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196 p. Some light age stain. Small 8vo. 175 mm. Original full cloth binding, decorated in gold and black. Covers soiled. What a title! Exclamation Point, Exclamation Point, Exclamation Point. all without an explanation or even a &. Rev. George Hughes Hepworth (1833-1902) was an interesting character. He was Chaplain of 47th Massachusetts Volunteers for three months, then became 1st Lt of 76th Regiment of US Colored Troops, staying in the Army until 1869 when he went as preacher to the Church of the Messiah. From 1872-1879 he was at the Church of the Disciples. He then went to Switzerland and Germany for his health. Around this time he developed a relationship with Charles Woodcock (Savage). In Germany Woodcock developed a intimate (homosexual) relationship with King Karl of Germany. Hepworth was drawn into the scandal that followed but never fully accused of homosexuality. Set on the path of author and journalist he published many articles and books, Hepworth was the New York Herald's Supervising Editor from March 1885 to the summer of 1892. In 1897 he went to Anatolia and stayed through the winter. Out of this trip came his most famous work: 'Through Armenia on Horseback' (1898). SCARCE. OCCULT 12
pp. [x], 186. + Fourteen double-page folding lithographed plates. 12mo. Original blind-stamped cloth binding, with a gold window arch on the front board. Some slight chipping at binding extremities. First published in 1849, this important essay on architecture helped establish the Victorian taste for Gothic design. According to Ruskin, the leading principles of architecture are the "lamps" of Sacrifice, Truth, Power, Beauty, Life, Memory, and Obedience. He found the noblest style of architecture to be Gothic, but in time medieval architecture lost its power. He felt that this loss of vitality was the result of the spiritual decline of Christianity during the Renaissance. The essay greatly influenced Victorian art and design and flavored the tastes of generations. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W138
Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Light rubbing to DJ. ; 168 pages; Agathias or Agathias Scholasticus (c. AD 536-582/594) , of Myrina, an Aeolian city in western Asia Minor, was a Greek poet and the historian who is a principal source for that part of the reign of Justinian I covered in his history. He studied law at Alexandria, returned to Constantinople in 554 to finish his training and practised as an advocate (scholasticus) in the courts. Literature, however, was his favourite pursuit. He wrote a number of short love-poems in epic metre, called Daphniaca. He also put together an anthology of epigrams by earlier and contemporary poets and himself, under the title of a Cycle of New Epigrams. Agathias re-edited the Greek Anthology, which preserves about a hundred of his epigrams, showing considerable taste and elegance. He also wrote marginal notes on the Periegetes of Pausanias. After the death of Justinian (565) , some of Agathias's friends persuaded him to write the history of his own times. This work in five books, On the Reign of Justinian, continues the history of Procopius, whose style it imitates, and is the chief authority for the period 552-558. It deals chiefly with the struggles of the Byzantine army, under the command of the eunuch Narses, against the Goths, Vandals, Franks and Persians.
Minor shelfwear. Former owner's name to ffep ; 168 pages; Agathias or Agathias Scholasticus (c. AD 536-582/594) , of Myrina, an Aeolian city in western Asia Minor, was a Greek poet and the historian who is a principal source for that part of the reign of Justinian I covered in his history. He studied law at Alexandria, returned to Constantinople in 554 to finish his training and practised as an advocate (scholasticus) in the courts. Literature, however, was his favourite pursuit. He wrote a number of short love-poems in epic metre, called Daphniaca. He also put together an anthology of epigrams by earlier and contemporary poets and himself, under the title of a Cycle of New Epigrams. Agathias re-edited the Greek Anthology, which preserves about a hundred of his epigrams, showing considerable taste and elegance. He also wrote marginal notes on the Periegetes of Pausanias. After the death of Justinian (565) , some of Agathias's friends persuaded him to write the history of his own times. This work in five books, On the Reign of Justinian, continues the history of Procopius, whose style it imitates, and is the chief authority for the period 552-558. It deals chiefly with the struggles of the Byzantine army, under the command of the eunuch Narses, against the Goths, Vandals, Franks and Persians.
44 pages. Numerous colour illustrations. Analyzes the well-known painting of an Iowa farm couple which has come to be considered a controversial masterpiece of twentieth-century American art. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket now in archival-grade Brodart cover. Gorgeous copy. Gift quality. Book
40 pages. Features: Initial Camber - Stabilizing Wood for Relief Woodcarving; New Works in Wood by Bayot Heer, Gerald Johnston, Tom McKenzie and Doug Haslam; Gothic Tracery; Dovetail Jig; Screws; Macrojoinery in the Maritimes; Making a Wooden Hand Plane the Fast Way; Armando's Story - Armando de Gobbo (misspelled as de Gobo) of Kingston, Ontario is a blind woodworker; Indexes to Woodworking Magazines and Newspapers; The Carvers' Quilt; Great photo of Farm Mechanics Students at the Prov. School of Technology and Art, Calgary, Jan. 25, 1926; Woodworking Incunabula; XceL multiple head wrenches, Nod and Shake goggles, and the Lunkenheimer "Universal" Glass Body Oil Pump are featured on back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A lovely copy of this fine Canadian woodworking publication. Book
48 pages. Features: Cover photo of the HMS Invincible; Large photo of the Shaw Savill passenger/cargo liner Gothic inside front cover; Full-page photo of the HMS Repulse; On the Waterfront; Ships Pictorial; Naval Review; From Cargo Ship to Royal Yacht - the career of Shaw Savill's "Gothic"; Box Boat Voyage - description of a typical voyage in the Blue Star Line container ship "New Zealand Star" - between Australasian and Gulf Ports; Shipping of the Scottish N.E. Coast Ports - Part 1 - Perth, Dundee and Tayport; 'Operation Rheostat' - Suez Canal 1974 - Jack Worth recalls the minesweeping of the Suez Canal ten years ago; European Ferry Commentary; Nice photo of the tug Indefatigable inside back cover; and more. Spine rolled otherwise unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
In-folio , pp. 166 (2), due tavole incise da M.Moro raffiguranti due frontespizi in stile gotico, XLVIII tavole f.t. incise di cui alcune rip, . Mezza pelle mancante della metà superiore del dorso, piatti con carta marmorizzata. Qualche fioritura dovuta al tipo di carta. Prima edizione della piuttosto rara traduzione italiana. Friedrich Hoffstadt (1802 Mannheim - 1846 Aschaffenburg) fu un giudice tedesco, un pittore e scrittore d'arte. Il suo testo "Gothische ABC-Buch", con regole di base per gli artisti e gli architetti, fu uno dei volumi base per la nascita del neogotico. Francesco Lazzari riprese gli stessi principi ampliando in questo volume con gli elementi gotici tipicamente veneziani.
Former owner's name on ffep has been blacked out else NF. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; 0.97 x 8.74 x 5.82 Inches; 260 pages; examines the reign of Constantine, the first Christian emperor and the founder of Constantinople. From a variety of angles: historical, historiographical and mythical. The volume examines the circumstances of Constantine's reign and the historical problems surrounding them, the varied accounts of Constantine's life and the plethora of popular medieval legends surrounding the reign, to reveal the different visions and representations of the emperor from saint and patron of the Western church to imperial prototype. Constantine: History, Historiography and Legend presents a comprehensive and arresting study of this important and controversial emperor.
First edition, 4to, xv, [3], 188, [8]pp., large paper copy, half-title, engraved frontispiece, bound in at end an 8pp. "A List of Books on the various branches of Architecture and Building, published by J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library." original boards, rubbed, upper cover detached, uncut. 'Whittington's lucid, fresh and readable book is remarkable as the first history of French mediaeval architecture and also as the first statement that the Gothic was invented in France in the first half of the twelfth century. Whittington is important as perhaps the earliest example of a recognisably modern architectural historian conducting a detached and scholarly investigation into a past style in a country other than his own.' - D. Watkin, The Rise of Architectural History, 1983, pp. 57-58.
Features: Warriors, Spirits and Servants - Chinese Clay Burial Figurines; Furniture-Maker From Germany - Renfrew County's J. Albert Zadow; Signposts for Collectors Part V - Intaglio Prints in Early Canada; Tools of the Trade - 17th and 18th century medical instruments; The Bohemian Tradition - A short history of glassmaking in Bohemia; Victorian Tiles in Toronto - from Gothic Revival to Art Nouveau; Manuscript Canadiana witnesses to the past; Books, Book-Collecting and Book-Collectors; Miraloma ("The Latch") - A Samuel Maclure Classic in Sidney, British Columbia. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
(Codice EK/0334) In 8º (27 cm) XII-732 pp. German language, blackletter. The voyage of the corvette "Pheasant" from Pola through Suez, India, south-est Asia, China and Japan. Travel journal written by the vice admiral of the Austro-Hungarian Navy Leopold von Jedina, illustrated with 1 color folding map (62x33 cm) and 262 b/w original photographs (65 full-page) by the duke Leopold Ferdinand, lieut. E.Hermann and count Bissingen-Nippenburg. Brown cloth, gilted title on spine. A fine copy, internally as new, perfectly preserved. ~~~ SPEDIZIONE IN ITALIA SEMPRE TRACCIATA
Mm 215x280 "Storia dell'Arte Italiana" - Prima edizione. Due volumi rilegati in mezza pelle color nocciola con titolo in oro e nervature al dorso, viii-1198 pagine con numerazione sequenziale; 831 figure in nero nel testo e cinque tavole a colori non comprese nel testo. Indice degli artisi, dei luoghi e dei monumenti in chiusura del secondo tomo. Buono/ottimo esemplare. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full dark blue cloth boards. Light wear to dust jacket. 8 3/4"w x 11 1/4"h. 278 pages. Many illustrations. "The cathedral of Saint-Pierre in Beauvais, France, is most famous as a failure--its choir vaults came crashing down in 1284--and only secondarily for its soaring beauty. This lavishly illustrated and elegantly written book represents the first serious look at the stunning collection of Gothic stained glass windows that has always dominated the experience of those who enter Beauvais Cathedral." [publisher]
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 16 volumes set: (Apprx. 3900 p). B/w ills. First full Turkish Edition of 'Arabian nights'. Eski zamanlarda Hin ve Çin diyarlarinda hüküm süren Sehriyar ve Sahzaman adli iki kardes hükümdar, karilari tarafindan aldatilmak felaketine ugramislar. Bu olaylarin etkisiyle Sehriyar, kendi ülkesinde, her gün bir kizla evlenip ertesi gün onu idam ettirir olmus; bu yüzden vezirin güzel, bilgili ve akilli kizi Sehrazat, hükümdarla evlenip ya bu ugurda yasamini yitirmeye ya da kurtulup ülkenin tüm kadinlarini da bu beladan kurtarmaya karar vermis; babasini da buna ikna etmis. O gece gerdege girmeden önce, hükümdardan son dilek olarak kizkardesi Dünyazat'i görmek istemis; Dünyazat da ondan son bir dilekte bulunmus: 'Ne olursun ablacigim, o güzel masallarindan birini son defa bana anlat!'. Hükümdardan ruhsat aldiktan sonra, ilginç ve merak uyandiran bir masal anlatmaya baslamis Sehrazat; ve safak sökerken en heyecanli yerinde kesmis masalini: Gündüz masal anlatilmaz diye. Ne var ki Dünyazat kadar, Hükümdar Sehriyar da meraklanarak masalin sonunu getirmek üzere onun canini bagislamis. Birbirinden güzel masallari birbirine ekleyerek binbir gece masal anlatmis Sehrazat. Bu arada hükümdarla sevismeyi de sürdürerek üç çocuk sahibi olmus. Binbir Gece Masallari'nin temasi, 'Kadinin sadakatsizligi' üzerine kurulmustur denebilir. Ne var ki Sehrazat, kadinin: Ana, es, kizkardes ve kiz çocuk olarak varligini yücelten, belki de dünyada ilk (Aristofanes'in Lysistrata'si ilk sayilirsa, ikinci) ve en önemli feminist görüsü olusturabilecek bir karsi tez getirmektedir. Kitaplar bütünüyle sadakat ve sadakatsizligin genis bir sentezini yapmakta ve sonunda Sehrazat'in fikri üstün gelmektedir. Ancak bu genis sentez 'masal içinde masal' seklinde labirentlerle dolu bir sisteme oturtulmustur. Sonunda da bu labirentlerden rahatça kurtulma olanagini saglamistir. Tüm dünyada fikir ve sanat hayatini genis sekilde etkileyen Binbir Gece Masallari'nin gerçek degeri 19. yüzyilin sonu ve 20. yüzyilin bunlari 16 cilt olarak, oldugu gibi, Arapça'dan aktaran Dr. Joseph-Charles Mardrus'ün çabalarindan sonra ortaya çikti. Her bir cildi ayni yillarda yasayan Stephane Mallarme, Anatole France, Jose-Maria Heredia, Andre Gide, Maurice de Maeternick, Pierre Louys, Remy de Gourmond gibi edebiyatçilara adanan Dr. Mardrus'ün çevirisi, edebî çevrelerde, daha önce Galland'inkine gösterilen ilgiden de öte bir ilgi gördü. Binbir Gece Masallari son yüzyillarda fikir ve edebiyati etkiledigi gibi, opera, bale, tiyatro, sinema gibi diger sanatlarca da ele alinarak degerlendirildi. Masallarin kaynaginin Çin'den Kuzey Afrika'ya kadar uzanan bir haritada: Çin Hindi, Hindistan, Iran, Irak, Türkiye, Suriye ve Misir'i da içeren cografyalarda artik bilinmektedir. Bu kitabin tamamlanacak on alti cildini de ilkinden baslayarak zevkle ve keyifle okuyacagin,zi umuyoruz. 'From promotion text of Alim Serif Onaran'.
42 pages. Features include: The new Wolverhampton; Women in Parliament; Guide to Christmas Gifts; Glory of Gothic; Australia's Secret Voter; Israel's Ascendant Hawks; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. Magazine
Paris, Picard 1926 - 1927. 2 volumes in-4 brochés de 544 + 602 pages. Couvertures rempliées. 1170 figures. Ouvrage posthume publié par les soins de M. Marcel Aubert. Très bon état
8vo., First English Edition, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original red cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed at head and tail of backstrip (just affecting lettering at tail) and a little browned on (predominantly white) rear panel. The first English edition of the first English translation of the Danish novel 'Gengaeldelsens Veje', written by Karen Blixen (as Pierre Andrezel) during the Nazi occupation of Denmark in 1944. In the English edition the 'author' is provided with a plausible biography (and even a portrait photograph). He 'is described as a young Frenchman, born in Rouen 1915, and educated at Oxford where he wrote stories for English magazines…'. The rear fold-in nevertheless carries an advertisement for the third impression of Karen Blixen's 'Out of Africa'! With striking dustwrapper artwork by Michael Wickham. Very scarce, especially in this condition.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, text in English (introduction and notes) and French (the works themselves), with coloured and monochrome frontispieces (original tissue guards present) and 6 monochrome plates; original buckram, gilt backs, gilt tops, uncut, covers very lightly age-marked else a very good, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES. Chapman's translation is taken from the revised Paris text of 1787. CBEL II, p.528.
78 pages. Features: Simcoe's Legacy - Ontario, Toronto, and the Queen's Rangers; The Hague Porcelain - a brief history and description of The Hague porcelain; Georgian Elegance in Canada; Prologue to Toronto - The Town of York, 1793-1834; Straw Weaving - Revived in Saskatchewan; David and His Harp - An Historic Canadian Organ Case in Chicago; Trafalgar Lodge - a rare example of Gothic Revival in Montreal; English Silver - The French Connection. Light wear. Sound copy. Book
Signed, without inscription, by author upon first blank leaf. 238 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. First published in 1946 as "55 Axis." The thirteen chapters include: Defence of Britain; Conquest of Sicily; Fighting Pursuit from Reggio; The Moro River and Ortona Road; The Adriatic Barricade; The Liri Valley Campaign; The Battles of the Gothic Line; The Po Valley Denial; Victory in the Netherlands; The Kiska Connection; and more. Somewhat above-average external wear. Armorial bookplate upon first blank page. Front cover partially sunned. Binding intact. A sound copy. Cooke p.170 Book
Paris, Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1865, in-16, mezza tela coeva, tagli spruzzati, pp. (4), 369, (3). Blande scoloriture al dorso e rade fioriture, ma ottime condizioni. Prima edizione francese in volume di questo racconto "gotico" ("The House of the Seven Gables" è del 1851) ad opera di P.-E. Daurand-Forgues: la sua traduzione era già apparsa nella "Revue Britannique" diretta da A. Pichot, ma a puntate; prolifico traduttore sia di autori americani (Melville, Poe) che inglesi (di alcuni fu anche amico, come con W. Collins) Forgues collaborò con Pichot spesso apparendo con lo pseudonimo di "Old Nick".
2 volumi in 16, cm 11 x 16, pp. 144; 142 + (2). Brossura editoriale illustrata. Rara edizione originale di questo romanzo, ascrivibile, nell'ambito della produzione di Mastriani al genere storico - sociale. In Jelma, piu' che le vicende antiche di Federigo, il romanzo si occupa della jettatura, argomento del quale l'autore aveva molta pratica. Mastriani, autore di oltre 100 tra romanzi e opere teatrali viene considerato uno dei padri del verismo e anche tra gli iniziatori del giallo. Nonostante il successo delle sue opere, visse sempre in precarie condizioni economiche, lontano dai circoli letterari dell'epoca ma profondamente immerso nella realta' sociale napoletana. La sua iniziale collaborazione a fogli legati all'ufficialita' borbonica, non giovo' alla sua attivita' nel periodo post unitario e fece si che critici come De Sanctis maturassero un giudizio mentre la pubblicistica locale, limitasse la sua rilevanza al suo ruolo come autore di romanzi d'appendice. L'opera di maggior successo fu La cieca di Sorrento (1852) ma in seguito cambio' spesso il registro letterario ondeggiando dai romanzi della trilogia socialista a spaccati sociali di carattere antropologico - giornalistico (I vermi, Studi storici sulle classi pericolose in Napoli). Altri generi toccati da mastriani furono il romanzo umoristico, le narrazioni di carattere patriottico (Due feste al mercato, I lazzari) mentre opere come Il bettoliere di Borgo Loreto e La Medea di Porta Medina, ispirate da casi giudiziari sembrano preludere ai meccanismi del romanzo giallo
(Codice RE/1751) In 16º (16,5x10,5 cm) VIII-292(4) pages. Lithographed frontispice and title-page, 8 litho plates. Text framed. German text, Black letter. At rear FEP long handnote in german dated 1834, short inscription to fly-leaf. Original leather, ruled spine, gilted date on cover, all edges gilt. A fine copy. ~~~ SPEDIZIONE IN ITALIA SEMPRE TRACCIATA
Gr. In-4 (32x41 cm), IV-476p. Imposant ouvrage illustré de 28 héliogravures hors texte et de nombreuses gravures dans le texte. Index des noms cités en fin de volume. Une somme, mais surtout un poids: l'ouvrage doit peser près de 7 kg. Quelques traces d'usage à la reliure, sinon bon exemplaire.