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HANS BELLMER.

By: Alexandrian, Sarane. (Hans Bellmer.)

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: Rizzoli, New York, (1975).:

Seller ID: 8963

87 pp, 4to, hard cover (maroon cloth) in dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with color and b&w reproductions. "The erotic imagery of Hans Bellmer's art is both witty and violent. Obsessed with his central theme - that of the 'Doll' - Bellmer crea tes capricious, often sado-masochistic, assemblage of parts of the female anatomy...This book, the first to present the totality of Bellmer's art, reproduces in stunning color and black-and-white illustrations the many facets of his art.. . a c o m p e l l i ng text...illuminates Bellmer's art and places it in the wide context of art history i...
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DRAWINGS FROM LOMBARDY AND ADJACENT AREAS 1480-1620.

By: Alfred Neumeyer, preface and introduction. History of the collection by Janos Scholz.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, California, 1956.:

Seller ID: 19751

Unpaginated, 9" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps). B&w illustrations. The catalog of an exhibition, largely of works from the collection of Janos Scholz. Contents: Preface; Introduction; The History of the Collection of Lombard Drawings; Artists According to Geographical Location; Catalogue; Illustrations. Some corrections to the sizes of the drawings have been made in ink in the Catalogue section. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - small soft corner creases on rear cover, minor edge wear/wrinkling, minor rubbing, minor browning. Very Good
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NICHOLAS HILLIARD.

By: Auerbach, Erna.

Price: $55.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Boston Book & Art Shop: 1964

Seller ID: 207

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

352 pp, small 4to (10" H). Over 200 reproductions of Hilliard's work, mainly in b&w. "This is the first full-length monograph to be written on the life and work of Nicholas Hilliard who lived from 1547 to 1619. The first English-born painter to gain the status of an artist recognised by the English court, he was painter, limner, engraver and goldsmith to Queen Elizabeth I and later to James I, and is kown to have also painted portraits in oil, but it is difficult to attribute particular oil portraits to his hand. Hilliard's importance is not limited by his performance as a miniatur...
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A GENTLE MADNESS: BIBLIOPHILES, BIBLIOMANES, AND THE ETERNAL PASSION FOR BOOKS.

By: Basbanes, Nicholas A.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt: 1995

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 30679

ISBN: 0805036539

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

638 pp, 9 1/4" H. Pictorial endpapers, b&w illustrations. "The passion to possess books has never been more widespread than it is today; indeed, obsessive book collecting remains the only hobby to have a disease named after it. (This book) is an adventure among the afflicted. Richly anecdotal and fully documented, it combines the perspective of historical research with the immediacy of investigative journalism. Above all, it is a celebration of books and the people who have revered, gathered, and preserved them over the centuries. (The story) begins 2,200 years ago in Alexandria, when...
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THE DAWN OF MODERN WARFARE. THE WEST POINT MILITARY HISTORY SERIES.

By: Britt, Albert Sidney; O'Connell, Jerome A; Palmer, Dave Richard; Stadler, Gerald P. Thomas E. Griess, Series Editor.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Avery, Wayne, New Jersey, (1984), 5th printing.:

Seller ID: 15828

133 pp, 4to (11" H), soft cover. Profusely illustrated in b&w and color with drawings, reproductions, battle plans and many fold-out maps. Contents: The Beginning of Modern Warfare; Early Developments in Naval Warfare; Gustavus Adolphus and the Swedish Renaissance in Warfare; The Sun King and the Lord Protector; Marlborough and Eugene; The Decline of France; Prussia's Rise to Power; The Soldier-King; Selected Bibliography. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very minor edge wear, remainder mark on bottom of textblock, light rubbing, small crease to f...
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THE MAGICAL ARTS: A SHORT HISTORY

By: Burland, C. A.

Price: $32.50 USD

Publisher: London, Arthur Barker: 1966

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25897

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

196 pp, 8vo (8 11/16" H). B&w illustrations. "From the earliest time man has been fascinated by visions and dreams, and by the discovery that there were men who could, by magical powers, improve a crop or foretell the weather. As civilization grew there were demands for knowledge which would give control over other men or protection from the wiles of enemies. The study of magic and counter magic became important in the policy of states. Later magic was denounced as a work of the Devil, and then the Devil himself was demoted to become a laughing stock. Yet even nowadays there exis...
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MANY LIVES - ONE LOVE.

By: Butcher, Fanny.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1972

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 30488

ISBN: 060104023

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

463 pp, 8 5/8" H. Signed: "Fanny Butcher" on front free endpaper. B&w photographs. "This is the extraordinary memoir of the lifelong passion - and the multiple friendships - of one of the outstanding women of (the twentieth century), who has lived her life to the full in the heart of the Midwest and the literary circles of two continents. Young Fanny Butcher began her career just before the dawn of the Chicago literary renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. (S)he got a job as assisant to the woman's editor of the Chicago Tribune, and worked her way to the position of literary edit...
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THE LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. 2 VOLUME SET IN SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE BINDING.

By: Cellini, Benvenuto. Edited and translated by John Addington Symonds. Introduction by Royal Cortissoz.

Price: $150.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Brentano's: 1906

Seller ID: 30445

Binding: Three-Quarter Leather

Condition: Very Good

360 pp + 387 pp - 2 volume set - 9 7/16" H. Sangorski & Sutcliffe bindings (stamped "Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London, England" on verso of free front endpaper of both volumes) - dark red leather spines/corners, spines with five raised bands & gilt lettering/decoration, patterned paper on boards, with pattern repeated on endpapers, top edges gilt, red ribbon bookmarks. Title page continues:"Edited and Translated by John Addington Symonds with a Biographical Sketch of Cellini by the Same Hand Together with an Introduction to This Edition Upon Benvenuto Cellini, Artist an...
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IMAGE OF SPAIN.

By: Cleugh, James.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: London, George G. Harrap: 1961

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 17727

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

264 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). Map endpapers, b&w photographs. "Besides giving a background to Spanish life as a whole (this book) pays particular attention to the geography, economics, principal industries, architecture, painting, sculpture, music, cooking, and science of Spain, and describes its government, law, and education. Bullfighting is scarcely touched upon. The history of Spain is traced from Roman times, and the author shows those developments which have most influenced Spanish life. There is also a short section on the Spanish-speaking peoples overseas." Small heavy bump at ...
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ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND.

By: Daniels, Jeffery.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Educational): 1968

Seller ID: 23118

ISBN: 298762102

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

128 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). B&w drawings, floor plans, elevations. "Illustrated with over 70 line drawings and plans, the text spans over 2,000 years of architecture in England. The account begins with a discussion of the villas, camps and roads of Roman Britain, and shows how this heritage slowly decayed, giving way to the Romanesque imported by the conquering Normans. The soaring Gothic of the middle ages yields in its turn to another European influence, the Renaissance, which acquires its own English character. The Baroque, Pallandian and Neo-Classic movements are then analysed, ...
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CHATEAUX OF THE LOIRE.

By: Dunlop, Ian. Preface by the Duc de Brissac.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, London, 1969, first edition.:

Seller ID: 18200

215 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Map endpapers, color frontispiece, b&w plates, plans. "Travellers of every age have extolled the beauties of the chateaux of the Loire....By making use of their descriptions Mr. Dunlop shows us the chateaux as they were in their prime. He resurrects the vanished glories of Le Verger, Bury, Richelieu and Chanteloup, and assigns them their proper place in the mosaic. What was it that caused the King and his Courtiers to build s o l a v i s h ly in this region? By way of an answer, the reader is taken kite-hawking and stag hun...
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THE SETTLE & CARLISLE ROUTE. RAILWAY WORLD SPECIAL.

By: Ellis, C. Hamilton; Allen, C.J.; Slindon, F.; Brock, Peter; Harris, Michael.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: Weybridge, Ian Allan: 1988

Edition: Second Reprint.

Seller ID: 17124

ISBN: 0711014485

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good+

48 pp, 11 1/4" H. Profusely illustrated in b&w with photographs, route map, reproductions of timetables. Contents: Introduction; Renaissance of the Midland Railway; The Midland train services of 1905; The summer 1903 timetables; Along the route (photo feature); Snows of 1947; Steam past (photo feature); Steam finale over Ais Gill; Main line steam revival (photo feature); Inspector George Gordon, Carlisle; Moods (photo feature); The summer 1959 timetables. Interior - faint cigarette odour, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - clean and bright.
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ROYAL PANOPLY: BRIEF LIVES OF THE ENGLISH MONARCHS.

By: Erickson, Carolly.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press, New York, 2006.: 2006

Seller ID: 27401

ISBN: 0312316437

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

351 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). Colour and b&w plates. "(This book) replaces the stereotypic images with true multifaceted portraits, bringing each of England's rulers to fully fleshed life. Here is the puny Charles I, nervous, tense, and socially awkward; the frail, slight Richard II, melancholic and sad; the homosexual James I with his handsome favorites; the stuttering William II and the stammering George VI. Here also is the choleric, violent William I (William the Conqueror), bred among the chaos of constant warfare in his native Normandy, ceaselessly embattled once he became K...
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THE ENGLISH CATHEDRALS

By: Felton, Herbert and Harvey, John.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, B.T. Batsford: 1950

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 30374

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

99 pp + b&w photographic plates, 9" H, red cloth with gilt lettering/banding on spine, top edge red. 175 b&w photographs, plus floor plans and drawings, colour frontispiece. Contents: Writer's Preface; Photographer's Foreword; Acknowledgment; Introduction; The English Cathedral; Norman Cathedrals; Early English Cathedrals; Decorated Cathedrals; Perpendicular Cathedrals; The Renaissance and Conclusion; Historical and Descriptive Notes on Each Cathedral; The Descent of Architectural Features; Bibliographical Note; Index. Very light browning to fore-edge and bottom of text block slight bump...
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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY.

By: Ferguson, Eugene S.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts, Society for the History of Technology / M.I.T. Press: 1968

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28371

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

347 pp, 9 1/4" H. "A personal, readable, and thorough book, (it) presents annotated entries giving both the strong points and short-comings of the works listed. Mr. Ferguson's extensive work can well be expected to emerge as the major source book on its subject for many years to come." Section headings: General Works; General Bibliographies and Library Lists; Directories of Technical, Academic, and Business Organizations; Early Source Books and Manuscripts; Encyclopaedias, Compendia, and Dictionaries of Technology; Biography; Government Publications and Records; Manuscripts; Ill...
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Image for THE CAMBRIDGE CULTURAL HISTORY OF BRITAIN. VOLUME 3. SIXTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN. (FIRST PUBLISHED AS THE CAMBRIDGE CULTURAL GUIDE TO THE ARTS IN BRITAIN: RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION.)

THE CAMBRIDGE CULTURAL HISTORY OF BRITAIN. VOLUME 3. SIXTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN. (FIRST PUBLISHED AS THE CAMBRIDGE CULTURAL GUIDE TO THE ARTS IN BRITAIN: RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION.)

By: Ford, Boris, ed. Dominic Baker-Smith, Malcolm Airs, Derek Traversi, Eric Mercer, John Milsom, John Steane, Maurice Howard, Nigel Llewellyn, Philippa Glanville, Michael Leslie.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambrige University Press for The Folio Society: 1995

Seller ID: 29879

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

325 pp, 10" H. Bound in full dark blue cloth with title and shield in gold on spine. B&w illustrations and colour plates. Contents: General Introduction; Renaissance and Reformation; Architecture; Literature and Drama; The Town of Shrewsbury; Music; Renaissance Gardens and Parks; Painting and Imagery; A Tudor House: Hardwick Hall; The Crafts and Decorative Arts; Further Reading and Artists' Biographies; Index. Book is Fine.
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THE GEORGE STUART COLLECTION OF HISTORICAL FIGURES.

By: Foster, Keith, foreword. Inscribed by George Stuart.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Ventura County Historical Society/Museum, Ventura, California, 1985.:

Seller ID: 19746

31 pp, 11" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps). Profusely illustrated with color and b&w photographs. INSCRIBED AND DATED BY GEORGE STUART ON THE FOREWORD PAGE. The catalog of an exhibition of the amazing one-quarter life-size historical figures of George Stuart. Contents: Acknowledgements; Foreword; George Stuart - artist and historian; The Collection; The Renaissance and Reformation; The Tudors; The Stuarts; The Hanovers; The Three Louis; Marie Antoinette; The Romanoffs; The Fall of the Tz ars; The American Patriots; The American Founders; Queen Victoria; Abraham Lincoln; The Manchus. ...
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ITALIAN OPERA. AN INTRODUCTION INCLUDING STORIES OF TWELVE FAMOUS OPERAS.

By: Galatopoulos, Stelios.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: J.M. Dent & Sons, London, (1971).:

Seller ID: 12545

179 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w plates, music examples. "...traces (opera's) development from the first fine flowering in the Renaissance and its progression to more spectacular, gay, dramatic and intense phases in the hands of such geniuses as Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi and Puccini. The lives and careers of all the great Italian opera composers are touched upon and their major works introduced, with interesting sidelights on librettists and singers. The whole scene is related to outside developments such as the different trends and influences o...
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ARCHITECTONICS OF IMITATION IN SPENSER, DANIEL, AND DRAYTON.

By: Galbraith, David.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2000, first edition.:

Seller ID: 20851

229 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0802044514 B&w illustrations. "This ground-breaking study explores the treatment of the boundaries between poetry and history in three epic literary works: Spenser's 'Faerie Queene', S amuel Daniel's 'Civil Wars', and Michael Drayton's 'Poly-Olbion'. David Galbraith argues that each of the three national poems enters into a dialogue with classical and more contemporary predecessors and that this relationship has profound i m p l i c a t ions for understanding the English Renaissance. He explores the importance for each ...
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Image for A HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE IN AND AROUND LONDON. ARRANGED TO ILLUSTRATE THE COURSE OF ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND UNTIL THE END OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY WITH A LIST OF PRINCIPAL TWENTIETH-CENTURY BUILDINGS.

A HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE IN AND AROUND LONDON. ARRANGED TO ILLUSTRATE THE COURSE OF ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND UNTIL THE END OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY WITH A LIST OF PRINCIPAL TWENTIETH-CENTURY BUILDINGS.

By: Godfrey, Walter H.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Phoenix House: 1962

Edition: Revised Edition

Seller ID: 17344

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

264 pp, 8vo (8 9/16" H). Over 150 b&w illustrations (drawings and photographs) showing buildings, floor plans, architectural details. "(Studies the architecture of London and) beyond to Kent, Surrey, Hertfordshire, and elsewhere up to a limit of forty miles to introduce and describe the fine houses, churches, abbeys, palaces, and other buildings deserving of public interest in some of the home counties. It could justly be claimed that no major building of architectural merit from Norman to our own time is overlooked, and some of the greater glories of London's stone are the subject of...
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Keyword: Renaissance