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The Jews in the Age of Rembrandt

MORGENSTEIN, SUSAN W. AND RUTH E. LEVINE · 1981 · Ultramarine Books

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

Rockville, MD, The Judaic Museum of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington. 1981, First Edition. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), Square 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 84 pages; 56 b&w illustrations. Excellent essays by Simon M. Schama; Jane M. Farmer; Cynthia von Bogendorf…

John Virtue: London Paintings

Virtue, John; Simon Schama: Paul Moorhouse and Colin Wiggins · 2005 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.62 | ¥8,784)

London, National Gallery, 2005. Hardcover. Gray cloth boards with black and white lettering, bw illustrated dust jacket, 112 pp, profusely illustrated in bw. Published to accompany the exhibition: John Virtue: London Paintings at The National Gallery, London, 9 March to 5 June 2…

Overvloed en onbehagen. De Nederlandse cultuur in de Gouden Eeuw.

Simon Schama / Eugène Dabekaussen, Barbara de Lange en Tilly Maters (vertalers) · 2017 · SomeThingz, books etcetera

€25.00 ($27.56 | £20.85 | ¥4,401)

Amsterdam Atlas Contact 2017 Gebonden, linnen met stofomslag, 863pp.,18x25cm., talrijke ills. in kleur, in zeer goede staat (stofwikkel met lichte gebruikssporen) . ISBN 9789045034065. In dit baanbrekende werk onderzoekt de Britse historicus Simon Schama de Nederlandse cultuur …

CY TWOMBLY - Fifty Years of Works on Paper

Simon Schama & Roland Barthes (Essays) / Cy Twombly / Curated by Julie Sylvester · Handled With Care

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,801)

Schirmer/Mosel ; Conditie: Nieuwstaat. Ongelezen. Softcover. Rijkelijk geïllustreerd. Groot boek.

Wonderen soo aen als in, en wonder-gevallen soo op als ontrent de Zeeën, rivieren, meiren, poelen en fonteynen: historischer; ondersoeckender, en redenvoorstellender wijs verhandeld.Amsterdam, Jan Claesz ten Hoorn, 1687. Large 4to. With an etched frontispiece by Jan Luyken, a woodcut printer's device on the title page, a letterpress table with 4 small woodcuts of the 4 phases of the moon on p. 667, woodcut headpiece, tailpieces and decorated initials. Contemporary blind tooled vellum.

VRIES, Simon de. · 1624 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,750.00 ($1,928.86 | £1,459.75 | ¥308,051)

[16], 668, [56] pp.Large-paper copy of the rare first and only edition of this extensive compilation of stories, anecdotes, facts and wonders connected with the sea and other waters. The present copy includes the often missing frontispiece by Jan Luyken, showing a violent sea wi…

CHRIST'S COLLEGE MAGAZINE 1966 - 2000 [35 Issues]

H Lehmann; Simon Schama; S Gorley Putt; R N Barlow-Poole (eds) · 1966 · Dodman Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Cambridge, Christ's College, A long unbroken run of the annual magazine for Christ's College, Cambridge, undergraduates and alumni. 35 issues span 1966 to 2000. The 1971 issue is mistakenly dated 1970 to the contents page. Various paginations and light wear to older issues, but …

Hans Memling: Quatre-vingt Planches hors texte AVEC DE REPRODUCTIONS D'APRES LES TABLEAUX LES PLUS EMINENTS DU MAITRE / [Hans Memling: Eighty Plates of Text WITH REPRODUCTIONS FROM THE MOST EMINENT PAINTINGS OF THE MASTER (Eight Parts Bound in One Volume)

Memling, Hans (1440?-1494) · 18971907 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$2,000.00 (€1,814.54 | £1,513.59 | ¥319,412)

Harlem, Hollande [Holland | Netherlands] H. Kleinmann & Cie. Folio. Eighty [80] leaves of gorgeous sepia tone reproductions of notable paintings by Hans Memling nearly always preceded with their original tissue-guards. Contemporary smooth tan utilitarian binding with new endpape…

The Sophisticated Traveler (October 20, 1991)

Sorel, Edward (text and illustrations), Susan Minot, Padgett Powell, William Boyd, Simon Schama, John Russell, and other contributors · 1991 · Clayton Fine Books

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

Merle Nacht, cover illustration Near Fine First Edition New York Times New York 0 Near fine in original wrappers.

Flesh in the Age of Reason

Porter, Roy · 2003 · Fenix Books Amsterdam

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

Allen Lane: London, 2003 Bound in boards, gilt decorated lettering spine, with dustwrapper, vii-xviii + 574pp. 2nd edition. Foreword Simon Schama, bibliography, notes. 16x23x3,7cm. Slight signs of use cover, in very good condition. [Parcel service].

History of Education Volume 1 Number 1. January 1972

Seaborne, M [ed] · 1972 · The Victoria Bookshop

£3.53 (€4.23 | $4.66 | ¥745)

Leicester, History of Education Society, 1972. First. Paperback. 8vo. Includes - Study of the history of education by Asa Briggs, The Rights of ignorance by Simon Schama Wear to edges Crease to spine and front cover. Good.

Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708) as book illustrator. A bibliography.

(HOOGHE, Romeyn de). LANDWEHR, J. · 1970 · Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis (ILAB/NVVA)

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.02 | ¥5,281)

Amsterdam-New York, A.L. van Gendt - Abner Schram, 1970. 27 x 19 cm. Original cloth with dust jacket. 248 p. Illustrated. 1st edition. Excellent condition. Standard work about the great Baroque illustrator, called, by Simon Schama, the first modern graphic satirist.

Art and History: Images and Their Meaning

Rotberg, Robert I. and Theodore K. Rabb (editors) · 1989 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press, 1989. Softcover. Blue illus. wraps; 310 pp.; Numerous bw figures. A collection of essays, including "Representing the Family: Portraits and Purposes in Early Modern Italy" by Diane Owens Hughes, "The Soldier in Germanic Graphic Art…

Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul

Porter, Roy · 2004 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

New York, New York, W. W. Norton & Company Inc, 2004. Hardcover. Mustard-color paper over boards; Black paper at spine; Color illus. dj.; 573 pp.; No illustrations. Foreword by Simon Schama; Examine's the transition from the idea of man made in God's image to that of the self-ma…

Greece and the Augustan Cultural Revolution.

SPAWFORTH, A. J. S., · 2015 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€34.00 ($37.48 | £28.36 | ¥5,985)

Cambridge University Press, 2015. 328p. Paperback. Series: Greek Culture in the Roman World. 'This work is an important crystallization of a particular (and predominant) point of view regarding the operation, transmission, and evolution of culture in the Greek East. It is a ski…

History In Quotations

M. J. Cohen and John Major · 2004 · Book Haven

NZ$18.50 (€9.27 | $10.22 | £7.73 | ¥1,632)

Cassell 2004 Hardback, 1008pp. With a foreword by Simon Schama, one of the world’s foremost historians, and with 9000 chronological quotations arranged in 90 thematic chapters, this huge treasury is bursting with historical gems. The verbal banquet comes courtesy of such diverse…

The Conversion of Europe

Fletcher, Richard · 1998 · 't Duveltje

€11.50 ($12.68 | £9.59 | ¥2,024)

Fontana press England 1998-594 pp. Engelse paperback ills. The story of how Europe was converted to Christianity from 300AD until the barbarian Lithuanians finally capitulated at the astonishingly late date of 1386. It is an epic tale from one of the most gifted historians of to…

Granta: The Magazine of New Writing- Granta 34. Death Of A Harvard Man

2008 · Klondyke BV

€4.95 ($5.46 | £4.13 | ¥871)

Paperback; 2008; Granta Books; 252pp.; Conditie: Goed; On a Friday afternoon in late November, George Parkman - doctor of medicine, austere tenement landlord, benevolent student of the disturbed - disappeared and was never seen again. He disappeared even though he was, at the ve…

Saad Qureshi: Other Crescents Other Moons

Qureshi, Saad; Mila Askarova · 2012 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,187)

London, Gazelli Art House, 2012. Softcover. Black wrap with dark gray lettering on front cover, unpaginated (36), illustrated in large bw and color illustrations. "In his inaugural solo exhibition other crescents other moons, Saad Qureshi takes the role of a story-teller, visual…

Memoires sur La Vie et le Caractere de Mme La Duchesse de Polignac. Avec des Anecdotes Interessantes sur La Revolution Francoise, et sur La Personne de Marie-Antoinette, Reine de France.

POLIGNAC (Diane), Comtesse · 1796 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

London, Chez J. Derett..., 1796. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 215 x 123 mms., pp. xi [xii blank], 62, introduction in English, text in French, recent marbled boards, with red morocco label on spine. A very good copy Yolande Martine Gabrielle de Polastron, Duchess of Polignac (1749 …

Het schat der armen. Oft een medecijn boecxken, dienstelijck voor alle menschen, ... Op een nieu oversien, verbetert, ende vermeerdert. Amsterdam, [Cornelis Lodewijksz. vander Plasse?], printed by Frans Pels, 1634. 8vo. Modern boards covered with marbled paper.

JACOBS, Heyman. · 1972 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)

[4], 177, [1], [2 blank] pp.Second copy located of an early edition of a small and inexpensive medical guide intended for the poor and therefore both giving advice for a healthy life style and suggesting herbal and other medicines, including many they could prepare themselves, r…