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de Ocampo, Brooke; Becker, Jonathan (Photographer); Coleridge, Nicholas (Introduction). Bright Young Things London. New York: Assouline Publishing, 2002.
Brand Newin Fine DJ; Marfree, acidfree Review copy 1stEd collectable; not opened, written-in, underlined, reprint or ex-library. Fine/Fine gift qual. Wrapper has minor bump ~ head, not-clipped. Laid-in is an enscribed calling card of the publisher, Prosper Assouline himself. Mail SAMEDAY! Book Description: Brooke de Ocampo invites us back into the homes of Bright Young Things, only this time she opens the doors to London's most stylish and enterprising trendsetters. Bright Young Things London is the highly anticipated follow-up to the successful New York edition. This lush, elegant book is an enthralling journey through the homes of the most envied and emulated residents of one of the world's exciting cities. Step inside the fabulous lives of 40 architects, artists, designers, and writers to discover why they embody everything London is known for: wit, cutting-edge style, and glamour. Along with elegant photographs by Vanity Fair photographer Jonathan Becker are intimate anecdotes written by the people who know these bright young things best: Claus von Bulow writes about his daughter Cosima; Ewan and Eve MacGregor rave about the home David ADJaye designed for them; Michael Kors fawns over his muse, Kim Hersov; and Paul Smith writes about Robert Violette. Bright Young Things London captures the spirit of the city while paying tribute to its international influences. It is just as addictive in London as it was in New York. ; 1.24 x 13.14 x 9.82; 192 pages; About the Author: Brooke de Ocampo is the author of Bright Young Things - the highly successful first edition on New York. Mother of three young girls, she recently moved to London. Formerly a contributor at Vogue and Harper's Bazaar in New York, de Ocampo currently contributes to Harper's & Queen in London; Jonathan Becker (Photographer) is a contributing photographer at Vanity Fair and Vogue. He lives in New York City; Fleur Cowles (Foreward) was the publisher of Flair, the landmark magazine of the '50s. She lives in London.. 2843233372.

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MOLL, Herman (1654-1732): [Netherlands] A New and Exact Map of the United Provinces, or Netherlands & c.

London: Moll, Midwinter & T. Bowles, 1710. Copper engraving with period, outline colour. Printed on laid paper. In excellent condition. 24 1/8 x 40 1/4 inches. 25 1/8 x 40 3/4 inches. A stunning large-scale map of the Netherlands by Herman Moll, the celebrated English cartographer. Herman Moll came to London around 1678 from Germany. He found work as a cartographical engraver, working for Moses Pitt, among others. By 1688 he had his own shop. Unlike many great cartographers, Moll had a gift for making interesting friends and these included Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift (he provided maps for Robinson Crusoe and for Gulliver's Travels), William Dampier and Woodes Rogers, explorer/buccaneer and Robert Hooke, the scientist. This grand map of the Netherlands exemplifies Moll's particular virtues as a mapmaker. It is drawn on a large scale and has a wealth of geographical details including all the principal towns and major roads. Atlas maps on this scale were a recent innovation, and Moll made scale, readability and what would now be called user-friendliness hallmarks of his style. There is an inset map of the Channel and the North Sea along with seven panoramic and arial views of the major townns, including views of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Middelburg, Utrecht, Gronningen as well a plan of Arx Britannica, (an ancient Roman fort at the mouth of the Rhine) and a view of King William's palatial hunting lodge Het Loo. This is a stunning example of Moll's very interesting map and a wonderful impression with period colour. This map was part of Herman Moll's magnificent folio work, A New and Compleat Atlas. Moll was the most innovative and important cartographer working in London during his era, a career that spanned over fifty years. His origins have been a source of some scholarly debate; however, the prevailing opinion suggests that he hailed from the Hanseatic port city of Bremen, Germany. Joining a number of his countrymen, he fled the turmoil of the Scanian Wars for London, and in 1678 is first recorded as working there as an engraver for Moses Pitt on the production of the English Atlas. It was not long before Moll found himself as a charter member of London's most interesting social circle, which congregated at Jonathan's Coffee House at Number 20 Exchange Alley, Cornhill. It was at this establishment that speculators met to trade equities (most notoriously South Sea Company shares). Moll's coffeehouse circle included the scientist Robert Hooke, the archaeologist William Stuckley, the authors Jonathan Swift and Daniel Defoe, and the intellectually-gifted pirates William Dampier, Woodes Rogers and William Hacke. From these friends, Moll gained a great deal of privileged information that was later conveyed in his cartographic works, some appearing in the works of these same figures (Moll contributed maps to Gulliver's Travels and Robinson Crusoe , for instance). He was highly astute, both politically and commercially, and he was consistently able to craft maps and atlases that appealed to the particular fancy of wealthy individual patrons, (this map has a dedicatory cartouche with family crest to Charles, Lord Townshend) as well as the popular trends of the day. In many cases, his works are amongst the very finest maps of their subjects ever created with toponymy in the English language. Dictionary of National Biography

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Elizabeth Redfern: The Music of the Spheres, Jove ; weicher Einband / soft cover ISBN: 051513239X

MASS MARKET PAPERBACK Very Good 051513239X From Barnes & Noble\nThe Barnes & Noble Review\nThe best historical mysteries -- books like Rennie Airth's River of Darkness and Iain Pears's An Instance of the Fingerpost -- successfully combine suspenseful, imaginative storytelling with a precise, detailed evocation of a distant time and place. A notable addition to this select group is Elizabeth Redfern's The Music of the Spheres, an elegant, intelligent thriller that encompasses several disparate elements: war, politics, serial murder, sexual perversion, and the early history of astronomy.\n\nThe bulk of Redfern's novel takes place in London in the summer of 1795. England, at this time, is at war with Republican France, a nation still divided by the endless, ongoing Revolution. Thousands of French citizens -- exiled Royalists -- have found their way to London. The British authorities fear that this group may include Republican spies preparing the way for a French invasion, and the exiles are under constant scrutiny by the Home Office. At the center of this story is one particular Home Office agent -- Jonathan Absey -- whose personal and professional lives have become hopelessly intertwined.\n\nAbsey is obsessed with the murder of his teenage daughter, who was strangled to death a year before by an unidentified assailant. As the novel opens, a series of similar murders has come to light, and Absey embarks on a private, unauthorized investigation. That investigation unearths a convoluted espionage plot with far-reaching implications. It also puts him in contact with a perverse, aristocratic family of exiled French astronomers who are searching for an undiscovered planet rumored to lie hidden between Jupiter and Mars. When Absey forces his half-brother Alexander -- an amateur astronomer with forbidden sexual proclivities -- to infiltrate the group, he sets in motion a chain of events which will have tragic, unforeseeable consequences.\n\nRedfern writes with clarity and wit, and brings a remote era -- with its nascent scientific theories and largely forgotten political and military controversies -- to palpable life. The Music of the Spheres offers tragedy, melodrama, startling revelations, historical accuracy, and a colorful portrait of late 18th-century London that compels and convinces from start to finish. Redfern is obviously a writer to watch, and she's given us one of the most accomplished, idiosyncratic debut novels of the year. This one is something special. Don't let it pass you by. (Bill Sheehan)\n\nBill Sheehan reviews horror, suspense, and science fiction for Cemetery Dance, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and other publications. His book-length critical study of the fiction of Peter Straub, At the Foot of the Story Tree, has been published by Subterranean Press (subterraneanpress).\n\nFrom the Publisher\nIn eighteenth-century London, a killer walks the teeming streets. His victims are always prostitutes. Always young. Always with red hair. Before they die, they hear whispers that speak of stars. Of a woman named Selene. And then they feel the cord around their necks...\n\nAuthor Biography: Elizabeth Redfern is a teacher and a musician in England. This is her first novel.\n\nLibrary Journal\nRedfern's first novel is a complex story of plot and counterplot surrounding the murders of red-haired young prostitutes, the French Revolution and all its political machinations, and the search for the missing planet that astronomers conjecture must lie between Mars and Jupiter. Jonathan Absey works for the Home Office in London, reading correspondence in search of spies. When his estranged daughter is found strangled, he sets out to find her killer. His half-brother, Alexander, who is an astronomer and mathematician of some reputation, is searching for the missing planet. The brothers' paths begin to intertwine when a group of ex-patriot French astronomers are suspected of sending information to the Revolutionary Party in France, along with their star lists and mathematical calculations. Alexander infiltrates the group on Jonathan's instructions and discovers evil, obsess

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Ian Fleming: You Only Live Twice FIRST UK EDITIION FIRST ISSUE 1964, London Jonathan Cape 1964
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Ian Fleming: You Only Live Twice First UK Edition, First Issue With Dust Jacket 1964. Published by Jonathan Cape this is the First UK Edition, First Issue/Impression with the original dust jacket. The illustrated dust jacket by Richard Chopping featuring a bull frog on a bamboo floor is in Good condition with small nicks and minor loss to the top of the spine; very small nicks to the bottom of the spine & corners; and a closed tear to the front (should be repairable). Price of "16s. net" is still present to the front flap. A very nice example. The original publisher's black boards with one line of Japanese script to the front board in gilt and silver lettering to the spine. The boards are in Near Fine condition with the only significant flaw is that they are slightly cocked. There are 256 printed pages containing 22 chapters in two parts. The original bamboo style endpapers are present (slight browning to the rear endpaper); pages are creamy white with light foxing mainly confined to the edges. The Copyright Page reads as follows: "First published 1964 By Jonathan Cape Ltd 30 Bedford Square, London WC1© 1964 by Glidrose Productions Ltd." With no other dates present. A lovely example of this First UK Edition James Bond novel in its original state GERMAN: Ian Fleming: You Only Live Twice erste britische Ausgabe, erste Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag 1964. Veröffentlicht von Jonathan Cape dies ist die britische First Edition, First Issue / Impression mit dem Original-Schutzumschlag. Die illustrierten Schutzumschlag von Richard Chopping Stier mit einem Frosch auf einem Bambus-Fußboden ist in Guter Zustand mit kleinen Nicks und kleinere Verlust an die Spitze der Wirbelsäule, sehr kleinen Nicks an das Ende der Wirbelsäule & Ecken und eine Träne zu den geschlossenen Vorne (muss möglicherweise repariert werden). Preis für "16s. Net" ist noch vorhanden auf die vordere Klappe. Ein sehr schönes Beispiel. Die ursprüngliche Herausgeber der schwarzen Bretter mit einer Zeile der japanischen Schrift auf der Vorderseite Bord in Gold-und Silber-Schriftzug auf dem Rücken. Die Platten sind in der Nähe Fine-Bedingung mit der einzige nennenswerte Fehler ist, dass sie leicht richtete. Es gibt 256 gedruckten Seiten mit 22 Kapiteln in zwei Teile. Die ursprüngliche Bambus Stil endpapers sind vorhanden (leichte Bräunung auf der Rückseite endpaper); Seiten sind creme-weiß mit Licht täuschend hauptsächlich auf den Kanten. Das Copyright Seite lautet wie folgt: "First published 1964 Mit Jonathan Cape Ltd 30 Bedford Square, London WC1 © 1964 by Glidrose Productions Ltd "Mit keinem anderen Terminen. Ein schönes Beispiel für diese First UK Edition James-Bond-Roman, in seinen ursprünglichen Zustand FRENCH: Ian Fleming: You Only Live Twice premiere edition britannique, le premier numero avec jaquette 1964. Publie par Jonathan Cape c'est la Premiere UK Edition, Premiere emission / d'impression a l'original jaquette. La jaquette illustree par Richard Chopping disposant d'une grenouille taureau sur un plancher en bambou est en bon etat avec des petites entailles et mineures perte au haut de la colonne vertebrale; tres petites entailles en bas de la colonne vertebrale et les coins et une dechirure a la fermeture Front (devrait etre reparables). Prix de la "16s. Net" est toujours presente sur le front rabat. Un tres bel exemple. L'editeur original de planches en noir avec une ligne de script japonais a l'avant-pension en vermeil et argent lettrage a la colonne vertebrale. Les planches sont en beaux-Pres, a la seule condition importante faille est qu'elles sont un peu en evidence. Il ya 256 pages contenant 22 chapitres en deux parties. L'original style bambou endpapers sont presents (brunissement leger a l'arriere endpaper), les pages sont blanc creme avec la lumiere rousseurs essentiellement confine a la peripherie. Le droit d'auteur page se lit comme suit: "D'abord publie en 1964 par Jonathan Cape Ltd 30 Bedford Square, London WC1 © 1964 par Glidrose Productions Ltd "En l'absence d'autres dates. Un joli exemple de ce First UK Edition roman de James Bond dans son etat d'origine ITALIAN: Ian Fleming: si vive solo due volte prima edizione del Regno Unito, con il primo numero di polvere giacca 1964. Pubblicato da Jonathan Cape questa e la prima edizione del Regno Unito, Prima Edizione / impressioni con l'originale polvere giacca. La giacca di polvere illustrato da Richard Tagliare con un toro rana su un pavimento di bambu e in buona condizione con nick piccole e minori perdite per la parte superiore della colonna vertebrale; molto piccole nick verso il basso della colonna vertebrale e angoli, e una lacrima al chiuso Davanti (dovrebbe essere riparabile). Prezzo di "16s. Net" e ancora presente la patta frontale. Un bel esempio. L'originale publisher nero tavole con una linea giapponese di script per il bordo frontale in argento dorato e lettere alla colonna vertebrale. Le schede sono in condizione di Belle Vicino con il solo difetto significativo e che sono leggermente cazzo. Ci sono 256 pagine stampate contenente 22 capitoli in due parti. L'originale stile di bambu endpapers sono presenti (lieve brunitura al posteriore endpaper); pagine sono bianco crema con luce foxing limitata principalmente ai bordi. Il Copyright Page recita come segue: "Prima pubblicati 1964 Con Jonathan Cape Ltd 30 Bedford Square, Londra WC1 © 1964 da Glidrose Productions Ltd "Con altre date non presenti. Un bel esempio di questa prima edizione del Regno Unito di James Bond romanzo nel suo stato originale First Edition

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