Last African Warriors by Gianni Giansanti

The Last Country Houses by Clive Aslet. New Haven: Yale University Press. First edition hardcover with dust jacket, 1982. 344 pp. The social and architectural history of the prospero...

Goya's Last Works by Jonathan and Susan Grace Galass. The Frick Collection / Yale University, 2006. 1st Ed softcover exhibition catalog. Goya’s understated portrait of the woman know...

Earth to Sky: Among Africa's Elephants, A Species in Crisis by Michael Nichols. Published by Aperture Foundation, Incorporated, 2013. 1st Ed hardcover, no dust jacket as issued. Elephants are among the earth's most sentient beings. They remember, they experience grief and joy, fear and love. Indeed, as our knowledge of these extraordinary creatures increases, the more they transcend all preconceptions of animal behavior. Michael "Nick" Nichols, longtime photographer for National Geographic as well as the magazine's editor-at-large for photography, has been working with African elephants for more than twenty years. In Earth to Sky he tells their story through poignant images that bring us directly into their habitat the lush forests and open savannas, or stark landscapes ravaged by human intervention-to observe the animals' daily engagements and activities. Nichols's photographs are accompanied here by the words of such celebrated figures in the field of conservation as Lain Douglas-Hamilton, J. Michael Fay, Peter Matthiessen, Cynthia Moss, David Quammen, and many others. In addition, Nichols engages us in his photographic journey with personal and informative introductions to each of the book's four chapters-exploring life in the wild, the ivory trade, family interactions, and programs for orphaned elephants. The survival of elephants is under dire threat from humankind, most immediately from the market for ivory. More than twenty-five thousand elephants are slaughtered each year, and their ivory is sold at astronomically high prices to countries such as China, Japan, the Philippines, and Singapore. African elephant refuges are under siege; many park rangers...

Horn of Africa by Philip Caputo, signed, numbered, limited edition, specially bound #167/250. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1980. Oatmeal cloth ...

The Last Flowering of the Middle Ages by Baron Joseph Van Der Elst. Published by Doubleday, Doran and Company Inc., 1944. Stated 1st Ed hardcover. An in-depth look into art of the Middle Ages. Contents: 1. The Times and the Men who Made Them: Men of Flanders; The Flemish Parade; The Good Black Earth; The Rise of the Towns; The Medieval Guilds; Of Love, the Dream; The Upward Glance; Pt. 2. The Flemish Masters: Jan van Eyck; Petrus Christus...

Mapplethorpe by Robert Mapplethorpe, Introduction by Arthur Coleman Danto. Random House (NY) Published: 1992. Hardcover with dust jacket. "Robert Mappl...

Vanishing Africa hardcover book by Giann Giansanti author photographer. This book represents months of work of planning and in the field, but above all it is a tribute to the eternal beauty of Africa; the photographs and text 'steal' from the peoples of the Omo a fragment of their mystery and truth. But with delicacy and respect. By examining a small region in the heart of the continent, the books attempts to trace the roots of remotest Africa; the cradle of man, where ancestral bonds with nature still exist. It is a place where the link with the dark side of existence is not hidden, as happens in the West, but exhibited. By means of his camera and his pen, in this book the author has encapsulated long years of study of the most interesting peoples...

The Last Africans Gert Chesi Perlinger Hardcover Book 1981 Published by Perlinger-Verlag, Worgl Austria, 1981 Copiously illustrated in color and black and white. A nice copy in littl...

Antique map titled 'N.W. Africa & Central Africa'. Original antique map of N.W. Africa & Central Africa. This map originates from the ‘Royal Atlas of Modern Geography’. Published by ...

Central plains warrior's otter skin breastplate/necklace with hand carved and painted deer antlers simulating grizzly claws. Venetian beads strung in be...

Antique map titled 'Africa north part - Africa south part'. Old map of Africa showing the region of Morocco, Algeria and South Africa. This map orginates from 'General Atlas Of The W...

Published by Nedbank 1st edition 1999 English text A lavishly illustrated volume exploring Africa's rich traditions of crafts and decorative arts. Focusing on the people of sub-Saha...