Verlag: Osprey Publishing, 2011
ISBN 10: 184908629X ISBN 13: 9781849086295
Zustand: As New. Jr., Alban B. Butler (illustrator). Like New condition. Very Good dust jacket. A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects.
Verlag: Fine Arts Club 13 Foulis Terrace Brompton S.W. London 23 February, 1863
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Manuskript / Papierantiquität
2pp, folio. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded twice. Begins: 'Sir, | I have the honour to inform you that the Committee of the Fine Arts Club have, on the nomination of His Excellency The Marquis d'Azeglio, elected you a member of their Society.' (The reference is to the Italian diplomat and art collector Vittorio Emanuele Taparelli d'Azeglio (1816-1890), who was for a time President of the Burlington Fine Arts Club.) Robinson is enclosing a copy of the rules and list of members (not present), and Beck's 'subscription of One Guinea, due on election, may be paid according to the slip sent herewith'. He requests an acknowledgement of 'this communication' at Beck's 'earliest convenience'.
Zustand: Gut. Second Edition. New York 1929. 52 S. u. 98 Taf. 4°. Ln.-kaschiert. Umschl. gering fleckig. 4°-12174 / 28349 Mit Ausnahme von Direkt-Recycling Materialien erfolgt der Versand ohne Einsatz von Kunststoffen. Sprache: Deutsch.
Verlag: British Museum London 11 March, 1864
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Manuskript / Papierantiquität
2pp., 12mo. Bifolium with mourning border. In fair condition, lightly aged, but with central spike hole through both leaves, from which a horizontal closed tear has been made through the fore-edges (not affecting signature or its immediate surrounds). The note is hurried, and reads: 'I find that we have the New Testament of 1538. I will therefore return your copies at once if you will be so good as to say by what mode they shall be forwarded to you.'.
Verlag: UNIV PR OF KANSAS, 2017
ISBN 10: 070062452X ISBN 13: 9780700624522
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New. No mission too difficult, no sacrifice too great - Duty First! For a century, from the Western Front of World War I to the wars of the 21st century, this motto has spurred the soldiers who wear the shoulder patch bearing the Big Red One. In this comprehen.
Verlag: TC Istanbul Müzeleri Genel Direktörlügü, Istanbul, 1939
Anbieter: Khalkedon Rare Books, IOBA, Istanbul, Türkei
Manuskript / Papierantiquität Signiert
Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Original TLS document signed 'Aziz Ogan' as 'the general director of Istanbul Archaeological Museums'. 32,5x21 cm. In Turkish. 1 p. Full. Typescript document with autograph corrections and signature. Including request of the photographs of listed 25 Seljuk and Ottoman architectural buildings such as mosques, fountains, hans, tombs etc. Dated 12-9-1939. Addressed to Nuri [Ebussuudoglu from the member board of the Turkish Antiquities Protection Council. Letterhead 'TC Istanbul Müzeleri Genel Direktörlügü' [i.e. The General Directory of Istanbul Museums]. Ogan was a Turkish archaeologist and museologist. He was the one of the earliest archaeologists of the Turkish Republic. He founded Izmir Archeology Museum and was the director of Istanbul Archeology Museums. He is the father of the first Turkish female archaeologist Jale Inan. Signed by Author(s).
Verlag: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1981
Anbieter: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Erstausgabe Signiert
Cloth. Zustand: Near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: near fine. From the private collection of First Lady Barbara Bush, Masterpieces from the Boston Museum, inscribed to her. (illustrator). First Edition. Quarto, xvi, [96pp]. Gray cloth, title stamped in silver. No additional printings mentioned. Complete with 105 color illustrations of pieces in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. In publisher's dust jacket, light chipping to top edge at spine, otherwise a near fine example. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "The dedication of the New Wing of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. We thank Barbara Bush. July 17, 1981." Inscribed by the following people: Howard W. Johnson (Chairman of the MFA Board); Blanchette H. Rockefeller; Betty Johnson; John W. White; Kitty White; Catharina Baart-Biddle and Livingston Biddle. Barbara Bush visited the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1981 for the dedication of the West Wing, now known as the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art. Provenance: from the Kennebunkport Public Library in 2019, who acquired numerous books from the Kennebunkport Estate of former President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush.
Verlag: 22 March ; on letterhead of the Science and Art Department South Kensington London W, 1859
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Manuskript / Papierantiquität
Redgrave's entry in the Oxford DNB praises his 'exceptional administrative skill', and states that 'Redgrave and Cole supervised the new South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum), for which Redgrave designed the innovative art gallery to house John Sheepshanks's extensive collection of British art, given to the state in 1857.' 1p, 12mo. On grey paper. In good condition, laid down on part of a leaf from an autograph album. Pasted down at the head of the letter is a thin strip on which is printed 'Inspector-General for Art. R. Redgrave, R.A.' The male recipient is unnamed. Responding to a letter of the previous day, he explains that it is 'not the practice to receive works at South Kensington on Sale except where there is a prospect of the Department purchasing - and portraits do not come within the scope of our purchases.' They are in addition 'deficient in gallery space', if the National Portrait Gallery were 'better off in this respect' the recipient's offer would be one they would be better placed to entertain.
Anbieter: Antiquariaat Wim de Goeij, Kalmthout, ANTW, Belgien
Verbandsmitglied: ILAB
Anvers, ( Antwerpen ) , Buschmann, 1891, in-4°, 32 x 21 cm, xxiii + 272 pp, contemp. half leather, raised gilt spine, (binding with traces of wear, corners bumped, clean inside. This publication contains e.g. a facsimile of the second stock catalogue of the Plantin Press, published in 1567. These are the proceedings of the first international conference organised by Max Rooses in the Plantin-Moretus Museum. (Rare).
Verlag: Rome, 1 Vendémiaire VII (22 September 1798)., 1798
Anbieter: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Österreich
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Folio and 4to. 14½ pp. on bifolia. With autograph envelope. Together with the 62nd issue and the supplement to the 60th issue of the "Monitore di Roma" as original attachments to the letter. Historically significant letter to Joseph-Antoine Florens (1762-1842), commissioner of the Executive Directory of the French Republic in Rome, with Visconti's fervent defence following his dismissal from the government of the short-lived Roman Republic. Visconti had been selected as one of five consuls in March 1798 by the three French commissioners. In September 1798 a successful defamation campaign in the periodical "Monitore di Roma", steered by a fellow consul and members of the civil oversight commission, led to the enactment of a law removing Visconti and Pietro Panazzi from the consulate and barring them from leaving the city. In light of this "cabal" and "calumny", Visconti wrote this detailed apology and rebuttal of all accusations of enrichment through illegal real estate deals that were brought against him. According to Visconti, a legal attempt of the consulate to impede the circulation of the calumnious issues of the "Monitore" was hindered by the civil commission, which "did not seem strange anymore" once he learned that the author of the articles was brought to Rome with the help of police minister Francesco Piranesi and invited to dinner by the commission. The two September 1798 issues of the "Monitore di Roma" in question were attached to the letter. Visconti identifies the consul Librorio Angelucci (1746-1811), the civil commissioner Jean Bassal (1752-1802), and the former interior minister Corona as his main opponents and accuses them of corruption: "Bassal, who wanted to rid himself of an obstacle to his malversations, his venalities, his corruptions of all kinds, and who was extremely shocked by my opposition to his greedy projects concerning the debentures". With respect to the accusation of illegal purchases, Visconti writes: "I thought that a magistrate was not obliged to keep his remunerations locked in a safe, that the acquisition of national goods deriving from abolished ecclesiastical establishments and executed in a legal way should not be considered a crime. It actually becomes a patriotic act in a time, when superstitious prejudice causes all kinds of obstacles to the distribution of such goods". The deals are listed in a separate part of the letter with the comment: "He was so far from hiding these acquisitions that he immediately had the true acquirer declared by public deed". Visconti underscores that he would have preferred "literary work" over his political appointment, reminding Florens of his wish to be placed in the nationalized Vatican library. Copies of the letter were sent to Florens's fellow commissioners Gaspard Monge and Pierre-Claude Daunou, the architects of the Roman Republic: "In my current state I cannot hope for any other help than yours and that of your old colleagues; I rely on your benevolence. I also write to the citizens Daunou and Monge and I entrust you entirely with the care for my reputation, my tranquility, my fate. Use this letter as you consider the most adequate, it contains nothing but the truth". - Following the occupation of Rome by Neapolitan troops on 30 September 1799 and the subsequent restoration of the Papal States, former officials of the Roman Republic were heavily persecuted and forced into exile. Visconti received a warm welcome in Paris, where he was named first curator of antiquities of the Musée Napoléon at the end of 1799 and became professor of archaeology at the Institut de France in 1803. His opponents from the tumultuous times of the Roman Republic are judged harshly by history: both Bassal and Angelucci were repeatedly accused of corruption and died in relative obscurity. Visconti's letter is important testimony to this short and little-researched episode of Italian history. - Traces of folds and minor browning to the folds and borders; envelope with trac.