2 books for « lloyd llewellyn »Edit

‎Scandinavian Adventures, During a Residence of Upwards of Twenty Years. Representing Sporting Incidents, and Subjects of Natural History, and Devices for Entrapping Wild Animals. With Some Account of the Northern Fauna. Tomes 1 & 2‎

‎ Richard Bentley 17,5 x 26,5 London 1854 Deux volumes grand in-8, couverture originale de l'éditeur percaline verte, titres et faisceaux de harpons dorés au dos, motifs animaliers dorés au centre des plats, estampages à froid en coin, XXI-512-XI-527 p., 12 lithographies en couleurs, 1 carte coloriée, 67 vignettes sur bois dans le premier volume, 35 dans le second. Llewellyn Lloyd (Londres 1792- Västra Tunhem 1876), zoologiste et chasseur anglais légendaire, découvre la Suède en 1820-1830 et chasse l'ours, le loup et le lynx. Reliure usagée, marque d'humidité sur le plat supérieur du volume I, plat inférieur du volume I dérelié, volume II correct, mais bon intérieur pour les deux volumes. (BC3) PHOTOS NUMERIQUES DISPONIBLES PAR EMAIL SUR SIMPLE DEMANDE-DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPS MAY BE AVAILABLE ON REQUEST Livre ‎

‎Luxury and Power : Persia to Greece‎

‎, British Museum Press, 2023 Hardcover, 240 pages, ENG, 255 x 195 x 25 mm, NEW, illustrated in colour / b/w, very, very interesting!. ISBN 9780714111964.‎

‎Luxurious objects are celebrated for their exoticism, rarity and style, but also disparaged as indulgent, extravagant and corrupt. The ancient origins of these attitudes emerged at the boundary between the imperial Persian and democratic Athenian Greek worlds. Luxury was at the center of the royal Persian court and behaviors of ostentatious display rippled through the imperial provinces, whose elite classes emulated luxury objects in lesser materials. But luxury is contrastingly depicted through Athenian eyes - within the philosophical context of early democratic codes and the historical context of the Greco-Persian Wars, which suddenly and spectacularly brought eastern luxuries into the imagination of the Athenian populace for the first time. While Greek writers rejected luxury as eastern, despotic and corrupt, the Athenian elite adopted Persian luxuries in imaginative ways to signal status, distinction and prestige. Under the Macedonian empire of Alexander the Great and its subsequent kingdoms, royal Achaemenid luxury culture would later be adopted and displayed by the Macedonian and local elite across the Greek and Middle Eastern worlds: behaviors of ostentatious display were a means to seek advantage in the new Hellenistic world order. Ultimately, this publication demonstrates how competing political spins woven around 2,500 years ago still continue to shape modern perceptions of luxury today.‎