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The Classical World. An Epic History from from Homer to Hadrian.

LANE FOX, R., · 2006 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€19.00 ($20.94 | £15.85 | ¥3,345)

Basic Books, New York, 2006. XVI,656p. ills.(B&W photographs and line drawings). Hard bound with dust wrps. Nice copy. 'Lane Fox's basic message is that an enormous amount is lost in the split that most modern writers make between Greek history on the one hand, and Roman on the…

Odysseae Libri XXIIII. Raphaele Volaterrano interprete ...(Colophon:) Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus, April 1528. With: (2) HOMER, and Raffaele MAFFEI (translator). Iliados, tum odysseae libri XLVIII. In singulos libros argumenta. Batrachomyomachia. Deorum hymni XXXII. Homeri vita. (Colophon: Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus), 1528. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo (15.6 x 10.4 cm). Ad 1 with a full page woodcut device at the end of the volume, lightly hand-coloured. Ad 2 with the same device. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, sewn on 4 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, and rebacked.

HOMER, and Raffaele MAFFEI (translator). · 1502 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,750.00 ($4,133.28 | £3,128.04 | ¥660,110)

183; 259, [8]; [1], "184-214" [=31], [8] ll.Rare first Antwerp edition, and the earliest truly complete Latin Homer to be printed in the city, from the press of Joannes Grapheus (1502-1571). Conceived as a two-volume "opera omnia", it gathered together all the major Latin transl…

Nature and the Tradition of Late Latin Christian Poetry

Donato De Gianni, Luciana Furbetta, Francesco Lubian (eds) · 2026 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€106.00 ($116.83 | £88.42 | ¥18,659)

, Brepols, 2026 Paperback426 p.156 x 234 mmIllustrations:1 tables b/w.Language(s):English, German, French . ISBN 9782503616544. The book Nature and the Tradition of Late Latin Christian Poetry is a collection of eleven scholarly essays by prominent international scholars that …

Paolo Veronese

David Rosand - (auth) Mary Frank (ed) · 2023 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€155.00 ($170.84 | £129.29 | ¥27,285)

, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2023 Hardback, Pages: 376 pages, Size:225 x 300 mm; Illustrations:2 b/w, 357 col. Language:English, Italian, Latin. ISBN 9781909400986. David Rosand's Paolo Veronese is a masterly account of the Venetian painter's artistic achievement, demonstrating …

Francis Bacon : The Violence of the Real

Armin Zweite, Peter Bürger, Martin Harrison, Daria Kolacka · 2006 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€39.95 ($44.03 | £33.32 | ¥7,032)

, Thames & Hudson, 2006 Hardcover, 256 pages, ENG, 305 x 230 mm, in Good condition, dustjacket, illustrated in colour / b/w. ISBN 9780500093351. Dramatic depictions of human forms ? writhing painfully, dissolving, wrestling or engulfing one another, seated or in motion ? are u…

Arc Majeur - Bernar Venet

Jack Lang ; Franck Depaifve , Véronique Sorlet , Michel Welfringer ; translation : Tim Harrup · 2019 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€75.00 ($82.67 | £62.56 | ¥13,202)

, EPICENTRO, 2019 Hardcover , 271 pages, ENG / FR, 330 x 240 x 35 mm , dustjacket, NEW, illustrated in colour / b/w. ISBN 9782960183184. More than 37 years ago, the French artist Bernar Venet designed the Arc Majeur, a monumental work more than 60m high which was to be the fir…

Ivory Crisis

Ian Parker; Mohamed Amin · 1983 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

, Chatto & Windus, 1983 Hardcover, 184 pages, ENG, 300 x 235 x 20 mm, dustjacket, good condition, illustrated in colour / b/w. ISBN 9780701126339. This challenging treatise on African elephants and the ivory trade remains an important and groundbreaking work in its field. Forem…

Till we shall meet and never part. Jazz Lives.

Klomp, Jaap van de , Bill Crown., Scott Yanow. · 2008 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€12.50 ($13.78 | £10.43 | ¥2,200)

, A.W. Bruna Uitgevers 2008, 2008 Hardcover, 223 pages, ENG, 330 x 225 mm, book is in New state, with very fine pictures of the final resting places of Jazz legends, in colour and b/w, . ISBN 9789022993538. Jazz is an improvisational style of music influenced by West African rh…

Rhetoric and Renewal in the Latin West 1100-1540. Essays in Honour of John O. Ward,

C. Mews, C. Nederman, R. M. Thomson (eds.); · 2003 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€49.50 ($54.56 | £41.29 | ¥8,713)

Turnhout, Brepols, 2003 Hardback, X+270 p., 1 b/w ill., 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503513409. The essays in this volume, presented in honour of John O. Ward, explore the role of rhetoric in promoting reform and renewal in the Latin West from Peter Abelard (1079-1142) to Juan Luis Vi…

Corpus Christianorum. Exegetica Pauca problesmata de enigmatibus ex tomis canonicis. Praefatio- De Pentateucho Moysi,

G. MacGinty (ed.); · 2000 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€176.00 ($193.99 | £146.81 | ¥30,981)

Turnhout, Brepols, 2000 Hardback, XLI+345 p., 155 x 245 mm. ISBN 9782503047317. The text that has conventionally become known in German as "Das Bibelwerk" is now generally referred to in English as the Reference Bible. This work has rather a schoolroom air. After a general "Prae…

Parish and Pilgrimage Church of St Elizabeth in Ko'ice. Town, Court, and Architecture in Late Medieval Hungary,

T. Juckes; · 2012 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€93.50 ($103.06 | £77.99 | ¥16,459)

Turnhout, Brepols, 2012 Paperback, XII+292 p., 224 b/w ill., 220 x 280 mm. ISBN 9782503531090. One of the most important building projects in late medieval Hungary was the reconstruction of the parish and pilgrimage church of St Elizabeth in Ko'ice (present-day Slovakia). The b…

Welsh Manuscripts and English Manuscripts in Wales,

C. Lloyd-Morgan; · 2011 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€73.50 ($81.01 | £61.31 | ¥12,938)

Turnhout, Brepols, 2011 Paperback, 128 p., 36 b/w ill., 210 x 270 mm. ISBN 9781905375813. This is the sixth volume in a continuing series of publications listing and identifying all illustrations contained in English manuscripts from the time of Chaucer to Henry VIII. This was …

Thy Father's Instruction. Reading the Nuremberg Miscellany as Jewish Cultural History (Studia Judaica, 79)

FEUCHTWANGER-SARIG, NAOMI · 2022 · Antiquariaat Spinoza

€81.75 ($90.11 | £68.19 | ¥14,390)

Berlin, De Gruyter, 2022. XXII, 615 pp. Illustrated. Fine copy. Hardcover. Hebrew Manuscripts (end 16th century). The complete Nuremberg Miscellany is reproduced in the appendix of this book. The Nuremberg Miscellany [Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, Bibliothek, 8° Hs. 705…

Die Technik in der antiken Welt. (Original title: Engineering in the Ancient World).

LANDELS, J.G., · 1978 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Beck, München, 1978. 276p. Richly ills.(B&W photographs and line drawings). Cloth with dust wrappers. Dust wrappers worn. 'Dr. Landels, (...) with the collaboration of colleagues in the Engineering Department of Reading University, has made a number of working replicas of ancie…

The Road to Appomattox

Wiley, Bell Irvin · 1973 · Bookbarrow

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Atheneum, New York, 1973. Third Printing. Paperback, Illustrated by: Photo's. Maps & Drawings. Near Fine/N/A. 9780689702105 black titles spine; the 'College' edition; illustrated by b/w. photo's. drawings & maps; "in 1861 eleven Southern states avowed withdrawal from the America…

The Boy at Willow End: Growing up in the Fens in 1940

Wrigley, Frank · 1999 · Bookbarrow

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Larks Press, Dereham, Norfolk, 1999. First Edition, Softcover, Illustrated by: Frank Wrigley. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 9780948400803 Titles, contents list & foreword to front. Fishing, 'fowling and country-life in war-time Fenland. "If the reader takes a map of the Fe…

Tai-Chi Ch'Uan: The Chinese Way

Lie, Foen Tjoeng · 1988 · Bookbarrow

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Sterling Pub Co. Inc. New York, 1988. Reprint, Paperback. Near Fine Condition. 9780806968261 Introduces the Chinese system of exercise and meditation, and provides instructions for the various movements it employs. Whether you are young or old, frail or robust, the ancient Chine…

Norwich Since 1550

Rawcliffe, Carole & Richard Wilson (Editors) with Christine Clark · 2004 · Bookbarrow

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

Hambledon and London, London, 2004. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. 9781852854508 Norwich remained the second largest city in England until the eighteenth century. Its history over the last 450 years is one of exceptional interest. ‘Norw…

Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images

Barron, Stephanie, Michel Draguet, with Sara Cochran · 2006 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Ghent, Belgium, Los Angeles County Museum of Art / Ludion, 2006. Softbound. Color illustrated wraps. 256 pp. About 250 color and 50 b&w illus. Issued in conjunction with 2006-2007 exhibitions held in California and Belgium, focusing on the work of Rene Magritte (1898-1967). His …

Mother of All

HIGGINS, PAUL LAMBOURNE · 1969 · S. Howlett-West Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Minneapolis, MN: T. S. Denison & Co, 1969. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping and rubbing …