‎Weber Max‎
‎The City‎

‎Antwerp An Archealogical View on the Origin of the City‎

‎, Pandora Publishers, 2020 Hardcover, 240 x 170 mm, 192 pages throughout colour illustrations / ENGLISH edition. ISBN 9789053254707.‎

‎ANTWERP An Archealogical View on the Origin of the City / Imagine Antwerp without Rubens, without van Dyck, without the many artists who put the Scheldt city on the map in distant museums. Forget the Cathedral of Our Lady with its elegant, proud tower, forget the Antwerp diamond trade, forget the beating harbor heart with its thousands of shiploads. Forget almost everything you know in the Scheldt city. This book takes you to an unknown Antwerp, when the city was not yet a city, but a place along the river, a settlement that no one can suspect will grow into a metropolis. Where are the roots of Antwerp? Why do people settle there exactly and keep coming back? How can a once simple yard grow into a prosperous trading city, proud and strong? To better understand the origins and DNA of the city, the author digs for centuries-old traces and artefacts during excavations right in the medieval city center: in and around the Steen, the Scheldt quays, ... This book offers new insights into the city's least known history, from its inception to its earliest growth, from embryo to adolescent.‎

‎New York City at Night : A Tour Of The City That Never Sleeps‎

‎, Thunder Bay Press, 2010 Hardcover, 144 pages, ENG, 290 x 250 x 20 mm, dustjacket, in a perfect condition, illustrated in fabulous colours of a fabulous city !. ISBN 9781607101130.‎

‎With its dramatically lit skyscrapers, twinkling bridges, neon lights, and yellow cabs streaking down Broadway, it's no wonder that New York is the city that never sleeps! From the awesome golden sunsets over the Hudson River to the pale yellow sunrise breaking over the East River, you'll see the world's most popular city illuminated like never before. New York City at Night is a stunning blend of aerial photographs of the city's iconic skyline and most famous landmarks as seen through the lens of world-famous aerial photographer Evan Joseph. During the daytime, the Empire State Building is a large-shouldered, gray giant on the horizon; but at nighttime, this 120-story Art Deco gem is enchanting. See this landmark building all lit up, and enjoy sparkling views from the deck of its Observatory and beyond. A tourist book to break the mold! New York City at Night offers a dramatic new perspective of the world's favorite destination.‎

‎Manuscript Album with original photographs made on the occasion of the gift of the lace collection owned by John Tricks Spalding to the City of Nottingham in 1923.t‎

‎18. Nottingham, March 5th 1923, in-folio album, 35 x 28 cm, 42 leaves of stiff grey board, first two leaves contain a manuscript vellum leaf (framed in the board) describing the gift procedure, finely calligraphed, coloured and illustrated in the mediaeval style, the following 39 leaves contain the mounted photographs of the lace pieces, each with a manuscript caption written unto the board, some leaves contain two (smaller) photographs, many photographs contain more than one item, last leaf left blank. Bound in full red morocco, both covers decorated with fine gilt fillets and some floral ornaments, front cover center with the large initials J.T.S., smooth flat spine, all edges gilt, binding signed O. & J. Abbott Nottingham. The album is in near mint condition. Unique and finely made album presented by the city of Nottingham (Mayor Manning) on the fifth of March 1923 to John Tricks Spalding on the occasion of the official acceptance by the City and County of Nottingham of a collection of 156 pieces of lace, donated by the same JTS to the city. The collection had been on display for some time at the Textile Gallery in the Castle Museum. The two manuscript leaves are very finely written, illustrated and coloured in the mediaeval style, containing e.g. an initial with a bird, the coat of arms of the city of Nottingham, a view of the castle, the common red seal of the city, signed by the mayor and the town clerk. The photographs, bright lace on a dark background, depict e.g. ca. 50 pieces of Italian lace (Venice , Milan), ca. 19 pieces of Point d'Alençon , 11 pieces of Mechelen Lace (Flanders) .... J.T.S. was born in Exeter in 1844 and died at Nottingham in 1924. From Exeter his family moved to London, where he married in St. Martin in the Fields in 1868. The Spaldings were glove, lace and hosiery merchants. JTS moved to Nottingham where he became mayor in 1907-1908.‎

‎To the population of the city of Moscow. Citizens Flyer Moscow City Food Committ‎

‎"To the population of the city of Moscow. Citizens Flyer Moscow City Food Committee. Moscow: Moscow City Printing House 1917./K naseleniyu goroda Moskvy. Grazhdane Listovka Moskovskiy Gorodskoy Prodovol'stvennyy komitet. M.: Moskovskaya Gorodskaya tipografiya 1917. Short description: To the population of the city of Moscow. Citizens Flyer Moscow City Food Committee. Moscow: Moscow City Printing House 1917. 1 l.; 33.4 - 42.5 cm. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUbd-772786a1f40ba2bf"‎

‎Image of the City in Early Netherlandish Painting (1400-1550)‎

‎, Brepols 2019, 2019 Hardcover, 356 pages., 95 b/w ill. + 17 colour ill., 14 b/w tables, 178 x 254 mm, English, . ISBN 9782503579825.‎

‎Painted cityscapes have always captivated the viewers of medieval works of art. To this day scholars are mesmerised by their capacity to mirror the urban context from which they sprang, combined with their ability to symbolize a more abstract world view, religious idea or social ideal. Especially oil painting, which thrived in the fifteenth-century Low Countries among a heterogeneous elite and the well-off urban middling groups, succeeded as no other medium in capturing the urban landscape in its finest details. In order to gain an insight into how late medieval citizens, clerics and noblemen conceived of urban society and space, this book combines a serial analysis of a large corpus of painted city views with a critical discussion of some well-documented and revealing works of art. Throughout the book a variety of questions are addressed, ranging from the religious conception of the city, the theatrical dimension of urban space, the extent to which Early Netherlandish painting depicted the city as an economic space, how images of city and countryside functioned as identity markers of the donor, and how technical advances in the field of cartography impacted the portrayal of towns in the sixteenth century. In doing so, this study explores the duality of some of the major interpretive schemes that have determined the last few decades of historiography on late medieval Netherlandish culture, oscillating between bourgeois and courtly, realistic and symbolic, profane and religious, and innovative versus traditional.‎