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Oriental Carpets: A Complete Guide - The Classic Reference
This comprehensive volume by the most regarded names in the field reviews the history of the art of weaving and explains basic carpet-making materials, tools, and techniques. The line illustrations portray the various kinds of knotting techniques …
The Photobook: A History - Volume I
This comprehensive illustrated history of the photobook presents over 200 of the most beautiful photographers' books from the 19th century to the 1970s, and includes famous and lesser-known works from all over the world.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-94) and index.
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Beautiful, evocative and historically significant, old maps are endlessly intriguing and keenly collected. Antique Maps is widely recognised as a standard reference work for novice map collectors and experts alike. It provides a historical …
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Smartlab: Stars & Planets with Other
Young explorers will realize that what they can learn about the galaxy is as limitless as the night sky!. Includes build-it-yourself solar system, battery-powered planetarium, and glow-in-the-dark star charts. Out-of-this-world discovery engages …
Historic Maps of Armenia: The Cartographic Heritage
This book, for the first time, brings together an extraordinary collection of maps from the earliest times into the modern era. It reproduces the most important representations of Armenia, from the oldest known version—a Babylonian clay tablet of …
Probably the most famous of all medieval manuscripts, a 'Book of Hours' is a glittering compendium of different devotional texts, which by the end of the thirteenth century had become the favourite book of ordinary people throughout Western Europe.
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Smartlab: You Build It - TV Remote Control with Other
Take control! Kids build the remote themselves and gain hands-on experience with the science of light and energy. Includes everything kids need to build a working remote control (for use with home TV and VCR). Kids build and program this …
Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) was one of the most original and influential designers and America's leading proponent of Art Nouveau. Tiffany Studios, founded in 1889, were well known for their use of sensuous, organic, and floral forms. This …
Classic Japanese Porcelain: Imari and Kakiemon
Japan has long had a thriving tradition of high-quality handcrafted ceramics, including some of the world's most sophisticated porcelains. This highly informative volume written by a leading authority describes the origin and development of the …
Art Nouveau Knives, Forks and Spoons
Inventory Catalogue of the Deutsches Klingenmuseum Solingen. With the publication of volume l, the Jugendstil cutlery is presented in all its variety. The holdings include over 300 different patterns and provide the reader with a many-faceted …
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One of the best ways to understand golf is to witness the design and evolution of clubs, balls, tees and accessories. Illustrated with more than 85 photos from the U.S. Golf Association Museum, this book illustrates the tools and traditions of …
Classical Tradition in Anatolian Carpets
fresh and concise look at Anatolian carpets from the 14th to the 20th centuries, including some of the oldest surviving examples of Turkish carpets. Turkish rugs have been a part of European culture since the 14th century. Far more embedded in …
Historic Cutlery - Changing Shapes: From Modern to Palaeolithic to Modern Times
The more than 3,500 items in this unique private collection of cutlery, illustrated with 450 large colour plates, present the expert and the amateur with an outstanding survey of the changing shapes of eating implements from the palaeolithic to …
This exquisite exhibition catalogue brings together over one hundred of Carl Faberge ' s most beautiful creations combining hardstones and other precious materials. The volume presents the history of the renowned jeweler's work using the rich …
Perfume: Joy, Obsession, Scandal, Sin: A Cultural History of Fragrance from 1750 to the Present
This thought-provoking volume transports readers to France of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, beginning with Napoleon's love of perfume and the erotic importance he attached to it, through the lore and symbolism fragrance …
Keramik der 50er Jahre: Formen, Farben Und Dekore: Ein Handbuch
This new handbook provides important information about German ceramics of the 1950s, including new biographies of artists and companies, ceramic terminology, additional illustrations and photographs, indices of more than 3,200 model numbers and …
Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1550
The period from 1400 to 1550 was a glorious era for European manuscript painting. Even after Gutenberg's invention of movable-type printing in around 1450, the demand for luxurious illuminated manuscripts continued well into the 16th century, …
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Painted Labyrinth: The World of the Lindisfarne Gospels
general introduction to the background and history of the "Lindisfarne Gospels," one of the world's greatest works of art, this reference is highly illustrated and very readable. It explores the Saxon and Celtic worlds at the time of the gospels, …
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Glass Marks Encyclopedia 1600 - 1945
After more than eight years of intensive research this is the first and only encyclopaedia of glass marks from the 17th to the 20th century and its at last available