- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Back in Time Rare Books, ABAA, FABA, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.Back in Time Rare Books, ABAA, FABA
AbeBooks seller since July 24, 2015
Condition: Used - Near fine
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7 3/8 X 9 1/4 Inches. 267 PP. First printing copy of this history of architecture in the "City of Lights." Illustrated with numerous photographs throughout. "During the Second Empire (1852-1870), Baron Haussmann and Emperor Napoleon III reconstructed Paris into the "City of Light" we know today. The government and other public institutions commissioned many photographers-among them Charles Marville, Henri Le Secq, Edouard-Denis Baldus, and Gustave Le Gray-to record the old Parisian architecture and to document the demolition and reconstruction. In Parisian Views, Shelley Rice explores not only the literal connections between photography and the transformation of Paris but also the metaphorical ones. For like Haussmann and Napoleon III, the photographers forged a new visual image of the city. As they constructed their "views" of Paris, they imposed order on the architecture, vistas, and street life of a city-in-progress perceived from above and below, from the skies and the sewers, from the marketplace and the windows of passing trains." - From the DJ.…
Seller Inventory # 7788
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Parisian Views
- Author
- (History) RICE, Shelley
- Publisher
- MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
- Publication year
- 1997
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Seller catalogs
- Architecture, History
Back in Time Rare Books, ABAA, FABA
Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.
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Back in Time Rare Books is the home of Mike Cotter and his traveling band of misfit books! Mike has been in the rare books business in some form or fashion for nearly twenty years. The older he gets, the more his collection starts to resemble his bedroom at the age of 10. The stock at Back in Time is officially classified as General Antiquarian, but the truth of the matter is that the stock is a smattering of historical pieces that have found their way beyond the gates of Endor. You see, Mike has two great loves in his professional life - American History & Pop Culture of the late 20th Century. Back in Time is a member of the Florida Antiquarian Booksellers Association (FABA) as well as the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA). USPAP compliant appraisal work provided for those in need of insurance and/or IRS appraisals.…
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Back in Time Rare Books
112 Bartram Oaks Walk #104-601057
Jacksonville, FL U.S.A. 32260
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