‎Alon in the dark. ‎

‎Issy les moulineau, Vents d'ouest, 1994; in-4, 48 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Reed.‎

‎Reed.‎

‎TREASURES OF RUSSIAN ART OF THE 11TH-16TH CENTURIES.‎

‎Leningrad , Aurora, 1970 Bound, cloth, illustrated paper jacket, 200 x 280 mm., 288 pp., profoundly illustrated in colour and b/w.‎

‎Dedication from former owner on title page. Beautiful book, in good condition.‎

‎Die Alpen, les Alpes, the Alps. Richement documenté (planches en couleurs avec légendes et textes d'accompagnement).‎

‎Sigloch 1979. Bel exemplaire relié, jaquette conservée, in-4 oblong, 208 pages.‎

‎Privates Photoalbum mit Ansichten von Schweizer Gebirgen.‎

‎O. O., (1919). 72 mont. Orig.-Photographien in farb. Leinenalbum in Blockbindung. Bildgrössen: ca. 8 x 10 cm. Blattgrösse: 39 x 29 cm.‎

‎Die mit weisser Tusche untertitelten Aufnahmen zeigen u.a. Monte Rosa, Breithorn, Matterhorn, Weisshorn, Gornergrat, Gornergletscher, Triftbach, Zinalrothorn, Hohwänggletscher, Zmutt, Mettelhorngrat u. Zermatt. - Das Zwiebelpapier zum Schutz der Photographien gebräunt u. stellenweise knitterfaltig od. mit Knickspuren.‎

‎Mermaids of Venice. Fantastic Sea Creatures in Venetian Renaissance Art‎

‎, Brepols, 2010 Hardback, VIII 273 p., 234 b/w ill. 44 colour ill., 220 x 275 mm, Languages: English. ISBN 9781905375455.‎

‎The arts of Renaissance Venice teem with sea monsters. Chief among these are mermaids and mermen--graceful hybrid beings human from the waist up, but with the lower body and tail of a fish, dolphin or sea serpent. Other sea hybrids--horses, bulls, panthers, even an elephant--also swim through Venetian art in finned and fish-tailed forms. Such creatures emerge from stone in the shadowy churches and the sunlit courtyard of the Palazzo Ducale, crown the wooden frame of a Giovanni Bellini altarpiece, and encircle the bronze flagpole bases in Piazza San Marco. Their gilded sugar apparitions graced banquet tables for illustrious visitors, and their descendents still glide through the canals in the form of brass seahorses set above the sides of gondolas This book focuses on the conceptions of artists who made marine hybrids as some of the most engaging inventions of the Renaissance in Venice and its subject city Padua. The chapters deal with five functional contexts: book decoration of the 1470s and 80s; tomb monuments of the 1480s and 90s; church decoration of the same years, particularly at Santa Maria dei Miracoli; centers of political activity, including civic settings in Venice and the palaces of powerful mainland employers of Venetian artists; and finally, private homes, where owners could hold small bronze sea hybrids in their hands, often as objects for use. A prologue introduces the ?heritage of monsters? from the ancient and medieval worlds, the better to show how Venetian artists adapted these to new purposes. Exploring the ways in which artists could interpret and contemporary viewers might experience these wide-ranging sea-creatures, the book brings their best images together as a source of delight. Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History(HMSAH 58)‎

‎Horizon - Volume 3 N°1 Septembre 1960‎

‎ James Parton Reliure Rigide Illustrée 1960 136 pages en format 23 - 31 cm - Nombreuses illustrations - ‎

‎Bon État ‎

‎Horizon - Volume II, Number 2 - November 1959‎

‎ James Parton Reliure Rigide Illustrée 1959 136 pages en format 23 -31 cm + the silent traveller draws the west - nombreuses illustrations ‎

‎Très Bon État ‎

‎Horizon - Volume II, Number 4 - March 1960‎

‎ James Parton Reliure Rigide Illustrée 1960 128 pages en format 23 - 31 cm + the comic history of england with colored etchings by John Leech ‎

‎Très Bon État ‎

‎Horizon - Volume II, Number 5 - May 1960‎

‎ James Parton Reliure Toile Rouge Décorative 1960 128 pages en format 23 - 31 cm + through the ages in the best beds - nombreuses illustrations ‎

‎Bon État ‎

‎Horizon - Volume I, Number 6 - July 1959‎

‎ James Parton Reliure Rigide Illustrée 1959 136 pages en format 23 - 31 cm + cities of italy - nombreuses illustrations ‎

‎Très Bon État ‎

‎Painting Restoration Before the Restauration. The Origins of the Profession in France, ‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2012 Hardback, 320 p., 204 b/w ill., 240 x 280 mm. ISBN 9781905375349.‎

‎The art of painting restoration is almost as old as the art of painting itself. Accidents and time inevitably alter the appearance of a painting, and these changes begin as soon as it leaves the artist's easel. Purposeful alterations due to changes in taste have also contributed to transformations that paintings often underwent. Clearly the type of restoration procedures considered ethically acceptable have changed over the centuries. From the Renaissance until the end of the nineteenth century, European paintings were considered as two-dimensional illusions of a three-dimensional space, and any disruption to this illusion was considered as damage requiring repair. There was no acknowledgement of painting supports as an integral part of a picture; only the paint layer and the subject represented were appreciated. As a result, panels were often thinned and cradled in order to flatten the painted surface so that the image depicted could be viewed with less distraction. Supports were even considered replaceable. Total transfer of a painted surface onto a new surface was an acceptable procedure in the eighteenth century - even until the mid-twentieth century. Invisible retouching was used with the intent of returning the illusion of the painted surface to its 'original state'; the history of the work was not important. Until recent times, it was even acceptable to alter the format of a work of art to fit a frame or a space on the wall. Traditionally, if a painting was accidentally damaged or if 'adjustment' were required, a painter was entrusted with this task. In the past, the professions of painter and painting restorer overlapped, and both were trained as apprentices. Gradually the professional painting restorer appeared in Europe, and by the mid-eighteenth century, the profession was established. Earlier examples of professional restorers, especially in Italy, have been recorded while in other European countries, such as Britain, the career of the professional painting restorer began much later. During the later part of the eighteenth century in France, the painting restorers of the French Royal Collection became celebrated throughout Europe for their achievements. The political situation had an important influence on the development of the profession in France. The reigns of Francois I (1515-47), Louis XIV (1643-1715), Louis XVI (1774-93), and then the coup d'etat by Napoleon Bonaparte and the First Napoleonic Empire (1804-14) led to an increasing centralisation of the French Empire. The arts were meant to reflect the power of the state; thus Louis XIV and his political advisor and Surintendent from 1661 to 1685, Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-83), became the patrons of the French Academie de Peinture et Sculpture founded in 1648. A revision of the Academy's statutes in 1665 required students to submit annually drawings that focused on the heroic actions of the king. Paintings conferred status on their owner - in this instance the king and the French nation. It then became a necessity to have the paintings on display looking their best, and the skill of the French painting restorers was even used as a justification for Napoleon's policy of confiscation of works of art from all over Europe. The relationship between the French government's administration, firstly under the Ancien Regime, then under the new Republic, and the painting restorers they employed and supervised is related in this book. The manner in which changes occurred involves colourful personalities whose stories are often amusing and sometimes poignant, but above all they help us to understand the present-day situation. For during the turbulent years of the French Revolution new patterns emerged, which to a large extent remained in place in France for over two centuries. New book.‎

‎Re-Making the Margin. The Master of the David Scenes and Flemish Manuscript Painting around 1500‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2012 Hardback, 250 pages., 150 b/w ill. + 32 colour ill., 210 x 297 mm. ISBN 9782503516844.‎

‎The subject of the present publication is the working practices of the Ghent-Bruges illuminators, active in Flanders in the decades around 1500. Its focus is on manuscripts featuring freestanding, isolated motifs painted in the margins of text pages. The author traces how this decorative system was created by the Master of the David Scenes in the Grimani Breviary, a prolific inventor of appealing borders; how it was applied by his closest collaborators, and how it was imitated and adapted by other illuminators. Among these were Simon Bening, the Carmelite sister Cornelia van Wulfschkercke, and a number of anonymous masters, including several whose oeuvres are identified here for the first time. The author elucidates the sources for the isolated motifs and demonstrates how the codicological structure of the manuscripts provides insight into the use and the dispersion of various models for border decorations. The book discusses the famous strewn-flower borders and other types of fully decorated borders as well. The author analyses the isolated motifs in relationship to the page lay-out and the decorative programme of Ghent-Bruges standardised books of hours. The stylistic examination of both the miniatures and the borders of the manuscripts under discussion completes the integrated approach of this study. The author demonstrates how the illuminators collaborated with each other and exchanged artistic models for the illumination of these precious manuscripts. Languages: English.‎

‎Re-Making the Margin. The Master of the David Scenes and Flemish Manuscript Painting around 1500,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2013 786 pages ., 355 b/w ill. + 72 colour ill., 210 x 297 mm, Languages: English. ISBN 9782503516844.‎

‎This publication offers an overview of the style of the Flemish miniature, from the anonymous and modest early Romanesque illustrations to the luxurious late Gothic miniatures, some of which were exported as far afield as Spain and Russia. A beautiful overview of the development in style of the miniature. From the anonymous and modest early Romanesque illustrations to the luxurious late Gothic miniatures of Simon Marmion or Lucas Horenbout who, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, exported their Flemish masterpieces as far afield as Spain and Russia. Never before has the reader-viewer been presented with such a complete overview of the art of Flemish miniatures from the eighth to the sixteenth centuries. Never before has a book presented such a fascinating history of eight centuries of the art of miniatures from the Low Countries. Never before have so many miniatures - more then 600 colour illustrations - been reproduced in one book. Languages: English.‎

‎Report on the history and progress of the American coast survey up to the year 1858. By the committee of twenty appointed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, at the Montreal meeting, August, 1857.‎

‎1857. 8vo. In contemporary half cloth with the original front wrapper pasted on to front board. Stamp to front board and title-page, otherwise fine and clean. 88, 23, (3)-18 pp- ‎

‎American Cinematographer Vol. 60 N° 9 : FILM 79 in London‎

‎ 1979 Vol.60 N° 9 - Septembre 1979 - Revue mensuelle illustrée - Texte en anglais - In-4 - Broché - 102 pages‎

‎Bon état - étiquette au bas du 4me de couverture ‎

‎American Cinematographer Vol. 69 N°10 : Imagine John Lennon, a Film Biography - Sherlock Holmes, Alive and well! - Long Look Back at Magnum PI - ...‎

‎ 1988 Vol.69 N° 10 - Octobre 1988 - Revue mensuelle illustrée - Texte en anglais - In-4 - Broché - 128 pages - En couverture : Yoko Ono & John Lennon‎

‎Bon état ‎

‎American Cinematographer Vol. 69 N°11 : The Accidental Tourist, New film, old team - Three Little Pigs, Remembering the Charm - U2 in concert, Mammoth Production - ...‎

‎ 1988 Vol.69 N° 11 - Novembre 1988 - Revue mensuelle illustrée - Texte en anglais - In-4 - Broché - 92 pages - En couverture : Scene from The Accidental Tourist (Photo by Jurgen Vollmer)‎

‎Bon état ‎

‎American Cinematographer Vol. 69 N°12 : 1988 Visual Effects Sampler - My Stepmother is an Alien, Comic Fantasy - Towering, Explosive effects for Die Hard - ...‎

‎ 1988 Vol.69 N° 12 - Décembre 1988 - Revue mensuelle illustrée - Texte en anglais - In-4 - Broché - 112 pages - En couverture : Kim Basinger / My Stepmother is an Alien‎

‎Bon état ‎

‎American Cinematographer Vol. 70 N° 10 : Phantom of the Opera, the legend continues - Immediate Family, an intimate portrait - Pixar, computer graphics and film - ...‎

‎ 1989 Vol.70 N° 10 - Octobre 1989 - Revue mensuelle illustrée - Texte en anglais - In-4 - Broché - 96 pages‎

‎Bon état - Menus traces de frottement sur la couv. ‎

‎American Cinematographer Vol. 70 N° 11 : Fat Man and Little Boy, the bomb is born - The Fabulous Baker Boys, and the girl they love - Comedy, Drama of Harlem Nights - ...‎

‎ 1989 Vol.70 N° 11 - Novembre 1989 - Revue mensuelle illustrée - Texte en anglais - In-4 - Broché - 128 pages - En couverture : Fat Man and Little Boy (photo by Peter Sorel)‎

‎Bon état ‎

‎American Cinematographer Vol. 70 N° 12 : 1989 Visual Effects Spectacular - Time Travel Tale, Back to the Future II - Batman, Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones - The abyss, Honey I Shrunk the Kids - ...‎

‎ 1989 Vol.70 N° 12 - Décembre 1989 - Revue mensuelle illustrée - Texte en anglais - In-4 - Broché - 116 pages - En couverture : The DeLorean / Back to the Future Part II‎

‎Bon état ‎

‎American Cinematographer Vol. 70 N°1 : Good Guy, Bad Guy, Theme for Tequila Sunrise - Everybody's All American, the Humbling of a Hero - ...‎

‎ 1989 Vol.70 N° 1 - Janvier 1989 - Revue mensuelle illustrée - Texte en anglais - In-4 - Broché - 92 pages - En couverture : Mel Gibson / Tequila Sunrise‎

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‎American Cinematographer Vol. 70 N° 2 : Three Fugitives, Camera tracks Comedic Criminals - Genes get scrambled in The Fly II - Deepstar Six, Aquanauts six miles down - ...‎

‎ 1989 Vol.70 N° 2 - Février 1989 - Revue mensuelle illustrée - Texte en anglais - In-4 - Broché - 92 pages - En couverture : Nick Nolte & Martin Short / Three Fugitives‎

‎Bon état ‎

‎American Cinematographer Vol. 70 N° 3 : Baron von Münchausen rides again - Trio of masters for New York Stories - Life of the Edge, totally tubular - ...‎

‎ 1989 Vol.70 N° 3 - Mars 1989 - Revue mensuelle illustrée - Texte en anglais - In-4 - Broché - 92 pages - En couverture : Scene from The Adventures of Baron Münchausen (Photo by F. Bellomo)‎

‎Bon état ‎

‎American Cinematographer Vol. 70 N° 4 : Bridging the generation gap, Chances Are - It's Awards time, ASC and Academy Nominees - Jungle adventure for Farewell to the King - ...‎

‎ 1989 Vol.70 N° 4 - Avril 1989 - Revue mensuelle illustrée - Texte en anglais - In-4 - Broché - 108 pages - En couverture : Robert Downey Jr. & Cybill Shepherd / Chances Are‎

‎Bon état ‎