A year-by-year journey through the life and work of David Hockney that follows the artist from London in the Swinging Sixties, via Californian swimming pools, to the landscapes of his native Yorkshire. Artworks and biographical text together let the reader take part in Hockney’s artistic research, inspiration, and creation. Hardcover, 15.6 x 21.7 cm, 1.11 kg, 512 pages
After an epic Amazonian journey through Brazil and Peru from 1817 to 1820, German botanist Carl von Martius compiled a catalogue of all known genera of palm trees. This encyclopedic work, reproduced in our volume, is a jewel of 19th-century botany and is celebrated for its detailed classifications, maps, color landscapes and diagrams. Hardcover, 15.6 x 21.7 cm, 1.33 kg, 512 pages
Alongside Michelangelo and Leonardo, Raphael is acclaimed as one of the most important artists of the Italian Renaissance. For centuries no other artist achieved a similar level of popularity. This XXL edition presents all his paintings, frescoes, architectural projects, tapestries, and is the most comprehensive work on Raphael published to date. Hardcover with fold-outs, 29 x 39.5 cm, 5.71 kg, 720 pages
“Painting with scissors” is how Henri Matisse referred to his cut-outs. Produced towards the end of his life, when the artist was confined to a wheelchair, these brilliant bursts of color and form delight to this day as joyous celebrations of life, nature, and boundless creativity. Hardcover, 21 x 26 cm, 0.59 kg, 96 pages
Revel in the images from the Hubble Space Telescope, one of the great tools in the history of science. Updated with 30 photos to mark 30 years of Hubble, this book includes comment by Charles F. Bolden, Jr. and John Mace Grunsfeld, the astronauts who worked on Hubble, and by Zoltan Levay, who turned Hubble’s data into famous photos. Hardcover with fold-outs, 29 x 29 cm, 2.47 kg, 260 pages
Dig it! showcases buildings from the past millennia that integrate the ground and the structure. From African churches chiseled from rock and Chinese villages dug into the terrain to a villa built into the cliffs of Capri, this global survey by Bjarne Mastenbroek features analytical drawings by SeARCH and the photography of Iwan Baan. Hardcover with fold-out, 19.3 x 27.1 cm, 2.58 kg, 1390 pages
Take a jazz trip like no other with William Claxton’s legendary photographic journey across the concert halls, side streets, and big bands of 1960s America. From coast to coast, Claxton’s tribute is a living, breathing, beating picture of the genre that enraptured America across social, economic, and racial lines. Includes bonus CD of digitally remastered recordings of music made during Berendt and Claxton’s journey Hardcover with CD, 29.1 x 40.7 cm, 7.58 kg, 696 pages
A charming tour of a bygone era, The Alps 1900 recalls when the first mountain trains and cog railways were carrying men in lederhosen and women in long dresses to the foot of the glacier, when local guides accompanied tourists riding on mules; a time when the first alpinists were considered mad, and skiers were a curiosity. Famous First Edition: First printing of 10,000 numbered copies Hardcover, 29 x 39.5 cm, 6.40 kg, 600 pages
In 1961 Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created The Fantastic Four—a powerhouse super hero team revolutionary for their flaws and complexity—that kicked the comic industry into high gear. This XXL volume from the Eisner Award-winning series reproduces the Four’s first 20 stories and charts how it became in Lee’s words “the world’s greatest comic magazine.” Famous First Edition: First printing of 5,000 numbered copies Hardcover, 28 x 39.5 cm, 4.76 kg, 700 pages
Grab a front row seat to the creation of “The Strangest Super-Heroes of All!” In this colossal collector’s dream, the first 21 X-Men stories from 1963–1966 have been meticulously reproduced from the most pristine copies of these rare comic books— the fourth volume from TASCHEN’s Eisner Award-winning Marvel Comics Library series. Famous First Edition: First printing of 5,000 numbered copies Hardcover, 28 x 39.5 cm, 4.67 kg, 666 pages
Від країни козаків до країни селян. Україна на видноколі Заходу у XVI–XIX ст. / Автор: Андреас Каппелер, Издательство: Літопис, Серия: , Страниц: 360, Переплет: Твердый, ISBN: 978-617-7962-17-4
Де, коли й чому виникли герби? Вступ до візантійської геральдики Х—ХІІ ст / Автор: Однороженко О., Издательство: Фоліо, Серия: Великий науковий проект, Страниц: 314, Переплет: Твердый, ISBN: 978-966-03-9944-0
Принципи економічної науки. Перша загальна частина / Автор: Менгер К., Издательство: Інститут вільної економіки, Серия: , Страниц: 304, Переплет: Твердый, ISBN: 978-617-684-272-9
Первый Человек в Риме / Автор: Маккалоу К., Издательство: Азбука, Серия: The Big Book. Исторический роман, Страниц: 960, Переплет: Твердый, ISBN: 978-5-389-13270-2