‎Album d'autographes de Savants et Erudits français et étrangers des XVIe, XVIIe, XVIIIe siècles. Première Série‎

‎1 vol. in-folio en feuillets sous chemise cartonnée demi-percaline brune, Publication de la Société Française de Bibliographie, Exercice 1907, 2 ff. (titre, introduction et tables), 31 planches (reproduction de lettres).‎

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‎Bon état (chemise un peu frottée).‎

‎Des sommets de la montagne aux bords de la mer, notre terre.‎

‎ Bâle, Faunus sans date, vers 1950, 320x230mm, 550pages, reliure d'éditeur sous jaquette. ‎

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‎Notre Terre. DEs sommets de la montagne aux bords de la mer‎

‎Faunus, Suisse. sd. In-4. Relié toilé. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 550 pages. Dos légèrement passé. Ouvrage de la seconde moitié du 20ème siècle. Très nombreuses photos en noir et blanc et quelques-unes en couleurs, dans et hors-texte. Cadre doré sur la couverture. Titre doré sur le dos et la couverture. Dops orné de dessins et de palettes dorés.. . . . Classification Dewey : 570-Sciences de la vie‎

‎ Classification Dewey : 570-Sciences de la vie‎

‎NOTRE TERRE DES SOMMETS DE LA MONTAGNE AUX BORDS DE LA MER.‎

‎FAUNUS.. Non daté. In-4. Relié toilé. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 550 pages. Nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc et en couleurs dans le texte et hors texte. Jaquette défraichie. Les illustrations en couleurs sont contre collées.. Avec Jaquette. . . Classification Dewey : 500-SCIENCES DE LA NATURE ET MATHEMATIQUES‎

‎ Classification Dewey : 500-SCIENCES DE LA NATURE ET MATHEMATIQUES‎

‎NOTRE TERRE. DES SOMMETS DES MONTAGNES AUX BORDS DE LA MER.‎

‎FAUNUS... Non daté. In-4. Relié toilé. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 590 pages. Nombreuses photos et illustrations en noir et blanc dans le texte et hors texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 500-SCIENCES DE LA NATURE ET MATHEMATIQUES‎

‎ Classification Dewey : 500-SCIENCES DE LA NATURE ET MATHEMATIQUES‎

‎Sciences Occultes.-‎

‎S.l. (Paris. Imprimerie Baudrand. 1900). In-8 br. couverture illustrée, 68pp. Qq. figures. Peu fréquent.‎

‎Dorbon, 4684. Caillet, 10372: Cet ouvrage est un petit résumé pratique à l'usage des profanes des Sciences occultes en général: graphologie, chiromancie, science astrale, explication des signes des planètes, des attractions, des rapports des signes du zodiaque avec les humains, des influences particulières des métaux, des animaux, des plantes, fleurs et fruits; de l'homme, des talismans. ‎

‎Art & Science of Illuminated Manuscripts: A Handbook‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller 2021, 2021 Hardcover,528 pages , 830 col. ills, 190 x 255 mm, English, . ISBN 9781912554591.‎

‎This book is designed to provide a guide for art historians, conservators and manuscript scholars to understand and support the increasingly popular cross-disciplinary research efforts focused on non-invasive scientific analyses of illuminated manuscripts. The results achieved by the research of the pioneering MINIARE research project based at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge led to the ground-breaking and acclaimed 2016 exhibition "COLOUR: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts." This was followed by an international Conference, in which art historians, paper and book conservators, and cultural heritage scientists were brought together to share new recent research not only on manuscripts but also on painting in other media. The Conference proceedings were published in the first two volumes of the HMMIMA series (2017-2018). The present publication includes 6 Essays by way of introducing and explaining the major topics being investigated, including the range of inks, pigments and paint binders used by illuminators; parchment-making; pigment recipes; and model books. The many analytical instruments and techniques that are used to investigate manuscripts are also discussed. Then follow 58 Case Studies of manuscripts from as early as the year 700 up to c.1600. All these are fully illustrated in colour and in great detail, and should act as examples to inform scholars in libraries, museums and other cultural institutions of the benefits of adding scientific tools to the range of methods used to investigate manuscripts.‎

‎Tributes to Elly Miller. Opening Manuscripts‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2024 Hardback, 408 pages, Size:210 x 275 mm, Illustrations:189 col., 1 tables b/w., 6 tables col., Language: English. ISBN 9781915487377.‎

‎Summary Opening Manuscripts, inspired by Elly Miller's passion for manuscripts and her commitment to their study, shines a light on the many ways in which medieval manuscripts can be understood. From the physical unfolding of the parchment to discussions of iconography, dating and influences, over time and across countries, each of the volume's nineteen richly illustrated essays by distinguished scholars in the field asks us to explore a different aspect of the illuminated manuscript. It is a splendid tribute to Elly Miller (1928-2020), the driving force behind Harvey Miller Publishers, who championed medieval art for over half a century. From 1970 to the end of her life, her role as publisher, not only commissioning but also personally editing and designing, was fundamental to the development of the scholarly study and wider appreciation of handwritten and illustrated books of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.? TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Introduction 'A Passion for Manuscripts' by Elly Miller, with a foreword by Tamar Miller Wang Paul Binski The Chronology of Matthew Paris's Illustrated Saints' Lives Christopher de Hamel The Patron of the Lambeth Bible Charlotte Denoël Adémar of Chabannes' Biblical Drawings in Notebook Leiden VLO 15: From the Mystery of Incarnation to Liturgical Drama Kathleen Doyle Opening Up Representations of Saints in English Folded Almanacs Richard Emmerson Visual Signification in the Liber floridus 'Christ between Ecclesia and Synagoga' Joanna Fronska The Images of Gratian: The Author's Portrait and Historical Evidence Gerald Guest Turning to the Masses in the Très Riches Heures Deirdre Jackson Portal to Heaven: The Virgin Mary as Gatekeeper in Alfonso X's Cantigas de Santa Maria Susan L'Engle Construing Character and Social Status: Visual Interpretations by Medieval Readers of Roman Law Julian Luxford The Carthusian Miniatures in the Belles Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry James H. Marrow The Gaudechon Hours: An Unpublished Manuscript Illuminated by the Masters of Zweder van Culemborg Michael A. Michael Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Vat. Lat. 4757: An Early Fourteenth-Century English Illuminated Vademecum Nigel J. Morgan The Virgin and Child with a Bird in English Art c.1250-c.1350: Passion Symbolism or the Playing Christ Child Lucy Freeman Sandler Pictorial Typology and the Bedford Hours Kathryn A. Smith Opening the Space of the Parchment Roll: Imaging Interiority in Two English Copies of the Septenarium pictum Patricia Stirnemann The Souvigny Bible and the Holy Sepulchre Jenny Stratford A Tudor Treatise on Illumination and Three Antiquarians: Humfrey Wanley, Elizabeth Elstob and George Ballard Federica Toniolo Double Openings Commemorating the First World War: Nestore Leoni and the Revival of Illumination in Italy Roger Wieck The Last Solomon: Lost and Found Index of Manuscripts and Works of Art Cited List of Images‎

‎Art and Science. Volume Two‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2019 Hardback, 224 pages, Size:220 x 280 mm, Illustrations:240 col., Language: English. ISBN 9781912554133.‎

‎TABLE OF CONTENTS VISION, COLOUR AND MEANING Vision and Colour in the Works of Giotto and His Contemporaries - Donal Cooper Robert Grosseteste's De iride and its Addendum in the Vatican Manuscript Barb. Lat. 165: Transmission, Reception, Meaning - Cecilia Panti and Greti Dinkova-Bruun Seeing a Pink Elephant: Creating Meaning through Colour in the Medieval Bestiary - Elizabeth Morrison The Colours of Fortune - Deirdre Jackson ILLUMINATORS' MATERIALS Recipes and Reception: Late Mediaeval English Colour. Recipes and Amateur Illuminators - Mark Clarke Looking for Lichen, Fooled by Folium and Tricked by Tyrian: A Brief Tour and New Research on Purple in Manuscripts - Cheryl Porter, Maurizio Aceto, Elisa Calà, Angelo Agostino, Gaia Fenoglio, Ambra Idone and Monica Gulmini Reflecting a Heavenly Light: Gold and other Metals in Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Illumination - Nancy Turner Gold or Brass, Silver or Tin: the Analysis of Metals in Medieval Book Illumination - Robert Fuchs, Cologne Institute for Conservation Sciences Pigmenta: Materials for Writing, Painting and Healing - Lea Olsan The Use of Copper Sulphates in Sixteenth-Century Flemish Illumination: Simon Bening as a Case Study - Giulia Bertolotti and Paola Ricciardi ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES Between Tradition and Innovation: Giving Light to a Visionary Text in the Lorvão Beatus - Maria João Melo, Maria Adelaide Miranda, Rita Castro, João Lopes and Jorge Sarraguça Scientific Study of Cistercian Illuminated Manuscripts: Techniques, Aesthetics and Religion - Catarina Miguel, Angela Nuñez-Gáitan, Maria Luisa Carvalho and Cristina Barrocas-Diasa Mapping and identification of the pigments used in two illuminations from the Laudario of Sant'Agnese attributed to the Master of the Dominican Effigies - John K. Delaney, Kathryn Dooley, Damon Conover, Lisha Glinsman, Giorgio Trumpy and Michelle Facini The Benefits of Scanning Illuminated Manuscripts with MA-XRF and MA-rFTIR - Stijn Legrand, Paola Ricciardi and Koen Janssens RESTORATION AND FORGERY The Psalter-Hours of Isabelle of France in the Nineteenth-Century - Stella Panayotova The Spanish Forger Exposed: an Interdisciplinary Study of Two of His Paintings - Christina Currie, Steven Saverwyns and Dominique Vanwijnsberghe‎

‎Voyages en Italie de Stendhal (Rome, Naples et Florence et Promenades dans Rome) illustrés par les peintres du Romantisme, 2 vols.‎

‎, Diane de Selliers, 2002 hardcovers, 2 vols, Couverture originale de l'éditeur, 708 pages + notes, 26 x 8.2 x 34 cm, Texte en Francais, Illustrations en couleurs en noir & blanc nombreuses illustrations dans et hors texte. **nummeroté 222 / 300 exemplaires ISBN 9782903656270.‎

‎Stendhal est passionné par l'Italie qu'il découvre en 1800 lors des batailles napoléoniennes. Tout dans ce pays le séduit, l'émeut. « Mes voyages en Italie me rendent plus original, plus «moi-même». J'apprends à chercher le bonheur avec plus d'intelligence. » Cette Italie mythique, décrite par Stendhal, dans Rome, Naples et Florence et Promenades dans Rome au rythme de ses élans et de ses émotions, s'accompagne ici de 316 peintures romantiques de 123 peintres européens du début du XIXe siècle et de 45 chefs-d'oeuvre antérieurs, admirés par l'auteur.316 peintures du début du XIXe siècle entraînent le lecteur mot à mot et pas à pas dans Rome, Naples et Florence, mais aussi dans Milan, Bologne, Parme, Piacenza ou les lacs italiens. Ces Voyages en Italie ressuscitent la rencontre profondément romantique entre Stendhal et les 120 peintres européens, contemporains de l'auteur, présents dans l'ouvrage. Turner, Ingres, Corot, Caffi, Friedrich... nous font découvrir l'Italie à travers leur sensibilité d'artiste. Leurs oeuvres témoignent d'une grande diversité et d'une richesse picturale en étonnante symbiose avec les récits de voyage de Stendhal. 45 peintures antérieures au XIXe siècle aimées de Stendhal : celles de Michel-Ange, Raphaël, Corrège, Guido Reni, le Caravage... accompagnent également les Promenades dans Rome. Chaque image suggérée se retrouve en regard du texte à l'endroit précis où Stendhal en parle, renforçant ainsi la magie et la puissance de l'évocation.‎

‎L'action du roi en belgique depuis 1831 pouvoir et influence (Littérature Générale)‎

‎Duculot 1994 14 86x21 41x1 85cm. 1994. Broché.‎

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‎Bon état de conservation intérieur propre quelques rousseurs sur tranche‎

‎Epistolae et Epistolae ad eum Datae. Quas cum Prooemio ac Notis Germanice Scriptis. Edidit Gustav Scherz adjuvante Joanne Ræder. 2 vols (+) Opera Theologica. Cum Prooemiis ac Notis Germanice Scriptas ediderunt Knud Larsen et Gustav Scherz. 2 vols. ‎

‎Hafniae, 1952. Large4to. Four volumes, all uncut and unopened in the original printed wrappers. Very light wear to extremities, otherwise a very nice and clean set. XXXII, 480 pp. + 1 portrait (8), 481-1027, (1) pp. + 1 portrait IX, (3), 508, (1) pp. (6), 574 pp. ‎

‎First and only edition of Gustav Scherz's monumental work with Steno's collected works. No. 14 out of 500 copies. ‎

‎Epistolae et Epistolae ad eum Datae. Quas cum Prooemio ac Notis Germanice Scriptis. Edidit Gustav Scherz adjuvante Joanne Ræder. 2 vols.‎

‎Hafniae, 1952. Large 4to. Uncut in orig. wrappers. XXII,1028 pp. 2 portraits. One of 500 copies. Clean and fine.‎

‎Étude des courants telluriques + Deuxième fascicule. - [FOUNDTAIONAL WORK ON GIC-IMPACT]‎

‎Stockholm, R.W. Statlanders Boktryckeri, 1935 + 1930. Large 4to. 2 vols in original printed wrappers. 1st part with some spine wear and a bit of wear to corners. Wrappers of second part with a bit of light brownspotting. Both parts with stamps to front wrappers and title-pages, library markings to wrappers, and printed tape-strips across wrappers, all from the Danish Meteorological Institute (from the archive of which this set has been sold directly). 79 + 17 pp. Richly illustrated. ‎

‎First printing of Stenquist's landmark work on earth currents, which includes his seminal scientific description of the great storm of May 1921 that has turned out to be one of the most significant reports in the history of geomagnetic storms and space weather. The work is of fundamental importance to extreme weather forecasting and is a classic in the field. ""The most spectacular (and most dangerous) examples of GIC impact were two destructive fires-the first in Sweden around 02:00 GMT on 15 May and the second in the United States around an hour later. The Swedish event occurred in a telephone exchange in the town of Karlstad, 260 km west of Stockholm. This event was widely reported around the world... It was also the subject of contemporary study by David Stenquist, a Swedish scientist and engineer, who had a long interest in what we would now call GIC impacts on telecommunications systems. One of his narrative reports on the event is included in his 1925 memoir on earth currents (Stenquist, 1925), and another is reproduced by Karsberg et al. (1959). They both outline how the operators at Karlstad exchange first experienced problems (equipment anomalies and faint smoke) around 01:00, followed by a period of quiet, before the main fire started around 02:00 leading to extensive equipment damage. Stenquist also highlighted a near-miss incident at Ånge, some 380 km north west of Stockholm, that was simultaneous with the Karlstad fire. This experienced a threat similar to that fire, but where the initial problems were sufficient to trigger preventive measures that avoided major damage. In his later analysis of the Karlstad fire (Albinson, 2018" Engström, 1928" Stenquist, 1925), Stenquist noted that this site was vulnerable to strong GIC, because it was on the 400 km route of the major communications lines between Oslo and Stockholm, and this route was vulnerable because of its east-west orientation. His insights into engineering design of the communications lines enabled him to estimate the geoelectric fields that created the damaging GIC. He showed that fields of at least 6 V/km were required to cause the observed melting of fuses, ""tubes de fusion,"" in copper wires, and that a field of 20 V/km would have caused more damage than observed (melting of fuses in iron wires). As a result he suggested that 10 V/km would be a reasonable estimate of the average geoelectric field in central Sweden at the time of the Karlstad fire."" (Hapgood). ""Over the past decade the public perception of space weather has changed markedly so that it is now considered a major societal risk alongside other natural hazards including pandemic disease, extremes of temperature, coastal and river flooding, earthquakes, and volcanic activity. As a result of this step change in public perception, improved understanding of severe space weather, and its impacts, is now a vital element in the scientific evidence sought by policy-makers responsible for societal resilience. Those policy-makers require information on both the likelihood, and the adverse impacts, of severe space weather, just as they do for other natural hazards. Only then can they integrate space weather into wider plans to ensure societal resilience against the whole range of natural hazards....A key element in this evidence is the likely timelines of extreme space weather events. Such knowledge enables us to build scenarios that give insights into the spatial and temporal distribution of adverse impacts, and into the information that will be available to enable timely decision-making before, during and after an extreme event. They are also vital for exercises to test mitigation plans and to train key personnel in government and industry. Scenarios are also critical inputs for realistic studies on the socio-economic impact of space weather.This study addresses one route to scenario development, namely, a review of previous severe space weather events, and specifically focuses on one outstanding case, the great storm of 13-16 May 1921, and particularly the very intense activity on 14/15 May."" (Mike Hapgood: Space Weather. The Great Storm of May 1921: An Exemplar of a Dangerous Space Weather Event).‎

‎Foucault et ses pendules‎

‎Editions Carre 1996 In-4 broché. Bon état d’occasion.‎

‎ Bon état d’occasion ‎

‎ISIA ISGOUR 1913-1967‎

‎, VAI : VLAAMS ARCHITECTUUR INSTITUUT, 2008 Paperback, 219 pagina's, met illustraties. ISBN 9789081326315.‎

‎Met de reeks Focus architectuurarchieven plaatst het CVAa archieven van Vlaamse architecten in de kijker. nnDe architectuur van de relatief onbekende architect Isia Isgour (1913-1967) is beeldbepalend in de Limburgse mijnstreek waar hij zowel woningbouw, scholen, sociale centra en andere collectieve gebouwen die de naoorlogse welvaartmaatschappij typeren, realiseerde. Zijn oeuvre in Brussel illustreert de enorme dynamiek van de bouwsector in de jaren 1950 en 1960 die het Vlaamse en Brusselse landschap ingrijpend tekenden.nnHet rijk ge?llustreerde boek geeft een overzicht van Isgours oeuvre met projectbeschrijvingen en referenties naar archiefmateriaal. De oeuvrelijst wordt voorafgegaan door een essay, waarin de architect wordt ge?ntroduceerd en gesitueerd in de ruimere cultuurhistorische en architecturale context, en afgesloten door een uitgebreide bibliografie. De publicatie is een handig instrument voor het ontwikkelen van een visie over de omgang met het naoorlogse patrimonium.nninfo 25 euro, te koop in de gespecialiseerde ‎

‎Jean Fouquet The Melun Diptych.‎

‎, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 2018 Softcover, 22 x 28 cm, 200 pages, 125 colour and 18 black and white pictures, English. ISBN 9783731906209.‎

‎Jean Fouquet's diptych from the collegiate church of Melun is one of the main works the painting of the 15th century and French art in general. The left wing with the donor portrait is since 1896 in Berlin, while the right wing, the Madonna performing wings of the Museum of Fine Arts belongs to Antwerp. Both halves were separated by 1773 and were the last time together in 1937. The Berlin exhibition unites them now again and shows more important works, including the original medallion with Fouquet's self-portrait from the Louvre, an outstanding portrait drawing of his hand as well as selected works by painters like Jan van Eyck and Peter Christ. In the accompanying catalog well-known international researchers highlight different aspects of the work, including his iconography and technique, the person of the founder, Fouquets artistic requirements and more.‎

‎Transcripts of a Sea (EN) Stephan Vanfleteren‎

‎, Hannibal Books, 2025 hardcover, 34,7 x 25,5 cm, 292 pages, Text in English, illustrations; Bichromie en quadrichromie . ISBN 9789493416208.‎

‎Stephan Vanfleteren's photographic quest for the many faces of the sea 'The sea never makes a fuss. You don?t have to explain yourself or be polite. What does she care what you think of her or what you make of her. When you come or where you enter her. I capture, interpret, sublimate, abstract. I show everything, I show nothing.' ? Stephan Vanfleteren In Transcripts of a Sea, the internationally renowned photographer Stephan Vanfleteren (b. 1969) shares the enchantment that has driven him to the sea over the past five years. He analyses the sea, in all her various shapes and ever-changing light, with an obsession bordering on the dangerous, and with a fluid longing. Stormy, mirror-like, misty, thunderous, the surface deceptively calm or like a wildly-thumping washing-machine drum: the photographer does not observe it from the beach or from a boat but opts for a wet confrontation by literally immersing himself in the sea. 136 extraordinary images with texts by Stephan Vanfleteren, Johan De Smet and Manfred Sellink. Published to accompany the eponymous exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent (MSK) from 20 September 2025 to 4 January 2026.‎

‎Transcripts of a Sea (FR) Stephan Vanfleteren‎

‎, Hannibal Books, 2025 hardcover, 34,7 x 25,5 cm, 292 pages, illustrations Bichromie en quadrichromie Texte en Francais. *neuf. ISBN 9789493416215.‎

‎La quête photographique de Stephan Vanfleteren pour les différentes formes de la mer « La mer ne fait jamais la difficile. On n?a pas besoin de se justifier ni d?être poli. Elle se moque de ce que vous pensez d?elle et de ce que vous faites d?elle. Du moment où vous venez et où vous la pénétrez. Moi je capte, j?interprète, je sublime, j?abstrais. Je montre tout, je ne montre rien. » ? Stephan Vanfleteren Dans Transcripts of a Sea, Stephan Vanfleteren (1969), le photographe de renommée internationale, partage la fascination qui l?a poussé vers la mer au cours des cinq dernières années. Mêlant obsession dangereuse et désir fluide, il analyse la mer dans tous ses états et conditions de luminosité. Tempétueuse, lisse comme un miroir, brumeuse, orageuse, faussement calme ou aussi agitée qu?un tambour de machine à laver : le photographe ne contemple pas la mer depuis la plage ou un bateau, mais opte pour la confrontation humide en allant littéralement dans l?eau. Avec 136 images impressionnantes et des textes de Stephan Vanfleteren, Johan De Smet et Manfred Sellink. Publication à l?occasion de l?exposition du même nom au Musée des Beaux-Arts (MSK) de Gand du 20 septembre 2025 au 4 janvier 2026.‎

‎Transcripts of a Sea (NL) Stephan Vanfleteren‎

‎, Hannibal Books, 2025 Hardcover, 34,7 x 25,5 cm, 292 pagina's, Nederlandstalige editie, Bichromie en quadrichromie . ISBN 9789493416192.‎

‎Stephan Vanfleterens fotografische queeste naar de verschillende gedaanten van de zee ?De zee doet nooit moeilijk. Je hoeft je niet te verantwoorden of beleefd te zijn. Wat kan het haar schelen wat je van haar denkt en wat je van haar maakt, wanneer je komt en waar je haar binnendringt. Ik capteer, interpreteer, sublimeer, abstraheer. Ik toon alles, ik toon niets.? ? Stephan Vanfleteren Voor het eerst deelt de internationaal gerenommeerde fotograaf Stephan Vanfleteren (1969) de betovering die hem de afgelopen vijf jaar naar zee heeft gedreven. Hij analyseert vanuit een gevaarlijke obsessie en met een vloeibaar verlangen de zee in al haar gestalten en lichtomstandigheden. Hij speurt naar plaatsen waar golven en deiningen zich als onvoorspelbare wonderen vertonen. Stormachtig, spiegelglad, mistig, onweerachtig, verraderlijk rustig water of een op hol geslagen wastrommel: de fotograaf aanschouwt het zee-oppervlak niet vanaf het strand maar kiest voor een rechtstreekse confrontatie door letterlijk in zee te gaan. Met 136 indrukwekkende beelden en met teksten van Stephan Vanfleteren, Johan De Smet en Manfred Sellink. Publicatie bij de gelijknamige tentoonstelling in het Museum voor Schone Kunsten (MSK) Gent van 20 september 2025 tot 4 januari 2026.‎

‎AUBREY BEARDSLEY.‎

‎, Tate Publishing, 2020 Hardcover flexi, 298 x 196 mm, 192 pages, 200 colour illustrations, English edition. ISBN 9781849766807.‎

‎Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) is best remembered for his powerful illustrations for Salomé by Oscar Wilde. Spanning just seven years, his intense, prolific career as a draftsman and illustrator was cut short when he died at the age of 25. His subversive black-and-white drawings and his complex persona became synonymous with decadence: He alighted on the perverse and erotic aspects of life and legend, shocking audiences with his bizarre sense of humor and fascination with the grotesque. His keen observation of his contemporaries makes him of his time, but his distinct style has resonated with subsequent generations. A major influence on the development of Art Nouveau, and on psychedelic pop culture and design in the late 1960s, Beardsley's drawings remain a key reference for many artists today. Here, short essays on aspects of Beardsley's remarkable career complement reproductions of his fascinating work.‎

‎L'EQUILIBRE DANS LA NATURE.‎

‎FLAMMARION .. Non daté.. In-8. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 128 pages. 1ère de couverture illustrée en couleurs. Nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc et couleurs dans le texte et hors texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 500-SCIENCES DE LA NATURE ET MATHEMATIQUES‎

‎ Classification Dewey : 500-SCIENCES DE LA NATURE ET MATHEMATIQUES‎

‎L EQUILIBRE DANS LA NATURE‎

‎FLAMMARION. 1969. In-8. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 127 pages- nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc et en couleurs dans et hors texte- texte sur 2 colonnes. . . . Classification Dewey : 570-Sciences de la vie‎

‎INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY Classification Dewey : 570-Sciences de la vie‎

‎FRANCIS BACON L'Home et la Bête‎

‎, Mercator/ Mercatorfonds , 2021 HB, 300 x 250 mm, 196 pages, 180 colour illustrations, Texte en Francais. ISBN 9789462302747.‎

‎Francis Bacon est considéré comme un des peintres majeurs du XXe siècle. Une nouvelle exposition de ses tableaux à la Royal Academy explore le rôle des animaux - à commencer par l'animal humain - dans son oeuvre. En 1969, Bacon, qui a souvent peint des chiens et des chevaux, se tourne pour la première fois vers la corrida. Dans cette série d'oeuvres puissantes, les interactions entre l'homme et la bête s'avèrent dangereuses et cruelles, mais aussi d'une intimité dérangeante. Tous deux se contorsionnent dans cette lutte angoissée où l'érotisme n'est jamais loin. 'La corrida est comme la boxe, a dit Bacon. Un merveilleux apéritif pour l'amour.' Vingt-deux ans plus tard, un taureau solitaire sera le sujet de son dernier tableau. Dans cet ouvrage fascinant, qui apporte un complément significatif à la littérature sur Bacon, des spécialistes détaillent son approche des animaux et identifient ses diverses sources d'inspiration, dont la littérature surréaliste et les photographies d'Eadweard Muybridge. Selon eux, en montrant des animaux dans un état de vulnérabilité, de colère ou de mal-être, Bacon cherchait à pénétrer la condition humaine. Ce catalogue d'exposition important dévoile ce que les représentations animalières de Francis Bacon révèlent sur l'artiste - et la condition humaine. Exposition au Royal Academy, Londres, 22 janvier - 12 avril 2021‎

‎FRANCIS BACON Man and beast.‎

‎, Mercator/ Mercatorfonds , 2021 HB, 300 x 250 mm, 196 pages, 180 colour illustrations, English edition *new ISBN 9781912520558.‎

‎Explore Francis Bacon's visceral paintings, where the line between human and animal is constantly blurred, reminding us that our primal instincts lie just below the surface. Irish-born artist Francis Bacon was the horse-breeder's son who became one of the most important painters of the 20th century. An openly gay man at a time when homosexuality was illegal, he was banished from his conservative family home by his father at 16. After that, he drifted through Berlin and Paris before establishing himself in London, with his formative years running parallel with some of the 20th century's most profoundly disturbing events. This powerful exhibition will focus on Bacon's unerring fascination with animals: how it both shaped his approach to the human body and distorted it; how, caught at the most extreme moments of existence, his figures are barely recognisable as either human or beast. It also explores how Bacon was mesmerised by animal movement, observing animals in the wild during trips to South Africa; filling his studio with wildlife books, and constantly referring to Eadweard Muybridge's 19th-century photographs of humans and animals in motion. Whether baboons or bulls, dogs or birds of prey, Bacon felt he could get closer to understanding the true nature of humankind by watching the uninhibited behaviour of animals. Spanning Bacon's 50-year career, highlights include some of Bacon's earliest works and his last-ever painting, alongside a trio of bullfight paintings which will be exhibited together for the first time. Seen together, these raw expressions of anxiety and instinct - both animal and human - feel poignantly relevant today. Exposition au Royal Academy, Londres, 22 janvier - 12 avril 2021‎