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‎Contes. Avec une notice bio-bibliographique par Octave UZANNE.‎

‎ Paris, A. Quantin, 1878 - In-8 - 1/2 Reliure - dos à nerfs à filets & ornements dorés, titre doré - Gardes jaspées -Signet - Portrait-frontispice gravé par Ad. LALAUZE d'après COCHIN, une vignette gravée par A. MONGIN, un fac-similé - Bandeaux, culs-de-lampe et lettrines - Tiré à petit nombre sur vergé à grandes marges - LXVI-222 pages - TRES BON EXEMPLAIRE.‎

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‎VOORUIT Icon & Future. Essay by Christoph Grafe and Beatrice Josse, Interview with artists Bonom, Strook and Christoph Hefti. Interview with architect Geert Pauwels by Egon Verleye‎

‎, MER Paper Kunsthalle, 2020 Softcover, 292 x 215 mm, 160 pages, English / NL edition. ISBN 9789463930796.‎

‎This book offers an architectural report of the metamorphosis that the Vooruit art center has known during the last ten years. Spurred on by a growing need for the arts center to physically adapt and make new connections with its surroundings and its users, the iconic monument underwent a transformation from a cultural home to an urban platform. The book further elaborates on the vision of the architect and how he wants to build on this art and architecture treasure from the past in a unique and challenging way. The social importance and responsibilities of the arts center in the city are deepened in a debate, in which sustainability and greening are also given a place. In addition, art in the public space becomes an important theme in the publication. Three artists give their reflection on the new architecture through interviews. Their artworks are a lasting witness. In the first part, architecture reviewer Christoph Grafe elaborates on the social and architectural importance of the transformation. In the second part, Louis Demey (ov) enters into a dialogue with architect Geert LM Pauwels. Finally, the artists Christophe Hefti, Strook and Bonom give their view of art in the public space. The dialogue between old and new is beautifully portrayed by the powerful photography of Karin Borghouts, Michiel Devijver and Reinhart Cosaert. Authors Essay by Christoph Grafe and Beatrice Josse, Interview with artists Bonom, Strook and Christoph Hefti. Interview with architect Geert Pauwels by Louis Demey. Photography Reinhart Cosaert, Karin Borghouts, Reiner Lautwein, Stijn Bollaert, Michiel Devyver‎

‎Comprising World Map, Europe and The Middle East, Classical Greece, Classical Rome, Biblical and Patriarchal History.‎

‎Paris, Melchior Tavernier, Pierre Mariette et al., 1636-78. Folio. (45 x 32,5 cm.). Bound in a 19th Century hcalf with title on spine in gilt lettering: ""N. Sanson - Atlas - 1641"". Maps varying sizes Ca. (38-43 cm.) x (50-53 cm.). With 67 fine engraved maps, 40 by N. Sanson and G. Sanson, 8 by De la Rue, 7 by Duval, 10 by Tavernier (done by Sanson), 2 by Philippus Briet (Chez Pierre Mariette, Henri le Roy fecit, and Michel van Lochom). The first 22 fully coloured !!, the last 45 outline coloured. Map 42-45 by Tavernier with 2 small inkspots on verso which are seen in the middle of the maps in one case creating a small whole in the image. The last map with 2 small repairs in upper margin, not affecting image. Otherwise the maps are clean and fine, all in contemporary handcolouring.‎

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‎This is a fine composite atlas by the engravers of the French 17th century school. Most of the 67 maps are by Nicolas Sanson and his son Guillaume Sanson (40 + 10, as the Tavernier-maps are done by Sanson).Nicolas Sanson (1600-1667) is generally thought of as the father of the 17th century school of map-making, maps which are known for their charm and elegance in the fine lettering and delicate engraving. Sanson published an atlas of France, world atlasses and another atlas with the title ""Cartes Générales de toutes les Parties du Monde (1658), containing 82 maps. After his death, the firm was run by his sons Guillaume and Adrian. After 1670 the firm's map-making material was taken over by Herbert Jaillot. Pierre Duval (1618-1683), here represented with 7 maps, was geographer to the King of France and pupil of Sanson.Content: 1. World Map (2 hemispheres, ""Orbis Vetus"", (showing California as an island) Sanson 1657). - 2. Europa Vetus (N. & G. Sanson 1668). - 3. Asia Vetus (N. & G. Sanson 1667). - 4. Africa Vetus (N. & G. Sanson 1667) - 5. Atlantis Insula (North- and South America. Showing California as an island. N. & G. Sanson, 1669). - 6. Hispania Antiquae Tabulae. (N. Sanson, 1641) - 7. Galliae Antiqiquae. (N. Sanson 1642. - 8. Les Suisses...Souabe etc. (N. Sanson 1667). - 9. Germania Antiqua. (N. Sanson 1641). - 10. Belgica in provincias quattor. N. Sanson 1659). - 11. Italia Antiqua cum ...Sicilia Sardinia & Corsica. (N. Sanson 1641). - 12. Illyricum Orientis...Moesia et Thracia...(Sanson no date ca. 1640). - 13. Illyricum Occidens... (N. Sanson no date, ca 1640), . 14. Graeciae Antiquae.... (N. Sanson 1636). - 15.Creta Insula... (G. Sanson 1676). - 16. Britannicae Insulae.... N. Sanson 1641). - 17. L Royaume D'Angleterre... (N. Sanson 1665). - 18. L'Escosse Royaume... (N. Sanson 1665). - 19. Iralnde Royaume... (Sanson 1665). - 20. Baltiae, quae est Scandia, Finninga, Cimbrica... (N. Sanson, 1654). - 21. Germano-Sarmatia... (N. Sanson 1655). - 22. Sarmatia Utraque Europaea et Asiatica (Russie etc.).... (N. Sanson 1654). - 23. Cimmeria quae Posteaa Scythia Europaea seu Parua Scythia... (G. Sanson 1665). - 24. Bisphorus Cimmerius et Regnum Bosphoranum... (G. Sanson 1665). - 25. Anaplus Bosphori Thracii... (G. Sanson 1666). - 26. Asia Minor (Turkey)... (Ph. de la Rue 1652). - 27. Armenia vetus... (Th. de la Rue 1653). - 28. Lyaconia in Minores Regiones... (G. Sanson 1676). - 29. Colchis, Iberia, Albania.... (G. Sanson 1667). - 30. Pamphilia et Pisidia... (G. Sanson 1670). 31. Assyria Vetus... Syriam, Mesopotamiam, Babyloniam et Assyriam... (Ph. de la Rue 1651). - 32. Syriae Veteris...Hierusalem.... Exodus Israelis.. Palaestinae delineatio... 4 separate maps on one. (Philippus Briet, chez Pierre Mariette 1641). - 33. Geographia Patriarchalis.. (Europa with North Africa and Asia Minor..). (G. Sanson 1668). - 34. Patriarchatus Romanus... (M. Tavernier no date ca. 1640). - 35. Patriarchatus Constantinopolitani... (M. Tavernier no date ca. 1640). - 36. Patriarchatus Antiocheni... (M. Tavernier 1640). - 37. Patriarchatus Hierosolymitani... (M. Tavernier 1640). - 38. Pinax geographicus Patriarchatus Hierosolymitani... (Ph. de la Rue 1651). - 39. Patriarchatus Alexandrini (Egypt etc.)... (M. Tavernier 1640). - 40. Antiquorum Africae Episcopa... (M. Tavernier 1640). - 41. Antiquorum Hispaniae (Spain). (M. Tavernier 1640). - 42. Antiquorum Galliae Episcopatuum (France England inserted in smaller size)... (M. Tavernier 1640). - 43. Antiquorum Italiae et Illyrici...(Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica inserted)... (M. Tavernier 1640). - 44. Antiquorum Illyrici Orientalis.... (M. Tavernier 1640). - 45. Geographia Synodica...Italiam, Galliam, Angliam... (G. Sanson 1667). - 46. Geographia Synodica....(Europe with North Africa and Turkey). (G. Sanson 1667). - 47. Geographiae Sacrae (Mediterranean, Egypt and Turkey...) (N. Sanson 1662). - 48. Geographiae Sacrae...ex veteri...terra Promissa, sive Iudaea... (N. Sanson 1662). - 49. Terra Chanaan... (Ph. de la Rue no date, ca. 1650). - 50. Terra Promissa... (Ph. de la Rue no date ca. 1650). - 51. Regnum Salomonicum... (Ph. de la Rue no date, ca. 1650). - 52. Regnum Iudeorum... (Ph. de la Rue 1651). - 53. Iesu Christi... Itinera, peregrina per Galliaeam, Samariam, Asiam, Europam... (N. Sanson 1665). - 54. Troianum Regnum... (G. Sanson 1665). - 55. Carte du Voyage D'Enée... (Du Val no date, ca 1653). - 56. Graecia Foederata.... (G. Sanson 1666). - 57. Tabula Itineris Decies Mille Graecorum sub Cyro (Middle East...) (P. du Val 1653). - 58. Alcibiadis Expeditionum... (P. du Val no date, ca. 1653). - 59. Expeditionis Alexandri Magni per Europeam, Asiam et Africam... (P. du Val 1654). - 60. Pyrrhi regis Epirotarum Expeditiones... (P. du Val 1657). - 61. - Expeditiones Hannibalis..Hispaniam, Galliam, Italiam, Africam... (Petro Du Val 1666). - 62. Ponti Pars.. Amazones...Mithridatis Regnum... (G. Sanson 1676). - 63. Romani Imperii Oriens... (Middle East Africa,Arabia...)... N. Sanson 1637). - 64. Romani Imperii qua Occidens... (N. Sanson 1637). - 65. rei Romanae...Caesaris...de Bello Civili... (P. Du Val 1666). - 66. Gallia vetus... (N. Sanson 1649). - 67. Roma Gentium Domina. (Phil. Briet no date, ca. 1658 - for this map see Shirley: T.San - 2b, map no. 54)‎

‎A History of British Birds. 2 Vols. (I. Containing the History and Description of Land Birds: And a Supplement, with additional Figures - II. Containing the History and Description of Water Birds And a Supplement, with additional Figures.).‎

‎Newcastle, Edward Walker for T. Bewick, 1821. 8vo. 2 fine contemp. full calf. Rebacked to style with richly gilt spine, title-and tomelabels in leather with gilt lettering. Spines divided in 6 compartments. Covers with broad gilt rectangular borders. Light bumping to corners. Minor scratches to covers. XL,(43)-330,46,(2)"XXII,(19-)360,43,(1) pp. (Complete in spite of the odd numbering). With all 4 titlepages (separate titles to the Supplements). Very clean throughout, only a few leaves with small faint brownspots.‎

‎The fifth edition of this ornithological classic, but the first containing both ""Supplements"".Zimmer p. 58 - Wood p. 237.‎

‎Familieboek. Album with 240 blank leaves bound in full black morocco leather , with a large ciselled clasp.‎

‎" S.l. s.d. (Flemish, around 1900), format in-folio (38 x 24,5 cm), containing ca. 240 unnumered leaves, blank but for a faint printed blue ruling.Bound in full black morocco with one gilt fillet on both covers, all edges gilt. Paste down and first fly leaf in real green silk. The album is closed with a large silver, ciselled clasp (3 parts 50 + 40 + 50 mm ; height 75 mm). The fixed parts carry the initials E.J (front) and D.L. (back) with the dutch words: Opoffering-Arbeid , and, Vreugde-Beproeving? The moveble part shows a sailing ship named ''Ter Liefde Gods'' with a banner ''in Cruce Vita''. The reverse of the moveble clasp shows the holy Mary with folding hands. Carefull inspection did not reveal any markings of the binder nor the silversmith of this highly artistic binding. The binding is in perfect condition. Not a single letter has been written on the blank pages."‎

‎BRAM DEMUNTER - Burrowers, Climbers, Crawlers. ‎

‎, Tim Van Laere Books , 2024 hardcover, 112 pages, throughout colour illustrations Text in English, Dutch, French, Italian. . ISBN 9789464004281.‎

‎BRAM DEMUNTERB urrowers, Climbers, Crawlers30 November, 2023 - 20 January, 2024 INSTALLATION VIEWS WORKS Tim Van Laere Gallery presents the second solo exhibition by Bram Demunter, titled Burrowers, Climbers, Crawlers. Bram Demunter's work is about us, human beings, and about the place we occupy in the world. It is about the mythologies we shape around ourselves, the narratives and the visual cultures we create, as well as the traces we leave behind in the natural world. His paintings and drawings strongly illustrate his process of collecting, examining and categorizing different elements. The artist can spend many hours studying an object, while wondering where it came from and what history it has been gone through. These objects then manage to nestle in his subconscious, establishing new connections between obscure stories, tales, legends and myths with forgotten symbolism, which he seamlessly connects to more recent events. His oeuvre does not convey an unambiguous message, but rather weaves meanings that resonate with individual and collective memories whereby a depicted motif reminds us of countless other images. His references do not focus on specific symbols or archetypes and must not be mistaken as unequivocal allusions. In doing so, the artist emphasizes that all things can exist simultaneously and can be displayed as such. This phenomenon is clearly demonstrated in his work Turn the Mud Around, where Demunter makes use of an eclectic range of influences and sources: ranging from the late Middle Ages to the Flemish Primitives as well as the impasto of seventeenth-century artists like Rubens and Jordaens. His artistic affiliations, such as his depiction of landscapes and other scenes of nature in some of his paintings, seem to originate from Italian Renaissance painting and and are reminiscent of the sfumato technique of that period. His imagery extends far beyond classical influences; it is infused with elements of twentieth-century abstract expressionism including artists such as Philip Guston, neo-expressionist Georg Baselitz and Grandma Moses. In addition, Demunter embraces the refinement of Indian miniature art, the splendor of Persian and Indian tapestries, alongside the intimacy of Enclosed Gardens. For this exhibition, Demunter drew inspiration from obscure maps and old books, diving deep into human history in search of handed-down traces of interaction with nature. Rocks are therefore an important theme in his work, and take the form of mountains, rock formations, caves, meteorites, thereby embodying ancient symbolism. The diversity of symbols reveals the deep-rooted human fascination with nature across epochs and cultures. Instead of using maps as merely representational tools, Demunter exploits them as sources that capture the human interaction with the world. Demunter's approach is not limited to visual compositions, but extends far beyond words: each work, whether drawn, painted or written, forms an exploratory journey, which transcends time and space; his images suspend time, as it were. Bram Demunter (b. 1993, Kortrijk) lives and works in Kortrijk, Belgium. Work of the artist can be found in several national and international collections. ?‎

‎Dieric Bouts Creator of Images.‎

‎, Hannibal Books, 2023 Hardcover 260 pages, Illustrated. ISBN 9789464666816.‎

‎A contemporary view of the masterly works of Dieric Bouts This book, published in association with the exhibition, DIERIC BOUTS. Creator of Images, at M Leuven, attempts to get closer to this enigmatic figure. Dieric Bouts had both feet in his world: it is perhaps that we seem unable to understand his work. This book includes comprehensive essays and shorter texts that focus on specific works by the Flemish master, outlining the social, intellectual, and artistic context in which Bouts worked. They highlight his oeuvre from new angles and offer new perspectives on works that are now more than five centuries old ? through a radical confrontation with the visual culture of today. The result is a more nuanced image of the great artist from Leuven. Dieric Bouts regains his place in the history of art as the eye-expanding maker of images that he was. This book is published on the occasion of the impressive retrospective at M Leuven from 20 October 2023 to 14 January 2024. Dieric Bouts (ca. 1410/20-75) is one of the most elusive figures in the history of Western art. Flemish primitive of the second generation, painter of silence such are the labels that are usually attributed to him. But was the Master of Brabant not more than that? This book, published in association with the exhibition, DIERIC BOUTS. Creator of Images, at M Leuven, attempts to get closer to this enigmatic figure. Dieric Bouts had both feet in his world: it is perhaps that we seem unable to understand his work. This book includes comprehensive essays and shorter texts that focus on specific works by the Flemish master, outlining the social, intellectual, and artistic context in which Bouts worked. They highlight his oeuvre from new angles and offer new perspectives on works that are now more than five centuries old ? through a radical confrontation with the visual culture of today. The result is a more nuanced image of the great artist from Leuven. Dieric Bouts regains his place in the history of art as the eye-expanding maker of images that he was. This book is published on the occasion of the impressive retrospective at M Leuven from 20 October 2023 to 14 January 2024. Edited by Peter Carpreau. With contributions by Inigo Bocken, Jordan Marie Booker, Till-Holger Borchert, Peter Carpreau, Marjan Debaene, Mark Derez, Bart Fransen, Valentine Henderiks, Stephan Kemperdick, Didier Martens, Gust Van den Berghe, and Michiel Verweij.‎

‎Album in Japanese black lacquer style with 72 original coloured picture postcards of Japan.‎

‎ Japan, ( Yokohama ?), ca. 1904-1910, oblong in-4°, with 9 silk covered leaves, each with 8 coloured pictoral postcard, some cards with postage stamps and manuscript messages. All cards coloured. The front cover of the album is decorated with a large falcon sculptured in ivory. Nicely preserved album, complete with all his cards, all collected well before World War I.‎

‎Om Identiteten af Lyssvingninger og elektriske Stømme. (On the Identity of the Vibrations of Light with electrical Currents).‎

‎(København, 1867). Contemp. marbled clothbacked boards. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on upper cover. Pp. 26-45. Extracted from ""Oversigt over det Kgl. danskeVidenskabernes Selskabs Forhandlinger 1867, Nr. 1"".‎

‎Extremely scarce first edition of the paper in which Lorenz, independent of Maxwell, stated that light is electromechanical in nature, probably inspired by his former teacher H. C. Oersted, the discoverer of electromagnetism and professor at the Polytechnic College, he aimed at unifying the forces of nature without introducing new physical hypotheses. ""The idea that the various forces in nature are merely different manifestations of the one and same force has proved itself more fertile than all physical theories"".Most impressive of all Lorenz’ achievements in optics is his electromagnetic theory of light, developed in a relatively unknown paper of 1867, two years after Maxwell’s famous paper on the same subject. At that time Lorenz did not know Maxwell’s theory, and his own approach was quite different. Lorenz’ electromagnetic theory of light can be described briefly as an interpretation of the light vector as the current density vector in a medium obeying Ohm’s law. This paper contains the fundamental equations for the vector potential and the scalar potential or - for the first time - the corresponding retarded potentials expressed in terms of the current density vector and the electrical charge density. The concept of retarded potentials had already been introduced in an earlier paper by Lorenz in connection with research on the theory of elasticity. He found that the differential equation for the current density vector was the same as his fundamental wave equation for the light vector, completed with a term which explains the absorption of light in conducting media, and that his theory led to the correct value for the velocity of light."" (Mogens Pihl in DSB).The paper was published in English, 1867 ""On the identity of the vibrations of light with electrical currents."" (Philosophical Magazine 34: 287-301) and also in German in ""Annalen der Physik""‎

‎Le Roi David. Drame en 2 parties tiré de la Bible. Bois d'Henry Bischoff. (Second title: Le Roi David. Musique d'Arthur Honegger...).‎

‎Lausanne, Édition de la Licorne, 1921. Bound in exquisite full morocco, composed of 3 different colours of morocco, green, light brown and red. Inner joints in morocco. In matching slip-case. With a long dedication (8 lines) from the author ""á Mademoiselle Agnete With"", signed and dated by the author ""René Morax/ Morges... 1921"". The book is bound by the recipient, the respected Danish bookbinder Agnete With (1899-1972) and signed in blind on inside backcover. 168,(2) pp.‎

‎First edition. Arthur Honegger composed the music to Morax's play and the music became his break-through as a composer.""Arthur Honegger was commissioned to write incidental music to accompany René Morax’s play Le Roi David in 1921. Honegger was given the nearly impossible deadline of 2 months to complete the work and was rewarded with much acclaim at the premiere. In 1923 he combined Morax’s narrative with his music and created a ""symphonic psalm,"" the form that is familiar today, and titled his work Le Roi David.""(Wikipedia)‎

‎Origin of Modern Calculating Machines: A Chronicle of the Evolution of the Principles that form the generic make-up of the Modern Calculating Machine.‎

‎Chicago, Western Society of Engineers, 1921. Orig. full cloth, frontcover and back stamped in blind. (2),196 pp., 45 illustrations, mostly full-page, incl. photographic reproductions of calculating machines designed by Pascal, Leibniz, Burroughs, Felt, and others. Fine and clean. With a typed letter in 4to, signed by the author, to Mons. Paul Jeannin in Paris, Turck thanks Jeannin for his letter congratulating him on the success of this book, and recalls with pleasure going with Jeannin to see Pascal's calculating machine in Paris. 21 lines dated Wilmette, Ill., l1 11 décembre, 1925. (in French). Also with Felt & Tarrant shipping lebel addressed to Jeannin, incorporatiing a picture of their invention, the Comptometer, the first practical desktop calculator. This was presumably used on the package that held this book.‎

‎First edition of the first popular history of modern calculating machines.Turck was the inventor of several calculating machines, the earlliest being the Mechanical Accountant, which appeared around 1900. He joined the firm Felt & Tarrant in 1911, and his name appears jointly with that of Felt. After Felt's death, Turck took over design resoponsabilities for the business. The dual-register SuperTotalizer that appeared in 1934 was undoubtly his work. - Hook & Normann, origins of Cyberspace: 393.‎

‎Proekt ukrepleniya g. Varna (i.e.: ""A project of the fortification of town of Varna""). Dopol. Otd. Sht. Kapitan (Stabskapitän, staff captain) Sedel'nikov. ‎

‎Varna 1888-89. 131 x 126 cm. joined by 4 sheets. Large manuscript surveying map of the fortress of Varna and its vicinity of with contour lines and defensive fortresses, including the fortified lines along the Black Sea coast. Depicting in all 19 defensive installations in all directions from Varna. Surveyed by the Russian captain, Kapitan Scrodel'uikov. Pen and ink with watercolour. With scale. On good thick paper. With 4 small punched holes (stars).‎

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‎A Compendium of the East being an Account of Voyages to the Grand Indies made by the Sieur Jean De Lacombe, of Quercy, Formerly Captain at Arms in the Service of the Company of the Indies of Holland‎

‎The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1937. 1 volume, small in-folio, 210 pp., illustrated with 6 double-page engravings, bound in publisher's cloth, original batik boards, spine repaired with leather back, a good copy.‎

‎This is the first publication, from the Bordeaux Manuscript of 1681, with an English translation from the old French by Stephanie & Denis Clark, Edited with an introduction and notes by Ashley Gibson. Jean de Lacombe traveled through Ceylon, Java, Sumatra, Ternat, Nambonne, Gounongapy, Siam, Moluccas, China in the seventeenth century. The plates are from contemporary engravings of some of the principal places visited reproduced from Schultzen's Ost-indische Reyse, Amsterdam, 1676. The Maps used as end-papers are from a contemporary Mercator Atlas. The Edition is limited to 300 copies in Perpetua Type on Arnold's hand-made paper (No 183).‎

‎Claude Vignon 1593-1670‎

‎Bassani, Paola Pacht (with a preface by Jacques Thuillier): Claude Vignon 1593-1670. Exhibition: Tours, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1993. 620pp with 45 colour plates and 650 monochrome illustrations. Hardback. 28x21cms. The fruit of 15 years' research, this catalogue raisonné (published for a travelling exhibition celebrating the fourth centenary of the birth of Claude Vignon) is the first monograph devoted to the life and work of the artist, now considered one of the greatest of his time. The catalogue includes: uncertain attributions; works in the style of Vignon; rejected paintings, drawings and engravings; unknown works; lost works of certain and possible attribution and those in the style of Vignon. With bibliography, index. Text in French.‎

‎The fruit of 15 years' research, this catalogue raisonné (published for a travelling exhibition celebrating the fourth centenary of the birth of Claude Vignon) is the first monograph devoted to the life and work of the artist, now considered one of the greatest of his time. The catalogue includes: uncertain attributions; works in the style of Vignon; rejected paintings, drawings and engravings; unknown works; lost works of certain and possible attribution and those in the style of Vignon. With bibliography, index. Text in French‎

‎Trade with China - A Practical Guide‎

‎Hong Kong, Ta Kung Pao, first edition, 1957. 1 volume 8vo, hard cloth covers, 125 pp., with numerous advertisements in black and white, a very good and clean copy.‎

‎"China is a large market with 600,000,000 customers. Following the gradual restoration and development of international trade, trading with China has become a matter of great interest to businessmen in various countries as well as in Hongkong. How to trade in China? What imports does China need? What exports can China offer? What are the economic conditions in China? What is China attitude towards foreign trade? How is China's foreign trade to develop? Businessmen all over the world have been seeking answers to these and many other interesting and practical questions". Questions asked more than half a century ago and still very modern!‎

‎The State Hermitage Museum, Western European Medieval Ivories, Catalogue of the Collection‎

‎Kryzhanovskaya, Marta with Maria Glaser: The State Hermitage Museum, Western European Medieval Ivories, Catalogue of the Collection. St. Petersburg: 2014. 312 pages with 479 colour illustrations throughout the text. Hardback. 28x23cms. Text in Russian with an introduction in English.‎

‎Text in Russian with an introduction in English.‎

‎Dejiny nábytkového umení. 3 vols‎

‎Cimburek, F with J. Halak et al: Dejiny nábytkového umení. 3 vols. Prague: Argo, 1995-6. Vol.1: 439pp with 549 monochrome illustrations. Vol.2: 486pp with 455 monochrome illustrations. Vol.3: 251pp with 249 monochrome illustrations. Cloth, 30.5x23.5cms. A universal history of furniture. Text in Czech.‎

‎A universal history of furniture. Text in Czech‎

‎Ori Gersht: History Repeating‎

‎Miner, Al with Ronni Baer, Ori Gersht and Yoav Rinon: Ori Gersht: History Repeating. London: 2012. 256pp., with 150 colour illustrations. Cloth. 29 x 25cms. First comprehensive survey of the work of Israeli-born video-artist and photographer Ori Gersht (b. 1967) which captures the violent horror of contemporary history and a world of emergent beauty, intertwining painterly imagery with themes of collective memory and contextualized spaces.‎

‎First comprehensive survey of the work of Israeli-born video-artist and photographer Ori Gersht (b. 1967) which captures the violent horror of contemporary history and a world of emergent beauty, intertwining painterly imagery with themes of collective memory and contextualized spaces.‎

‎Wassily Kandinsky.‎

‎, Maeght editeur, 1951 Hardcover with dusjacket / Original cardboard with pictorial glassine DJ /.‎

‎Bill Max with Jean Arp Charles Etienne Carola Giedion Welcker Will Grohmann Ludwig Grote Nina Kandinsky and Alberto Magnelli‎

‎Binding with Olive Wood boards.‎

‎7. S.d.s.l. (probably English, Victorian period). Binding of olive wooden boards, 22 x 15 cm, front board with elaborated copper ornaments with floral designs - a centre piece and 4 large corner pieces. Boards kept together with a leather spine, pastedowns of modern marbled paper. The binding is empty..‎

‎Saint AUGUSTINE ENGLISH‎

‎Bruxelles, Mercatorfonds, 2007, Hardcover with dust jacket, 32.5 x 24.5 cm., 320pp., 250 colour illustrations.ENGLISH ISBN 9789061537335.‎

‎Augustine of Hippo was a multi-facetted character: intellectual and mystic, scholar and father of the Church, bishop of a prosperous harbour town and monk, philosopher and biblical thinker. Writings like The City of God and Confessions have formed part of world literature for centuries. Augustine was the first to talk extensively about himself, thus placing the human being at the heart of the story. Saint Augustine is also a man with a heart filled with passion. This iconographic tradition constitutes the guiding thread in the book, a detailed and superbly illustrated study devoted to the man and his thinking. Saint Augustine conveyed the ardour of his love not only in his Rules for Life, which was adopted by numerous religious orders, or in the originality of his many writings, which continue to be study minutely; but also through the force of his actions within the Church of North Africa. A universal spirit and conscientious thinker, he was also a remarkable bishop, who truly took care of his people in the original sense of the word episkopos. New book. (English)‎

‎Eshu. The Divine Trickster.‎

‎, Antique Collectors' Club, Size: 295 mm x 250 mm. Pages: 312. Illustrations: 260 colour, 10 b/w. Hardback. New. ISBN 9781851497355.‎

‎The worship of the orisha (god) Eshu continues to this day across the Black Atlantic in Brazil and the Caribbean, and statues of him can also be found in towns and cities across the Americas. In Brazil, Eshu is a national icon: every carnival begins with an offering to him; shrines, sculptures and gifts can be found in many places including public parks, museums, on seashores, in the middle of supermarkets and at crossroads. On the other side of the southern Atlantic Ocean, Eshu has evolved in different ways; a Yoruba god has been refashioned in the pantheon of Haitian Vodou and in the Lucumi/Santeria traditions of Cuba. This is the first book to combine studies of Eshu, past and present, with a large number of vibrant and captivating illustrations of the spirit in his different guises. George Chemeche is an Israeli/American artist who has lived in New York City since 1971. In 2003 he published his book, Ibejis: The Cult of Yoruba Twins, which coincided with the show Doubly Blessed that he curated in The Museum of African Art in New York. His second book, The Horse Rider In African Art, ISBN: 9781851496341 was published in 2011. He gives lectures about the art and cult of the Ibeji twin figures in museums and colleges.Donald Cosentino (ph.D.) has done extensive fieldwork in Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Haiti, Cuba and Los Angeles. He is the author of Defiant Maids and Stubborn Farmers: Tradition and Invention in Mende Story Performance and Vodou Things: The Art of Pierrot Barra and Marie Cassais. As a Guggenheim Fellow (2006), Cosentino completed fieldwork for Chasing the Dead an ethnographic novel on Afro-Angeleno Spiritism.Vagner Goncalves da Silva is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He has written and edited various books and articles, including Metropolitan Orixas (1995); Candomble and Umbanda Ways of Brazilian Devotion (2005, 2nd edn) and The Anthropologist and his Magic: Fieldwork and Ethnographic Text in the Anthropology of Afro-Brazilian Religions (2000), Afro-Brazilian Memories (Three volumes) and Religious Intolerance (2005). He was a member of the committee for the foundation of the Afro-Brasil Museum (Sao Paulo).‎

‎Mark Rothko, Toward Clarity.‎

‎, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, 2019 Hardcover, 184 pages, 100 color + b/w illus., including 2 gatefolds, new book. ISBN 9780300243758.‎

‎A pioneering exploration of Rothko?s deep and sustained engagement with the history of art While Mark Rothko (1903?1970) has long been considered a preeminent figure in 20th-century art, few publications have examined his work within the broader context of Western art, even though Rothko himself continuously sought it out as inspiration. Rothko had a profound interest in history and art history?including Greek and Roman mythology, Egyptian fables, Byzantine and early Italian gold-ground paintings, and masterworks of the Renaissance and Dutch Golden Age. He first traveled to Europe in 1950, starting in Paris and winding through Venice, Arezzo, Siena, Florence, and Rome; along the way, he admired frescoes by Fra Angelico and architecture by Michelangelo. This beautiful book examines the influence of the artist?s travels on his oeuvre. It presents Rothko?s engagement with important classical and Old Master works, highlighting older techniques and ideas that the artist may have sought to emulate. Works representative of Rothko?s entire corpus are beautifully illustrated with full-page color plates. The book also contains writings by the artist?selected for publication by his son?that document his appreciation of art history in his own words. Sabine Haag is general director, and Jasper Sharp is curator of modern and contemporary art, both at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. Thomas E. Crow is Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at New York University?s Institute of Fine Arts. Christopher Rothko, a writer and psychologist, chairs the Board of Directors of the Rothko Chapel, Houston.‎

‎Vorlesungen über Maxwells Theorie der Elektricität und des Lichtes. I.- (II.) Theil. (1. Ableitung der Grundgleichungen für ruhende, homogene, isotrope Körper. - 2. Verhältniss zur Fernwirkungstheorie specielle Fälle der Elektrostatik, stationären St...‎

‎Leipzig, Johan Ambrosius Barth, 1891-93. 2 orig. full decorated cloth. Very light wear to spine ends. XII,189"VIII,160 pp. and 4 plates (2 large folding) and textillustr. Clean and fine. On both front free endpaper the previous owners names, the two famous physicists Walter Makower and Aage Bohr 1945.‎

‎First edition of one of Boltzmann's main works. ""In the 1890’s Boltzmann again revived his interest in electromagnetic theory, perhaps as a result of Hertz’s experiments, which he repeated before a large audience in Graz. He published his Vorlesungen über Maxwells Theorie in 1891 and 1893, along with some papers in which he suggested new mechanical models to illustrate the field equations."" (DSB).Walter Mackower, a research student under Thomson effected his transformation into a physicist, and his M.A. was for a thesis on the diffusion properties of radium emanation (radon). He later worked with Rutherford, Geiger, Rush and Fajans and he did pioneering research on radioactive substances and radioactive recoil.Aage Bohr, son of Niels Bohr, was awarded the Nobel Price in physics jointly with Mottelson and Rainwater in 1975 ""for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection"".‎

‎Kula Myth and Magic in the Trobriand Islands‎

‎Malnic, Jutta with John Kasaipwalova: Kula Myth and Magic in the Trobriand Islands. Wahroonga, NSW, Australia : Cowrie Books, 1998. 222 pages, colour illustrations, includes bibliographical references and index. Hardback. 27x23cms. A bit warte stained, Harry Beran's copy with his a highlighting and notes.‎

‎A bit warte stained, Harry Beran's copy with his a highlighting and notes‎