This authoritative and comprehensive reference book, tracing the development of the fountain pen from its beginnings in the 1880s to the present day, meets the needs of both the collector of fountain pens and the user of modern pens. Illustrated with 78 black and white and 39 color plates.

Fountain Pens: Vintage and Modern

Science & Math

Lambrou, Andreas

Technology

Philip Wilson Pub Ltd

China has one of the world's earliest civilizations and was the first country in the world to make maps. This volume shows how the development of cartography was an inseparable part of ancient Chinese culture and reveals the huge repository of maps in national museums, libraries and preservation centres. The examples are noteworthy, not only as documents charting the development of knowledge of China's topography, but also as works of art with great value in the study of Chinese art, architecture and social life. The book illustrates and examines over 160 maps arranged chronologically and accompanied by scientific analyses on topography and mapping technique. It concludes with a comprehensive chronicle listing important events in map-making history.

China in Ancient and Modern Maps

History

Asia

James Ensor: Catalogue Raisonne of the Paintings/1875-1902/1902-1941

Arts & Photography

Tricot, Xavier

History & Criticism

Book by Matos, Maria Antonia Pinto De, Cabral, Joao Goncalo Do Amaral

Chinese Export Porcelain: From the Museum of Anastacio Goncalves, Lisbon

Desroches, Jean-Paul

Cabral, Joao Goncalo Do Amaral

Matos, Maria Antonia Pinto De

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Qing furniture made by imperial craftsmen for Emperor Qianlong has been a collector's item for a long time, and those pieces preserved in China are classified as national cultural relics. The furniture made for the imperial collection is the main focus of this book, described in an introduction to the subject and commentaries on 120 illustrated masterpieces of the period.

Classic Chinese Furniture of the Qing Dynasty

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Jiaqing, Tian

Crafts & Hobbies

This is the only book to illustrate all the Leica models from 1924 onwards in full color. Over a period of more than five years, author Paul-Henry van Hasbroeck and photographer Cohn Glanfield have gathered Leica cameras and accessories from all over the world. These cameras have been painstakingly assembled and photographed in groups to show the development of the Leica system. This pictorial presentation enables the collector to study the technical evolutions of particular models and their accessories in all of their diversity. The evolution of the Leica camera is described by van Hasbroeck in individual introductions to each chapter and in explanatory captions. The book concludes with production figures for Leica cameras, a list of serial numbers of Leica cameras and Leica code words. The book will be fully up to date and will incorporate all the new items introduced at the September 1996 Photokina Show.

Leica in Colour

Van Hasbroeck, Paul-Henry

Antiques & Collectibles

Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: The Ming and Qing Dynasties

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jörg, Christiaan J.A.

The development of modern science, beginning in the late Middle Ages, required the development of accurate tools for measuring such things as distance, weight, luminosity, temperature, and time. The earliest such instruments, writes University of London historian Gerard L'E Turner, were "An astrolabe which incorporates a means for measuring the elevation angles of stars or the Sun, as well as a stereographic representation of the Earth, can be used equally well for telling the time, for finding the latitude, and for collecting data to cast a horoscope." With the passage of time, they became more specialized, yielding such fine devices as binocular telescopes and stereoscopic viewers. (The latter, Turner writes, became internationally popular in the mid-19th century after Queen Victoria expressed amusement at one displayed at a London fair.) Turner's well-illustrated catalog of scientific instruments is organized along the old instrument-makers' categories of mathematical, optical, and philosophical tools. Accompanying the photographs are thoughtful essays on the growth of science in the second half of the second millennium, along with notes on how owners can take care of pieces in their collections as well as determine the authenticity and origins of those pieces. The book makes for a pleasing introduction to the history of modern science, and it is an especially useful reference for collectors of clocks, stereopticons, and other antique scientific instruments. --Gregory McNamee

Scientific Instruments, 1500-1900 : An Introduction

Gerard L'Estrange Turner

Reference

Discusses European and American women's roles in arts patronage from 1750 to the present

Great Women Collectors

Gere, Charlotte

VAIZEY, Marina

This illustrated work, with contributions from specialists in the fine and decorative arts and the history of food, traces the evolution of British eating habits from the Renaissance to the dawn of the new millennium. Through paintings and recreations of table settings it shows how the main meals of the day have developed over the past four centuries.

Eat, Drink & Be Merry: The British at Table 1600-2000

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Beverages & Wine

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