Classics
 New! Edward Lear, The Parrots
Loose Leaf Collection with 42 Fine Art Prints, Booklet, Box, 32.8 x 49 cm (12.9 x 19.3 in.), 116 pages
$ 100.00
Completed in 1832 when he was just 20, Edward Lear’s 42 hand-colored lithographs still stand as the finest images of the parrot family ever produced, and an unsurpassed monument in the history of scientific illustration.
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 New! Dezallier d'Argenville, Shells
Hardcover, 25.1 x 34.2 cm (9.9 x 13.5 in.), 216 pages
$ 39.99
A sumptuous 18th century French work depicting a connoisseur's collection of rare and beautiful shell species, reprinted from a fine original copy
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  New! Auguste Racinet, The Costume History
Hardcover, 23.9 x 33.4 cm (9.4 x 13.1 in.), 416 pages
$ 39.99
TASCHEN 25 - Special edition!
The evolution of style from antiquity to 1888 |
 Braun/Hogenberg, Cities of the World
Hardcover, 29 x 42 cm (11.4 x 16.5 in.), 520 pages
$ 200.00
The complete reprint of all 363 color plates from Braun and Hogenberg's survey of town maps, city views, and plans of Europe, Africa, Asia and Central America. First published in Cologne 1572-1617. Printed from a rare and superbly preserved original set of six volumes, belonging to the Historische Museum in Frankfurt
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 Thornton, Temple of Flora
Loose Leaf collection with 33 Fine Art Prints, Booklet, Box, 42.8 x 53 cm (16.9 x 20.9 in.), 110 pages
$ 150.00
The complete reprint of all color plates from Robert John Thornton's monumental work The Temple of Flora, first published in London in 1799
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Editor in charge
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Petra Lamers-Schütze studied art history, archaeology and Romance languages and literatures in Mainz and Rome, gaining her doctorate in 1991. She has worked for TASCHEN since 1998, publishing titles on art and being responsible for the "Art" and "Classic" program. |
From the Reading Room
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Green, red, blue—three colours dominate the imagesBy Rem Koolhaas. Excerpt from the book ' Cities of the World' |
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Cities frozen in time: The evolution of city iconography in the early modern eraBy Stephan Füssel. Excerpt from the book 'Cities of the World' |