Pure City. Pp. [xii]+404(last blank), 32 plates (16 coloured), black & white pictorial headpieces, coloured pictorial endpapers, full page map, chronology, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper, faintly soiled; bookplate of Melbourne architect Peter Corrigan on both the upper endpapers, the title page and the lower free endpaper, the half-title... More
Photographs by Hugh Palmer. With 288 colour illustrations. Pp. 224, pictorial double title page, plus numerous coloured illustrations (many full page), full page map printed in blue & black, select bibliography; roy. 4to; maroon cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, bottom fore-corner of lower board lightly bruised; dust wrapper, the... More
Michelangelo's Roman Capitol. Photographs by Alexander Liberman. With an essay by Joseph Brodsky. Pp. 208, profusely illustrated in colour throughout (many double page); roy. 4to; dust wrapper; Random House, New York, 1995. First edition. More
Pp. 172(including the upper endpapers, illustrated in colour throughout, black & white plan, selected bibliography, index; small med. 4to; dust wrapper; Paul Hamlyn, London, 1971. First U.K. edition. Great Museums of the World series. *Originally published in Italian. The Brera gallery in Milan was founded in 1809 as part of... More
Sicily, Sardinia, and the Aeolian Islands. Photos by Sheila Nardulli. Pp. 152, illustrated in colour throughout (many full page); dust wrapper, faintly scuffed; Ticknor & Fields, New York, 1991. First edition. More
English language translation by Peter Lauritzen, John Harper and Stephen Sartarelli. Introduction by James S. Ackerman. Pp. 498(including the upper endpapers, last blank), illustrated throughout in colour and black & white (many full or double page), double page coloured map, index of names, places and subjects; super roy. 4to; upper... More
A Russian writer's travels in Italy and the United States. Translated from the Russian, and with an introduction by Elias Kulukundis. Pp. 192; dust wrapper; Jonathan Cape, London, 1964. First English edition. *Nekrasov's first novel "In the Trenches of Stalingrad" won the Stalin Prize in 1947. More
Pp. xxvi+450(last blank), coloured frontispiece, plus 192 black & white plates, text figures, full page map, notes and bibliography, index; cr. 4to; red/brown cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, with gilt lettered black leather title label on spine, boards faintly scuffed; top edges grey; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges rubbed and..... More