Search Results: European / 5. Baroque & Rococo from LEFT COAST BOOKS

London: Paul Elek Limited, 1967. Cloth, 137 pages, illustrations (some colour), facsimiles, maps, portraits; 35 x 49 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket faded & worn at extremities. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. Containing sketches of the manners, society and customs of France, Flanders, the United Provinces, Germany, Switzerland and Italy in the letters, journals and writings of the most celebrated voyagers between the years 1720-1820; with descriptions of the most illustrious antiquities and curiosities in these countries, together with the story of such traffic by Anthony Burgess and an appreciation of the art of Europe in the eighteenth century by Francis Haskell.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Oblong.

Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Princeton University Press, 1991. 207 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, edges lightly soiled. Another copy available. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Cythera Press, 1969. Cloth, xxxix pages, 50 plates; 31 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with moderate shelfwear/surface rubbing, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1973. Cloth, xix, 292 pages; 22 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. CONTENTS: I. Emergence and definition of the concept of the Ancien Regime; II. The demographic setting; III. The economic base; IV. The rural setting; V. The elements of rural society; VI. Landed income and ground rentiers; VII. The nobility: in search of a definition; VIII. Types of noblemen; IX. The towns and urban society; X. Bourgeois and bourgeoisies; XI. Attitudes and cultures: the levels and the barriers.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Munich and New York: Prestel, 1995. 96 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Translated from the German. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "Examines 100 of the most famous and popular depictions of angels in the history of art. All are illustrated in colour, together with details of each artist and the background of the work in which they appear. The book demonstrates the different ways in which angels have been portrayed in art." - Publisher.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1985. 48 pages, illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour); 28 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, vol. 42, no. 3. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Serial.

London: Constable, 1999. Cloth, xii, 435 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. A monograph on the Flemish painter, who achieved great fame in England, working for the court of Charles II, painting portraits of him and the English aristocracy. A Baroque artist, his manner was derived from Rubens. CONTENTS: I. Antoon (1599-1619); II. Antonio (1620-31); III. Sir Anthony (1632-41).. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

Malibu, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1996. 88 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Getty Museum Studies on Art. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "Anthony van Dyck's portrait of Thomas Howard marked the beginning of the artist's brilliant international career. This study provides a history both of Thomas Howard, one of the most enlightened collectors and patrons England has ever known, and of van Dyck, whose canvases established the grand tradition of portraiture in England and on the Continent." - Publisher.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

Stockholm: Norstedt, 1948. 122 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Firm binding, gently creased spine. Clean inside copy. Expected browning.. Paperback. Good. 4to.

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1983. 588 pages, illustrations, maps, plans; 24 cm. Reprint, 1991. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning.. 7th. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Warsaw: Arkady, 1997. Cloth, 239 pages, colour illustrations; 33 cm. Text in Polish and English. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top right corner/back board bumped. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Folio.

Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1988. Cloth, 208 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps; 31 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. First Edition, First Printing. Fine DJ. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: The prudent king; The virgin queen; The sea rovers; The reluctant commander; The Lord High Admiral; The craft and mystery of the sea; The guns, the gunner and the crew; The fighting up-channel; The battle of Gravelines; Wreck and massacre.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to.

London and New York: Matthiesen Fine Art Ltd in association with Stair Sainty Matthiesen, 1985. 119 pages, illustrations (some colour), portraits; 25 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held by Matthiesen Fine Art, London, in aid of the Relief Society of Tigray, 14 June to 16 Aug. 1985. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light foxing/endpapers. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Italian and Flemish paintings. Extensive catalogue entries.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1976. Cloth, 168 pages, chiefly illustrations (some colour); 33 cm. Translated from the French. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. A lavish publication with 107 illustrations, including 65 hand-tipped plates in full colour.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Folio. Collectible.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. xv, 198 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Faint wine stain/edges. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "Second book in the three volume survey of Italian Baroque art and architecture which focuses on the arts in every centre between Venice and Sicily in the early, high, and late Baroque periods." - Publisher.. 2nd. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. Cloth, 194 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "A third book in the three volume survey of Italian Baroque art and architecture which focuses on the arts in every centre between Venice and Sicily in the early, high, and late Baroque periods." - Publisher.. 2nd. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 4to.

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973. 664 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. 3rd revised edition, reprinted with corrections and augmented bibliography. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning.. 3rd. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Baltimore, MD: Penguin Books; Pelican History of Art Ser., 1973. xxi, 471 pages, illustrations, colour frontispiece, plans; 21 cm. Firm binding, creased spine. Clean inside copy. Ink marks/tail edge. First paperback edition.. Paperback. Fair. 8vo.

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973. 664 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. 3rd revised edition, reprinted with corrections and augmented bibliography. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. . 3rd. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. xv, 114 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "First book in the three volume survey of Italian Baroque art and architecture which focuses on the arts in every centre between Venice and Sicily in the early, high, and late Baroque periods." - Publisher.. 2nd. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.