Joseph Mayer of Liverpool, 1803-1886

Joseph Mayer of Liverpool, 1803-1886

Author: Margaret T. Gibson

Publisher: New International Greek Testam

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13:

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Joseph Mayer was a jeweller and goldsmith who acquired a variety of collections originally made by others, and eventually presented them to the city of Liverpool. This volume provides chapters on the various parts of his collection: Egyptian, Assyrian and babylonian, Etruscan, Greek & Roman, Ancient gems, Late Antique and medieval Ivories, Limoges Enamels, British Antiquites (Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon), Manuscripts (western, Burmese, persian, Turkish, Arabic), Arms & Armour, Majolica, Oriental Ceramics, Wedgwood, Napoleonic memorabilia.


Catalogue of Etruscan Objects in World Museum, Liverpool

Catalogue of Etruscan Objects in World Museum, Liverpool

Author: Jeann MacIntosh Turfa

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2017-07-24

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1784916390

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A catalogue of one of the finest collections of Etruscan artifacts outside of Italy, that of Wold Museum, Liverpool. This publication is highly illustrated with over 100 plates in full colour.


Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves

Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves

Author: Jacqueline Yallop

Publisher: Atlantic Books

Published: 2012-04-01

Total Pages: 550

ISBN-13: 0857895613

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During the Victorian age, British collectors were among the most active, passionate, and eccentric in the world. This book tells the stories of some of the 19th century's most intriguing collectors, following their perilous journeys across the globe in the hunt for rare and beautiful objects. From art connoisseur John Charles Robinson, to the aristocratic scholar Charlotte Schreiber, who ransacked Europe for treasure, and from London's fashionable Pre-Raphaelite circle, to pioneering Orientalists in Beijing, Jacqueline Yallop plunges us into the cut-throat world of the Victorian mania for collecting.


The Oxford Handbook of the History of Archaeology

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Archaeology

Author: Margarita Díaz-Andreu

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 977

ISBN-13: 0190092505

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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Archaeology offers comprehensive perspectives on the origins and developments of the discipline of archaeology and the direction of future advances in the field. Written by thirty-six archaeologists and historians from all over the world, it covers a wide range of themes and debates, including biographical accounts of key figures, scientific techniques and archaeological fieldwork practices, institutional contexts, and the effects of religion, nationalism, and colonialism on the development of archaeology.


The Lives of Chinese Objects

The Lives of Chinese Objects

Author: Louise Tythacott

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2011-06-01

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0857452398

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This is the biography of a set of rare Buddhist statues from China. Their extraordinary adventures take them from the Buddhist temples of fifteenth-century Putuo – China’s most important pilgrimage island – to their seizure by a British soldier in the First Opium War in the early 1840s, and on to a starring role in the Great Exhibition of 1851. In the 1850s, they moved in and out of dealers’ and antiquarian collections, arriving in 1867 at Liverpool Museum. Here they were re-conceptualized as specimens of the ‘Mongolian race’ and, later, as examples of Oriental art. The statues escaped the bombing of the Museum during the Second World War and lived out their existence for the next sixty years, dismembered, corroding and neglected in the stores, their histories lost and origins unknown. As the curator of Asian collections at Liverpool Museum, the author became fascinated by these bronzes, and selected them for display in the Buddhism section of the World Cultures gallery. In 2005, quite by chance, the discovery of a lithograph of the figures on prominent display in the Great Exhibition enabled the remarkable lives of these statues to be reconstructed.


Book Auction Records

Book Auction Records

Author: Frank Karslake

Publisher:

Published: 1911

Total Pages: 768

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A priced and annotated annual record of international book auctions.


Uncovering the Germanic Past

Uncovering the Germanic Past

Author: Bonnie Effros

Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)

Published: 2012-06-14

Total Pages: 453

ISBN-13: 0199696713

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This volume suggests how the slow genesis of Merovingian archaeology in France challenged the prevailing views of the population's exclusively Gallic ancestry. A history of the first century of the discipline, Effros' interdisciplinary study looks at the important contributions of medieval archaeological finds to modern French identity.


The Manuscripts Club

The Manuscripts Club

Author: Christopher de Hamel

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2023-11-14

Total Pages: 589

ISBN-13: 0525559426

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The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a thousand years of history The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them and recognize their crucial role in the transmission of knowledge. However, we generally think much less about the countless men and women who made, collected and preserved them through the centuries, and to whom they owe their existence. This entrancing book describes some of the extraordinary people who have spent their lives among illuminated manuscripts over the last thousand years: a monk in Normandy, a prince of France, a Florentine bookseller, an English antiquary, a rabbi from central Europe, a French priest, a Keeper at the British Museum, a Greek forger, a German polymath, a British connoisseur and the woman who created the most spectacular library in America—all of them members of what Christopher de Hamel calls the Manuscripts Club. This exhilarating fraternity, and the fellow enthusiasts who come with it, throw new light on how manuscripts have survived and been used by very different kinds of people in many different circumstances. Christopher de Hamel’s unexpected connections and discoveries reveal a passion that crosses the boundaries of time. We understand the manuscripts themselves better by knowing who their keepers and companions have been. In 1850 (or thereabouts) John Ruskin bought his first manuscript “at a bookseller’s in a back alley.” This was his reaction: “The new worlds which every leaf of this book opened to me, and the joy I had in counting their letters and unravelling their arabesques as if they had all been of beaten gold—as many of them were—cannot be told.” The members of de Hamel’s club share many such wonders, which he brings to us with scholarship, style and a lifetime’s experience.


Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the UK and Republic of Ireland

Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the UK and Republic of Ireland

Author: Karen Attar

Publisher: Facet Publishing

Published: 2016-05-31

Total Pages: 609

ISBN-13: 1783300167

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This directory is a handy on-volume discovery tool that will allow readers to locate rare book and special collections in the British Isles. Fully updated since the second edition was published in 1997. this comprehensive and up-to-date guide encompasses collections held in libraries, archives, museums and private hands. The Directory: Provides a national overview of rare book and special collections for those interested in seeing quickly and easily what a library holds Directs researchers to the libraries most relevant for their research Assists libraries considering acquiring new special collections to assess the value of such collections beyond the institution,showing how they fit into a ‘unique and distinctive’ model. Each entry in the Directory provides background information on the library and its purpose, full contact details, the quantity of early printed books, information about particular subject and language strengths, information about unique works and important acquisitions, descriptions of named special collections and deposited collections. Readership: Researchers, academic liaison librarians and library managers.