Search Results: Titles starting with V from Charles Lewis Best Booksellers

London, England: Aperture Foundation, 1985. First Impression. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with Mandrian red pictorial covers, pp. 410. Fully illustrated with colour plates . Please Feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional snapshots.

London: Dalton Watson Ltd, 1979. First Impression. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [23.75cm/9.5inches], full gilt-embossed Nassau-blue cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 112, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

New York & Leningrad: Harry N. Abrams & Aurora Art Publishers, 1982. First Impression. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [33.75cm/13.5inches], full gilt-embossed squirrel-brown cloth with mylar-protectected dust jacket, pp. 378. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc... Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Valentin Alexandrovich Serov was a Russian painter, and one of the premier portrait artists of his era. Serov was born in Saint Petersburg, son of the Russian composer and music critic Alexander Serov, and his wife and former student Valentina Serova also a composer in her own right. Raised in a highly artistic milieu he was encouraged to pursue his talents by his parents and in his childhood he studied in Paris and Moscow under Ilya Repin and in the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts under Pavel Chistyakov. Serov's early creativity was sparked by the realistic art of Repin and strict pedagogical system of… Read More

New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. In quite good condition.. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed sage-green cloth sans dust jacket, pp. vii, 297, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, maps &tc.. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Van Diemen's Land was the original name used by most Europeans for the island of Tasmania, now part of Australia. The name was changed from Van Diemen's Land to Tasmania in 1856. The Dutch explorer Abel Tasman was the first European to land on the shores of Tasmania in 1642. Landing at Blackman's Bay and later having the Dutch flag flown at North Bay, Tasman named the island Anthoonij van Diemenslandt, in honour of Anthony van Diemen, the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, who had sent Tasman on his voyage of discovery. Between 1772 and 1798, only the southeastern portion of the island was visited. Tasmania was not known to be an island until Matthew… Read More

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1979. Collector's Edition. Full Calf. VG Very Good. Octavo, [23.75cm/9.5inches], full gilt-embossed navy-blue calf sans dust jacket, -as issued-, pp.xxii, 759 . Illustrations by the author. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The story Vanity Fair is framed as a puppet play, and the narrator, despite being an authorial voice, is somewhat unreliable. The serial was a popular and critical success; the novel is now considered a classic and has inspired several audio, film, and television adaptations. It also inspired the title of the British lifestyle magazine first published in 1868, which became known for its caricatures of famous people of Victorian and Edwardian society. In 2003, Vanity Fair was listed at No. 122 on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's best-loved books.

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art , 1989. Demy folio, [31.25cm/12.5inches], full gilt-embossed orange cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. xi, 286, indexed. Illustrated with 225 b-w halftones, colour plates &ct. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Met's blurb notes: "In 1865 Édouard Manet first saw the great collection of paintings by Velázquez in Madrid's Museo del Prado. Enraptured, he wrote to a friend, "He is the painter of painters ... He has astonished me, he has ravished me." Velázquez, the preeminent Spanish artist of the seventeenth century, continues to enthrall viewers. His sublime works express the very essence of the painter's art—they join an immense intelligence and extraordinary psychological acuity to a matchless technical facility. His images are deeply rooted in the physical world, yet their complex stillness transcends time, pointing toward a truth that exists beyond the ephemeral. Velázquez's intense concern with… Read More

London: The Folio Society, 1993. Third Revised Edition. Hardcover. As new/Slipcased. Royal octavo, [26cm/10.75inches], full pictorial cloth w/ Slipcase, pp. 346, indexed. Illustrated with colour plates, &tc.. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... In an interview with The Guardian, Morris quipped: "Can you remember your first sight of Venice? No, I really canÂ’t remember it, but IÂ’ve since introduced innumerable people to their first sights of the city, and have greatly enjoyed their almost invariable ecstasies! How did you come to write Venice? The British Army took me to Venice at the end of the second world war, and for two months I had the duty of helping to run all the requisitioned motorboats of the city, before I went on with my regiment to Egypt and Palestine. It was the best present I ever had, a marvellous introduction to the city, and I have been attached to Venice ever since, writing four books about it plus a couple of million articles. Where… Read More

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Royal octavo, [25cm/10inches], full gilt-embossed Agean-blue cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 137, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones and colour plates, &ct. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Bruce Redford is Professor Emeritus Baroque & Eighteenth-Century Art at Boston University. As a scholar and teacher, Bruce Redford explores the visual and literary culture of Baroque and Enlightenment Europe. His areas of particular interest include the Grand Tour, the history of the classical tradition, and the relations between poetry and painting. His publications include The Converse of the Pen (1986), The Letters of Samuel Johnson (1992-94), Venice and the Grand Tour (1996), Designing the Life of Johnson (2002), and Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England (2008). He has been awarded fellowships by the Guggenheim Foundation, the… Read More

Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2009. First Impression. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed cloth with mylar-protectected dust jacket, pp. . Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc... Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs.. Demy folio, 30cm/12inches], full chrome-embossed aquamarine cloth with mylar-protectected dust jacket, pp. 169. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. The Memphis Brooks PR blurb noted: Paintings by Giovanni Antonio Canal—better known as Canaletto—one of Venice’s most important artists, will be among the objects in the exhibition Venice in the Age of Canaletto, on view at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art from February 14 to May 9, 2010. Inspired by Canaletto’s marvelous and expansive painting The Grand Canal from Campo di San Vio—a gift to the Brooks from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation—this exhibition… Read More

New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1875. First Impression. Hardcover. In quite good condition.. Octavo, [22.25cm/8.75inches], Full fancy gilt-embossed calf, sans dust jacket, pp. 401, indexed. Illustrated with texual vignettes by John Ames Mitchell, (1845-1918). Painter, etcher, illustrator, novelist, editor and publisher. Mitchell began his academic career at the Phillip Exeter Academy and then enrolled at Harvard Medical School. There is, however, no evidence that he finished his courses there. John Ames Mitchell then went to France to study architecture and upon his return to the United States worked in this discipline in Boston for a period of six years. At that point John Ames Mitchell came to the conclusion that architecture was not for him and he again went to Paris to study painting and etching at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Returning once more to the United States, John Ames Mitchell settled in the New York community of Washington Square and began a career as an illustrator and etcher.… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. Signed First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed bright-green cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 275. Signed on title page. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Publisher's Weekly noted: "A gambado is a scam on a magnificent scale, and as such is irresistible to the devious, delightful Lovejoy, Gash's lover/dealer/forger of antiques, whose previous misadventures, criminal and amorous, have been chronicled in Jade Woman , Pearlhanger et al. Hollywood comes to East Anglia as Lovejoy is drawn into a high-paying consulting project for a movie spectacular about a theft from the British Museum. Complications are introduced by an aged Russian countess whose collection of family heirlooms sets Lovejoy's divvying heart a-pounding; by a local heavy reportedly sending containers loaded with antiques to America; by the death of an eminent neighborhood forger; and by the… Read More

Annapolis: U. S. Naval Institute Press, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. New/No Dust Jacket. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed Icelandic grey cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 208, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, maps &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Royal Navy ordered the first four ships in 1938, with a further two acquired as part of the War Emergency Programme. They were specifically designed for the rapid laying of minefields in enemy waters, close to harbours or sea lanes. As such they were required to be very fast and to possess sufficient anti-aircraft weaponry to defend themselves if discovered by enemy aircraft. A large load of up to 150 mines was required to be carried under cover, therefore a long, flushdecked hull with high freeboard was required. The mines were laid through doors in the sterns; the ships carried their own cranes for loading.

Beirren Springs, Michigan: St. Andrews University, 1965. Reprint. Paperbound. In quite good condition.. Octavo, [22.5cm/9inches], paperbound with camel-coloured covers, pp. 110-137. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Vettius Valens was a 2nd-century Hellenistic astrologer, a somewhat younger contemporary of Claudius Ptolemy. Valens' major work is the Anthology , ten volumes in Greek written roughly within the period 150 to 175. The Anthology is the longest and most detailed treatise on astrology which has survived from that period. A working professional astrologer, Valens includes over a hundred sample charts from his case files in the Anthology.

New York: Russell & Russell, 1967. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [21cm/8.5in], Full gilt-embossed teal-blue binding, pp. 397, indexed. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. Lillian Estelle Fisher was one of the first women to earn a doctorate in Latin American history in the U.S. She published important works on Spanish colonial administration; a biography of Manuel Abad y Queipo, reform bishop-elect of Michoacan; and a monograph on the Tupac Amaru rebellion in Peru. As distinguished colonial Latin American historian John J. TePaske put it in 1968, "At least three generations of graduate students have studied the works of Lillian Estelle Fisher." Fisher is included as an example of sexual/gender discrimination in the historical profession

New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1992. First Edition. Paperbound. New/No Dust Jacket. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 196, indexed. Fully illustrated with126 annotated colour plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Google Books notes: "English landscape watercolor painting, a perfect marriage of genre and medium, entered a lively period of experimentation in style and content during the second half of the nineteenth century, with rich and diverse results. Through all the changes of style and technique and all the debates over the appropriate use of the medium, it was watercolor's ability to convey the timeless truth and reality of the natural world that mattered to artists, critics, and audiences. British watercolors of the Victorian period continued to observe an essential humility before nature; they remain fresh and compellingly immediate because they derived in the first place from the artists' heartfelt… Read More

New York: Abbeville Press, 1984. First Abbeville Press Edition. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed ecru cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 257, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &ct. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Jeremy Stephen Maas (1928 – 1997) was an English art dealer and art historian, best known for his expertise in Victorian painting. After employment in advertising and printing, he followed his interest in Victorian painting - sparked by reading William Gaunt's Aesthetic Adventure at university - and moved to work at Bonhams auction house, where he established the watercolour and drawings department. Maas opened his own retail gallery, the Maas Gallery, in December 1960. The gallery was based in Clifford Street in Mayfair, near Bond Street, London. The gallery specialized in Victorian art - paintings, watercolours, and… Read More

London: Victoria and Albert Museum , 1931. Hardcover. In quite good condition.. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed slate-blue cloth sans dust jacket, pp. viii, 95, indexed. Illustrated with 58 b-w halftone plates &tc.. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Washington D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Demy folio, [30cm/12inches], full gilt-embossed burnished-red cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 255, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &ct. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Pro-Quest notes: "Like any art catalogue, this volume, which accompanied The Victorians exhibition last year at the National Gallery of Art, performs the essential chore of informing museum visitors about which artists painted which pictures, the technique and process of their painting, the style and manner of execution. There is also a commendable logocentric interest in the texts and references upon which Victorian artists often depended for inspiration. It is well-assembled material, all in the comfortable Panofsky paradigm of the 101 survey. But in the last two decades especially, art history has become a series of questions rather than a collection of answers.… Read More

London: Victoria and Albert Museum , 1927. Hardcover. In quite good condition.. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed slate-bluecloth sans dust jacket, pp. viii, 56, indexed. Illustrated with 56 b-w halftones, &tc.. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2014. Third Impression. Hardcover. VG Very Good/VG Very Good. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed persimmon-red cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. , indexed. Lavishly illustrated with b-w halftones, Drawings and colour plates Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Goodreads opined: "The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented change, and nowhere was this more apparent than London. In only a few decades, the capital grew from a compact Regency town into a sprawling metropolis of 6.5 million inhabitants, the largest city the world had ever seen. Technology--railways, street-lighting, and sewers--transformed both the city and the experience of city-living, as London expanded in every direction. Now Judith Flanders, one of Britain's foremost social historians, explores the world portrayed so vividly in Dickens' novels, showing life on the streets of London in colorful, fascinating detail. From the… Read More