New Haven: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 164p, ca. 80 ills. (mostly full-page plates). Typography and design by Howard I. Gralla; printed by The Stinehour Press. No jacket (as issued?). Recreates the library of the Lambach monastery in Austria, using fragmentary 10th- to..... More
![Item #30411 Das Tier in der Antike [The Animal in Antiquity]. Hansjorg Bloesch](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30411.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1630621177)
Zurich: Archaeologisches Institut der Universitat Zurich, 1974. First edition. Soft cover. 71p + hundreds of small ills. on 64 pls. In German. An enormous loan exhibition of 400 works depicting animals in ancient art--Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Chiefly small and large sculptures, vase paintings, and metalwork. Birds, cats, sea..... More
Rome: Capitolium (Revista di Roma), 1968. First edition. Soft cover. Special issue of the journal Capitolium. Over 250p (some numbered separately), hundreds of photos + ca. 10 folding maps and plans in flat colors. Covers worn, outer pages dogeared, but text block is secure and sturdy. The maps are generally..... More
Clermont: Typographie de Paul Hubler, 1861. First edition. Soft cover. 212p, no ills. Institutional library discard, minimally marked. Housed in card-stock folder. First edition of this catalogue and visitor's guide to the recently established provincial museum in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Short introduction, list of donors and subscribers, over 500 entries for..... More
Camden, NJ: A.J. Milliette Printing & Publishing Co., 1893. First American edition (1st pub. in France 1860). Hardcover. 330p + 7 plates (photos of the Acropolis and Parthenon horsemen). No jacket, probably as issued. Roberts was encouraged to do the translation by her friend Emily Sartain. Romanticized conversations among a...... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 116p, over 100 photos and line ills., 1 folding. Jacket is shelf-scuffed. (Yale Publications in the History of Art, 21, ed. by Vincent Scully). Detailed analysis of this previously lost mid-12th-century bas-relief and "its importance for an understanding of the Saint-Denis..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Art Museums (distributed by Yale University Press), 2014. First edition. Soft cover. 208p, many ills., most in color. Contributions by many specialists on the Age of Bronze in Greece, Cyprus, and the Near East; technical and analytical approaches; identification and classification of the bronzes at Harvard; workshop..... More
Innsbruck: Wagner'sche Universitat, 1891. First edition. Soft cover. 55p, 3 line ills. In German. On wood construction in antiquity--Assyria, Egypt, Greece--based on ancient texts and other evidence. Passing references to Gottfried Semper. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate. Reference copy... More
Beverly Hills, CA: Harry A. Levinson, n.d. [mid-1960s?]. First edition. Soft cover. 87p + 90 large pls., including cover. Over 340 annotated entries in many fields of the humanties and sciences; subject index. More
![Item #30266 Phillipps Manuscript 8336 [Catalogue 79]; The Famous Fourteenth Century Composite...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30266.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1625748628)
London: William H. Robinson, n.d. [1949 ]. First edition. Sewn soft cover. xv, 25p + 3 plates. Bibliotheca Phillippica bookplate (or facsimile) mounted on front cover. The subtitle continues: "Including the autograph manuscript of the lyrics of an otherwise unknown early fourteenth century English poet, the earliest manuscript of the..... More
New York: Michael Ward, 1989. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., many large color photos. Gallery catalogue of 35 works of jewelry, vases, and other objects from Archaic through Hellenistic Greece. From the library of David Gordon Mitten, with his ink name. Can be sent outside the US for less than..... More
Paris: J. Claye, printer, 1864. No stated edition. Soft cover. 30p, 12 line ills. In French. Official report to the government minister Vaillant on the condition of this cliffside Normandy castle, and recommendations for further repairs and restoration, in order of priority. It dominates the town of Falaise, birthplace of..... More
London: Sotheby, 1932. First edition. Soft cover. viii, 61p + 51 fine collotype pls. (many folding out to 15 inches), 5 in color. One plate has added areas of black and gold, making it three-dimensional. The large-paper illustrated edition. Auction catalogue (33 lots). With an introductory text. The first of..... More
London: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1924. First edition. Soft cover. 40p + many large plates, some double-page. Auction catalogue of 218 lots, held July 24-25, 1924. Fine manuscripts, miniatures, and early books from Britain and Europe--Boccaccio, Caxton, Shakespeare, Thomas Hariot on Virginia, etc. "Many of these Books have been in..... More
