Himmel Eric (72 results)

Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Cover is in excellent condition, save for corner and edge bumping and some rubbing. Text is otherwise tight in binding. Text is clean and free of blemishes throughout. No other markings or indications of note. Due to the height of this book, additional shipping charges may apply. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Various (illustrator).…

Softcover, 206 pages, very good condition, pages browned at edges; owner's name blacked out on first page; no other internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Oversize softcover, 208 pages, good condition: pages yelowed at edges, smal curl to lower right corner; and light crease to upper right corner of cover and fist 50 pages; no internal marks.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Covers rubbed, corners creased. Pages toned. (modern art, avant-garde).

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. translation edition. 12 pages. 10.25x7.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. 207 pages, illustrations (some colour); 36 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, expected browning. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. A massive coffee-table book. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** A massive compilation of international artists, chiefly European and American. Size: Folio.…

Condition: New.

Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. The Art of Biodiversity: Artists & Naturalists, 1700-1900. Book.

1. Auflage. 207 Seiten. OBr., Folio 36,2 x 26,1 cm, 207 S., mit zahlreichen, teils farb. Abb.; abgegriffenes und vergilbtes Exemplar.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Printing. Pictoral wrapped covers. Pictoral endpapers. Slight crushing at two rear corners. Sound and unmarked.744 pages including index. English and Hebrew datelines, both listed at page bottoms. Extra S&H will be required because of size, ships as six lbs. Photo-illustrated (illustrator).…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Abrams, 1988. Hardcover; 223 pages, illustrated throughout. Our copy is ex-university library bound in green cloth with orange title / device on front side. Text and captions are in English. Has the usual library markings. No dust jacket. Binding is square and secure. A good working copy overall. Ships from Ohio.…

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. An illuminating survey of the golden age of natural history art and illustration, with profiles of the artists, naturalists, collectors, and publishers who helped form our modern scientific view of the worldThe Art of Biodiversity is the first book to offer a broad overview of the golden age of natural history and botanical artan art of biodiversity. For two centuries, artists and naturalists worked together to reveal animals and plants with the same care that art had always lavished on human subjects. In 30 chapters, The Art of Biodiversity explores the individuals and ideas behind this international movement. It includes hundreds of full-page color illustrations illuminated by in-depth captions. Its a story about art thats not in the art history books, and a story about science thats missing from histories of science. Around 1700, Europeans set out to document the natural world in its dazzling and confounding glory. At the beginning of this period, people everywhere relied on folkloric knowledge about local flora and fauna to satisfy human needs or tell religious stories. By the end of the 19th century, a vista encompassing millions of species over millions of years had been revealedan organic universe shaped by evolution. The idea that each plant and animal was, in the words of the poet and naturalist Johann Wolfgang vonGoethe, a small world that exists for itself, had taken root. Before photography and film became practical mediums in the 20th century, the rapidly growing visual record of species was created collaboratively by naturalists and artists, working with adventurers, specimen collectors, printers, colorists, and publishers. The Art of Biodiversity introduces the reader to these extraordinary men and women who focused exquisite artistic skills on nature, traded in exotic seashells and butterflies, collected bird and monkey specimens in neotropical rainforests, dredged strange invertebrates from the depths of the ocean, peered through magnifying lenses at insects, dug prehistoric bones out of the earth. This innovative book is a journey to the past, but its also a reflection of the present day. As recently as a decade ago, old volumes were locked away in research libraries. But In 2007, the online Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) was founded with the ambition to hold a copy of every public domain book and journal ever published on biology. Caught in the nets of this haul are the great illustrated natural history books, and today there are more than 300,000 exquisite pictures of nature in the BHL. The best of them are gathered here in book form for the first time, expertly selected by Eric Himmel and accompanied by insightful commentary and explanatory captions. Art and science converge in thrilling fashion in this richly illustrated and groundbreaking book. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Condition: Fair. Original silver lettered and decorated cloth, dust jacket, numerous colour illustrations, 4to.; Foxed on cut.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardback. Condition: New. Strikingly original and abundantly illustrated, The Art of Biodiversity surveys the golden age of natural history art, exploring the alliance between scientists and artists that first revealed the astonishing diversity of life on Earth.With more than 330 color illustrations of surpassing beauty, this book reveals a story about art that's not in the art history books, and a story about science that's missing from histories of science. Here, such giants as Linnaeus, Buffon, Cuvier, Humboldt, and Darwin cross paths with superb artists, including Merian, Redouté, Audubon, and Haeckel, among many others.An essential visual companion to popular narratives like Andrea Wulf's The Invention of Nature and Jason Roberts's Every Living Thing, this volume provides a definitive archival record of the era that defined modern biology.Between 1700 and 1900, an art movement unveiled nature's great secret: the global diversity of life-forms. Centuries before the word "biodiversity" existed, naturalists began to glimpse the reality that lay behind Charles Darwin's lyrical evocation of nature's "endless forms most beautiful."The naturalists recruited artists to create a family album of Earth, with every picture a precise drawing of a species of plant or animal, and so science and art, for the first and last time, went exploring together.This art first appeared in vividly illustrated books that, in a world without photography or film, offered readers a vastly expanded vision of nature. The Art of Biodiversity introduces the reader to the extraordinary men and women who created these books. They focused exquisite artistic skills on nature, traded in exotic seashells and butterflies, collected bird and monkey specimens in tropical rainforests, dredged strange invertebrates from the depths of the ocean, peered through magnifying lenses at insects, and dug prehistoric bones out of the earth.After sinking out of sight in the twentieth century, biodiversity art resurfaced in the twenty-first in myriad forms that reach millions of people on the Internet, as the natural history books in the world's great libraries were digitized and made available to all.Chronicling the only art movement that successfully aligned the goals of art and science, for the transcendent purpose of documenting and understanding the natural world, The Art of Biodiversity is a must-have for historians of science, collectors of botanical and zoological art, and anyone captivated by the enduring beauty of the living world.…

Condition: New.

Condition: Very Good.

Condition: new.

Hardback. Condition: New. Strikingly original and abundantly illustrated, The Art of Biodiversity surveys the golden age of natural history art, exploring the alliance between scientists and artists that first revealed the astonishing diversity of life on Earth.With more than 330 color illustrations of surpassing beauty, this book reveals a story about art that's not in the art history books, and a story about science that's missing from histories of science. Here, such giants as Linnaeus, Buffon, Cuvier, Humboldt, and Darwin cross paths with superb artists, including Merian, Redouté, Audubon, and Haeckel, among many others.An essential visual companion to popular narratives like Andrea Wulf's The Invention of Nature and Jason Roberts's Every Living Thing, this volume provides a definitive archival record of the era that defined modern biology.Between 1700 and 1900, an art movement unveiled nature's great secret: the global diversity of life-forms. Centuries before the word "biodiversity" existed, naturalists began to glimpse the reality that lay behind Charles Darwin's lyrical evocation of nature's "endless forms most beautiful."The naturalists recruited artists to create a family album of Earth, with every picture a precise drawing of a species of plant or animal, and so science and art, for the first and last time, went exploring together.This art first appeared in vividly illustrated books that, in a world without photography or film, offered readers a vastly expanded vision of nature. The Art of Biodiversity introduces the reader to the extraordinary men and women who created these books. They focused exquisite artistic skills on nature, traded in exotic seashells and butterflies, collected bird and monkey specimens in tropical rainforests, dredged strange invertebrates from the depths of the ocean, peered through magnifying lenses at insects, and dug prehistoric bones out of the earth.After sinking out of sight in the twentieth century, biodiversity art resurfaced in the twenty-first in myriad forms that reach millions of people on the Internet, as the natural history books in the world's great libraries were digitized and made available to all.Chronicling the only art movement that successfully aligned the goals of art and science, for the transcendent purpose of documenting and understanding the natural world, The Art of Biodiversity is a must-have for historians of science, collectors of botanical and zoological art, and anyone captivated by the enduring beauty of the living world.…

230, (1)pp. Prof. illus. in color. Folio. Cloth. D.j.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 400 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.62 inches. In Stock.

Hardback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Wegman5162 makes photographs that are very much a product of his unique vision, working with clothes and animals, specifically weimaraners. As well as being about grace and beauty, theyÆre full of magical moments in which we can sense vulnerability in these narrative fashion photographs., English, Year1999, Illust. B/W6, Illust. Color79, ISBN 0810929449, Library of Congress No. TR729.D6W39 200 779Æ.329772-DC2I 9941259, Code 5244. Softbound, In Pristine Condition, Location of Exhibition: Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, 2000, Bio. Pages 86, Size 12ö x 10ö. …

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.