[MR] Fwd: new costume and textile books from DBBC

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Here are some amazing books for your  library. 
 
 I can speak to the Oseberg Textiles book which is the  ONLY book on the 
subject and well worth the price.  These textiles are  archaeological textiles' 
own Dead Sea Scrolls: it took 110 years since their  discovery for them to be 
published.  Absolutely unconscionable, of  course.  The text is in Norwegian, 
but the picture captions are also in  English, and there are excellent English 
translations at the back of the book on  the chapters.  
 
Nancy / Ingvild
 

A quick  note to let you know that two long-awaited books have now arrived 
here for  sale, as well as to tell you about a few other new arrivals from 
unusual  sources...

Firstly, the reprint of the visually stunning "Moda a  Firenze 1540-1580" has 
arrived from Italy. We managed to secure a reasonably  good number of copies, 
but there's no guarantee that we will get more once  these are sold. Act soon 
if you want one!

Secondly, Penny Rogers'  "Cloth and Clothing in Early Anglo-Saxon England" 
arrived yesterday to cheers  and whoops of delight in the office. Many of you 
have already ordered this and  we are shipping these orders over the next few 
days, but if you haven't yet  done so, now's the time!

Thirdly, hot off the packet steamer from  Norway is the mammoth book on the 
textile finds from the Oseberg ship  excavation. We had to fork out many 
Norwegian Kronas for this one just so that  you wouldn't have to. A pricey, but 
significant book for the  diehards.

Finally, we received a fascinating-looking two-volume work  from Denmark. 
"Kriegskunst und Kanonen" presents Joannes Bengedans' handbook  (from around 
1450) for the manufacture of explosives, techniques for the use  of cannons and 
siege tactics. The volumes include a beautiful facsimile of the  manuscript 
(which is in a Copenhagen University collection) and gives a  translation into 
modern German and Danish of the text. It's a really stunning  set and remarkably 
reasonably priced.

Links to all four books are given  below. I hope you will find them 
interesting.

With regards,

Ian  Stevens
The David Brown Book Company
Tel: 1-800-791-9354

Links to  these three books are given below.     

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'Moda  a Firenze 1540-1580: Lo Stile di Eleonora di Toledo e la sua 
influenza' - by  Roberta Orsi Landini and Bruna Niccoli 
List Price: US$ 99.50 * Our Price:  US$ 90.00 *
Link:  http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm?ID=48785&MID=948

'Cloth and  Clothing in Early Anglo Saxon England, AD 450-700' - by Penelope 
Rogers  
List Price: US$ 39.95 * Our Price: US$ 32.00 *
Link:  http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm?ID=60262&MID=948

'Oseberg  Textiles - Osebergfundet: Bind IVb' - edited by Arne Emil 
Christensen and  Margarita Nockert 
List Price: US$ 225.00 * Our Price: US$ 200.00  *
Link:  http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm?ID=47636&MID=948

'Kriegskunst  und Kanonen (Artillery and the Art of War): Das Büchsenmeister- 
und Kriegsbuch  des Johannes Bengedans' - edited by Hans Blosen and Rikke 
Agnete Olsen, with  contributions by Aage Anderson, Bendt Falkesgaard Pedersen 
and Frede Storborg  
List Price: US$ 83.95 * Our Price: US$ 70.00 *
Link:  http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm?ID=62166&MID=948


 



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