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Majolica Mania
Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850–1915
The first comprehensive study of the most important ceramic innovation of the 19th century Colorful, wildly imaginative, and technically innovative, majolica was functional and aesthetic ceramic ware. Its...
English Furniture 1680 - 1760; English Needlework 1600 - 1740
The Percival D. Griffiths Collection (Volumes I and II)
Brings together a superb collection of over 650 detailed examples English furniture and needlework from 1600 to 1760 These volumes are dedicated to one of the finest collections of early English furniture and...
Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
The core of the Clark's collection was assembled by Robert Sterling Clark (1877–1956), who once declared, "I like all kinds of art if it is good of its kind." This monumental, two-volume publication is the first fully...
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vols 11-13
Debates in Parliament
From July 1741 to March 1744, Samuel Johnson composed speeches based on the actual debates in Parliament for publication in the Gentleman's Magazine. Because it was then illegal to print any account of parliamentary...
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volumes 21-23
The Lives of the Poets
The Lives of the Poets was the crowning achievement of Samuel Johnson’s rich and varied literary life. Initially planned as a series of rapid-fire prefaces introducing separate volumes on English poets,...
Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Volume 1: Artists Born Between 1570 and 1600
This spectacular slipcased two-volume set is the first in a series of four catalogues that will showcase the holdings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which owns the world’s largest and most representative collection of...
Catalogue of the Papers of James Boswell at Yale University
This three-volume work provides a detailed description of the complete papers of James Boswell, the famous eighteenth-century diarist and biographer of Samuel Johnson. The collection, held at Yale University, contains over 10...
Richard Diebenkorn
The Catalogue Raisonné
A four-volume definitive resource on the career and unique works of the postwar American artist Richard Diebenkorn The celebrated American artist Richard Diebenkorn (1922–1993) was a singular figure in...
The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
2 Volumes
This unprecedented reference work systematically represents the history and culture of Eastern European Jews from their first settlement in the region to the present day. More than 1,800 alphabetical entries...
The Ambonese Herbal, Volumes 1-6
Over the course of five decades, the seventeenth-century naturalist Georgius Everhardus Rumphius assiduously gathered information on the native plants of Ambon Island and its archipelago. By presenting descriptions of the...