Author : Anne Sebba
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,22 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781904349679
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The American Collector
Author : Charles Frederick Heartman
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 19,82 MB
Release : 1927
Category : America
ISBN :
The Coin Collector's Manual, Or Guide to the Numismatic Student in the Formation of a Cabinet of Coins
Author : Henry Noel Humphreys
Publisher :
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 18,43 MB
Release : 1869
Category : Coins
ISBN :
The Coin Collector's Manual
Author : Henry Noel Humphreys
Publisher :
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 15,58 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Numismatics
ISBN :
A Kingston Lacy Childhood
Author : Viola Bankes
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,9 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
The Writing of the Gods
Author : Edward Dolnick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,96 MB
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1501198947
The fast-paced and “engrossing account” (The New York Times Book Review) of “one of the greatest breakthroughs in archaeological history” (The Christian Science Monitor): two rival geniuses in a race to decode the writing on one of the world’s most famous documents—the Rosetta Stone. The Rosetta Stone is one of the most famous objects in the world, attracting millions of visitors to the British museum every year, and yet most people don’t really know what it is. Discovered in a pile of rubble in 1799, this slab of stone proved to be the key to unlocking a lost language that baffled scholars for centuries. Carved in ancient Egypt, the Rosetta Stone carried the same message in different languages—in Greek using Greek letters, and in Egyptian using picture-writing called hieroglyphs. Until its discovery, no one in the world knew how to read the hieroglyphs that covered every temple and text and statue in Egypt. Dominating the world for thirty centuries, ancient Egypt was the mightiest empire the world had ever known, yet everything about it—the pyramids, mummies, the Sphinx—was shrouded in mystery. Whoever was able to decipher the Rosetta Stone would solve that mystery and fling open a door that had been locked for two thousand years. Two brilliant rivals set out to win that prize. One was English, the other French, at a time when England and France were enemies and the world’s two great superpowers. Written “like a thriller” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis), The Writing of the Gods chronicles this high-stakes intellectual race in which the winner would win glory for both himself and his nation. A riveting portrait of empires both ancient and modern, this is an unparalleled look at the culture and history of ancient Egypt, “and also a lesson…in what the human mind does when faced with a puzzle” (The New Yorker).
The Shell Collector
Author : Anthony Doerr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,88 MB
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1439190054
In this astonishingly assured, exquisitely crafted debut collection, Anthony Doerr takes readers from the African coast to the suburbs of Ohio, from sideshow pageantry to harsh wilderness survival, charting a vast and varied emotional landscape. Like the best storytellers, Doerr explores the human condition in all its manifestations: metamorphosis, grief, fractured relationships, and slowly mending hearts. Most dazzling is Doerr's gift for conjuring nature in both its beautiful abundance and crushing power. Some of his characters contend with tremendous hardship; some discover unique gifts; all are united by their ultimate deference to the mysteries of their respective landscapes.
The Print-collector's Quarterly
Author : Fitz Roy Carrington
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 17,89 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Engraving
ISBN :
Echoes of Exile
Author : Ines Rotermund-Reynard
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 43,88 MB
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 3110388804
Thousands of people were driven into exile by Germany's National Socialist regime from 1933 onward. For many German-speaking artists and writers Paris became a temporary capital. The archives of these exiles became "displaced objects" - scattered, stolen, confiscated, and often destroyed, but also frequently preserved. This book assesses previously unknown source material stored at the Moscow State Military Archive (RVGA) since the end of the war, and offers new insights into the activities of German-speaking exiles in the 1930s in Paris and Europe. Against the backdrop of current debates surrounding displaced cultural goods and their restitution, this work seeks to facilitate a transnational, interdisciplinary scientific dialogue.
The Coin Collector's Journal
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 37,44 MB
Release : 1879
Category : Numismatics
ISBN :