Some time back a member posted here about a Taschen book that featured De Espona models - I've been visiting the De Espona 3D Models Encyclopedia site regularly for quite some time, drooling over the selection of 500 superb 3DS for such great price, but kept putting off ordering, because $500 was just too big a chunk to bite on. Anyway, the book hadn't been released, yet, so I placed an advance order thru an online bookstore. - I just got it, and it was sell worth the 6 weeks wait. 2CD's with the entire 500 object library plus 2 books; 1 with intro & instructions in 6 languages plus index - and one thicker book with full-color images. The models are in a middle-type resolution (the full $500 library is in multiple resolutions up to a very hi-resolution of each model) but all are fully textured, in 3DS format. But even at middle-res, there's literally dozens of period ships, buildings, artifacts, vintage cars, planes, and even animals and tools that I'm delighted to get - worth many times the $40 I paid for it. Couple oddities - the 2 books & CD's come glued into a beautifully printed but poorly made cardboard wraparound about the size of a stack of 10 audio CD's in jewel cases. The glue wasn't holding well in my copy, so I tore that off & threw away. The publisher is Taschen - It's listed as being by the editor, Julius Weidemann in the catalogs, so it's not that easy to find unless you remember the title is "500 3D Objects" or the ISBN # is 3-8228-1621-3. I tried several places until I visited the Taschen site to get that info. Hope others find this info useful - I was really delighted to get it, and wanted to share... Cheers! Jerry B leather-guy