How to Read African Textiles
ISBN: PB: 9781588397911,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
May 2025
168 pp., 26,6x20,3 cm, 125 colour illus.
168 pp., 26,6x20,3 cm, 125 colour illus.
Across the African continent, handwoven cloth and clothing have historically been labor-intensive creations deeply embedded in local and regional value systems. These fabrics could be endlessly adapted to communal and individual needs, variously serv...
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19.95
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Ancient Glass in the J. Paul Getty Museum
ISBN: PB: 9781606069196,
Getty Publications,
April 2025
436 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 650 colour illus.
436 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 650 colour illus.
The J. Paul Getty Museum's collection of ancient glass - astonishingly delicate, richly hued, and fancifully shaped-is among the most celebrated in the United States. With objects ranging from the Bronze Age to the medieval period (1500 BCE - 1000 CE...
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95.00
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Ornamental Blackness
The Black Figure in European Decorative Arts
ISBN: HB: 9780300246094,
Yale University Press,
April 2025
208 pp., 25,4x20,3 cm, 98 colour illus., 18 black&white illus.
208 pp., 25,4x20,3 cm, 98 colour illus., 18 black&white illus.
Exploring the role the decorative arts played in the representation of Black people in European visual and material culture.
This revelatory look at European decorative arts addresses the long-ignored implications of the depiction of Black bodies o...
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50.00
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Baroulkos and the Mechanics of Heron
ISBN: PB: 9788822264275,
Yale University Press,
Paul Holberton Publishing,
April 2025
434 pp., 23,4x17,1 cm
434 pp., 23,4x17,1 cm
The three books of Heron's Mechanics contain the first systematic theory of simple and compound machines in the history of science, and many other remarkable matters about theoretical and practical mechanics, including three interesting unknown theor...
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130.00
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Copernicus Banned
The Entangled Matter of the Anti-copernican Decree of 1616
ISBN: HB: 9788822265845,
Yale University Press,
Paul Holberton Publishing,
April 2025
280 pp., 23,4x17,1 cm
280 pp., 23,4x17,1 cm
This book, consisting of nine essays on the causes, on the figures involved and on the consequences of the decree, sheds light on various philosophical, theological, political and cultural aspects of the discussions that arose around the "temerity" o...
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30.00
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Five Centuries Later
Aldus Manutius: Culture, Typography and Philology
ISBN: PB: 9788822266019,
Yale University Press,
Paul Holberton Publishing,
April 2025
282 pp., 23,4x17,1 cm
282 pp., 23,4x17,1 cm
The volume publishes the proceedings of the international conference held at the Ambrosiana Library in Milan in 2015. The essays provide an informed presentation of the new research centered on the figure of the great humanist and publisher Aldus Man...
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30.00
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I Like My Choyse
Posy Rings from the Griffin Collection
ISBN: HB: 9781912168217,
Yale University Press,
Paul Holberton Publishing,
April 2025
224 pp., 22,2x22,2 cm, 350 colour illus.
224 pp., 22,2x22,2 cm, 350 colour illus.
The Griffin Collection is a distinguished private collection that houses examples of every category of ring � signet, devotional, memorial, decorative � dating from antiquity to modern times. This book, which focuses on about 150 rings in that collec...
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35.00
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Late-Medieval and Renaissance Textiles
ISBN: PB: 9781911300489,
Yale University Press,
Paul Holberton Publishing,
April 2025
180 pp., 29,8x24,7 cm
180 pp., 29,8x24,7 cm
This publication, the first of its kind in many decades, draws together thirty-six rare and sumptuous European textiles created between the late fourteenth and late sixteenth centuries. Incorporating objects made both for secular and liturgical use,...
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35.00
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Lombard Haggadah
ISBN: HB: 9781911300663,
Yale University Press,
Paul Holberton Publishing,
April 2025
24 pp., 29,8x19,6 cm
24 pp., 29,8x19,6 cm
Telling the story of the flight of the Jews from Egypt based on the biblical book of Exodus, the Haggadah was � and still is � used during the Seder, the ritual meal of the first night of Passover. The text of this remarkable manuscript has been rich...
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45.00
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Printed Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century Italy
The Texts, the Books, and the Survival of a Long-Lasting Genre
ISBN: HB: 9788822264688,
Yale University Press,
Paul Holberton Publishing,
April 2025
754 pp., 23,4x17,1 cm
754 pp., 23,4x17,1 cm
The book offers an in-depth examination of the production, distribution, and use, from the late fifteenth century to the present, of the 74 editions of Books of Hours printed in Italy in the fifteenth century, 198 copies of which have survived. They...
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85.00
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