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Eighth National Exhibition of the American Society of Marine Artists
Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. 8"w x 10"h. 64 pages.
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Paris, Sale title - Bibliothèque Marc Litzler, Date - 20th February 2019 ,308 pages, fully illustrated in colour. Text in French. Illustrates and describes 248 lots at auction.
Two reports in one issue, altogether 44 pages, including black and white plates, sketch maps. Plus a double-sided fold-out chart, and a large fold-out colour map measuring approximately 23 inches by 24 inches. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. British North Greenland expedition is an enlightening report on the work and findings of the expedition. With contributions by several other valuable members of the expedition team, such as Lieutenant F. R. Brooke, K. C. Arnold, and Flight-Lieutenant S. Bowater in charge of air photography. Details comprise every aspect of this remarkable journey, from planning, equipment, methods, surveys, vertical air photography, seismic investigations, atmospheric pressure. With graphs, tables, appendixes, plates for illustration, a fold out chart, and colour map of the areas explored and surveyed. A Most Comprehensive Arctic Survey - Scientifically Recorded and with a Folding Map! Plus a brief report on the geographical characteristic of the coast of South-East Iceland and the main factors causing those features, such as the wave and wind, nature of the sand, the character of the rock of the area, the situation of the rocky island of Ingólfshöfði, and the proximity of the large and active outlet glaciers of Vatnajokull.
11 pages, including 3 in-text charts. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. A scientific report on the frequency of Gales in the Arctic - between Greenland and Novaya Zemlya - and the Antarctic, accompanied by data tables, sketch maps, appendix and bibliography. Data tables include information on: the number of days a year with storm in specific location in Greenland and Iceland; average yearly wind force at Spitsbergen (Green Fjord); mean wind speed at Laurie Island, S. Orkney; frequency of gales at expedition bases ashore in east Antarctica; frequency of gales experienced by Antarctic sledging parties, Mawson's, Scott's, Shackleton's and Byrd's.
Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. 8"w x 10"h. 64 pages.
Bonhams Auctioneers, London, 2014. 275 x 220mm. pp. 55. English and Japanese text. Catalogue for part one of the sale of The Misumi Collection of important works of lacquer art and paintings held by Bonhams Auctioneers in London on the 5th of November 2014. Colour illustrations. Bound in original cream cloth. Housed in pictorial dust jacket. Book and dust jacket clean
Appears unread. Ex college library book with marks to half title and copyright pages only. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked board, tiny rub to upper rear board and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. 307pp. The work of some of the world's top illustrators, sourced from twenty-two countries, selected by the contributors themselves to portray the best, most exciting and innovative aspects of their talent.
London, 5 April 2017, Sale L17417. 84 pp., illustrated, 4to, stiff card wrappers. Auction catalogue of 134 lots of the artwork of Gerald Scarfe. Profusely illustrated.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 251pp. A celebration of Heavy Metal album covers from Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden to Slipknot of the 2000s and all in between.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 64pp. Generations of artists have depicted angels as divine messengers, spiritual guides or heavenly musicians. This study shows some of these images with lengthy descriptions of each.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked, very lightly indented boards and no bumping to corners. 174pp. An excellent study providing a historical text and a vast range of beautifully reproduced examples of illuminated and ornamental letters from the eighth to the twentieth century.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 96pp. A history of the last tribal culture in Europe whose Mysteries begin in the frenzy of battle, where the hero is transfigured and the god appears, or in a circle of stones or in the centre of a Celtic cross or in the stone heads.
