2019, ISBN: 9780300137279

Istanbul: Swedish Research Institut in Istanbul / Svenska Forskningsinstitutet Istanbul, 2019. Hardcover. New. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Original bdg. In publisher's special … Mehr…

Istanbul: Swedish Research Institut in Istanbul / Svenska Forskningsinstitutet Istanbul, 2019. Hardcover. New. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Original bdg. In publisher's special box. Folio. (33 x 29 cm). In English. 2 volumes set: (240 p., 5 unnumbered folded plates on pages; Second volume is a hard-case including two reprint panoramas and one reprint map: First panorama is a huge hand-coloured drawing shows Ottoman Palace across Sarayburnu; size 28x336 cm; Second panorama is a huge hand-coloured drawing shows Ottoman Palace across Sarayburnu again which is indicating Palace from a different angle; size 28x196 cm; and one map: 'Carta ufwer Orienten Med de Darom kring Grantzande Lander... (Turkey and its around map printed originally in early 18th century), descriptive text surrounding the map, size 65x85 cm. Cornelius Loos in the Ottoman world: Drawings for the King of Sweden, 1710-1711. [with] Panoramas & map [book]. Prep. by Lâle Uluç, David Jones, Klas Kronberg, Ersu Pekin. 2 volumes. [BOXED]. Cornelius Loos was one of the young military officers who followed Karl XII to the Ottoman Empire in 1709. From the royal headquarters in what is at present the republic of Moldova, Loos was sent to Istanbul on the King's orders in 1710. From there his journey was pursued by boat over the Mediterranean to Egypt and he returned by land through Jerusalem, Damascus, Aleppo, Konya and Izmir. Loos' mission was to make drawings of the "rarities and monuments" that he would encounter on his journey. Out of the drawings that have survived until today, one is from Palmyra, two from Rhodes and Bodrum and around forty aquarelle tush drawings from Istanbul. It is possible that part of the original drawings were destroyed in the "Skirmish at Bender" in 1713, while other works, due to various reasons, disappeared on their way to Sweden. The conserved drawings are kept at the Swedish National Museum and were exhibited there in 1985. (See catalogue titled "Cornelius Loos. Teckningar från en expedition till Främre Orienten 1719-1711", Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, 1985). The drawings represent a unique record of the urban landscape and the monuments in Istanbul in the early 18th century. The collection includes three great panoramas of the city seen from the Topkapi palace to the upper part of the Golden Horn. To the Loos paintings can be added the great Mecca painting brought to Sweden by Mikael Eneman and kept in the Uppsala University Library, and a small group of oil paintings brought back by Loos' travel companion Conrad Sparre, which are also kept in the art collection of Uppsala University. In addition there are travel accounts and correspondence from these journeys. (From the 'SRII's official site, Karin Adahl's project). "In January 1710 the Swedish king Charles XII, in exile in the Ottoman Empire, sent three of his officers on a journey from the royal camp near Bender in Moldova to travel to Constantinople and from there along the Eastern Mediterranean to Egypt. Their mission was 'to view the there existing rarities and monuments, to draw and to measure'. Cornelius Loos, one of the young officers, returned to his king in 1711 with more than 250 drawings. Only forty-nine, kept under the king's bed, survived a skirmish in the camp in 1713, the so called 'kalabalik' at Bender. King Charles had a vision to publish an encyclopaedic work about the Near East, a dream that was lost in the fire in the camp. The drawings were brought to Sweden when the king returned from the Ottoman Empire in 1714. He died in battle in Norway in 1718. Loos' drawings are unique documents of Constanttinople in the early 18th century, with large scale, detailed panoramas, important prospects of the interior of the Hagia Sophia and views from the Ottoman city. A big map is accompanied by minor drawings from the Black Sea, the Eastern Mediterranean and Egypt, as well as a spectacular set of water-colours of head dresses from the Ottoman world. The Loos collection of drawings is today kept in the National Museum in Stockholm.". Texts by Göran Baarnhielm, Ulla Ehrensvard, Nurhan Atasoy, Günsel Renda, Bo Lundstörm, Swedish Research Institut in Istanbul / Svenska Forskningsinstitutet Istanbul, 2019, 6, Paul Mellon Centre, 2008 2 volumes 4to (29.5 cm), XXI, 468 pp; XXII, 523 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "Clerkenwell is one of the most varied, intricate and richly historic districts of England's capital city. Its choice for study by the Survey of London is a mark both of its age-old fascination and of its contemporary appeal. Today Southern Clerkenwell, just north of the City, has become a fashionable location. It houses many in the creative industries, its restaurants and bars are thronged, and its population has been rising for two decades. Northern Clerkenwell, by contrast, has long been acknowledged as having some of London's best Georgian housing and urban landscapes. There is also an intriguingly mixed quarter beyond the Angel and Pentonville Road, reaching north into Islington. The two parts of Clerkenwell are covered separately in these two interlinked volumes, which are available either separately or as a pair.Clerkenwell's present prosperity is rooted in its past. Its density of development, its patterns of land-use and its street layout are witnesses to an unbroken history, going back to monastic foundations. Within the compass of the present volumes, the Survey of London brings together the riches of the area, aiming to omit nothing of significance old or new. In so doing it has created a practical record in words and images of enduring value and usefulness for planners, residents, historians and the wider public.These volumes are the latest in the "Parish" series published at regular intervals over the past hundred years by the Survey of London. They mark several new departures for the Survey. They are the first to be published by Yale University Press, under the sponsorship of the Paul Mellon Centre, and the first to have photographs integrated with the text alongside the handsome architectural drawings for which the series is famed. They also make widespread use of colour images for the first time." (from the publisher's description), Paul Mellon Centre, 2008, 6<

2008, ISBN: 9780300137279

Paul Mellon Centre, 2008 2 volumes 4to (29.5 cm), XXI, 468 pp; XXII, 523 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "Clerkenwell is one of the most varied, intricate and richly histo… Mehr…

Paul Mellon Centre, 2008 2 volumes 4to (29.5 cm), XXI, 468 pp; XXII, 523 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "Clerkenwell is one of the most varied, intricate and richly historic districts of England's capital city. Its choice for study by the Survey of London is a mark both of its age-old fascination and of its contemporary appeal. Today Southern Clerkenwell, just north of the City, has become a fashionable location. It houses many in the creative industries, its restaurants and bars are thronged, and its population has been rising for two decades. Northern Clerkenwell, by contrast, has long been acknowledged as having some of London's best Georgian housing and urban landscapes. There is also an intriguingly mixed quarter beyond the Angel and Pentonville Road, reaching north into Islington. The two parts of Clerkenwell are covered separately in these two interlinked volumes, which are available either separately or as a pair.Clerkenwell's present prosperity is rooted in its past. Its density of development, its patterns of land-use and its street layout are witnesses to an unbroken history, going back to monastic foundations. Within the compass of the present volumes, the Survey of London brings together the riches of the area, aiming to omit nothing of significance old or new. In so doing it has created a practical record in words and images of enduring value and usefulness for planners, residents, historians and the wider public.These volumes are the latest in the "Parish" series published at regular intervals over the past hundred years by the Survey of London. They mark several new departures for the Survey. They are the first to be published by Yale University Press, under the sponsorship of the Paul Mellon Centre, and the first to have photographs integrated with the text alongside the handsome architectural drawings for which the series is famed. They also make widespread use of colour images for the first time." (from the publisher's description), Paul Mellon Centre, 2008, 6<

2008, ISBN: 9780300137279

Paul Mellon Centre, 2008 2 volumes 4to (29.5 cm), XXI, 468 pp; XXII, 523 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "Clerkenwell is one of the most varied, intricate and richly histo… Mehr…

Paul Mellon Centre, 2008 2 volumes 4to (29.5 cm), XXI, 468 pp; XXII, 523 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "Clerkenwell is one of the most varied, intricate and richly historic districts of England's capital city. Its choice for study by the Survey of London is a mark both of its age-old fascination and of its contemporary appeal. Today Southern Clerkenwell, just north of the City, has become a fashionable location. It houses many in the creative industries, its restaurants and bars are thronged, and its population has been rising for two decades. Northern Clerkenwell, by contrast, has long been acknowledged as having some of London's best Georgian housing and urban landscapes. There is also an intriguingly mixed quarter beyond the Angel and Pentonville Road, reaching north into Islington. The two parts of Clerkenwell are covered separately in these two interlinked volumes, which are available either separately or as a pair.Clerkenwell's present prosperity is rooted in its past. Its density of development, its patterns of land-use and its street layout are witnesses to an unbroken history, going back to monastic foundations. Within the compass of the present volumes, the Survey of London brings together the riches of the area, aiming to omit nothing of significance old or new. In so doing it has created a practical record in words and images of enduring value and usefulness for planners, residents, historians and the wider public.These volumes are the latest in the "Parish" series published at regular intervals over the past hundred years by the Survey of London. They mark several new departures for the Survey. They are the first to be published by Yale University Press, under the sponsorship of the Paul Mellon Centre, and the first to have photographs integrated with the text alongside the handsome architectural drawings for which the series is famed. They also make widespread use of colour images for the first time." (from the publisher's description), Paul Mellon Centre, 2008, 6<

2008, ISBN: 0300137273

[EAN: 9780300137279], New book, [SC: 9.93], [PU: Paul Mellon Centre], 2 volumes 4to (29.5 cm), XXI, 468 pp; XXII, 523 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "Clerkenwell is one of the mos… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780300137279], New book, [SC: 9.93], [PU: Paul Mellon Centre], 2 volumes 4to (29.5 cm), XXI, 468 pp; XXII, 523 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "Clerkenwell is one of the most varied, intricate and richly historic districts of England's capital city. Its choice for study by the Survey of London is a mark both of its age-old fascination and of its contemporary appeal. Today Southern Clerkenwell, just north of the City, has become a fashionable location. It houses many in the creative industries, its restaurants and bars are thronged, and its population has been rising for two decades. Northern Clerkenwell, by contrast, has long been acknowledged as having some of London's best Georgian housing and urban landscapes. There is also an intriguingly mixed quarter beyond the Angel and Pentonville Road, reaching north into Islington. The two parts of Clerkenwell are covered separately in these two interlinked volumes, which are available either separately or as a pair.Clerkenwell's present prosperity is rooted in its past. Its density of development, its patterns of land-use and its street layout are witnesses to an unbroken history, going back to monastic foundations. Within the compass of the present volumes, the Survey of London brings together the riches of the area, aiming to omit nothing of significance old or new. In so doing it has created a practical record in words and images of enduring value and usefulness for planners, residents, historians and the wider public.These volumes are the latest in the "Parish" series published at regular intervals over the past hundred years by the Survey of London. They mark several new departures for the Survey. They are the first to be published by Yale University Press, under the sponsorship of the Paul Mellon Centre, and the first to have photographs integrated with the text alongside the handsome architectural drawings for which the series is famed. They also make widespread use of colour images for the first time." (from the publisher's description), Books<

2008, ISBN: 9780300137279

Yale University Press, Gebundene Ausgabe, 468 Seiten, Publiziert: 2008-05-20T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 5.7 kg, Verkaufsrang: 1363, Regional, Architektur, Film, Kunst & Kultur, Kateg… Mehr…

Yale University Press, Gebundene Ausgabe, 468 Seiten, Publiziert: 2008-05-20T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 5.7 kg, Verkaufsrang: 1363, Regional, Architektur, Film, Kunst & Kultur, Kategorien, Bücher, Großbritannien, Europa, Geschichte nach Ländern, Politik & Geschichte, Yale University Press, 2008<