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$6.49 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States Greek and Roman historians wrote about them, but they allotted them a place on the fringe of the ancient world. It is not easy to get away from the Hellenocentric ... moreview of the ancient world, to sift the few precious grains of truth about the Thracians in the writings of the ancients and to see in an entertaining story a specific aspect of the Thracian concept of life.
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$6.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States “Who could do what, to whom, and why?. Why did the ancient Romans proudly display their erotic art in public?. What were the rules for heterosexual lovemaking?. ... moreFor homosexual lovemaking?. What was the role of prostitution, both male and female?”.
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$8.95 Shipping Location: Branch, United States Maxfield Parrish was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to painter and etcher Stephen Parrish and Elizabeth Bancroft. He is known for his distinctive ... moresaturated hues and idealized neo-classical imagery.
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$6.49 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States REVIEW: Is there any historical basis to the myriad myths and legends surrounding the eternally fascinating Queen of the Nile?. Cunning, ruthless, nervy, ... moreunquenchably feminine yet imperiously regal, Cleopatra made her own rules.
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$6.49 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States REVIEW : The sixteenth century saw a flowering of classical painting in Persia. Chinese-style rocks and trees mingle with Islamic calligraphy and Persian ... morelegends. May I suggest Anthony Welch's two books "Artists for the Shah" and "Shah `Abbas and the Arts of Isfahan", "Persian Drawings" by B. W. Robinson, and "Persian Painting" by Basil Gray.
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$11.99 Shipping Condition: Used Location: Lummi Island, United States You can see an especially fine example of one of these silver denarii here. Upon the death of Marcus Aurelius in the Noricum city of Vindobona, while ... moreon campaign against these tribes, an uneasy peace would exist for the Norican people.
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$14.99 Shipping Location: Ivanhoe, Australia On October 8 1672, Nieuhof traveled inland along with the first mate, in search of the local tribes in order to trade with them, as well as secure water ... morefor his crew. Johan Nieuhof was born in Uelsen, a town in the county of Bentheim, Lower Saxony, sitting just across the Dutch-German border.
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$55.48 Shipping Location: Geelong, Australia ‘Spirit of Han’ by Aileen Lau 1998 p97 for a group of ‘entertainers’, including one very similar to this one, dated to the Eastern Han. Eastern Han Dynasty. ... more1st – 2nd century AD. Antiques are our Profession, not just a Hobby!
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$8.95 Shipping Location: Branch, United States Remington's Self-Portrait on a Horse (1890) shows the artist as he had wished, not the pot-bellied Easterner weighing heavily on a horse, but a tough, ... morelean cowboy heading for adventure with his trusty steed.
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$25.00 Shipping Location: Perugia, Italy He was born in Padua, and completed studies in philosophy in Bologna in 1579. His father was Pasquale Magini, a citizen of Padua. In 1588 he was chosen ... moreover Galileo Galilei to occupy the chair of mathematics at the University of Bologna after the death of Egnatio Danti.
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$10.00 Shipping Location: Thailand Lop Buri (Lavo) has been a town of cultural diversity and continuity for more than 3,000 years since the pre-historic period. It is a place where a lot ... moreof historical evidence has been discovered. Until the 14th century when the Thai possessed more power in this land.
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$9.99 Shipping Location: Ivanhoe, Australia It sits on Ludgate Hill at the highest point of the City of London and is a Grade I listed building. The present cathedral, dating from the late 17th ... morecentury, was designed in the English Baroque style by Sir Christopher Wren.
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$8.95 Shipping Location: Branch, United States While continuing on this first strip, Crosby studied at Manhattan's Art Students League under such instructors as George Bridgman, Frank DuMond, Joseph ... morePennell and Max Weber. [11] Back in New York, he fell in love with fellow League student Gertrude Volz, the artist-sculptor daughter of a well-to-do real-estate broker.
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$8.95 Shipping Location: Branch, United States Raymond Lowry Thayer was born on November 16, 1886 in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. His father, Frank Curtis Thayer, was born in 1851 in Ohio. His parents ... moremarried in 1874 and moved to Cleveland, Ohio. They had four sons, Ralph was born in 1875, Harry was born in 1877, Frank was born in 1878, and Raymond was born in 1886.
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$8.95 Shipping Location: Branch, United States ILLUSTRATOR/ARTIST: Guy Arnoux was a French artist who was born in 1886. The artist died in 1951. Britain has also historically been a hugely important ... morecentre for thoroughbred racehorse breeding. Amongst their number were Sam Chifney, Jem Robinson, the Arnull family – John, Sam and Bill – and "the first man to bring respectability to the profession" – Frank Buckle.
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$8.50 Shipping Location: Croatia Unlike its neighbour, Magnesia, it survived the attacks. For part of the early 6th century the city was under tyrants. Though allied by marriage to the ... morekings of Lydia, its people could not hold back the Lydian Croesus, who asserted a general suzerainty over the city.
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$7.95 Shipping Location: New Providence, United States It played a predominant role in global affairs from the 16th century onwards, especially after the beginning of colonialism. PRINT DATE : This engraving ... morewas printed in 1876; it is not a modern reproduction in any way.
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$8.95 Shipping Location: Branch, United States [7] The impact of Cubism was far-reaching and wide-ranging. In France and other countries Futurism, Suprematism, Dada, Constructivism, Vorticism, De Stijl ... moreand Art Deco developed in response to Cubism.
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$7.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States CONDITION : GOOD. Knopf (1941) 345 pages. Book appears to have never been read. HOWEVER the book is 80+ years old, and does evidence a bit of very faint ... moreage-tanning along the inside (spine side) edge of both the back and front end papers.
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$7.99 Shipping Condition: Like New Location: Lummi Island, United States More comprehensive than before, this reference remains the finest and most beautifully illustrated history of jewelry ever published. The pectoral is ... moregold inlaid with lapis lazuli, car-nelian, and turquoise, and the eyes of the shape made of actual flowers, fruits, and leaves, which were presented to guests to wear at banquets and other festivities.
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$24.92 Shipping Condition: Used Location: LAUNCESTON, United Kingdom The style on this mirror is slightly more modern and streamlined, reflecting the changing technology of the period. It would sit elegantly over a mantle, ... moresideboard, chest of drawers, in a cloakroom, or by the front door.
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$8.99 Shipping Location: Freeport, United States Failing to make a favorable impression inSouth China, Bodhidharma is said to have travelled to the Shaolin Monastery. The idea that Bodhidharma founded ... moremartial arts at the Shaolin Temple was spread in the 20th century.
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$8.95 Shipping Location: Branch, United States A "palisade" is, in general, a defensive fence or wall made up of wooden stakes or tree trunks. The cliffs stretch north from Jersey City about 20 miles ... more(32 km) to near Nyack, New York, and are visible at Haverstraw, New York.
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$25.00 Shipping Location: Belvedere Tiburon, United States The beating heart of Dutch East India: a rare and beautiful second state of Gerard van Keulen’s visually overwhelming map of Java. In order to build his ... moreown reputation, Gerard van Keulen drew on his father’s publications, patent rights and position in Dutch society.
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$10.99 Shipping Condition: New Location: Lummi Island, United States Several civilizations flourished in the fertile area created as the Tigris and Euphrates rivers flow south out of Turkey. The area is commonly referred ... moreto as "the fertile crescent" by historians and archaeologists.
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$7.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States The period is not, of course, a renaissance in the sense or with the characteristics of the quattrocento. Furthermore, the Eastern Orthodox Church, which ... moreserved as a cohesive social and cultural institution, subsequently formalized many of the guidelines for artistic production in reverence for the Church's teachings and theological perspectives.
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Free Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States In any event the appliqué was discarded or lost over fifteen centuries ago. With the addition of a contemporary pin, it can be worn and enjoyed – an authentic ... more“souvenir” of the Roman Empire. Though securely fastened, the pin could be removed at a later date without injuring the artifact.
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$8.95 Shipping Location: Branch, United States Alajalov died in New York in 1987. The Boston University holdings include a painting of Alajálov by George Gershwin. His book The Art of the New Yorker: ... more1925–1995 (Knopf, 1995) was the first comprehensive survey of all aspects of the magazine's graphics.
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$8.95 Shipping Location: Branch, United States [8] The Chief of the clan is customarily referred to as simply "Lochiel". This pattern is thought to have been designed by the firm William Wilson & Son ... moreBannockburn in the early 1800s. Duvoisin both wrote and illustrated a successful series featuring Petunia the goose and Veronica the hippopotamus, inaugurated by Petunia (Alfred A. Knopf, 1950) and Veronica (Knopf, 1961; The Bodley Head, 1961).
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$7.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States CONDITION : GOOD. Knopf (1941) 345 pages. HOWEVER there is a small bump to the top open corner of the front cover. The bump itself is pretty small, but ... moreinside the book that bump is echoed at the upper open corner of about three-quarters of the pages throughout the book.which have a small crumple/wrinkle.
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$10.99 Shipping Condition: Brand New Location: Lummi Island, United States “The Golden Deer Of Eurasia: Scythian and Sarmatian Treasures From The Russian Steppes” by Joan Aruz, Ann Farkas, Andrei Alekseev, and Elena Korolkova. ... moreThese outstanding works not only place the Filippovka discoveries in their proper historical and cultural context but are themselves fascinating and enigmatic.
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