Oresko Robert (47 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Softcover. Condition: VG-. Some rubbing & edgewear; cover/spine fading; few small creases at edges; some yellowing/light foxing; overall clean & tight. 80 pages.

29 cm, Paperback. Condition: Gut. 80 Seiten mit Abbildungen Written and illustrated by Audrey Beardsley. Lese- und Lagerspuren, Einband bestoßen und berieben / Gutes Exemplar / H332 / A-Z 62673 332 ISBN 0856701726 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 860.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and architectural plans and renderings (illustrator). Age-toned pictorial dust jacket with shelf wear and minor loss to lower front corner. Tight binding, solid boards, bright gilt lettering to spine strip, clean, unmarked pages throughout.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing, fanning, inscriptions, margin notes, yellowing, staining on edge or cover or pages, bumps, scuffs, etc etc (sometimes multiple of these). It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Large 8vo, i-xxi, 671 pp, portrait of Ragnhild Hatton, 94 black and white illustrations. An excellent clean copy in a dust wrapper with some very light wear. Please note the ABE stock photograph illustrates a copy WITHOUT a dust wrapper, ours has one.

Condition: Poor. Smoke smell to book. Considerable tanning/fading, marks/scratches to cover & scuffs to edges. Stain to edges/corners of cover & pages. Tanning to pages, darker around edges. Content good.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xxi, 671 p. : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. Notes; Bibliography of Hatton's works: p. 645-649. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; Sovereignty History 17th century. Sovereignty History 18th century. Europe Politics and government 17th century. Europe Politics and government 18th century. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: VG- / NONE. VERY-GOOD- HARDBACK. PINK HIGHLIGHTER LINE ON OUTER PAGE TIPS.

Hardcover cloth, with dustjacket. 671 pp. bibliography. illustrations. -(dustjacket with minor traces of use, dedication on front-endpaper, top-end of bookblock slightly rust stained, otherwise very good). ISBN 9780521419109.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good to Near Fine. 671 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Some shelf wear and bumps to the covers. Interior slightly tanned, but unmarked.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xxi, 671 p. : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. Notes; Bibliography of Hatton's works: p. 645-649. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; Sovereignty History 17th century. Sovereignty History 18th century. Europe Politics and government 17th century. Europe Politics and government 18th century. 1 Kg.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Very good copy. This large book may require a freight adjustment.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Reader's copy only - some water damage and age - thus cheap.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A clean and sound copy in a lightly rubbed dust jacket.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1950grams, ISBN:0521419107.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Large-format volume, measuring approximately 9.75" x 12.5", is bound in pale green paper spine and boards, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Edges of text block display scattered light foxing. Book is otherwise in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright pages. Dust jacket, with price of $30 on front flap, shows light wear at edges. Jacket is preserved in mylar. 184 pages. ""The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam" provoked a fierce reaction from the moment of the publication of its earlier sections in 1773. Personalities as divergent as George III and Horace Walpole found its assertively self-confident tone intolerable, but however hostile this initial reception may have been, the importance of the first volume, issued in complete form in 1778, soon became apparent to all unbiased observers. A second volume appeared in 1779, followed by a third, posthumous one in 1822. "The Works" set out clearly Robert and James Adam's aesthetic credo and stake their claim to having affected a revolution in the decorative arts of the late eighteenth century. First published after the completion of several staggeringly influential projects for English country houses, these volumes were at once a stunning summation of the Adam mode and a brilliant advertising ploy, designed to affirm the originality of the brothers's (sic) innovations against the initiative schemes of Wyatt and Chippendale. Following the tradition of the great Renaissance and Baroque architects, the Adam brothers codified their style and made their rich vocabulary of decoration available to designers in England and on the continent. Indeed, the publication of "The Works" gave a massive impetus to the Anglomania which swept French artistic circles at the time. Like many great modes of design, the Adam style was fundamentally eclectic ,drawing most heavily for inspiration upon the antique while borrowing also from the cinquecento and the French Rococo. Diverging from the sobriety of continental Neo-Classicism, Robert and James Adam reacted against the heavy Palladianism of their immediate English predecessors and developed an increasingly refined, elegant and even delicate translation of Greek and Roman forms which was unique and totally original. Their vision permeated every aspect of their designs, from the shape of the rooms to the smallest detail of ormolu beading, and the Adam mode became as integral a part of late eighteenth century style as the Reynolds portrait. Robert Oresko, who researches primarily in the fields of seventeenth and eighteenth century architecture, has produced the first complete edition of both the text and the engravings of "The Works" to appear for over seventy years. To this he added an introductory essay, bibliography, indexes of buildings and engravers and over forty-five photographs which illustrate the lasting achievement of the Adam brothers. This long overdue reappearance of the complete "Works" provides the scholar, the connoisseur and the layman with both an invaluable document of eighteenth century architectural and decorative thought and the essential primary material for understanding "the Adam revolution" in design.".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Book measures 25x18cm, 671pp, illustrated throughout. Bound in original publishers cloth. Binding in near fine condition. Dust Jacket in good clean condition. Internally, pages clean, near fine. A very good clean copy.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,2000grams, ISBN:9780521419109.

cloth, 671 pp, ills, dustwrappers.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Cloth/dust jacket Small Quarto. blue cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 671 pp, minor pencil marks.

Condition: New. In.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. 1st 1975. Slightly better than very good condition. The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam was published in three volumes over a period of 50 years from 1778. This new edition brings the complete text and all the engravings together in a single volume and is based on the reprint of E. Thezard Fils. Large format. Green cardwraps. B/w illustrations. 184 pages. Very slight fading to spine. Old price-label to rear cover. A few minor marks to covers. Minor foxing to text block. Contents clean. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Paperback. Condition: Gut. XXI., 671 p., 97 plates, 10 figures. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - very good condition - This substantial collection of specially commissioned chapters addresses the theme of sovereignty and the sources and variety of political power in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe, from Russia to Spain and from the Italian peninsula to the Dutch Republic. -- A unifying theme, taken up in a substantial editorial introduction, is the determination to move away from clichés such as the rise of the modern state. Instead, emphasis is placed upon the composite nature of early modern political structures and upon the significant number of bodies and individuals who were recognised as possessing, or who exercised, sovereignty. One particularly notable and novel feature is the-attention paid to the potential of visual material for this subject: many of the chapters are accompanied by striking^pd often little-known illustrations. Topics are as diverse as international relations and the control of foreign policy, the cultural policies and political ambitions of representational monarchy, urban developments, and the personalities of those who exercised authority. These diverse themes were all illuminated by the writings of Professor Ragnhild Hatton (1913-^95), to whose memory this collection is dedicated. -- Republicanism, monarchism and liberty -- H. G. KOENIGSBERGER -- Maps and monarchs in Europe 1550-1800 -- PETER BARBER -- Resisting monarchy: the Netherlands as Britains school of revolution in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- HUGH DUNTHORNE -- A prince souverain and the French crown: Charles de Nevers, 1580-1637 -- DAVID PARROTT -- Small-power diplomacy in the age of Louis XIV: the foreign policy of the Great Elector during the 1660s and 1670s DEREK McKAY -- The king in his council: Louis XIV and the Conseil den haut JOHN C. RULE -- From commune to capital: the transformation of Turin, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries -- GEOFFREY SYMCOX -- The House of Savoy in search for a royal crown in the seventeenth century -- ROBERT ORESKO -- Tsar into emperor: the title of Peter the Great -- ISABEL DE MADARIAGA -- Monarchs without a crown -- EDWARD GREGG -- The meanings of Austria and Austrian in the eighteenth century -- GRETE KLINGENSTEIN -- Love and the Empire: Maria Theresa and her co-regents DEREK BEALES -- Prussias royal foreign minister: Frederick the Great and the administration of Prussian diplomacy -- H. M. SCOTT -- Frederick the Great and German culture -- T. C. W. BLANNING -- The secret compact of 1753 between the kings of France and of Naples -- ROHAN BUTLER -- The crisis of 1758-1759 in Spain: sovereignty and power during a species of interregnum -- CHARLES C. NOEL -- The Dutch Revolt and the American Revolution -- G. C. GIBBS -- ihild Marie Hatton: A personal appreciation -- REW LOSSKY. ISBN 9780521026512 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1341.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Softcover. Condition: Gut. Softcover, 184 S., zahlr. Abb., 31 x 23,5 cm, Einband mit Gebrauchsspuren, Buchschnitt stockfleckig, sonst guter Zustand, cover with traces of usage, partly foxed, apart from that age-appropriate good condition, 1. Aufl. 910 gr.