Rembrandt's Eyes
by Schama, Simon
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 067940256X
- ISBN 13
- 9780679402565
- Seller
-
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 067940256X . NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. First Edition. 10 x 8 inches. xi,750 pages, Index, Bibliography. 352 color and b&w illustrations. Brown cloth, spine letters gilt. Very good plus condition, small bump to lower edge of front cover, narrow light blemish to lower rear cover, lacking dj. For more than 20 years Simon Shama has been thinking about the life of Rembrandt and has concluded that a "true biography of Rembrandt is to be discovered in his pictures. Through a succession of superbly incisive descriptions and interpretations of Rembrandt's paintings threaded into this narrative, he allows us to see Rembrandt's life clearly and to think s about it afresh." More than a conventional biography, "Schama conjures up the world in which Rembrandt moved" (from another dj). ISBN 067940256X; 352 illustrations; 10 x 8 inces; 768 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dale A. Sorenson (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7692
- Title
- Rembrandt's Eyes
- Author
- Schama, Simon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 067940256X
- ISBN 13
- 9780679402565
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- 067940256X, Rembrandt, Old Master, European Art
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Dale A. Sorenson
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Silver Spring, Maryland
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