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  • Manual de estética maya
    PEDRO SONDEREGUER
    Asombra, que después de más de doscientos años de estudios mayas, una cultura tan vasta, talentosa y reconocida intelectual y artísticamente, no se hayan considerado necesarias hasta hoy investigaciones filosóficas y estéticas. En la actualidad los estudios mayistas son parciales. El énfasis se ha puesto sobre lo histórico, signa) y mitológico. Los documentos para desarrollar e...
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    11,44 €

  • Historic Homes of Florida
    Laura Stewart / Susanne Hupp
    Houses tell the human side of history. In this survey of restored residences, their stories are intertwined with those of their owners in a domestic history of Florida from the days of Spanish occupation to the Rawlings House in Cross Creek, Vizcaya in Miami, and President Harry S. Trumans 'Little White House' in Key West. Most of these houses are museums now; others are restau...
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    25,21 €

  • An Old English Home And Its Dependencies
    S. Baring-Gould / SBARING-GOULD
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ...
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    24,30 €

  • Me Father Was the Keeper
    Anonymous
    Me Father was the keeper of the Eddystone light, He married a mermaid one fine night... The Eddystone Rocks are among the most feared and romanticized rock formations in the world. Guarding the approaches to Plymouth, England, over the centuries it has claimed hundreds of ships and thousands of sailors. In 1696 Henry Winstanley tried to build a lighthouse there. It, along wit...
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    10,94 €

  • The English Parish Church
    J Charles Cox
    Originally published in 1914, The English Parish Church is a thorough and illuminating survey of nine centuries of ecclesiastical architecture. Accompanied by illustrations and photographs, J Charles Cox considers the styles and materials that have been used throughout history. From the development of basic layouts of nave and tower to finer details of masonry and ornamentatio...
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    39,05 €

  • The Castle Of The Shadows (1909)
    Alice Muriel Williamson
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    34,35 €

  • The Genesis Of Art Form
    George Lansing Raymond
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    34,35 €

  • The Way of Saint James, Volume II
    Georgiana Goddard King
    Georgiana Goddard King's seminal study, The Way of Saint James, is finally reissued. Completed in 1917, this three-volume masterpiece is a wide-ranging exploration of the history, literature, legends, and architecture of the Camino de Santiago. It is based on Professor King's 'three years wanderings' on foot and by cart, mule, and other conveyance on the Spanish pilgrimage road...
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    39,20 €

  • The Way of Saint James, Volume III
    Georgiana Goddard King
    Georgiana Goddard King's seminal study, The Way of Saint James, is fi nally reissued. Completed in 1917, this three-volume masterpiece is a wide-ranging exploration of the history, literature, legends, and architecture of the Camino de Santiago. It is based on Professor King's 'three years wanderings' on foot and by cart, mule, and other conveyance on the Spanish pilgrimage roa...
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    49,05 €

  • English Church Fittings, Furniture and Accessories
    J. Charles Cox / JCharles Cox
    Written shortly before his death in 1919, English Church Fittings, Furniture & Accessories forms a sequel and companion volume to John Charles Cox’s The English Parish Church.From churchyard gateway to pulpit, Cox proves a friendly and knowledgeable guide. His survey of church design from the Middle Ages onwards includes fonts, carvings, screens, bells, lecterns, monuments, mur...
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    44,19 €

  • The Way of Saint James, Volume I
    Georgiana Goddard King
    Georgiana Goddard King's seminal study, The Way of Saint James, is finally reissued. Completed in 1917, this three-volume masterpiece is a wide-ranging exploration of the history, literature, legends, and architecture of the Camino de Santiago. It is based on Professor King's 'three years wanderings' on foot and by cart, mule, and other conveyance on the Spanish pilgrimage road...
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    35,15 €

  • The Cheap Cottage and Small House
    Gordon Allen
    The Cheap Cottage and Small House sets out architect Gordon Allen’s vision of simple, well built housing for both the working and middle classes. This digitally remastered version of the 1919 edition focuses on the particular need for clean, healthy but cheap housing in the years of reconstruction and social change following World War I. Using photos and illustrations of contem...
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    31,81 €

  • Pilgrim Life In The Middle Ages (1911)
    Sidney Heath
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    35,40 €

  • The Development Of Doctrine From The Early Middle Ages To The Reformation (1901)
    John S. Banks / John SBanks
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    31,13 €

  • Annals Of The Empire
    Voltaire
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    34,44 €

  • Gates of Dubai
    Theresa A. Senzig
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    21,94 €

  • Elements of Form and Design in Classic Architecture
    Arthur Stratton
    Originally published in 1925, Elements of Form and Design in Classic Architecture is a useful and informative read for students, historians or anyone with an interest in classic architecture. Setting out the geometrical principles which have guided architects since the times of ancient Greece and Rome, with the aid of numerous black and white photos and line drawings, chapters...
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    43,41 €

  • Public Libraries
    Amian L Champneys
    In the light of Victorian legislation allowing local authorities to raise funds for their building, the end of the 19th and start of the 20th centuries saw the advent of free libraries in most British towns and cities. First published in 1907, Public Libraries offers best practice and advice regarding the construction, layout and usage of such buildings, including questions of ...
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    35,13 €

  • The Cathedrals of England and Wales
    Francis Bond
    A comprehensive pocket sized handbook, The Cathedrals of England and Wales is a guide to 36 of Britain's finest holy buildings. Originally published in 1912, it provides both an informative background to the cathedrals today and a useful reference point for the changes of the last century. Its clear and concise summaries of each cathedral's history and development are enhanced ...
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    48,52 €

  • The Castle Of Doubt (1907)
    John H. Whitson / John HWhitson
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    32,21 €

  • Hatshepsut’s Temple at Deir el Bahari
    Frederick Monderson
    Hatshepsut’s Temple at Deir el Bahari is about a wonderful experiment in ancient Egyptian art and architecture, a uniquely remarkable structure, but more important it provides some insights about the men and a woman who were avant guard in their thinking at a time when females dared not rule. However, given the opportunity to do so, Queen Hatshepsut ruled well and was involved...
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    20,70 €

  • A Catalog of Louis Sullivan’s Ornament 1881-1887
    Michael J. O'Brien / Michael J. O’Brien
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    28,25 €

  • The American Builder’s Companion
    Asher Benjamin
    American architect ASHER BENJAMIN (1773-1845) brought the influence of classical design to New England, and is hugely responsible for what we today consider the architectural charm of the region. He disseminated his ideas on elegance to ordinary builders via manuals such as this one, intended for local carpenters to use as a guide to imbue their own construction with a new eleg...
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    26,24 €

  • The Medieval Styles of the English Parish Church
    F E Howard
    Parish churches have been at the heart of English villages and towns for over a thousand years. The Medieval Styles of the English Parish Church is a wide-ranging, detailed and immensely authoritative guide to the ways in which their architecture evolved during the Middle Ages. Churches are an enduring barometer of change, and this in-depth volume reveals how one country's tu...
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    32,10 €

  • Residential Flats
    Sydney Perks
    Residential Flats offers a wide-ranging and detailed survey of apartment block architecture at the dawn of the 20th century. After tracing the development of flat design from Roman times onwards, Sydney Perks uses real plans of apartment blocks in British, European and American cities for an analysis of building style, layout and usage. Noting examples of both good and bad desi...
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    56,39 €

  • The Castlecourt Diamond Case
    Geraldine Bonner
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    27,89 €

  • English Shop-Fronts Old and New
    E. C. Morgan Willmott / ECMorgan Willmott / Horace Dan
    Join us on a journey back to the high street of the 1900s! This delightful book features old photographs of over 50 different shops, revealing a time before chain stores took over, when each family-run business proudly presented a unique and characterful face to the world.Originally published in 1907, English Shop-Fronts Old and New not only shows shopping as it used to be, but...
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    34,04 €

  • Representative British Architects
    C. H. Reilly
    Originally published in 1931, Representative British Architects profiles twelve of the foremost practitioners of the time in architecture. In an age when the designs of the Victorian and Edwardian era were being challenged by the new ideas of Modernism, the men in this volume were responsible for a range of imposing public and commercial buildings that are still celebrated toda...
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    32,24 €

  • Old Cottages, Farm Houses and Other Half-Timber Buildings in Shropshire, Herefordshire and Cheshire
    E. A. Ould / EAOuld
    Black and white half-timbered buildings are a distinctive and much loved feature of England’s countryside and historic old towns. Originally published in 1904 and presented here in a remastered edition, Old Cottages, Farm Houses and other Half-Timber Buildings in Shropshire, Herefordshire and Cheshire features some of the finest and most celebrated examples of the half-timbered...
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    31,97 €

  • The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries
    James J. Walsh / James JWalsh
    All the great issues, forces, and institutions of the thirteenth century are reviewed at generous length-the rise and character, the curricula, and the influences of the early universities; the steps taken towards popular education, both literary and technical; the development of letters; the great books and the great writers of the period; the Latin hymns of the church; Thomas...
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    35,65 €