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A Capital Collection: Houghton Hall and the Hermit...
$25.74
After the fall of Sir Robert Walpole, Britain's first 'prime' minister, from political power in 1742, most of his celebrated collection of Old Master paintings was removed to his newly-built Palladian house in Norfold, Houghton Hall. In 1779 this collection was sold by Sir Robert's grandson to the E..
African American Music: An Introduction
$687.52
About the AuthorMellonee V. Burnim is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and Adjunct Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University.Portia K. Maultsby is Professor of Ethnomusicology in the Department of Folklore and Ethn..
Safari Press/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
African Hunter
$78.60
Generally regarded as the most comprehensive title ever on African hunting. There are 52 chapters on 22 African countries, and all African game animals. Author: Mellon, James Publisher: Safari Press/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0151039542 ISBN-13: 978015103..
Attorney's Reference on Human Anatomy
$20.81
Attorney's Reference on Human Anatomy is a medical reference book designed to facilitate the location of anatomic information. It provides attorneys and research assistants with quick access to information previously found only by searching multiple sources. The book provides clear and concise descr..
Houses of the Gentry 1480-1680
$78.96
From the end of the fifteenth century to the closing years of the seventeenth, England underwent radical social change. English architecture changed radically as well, and the homes of the gentry were transformed as members of this class grew in numbers, wealth, and importance. This abundantly illus..
Ireland’s Painters, 1600-1940 (Paul Mellon Centr...
$28.45
This richly illustrated survey of the history of Irish painting encompasses the entire span from the middle ages to the mid-twentieth century. The book includes both well-known and virtually unknown artists, Irish artists who worked abroad as well as in Ireland, and major foreign artists who came to..
Yale University Press/Paul Mellon Centre
John Singer Sargent, Complete Paintings, Volume 1:...
$112.07
This magnificent book is the first volume of the definitive catalogue raisonné of the works in oil, watercolor, and pastel of the beloved painter John Singer Sargent. This volume catalogues portraits by Sargent from 1874, when he began his training in Paris, and covers pictures painted while he was ..
John Singer Sargent: Portraits of the 1890s
$95.25
This gorgeous book is the second volume of the definitive catalogue raisonné of the work of the American painter John Singer Sargent (1856-1925). It comprises over one-hundred and fifty formal portraits and portrait sketches in oil and watercolor that he painted between 1889 and 1900. The catalogued..
Learning to Draw: Studies in the Cultural History ...
$129.15
Rather than a history of techniques, media, and practitioners, Learning to Draw is an original and stimulating examination of drawing's cultural uses and meanings. Using a variety of sources including pedagogical and philosophical texts, novels, manuals of etiquette and decorum, letters and diaries,..
Melloni's Illustrated Review of Human Anatomy
$30.27
This book is a ready reference to help medical and allied health students find the information that they need quickly and easily in an organized display of basic material that students can easily assimilate and retain. The format of the book includes a careful balance of text and illustrations. Thes..
Mercedes Coupes, Sedans, and Wagons, 1974-84 Repai...
$72.51
Total Car Care is the most complete, step-by-step automotive repair manual you'll ever use. All repair procedures are supported by detailed specifications, exploded views, and photographs. From the simplest repair procedure to the most complex, trust Chilton's Total Car Care to give you everything y..
Reflections in a Silver Spoon: A Memoir
$11.32
Paul Mellon recounts his privileged upbringing, the scandalous divorce of his parents, and his life of philanthropy, horse racing and breeding, and environmental activism. 35,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo. Author: Paul Mellon Publisher: William Morrow & Company, Inc Binding: Hardcover Languag..
Roubiliac and the Eighteenth-Century Monument: Scu...
$41.64
Louis François Roubiliac, the most compelling sculptor in eighteenth-century Britain, was responsible for many complex and dramatic monuments that can be seen in Westminster Abbey and churches throughout the country. This book is not only the first extended treatment of the artist since 1928 but is ..
The Age of Caricature: Satirical Prints in the Rei...
$44.62
The late eighteenth century in England was the first great age of cartooning, and English caricature prints of the period have long been enjoyed for their humor and vitality. Now Diana Donald presents the first major study of these caricatures, which challenges many assumptions about them. She shows..
The Origins of the Gothic Revival (Paul Mellon Cen...
$21.97
. 1987, with dustjacket, bright clean copy, no markings, Professional booksellers since 1981 Author: McCarthy, Michael Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre BA Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0300037236 ISBN-13: 9780300037234..
The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William...
$32.78
William Blake's wife once said of him: "I have very little of Mr. Blake's company; he is always in Paradise". This illustrated biography of the great English artist, poet and mystic brings us very much into Blake's company, presenting, often in the words of his contemporaries, everything that is kno..
University of Pittsburgh Press
Thomas Mellon and His Times
$31.60
In 1885, Thomas Mellon published his autobiography in a limited edition exclusively for his family, warning them that it contained "nothing which it concerns the public to know, and much which if writing for it I would have omitted." Mellon was an anomaly among the great American entrepreneurs of hi..