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‎John Baldessari. Catalogue RaisonnÃ. Volume Three: 1987-1993. Vol 3‎

‎Pardo, Patrick and Robert Dean (eds), Briony Fer, John Baldessari and Ed Ruscha: John Baldessari. Catalogue RaisonnÃ. Volume Three: 1987-1993. Vol 3. New Haven and London: 2015. 528 pages, with 450 colour and 20 black and white illustrations. Hardback in a slipcase. 29.2 x 25.1cms.‎

‎To Seek is to Find: The Sculpture of John Loveridge ARBS. Made in Alabaster, Stone, Metal, Wood and Glass‎

‎Loveridge, John: To Seek is to Find: The Sculpture of John Loveridge ARBS. Made in Alabaster, Stone, Metal, Wood and Glass. London: 2005. 109pp with 88 colour plates. Cloth, 27.8x22cms. Catalogue of the works by this British sculptor (b. 1925).‎

‎Catalogue of the works by this British sculptor (b. 1925). Text in English‎

‎The World of Achaemenid Persia: History, Art and Society in Iran and the Ancient Near East‎

‎Curtis, John and Simpson, St John: The World of Achaemenid Persia: History, Art and Society in Iran and the Ancient Near East. London: I. B. Tauris, 2005. 626 pages, over 50 black and white illustrations. Hardback.‎

‎Ultimo. An imaginative narrration of life under the earth with projections.‎

‎New-York E.P. Dutton et Cie 1930 In-8 (26,5 x 20 cm.), 50 ff. non chiffrées, couverture cartonnée.‎

27 Images

‎Edition originale. Un des 115 exemplaires numérotés et signés. Edition illustrée de 22 planches hors-texte par John Vassos. John Vassos est une figure de l'Art Déco américain dont il fut un précurseur. Dans une ambiance mêlée de Bauhaus et d'expressionisme allemand, cette nouvelle de science-fiction décrit la vie dans l'espace. Quelques rousseurs, couverture un peu usée, infime enfoncement au dos.[First edition. Hardcover. One of 115 numbered and signed copies. Edition illustrated with 22 plates outside the text by John Vassos. John Vassos is a figure of American Art Deco, of which he was a precursor. In an atmosphere mixed with Bauhaus and German expressionism, this science fiction short story describes life in space. Some foxing, cover a little worn, tiny dent on the spine.] Libraire membre du S.L.A.M. (Syndicat national de la Librairie Ancienne et Moderne) et de la L.I.L.A. (Ligue Internationale de la Librairie Ancienne). N'hésitez pas à prendre contact par mail pour des photographies et des détails supplémentaires, pour des recherches ou des estimations de livres anciens et rares.‎

‎Francis Bacon. Introduction by John Rothenstein. Catalogue raisonnà and documentation by Ronald Alley.‎

‎Rothenstein, John, and Ronald Alley: Francis Bacon. Introduction by John Rothenstein. Catalogue raisonnà and documentation by Ronald Alley. London: Thames & Hudson, 1964. 292 pages, with 260 monochrome illustrations and 27 mounted colour plates. Damage to dust jacket, otherwise in very good used condition. Hardback. 23x29cms. Important early overview of Bacon's oeuvre with the catalogue raisonnà of all the surviving pictures and some of the most important destroyed pictures.‎

‎Important early overview of Bacon's oeuvre with the catalogue raisonnà of all the surviving pictures and some of the most important destroyed pictures.‎

‎Julio Gonzalez: Sculptures & Drawings‎

‎Harrison, Michael, Catherine Lampert, Penelope Curtis, and John Gibbons: Julio Gonzalez: Sculptures & Drawings. Exhibition: Glasgow, Art Gallery & Museum; London, Whitechapel Art Gallery and Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, 1990. 88 pages, illustrated in black & white throughout. Paperback. 22 x 27cms. Catalogue of 78 works for the travelling exhibition organised by the South Bank Centre and the Whitechapel Gallery with support from the Henry Moore Foundation. 2 essays discuss Gonzalez life and legacy, including a conversation between John Gibbons and Michael Harrison. With an errata insert.‎

‎Catalogue of 78 works for the travelling exhibition organised by the South Bank Centre and the Whitechapel Gallery with support from the Henry Moore Foundation. 2 essays discuss Gonzalez life and legacy, including a conversation between John Gibbons and Michael Harrison. With an errata insert.‎

‎Natter's Museum Britannicum: British gem collections and collectors of the mid-eighteenth century‎

‎Boardman, Sir John : Julia Kagan : Claudia Wagner & Catherine Phillips: Natter's Museum Britannicum: British gem collections and collectors of the mid-eighteenth century. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2017. iv, 304 pages. Illustrated throughout in colour and black & white. Hard cover. 29 x 21cms. Ex libris Professor Sir John Boardman, the book illustrates Lorenz Natter's 'Museum Britannicum', an 18th century catalogue of drawings and descriptions of ancient and later engraved gems in British collections. Natter's archive was thought to be lost until it was discovered by Oleg Neverov in the 1970s. The work presents Natter's drawings and comments alongside modern information on the gems and where possible colour photographs of the objects.‎

‎Ex libris Professor Sir John Boardman, the book illustrates Lorenz Natter's 'Museum Britannicum', an 18th century catalogue of drawings and descriptions of ancient and later engraved gems in British collections. Natter's archive was thought to be lost until it was discovered by Oleg Neverov in the 1970s. The work presents Natter's drawings and comments alongside modern information on the gems and where possible colour photographs of the objects.‎

‎Natter's Museum Britannicum. British Gem Collections and Collectors of the Mid-Eighteenth Century‎

‎Boardman, John, Iuliia Osvaldovna Kagan, Claudia Wagner, Catherine Phillips and: Natter's Museum Britannicum. British Gem Collections and Collectors of the Mid-Eighteenth Century. Archaeopress, 2020. iii, 304 pages, illustrated throughout in colour. Paperback. 28 x 25cms. Ex libris Professor Sir John Boardman, the book illustrates Lorenz Natter's 'Museum Britannicum', an 18th century catalogue of drawings and descriptions of ancient and later engraved gems in British collections. Natter's archive was thought to be lost until it was discovered by Oleg Neverov in the 1970s. The work presents Natter's drawings and comments alongside modern information on the gems and where possible colour photographs of the objects.‎

‎Ex libris Professor Sir John Boardman, the book illustrates Lorenz Natter's 'Museum Britannicum', an 18th century catalogue of drawings and descriptions of ancient and later engraved gems in British collections. Natter's archive was thought to be lost until it was discovered by Oleg Neverov in the 1970s. The work presents Natter's drawings and comments alongside modern information on the gems and where possible colour photographs of the objects. Text in English‎

‎Praeterita. Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of the Memory of My Past Life. 3 vols‎

‎Ruskin, John: Praeterita. Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of the Memory of My Past Life. 3 vols. George Allen, 1866-1900. 1st Edition. 8vo. Vol. I, with engravings, 432 pages.; Vol. II, 1887 with engravings, 442 pages.; Vol. III, 1900, with two engravings, 182 pages. Hardback. 24.5 x 16cms.‎

‎Text in English‎

‎Catalogue of the Library of John Day, Esq., Deceased, Late of Belgrave Mansions, S.w., and High Cross, Tottenham; Also, Valuable Books, Returned from the Sale of the Aylesford Library; the Library of a Lady‎

‎Day, John: Catalogue of the Library of John Day, Esq., Deceased, Late of Belgrave Mansions, S.w., and High Cross, Tottenham; Also, Valuable Books, Returned from the Sale of the Aylesford Library; the Library of a Lady. 1888. 41 pages. 24cms. 23 May 1888.‎

‎23 May 1888.‎

‎Athenian Potters and Painters. The Conference Proceedings‎

‎Oakley, John H. et al: Athenian Potters and Painters. The Conference Proceedings. Oxbow, 1997. Oxbow Monographs in Archaeology, 67. 550 pages, illustrated. Signed 'John Boardman' on the front fly. Hardback. 31.5x21cms. All the papers, many expanded for publication, from the international conference 'Athenian Potters and Painters' held at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens on December 1-4, 1994.‎

‎All the papers, many expanded for publication, from the international conference 'Athenian Potters and Painters' held at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens on December 1-4, 1994.‎

‎The lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England from the earliest times till the reign of King George IV / till the reign of Queen Victoria. 8 volumes‎

‎Campbell, John 1st baron: The lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England from the earliest times till the reign of King George IV / till the reign of Queen Victoria. 8 volumes. London: John Murray, 1845-1869.‎

‎Pre-Christian Religions of the North. History and Structures‎

‎, Brepols, 2020 Hardback, 4 vols, lxviii + 2122 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:297 b/w, 3 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503574899.‎

‎Summary The product of an international interdisciplinary team, the History and Structures strand of the Pre-Christian Religion of the North series aims to approach the subject by giving equal weight to archaeological and textual sources, taking into consideration recent theories on religion within all the disciplines that are needed in order to gain a comprehensive view of the religious history and world view of pre-Christian Scandinavia from the perspective of the beginning of the twenty-first century. Volume I presents the basic premises of the study and a consideration of the sources: memory and oral tradition, written sources, religious vocabulary, place names and personal names, archaeology, and images. Volume II treats the social, geographical, and historical contexts in which the religion was practiced and through which it can be understood. This volume also includes communication between worlds, primarily through various ritual structures. Volume III explores conceptual frameworks: the cosmos and collective supernatural beings (notions regarding the cosmos and regarding such collective supernatural beings as the norns, valkyries, giants, and dwarfs) and also gods and goddesses (including rr, inn, Freyr, Freyja, and many others). Volume IV describes the process of Christianization in the Nordic region and also includes a bibliography and indices for the entire four-volume work. TABLE OF CONTENTS Volume 1. Introductory and Sources Jens Peter Schj dt, John Lindow, Anders Andr n, Preface & Introduction Jens Peter Schj dt, Theoretical Considerations Pernille Hermann, Memory, Oral Tradition, and Sources John Lindow, Written Sources John Lindow, Language: Religious Vocabulary Per Vikstrand, Language: Placenames and Personal Names Anders Andr n, Archaeology Anders Andr n, Images Terry Gunnell, Folklore Anders Andr n, The Spatial and Temporal Frame John Lindow, The Linguistic Frame Jens Peter Schj dt, Continuity and Break: Indo-European Jens Peter Schj dt, Continuity and Break: Germanic Rudolf Simek, Encounters: Roman Matthias Egeler, Encounters: Celtic Leszek P. S?upecki, Encounters: Slavic Thomas Dubois, Encounters: Baltic Thomas Dubois, Encounters: S mi Thomas Dubois, Encounters: Balto-Finnic Volume 2. Contexts and Communication between Worlds Anders Andr n, Historical and Social Contexts Stefan Brink, Laws and Assemblies John Lindow, Ethics Judy Quinn, Gender Jens Peter Schj dt, Kings and Rulers Jens Peter Schj dt, Warrior Bands Jens Peter Schj dt, Various Ways of Communicating Stephen A. Mitchell, Magic and Religion Torun Zachrisson & Anders Andr n, Ritual Space Andreas Nordberg, Ritual Time and Time Reckoning Olof Sundqvist, Cultic Leaders and Religious Specialists Jens Peter Schj dt, Crisis Rituals Jens Peter Schj dt, Cyclical Rituals Jens Peter Schj dt, Passage Rituals Neil Price, Death Ritual and Mortuary Behaviour John Lindow & Anders Andr n, Worlds of the Dead John Lindow, Fate John Lindow & Jens Peter Schj dt, The Divine, the Human and In Between Volume 3. Conceptual Frameworks: Cosmos and Collective Supernatural Beings, Gods and Goddesses Mathias Nordvig, Cosmogony Mathias Nordvig, Cosmology Anders Hultg rd, Cosmic Eschatology: Ragnar k John Lindow, Vanir and sir John Lindow, rr Jens Peter Schj dt, inn Olof Sundqvist, Freyr Jens Peter Schj dt, Loki Ingunn sd sard ttir, Freyja John Lindow, Baldr John Lindow, Nj?r r John Lindow, T r Anders Andr n, Ullr Sebastian C llen, Heimdallr Ingunn sd sard ttir, Frigg Jens Peter Schj dt, Hoenir John Lindow, Ska i John Lindow & Jens Peter Schj dt, Minor Gods and Goddesses Anders Andr n, Divine Twins Anders Andr n, Sun and Moon Rudolf Simek, Matronae John Lindow, D sir Karen Bek-Pedersen, Norns Judy Quinn, Valkyries Margaret Clunies Ross, Giants Terry Gunnell, Dvergar (Dwarfs) Terry Gunnell, lfar (Elves) Volume 4. The Christianization Process, Bibliography, General Indices Michael H. Gelting, The Christianization of Denmark S bj rg Walaker Nordeide, The Christianization of Norway J n Vi ar Sigur sson, The Christianization of the North Atlantic Bertil Nilsson, The Christianization of Sweden Tuomas Heikkil , Christianization of Finland H kan Rydving, The Christianization of the S mi Primary & Secondary Sources - General Indices‎

‎"Mesures - 15 juillet 1939 - N° 3"‎

‎"1939. Paris Mesures 15 juillet 1939 - Numéro spécial consacré aux Lettres américaines - Broché 19 cm x 24 cm 382 pages - Comité de rédaction : Henry Church Bernard Groethuysen Henri Michaux Jean Paulhan Giuseppe Ungaretti ; Textes et poèmes de R. P. du Poisin Cotton Mather Benjamin Franklin John Paul Jones Saint John de Crèvecoeur Washington Irvin Edgar Poe Walt Whitmann William H. Herndon Emily Dinkinson Vachel Lindsay James Weldon Johnson Hart Crane John Peale Bishop Langston Hughes Robinson Jeffers Archibald Macleish Henry Miller Marianne Moore John Dos Passos John Crowe Ransom Wallace Stevens Allen Tate William Carlos Williams ; trad. de Raymond Queneau Pierre Leyris Fernand Auberjonois ...- Taches sur les premières pages sinon bon état" ‎

‎DISCONNECTED‎

‎ 1974 disque Etats-Unis, 1974, Giorno Poetry System GPS003, 2 disques 33trs, 30cm, sous pochette ouvrante, conception et photographies de Les Levine.Cet album est un "do-it-yourself dial-a-poem kit".Avec Charles Amirkhanian, John Ashberry, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Bill Berkson, Joe Brainard, Michael Brownstein, William S. Burroughs, John Cage, Jim Carroll, Tom Clark, Clark Coolidge, Gregory Corso, Robert Creeley, Diane Di Prima, Ed Dorn, Larry Fagin, Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Frank Lima, Michael McClure, Gerard Malanga, Bernadette Mayer, Frank O'Hara, Charles Olson, Peter Orlovsky, Maureen Owen, Ron Padgett, John Perreault, Charles Plymell, Ed Sanders, Jack Spicer, Lorenzo Thomas, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Diane Wakoski, Anne Waldmann, Philip Whalen, John Wieners. (103163) ‎

‎Bell's Edition. The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill‎

‎At the Apollo Press, by the Martins | Edinburgh 1779 - 1804 | 8.50 x 13.50 cm | 99 tomes en 34 volumes reliés‎

‎Très rare réunion des volumes de la célèbre édition Bell des poètes britanniques en reliure uniforme, qui compte ici 101 volumes et dont l'impression fut largement étalée dans le temps, les volumes se vendant par auteur. Le volume 8 qui réunissait les tomes 5 et 6 des oeuvres poétiques de Edmund Spencer est malheureusement manquant. Certains volumes paraissent pour la première fois, d'autres sont en seconde édition. Cette très importante édition pour la poésie britannique regroupe 39 poètes depuis Chaucer jusque Charles Churchill et 99 figures (portraits et frontispices). Elle est précieuse car de nombreux poètes virent leur première édition complète par ce biais, notamment John Donne. Reliure anglaise en pleine basane blonde d'époque. Dos lisse orné de divers fers, dont un roi agenouillé, de multiples roulettes. Pièce de titre en maroquin vert. Papier dans l'ensemble propre, mais quelques feuillets brunis et avec rousseurs, notamment quelques gravures. Détail de cet important ensemble : - The poetical works of Geof. Chaucer. 1782. 14 tomes en 5 volumes, tome 1 à 5. Manques en têtes des tome 1 et 4. Mors supérieur du tome 1 en partie fendu, mors supérieur du tome 2 fendu. - The poetical works of John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham. 1801. Un portrait en médaillon, un titre-frontispice. Volume 5. - The poetical works of Edmund Spencer. 1787-1788. 8 tomes en 4 volumes. Les tomes 5 et 6 contenus dans le volume 8 manquant. Tête du tome 7 légèrement élimée. Mors supérieur du tome 7 en partie fendu. - The poetical works of Samuel Butler. 1797. 3 tomes contenus dans le volume 10. Un portrait dans un médaillon, 3 titres-frontispices. - Ovide translated by eminent persons (Fryden, Congreve, Garth...). 1801. 4 tomes, volume 11. 2 titres-frontispices. Un manque en tête. Mors étroitement fendus en tête. - The poetical works of John Donne. 1799-1800. 3 tomes, volume 12. Un portrait en médaillon et 3 titres-frontispices. Mors supérieur étroitement fendu en tête. -The poetical works of William Congreve. 1784. 1 tome, volume 13. Un portrait dans un médaillon, un titre-frontispice. Mors supérieur étroitement fendu en tête. -The poetical works of Abraham Cowley. 1784. 4 tomes, volume 13 et 14. Un portrait dans un médaillon, 2 titres-frontispices. - The poetical works of John Cunningham. 1797. 1 tome. Volume 14. Un portrait dans un médaillon, 1 titre-frontispice. Manques en tête. Mors fendu en tête. -The poetical works of James Hammond. 1803. 1 tome. Volume 15. -The poetical works of Lord Lyttelton. 1788. 1 tome, volume 15. Un portrait dans un médaillon, 1 titre frontispice. -The poetical works of Edmund Waller. 1784. 2 tomes, volume 16. Un portrait dans un médaillon, 2 titres-frontispices. Un accroc avec manque dans le caisson de queue. -The poetical works of Thomas Parnell. 1786. 2 tomes, volume 17. Un portrait dans un médaillon, un titre-frontispice. Coiffe de tête légèrement et en partie élimée, mors supérieur étroitement fendu en queue. -The poetical works of John Pomfret. 1787. 1 tome, volume 17. Un titre-frontispice. -The poetical works of John Gray. 1800. 1 tome, volume 18. Léger manque en tête. Mors supérieur étroitement fendu en tête. -The poetical works of John Hugues. 1796. 2 tomes, volume 18. Un portrait dans un médaillon, 2 titres-frontispices. -The poetical works of Joseph Addison. 1803. 1 tome, volume 19. 1 titre-frontispice. -The poetical works of John Armstrong. 1793. 1 tome, volume 19. Un portrait dans un médaillon, un titre-frontispice. -The poetical works of William Broome. 1802. 1 tome, volume 19. -The poetical works of Nicholas Rowe. 1801. 1 tome, volume 20. Un portrait dans un médaillon, un titre-frontispice. Coiffe de tête légèrement élimée. -The poetical works of James Thomson. 1800. 2 tomes, volume 20. Un portrait dans un médaillon, 2 titres-frontispices. -The poetical works of John Milton. 1804. 4 tomes, volumes 21 et 22. Un portrait dans un médaillon, 4 titres-frontispices. Petit manque en tête.‎

‎The Tordenskjold-expedition. 71 albumen prints from the 1860'ies to 1873. - [FINE COLLECTION OF EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS FROM EAST-ASIA DOCUMENTING THE LAYDOWN OF THE FIRST TELEGRAPH CABLES IN EAST-ASIA]‎

‎1870-1872. Folio-oblong (395 x 320 mm). Original brown half calf, recased - the original cloth (with gilt lettering to the front) has been expertly mounted on to the new boards, and most of the original gilt leather spine has been preserved over a perfectly matching new lovely brown half calf. ""Tordenskjold / 1870 - 1873"" in gilt lettering, partly worn of, to front board. End-papers renewed. 71 albumen print in various sizes and by various photographers (see below) mounted on 59 contemporary white cardboard leaves (measuring 370 x 310 mm), all re-hinged. The album was water-damaged at some point, but has been expertly and neatly restored and appears in overall very good condition with good tones. 1, Oval photo of Tordenskjold (205 x 60mm) 2, Photo of Tordenskjold (190 x 143 mm) 3, Crew aboard Tordenskjold (200 x 14 mm) 4, Crew aboard Tordenskjold (157 x 128 mm) 5, Crew and equipment aboard Tordenskjold (228 x 176 mm) 6, Naval officers about Tordenskjold (167 x 130 mm). 7, 8 small photos of various places on one plate (274 x 190 mm) 8, The harbor of Port Said. By Hippolyte Arnoux (247 x 190mm) 9, Muddigging machines in the channel of Port Said. By Hippolyte Arnoux. (245 x 190mm) 10, Port Said. By Hippolyte Arnoux. 11, Malta (262 x 207 mm) 12, Two photos of Malta (each measuring 134 x 120 mm) 13, Two photos of Gibraltar (Each measuring 148 x 114) 14, Deep Water Bay, Hong Kong (194 x 130 mm). 15, Two photos depicting telegraph-house and ships in Deep Water Bay (each measuring 150 x 112) 16, Boat with people. By Felice Beato, coloured (294 x 235 mm) 17, House next to river. By John Thomson, December 1870 (278 x 225 mm) 17, Seamen’s hospital in Hong Kong. (261 x 190 mm) 18, Hong Kong. (270 x 195 mm) 19, Hong Kong, by Floyd (270 x 192 mm) 20, Hong Kong, by Floyd (240 x 190 mm) 21, Two photos of sites in Hong Kong (each measuring 165 x 127 mm) 22, Five Sikhs in Hong Kong (215 x 244 mm) 23, Group of women in Hong Kong, (326 x 215 mm) 24, Two photos of Hong Kong harbour, one photo depicting “Cella” (182 x 105" 130 x 98 mm) 25, Villa at Canton. (264 x 190 mm) 26, Pagode in Xuexiu Park, Guangdong. By William Pryor Floyd. (195 x 246 mm) 27, Boats in Canton. William Pryor Floyd,(270 x 223 mm) 28, Pou-Ting-Qua’s Garden, Canton. By John Thomson. (289 x 230 mm) 29, Fields in Canton. (205 x 155 mm) 30, Houses in Canton. (267 x 210 mm) 31, Canton harbor. By John Thomson. (245 x 202 mm) 32, Boat on the Canton river. (274 x 204 mm) 33, Wall around Canton. (260 x 200 mm). 34, Boats in Canton (293 x 225) 35, Telegraphstation in Woosung. (150 x 110 mm) 36, Boats in Foochow. (287 x 232 mm) 37, Temple in Foochow. By John Thomson (190 x 237 mm) 38, Pagode in Foochow. Presumably by John Thomson. (287 x 220 mm). 39, Tomb of Fou Tcheou. By John Thomson. (290 x 225 mm). 40, Temple in Shanghai. (237 x 188 mm). 41, Shanghai. (232 x 176 mm) 42, Chaochow bridge, Kwangtung. By John Thomson. (266 x 204 mm). 43. Panorama of Nagasaki consisting of two photos. (371 x142 mm) 44, Two photos of Nagasaki. Felice Beato. (Each measuring 169 x 119 mm). 45, Two photos from Nagasaki. Presumably by Felice Beato. (Each measuring 165 x 118 mm) 46, Two photos from Nagasaki. Presumably by Felice Beato. (Each measuring 165 x 118 mm) 47, Temple in Nagasaki. Presumably by Felice Beato. (169 x 118 mm). 48, Photo of Japanese woman in kimono. By Felice Beato. (205 x 255 mm). 49, Two photos of officers in house in Yokohama. (162 x 125 mm). 50, The Abbot and Monks of Kushan Monastery. By John Thomson. (287 x 204 mm). 51, Wooden structure, presumably Nagasaki. Presumably by Felice Beato. (270 x 208 mm) 52, Pagode, presumably Nagasaki. Presumably by Felice Beato. (234 x 185 mm) 53, Cityscape with lake, presumably Nagasaki. Presumably by Felice Beato.. (280 x 228 mm). 54, Two photos, cemetery and stairs to temple. By Felice Beato. (Each measuring 168 x 118 mm). 55, People standing outside house, presumably Hong Kong. By John Thomson. (185 x 155 mm) 56, Guangzhou Great Norh Gate, Canton. By John Thomson (245 x 156 mm). 57, Two photos, one of the building of a telegraph station (presumably in Wladivostok) and a view of Wladivostok from the sea (154 x 123 130 x 99 mm). 58, Seascape of two ships. (130 x 140 mm). 59, Ship laying for anchor. (170 x 123 mm)‎

‎Exceedingly rare photo-album documenting the Danish vessel Tordenskjold’s mission in laying the very first telegraph cables in East Asia thereby connecting China and Japan to the global telegraph system. The album consists of photos taken aboard the vessel Tordenskjold, of Tordenskjold itself along with its crew, by an unknown photographer, and of photographs of the visited cities and surrounding areas by some of the finest photographers operating in East Asia at the time, such as John Thomson, William Floyd, Felice Beato and, in Egypt, Hippolyte Arnoux - all photographs presumably brought home by William Lund, Captain on board Tordenskjold. Through some of the earliest photos taken in China, Japan, and of the excavation of the Suez Canal, the present album depicts a pivotal moment in international relations and communications. Submarine telegraph cables were first brought to China by Danish magnate Carl Fredrick Tietgen (1829-1901), who in 1870 set up the Great Northern China and Japan Extension Company. The company was created to build and operate a telegraph cable connecting Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Japan, continuing on to Vladivostok on Russia's East coast. From Vladivostok, a cable ran along the Trans-Siberian Railway, linking Hong Kong to telegraph networks in Britain, Europe, and America. Tietgen fought off strong competition - primarily English-, and eventually won the concession to lay and operate new telegraph cables connecting Russia, China and Japan. Tietgen and his partners had embarked upon a grand and risky project. Undersea cables would need to be laid in waters that had not been sounded, cables were to be brought ashore on coasts where the prevailing conditions were not known, and it was uncertain whether the respective governments would grant permission. Everything – cables, stations, wire, and apparatus – was to be brought from Europe and had to function as a coherent system. Two chartered English steamships ‘Cella’ and ‘Great Northern’ were to transport and lay the cables, and the propeller-driven Danish frigate ‘Tordenskjold’ was to sound the waters near Nagasaki and Vladivostok, it had to also carry a relatively small amount of cables, and it was to keep away uninvited guests (of which there were plenty in the South China Sea). “As a small nation with negligible military resources, Denmark could provide a useful – politically neutral – centre for telegraph links to major European powers such as Britain, Russia and the emerging new power of Prussia. The Danes were able to utilize the technical know-how which had been accumulated with great difficulty, and occasionally heavy economic losses, in the preceding decades by British and American entrepreneurs. The competition between the Danish and British groups of telegraph entrepreneurs for first access to the Chinese market was preliminarily resolved when the directors of the two companies negotiated a secret agreement in May 1870. The Danish group had acquired an advantage in terms of timing by winning the Russian concession in 1869, and had to cover shorter distances by sea cables from Vladivostok to Nagasaki and Shanghai. But the British group had the advantage of better access to capital and a more extensive technical experience with submarine cable manufacture and operation. The essence of the agreement was that the line between Hong Kong and Shanghai should be established and operated by the Great Northern the companies would share the income for telegrams which passed this section of the line and they would run offices in Hong Kong and Shanghai jointly. The agreement provided the Danes with assured landing rights in Hong Kong and with British diplomatic support for attempts to secure landing rights in China. Permission to bring submarine telegraph cables into Chinese treaty ports was obtained in 1870 from the Chinese Government (i.e., the office of foreign affairs, known as the Zongli Yamen) by the British Minister in Peking, Thomas Wade. At the same time, the Danish government had dispatched a diplomatic envoy, Chamberlain Julius Sick, at the Great Northern’s expense to China and Japan to obtain the necessary concessions. The cable between Hong Kong and Shanghai was laid in 1870–1871 with the assistance of the frigate Tordenskjold, which the Danish government had generously allocated to the task. The Great Northern had a great deal of technical problems with the cables they had bought from the British manufacturer since the quality of the insulation was not as good as expected. Therefore, the official opening of the line between Shanghai and Hong Kong was delayed until April 1871. During the remainder of that year the company struggled to finish cable sections from Shanghai to Nagasaki, and from Nagasaki to Vladivostok. Communication between Shanghai and Europe via these cables and the Russian Siberian lines was officially inaugurated on 1 January 1872.” (Erik Baark: Wires, Codes and People The Great Northern Telegraph Company in China 1870–90) The album covers and illustrates one on the most fascinating periods in the process of internationalization in the late modern period: The Suez Canal had just opened and ‘Tordenskjold’ was the first Danish ship to sail through it. The submarine cables linked the major hubs in East Asia to the Western world and helped facilitate an unprecedented growth in the region. Overall, the laying of the submarine cable in 1870-71 was a transformative event for East Asia in general. It played a critical role in the area's economic and social development, helping to make it the global commercial center it is today. ‎

‎The Radical: An Autobiography. By the Author of ""The Member, ""The Ayrshire Legatees"", etc. etc. - [WHO IS JOHN GALT?]‎

‎London, 1832 A lovely contemporary full calf binding with Gilt spine, gilt and blindstamped border-ornamentations and gilt armorial centre-piece to boards. Some wear to extremities and hinges. Nice and tight. Internally very nice and clean, with only occasional, very light minor brownspotting.‎

‎The scarce first edition of one of the main works of John Galt, the first political novelist in the English language. Althought the name ""Gohn Galt"" is now primarily associated with the main character of Ayn Rand's modern political classic ""Atlas Shrugged"", the ""real"" John Galt (1779-1839) was one of the best known Scottish political and social novelists of the 19th century. Like Rand's John Galt, he too was an entrepeneur, greatly active in political and social issues. Because he was the first novelist to deal with issues of the industrial revolution, he has been called the first political novelist in the English language.""The Radical"" is a study of religion, politics and law in the local boroughs of Scotland during the transitional late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. As several of his other novels, it is concerned with the effects of change upon communities and upon the social institutions that shape those communities. The work is famous for its, prosaic studies, that are, however, far from dry, and Galt’s storytelling is known to be characterised by wit and humour.Together ""The Radical"" and ""The Member"" (also 1832) make up what John Galt himself calls ""the Reform"", as he states in his autobiography, ""they serve to illustrate, by the by, the sagicity of the trade, for they are thought to have too much a seeming of truth, and the sale of them has not been satisfactory. [...]The Radical [...] is deduced from principles and feelings coeval with human nature. It seems to me that the Radicals of our time forget that we are living in society for the benefitsof which we have surrendered a portion of our natural rights. The work in consequence turns on supposing, that what our natural feelings prompt must therefore be what we are entitled to do and to enjoy, forgetting altogether how much the social ties restrain the exercise of natural rights. But although some of my friends think the two works clever and philosophical, and although, on the Continent they have attracted more attantion than any other product of my pen, they have almost been still-born here. [...]."" (John Galt, The Literary Life and Miscellanies of John Galt, 1834, pp. 318-19). John Galt was born in Irvine as the son of a sea captain who traded with the West Indies. In 1789 the family moved to Greenock and much of Galt’s fiction draws from the localities of the west coast of Scotland where he spent his youth. John Galt was possessed of a pragmatic as well as an imaginative turn of mind. He had a keen interest in business and politics and always maintained that he regarded writing as a secondary profession. From 1796 - 1804 Galt worked as a junior justice clerk in Greenock before setting off for London on a sudden impulse of restless ambition. Here he studied political economy and commercial history and practise but failed to really make his mark on the business world despite several promising ventures.Around the age of twenty-four Galt began writing. He experimented in verse but was an inferior poet. Several of his essays, however, were published and this writing at this time demonstrates his early interest in politics and the colonies, particularly Canada which had long captured his imagination.In 1809 Galt spent a period of time travelling on the Mediterranean and it was here that he made his acquaintance with Lord Byron who was to become the subject of his acclaimed biography The Life of Byron in 1830. In 1811 he returned to London, his commercial aspirations disappointed and turned to journalism as a means of making money. At 34, he married the daughter of his literary patron, Alexander Tilloch. It was at this time too that Galt gained his experience of the workings of Parliament as a lobbyist for the Edinburgh-Glasgow canal. These experiences were to be formative in Galt’s later political career in Canada and were also to inform his later political novels, The Radical and The Member.Despite critical and commercial success, Galt had not abandoned his business aspirations. In 1824 Galt became actively involved in political campaigning on behalf of the Canadian colony and two years later left for Canada leaving the manuscript for The Last of the Lairds with his publisher. During the years 1827-29 Galt developed the virgin territories of the Canadian colony and founded the townships of Guelph and Goderich. For Galt, the Canadian project was the realisation of his most profound ambitions. But he was to fall foul of colonial bureaucracy and was eventually forced to return to Britain in 1829 under charges of debt and placed in prison.Having returned to Britain, John Galt began writing again, and in 1832 he produced two of his most famous works, ""The Radical"" and ""The Member"", for which he is primarily remembered today. ‎

‎Alfred Hitchcock - Histoires percutantes‎

‎PRESSES POCKET N°2114. 1962. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos satisfaisant, Quelques rousseurs. 283 PAGES. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne‎

‎STANLEY ABBOTT- JOHN CORTEZ- DONAL HONIG- NIELSEN HELEN- RICHARD CURTIS- ED. MCBAIN- ROBERT ARTHUR- RICHARD DEMING- JAY STREET- JAMES HOLDING- FLETCHER FLORA- MARGARET CHENOWETH- DAN J MARLOWE- TALMAGE POWELL- THEODORE PRATT- DONALD OLSON- ARTHUR GORDON Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne‎

‎The Ceiling Paintings for the Jesuit Church in Antwerp. Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard. Part I‎

‎Martin, John Rupert: The Ceiling Paintings for the Jesuit Church in Antwerp. London: Phaidon, 1968. Series: Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard. Part I. 241 pages, 203 monochrome illustrations. Dustjacket torn, inside pages clean. Hardback. 26.5x19cms. Part of the large series 'Corpus Rubenianum', this volumes analyses and attempts to reconstruct throught the spirited grisaille sketches and final oil sketches, the 39 ceiling paintings painted by Rubens in 1620-1621 for the newly-built Jesuit Church in Antwerp and destroyed by fire in 1718.‎

‎Part of the large series 'Corpus Rubenianum', this volumes analyses and attempts to reconstruct throught the spirited grisaille sketches and final oil sketches, the 39 ceiling paintings painted by Rubens in 1620-1621 for the newly-built Jesuit Church in Antwerp and destroyed by fire in 1718.‎

‎Archaic Greek Gems. Schools and artists in the sixth and early fifth centuries B.C.‎

‎Boardman, John: Archaic Greek Gems. Schools and artists in the sixth and early fifth centuries B.C. Evanston: Thames & Hudson, 1968. 236 pages with line drawings in the text and 3 pages of colour and 40 pages of monochrome illustrations. Hardback. 25.5x16cms. Scholarly study. Arntzen P598.‎

‎Scholarly study. Text in English‎

‎The Buddhist Art of Gandhara. The Story of the Early School, its Birth, Growth and Decline‎

‎Marshall, John: The Buddhist Art of Gandhara. The Story of the Early School, its Birth, Growth and Decline. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1960. 118 pages, 111 black and white plates. Cloth. ex-library book no dust jacket.‎

‎ex-library book no dust jacket. Text in English‎

‎Northern Pontic Antiquities in the State Hermitage Museum. Colloquia Pontica‎

‎Boardman, John; Sergei L. Solovyov and Gocha R. Tsetskhladze (eds.): Northern Pontic Antiquities in the State Hermitage Museum. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2001. Series: Colloquia Pontica. 342pp. with figure illustrations in the text. Cloth. 24.5x16.5cms. A fully-illustrated volume of Graeco-Roman antiquities, such as earrings, engraved gems and pottery, from the Pontic region on the south-east coast of the Black Sea and now in the State Hermitage Museum. Includes those recently unearthed during museum excavations in Berezan, Myrmekion and Nymphaeum.‎

‎A fully-illustrated volume of Graeco-Roman antiquities, such as earrings, engraved gems and pottery, from the Pontic region on the south-east coast of the Black Sea and now in the State Hermitage Museum. Includes those recently unearthed during museum excavations in Berezan, Myrmekion and Nymphaeum. Text in English‎

‎The Berlin Painter. Oxford Monographs on Classical Archeology.‎

‎Kurtz, Donna Carol; with drawings by Sir John Beazley: The Berlin Painter. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. Series: Oxford Monograhs on Classical Archeology. xv, 123pp + 62 plates. Cloth, 22.5x29cms.‎

‎Greek Vases: Lectures by J. D. Beazley‎

‎Beazley, Sir John edited by Donna Carol Kurtz: Greek Vases: Lectures by J. D. Beazley. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1989. xxi, 128 pages, 80 plates. Hardback.‎