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Taschen new publications: Art and Photography
Taschen new publications: Art and Photography
For over 20 years, Bibliophile has selected carefully from the German art book publisher Benedikt Taschen's range of quality, keenly priced NEW editions. We have worked with authors such as Christopher Warwick to have copies signed (Her Majesty) and are the first to receive stock of newly released titles throughout the calendar.
| JÜRGEN MÜLLER Book Number: 88638 |
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£25.00
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Prepare to be shocked by the grotesque and grimacing series of paintings like The Triumph of Death with murdering skeleton figures slaying the population by hanging, throat cutting and barbarous ac...
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| CHRISTOPHER WARWICK Book Number: 88646 |
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£50.00
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Born in 1926, married in 1947, crowned as Queen in 1953, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has for over six decades steadfastly and loyally carried out her duty on behalf of her country. German art p...
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| PREFACE BY BERND EVERS Book Number: 91530 |
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£30.00
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Pioneering Texts on Architecture from the Renaissance to Today.
Neatly organised chronologically by country from Alberti and Palladio to Le Corbusier and Koolhaas, the best treatises by architectur...
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| GUSTAV SCHWAB Book Number: 91536 |
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£25.00
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The Greek myths are timeless classics, whose scenes and figures have captivated us since ancient times. The gods and heroes of these legends hold up a mirror to the human condition, embodying unive...
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| MATTHIAS HARDER Book Number: 91537 |
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£70.00
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Helmut Newton (1920-2004) is remembered as one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century, channeling sensuality and eroticism into his work. Controversial scenarios, bold lighting,...
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| WERNER DRESSENDÖRFER Book Number: 91543 |
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£125.00
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A MASSIVE HEAVYWEIGHT TOME OF A BOOK, CLEAR THE COFFEE TABLE FOR THIS BEAUTY! Leonhart Fuchs (1501-1566,) was a founding father of modern botany, honoured to this day in the vivid flower, and corre...
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| EDITED BY DIAN HANSON Book Number: 91544 |
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£10.00
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The Little Big Book of Breasts features over 150 celebrated big breast models from the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, including Michelle Angelo, Virginia Bell, Roxanne Brewer, Joan Brinkman, Lorraine Burne...
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| EDITED BY DIAN HANSON Book Number: 91546 |
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£12.00
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Middle wicket, Percy, John Thomas ... one of the few things not discussed in this book is the myriad of euphemisms and pet names for the penis. Features over 150 massively endowed male members of m...
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| EDITED BY DIAN HANSON Book Number: 91547 |
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£10.00
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The first in-depth exploration of the female pudendum, that coveted orifice man spends nine months trying to escape, and a lifetime attempting to re-enter! Dian Hanson delves into the historical si...
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| EDITED BY DIAN HANSON Book Number: 91548 |
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£15.00
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How can we pack so much big booty into such a tiny and inexpensive package? The female butt, tush, culo, or derrière has always inspired awe, fantasy and slavish devotion. Here are bottoms from 19...
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| BRUNO ERNST Book Number: 91549 |
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£30.00
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Showcases the renowned Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972). Pictured are his famous works including The Worlds (carp below water, leaves on lake), Still Life with Reflecting G...
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| H. KOETZLE & UWE SCHEID Book Number: 76008 |
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£20.00
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This book offers a cross-section of the history of nude photography, ranging from the earliest nude daguerrotypes and ethnographic nude photographs to experimental nude photography. All the picture...
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| PETER DRIBDEN Book Number: 79572 |
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£16.00
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"Girls, Gags & Giggles," ran publisher Robert Harrison's recipe for dishing up pin-up to the American male. Men loved his tasty dishes, a mixture of strippers and starlets dressed in outfits so fe...
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| RAINER METZGER Book Number: 81861 |
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£12.00
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It was the decade of daring Expressionist canvases, of brilliant book design, of the Bauhaus total work of art, of pioneering psychology, of drag balls, cabaret, Metropolis, and Marlene Dietrich's ...
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| STEPHAN FÜSSEL Book Number: 84175 |
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£100.00
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The printing press has been called the greatest invention of the second millennium. The epitome of illuminated manuscript published in Mainz around 1454, the Gutenberg Bible was the first major We...
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| PIERS BIZONY, ANDREW CHAIKIN Book Number: 84780 |
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£90.00
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A visually stunning tome, sub-titled 'From Project Mercury to the Mars Rovers', here is the final frontier in rocket technology. Men on the Moon, Red Star Rising, Gemini Twins, Chariots for Apollo...
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| DAVID LEDDICK Book Number: 86811 |
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£14.00
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The boys are back in town in our short history of male nude photography. This ode to the male physique celebrates the evolving, at one time illicit, art form from anonymous 19th century erotica th...
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| SANDRO VANNINI Book Number: 88639 |
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£25.00
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Early photography of Egypt captured the romantic 'Ancient Wonderland of the Pyramids' and by the late 1990s, when Sandro Vannini started his work in Egypt, a technological revolution was about to u...
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| ANDREAS MARKS Book Number: 90745 |
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£100.00
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Famous First Edition: First printing of 6,000 numbered copies. In this XXL edition, discover Katsushika Hokusai's seminal Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, an artifact of art history and masterpiece ...
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| DIAN HANSON, SARAHJANE BLUM Book Number: 91531 |
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£60.00
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500 plus sexy paintings by leading artists such as Alberto Vargas, George Petty, and Gil Elvgren that have sold for $2,000 in 1996 are going for $200,000 and more today. Deliciously erotic, clothe...
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| INGRID SISCHY Book Number: 91532 |
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£20.00
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Ellen von Unwerth was a supermodel before the term was invented, so she knows a thing or two about photographing beautiful women. Now one of the world's most original and successful fashion photogr...
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| OLIVER BYRNE Book Number: 91533 |
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£35.00
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Red, yellow, blue - and of course black - are the colours that Oliver Byrne employs for the figures and diagrams in his most unusual 1847 edition of Euclid, published by William Pickering and print...
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| SABINE ARQUE & MARC WALTER Book Number: 91535 |
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£50.00
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Return to a bygone age with this EXRTA LARGE volume of vintage travel ephemera from 1869 to 1939. With posters, tickets, menus, turn-of-the-century photochromes, and quotes from literary travellers...
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| FRANK ZÖLLNER Book Number: 91542 |
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£130.00
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This sumptuous Taschen offering is the most thorough and beautifully produced Leonardo book ever published. The catalogue raisonné of Leonardo's paintings covers all of his surviving and lost pain...
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| EDITED BY DIAN HANSON Book Number: 91545 |
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£12.00
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Over a hundred photos document the first burlesque shows of the 1800s, the silk-stockinged flappers of the 20s, the nylon-mania of the 40s, the dawn of the stiletto in the 50s, and the golden age o...
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| FRANK ZÖLLNER & C. THOENES Book Number: 91551 |
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£55.00
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Before reaching the tender age of 30, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) had already sculpted Pietà and David, two of the most famous sculptures in the entire history of art. As a sculptor, paint...
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| H. WALTER LACK Book Number: 91555 |
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£25.00
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Trees of paradise: All known genera of the palm family in 240 exquisite illustrations. On December 15th 1868, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794-1868), Professor of Botany at the University o...
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| JESSICA HUNDLEY & P. GROSSMAN Book Number: 91270 |
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£30.00
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A spellbinding journey through the global history of witchcraft, the third volume in The Library of Esoterica follows this magickal tradition from its ancient roots to its modern incarnations. Thr...
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| ANDREAS J. HIRSCH Book Number: 91540 |
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£25.00
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"At its essence, Giger's art digs down into our psyches and touches our very deepest primal instincts and fears. His art stands in a category of its own. The proof of this lies in the intensity of ...
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| DANIEL WILDENSTEIN Book Number: 91552 |
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£40.00
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Claude Monet's Impressionist technique still inspires to this day. Whether it's his stunning Water Lilies series, or genre-defining Impression, Sunrise, discover what made Monet the master of Frenc...
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