Death Rome, Signed (16 results)

unknown (illustrator). HB 10th Edition. September 1910. o/p in pencil has letters of owners' name, underneath 'from author' written in pencil. Under this is the owners name in full with 'from the author' in ink. Further pencil notation = author's inscription 1910. Blue cloth boards, gilt titles spine. 1 f/c map preceeding page to title page, folds out. + 3 b/w + 1 f/c fold out maps & 4 plans. 19.3 x 13cm. 356 pages including index, biographic details of author + TM Taylor history book, then followed by further 40 pages of publishers educational book list. Condition: Boards rubbed top and bottom spine + slight splits to cloth. Slight wear on corners, cloth good colour. End papers tanned. o/p author annotation etc + seam cracked on binding. Early pages rust spots. Some seams although binding holding, glue weakened. Clean, little wear, colour good. GC.

Very Good. Black paper bind. rubbed at extremities; covers & outer leaves bent at corners, vertical creases to front cover; leaf edges foxed, else a tight, clean signed copy. ; In wraps; b&w photos, ils.; ffep presumably signed & decorated by author. ; 8vo; 128 pages; Signed by Author. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Binding is Softcover.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. Gift inscription from author to Jenifer [Neils] on titlepage. ; Xii, 288pp. The elaborate and inventive slaughter of humans and animals in the arena fed an insatiable desire for violent spectacle among the Roman people. Donald G. Kyle combines the words of ancient authors with current scholarly research and cross-cultural perspectives, as he explores* the origins and historical development of the games* who the victims were and why they were chosen* how the Romans disposed of the thousands of resulting corpses* the complex religious and ritual aspects of institutionalised violence* the particularly savage treatment given to defiant Christians. This lively and original work provides compelling, sometimes controversial, perspectives on the bloody entertainments of ancient Rome, which continue to fascinate us to this day. ; 288 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st impression, signed and dedicated by the author on the title page. In an unclipped dust wrapper. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. Very light general wear. Unclipped DJ is protected in an archival sleeve. Signed, lined and dated "With Best Wishes" by Blake on the title page. Richard Blake's thrilling new novel takes his hero Aelric into a world where the once-mighty Byzantine empire is a shattered rump and its richest provinces have been laid waste. ***** Free shipping available to UK buyers. For customers located outside the UK, if the actual cost of shipping your order is lower than the price paid, then a refund of the difference will be issued. Signed by Author(s).

Reprint, stapled. Condition: Gut. pp. 127-151. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - With author's dedication to W. Haase. - A very good and clean copy. - From the text: The Dosso Dossi Exhibition held in Ferrara, New York, and Los Angeles in 1998-1999 produced a new awareness of the works of the Dossi brothers of Ferrara, Dosso (1486-1534) and Battista (ca. 1492-ca.l548), marking the five-hundredth anniversary of the dispersal of the Este familys art collections after the death of Alfonso II in1598. Reproductions of the paintings, with commentaries, bibliographies, x-radiographs, and accounts of their conservation and interpretation are presented in the splendid volume by Peter Humfrey, Mauro Lucco, et al., Dosso Dossi: Court Painter in Renaissance Ferrara. Critic Robert Hughes commented as follows for Time Magazine, The hothouse atmosphere of the Este court shows in Dosso's major works: they tend to be playful, elaborately poetic and almost impossible to connect to the usual literary sources, as though they were suggested by highly sophisticated people dreaming up ever more obscure secular concetti. In a word, the paintings are totally mannerist; even today scholars dont agree on what theyre actually about. Their oddity is deepened by the fact that Dosso made them up as he went along, adding figures and painting them out as the whim took him, rather than sticking to a preset program of images. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Oversize Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Black and white photos. Signed by Pamela Williams. 2. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First printing. Fully illustrated in b&w photos, oblong 4to, black cloth with front paste-down label. No dj as issued. Fine unread copy. SIGNED by the photographer on the title page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine UK first edition, first printing hardback set - in fine unclipped dustjackets - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - ALL THREE VOLUMES SIGNED BY CONN IGGULDEN - Pictures of the book are available upon request. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Not price clipped and without inscriptions. First Printings in protected wrappers. The First Five books in the Emperor series. SIGNED by Author on title pages without inscriptions. Signed by Author(s).

[0-9698770-0-5] [1995], 1st printing. (Oblong 4to staplebound) Very good plus. np. Signed by the author. Photographs. The spine is lightly rubbed. Edited by Patrick Jenkins. (Art--Canada, Artists--Canada, Cemeteries, Exhibition Catalog--Justina M. Barnicke Gallery--Hart House--University of, Graveyards, Sepulchral Monuments, Statuary).

oblong 4to. illus. throughout. cloth, photo-illus. mounted on upper cover. (some wear to upper cover, else very good). Signed by the photographer. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. the book is signed, dated and inscribed by the author on the front end page. there are no other inscriptions and the binding is excellent. the original boards are a little shelf rubbed but they are still very attractive with an abundance of gold gilt. the condition is given in terms of the book's age. the book is complete with all plates as issued. the front end page has darkened a little. although the book is not dated the author's inscription in dated Christmas 1912. Mary Macgregor died in 1961. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 4th Edition. "Franklin W. Smith with the author's best wishes, S. Russell Forbes, Rome, May 28/99. Also a personal inscription. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First Edition. 5 works. Publisher's original boards. A very fine set in like dustwrappers for the 5 hardbacks. All first editions, first impressions. Complete SIGNED SETS are very scarce. NB: "Emperor - The Gates of Rome" has its wrap-around band (with the Bernard Cornwell quotation) and is mint in dustwrapper in the original shrink-wrap (as originally sold by Goldsboro Books). "Emperor - The Death of Kings" has its wrap-around band with the quotation from The Times: 'If you liked Gladiator, you'll love EMPEROR". Photographs/scans available upon request. For the set: Signed by Author.

1st Edition. "Single sheet, mounted and framed (6 x 9 inches). FINE engraving and etching, with transparent wash and body color, highlighted with gold and silver. Provenance: Signed "GM," most likely Georg Mack the Elder. First edition. EXTREMELY FINE engraving by Coornhert after Maarten van Heemskerck, ILLUMINATED and SIGNED by Georg Mack the Elder. Exhibited in "Painted Prints: The Revelation of Color in Northern Renaissance & Baroque Engravings, Etchings & Woodcuts," 2002, no. 42, at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Number 3 in a series of 12 engravings entitled "The Victories of Emperor Charles V." "In 1556 Hieronymus Cock published a series of 12 engravings, with a separate title page, on the theme of the victories of Emperor Charles V. The designs were by Maarten van Heemskerck, and the plates were cut by Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert'The victories of Charles V' exalts the mighty deeds of the emperor. The title page refers to the prints as 'images of paternal triumphs' ('paternarum victoriarum imagines'), and the dedication is to Charles's successor as Lord of the Netherlands, so the series may well have been intended to urge Philip to follow in his father's footsteps "The fall of Charles de Bourbon is the theme of the third print, with its caption: 'Bourbon is struck to the ground, and the imperial army storms the walls of Rome and plunders the wretched city.' A halberdier who has rushed to the scene can only look on in powerless dismay as Bourbon pitches backwards from the ladder placed against a tower-like structure that forms part of the city walls. Others are scaling a second ladder to his right, and the intensity of the battle in the city is visible on both sides of this section of the wall. The Tiber flows by on the left, with a curiously peaceful scene in the foreground showing two men returning from a watermill floating on the river, each burdened with a pitcher. "The composition of this print, with its odd tower-like construction in the center, looks somewhat contrived. Yet this particular print is astonishingly accurate from a topographical point of view. Cellini says that it was by the Campo Santo that he shot Bourbon. At that time the wall around the Vatican stopped at the banks of the Tiber, ending in a tower - the very one displayed in this engraving. The Tiber bends at this point, and the view to the north-west from the foot of the tower did indeed correspond with Heemskerck's drawing, which has, of course, been transmuted into its mirror-image in the engraving. From left to right, from the tower one can see the campanile of old St. Peter's and the church itself, then the obelisk that still stood to the south of the old basilica, with the new St. Peter's under construction. By 1534 only the four central pillars by Raphael and the arches from the dome resting on them had been built, as shown in the print. The round building is Santa Maria della Febbre, which belonged to the old St. Peter's complex. "Heemskerck was able to consult his own sketches for this print. His Rome sketchbooks contain a number of drawings of the area around St. Peter's. Not even the floating water-mill in the foreground was invented; it appears precisely as it is here in an anonymous pen drawing of ca. 1540 with a view of the castle of Sant'Angelo" (Rosier, "The victories of Charles V: a series of prints by Maarten van Heemskerck, 1555-56"). "The Nuremberg court records indicate that the Mack family - Hans, Georg the Elder, and Georg the Younger - were among the most active and important 'Briefmaler' and 'Illuministen' in the city in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.The family's output of painted prints was prodigious, and many of the most sumptuously colored engravings known today were executed by them. Their painted prints must also have been admired during their day, because they identified their work with monograms. The family members painted in a refined style, imitative of miniature painting and manuscript illumination, emplo". Signed by Author(s).