Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA

Wien / Vienna & New York: Springer-Verlag 2001. Large 4to. 186 pages, 157 beautiful illustrations. In the original card box. One of the most impressive military defence works in the history of humanity is the Great Wall of China, 6,350 kilometres in length. The last volume in the series is dedicated to an exhaustive study of the history and building techniques of the Great Wall. Together with the nine fortified border towns, it served to defend every inch of the massive land from invasion. Other fortified cities are also included with their watch-towers, moats, city walls and city gates: Changan (Xian), Luonyang, Jianye (Nanjing), Kaifeng, and Beijing. 3211830138 . Fine. Hard Cover. First English Edition. 2001.

Wien / Vienna & New York: Springer-Verlag 2001. Large 4to. 182 pages, 139 beautiful illustrations. In the original card box. Still Shrinkwrapped. Although the Islamic buildings in China have their origins in the Arabic world, they have taken on an architectural form incorporating also Chinese features. Islam was first introduced to China by land in the western territories and to the coastal cities by sea during the Tang dynasty. Mosques were subsequently built throughout China. Along the coast these magnificent buildings were constructed in traditional Arabic style, of brick and stone with flat roofs, while further inland elaborate timber constructions arose. The sheer quantity and variety of mosques and Islamic tombs illustrated provides a considerable insight into this very Chinese architectural form. 3211830111 . As New. Hard Cover. First English Edition. 2001.

Milan: Istituto Geografico De Agostini / Gorlich 1997. 4to. ITALIAN TEXT. 184 pp. + 16 colour plates, 268 b/w photo illustrations. Reproduction of the 1967edition. 8841544384 . Near Fine. Hard Cover. 1997.

Quebec: Ls.-A. Proulx 1927. Large 8vo. viii, 376 pp. Publisher's original grey paper wraps with lettering in red & black to front cover & spine. Wraps slightly edgeworn. Internally very clean. Numerous b&w photographic illustrations. Short summary in English. Text in French language. A VG copy. . Very Good. Wraps. 1927.

Oxford: Clarendon Press 1910. 16mo. xxiv, 872 pp., A Knickerbocker Press binding in gilt decorated brown morocco with all edges gilt and gilt decorated turn ins. Boards fresh with a firm binding. Clean and bright internally and printed on india paper. A charming copy in near fine condition. . Near Fine. Gilt-decorated Morocco. 1910.

Oxford: Oxford At the Clarendon Press 1953. 16mo. xxxii, 1166 pp. Blue calf spine with gilt lettering and devices over cloth. Light rubbing to extremities, with heavier cases to spine ends, in particular the head where there is some chipping. Boards clean and internally clean. . Very Good. Calf Spine. Reprint. 1953.

London: Hodder & Stoughton [1913]. 4to. First Edition. xii, 13-164 pp. Light purple cloth with illustrations in green to boards with gilt lettering and decorations to spine; decorated endpapers. Slight wear and tear to spine ends. Slight split to front hinge. Yellowing to pages but otherwise internally clean. 24 tipped-in gorgeous full colour Kay Neilsen illustrations with printed guards. A lovely copy. . Very Good. Pictorial Cloth. First Edition. 1913.

London: Yale University Press 2003. 4to. viii, 333 pp. Hardback in a colour illustrated jacket, with decorated endpapers. Slight creasing to edges of jacket and a few minor dents to panels. Otherwise all in near fine condition, clean, bright and fresh. Illustrated in colour throughout. A history of the architecture and planning of British medieval towns. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 2003.

New York: Pantheon Books Inc. 1944. 8vo. Unpaginated. Original colour-patterned wrappers in japanese-style binding. Some splittingPaper title label to front cover. Covers slightly edgeworn. Chinese characters in red throughout with English translations. . Good. Wraps. 1944.