macdonald orbis london sydney (10 results)

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 175pp. Black and white illustrations throughout. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Size: Large 8vo (10" tall). Book.

Condition: Gut. 0. 26x26 cm. 192 p. Blue board with gilt back title. Good condition. Jacket slightly used, one tear at spine. Inside in mint condition. This book shows the extraordinary variety and style of buildings and monuments from all over the world, both religious and secular, public and private. The events that shaped the way people thought and influences what they built are discussed here too, as are the social factors that led, for example, to the great baths of Diocletian in Rome, the Paris Opéra and New York's Chrysler building. (.flap) Illustrated, mainly in colour, throughout the book. DX-H19|6187AB Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1100.

Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition, First Impression. Caption from front panel "The beautiful, bizarre and unexpected interiors of the capital".Original price of £16.95 printed on dust jacket front flap. Jacket now protected with paper backed polyester film. Book has no writing or marking, 240 pages.

192p., colored and b/w illus., dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Good - a few Age Marks. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket is marked and few age spots inside and on page edges. Heavy book extra postage may apply.

Condition: Good. Original gilt lettered cloth, dust jacket, numerous (full page) colour and b/w illustrations (including photographs), 4to.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks.256 pages. Dimensions: 29.2 x 23 x 3.2 cm. Appendices on the metals, assaying and hallmarking, and on manufacturing techniques, together with 300 photographs, 100 in full colour - showing not only objects of historical importance and immense value but also many within the price range of the collector - make this the most comprehensive and highly illustrated book yet published on this fascinating subject. This profusely illustrated guide to silver is as much for the reader with a broad interest in the decorative arts and their historical background as for the serious collector. Written by a team of experts, each with an international reputation in his or her specialist area, the book tells the story of the artistic evolution of silver from the earliest times to the present, in both Europe and North . America. It traces the various stylistic changes in the working of the metal that accompanied movements in the. other arts, and the origins of different types of piece, both secular and ecclesiastical, describing the social and cultural circumstances that produced them and how influences spread , from one country to another. From being almost exclusively limited to church use in the Middle Ages, silver wares gradually appeared in a domestic environment, first on the tables of the Renaissance nobility, and then more widely until Victorian times when they were an essential item in the display cabinets of the middle classes. After a brief attempt to mass-produce silverware by machine, the metal is once again being formed into, luxury items by hand. The contribution of individual artists and workshops is also documented, and since the skills of the silversmith are identical to those of the goldsmith and the same person worked in both metals, items of gold are also included in this survey, especially in the chapters on Roman and medieval times, from which more fine objects in gold than silver have survived. Size: 4to.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 288pp., Pictorial full colour photographic dustjacket with hint of rubbing at lower spine-end of jacket, black textured boards with silver text to spine, hint of foxing to col.decorated eps., preface by author, col. & b/w plts. & illust. & text, full & dbl. page col. & b/w photographs, history, specs., bibliog., index. Mercedes Benz follows the dramatic story of the origins of the company from 1886, when the engineering pioneers Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz presented to the public the world's first cars. This book captures and defines the essential style of Mercedes and is the definitive volume on an extraordinary breed. Size: Folio. Book.

Cloth on Board. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Some brown marks on flyleaf. Otherwise a clean, bright, tightly-bound copy. 408 pages, richly illustrated. Size: Roughly 9" Wide - 12" Tall.