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Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Book condition is Very Good; with a Very Good dust jacket. Text is clean and unmarked. First Edition is stated. ; 9.30 X 6 X 2.10 inches; 672 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. As new condition olive green cloth boards with gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Works of Art and Text Credits. Profusely illustrated with full color paintings, drawings, sculpture, and color illustrated front and rear endpapers. "The human affinity with our animal cousins has been a continual source of inspiration and complex inquiry. Artists have been no strangers to this fascination, and the world of art is rich with depictions of animals, from cave paintings to contemporary canvases. The attempt to understand animals and our relationships with them has often led artists to create masterworks devoted to these creatures: Durer created naturalistic studies of beasts - magnificently real or imaginary - that set a standard seldom equaled; Delacroix painted exquisite watercolor "portraits" of tigers and lions; and Rousseau brought to bear a near Freudian symbolic weight in his landscapes peopled by lions, crocodiles, and monkeys. Noble Beasts is a delightful gathering of such works plumbed from the collections of the National Gallery of Art. Beginning with images from the wilds of the artist's mind - whether situated in the arctic or the tropics - the book progresses through various animal realms: sea and sky, forest and field, and urban environs, coming to rest at the hearthside or on the lap with images and musings on pets. Each work of art is accompanied by a literary excerpt that provides comment on our way of looking at both the art and the animal depicted. Included are paintings by Rubens, Boucher, Manet, Renoir, Gauguin, Bonnard, Vuillard, and Hopper; drawings by Mantegna and Titian; prints by Durer and Schongauer; and sculpture from Renaissance Italy and seventeenth-century Nigeria. Of special interest are works of American folk art that go to the heart of our devotion to these beautiful creatures. Equally varied, the texts range from Homer (in Pope's elegant translation), Milton, Wyatt, Walpole, and Blake to modern and contemporary writers like Hopkins, Yeats, Lawrence, Stevens, Moore, Kunitz, and Berry. Noble Beasts is a celebration of animals - their strength, beauty, ferocity, and amiability - as well as an informal inquiry into our timeless care for and fear of their natures as companion and predator. Compiled for people of all ages, the book will take on new meanings as its readers pass from age to age." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Marsh, Susan (jacket design) (illustrator).…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 2007). 2007 1st edition. Large 4to (220 x 280mm). Pp272. Colour & b/w photographs, photographic end-papers. Tan bonded leather boards, spine & upper board titled in gilt. A fine unread copy in dust-wrapper. One family, a passion for hunting, the bushmen of the Kalahari and the fascinating environments of the Kalahari and Okavango Delta make this book a truly fascinating read. The Blackbeard name was brought to Africa by Francis Blackbeard, a silver and goldsmith from England who came to Africa with his family [in] 1820. In 1879, his son Samuel left to go to the Bechuanaland (now Botswana) as a trader with the Bamangwato people" where the family have stayed ever since. "Dennis Blackbeard was one of Samuel's sons [who became] an accomplished hunter in Serowe. His driving passion was to become a professional hunter running "organized" safaris in Botswana. Between working at his newly built service station, Dennis would outfit and guide South African hunters on hunts in the Kalahari. Both Dennis's sons, Gavin and Ronnie, grew up with their father's love of hunting. Ronnie has his own safari company in Botswana today and some of his hunting stories will make your hair curl. Gavin's son, Luke, grew up amongst the Basari people, the bush people of the Kalahari who learned to track as soon as they could walk. Luke has learned and developed their incredible bush craft and tracking skills and has been described as "a legend in his own time." . …