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Tired of being mistreated by abusive headmaster michel delasalle (paul meurisse), his frail wife, christina (vera clouzot), and his mistress, nicole (simone signoret), plot to kill their tormentorwhen michel's body goes missing, however, the women soon realise their plan is not as straightforward as they first thoughtoxfam bookshop swanage classic thriller from director henri-georges clouzot, following the events of a murder plot in a small french provincial schoolsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam shop herne hill classic thriller from director henri-georges clouzot, following the events of a murder plot in a small french provincial schoolwhen michel's body goes missing, however, the women soon realise their plan is not as straightforward as they first thoughtsee oxfam website for delivery information read moretired of being mistreated by abusive headmaster michel delasalle (paul meurisse), his frail wife, christina (vera clouzot), and his mistress, nicole (simone signoret), plot to kill their tormentor
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Binding rubbed with some wear to extremitiesthe first represents the incompetent architect as a figure without hands and eyes, in a harsh landscape settinga few leaves with some early manuscript marginalia; title page with a couple of early ownership signatures inked outour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you wonât find in just any storei, ; fowler architectthe first and only published volumeâle premier tome de lâarchitectureillustrated with 205 large woodcuts, including 74 full-page and 7 double-page blocks; magnificent allegorical woodcut title border; large woodcut head-pieces and large floriated and grotesque woodcut initials; leaf i4 slightly taller than the rest of the text block, to accommodate a tall column woodcut, with about 2 cm section at top folded infrench 16th-century books, nothe volume may be referenced as follows: mortimer, harvard college library catwithout the blank ĂȘ6 (as usual), but including 2 unnumbered leaves at the end, which are rarely present, though second leaf trimmed close to text and laid down on the final blank (without loss)a second volume was planned by the author but never completedâ (gelli, ex libris italiani, pgit is characteristic of de lâormeâs approach to his subject that he should include among the illustrations three allegorical woodcuts concerned with the figure of the architect and the philosophy of a profession for which de lâorme himself was the first french spokesman355; brunet, supple355) describing the illustrations of this splendid volume, mortimer writes: âamong the buildings shown in detail are the chĂąteau of anet, built by de lâorme for diane de poitiers, in his capacity as royal architect to henri ii, and de lâormeâs own house in parisberliner ornamentstichkatalog ; pettegree, french vernacular books ; cfadams l and millard french i, 105 (citing nd issue)catawikiâs goal is to make special objects universally availableseveral minor marginal repairs not affecting text; leaf o3 with a tear slightly affecting the bottom of woodcut on verso, but without loss, repaired in blank portion of rectoin all, a nice, genuine example of this rare work, exceptionally tall with very wide marginsthis is the most influential and most lavishly illustrated handbook of french renaissance architecturephilibert de lâormebound in 19thcentury quarter-vellum over marbled boards; spine decorated and lettered in gilt; edges giltin addition, this work is a major source for biographical information on de lâormepalmucci was an 18th-century italian aristocrat, jurist and antiquarian from macerata, who superintended the publication of an essay on medieval bronzes âdelle tessere cavalleresche di bronzo tenute al colloâ (florence, )a diminutive ex-libris to front pastedown of count giacomo manzoni (), a prominent italian book collector and bibliographerthe greatest book of architecture of the french renaissance and the most beautifully illustrated the first edition, first issue, with the two very rare unnumbered leaves at the volume's endplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteoccasional light browning and some soiling (mainly marginal), a few minor ink smudgesâ (mortimer, harvard college librâde lâormeâs text systematically traces the process of building, from the choice to the smallest decorative detailsthe second volume of the architecture proposed by de lâorme at the end of the dedication and again at the end of the text, was never publishedare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikimanzoniâs engraved bookplate is remarkable for being "one of the smallest ever regularly used as a bookplate99; clouzot, philibert de lâorme, pphis style is as much personal, as theoretical, and his comments on relations between patron and architect or on the practical problems involved in certain structures are based on his own experience] a device on leaf i3v depict[s] the architect as a learned man, relying for support on serpent-twined compasses as he moves cautiously from a cave of contemplation to a palm tree symbolizing the honor of his professionparis: fĂ©dĂ©ric morelat the end of the volume this idea is developed further in a summary of the attributes of the architect based on two full-page woodcuts on leaves eee1r and eee3rfrench 16th-century books, noâ manuscript acquisition note in french by marquis pierfrancesco palmucci [de pellicani], datedin the second cut [] the good architect, with three eyes and four hands, is speaking to a young apprentice in a garden, with classical buildings in the background
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