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Reveals the eclectic blend of rustic and luxury elements, vivid colors, casual elegance, simplicity, and the textural contrasts of stucco, terracotta, and wood that exemplify the classic Mediterranean qualities of Spanish homes, combining vivid, full-color photography with detailed descriptions of integral stylistic basics, such as gardens, furnishings, color, architectural elements, and accessories.

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9780847829132 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, January 16, 2007, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Reveals the eclectic blend of rustic and luxury elements, vivid colors, casual elegance, simplicity, and the textural contrasts of stucco, terracotta, and wood that exemplify the classic Mediterranean qualities of Spanish homes, combining vivid, full-color photography with detailed descriptions of integral stylistic basics, such as gardens, furnishings, color, architectural elements, and accessories.

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Product Description: Italy has probably the richest variety of wines of any country in the world. Every one of the country's twenty regions produces a unique selection of wines, often made with grapes used nowhere else for wine-making. Stephen Hobley describes Italy's most important wine-producing areas, gives the background to the wines, and provides a guide to visiting the best producers...read more
By Stephen Hobley and Francesco Venturi (photographer)

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9781566564090, titled "A Traveller's Wine Guide to Italy" | 3 rev upd edition (Interlink Pub Group Inc, September 1, 2001), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Italy has probably the richest variety of wines of any country in the world.
9781566563086, titled "A Travellers Wine Guide to Italy" | 2 edition (Interlink Pub Group Inc, March 1, 1999), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Italy has probably the richest variety of wines of any country in the world.
9781566562515 | Interlink Pub Group Inc, March 1, 1997, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Italy has probably the richest variety of wines of any country in the world.

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Offers a view of Rome's interior style, including studios of artists and designers, apartments, villas, palazzos, and private gardens

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9780847821303 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, October 1, 1998, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Offers a view of Rome's interior style, including studios of artists and designers, apartments, villas, palazzos, and private gardens

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Product Description: With riches from New World conquests pouring into Seville in the 16th to 18th centuries, the Spanish nobility of Andalucia built exquisite houses and palaces. This book chronicles the finest of these treasures, traces the development of a distinctive regional style of architecture and decoration- the beautiful tiles, dramatic staircases and doorways, columns, and arches, and the cool exterior patios that are so integral to Spanish building...read more

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9780847821471 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, October 1, 1998, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: With riches from New World conquests pouring into Seville in the 16th to 18th centuries, the Spanish nobility of Andalucia built exquisite houses and palaces.

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Product Description: Rome is a city built for display and grandeur. For centuries it has been a place of pilgrimage for artists and art-lovers, yet many of its greatest treasures remain unseen by the public. This book sets out to penetrate the hidden world of Rome's historic interiors, and to reveal a side to the city which has been previously unexplored, while aiming to offer fresh perspectives on the less-familiar side of famous buildings...read more
By Joe Friedman and Francesco Venturi (photographer)

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9780714837628 | Reprint edition (Phaidon Inc Ltd, July 16, 1998), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Rome is a city built for display and grandeur.

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Product Description: This text traces the evolution of Majorcan architecture from the Roman invasion to the Arab occupation. It includes photographs of previously neglected monuments and houses.

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9781860641411 | Tauris Academic Studies, January 1, 1997, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: This text traces the evolution of Majorcan architecture from the Roman invasion to the Arab occupation.

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Product Description: Among the most recognizable and best-loved features of Rome are its fountains. The many varied examples that grace the urban fabric of the "Eternal City" were designed by some of Europe's greatest artists and architects, including Domenico Fontana, Giacomo della Porta, Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Nicola Salvi...read more

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9780865659827 | Vendome Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Among the most recognizable and best-loved features of Rome are its fountains.

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Product Description: The bastides, or fortified towns, of south-west France were the new towns of the Middle Ages. The very first, Cordes, was founded early in the thirteenth century, and others were built and developed right up to the seventeenth century, affording their people both protection and prosperity...read more
By James Bentley and Francesco Venturi (photographer)

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9781850436089 | St Martins Pr, December 1, 1993, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: The bastides, or fortified towns, of south-west France were the new towns of the Middle Ages.

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Shows and describes the history of Istanbul palaces, some of which date back to the fifteenth century
By Chris Hellier and Francesco Venturi (photographer)

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9781558596009 | Abbeville Pr, August 1, 1993, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Shows and describes the history of Istanbul palaces, some of which date back to the fifteenth century

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Product Description: Tikal was one of the greatest cities of the Mayan Empire which covered large parts of Central America between the third and ninth centuries AD. This book aims to provide a portrait of Tikal as it was in its heyday and as it is now...read more

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9781850435099 | I B Tauris & Co Ltd, January 1, 1993, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Tikal was one of the greatest cities of the Mayan Empire which covered large parts of Central America between the third and ninth centuries AD.

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Product Description: Russia's imperial palaces are magnificent edifices. The pictures in this book show a wide range of palaces, some well-known, some virtually unknown in Western Europe.

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9781850432319 | I B Tauris & Co Ltd, November 1, 1992, cover price $59.50 | About this edition: Russia's imperial palaces are magnificent edifices.

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Product Description: By the 15th century, Samarkand and Bukhara were the most important cities along the Silk Route, hives of international trade and centres of art and science. By the 18th century, they had become forbidden cities to all but Muslims, and until quite recently were only rarely visited by travellers from the West...read more
By John Lawton and Francesco Venturi (photographer)

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9781850435068 | St Martins Pr, September 1, 1992, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: By the 15th century, Samarkand and Bukhara were the most important cities along the Silk Route, hives of international trade and centres of art and science.

By Peter Popham and Francesco Venturi (photographer)

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9781850435051 | St Martins Pr, September 1, 1992, cover price $24.95

Product Description: Described in the 18th century as the "boulevard of the New World and one of the gayest and most picturesque ports on the shores of equinoctial America", Havana still boasts many of the fine buildings and vistas that inspired this admiration. This book explores them.

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9781850435037 | I B Tauris & Co Ltd, May 1, 1992, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Described in the 18th century as the "boulevard of the New World and one of the gayest and most picturesque ports on the shores of equinoctial America", Havana still boasts many of the fine buildings and vistas that inspired this admiration.

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Describes the wine-producing regions of Spain, recommends tours through these areas, and offers suggestions for places to drink, taste, and buy wine
By Desmond Begg and Francesco Venturi (photographer)

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9780806973142 | Sterling Pub Co Inc, March 1, 1990, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Describes the wine-producing regions of Spain, recommends tours through these areas, and offers suggestions for places to drink, taste, and buy wine

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