Arms and Armor CD-ROM and Book

Название: Arms and Armor: A Pictorial Archive from Nineteenth-Century Sources
ISBN: 0486285618 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780486285610
Издательство: Dover
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Цена: 14020.00 T
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Описание: Over thousands of years, man has developed an enormous variety of offensive and defensive weapons for use in battle as well as a vast array of armor and other protective devices. Now artists and illustrators can draw on this extensive archive for superb copyright-free illustrations of vintage arms, armor, and other battlefield paraphernalia.
Choose from a rich trove of over 750 illustrations compiled from rare nineteenth-century sources. Included are detailed, high-quality depictions -- arranged chronologically and, to some extent, geographically -- of suits of armor, chain mail, swords, halberds, spears, pikes, lances, crossbows, axes, daggers, helmets, shields, knives, small arms, and a host of other implements, along with scenes of battle, siege, jousts, soldiers, horses, and more.
Especially suitable for projects requiring a medieval or old-fashioned flavor, these illustrations reproduce extremely well. They will fill a myriad of needs for battle-related graphic art.

Автор: Lacroix Paul
Название: Knights, Weapons and Armor CD-ROM and Book
ISBN: 048699872X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780486998725
Издательство: Dover
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Цена: 12370.00 T
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Описание: 200 b/w images for graphic and craft projects.

Название: Glosssary of the construction,decoration and Use of ARMS AND ARMOR
ISBN: 0486407268 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780486407265
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Цена: 41320.00 T
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Widely considered the classic book in the field, George Cameron Stone's A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor in All Countries and in All Times is an indispensable resource and reference tool for anyone interested in arms and armor. Originally published in 1934, it remains an essential guide to the field. To describe the worldwide range and variety of weaponry, Stone drew upon the more than 4,000 items in his private collection of Eastern arms and armor, as well as the European arms collection of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a variety of other sources. Since the author subsequently bequeathed his entire collection to the Metropolitan Museum, this volume serves as an abbreviated visual reference to that institution's Arms and Armor collection.
By profession a metallurgist, the author focused on techniques of manufacture and workmanship to derive his method of codifying the typology of weapons, relying on an alphabetized dictionary format to avoid the confusions he found in a field without standardized nomenclature. This "glossary" format makes it easy for anyone to locate material on the astonishing variety of weapons covered. These include arquebuses, blunderbusses, flintlocks, wheel locks, matchlocks, and other antique guns; German armor; French rapiers; Roman short swords; Turkish crossbows; all the Japanese bladed weapons (katana, wakizashi, naginata, etc.); the East Asian kris in its countless permutations; and many more.
Illustrated with 875 detailed figures, incorporating thousands of individual photographs and drawings, the book was written from the unique viewpoint of an expert who devoted a lifetime to the field. Hard to locate today (original editions are worth hundreds of dollars), Stone's Glossary represents a peerless resource for scholars, experts, collectors, students, hobbyists, and institutions -- any student of the long history and development of weapons and armor around the world.

Автор: Hefner-Alteneck J. H.
Название: Medieval Arms and Armor: A Pictorial Archive
ISBN: 048643740X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780486437408
Издательство: Dover
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Цена: 13190.00 T
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Описание: A highly renowned art historian and a specialist in the Middle Ages, J. H. Hefner-Alteneck illustrated and provided the text for this handsome archive of medieval weapons and armor. Drawn with incredible exactitude, the collection depicts richly detailed armor and weaponry dating from the early ninth century to the mid-1700s and includes authentic shields, swords, helmets and ornate suits of body armor for knights and their steeds. An historical sourcebook as significant today as it was when first published over 100 years ago. Unabridged republication of illustrations from Waffen: Ein Beitrag zur historischen Waffenkunde, Verlag von Heinrich Keller, Frankfurt am Main, 1903.

Название: Smith-Knight in Armor Sticker Soldier
ISBN: 0486299333 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780486299334
Издательство: Dover
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Цена: 1650.00 T
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Our young knight, Edward, has four different suits of armor to choose from. Won't you help him prepare for battle? Just lift up the costumes and place them on the doll on the inside back cover. Twelve stickers represent four suits of armor from different time periods: German (13th century), English (14th century), Italian (15th century), and English (16th century). The stickers are reusable, so be sure to put them back on the pages of the book to keep them neat for next time.

Автор: Harold M.
Название: Weapons and Armor
ISBN: 0486242420 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780486242422
Издательство: Dover
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Цена: 16510.00 T
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Описание: A misericorde is a medieval poniard or dagger made for one purpose -- to give the coup de grace or killing stroke. It was a beautiful, deadly instrument with a graphic mission; its very shape and cut graphically manifest its age and those who used it.
Weapons throughout history chronicle ages, styles, and approaches to life and death; for artists, a weapons archive is a pictorial arsenal of powerful imagery. Here is such an arsenal: over 1,400 copyright-free illustrations of weapons and armor epitomizing the warlike times and peoples of this planet.
Twenty-two categories of offensive and defensive arms and armor include battle-axes, bows and arrows, cannons, catapults, clubs, daggers, handguns, machine guns, powder horns, rifles, spears, swords, tanks, suits of armor, helmets, shields, and other means of combat. These copyright-free black-and-white illustrations (with a few half-tones) have been culled from almost 50 separate sources, ranging from books of ancient armor to scarce foreign periodicals and engravings. Along with the arms themselves are those who wield them -- soldiers, warriors, knights, horsemen, hunters, jousters, duelists, arms manufacturers, aborigines, centurions, dragoons, musketeers, samurai, crusaders, in full period regalia. One plate identifies all the parts of a 17th-century suit of armor -- visor, gorget, tassets, epauliere, cuisse, chain mail, gauntlet, etc.; many show details of intricate Renaissance and modern carving on pommels, blades, rifle butts, and boomerangs. Some remarkable devices include the Chinese Tartar 2-handed sword, Malay creese, Tormentum, Maxim gun, 16th-century Italian cross-bow, Soviet tank from World War II, Indian damascened cuirass, bamboo lance, halberd, and the scimitar.
Unusual strokes may be visually delivered by such instruments as the Patagonian bola, a cane sword, the Zarabatana native blow gun, and the infamous "holy water sprinkler."
Artists and designers will not find these rare emblems of warfare gathered together elsewhere in such a clearly printed format, so quickly accessible; historians of art, industry, and war as well as weapons fanciers will marvel at all the picturesque means here depicted of giving the coup de grace.

Автор: Kottenkamp F.
Название: Medieval Knights, Armor and Weapons CD-ROM and Book
ISBN: 0486990133 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780486990132
Издательство: Dover
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Цена: 20710.00 T
Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Skillfully reproduced from a rare 19th-century masterpiece, this collection features 181 hand-colored engravings of medieval knights, their diverse range of weapons, and their splendid regalia. Vivid, authentic renderings depict the elaborately decorated equipment of warfare and jousting, including lances, spears, mobile siege towers, muskets, and armor.