The author (an extremely active American lawyer) guides us through her own eclectic collection, from an ancient Chinese horse sculpture to a metal snail from a hardware store. Most of us wou... read more
Johann Doppelmayr published his Atlas Coelestis in 1742: here it is again, with all its plates and notes, with an excellent explanatory text. Comets, planets, moons, stars - this is a wonder... read more
A collection of essays about this most extraordinary C17th woman, artist, traveller and naturalist; looks at her methods and materials, her journey to Suriname, her entomological studies, he... read more
Bulmer's first book looks at seventeen houses he has worked on, including Althorp, Pitshill, Castle Howard and Broughton Hall, as well as buildings owned by English Heritage and the National... read more
The thoughtful work of the well-known American photographer who is fascinated with cabinets of curiosity and the idea of the Wunderkammer: a retrospective presentation of her idiosyncratic a... read more
Lavish book on this magnificent house, by its owner, now the thirteenth generation of Sackvilles. Knole appears in Woolf's Orlando as her protagonist's vast Elizabethan domain, more like a t... read more
The ideal present for those who have the good fortune to be married to the rare type of tropical bird described above... Large format and beautifully designed with lots of lovely photographs... read more
Drawing on the Kon-Tiki Museum archive in Oslo and illustrated with many of Heyerdahl's photographs, this is published on the 75th anniversary of the Norwegian explorer's astonishing and per... read more
What exactly is it that we preserve - and pay for - so carefully? Stourton looks at various parks, buildings and collections and charts two particular periods of conservation - the 1880s and... read more
The author of Europe's Tragedy, the definitive book on the Thirty Years War, has written a powerful narrative of five centuries of political, military, technological and economic change in G... read more
The title could pass off as a short story by M.R. James or as one of the exploits of Robert Louis Stevenson's little-known, rather Ruritanian sleuth called Prince Florizel. It is in fact a d... read more
When Matisse was commissioned by the collector Albert C. Barnes (of what became the Barnes Foundation) to create a monumental mural - The Dance - he began to arrange his composition using ... read more
Modigliani's changing style, looking at the collection of his work in the Barnes Foundation as well as paintings from private collections and institutions around the world.
Moore's second commission as a war artist was to draw the miners of Wheldale colliery - as the son of a coal miner himself, this commision must have had particular resonance for him.
A gazeteer of 365 monuments in England and Wales - the finest that CBN has surveyed in his quarter-century of patiently traipsing about the countryside.
Gothic architecture, with its flying buttresses, pointed arches, tracery and large windows, is synonymous with the golden age of cathedral-building in Europe. The author (who shares her name... read more
A tour of private spaces belonging to Nicky Haslam, Beata Heuman, Luke Edward Hall, and other such in-crowdish company. Irreverent and witty, VNL's previous work includes an early stint ass... read more
The Japanese sculptor is the fourth generation of a family of bamboo masters: this is a gorgeous book on his work - some of which is huge. Delightfully, his family name means "master of the... read more
Siena's medieval golden age was brought to a grisly end by an appalling visitation of the plague in 1348. Nevertheless, the republic of Siena lasted for four hundred years, from the C12th un... read more
The perpetual appeal of walled gardens, let alone Venetian ones - private, invisible to those outside, with a delicious water gate giving onto a canal, and exhaling drifts of orange blossom ... read more
Unusual and interesting plants photographed and described in their natural habitats, often in very remote places - anyone remember the heady uplands of tulip and meadows of fritillary in Gar... read more
England still has a greater concentration of ancient oaks than the rest of Europe combined. The Dutch dendrologist's explanation and historical survey is compelling.