Download or read book A Catalogue of the neat and genuine Household Furniture and other effects of a gentlemen well known in the musical world i e Wilhelm Cramer which will be sold by auction by Mr Boulton on the premises no 7 Newman Street Oxford Street on Wednesday the 17th of June 1795 and following day at eleven o clock etc MS notes of prices written by Boulton (Auctioneer) and published by . This book was released on 1795 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Catalogue of All the Neat and Genuine Household Furniture China Glass Books and Other Effects of a Gentleman who is Leaving this Part of the Country which Will be Sold by Auction by John Bateman on the Premises at Westhall Hill Near Burford Oxford on Monday November 25th 1799 written by John Bateman (Auctioneer) and published by . This book was released on 1799 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Catalogue of all the genuine Household Furniture of J Trevor to be sold by auction etc written by John TREVOR (of Canterbury.) and published by . This book was released on 1766 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Catalogue of an Extensive and Well chosen Library of Books Late the Property of the Rev E Cooke which Will be Sold by Auction Etc MS Prices written by Edward COOKE (Rector of Haversham.) and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Neat Pieces written by and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neat Pieces is a detailed, extensively illustrated survey of the major forms and makers of the "plain style" of furniture made and used by Georgians in the 1800s. Simply designed, solidly constructed of local woods, and usually unadorned, such pieces were used daily by their owners for storage, sleeping, eating, and more. Today, this furniture is read by historians, folklorists, and other experts for clues into a past way of life. It is also prized by museums, antiques dealers and auction houses, and furniture appraisers, collectors, and makers. Neat Pieces first appeared as the companion volume to the Atlanta History Center's seminal 1983 exhibit of the same name. The exhibit featured 126 exemplary pieces of furniture, including chairs, tables, huntboards, washstands, and candlestands. Each of them is described and illustrated in this book. Photographs in the original edition of Neat Pieces were black-and-white; here they are color. A new foreword by Deanne Levison looks at related publications and exhibits of the subsequent two decades. The introduction, by William W. Griffin, provides information on furniture forms, nomenclature, and finishes. Also included in the book is a list of more than twelve hundred nineteenth-century Georgia furniture craftsmen, with key details of their lives and work. 126 exemplary pieces of furniture (including chairs, tables, huntboards, washstands, and candlestands) 172 color photographs, 17 black-and-white photographs Information on furniture forms, nomenclature, and finishes Details about more than twelve hundred nineteenth-century Georgia furniture craftsmen
Download or read book Spanish Books in the Europe of the Enlightenment Paris and London written by Nicolás Bas Martín and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Spanish Books in the Europe of the Enlightenment (Paris and London) Nicolás Bas examines the image of Spain in eighteenth-century Europe, and in Paris and London in particular. His material has been scoured from an exhaustive interrogation of the records of the book trade. He refers to booksellers’ catalogues, private collections, auctions, and other sources of information in order to reconstruct the country’s cultural image. Rarely have these sources been searched for Spanish books, and never have they been as exhaustively exploited as they are in Bas’ book. Both England and France were conversant with some very negative ideas about Spain. The Black Legend, dating back to the sixteenth century, condemned Spain as repressive and priest-ridden. Bas shows however, that an alternative, more sympathetic, vision ran parallel with these negative views. His bibliographical approach brings to light the Spanish books that were bought, sold and ultimately read. The impression thus obtained is likely to help us understand not only Spain’s past, but also something of its present.
Download or read book Selling Empire written by Jonathan Eacott and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2017 Bentley Book Prize, World History Association Linking four continents over three centuries, Selling Empire demonstrates the centrality of India--both as an idea and a place--to the making of a global British imperial system. In the seventeenth century, Britain was economically, politically, and militarily weaker than India, but Britons increasingly made use of India's strengths to build their own empire in both America and Asia. Early English colonial promoters first envisioned America as a potential India, hoping that the nascent Atlantic colonies could produce Asian raw materials. When this vision failed to materialize, Britain's circulation of Indian manufactured goods--from umbrellas to cottons--to Africa, Europe, and America then established an empire of goods and the supposed good of empire. Eacott recasts the British empire's chronology and geography by situating the development of consumer culture, the American Revolution, and British industrialization in the commercial intersections linking the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. From the seventeenth into the nineteenth century and beyond, the evolving networks, ideas, and fashions that bound India, Britain, and America shaped persisting global structures of economic and cultural interdependence.
Download or read book A Catalogue of Books written by Henry George BOHN and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sale this Evening Thursday 10th June 1847 A Catalogue of 600 Vols of Books written by J. W. Spokes and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Catalogue written by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliotheca selecta A catalogue of a choice assemblage of rare works on sale by T Beilby Jun and Company written by T. BEILBY (AND CO.) and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Catalogue of Miscellaneous Books written by James Sage (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Catalogue of Books in Various Languages on Sale by Payne and Foss written by and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Music Musicians and Institutions C 1630 1800 written by Julian Rushton and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building upon the developing picture of the importance of British music, musicians and institutions during the eighteenth century, this book investigates the themes of composition, performance (amateur and professional) and music-printing, within the wider context of social, religious and secular institutions. British music in the era from the death of Henry Purcell to the so-called 'Musical Renaissance' of the late nineteenth century was once considered barren. This view has been overturned in recent years through a better-informed historical perspective, able to recognise that all kinds of British musical institutions continued to flourish, and not only in London. The publication, performance and recording of music by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British composers, supplemented by critical source-studies and scholarly editions, shows forms of music that developed in parallel with those of Britain's near neighbours. Indigenous musicians mingled with migrant musicians from elsewhere, yet there remained strands of British musical culture that had no continental equivalent. Music, vocal and instrumental, sacred and secular, flourished continuously throughout the Stuart and Hanoverian monarchies. Composers such as Eccles, Boyce, Greene, Croft, Arne and Hayes were not wholly overshadowed by European imports such as Handel and J. C. Bach. The present volume builds on this developing picture of the importance of British music, musicians and institutions during the period. Leading musicologists investigate themes such as composition, performance (amateur and professional), and music-printing, within the wider context of social, religious and secular institutions.
Download or read book The Golden Thread written by Ewan Clayton and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the simple representative shapes used to record transactions of goods and services in ancient Mesopotamia, to the sophisticated typographical resources available to the twenty–first–century users of desktop computers, the story of writing is the story of human civilization itself. Calligraphy expert Ewan Clayton traces the history of an invention which—ever since our ancestors made the transition from a nomadic to an agrarian way of life in the eighth century BC—has been the method of codification and dissemination of ideas in every field of human endeavour, and a motor of cultural, scientific and political progress. He explores the social and cultural impact of, among other stages, the invention of the alphabet; the replacement of the papyrus scroll with the codex in the late Roman period; the perfecting of printing using moveable type in the fifteenth century and the ensuing spread of literacy; the industrialization of printing during the Industrial Revolution; the impact of artistic Modernism on the written word in the early twentieth century—and of the digital switchover at the century's close. The Golden Thread also raises issues of urgent interest for a society living in an era of unprecedented change to the tools and technologies of written communication. Chief among these is the fundamental question: "What does it mean to be literate in the early twenty–first century?" The book belongs on the bookshelves of anyone who is inquisitive not just about the centrality of writing in the history of humanity, but also about its future; it is sure to appeal to lovers of language, books and cultural history.
Download or read book CATALOGUE OF BOOKS written by HENRY G. BOHN'S and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
