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Verlag: Ashmolean Museum, United Kingdom, Oxford, 2010
ISBN 10: 090784975XISBN 13: 9780907849759
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 'Worcester Porcelain' illustrates in colour a selection of items from the Henry Rissik Marshall Collection of 'First Period' Worcester Porcelain (1751-83), given to the Ashmolean Museum in 1957. The pieces chosen show all the major changes in shape and decoration during the period and include examples that are both rare and important. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Ashmolean Museum, United Kingdom, Oxford, 2017
ISBN 10: 1910807133ISBN 13: 9781910807132
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. In October 2015, metal detectorist James Mather discovered an important Viking hoard near Watlington in South Oxfordshire. The hoard dates from the end of the 870s, a key moment in the struggle between Anglo-Saxons and Vikings for control of southern England. The Watlington hoard is a significant new source of information on that struggle, throwing new light not only on the conflict between Anglo-Saxon and Viking, but also on the changing relationship between the two great Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Mercia and Wessex. This was to lead to the formation of a single united kingdom of England only a few years later. The hoard contains a mixture of Anglo-Saxon coins and Viking silver, and is in many ways a typical Viking hoard. However, its significance comes from the fact that it contains so many examples of previously rare coins belonging to Alfred the Great, king of Wessex (871-99) and his less well-known contemporary Ceolwulf II of Mercia (874-c.879). These coins provide a clearer understanding of the relationship between Alfred and Ceolwulf, and perhaps also of how the once great kingdom of Mercia came to be absorbed into the emerging kingdom of England by Alfred and his successors. A major fundraising campaign is being planned by the Ashmolean to secure this collection for the museum. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Ashmolean Museum, United Kingdom, Oxford, 1994
ISBN 10: 1854440713ISBN 13: 9781854440716
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Ashmolean Museum, United Kingdom, Oxford, 2010
ISBN 10: 185444168XISBN 13: 9781854441683
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The Print Room of the Ashmolean Museum is known throughout the world for its Italian and English drawings but it also holds outstanding collections of Netherlandish and French drawings. There are over two thousand drawings by French artists in the Ashmolean. Based on the drawings bequeathed by Francis Douce in 1834, the collection has grown by gifts and purchases to include most of the familiar French draughtsmen from the early 1600s to the end of the nineteenth century. Some artists are represented by dozens of works and there are many rarities. The fifty-two drawings by fifty-one artists in this book have been selected to suggest the quality of the works and to indicate the range and variety of the collection. The choice includes landscapes, figure drawings, portraits and studies for prints and paintings. Most of these are by famous artists - Poussin, Claude, Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard, Ingres, Degas, Manet and Cezanne are all here - but there are a few equally interesting drawings by artists who are less well known. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Ashmolean Museum, United Kingdom, Oxford, 1983
ISBN 10: 0900090928ISBN 13: 9780900090929
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The Palace of Minos - legendary Cretan home of the Minotaur - captured the imagination of people worldwide from the moment its excavator, Sir Arthur Evans (1851-1941) first reported his discoveries in the press. This book illustrated from archive material in the Ashmolean, shows how the excavations proceeded and how the reconstruction of parts of the Palace was achieved. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Ashmolean Museum, United Kingdom, Oxford, 1993
ISBN 10: 1854440462ISBN 13: 9781854440464
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford possesses one of the best collections, outside Russia, of panoramic prints of St Petersburg, made between 1716 and 1835, recording the growth of the city from its foundation in 1703 on the banks of the Neva to its emergence in the early 19th century as one of the most beautiful cityscapes in Europe. The collection includes the wonderful series of 16 hand-coloured views made by the Swedish artist, Benamin Paterssen. This text gives an account of the history of Russia through a period of exceptional turbulance during which successive rulers gave visible expression to their political ambitions by adding spectacular buildings to the skyline of St Petersburg and by commissioning prints of exceptional beauty to commemorate their enterprises. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Ashmolean Museum, United Kingdom, Oxford, 1984
ISBN 10: 0001409220ISBN 13: 9780001409224
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Ashmolean Museum, United Kingdom, Oxford, 1998
ISBN 10: 1854441124ISBN 13: 9781854441126
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The most important and influential drawing master in eighteenth century Oxford was a German violinist, John Malchair, who for over thirty years supplemented his meagre earnings as leader of the band at the Music Room by giving drawing lessons of a kind unique for their period. Each of Malchair's drawings was seen only by a few individuals: his pupils and those who accompanied him on particular sketching expeditions, and the friends who were shown the sketchbook or portfolio afterwards. This catalogue which contains approximately 100 examples of Malchair's work is dedicated to the memory of Ian Fleming-Williams, who died on 6 March 1998, at the age of eighty-four and whose first art historical research was into the work of John Malchair and other eighteenth century drawing masters. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Ashmolean Museum, United Kingdom, Oxford, 1996
ISBN 10: 1854440764ISBN 13: 9781854440761
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The Ashmolean Museum's collection of French porcelain is remarkable both for several individual pieces from famous collections, and also for the way in which it demonstrates the development in porcelain in France from the late seventeenth century onwards. This book illustrates and discusses in detail over fifty of the most attractive, rare and important pieces in the collection, from eight known factories, including Vincennes/Sevres, St. Cloud, Chantilly, Mennecy and Villeroy. Aileen Dawson is a Curator in the Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities at the British Museum. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Ashmolean Museum, United Kingdom, Oxford, 2010
ISBN 10: 1854442198ISBN 13: 9781854442192
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The collection of watches in the Ashmolean Museum are largely as a result of three major bequests, including Bentinck Hawkins collection of 1894, the bequest of J Francis Mallett in 1947 and the collection of Eric Bullivant in 1974, comprising of 120 watches. Together these make the Ashmolean collection one of the most important outside London. The history and development of watch design and decoration is extremely well served, with many important examples dating from the 16th century to the mid 19th century. This handbook explores 30 of the best from the collection. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Ashmolean Museum, United Kingdom, Oxford, 2012
ISBN 10: 1854442716ISBN 13: 9781854442710
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Edward Lear, born in 1812, was a British artist, illustrator, author, and poet, renowned today primarily for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form that he popularised. Lear produced the illustrated poetry collection Book of Nonsense (1846) for the Earl of Derby's grandchildren. His other works include Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets (1871), containing The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, and Laughable Lyrics (1877). This beautiful facsimile features a short introduction about Edward Lear, and how he refused to acknowledge the 'nonsense' work in the earlier years because he wanted to be taken seriously as a landscape artist. Following this is a replica of each page, featuring the letters of the alphabet with the short poem underneath each drawing. This will be accompained by the poem again, this time written in a more accessible font so that children may read this too. The Ashmolean recently acquired an 1860s edition of the Alphabet of Nonsense, and it is this original that they have utilised in order to recreate this stunning classic. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Ashmolean Museum, United Kingdom, Oxford, 1990
ISBN 10: 0907849938ISBN 13: 9780907849933
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. EAT -- the foods available and enjoyed by the ancient Greeks and Romans. DRINK -- water and wine and the traditions which grew up around them. BE MERRY -- how people enjoyed themselves and the changing fashions of entertainment and manners in Greek and Roman times. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Ashmolean Museum, United Kingdom, Oxford, 2001
ISBN 10: 1854441582ISBN 13: 9781854441584
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Reprinted from an engraved copperplate version of the original edition of 1740, advertised on the title pages as 'For the use of his scholars', and really intended, in the editor's view, as a handbook for the professional cook or trainee chef engaged in large-scale catering rather than for domestic use. Jane Jakeman sets the book in its historical context, pointing out that unlike Hannah Glasse's cookery book (1747), which was intended for the general household ('Every servant who can read wilt be capable of making a tolerable good cook'), Kidder offers 'the preparation of more elaborate and dramatic creations, food that can be dished up with a flourish, with large-scale planning for many diners' - 'cuisine suitable for the corporate dinners of aldermen and lawyers.' It is understandable, perhaps, that all Kidder's addresses are within the City, adjacent to the Halls of the various Guilds of the Corporation of London and to the Inns of Court - prime consumers of what the editor identifies as 'Collegiate Cuisine'. And, as she points out, the cuisine suitable for the corporate dinners of aldermen and lawyers was also eminently adaptable to the colleges of the University'. The book is in fourteen sections, ranging from 'all sorts of Paste' to 'Broths and Pottages' and 'Florendines and Puddings', all of which are reproduced in facsimile. The editor has added a bibliography, an index to the recipe titles and a glossary containing 'some comments to help those who want to try contemporary versions of his recipes' with the added words of caution - modern cooks should feel free to make some adaptations to his instructions, for some of his recipes have strong flavours for our bland modem palates, and the combinations of ingredients are sometimes surprising'. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Ashmolean Museum, United Kingdom, Oxford, 1989
ISBN 10: 0907849903ISBN 13: 9780907849902
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The books in this series aim to bring to a wide public the chief glories of the rich and varied collections of fine and decorative art in the Ashmolean Museum. Each volume takes a topic or field in which the Museum's holdings are internationally renowned and provides an introduction for the general reader and a compact guide for the expert. The Ashmolean's collection of Italian High Renaissance painted ceramics, although small, is one of the most significant in the world. This booklet provides a panoramic survey of this vivid minor art of Renaissance Italy. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Ashmolean Museum, United Kingdom, Oxford, 2000
ISBN 10: 185444123XISBN 13: 9781854441232
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. This book charts the development of Glass over four millennia -- from 18th Dynasty Egypt, through to the present day -- illustrated by 56 examples from the collections held by the Ashmolean Museum. The earliest fragments are from a Meopotamian glass beaker, dating from the 15th/14th century BC and found relatively recently in Iraq; the earliest complete piece is a small, green fish-shaped dish from Ancient Egypt dated 1400/1300 BC. The invention of glass-blowing in the first century BC revolutionised the glass industry -- two early Roman vessels are illustrated -- the later discovery of the moulding process is illustrated by moulded bottles from Northern France. Most of the later examples are English, from early eighteenth-century wine bottles and engraved wine glasses, including examples by William Beilby and an 'Amen' glass c1740/50, ending with the contemporary 'Finzi' bowl engraved by Lawrence and Simon Whistle c.1981 to commemorate the composer Gerald Finzi (1901-56). The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Ashmolean Museum, United Kingdom, Oxford, 2017
ISBN 10: 1910807036ISBN 13: 9781910807033
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The Jewish Journey is unique in three respects. First, it is a short, accessible, affordable and illustrated history of the Jewish people. Most books of this kind are heavy, unwieldy, expensive coffee-table books. Secondly, the book is absolutely unique in highlighting Jewish objects from the standing collection of a world-renowned public museum. Jewish history is more normally confined to dedicated Jewish museums. This book breaks new ground by showing Jewish history in its wider historical, social and cultural context, and presents objects that reflect on daily life over the centuries, e.g. family, marriage, trade and travel, rather than the much more common depictions of artefacts for sacred and religious use. Thirdly, the Jewish significance of these particular 22 objects has until now been overlooked. This book draws them together for the first time to tell their specifically Jewish story, highlighting both the distinctive features of Jewish experience and the long history of close interaction with other cultures and religions. The 22 objects include pottery, coins, jewellery, household artefacts, sacred items, musical instruments and paintings.Together they bring to life the experiences of the real men and women who owned, made and used them, from kings, courtiers and scholars to guerrilla fighters, musicians and market stall holders. Individually and collectively, the objects vividly document dark periods of persecution and forced migration, whilst highlighting the astonishing resilience and diversity of Jewish life, revealing centuries of two-way interaction with many other cultures and religions. Through the histories of each of the objects, the reader is guided on a double journey. One path leads through the galleries of the Ashmolean; the other accompanies the Jewish people across the centuries. The Jewish Journey brings to light for the first time the amazing Jewish treasures in the Ashmolean Museum, explaining their specifically Jewish significance in a direct, accessible style for the general reader. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.