Melville Robert Text (11 results)

First Edition. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran January 17 through February 16, 1963. Text by Robert Melville. Includes with the covers 8 black and white illustrations. An about good copy in stapled wrappers with creasing and some minor wear.

Hardcover. xiii, 60p., illustrated with 27 full page color plates on high-gloss alkaline stock, a respectful production in 8.5x6.5 inch splendid blue cloth boards gilt and glossy dust jacket. Dust jacket is price-clipped (neatly), else virtually as-new: sound, clean and unmarked.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. Introduction by Alan Moorehead. 60 pages, 27 color plates (some double-page). Prev owner's name in biro and erasure mark by the upper corner of the front flyleaf. Blue cloth boards in slightly soiled dust-jacket. The paintings, together with the text and Introduction, produce a fascinating picture of a wild Australia of the 19th century. Size: 8vo.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. uk1st.edition.1st.printing. vg large softwraps with a poublishers attached dustwrapper with flaps. essay,plates and biography.a nice copy.

Wraps. Condition: Good. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. 54 pages. Approximately 7 inches by 9 inches. Illustrations (some in color). Diagram. Illustrated cover. List of publications. Cover has some wear and soiling. Somewhat shaken. This appears to have been prepared for the opening of Explorers Hall. Melville Bell Grosvenor wrote in the introductory narrative "My pulse quickened to think that soon we would open our doors to an exciting new museum of science and exploration. Each exhibit would demonstrate, in color, sound, and motion, a milestone in man's conquest of earth, sea, and sky. To each visitor Explorers Hall would be a personal adventure of discovery, and this souvenir guidebook, a passport to that adventure." The National Geographic Society, headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational institutions in the world. Its interests include geography, archaeology and natural science, the promotion of environmental and historical conservation, and the study of world culture and history. The National Geographic Society's logo is a yellow portrait frame - rectangular in shape - which appears on the margins surrounding the front covers of its magazines and as its television channel logo. It also operates a website that features extra content and worldwide events. A guide book is "a book of information about a place designed for the use of visitors or tourists". It will usually include information about sights, accommodation, restaurants, transportation, and activities. Maps of varying detail and historical and cultural information are often included. Different kinds of guide books exist, focusing on different aspects. A forerunner of the guidebook was the periplus, an itinerary from landmark to landmark of the ports along a coast. A periplus such as the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea was a manuscript document that listed, in order, the ports and coastal landmarks, with approximate intervening distances, that the captain of a vessel could expect to find along a shore. This work was possibly written in the middle of the 1st century CE. It served the same purpose as the later Roman itinerarium of road stops.The periegesis, or "progress around" was an established literary genre during the Hellenistic age. A lost work by Agaclytus describing Olympia ( ) is referred to by the Suda and Photius. Dionysius Periegetes (literally, Dionysius the Traveller) was the author of a description of the habitable world in Greek hexameter verse written in a terse and elegant style, intended for the klismos traveller rather than the actual tourist on the ground; he is believed to have worked in Alexandria and to have flourished around the time of Hadrian. An early "remarkably well-informed and interesting guidebook" was the Hellados Periegesis (Descriptions of Greece) of Pausanias of the 2nd century A.D. This most famous work is a guide to the interesting places, works of architecture, sculpture, and curious customs of Ancient Greece, and is still useful to Classicists today. With the advent of Christianity, the guide for the European religious pilgrim became a useful guidebook. An early account is that of the pilgrim Egeria, who visited the Holy Land in the 4th century CE and left a detailed itinerary. In the medieval Arab world, guide books for travelers in search of ancient Near Eastern artifacts, monuments and treasures were written by Arabic treasure hunters and alchemists. This was particularly the case in Arab Egypt, where ancient Egyptian antiquities were highly valued. B. Anthony Stewart, Emory Kristof, Robert S. Oakes (illustrator).…

SOFTCOVER. Condition: FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Issued without a dustjacket. 1st Edition. Extra Large 4to. in stiff card covers, 22pp (including inside rear cover), plates in colour and b/w. Reprinted from Motif 7 Summer 1961 (with some extra illustrations) . [CONDITION: Covers slightly tanned or foxed else FINE, a well preserved clean and tight copy ] . To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. Publisher: Viking Press, New York, 1964. NEAR FINE hardcover book in NEAR FINE mylar-protected dust-jacket. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped ($6.00). First Edition, First Printing.

Soft cover. 4to. pp: 44. First edition. Original publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers with black lettering at front and spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white and colour. Published to accompany the exhibition 'Alex Colville' at Marlborough Fine Art in London, January - February 1970. Very good. Small marks and creases to both covers as a result of shelfwear. Some fading around the edges. Otherwise compact and clean.…

SOFTCOVER. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Large tall 4to. in stiff card covers, with integral illustrated dust jacket, 42pp on various types of paper, colour plates, includes some poetry by Nolan, etc . [CONDITION: A well preserved FINE clean and tight unmarked copy (hint of sunning to dust jacket, pages very faintly tanned) ] . __To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS. …

Condition: Good. 8vo. Square. [12] pp. Soft Cover. Stapled Wraps. Very Good. Some surface soiling and rubs to covers, light toning to interior sheet edges.

Condition: Good. Folio. 44 pp. Stiff, glossy printed color wraps. Good with edgewear and creasing along page corners and spine; highlighting and pen annotations along interior pages. Some color plates. Includes writing by Robert Melville. Catalogue created on occasion of exhibition "Alex Colville" at Marlborough Fine Art in London, England from January - February 1970. First edition. From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz. …