Antonina Vallentin E W Dickes (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: USED Good. No Jacket. Bookplate.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Translated from the German manuscript. Copyright 1938. Stated "First published in November 1938." Same date, 1938. printed on the Title Page. Hard cover in very good condition with brown buckram-looking boards. Front board has the name "Leonardo da Vinci" stamped in large maroon capital letters. Spine contains a maroon panel with title, author and publisher in gold colored lettering. Top stained maroon. Former owner's name and date.1940. on top left of front free end paper. Frontispiece is a sepia toned self-portrait of da Viinci from the Royal Palace, Turin. In addition, throughout the text. there are 30 full page one-toned colored plates and 4 in full colour. One of the full colour is a fold-out of "The Last Supper." All plates present. Concludes with a section of Notes, a Bibliography, and an extensive Index. 561 numbered pages. Dust jacket in good condition with overall shelf and edge wear, and age toning; all four top and bottom flap corners are clipped slightly; no price noted. See photos. Now in protective cover. From the rear jacket, "Antonina Vallentin has written what must be recognized as the first complete portrait of this astounding man. She has gone with him down all the myriad roads of his curiosity, has recorded his achievements and evaluated their content. A discerning critic, she has subjected his great paintings to an analysis fascinating for its clarity and originality. And she has, through the career of Leonardo, recreated the Renaissance world in all its rich pageantry. . .".…

1938, Art, Biography, The Viking Press, 561 p., good cloth no jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library book with usual markings. Meets the good condition guidelines. Has hinge crack. A few pages have staining. Has wear. Five star seller - Buy with confidence.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 561pp; Index; color and b/w illustrations. No library stamps. Contents clean, tight and unmarked; no ownership name or writing. Beige buckram; red lettering on front and gilt stamping to spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine-. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The Viking Press, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 1938. First (1st) Printing ("First Published in November, 1938" stated) of the First Edition. Fine- condition. No Dust Jacket. The Text Block is clean, soft white, tight, straight and square with maroon topstain, lightly tanned fore-edges, and no markings of any kind. The Binding is full khaki colored cloth, color unitform throughout, a fine scratch to the front board, with the title in large red letters to the front board, khaki title, etc., on an orange-red block to the spine, off-white endpapers unmarked but for a prior owner's name and date (1939) on the front free endpaper, and all corners square and sharp. No Jacket. xii, 561 pages, including Notes, Bibliography and Index, plus four unnumbered pages of full size color illustrations. 6 3/8" X 9 1/2". A thorough biography of the artist-inventor with numerous illustrations throughout. The author concludes, in part, "This was the grandest effort ever made by any man to explore and interpret the universe defeated by this man's mortality. His unique career, a lifetime devoted to research in every field of knowledge, ended without the publication even of fragments of his conclusions. Mankind was to have to discover afresh what he knew already, to explore afresh the paths he had trodden and mapped, to fall into his errors after he had recognized them, to struggle out of the traps he had evaded." This is a heavy book, weighing 1,061 grams / 37.3 ounces, and will require extra postage for international shipment. Translated from the German manuscript by E. W. Dickes.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good (-). No Jacket. First Edition (stated). 561 numbered pp; HB. Pages: clean, bright, tight, brown topstain, frontis; a.e. lt tanned/foxed, PO name inked ffep, last 3 pp covered w/ ink and pencil notes, front hinge cracked (still intact). Cover: ,brown, red titles front, dull gilt titles spine; v lt shelfwear, extrems a bit worn, spine well tanned. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 561 pages; B&W and color illustrations. Light yellowing on pages. Personal identifiers on front endpapers. Minor wear on spine's extremities and on the cover corners. Very Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings on text pages.; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully cushioned in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence. First English Edition; No Printing Stated.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. sm 4to, 561 pp. 1st Ed.(U.S.) 1st Printing, stated November 1938, verso. brown cloth, red titles. Weight is 2.5 pounds. previous owners b/w bookplate. otherwise clean. Wear to corners, small chips and tears to all corners of jacket, not clipped ($3.75). 35 Illustrations(4 in color. (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Minor to moderate shelf wear. Previous owner's name written in pen on first blank page, otherwise pages are clean but lightly age toned. Binding is tight. No dust jacket. Pictures available upon request.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xii, 561p.; 24 cm. Subject; Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). 2 Kg.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xii, 561p.; 24 cm. Subject; Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). 2 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. Translation; No Printing Stated. 561 pages; illustrations. Identifiers on front free endpaper. Very Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings on text pages. ; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully cushioned in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. An edition Very Good- condition with soiling, aging and discoloration to the edgeworn boards and page edge soiling in a Good+ dust-jacket that is worn around the edges, aged, has tape around the spine edges and a stamped price on the front foldover; Mirabeau is a biography of the French Revolution's most legendary figure, Honorà Mirabeau. It covers his early life, his time as a lawyer and politician in the French Revolution, and his later years.; 8vo; 542 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover Octavo no dust jacket. maroon quarter leather, cloth boards, gilt lettering, 561 pp covers and spine worn on the edges Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.