Catalogue des objets d'art et d'ameublement anciennes porcelaines de Sèvres, pate tendre de Saxe, de Chine, etc., jades et cristaux de roche chinois, objets de vitrine, éventails, râpes à tabac, sculptures, pendules, bronzes & meubles du XVIIIe siècle, du 1er empire et autres, vitrines meuble de salon en tapisserie du temps de Louis XV, tapisseries des XVIIe siècles gravures des écoles française et anglaise du XVIIIe si0ecle dépendent des collections de M. Édouard Chappey: Moyen âge et renaissance


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The Daguerreotype


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Illustrates the development and rapid spread of Louis Daguerre's photographic invention in France by a variety of daguerreotypes drawn from the collection of the Musee d'Orsay.







The Voyages of Cadamosto and Other Documents on Western Africa in the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century


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Translation and edition. The additional documents, in translation, comprise a letter by Antoine Malfante, 1447, an account of the voyages of Diogo Gomes, c. 1456, and extracts from João de Barros, Decadas de Asia. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1937. Owing to technical constraints it has not been possible to reproduce the map of "North-western Africa in the fifteenth century" which appeared in the first edition of the work.




When Japan Fights


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Jewish American Literature


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A collection of Jewish-American literature written by various authors between 1656 and 1990.







Buddhist Wall-paintings


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