Apollo - Manual of the History of Art

Apollo An Illustrated Manual of the History of Art Throughout the Ages Author: S. Reinach Illustrations B/W Plates Dated: 1922 Size: 12mo<

New York: Valentine s Manual, 1927. Sketches of New York City life in the 1880s. Published by Valentines Manual Inc., 1926. Since 1841 David Valentine was publishing an annual compilation of New York

1877 Art of Coachbuilding Thrupp Carriage Construction Transportation Automobile History of the Art of Coachbuilding, or History of Coaches, is a rare, late 19th-century manual written by George Thrup

About the Brand : THE HISTORY OF CERTINA : It all started with the brothers Adolf und Alfred Kurth in 1888 in Grenchen, Switzerland. They opened a movement and supplies factory for the watchmaking ind

Ca. 600-800 AD. A gold cruciform pendant of an openwork design, featuring four arms with beaded edges and rounded finials. The cross has a long and rich history. It has been used as a sacred symbol of

Circa 700-900 AD. A long iron sword with a long, pointed, bevelled blade, a rectangular guard, and a long, rectangular tang for affixing a handle. The Migration Period of European history during and a

Western Asiatic/Aegean, Ca. 1200-700 BC. This amazing group of 10 bronze spearheads is truly a remarkable piece of history. Each spearhead features a pronounced midrib, as well as a leaf-shaped or pyr

Ca. 400-600 AD Mounted on a custom-made backing, a rectangular fragment of ancient funerary linen sewn in the Coptic period of ancient Egypt history; the delicately sewn shroud has stylised imagery in

We are excited to offer this piece of psychedelic history from the 1960s! This item is Session Games People Play, A Manual for the Use of LSD booklet by Lisa Bieberman. It was published by the Psyched

Here&#39;s an incredible piece of history in the form of a flyer from 1955! It advertised a slew of events featuring Count Basie, Dinah Washington, The Orioles, Joe Williams, The Delltones, The Clover

'The Art of Projecting: A Manual of Experimentation in Physics, Chemistry and Natural History with the Porte Lumiere and Magic Lantern', Boston, Lee & Shepard, 1877, 1st ed., 8vo, original publisher's

this is a Cape Kennedy facilities orientation manual for new IBM employees, dated December 1967 with information on the Apollo program history to that point and information on the upcoming Apollo moon

Ca. 1300 AD The great helm is composed of five riveted sheets of iron, four of which stand upright and are covered with an overlapping oval-shaped, flat top. The round top rivets are hand-forged, foll

Ptolemaic Period, Ca. 332-30 BC. A brightly painted in polychromy cartonnage mummy mask made from layers of linen covered with plaster. The idealised portrait of a deceased features a voluminous tripa

Ca. 600 BC. A bronze combat helmet of Archaic Corinthian-Type, hammered from a single sheet of bronze with finely contoured almond-shaped eyes that gently taper to a point. Simplistic curvilinear eyeb

Ca. AD 1300 - 1400. An Islamic Seljuk gilded bronze candlestick bell, decorated with Kufic inscription around the body and the neck. The bell shaped body is connected to a narrow neck. Most of the sil

Ca. 900-1000 AD. Silver chain, 80 cm long, with a two-part reliquary cross which shows traces of gilding. The construction and imagery of the front reveal Byzantine influence. Centrally, a stylised Ch

Ca. 202 BC–220 AD. Han Dynasty. A hollow-formed terracotta cream-coloured rhinoceros shown standing four-square with a well-cast head with two horns of different length, rose-coloured ears pric

Ca. 200-300 AD. A grey schist carving of a standing Buddha. This excellent figure is backed by a circular halo and dressed in a flowing Kasaya (monastic robe). The head features thick, rich lips, an a

An importnat bronze helmet formed from two curved segments each with a flared rim, nasal, raised panels to the upper section of the bowl, repousse ridge forming curved brows; integral cheek-plate to e

New Kingdom, Ca. 1550-1070 BC Finely modelled in the form of human-headed Imsety, one of the Four Sons of Horus, guardian of the liver wearing a beard with a curled tip and voluminous wig, the face wi

Middle Kingdom, Second Intermediate Period, Ca. 1900 - 1600 BC. An extremely large and heavy khopesh sword of early type, complete with a wooden handle and golden pommel. Judging by its size, weight,

C. 100-300 AD. Gandharan. Stunning carved schist stone panel from Gandhara representing Buddha and four attendees. Buddha is presented standing on the right, dressed in an elegant sanghati or mantle,

Ca. 500-300 BC. Greek. A superb Chalcidian helmet. The bowl is forged in one piece, featuring high-arched eyebrows with an ear drop-shaped nose guard and a flaring neck-guard. The raised curves demarc