, Wolfgang Rahs, Veronika Schwarzinger, and Peter Skubic. Each designer has at least a few pieces, some more illustrated. Many works illustrated, most in black & white, many in color. 10" high X 9" wide. The cover is a striking black & white geometric design taken from Josef Hoffmann.
This is a very good softcover copy with just light wear. Completely clean inside and out. Binding firm. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Lehigh University Art Galleries in the spring of 1986. Curated by Jay Ruby. With essays by Gerald Bastoni and Charles Isaacs. Illustrated in black & white, sepia and or gray with 15 reproductions of photographs. 60 works in the exhibition. Checklist. 11" high X 8" wide, 23 pages.
This is a very good softcover copy with only light wear in a thin yellowed glassine wrap. Spine not creased. Very clean inside and out. Text in French. Illustrated in color with 32 plates + 22 black & white figures in the text. This furniture was created in Berne, Switzerland from about the late 17th century to the mid 19th century. All of the pieces are painted with folk style paintings of flowers and plants. 10" high X 7" wide, 32 text pages + plates.
Hardback, 240x180mm, 112p, throughout colour illustrations, English/ French/ Dutch (NL) edition . ISBN 9789085866350. De ziel van de meester. Antwerpse tekeningen van Rubens tot Panamarenko. brengt uitzonderlijke tekeningen en schetsen van grote meesters en hedendaags talent. Elf gastcuratoren zijn aangesproken en stelden de tentoonstelling samen. Ze brengen tekeningen samen van oude meesters met hedendaags werk, leggen verrassende thematische verbanden of zien verwantschap in stijl, compositie of lijnvoering door de eeuwen heen. Buurtbewoners en vrijwilligers met een hart voor het museum kozen hun lievelingswerken. Modeontwerper Dries Van Noten, illustratrice Kaatje Vermeire, galeriehouder Adriaan Raemdonck en illustrator-cartoonist Benoit selecteerden vanuit hun tekenervaring. De specialisten Ger Luijten, professor Katlijne Vander Stighelen en conservator Stefaan Hautekeete maakten een keuze met hun professioneel oog. De tentoonstelling is uitgegroeid tot een boeiende tocht langs eilandjes van persoonlijke smaken en voorkeuren. Voor De Ziel van de Meester. Antwerpse tekeningen van Rubens tot Panamarenko selecteren specialisten, liefhebbers, jonge mensen en gepassioneerde kunstenaars 100 tekeningen uit de collectie van het Prentenkabinet. Niet alleen de hoogtepunten uit de collectie, maar ook verrassende pareltjes zullen te zien zijn. Het wordt een confrontatie en een samenbrengen van werk van meerdere kunstenaars uit verschillende periodes. Tekenen is intiem. Met een tekening zet een kunstenaar een eerste impressie op papier, een vluchtige pose, een momentopname, een emotie. Het is een snelle manier om een gedachtestroom vast te leggen en ideeen te ordenen.-** For The Spirit of the Master. Antwerp drawings from Rubens to Panamarenko, experts, impassioned artists, enthusiasts, locals and young people were allowed to choose a total of 100 drawings from the Prentenkabinet collection. Drawing is an intimate activity. A drawing captures a first impression, a fleeting pose, an emotion. It is a snapshot in time. It is the artist's way of quickly recording his ideas and ordering his thoughts. For The Spirit of the Master. Antwerp drawings from Rubens to Panamarenko, experts, impassioned artists, enthusiasts, locals and young people were allowed to choose a total of 100 drawings from the Prentenkabinet collection. Surprisingly perhaps, rather than just go for the collection's highlights, many chose less familiar works. The resulting exhibition is an encounter between contemporary talent and old masters.**- Pour L'Ame du Maitre. Esquisses anversoises de Rubens a Panamarenko, des specialistes, amateurs, riverains, des jeunes et des artistes passionnes selectionnent 100 esquisses de la collection du Prentenkabinet. Le dessin est intime. Par une esquisse, un artiste immortalise une premiere impression sur papier, une pose sommaire, une image ephemere, une emotion. Soit un moyen rapide de fixer une succession de pensees et de remettre ses idees en place. Pour L'Ame du Maitre. Esquisses anversoises de Rubens a Panamarenko, des specialistes, amateurs, riverains, des jeunes et des artistes passionnes selectionnent 100 esquisses de la collection du Prentenkabinet. L'exposition ne presente pas seulement les pieces maitresses de la collection, mais egalement des ouvres surprenantes qui gagnent a etre connues. L'exposition se mue en rencontre entre talents contemporains et anciens maitres.
pp. xviii, 296, Plus frontis and full page portraits of Mrs. Siddons. 8vo. Original faded pink full cloth binding with portrait illustration on front cover. Original very worn dust jacket. First Edition. WOMEN 1
Softcover, geillustreerde kartonomslag, oblong formaat, frontispice, 192pp., uitvoerige illustratie in kleur en z/w. ISBN 9058460118. I. Tekeningen van of toegeschreven aan Van Dyck II. Tekeningen van andere kunstenaars. Boek is in prima staat.