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Japanese Cloisonné Enamels. The Stephen W. Fisher Collection. cover art

Japanese Cloisonné Enamels. The Stephen W. Fisher Collection.

The final decades of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth saw the production of Japan’s most exquisite cloisonné enamels. Their manufacture was stimulated by international demand kindled at expositions in Europe and America and driven by artists’ interest in creating works t... More info
Keukenhof: van Keukenduin tot Lentetuin. De wordingsgeschiedenis van Internationale Bloemententoonstelling Keukenhof. cover art

Keukenhof: van Keukenduin tot Lentetuin. De wordingsgeschiedenis van Internationale Bloemententoonstelling Keu...

In 1949 one of the icons of the Dutch identity was founded in the western part of Holland: Keukenhof, nowadays known as the most beautiful springgarden in the world, famous worldwide for its beautiful landscaping with bulbflowers as its main focus. This book describes the long and interesting histo... More info
Mattheus Smallegange (1624-1710). Zeeuws historicus, genealoog en vertaler. Descriptieve persoonsbibliografie.   cover art

Mattheus Smallegange (1624-1710). Zeeuws historicus, genealoog en vertaler. Descriptieve persoonsbibliografie....

With a summary in English. This author`s bibliography includes 1.075 descriptions of 70 editions, issues and impressions after collation of 560 copies in 161 libraries, archives and private collections. This is followed by the description of manuscripts and archivalia and by a very complete survey o... More info
New Halos, a Hellenistic Town in Thessalia, Greece.  cover art

New Halos, a Hellenistic Town in Thessalia, Greece.

Archaeological investigation of the Hellenistic city of New Halos, which was strategically built between the foothills of the Óthris mountains and the Pagasitikós gulf, after the Macedonians destroyed Old Halos in 346 BC. More info
Practice Makes Perfect P. Cotsen-Princeton 1 and the Training of Scribes in Byzantine Egypt cover art

Practice Makes Perfect P. Cotsen-Princeton 1 and the Training of Scribes in Byzantine Egypt

This book by papyrologist Scott Bucking is about a 7th century Sahidic Coptic manuscript including a syllabary and simple text indicating its use for elementary instruction in a monastery. The text provides a papyrological description of the manuscript, with a text describing its historical and soci... More info
Ruling the Waves. Emperor Maximilian I, the Search for Islands and the Transformation of the European Wolrd Picture, c. 1500  cover art

Ruling the Waves. Emperor Maximilian I, the Search for Islands and the Transformation of the European Wolrd Pi...

In this work Kleinschmidt is tracing the political implications of the transformation of the European world picture in the age of Emperor Maximilian I. More info
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