The history of loot and stolen art : from antiquity until the present day / Ivan Lindsay
2014, First Edition. London : Unicorn Press Ltd. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective shrink-wrap. Item #395603
ISBN: 9781906509217
Physical description; 665 pages : color illustrations, photographs. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Contents; 1. Ancients, Greeks, Romans, Vikings, Moors and Charlemagne -- 2. The Crusades and the sack of Constantinople -- 3. The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries AD, the Renaissance and the dissolution of the monasteries -- 4. Spanish colonisation of the Americas, Francisco Pizarro and Hernan Cortes -- 5. Sir Francis Drake -- 6.The emergence of Sweden -- 7.Cromwell's disposal of the collections of Charles I -- 8. Napoleon -- 9. Greece and Lord Elgin -- 10. Egypt -- 11. The British Museum and punitive expeditions against Ashanti and Benin -- 12. World War II, Hitler, Goering and the other Nazi leaders -- 13. 1945, the Soviets and Stalin -- 14. 1945, the US army -- 15. 1945 -- 2009. Subjects; Art thefts. Art thefts History. Pillage History. Art treasures in war History. SOCIAL SCIENCE Criminology. ART History General.
Price: €100.00