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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Diary of a Century by Jacques Henri Lartigue. Viking. $27.50. Accomplished Dilettante Lartigue was given his first camera in 1901 at age seven, and immediately began to illustrate his diary. He is still at it. Son of a rich Parisian banker, but above all child of an ebullient and optimistic...
The Kingdom of the Horse by H.H. Isen-bart & E.M. Biihrer. 303 pages. CJ. Bucher and TIME-LIFE Books. $26.95. Quite simply the ultimate horse book. $20 to $25
Micro-Art by Lewis R. Wolberg, 291 pages. Abrams. $25. A first-class attempt to prove visually that less is more. Photographer Wolberg offers a short history of microscopes, then dazzles the reader's retina with 220 amazing photographic enlargements of everything from the female sex organs of moss...
The Adventure of Sail 1520-1914 by Captain Donald Macintyre, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N. 256 pages. Random House. $25. Far more sea-and eyeworthy than the usual splendiferous, spanker-sized boat book, in part because it offers longish selections from the writings of Conrad, James Cook, Lord Nelson, Richard Dana, George...