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Charlotte & Peter Fiell
Taschen, 2021
From the adrenaline-filled 24 Hours of Le Mans to the legendary Goodwood Festival of Speed, Lake Como's famed Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este to the premier Monterey Car Week, the collector car calendar and market has shown one of the most extraordinary growth trajectories of recent years. As thousands flock to specialized meet ups, rallies, auctions, and Concours d'Elegance around the globe, asking prices for the rarest motors have revved higher and higher. So much so, that the value of the 100 cars included in this book exceeds a staggering $ 1 billion. This double-volume is the unrivaled collector car anthology. Curating 100 of the most remarkable, and desirable cars of all time to tell a spellbinding story of automotive design-and-engineering endeavor in the tireless pursuit of ever-greater performance both on and off the track, from the first Indy 500- winning 1910 Marmon Wasp to the futuristic 2020 Aston Martin Valkyrie. This volume presents each model with the lavish spreads it deserves, complete with stunning imagery taken by the world's leading car photographers alongside rare archival treasures, from original factory photos to famous motorsports event posters. Each entry is also accompanied by expert descriptive texts and specs, detailing each car's make, model, year, engine size, horsepower, top speed, transmission, and all-important production numbers.
904 Pages - English - 37.1 cm x 11.2 cm x 44.1 cm - 11.6 Kg
ISBN: 9783836584913
Dan Neil
Assouline, 2011
It is the dream of many to own the world’s most beautifully designed automobiles, but most often only a handful of collectors ever come close. Now, The Impossible Collection of Cars makes that dream come true, showcasing the one hundred most exceptional cars of the twentieth century in this volume. Each luxury automobile—from the 1909 Blitzen Benz to a 1996 McLaren F1—was chosen for its revolutionary engineering, magnificent lines, and head-turning capabilities. This remarquable tome features cars owned by celebrities like Marlene Dietrich, Ralph Lauren, Greta Garbo, Pablo Picasso, and Elvis Presley. This Impossible Collection volume is presented on cotton paper in a beautiful black rubber clamshell box with a cutout metal plate.
170 Pages - English - 38.9 cm x 7 cm x 47 cm - 9 Kg
ISBN: 9781614280156
Rene-Yvon Lefebvre D'Argence
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1977
A catalog of the famous collection of Chinese jade from the Avery Brundage Collection housed in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, ranging in date from the Neolithic period to the Qing dynasty.
184 Pages - English - 20.5 cm x 1.2 cm x 22.7 cm - 0.5 Kg
ISBN:9781878529626
Dominique Delalande
Trianon de Bagatelle, 1994
Ouvrage publié par Dominique Delalande, expert en objets du tabac et de l'opium, à l'occasion de l'exposition présentée en 1994-1995 au Trianon de Bagatelle, à Paris, organisée par la galerie Delalande: 348 objets (boîtes à priser, râpes, pipes, peintures, clystères, narguilés, publicités, briquets, boîtes à allumettes, coffrets à cigares, tabatières, etc...) décrits, insérés dans un texte de présentation historique; nombreuses illustrations couleurs; glossaire; bibliographie.
149 Pages - French - 20.7 cm x 28 cm - 0.9 KgISBN 2950874401
Nancy Armstrong
Philip Wilson Publishers, 2004
Fans have a long history in the decorative arts in Spain. This book concentrates on the infinite variety of materials used to make fans, both the importation of those materials and their handling. Some fans were grand and gem-encrusted emblems of authority; others were mass-produced paper trifles with political advertisements on them. Spanish-dominated Central and South American countries provided brilliantly colored fans made from iridescent feather-mosaics, yet, just as important in their own time, were classical paintings on fans of vellum or "chicken-skin”. Spain's history, trading exploits, and crafting of expensive and unusual materials to make fans, together with her religious, social and sartorial habits, are combined in this comprehensive and highly illustrated book, which includes collector's information about fan associations.
224 Pages - English - 22 cm x 2.2 cm x 27.2 cm - 1.3 Kg
ISBN: 9780856659461