Xenophon's March. Into the Lair of the Persian Lion.

Coreografia di A.Milloss. Roma, Ediz.del Tornese 1980, cm.22x28,5, pp.14, 31 tavv.a col.e 26 bn.ft. brossura sopracop.fig.a col. Coll.Sinopie,1. Dedica a penna di Umberto Mastroianni. L'opera riproduce una parte degli studi condotti da Mastroianni dal 1979 al 1980 per la scenografia e i costumi dell'Uccello di Fuoco.

Paris, Henri Laurens Editeur s.d., ma c.ca 1930, cm.16x22,5, pp.128, 24 incisioni ft. rilegatura in mz.tela, tassello in pelle con titoli in oro al dorso. Coll.Les Grandes Artistes. Leur Vie - Leur Oeuvre.

Firenze, Olschki Ed. 2013, cm 17 x 24, xxxii-368 pp. con 19 tabelle, es. mus. e 47 figg. n.t. Fondazione Giorgio Cini - Studi di musica veneta - Quaderni vivaldiani, 18. L’indagine sonda le origini ‘concettuali’ del doppio-concerto per due violini in Vivaldi, la natura, la disseminazione e la relazione reciproca delle fonti, occupandosi anche dell’analisi delle composizioni. Seguono una descrizione dei concerti per due violini di Telemann e Bach, una ricostruzione – effettuata dall’autore – dei due concerti incompleti RV 520 e 526 di Vivaldi, un elenco completo delle edizioni moderne dei suoi concerti per due violini e una discografia scelta degli stessi. / The book examines the ‘conceptual’ origins of the double concerto for two violins in Vivaldi, the nature, distribution and interrelationship of their sources and offers an analysis of the works themselves. The author also presents his reconstruction of two works (RV 520 and 526) that have survived only in incomplete form. The book includes a description of Telemann's and J.S. Bach's concertos for two violins, a complete list of modern editions of Vivaldi’s concertos for two violins and a select discography.

The fine art of cultivation. Images from the Royal Horticultural Society Scriptum Edition 2002, cm.28x32, pp.336, ill.col. Hardcover, dustjacket. This beautiful book features text by one of the world's foremost orchid authorities alongside spectacular watercolor portraits of prize-winning orchids from the Royal Horticultural Society in London, which spearheaded orchid cultivation in Western Europe beginning in the 19th century. This exquisite collection of paintings commissioned by the RHS every year since 1897 represents the ultimate orchid pictorial history. Now in a reduced format, Orchids is an indispensable sourcebook for those captivated by the beauty and infinite variety of this glamorous flower. AUTHOR BIO: Mark Griffiths, one of the world's foremost writers on orchids, has edited and written numerous publications on orchids and horticulture. He was editor of The New Royal Horticulture of Gardening, and was awarded the Garden Writers' Guild Special Award for a Work of Outstanding Excellence for his RHS Manual, Orchids. Griffiths is horticultural correspondent for The Times, London.