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THE BRITISH LIBRARY (2018)
pvp.50,00 €
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In this richly visual narrative, acclaimed historian Susan Schulten explores five centuries of American history through maps. From the voyages of European discovery to the digital age, she reveals the many ways that maps have ...
THE BRITISH LIBRARY (2018)
pvp.42,00 €
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From the publication in 1595 of the first 'atlas' by Flemish cartographer Gerhard Mercator, the term has become a universally adopted title for books containing accurate, uniform, and evenly spread maps of all or some ...
THE BRITISH LIBRARY (2018)
pvp.39,00 €
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Illuminated manuscripts from England and France are among the greatest masterpieces of medieval European art. This beautiful new book showcases dozens of the finest examples, many of which have never before been exhibited and are ...
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THE BRITISH LIBRARY (2018)
pvp.20,00 €
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As we look back upon past centuries, and can scarce repress our laughter at many of the absurd fancies in costumes our ancestors wore our present beloved fashions, equally in their turn may become subjects ...
THE BRITISH LIBRARY (2017)
pvp.40,00 €
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This stunningly illustrated new book focuses on 77 intricate, expressive and individual examples of calligraphy from the unparalleled collection of the British Library. The author, a renowned expert on the history of the form as ...
THE BRITISH LIBRARY (2016)
pvp.34,21 €
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Illuminated manuscripts are an excellent source of information about the interiors inhabited by people in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Artists regularly depicted the castles and palaces of the ruling classes, as well as ...
THE BRITISH LIBRARY (2015)
pvp.30,00 €
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Our understanding of the lives and roles of medieval women has changed dramatically in recent years. Far from being background characters of the middle ages, women often wielded an influence beyond their expected station. Many ...
THE BRITISH LIBRARY (2014)
pvp.67,00 €
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A great deal of bibliographic and historical scholarship has been devoted to English drama up to 1660, but after the renaissance scholarship grows scant: late seventeenth-century plays have received little such attention, and eighteenth-century plays ...
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THE BRITISH LIBRARY (2013)
pvp.48,28 €
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For over a hundred years (1714-1830) a King George sat on the British throne. It was a time of transformation, as cities grew, trade expanded and taste and elegance fostered a great consumer boom. Yet ...
THE BRITISH LIBRARY (2013)
pvp.26,33 €
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"Artists have been drawn to the plays of Shakespeare for more than three centuries. For the artist, the challenge was to re-create the characters and the drama not on the living stage, but to freeze ...
THE BRITISH LIBRARY (2012)
pvp.32,00 €
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As well as holding some of the world's most prized cultural treasures, the British Library is the repository of the nation's collective memory. Owing its origin to the generosity and far-sightedness of a handful of ...
THE BRITISH LIBRARY (2012)
pvp.69,10 €
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Between 1680 and 1807 several British publishers produced a sequence of double-hemisphere world maps, each printed on two conjoined sheets. The publishers of these world maps were the leading figures of the map trade at ...
THE BRITISH LIBRARY (2012)
pvp.46,00 €
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A fully annotated edition of The Epicure's Almanack, or Guide to Good Living, a listing of more than 650 eating establishments, taverns, hotels, inns etc, in and around London, investigated and engagingly described by Ralph ...
THE BRITISH LIBRARY (2012)
pvp.41,60 €
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The role played by the book trade in the diffusion of artistic and architectural theory, fashion and practice is explored, while other essays trace the impact on the appearance of books themselves of aesthetic trends ...
THE BRITISH LIBRARY (2011)
pvp.36,28 €
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From exquisite medieval bookbindings made of precious metals and jewels to the unique and highly imaginative creations of contemporary bookbinders, this book celebrates over 100 of the most beautiful bookbindings of the last 1000 years. ...
THE BRITISH LIBRARY (2011)
pvp.37,00 €
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Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) was a prolific and astonishingly original writer and artist, who touched at one time or another on almost every literary form. Peake's Progress (the book, ISBN 9780712358347) is a selection, compiled by ...
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THE BRITISH LIBRARY (2011)
pvp.1029,00 €
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Codex Sinaiticus is one of the world's most remarkable books. Written in Greek in the fourth century, it is the oldest surviving complete New Testament, and one of the two oldest manuscripts of the whole ...
THE BRITISH LIBRARY (2010)
pvp.24,76 €
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"Codex Sinaiticus" is one of the world's most remarkable books. Written in Greek in the fourth century, it is the oldest surviving complete New Testament, and one of the two oldest manuscripts of the whole ...
THE BRITISH LIBRARY (2010)
pvp.70,75 €
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The 1860s are considered the 'Golden Age' of illustrated periodicals, a time when the 'knockabout' humour of the 1840s, which was dominated by illustrators such as Cruikshank, Doyle and Phiz, gave way to a more ...
THE BRITISH LIBRARY (2010)
pvp.32,00 €
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This revised edition has added colour plates and new information on ancient Egyptian papyrus gilding. This is a must-have book for book artists and illuminators, explaining in detail the historical and modern techniques of manuscript ...
