e 028 (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Thames & Hudson, New York. 1982. 176 pgs. Illustrated with 124 plates with 20 in color. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A description of the history of the Omega Workshops, a gallery of decorative arts in the Bloomsbury district of London, examines the works exhibited there by artists, including Vanessa Bell, Wyndham Lewis, and Duncan Grant; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 176 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ 1988. X, 175 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards are scuffed at the edges of the boards). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Jing-shen Tao's Two Sons of Heaven examines the diplomatic, ideological, and political relationship between the Northern Song dynasty (9601127) and the Khitan Liao dynasty (9071125) , two contemporaneous states that both claimed universal legitimacy in East Asia. The book's central theme is the problem created when two rulers simultaneously claimed the title "Son of Heaven", challenging the traditional Chinese conception of a single, universal empire. ; 6.5 X 0.75 X 9.5 inches; 173 pages.

Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Firefly Books, Ltd. , Buffalo, New York, 2002. 491 pgs, 539 pgs. Illustrated. Second Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This two-volume set holds the answer to virtually any gardening question. The Botanical Garden is the most comprehensive gardening work of its kind. Bridging the divide between scientific texts and everyday horticultural books, it is lavishly illustrated throughout with photographs that show the plants in exquisite detail. Trees and Shrubs This first volume covers over 450 genera of woody plants, beginning with the tree ferns, ginkos and conifers of the Jurassic period. The book explores in detail the earliest flowering plants, such as the bewitching magnolia, the catkin-bearing trees and familiar fruit trees, maples and others, concluding with the distinctive cordyline, palm and bamboo families. Perennials and Annuals Volume II deals with herbaceous plants over 550 genera of annuals, biennials, perennials, bulbs and aquatic plants. DNA studies have proved vital in the study of these plants and science is now providing definite answers where previously classification was imprecise. The book moves through all the flowering plants, starting with the ancient and intriguing mosses and ferns, and ending with distinctive reeds and grasses that are fundamental to modern gardening. ; 9 X 1.5 X 11.25 inches; 492 pages.

Hardcover. 4to. Published by The Macmillan Company, New York, 1967. 160 pgs. Illustrated in color and black and white. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Lovely details and views of notable Irish gardens, including Mount Usher, Annes Grove, Glenveagh Castle, Ilnacullin, Rossdohan, Fota, Ardsallagh and Mount Congreve, Powerscourt, Birr Castle, Rowallane, Mount Stewart, Castlewellan, and Glasnevin; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. 1986. 314 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Bonampak murals, discovered in ruins in a remote jungle in Chiapas, Mexico in 1946, are the finest classical Mayan murals known. Miller reinterprets them in light of new knowledge as a series of ritual events that took place A. D. 790-792. There are elaborate pageants with musicians, the royal family and heir, a battlefield, captives being tortured (which revises the notion of the Maya as unwarlike) , and women. The murals are so placed that the viewer is at the center of the scene just as in circlevision. Miller's detailed study is accompanied by pictures of other sites. Paramount are the beautiful reproductions (65) , which may become our only remembrance of the murals; they are so much the center of rivalries that no major conservation effort is under way. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 314 pages.

Condition: Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by William Heinemann Ltd. , London, UK. 1934. 375 pgs. First UK Edition/First Printing. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Heavy foxing present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Jasmine Farm (1934) was Elizabeth von Arnim's penultimate novel. The novel opens with a dinner party in which there are enormous disparate group of characters thrown together by circumstance in a bucolic setting - this time the French Riviera. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Leather. 12mo. Columbus Alexander, Printer, Washington, DC. 1850. Xi, 242 pgs. (last 56 pages contain business ads). Illustrated with two seating charts [House and Senate], separate title page for the Business Directory includes ads for Morse's Telegraph, the Willard Hotel, several daguerreotype galleries, etc. Bound in 1/2 blue leather with matching blue cloth boards with gilt titles present to the spine. Boards have light wear present to the extremities of the boards. Heavy foxing present. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. E-028; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. 4to. Published by Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, New York, 1959. 280 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in yellow cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the half-title page. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Renowned for her sharp literary style, essayist and fiction writer Mary McCarthy offers a unique history of Florence, from its inception to the dominant role it came to play in the world of art, architecture, and Italian culture, that captures the brilliant Florentine spirit and revisits the legendary figuresDante, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, and otherswho exemplify it so iconically. Her most cherished sights and experiences color this timeless, graceful portrait of a city that's as famous as it is alluring. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Folio. Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. 1983-1991, xxix, 115 pgs; xiii, 84 pgs; xvii, 131 pgs; xv, 110 pgs. Illustrated with plates. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities save for Volume 1 which has heavy chipping present to the front flap of Volume I. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities save for Volume I which is heavily chipped and worn to the edge of one board. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Sculpture of Palenque by Merle Greene Robertson is a comprehensive study of the sculptures found at the ancient Mayan city of Palenque, located in present-day Chiapas, Mexico. Robertson, a prominent archaeologist and scholar of Mayan art, provides a detailed exploration of the artistic and architectural significance of these sculptures, which are some of the most intricate and well-preserved from the ancient Maya civilization. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.