839 résultats
About The Book : The Kath?sarits?gara is a large work. Each book comprises a number of stories loosely strung together, by being narrated for the recreation or information of the same individuals, or arising out of their adventures. These are Udayana, king of Kosambi, and his son Naravahanadatta. The marriage of the latter with various damsels of terrestrial or celestial origin, and his elevation to the rank of king of the Vidyadharas, a class of heavenly spirits, are the leading topics of most of the books; but they merely constitute the skeleton of the composition, the substance being made up of stories growing out of these circumstances, or springing from one another with an ingenuity of intricacy which is one of the great charms of all such collections. About The Author : Somadeva Bhatta was an eleventh century writer from Kashmir.Not much is known about him except that his father's name was Rama and he composed his work (probably during the years 1063-81 CE) for the entertainment of the queen Suryamati, a princess of Jalandhara and wife of King Ananta of Kashmir. The queen was quite distraught as it was a time when the political situation in Kashmir was 'one of discontent, intrigue, bloodshed and despair'.Though he was a Shaiva Brahmin, he was respectful of Buddhism and some of the tales in the Kathasaritsagara show Buddhist influences.Revised by Pansikar Wasudev Laxman Sastri has written famous books, like, Panchdashi with commentary; Yajnavalkya with the commentary, Kavyapradipa (An old and rare book); and many more, the master piece of all is The Ramayana of Valmeki a curious amalgamation of the aforementioned three mediums of teaching. The Title 'The Kathasaritsagara of Somadevabhatta written/authored/edited by Revised by Wasudev Laxman Sastri Panisikar', published in the year 2022. The ISBN 9788121266062 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 613 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in Sanskrit. The subject of this book is Tales -- India / Social life and customs / Hindu mythology Folk literature -- Themes, motives. Size of the book is 22.59 x 28.94 cms Vol:-
New New English Original bdg. with original dust wrapper. Mint. 4to. (32 x 24 cm). In French. 175 p., color ills. Costumes historiques des femmes Turques. "Cest album vous presente un etalage d'habits ramasses de deuxcentsquatrevingtquatre regions de la Turquie.". "This book, which is an album of Historical costumes of Turkish women, dating back 3 centuries, covers not only the ancient garments of Turkish women but also the accessories that were worn with them".
Clothing, jewelry, animal remains, ceramics, coins, and weaponry are among the artifacts that have been discovered in graves in Gaul dating from the fifth to eighth century. Those who have unearthed them, from the middle ages to the present, have speculated widely on their meaning. This authoritative book makes a major contribution to the study of death and burial in late antique and early medieval society with its long overdue systematic discussion of this mortuary evidence. Tracing the history of Merovingian archaeology within its cultural and intellectual context for the first time, Effros exposes biases and prejudices that have colored previous interpretations of these burial sites and assesses what contemporary archaeology can tell us about the Frankish kingdoms. Working at the intersection of history and archaeology, and drawing from anthropology and art history, Effros emphasizes in particular the effects of historical events and intellectual movements on French and German antiquarian and archaeological studies of these grave goods. Her discussion traces the evolution of concepts of nationhood, race, and culture and shows how these concepts helped shape an understanding of the past. Effros then turns to contemporary multidisciplinary methodologies and finds that we are still limited by the types of information that can be readily gleaned from physical and written sources of Merovingian graves. For example, since material evidence found in the graves of elite families and particularly elite men is more plentiful and noteworthy, mortuary goods do not speak as directly to the conditions in which women and the poor lived. The clarity and sophistication with which Effros discusses the methods and results of European archaeology is a compelling demonstration of the impact of nationalist ideologies on a single discipline and of the struggle toward the more pluralistic vision that has developed in the post-war years. ; 1.05 x 9.24 x 6.38 Inches; 272 pages
Beautifully illustrated book on Greek folk art embroidery and jewellery. "The examples chosen from among the wealth of the collection of the Museum of Greek Folk Art serve to provide a representative idea of the jewellery and embroidery complementing traditional folk costumes in Greece over the years" 38p text + 58p of plates (some col) bibliography. Book
Mm 235x335 Volume in copertina rigida privo della sovraccoperta e della custodia, 284 pagine con 48 tavole a colori del famoso artista. Ottima copia nel suo insieme; spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordinbe.
Paris Ledoyen 1829, In-12 broché. XVII + 342 pages. Couverture en partie défraichie, corps de l'ouvrage en bon état. Bon exemplaire.
QUIMPER, Société Les Amis de Louis Le Guennec - 1976 - In-8 - Reliure pleine toile verte imprimée sur 1er plat - Portrait de l'auteur sur page de titre - Illustrations NB dans le texte et HT - 290 pages - Bel exemplaire
n.p. Title ruled in black and red and printed in four languages. Text printed in (Cyrillic) Russian. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Folio. Original full cloth binding. With a folio phamplet insert describing each of the 381 items detailed in this exhibit. A fascinating photographic study of 450 years of Russian military art and royal craftsmanship. Gene Box 2 **PRICE JUST REDUCED!
1ère édition de cet ouvrage de Paul LACROIX (dit le bibliophile Jacob, 1806-1884), écrivain, historien et journaliste, alors conservateur à la Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, illustrée de "16 chromolithographies [= 15 dont 1 sur double page, avec serpentes ou feuillets de commentaire] et de 300 gravures sur bois (dont 20 tirées hors texte) d'après les monuments de l'art de l'époque": "tableaux, dessins et gravures du temps", avec index des artistes. Reliure signée Engel; plaque signée A. SOUZE. 1 des 2 volumes consacrés au XVIIè siècle de cette belle série unissant l'érudition de son auteur et la qualité des illustrations et des reliures. Exemplaire bien complet des 35 planches hors texte dont 15 en couleurs (et 1 double page). Français
205 pages including bibliography and index. Abundant black and white illustrations. "Eight elite Victoria founding families and their monumental efforts to achieve refinement in a rugged corner of Vancouver Island. Their ample homes, their public displays, their private hopes and disappointments - the food they ate, the clothes they wore, the games they played: these are the ingredients from which Ms. Green concocts a social history of solid research, amusing detail and elegant style." - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excllent copy. Book
Blue cloth boards show wear at edges and some small spots. 10 1/4"w x 12 1/2"h. Black and white tipped-in photographs throughout. A photographic record of Sadler's Wells Ballet's 1939 production of Tchaikovsky's ''Sleeping Princess'' based on ''The Sleeping Beauty'', under the direction of Nicolas Segueeff and starring Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann. "The book itself is really a collection of 'Action' pictures taken in mystudio of the chief characters from the story, in poses which are as near as possible characteristic ones, taken from the dances they illlustrate, and are placed in the order of their appearance in the ballet itself."
651 p. Numerous full page plates and text illustrations. 4to. Top edge gold gilt. Some foxing here and there, but overall, quite nice. Contemporary half leather binding, worn at extremities. Albert Arnoux, alias Bertall (1820-1882) the famous French illustrator took his pen name from Balzac, the books of whom he illustrated. He was a prolific humorist, satirist, and illustrator. In this book he explores in witty words and sketches the: fashions, habits, foibles, conceits, delusions, customs, manners, etc. of the era. His satires influenced much of fin de ciecle French humor and commentary. First Edition. Some of the illustrations are true masterpieces of their genre. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! FR4.
155x230 mm. 116 pages. Softcover. Contains B/W plates. Cover is worn, slightly torn and yellowing at edges and margins. Spine is worn and torn in several places. Binding is visible in several places between pages. Pages are yellowing and slightly worn and torn at edges. In fair condition.
Introduction " The subject of this book is the imaginative world of an Orthodox Christian village in Greece, and specifically the cosmological, religious and moral imagination associated with the characteristic forms of its life. . . . To become aware of the religious imagination in subsistence villages of this kind in Europe involves engaging with a living reality which is often only seen at a distance, through the prism of debates which remain very much alive in the religious history of the West. With a Greek village this is particularly the case: Greece has remained to many the mother of the western world, whether as the first source of free, rational thought or as the source of the Greek language in which the New Testament was first written. And for this reason western preoccupations with Greece have shaped perceptions of the Greek imagination in distinct ways. .. . .Another great part of Romiosýne is the Byzantine legacy of the Orthodox Christian faith, whose symbols and thought forms are embedded throughout the culture, and Greeks may resist the ethos of the modern European state not only from individualism or scepticism, but also from an Orthodox vision of society. ... I have ...tried to clarify how they relate to the Orthodox understanding of things, so as to provide as complete a picture as is possible in the space available of the Greek religious imagination as I found it within the varied aspects of one community. " Book
[Series Catalogi Musei Ethnographiae, 5.]Catalogue of the collection of the intricately embroidered felt jackets - Cifra Szurok - the handsome folk costume of Hungarian men in the Ethnographic Museum Budapest 185p. illus. Book
pp. 406, (2) [Index, (1)-46 [Appendix] + 13 full page wood engravings. Plates browned. Text foxed. XLib bookplate of Mt. St. Mary's Library on front paste down. Inked accession numbers on title page. 12mo. 180 mm. Original full worn leather binding. Front board detached. Binding cracked, needs to be resewn. Rev. J. Goldsmith pseud. for Sir Richard Phillips. He was a printer and bookseller, and later a sheriff of London - after which he was knighted by King George III. This American edition was improved by American polymath, Dr. Percival, who was also a poet, philologist, and geologist. S&S/AI 34778. Hardbound. Good. Ron bought before consign. AI BX 8
30p. Printed Christmas Wish from George & Helen Macy inserted. Sm 4to. Original marbled grain title circled in silver on wood grain stiff paper boards. Extremities rubbed. Very good. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! JUN5 BOX 4
This is a very good hardcover copy with just light wear. Completely clean inside, covers a little dusty. One short embossed stamp (last name of previous owner on half-title). Sight dark stain on page-edges (50 pages) at top right corner (only the edge no bleed to margins of plates). The top page-edge was stained gray blue (like the cloth covers), by the publisher. Text in German. Hundreds of detailed color plates of soldier costumes, reproductions of watercolors. Errata sheet. Several appendices. 11" high X 8" wide, 415 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
Minor shelfwear to book and DJ. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). ; This enjoyable and innovative book reconstructs the stages of the ancient Greek wedding ceremony using a long-neglected source of information: vase paintings from the sixth through fourth centuries B. C.; Wisconsin Studies in Classics; 11.25 x 0.5 x 8.75 Inches; 153 pages
"A clear and comprehensive guide to the religious and secular life of the Greek-American community," including naming a baby, planning a baptism, observing name days, baking communion bread, buying popular Greek music [it Includes the melody lines for several song] what to say (in Greek) on special occasions, and much more.This book is a treasury of lore and practical information that will be indispensable to anyone marrying into a Greek family as well as to Greek Americans eager to learn more about their heritage. 230p. New in original shrink wrap. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 265 pages. Full green cloth boards. Slight edge wear to dust jacket. Inscribed by Tonia Shoumatoff, daughter of the late authors.
Twelve page paper doll book with illustrations printed on only one side. 12 1/8"w x 12 1/4"h. Wear to cover.
179 pages. "Traces the origin and development of a wide selection of naval practices and ceremonies" - from dust jacket. Printed on glossy stock. Illustrated in black and white. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. A lovely gift-quality copy. Book
48 pages. Text in English. Features: The technique of exposure measurement - part three; J. Udrovskis - and the lure of photography; Helge Heinonen - a press photographer in Finland; Hotel Allerblick - Deiter Klein - photos behind prison walls; Customs in southern Tyrol - Horst Kunert; Fossils - millions of years documented in photos; Kodak Elite Fine Art versus Ilford Galerie - a comparison of two deluxe papers;Stefan Kruckenhauser - active at 80; Invisible subjects - a polarizer brings out the colour; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
96 pages. Gazetteer. Maps and abundant colour illustrations and photos throughout. Bit of liquid paper atop front free endpaper otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. A quality copy. Book
