ROMAN EMPIRE (Romanum)

Perowne, Stewart

(Book #ID 4657)

Published by Hodder & Stoughton 2nd edition 1963. 1963.

Hard back navy cloth covers with gilt titles. 192 pp. Frontispiece. Maps to end papers. Book in Very Good condition. Dust wrapper has very small rubs to spine ends, a little shelf wear to rear panel, not price clipped and in Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A.

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Póczy, Klára Sz. [Photographs by Kalman Konya]

(Book #ID 91427)

Published by Corvina Verlag, Budapest 1974. 1974.

Publisher's original illustrated card wrap covers [soft back] with French Flaps. 8vo. 7'' x 5''. Contains 72 printed pages of text in German, French, and English with 40 monochrome plate photographs. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A.

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Pearson, John

(Book #ID 103368)

Published by Thames and Hudson, 30 Bloomsbury Street, London First Edition 1973. 1973.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original brick red cloth covers, gilt stamped title and author lettering to the spine, gilt publisher's device to the front cover, illustrated end papers. 8vo. 9½'' x 7¼''. Contains 192 pp with monochrome illustrations and archive photographs throughout. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with two small short closed tears to the rear bottom edge, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0500250383

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Phillips, Jonathan

(Book #ID 102822)

Published by Jonathan Cape, Random House, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road London First Edition 2004. 2004.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. The Fourth Crusade (1202-1204) was a Latin Christian armed expedition called by Pope Innocent III. The stated intent of the expedition was to recapture the Muslim controlled city of Jerusalem, by first conquering the powerful Egyptian Ayyubid Sultanate, the strongest Muslim state of the time. However, a sequence of economic and political events culminated in the Crusader army's 1204 Sack of Constantinople, the capital of the Greek Christian controlled Byzantine Empire, rather than Egypt as originally planned. Contains (xxii), 374 pp with 3 maps and monochrome illustrations. Hint of tanning to the text block edges. Near Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0224069861

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Picard, Gilbert [Professor of Roman Archaeology at The Sorbonne]

(Book #ID 102789)

Published by Elek Books Limited, 2 All Saints Street, London First Edition 1970. 1970.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original sage green cloth covers, grey title and author lettering to the spine and the front cover. 4to. 11'' x 9¼''. Contains 1). The riches of Roman painting. 2). Painting - an art guide to Rome. 3). The practical uses of Roman painting. 4). Triumphal and historical painting. 5). The transposition of painting into relief. 6). The 'continuous style' of Roman pictorial reliefs. 7). Reliefs with aerial perspective. 8). The stuccoes. 9). The originality of Roman mural decoration. 10). Mosaics. 11). Mythological paintings, still life's, landscapes. 12). The reproduction of Greek models. 13). The meaning of Romano-Campanian paintings. 14). The independence of the Roman painter in regard to his model. 15). The two basic tendencies in Roman painting: Classicism and Impressionism. 16). Composition: The tendency toward frontality. 104 pp with 43 colour plates, 37 monochrome archive photographs throughout. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition price clipped dust wrapper with rubbing of the paper to the top of the spine. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0236176161

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