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198044483München, Zürich, Delphin Verlag GmbH, 1980. 64 Seiten , 27 cm, Hardcover/Pappeinband
197949583New York, Colour Library International Ltd, 1979. 64 Seiten , 27 cm, Hardcover/Pappeinband
1988Q-0517263017Crescent 1988-12-12. hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Crescent hardcover
1958250130014Generic 1958-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Please Read No marks on text - My shelf location - 61-b-3 Generic hardcover
19425iiBh0027New York: Oxford University Press 1942. Book. Good. Decorative Canvas Hardcover. 3rd Printing April 1946. 8vo or 8° Medium Octavo: 7¾" x 9¾" tall. 425 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. No dj. Light damage to top of spine. Previous owner's name inscribed on first front-end page. Text in French. Oxford University Press Hardcover
2000BN23648Eichborn Verlag 2000. 2000. Hardcover. 214 x 13 x 4 cm. Die reichste raffinierteste Zivilisation der Welt geht an ihrer eigenen Unzulänglichkeit zugrunde die Metropole versinkt im Chaos die letzte Stunde des Imperiums hat geschlagen. Der europäische Fantasie kreist bis auf den heutigen Tag um diesen Geschichtsmythos. Ob es um den Untergang des Abendlandes geht oder um den allerletzten Science-Fiction-Film aus Hollywood - immer ist es die römische Geschichte die als Modell und Folie dient. Ihre klassische nie übertroffene Darstellung ein nie übertroffenes Meisterwerk der Historiographie stammt von Edward Gibbon. "Die Geschichte" schrieb er vor mehr als zweihundert Jahren " ist kaum mehr als ein Register aller Verbrechen Torheiten und Katastrophen des Menschengeschlechts." Sein Lebenswerk entfaltet diesen Gedanken. Heute da nur eine einzige imperiale Weltmacht geblieben ist und angesichts neuer Fundamentalismen ist es aktueller denn je. Es ist ein skandalöser Zustand dass es seit vielen Jahren keinen deutschen Gibbon mehr gibt. Um diesem Mangel abzuhelfen legen wir einen Band von neuem vor der 1987 in der Anderen Bibliothek erschienen ist. Leider müssen wir dabei auf die mehr als ordentliche Übersetzung von Sporschil aus den Jahren 1835-1837 zurückgreifen. Denn das Original umfasst mehr als 3000 Seiten und ein heroischer Neuübersetzer wie Hans Stiehl hat sich anders als im Fall Montaignes bisher nicht gefunden. Die Auswahl von Dero A. Saunders konzentriert sich auf den Hauptstrang der Erzählung. Das Fortgelassene wird in kurzen Worten referiert; von den Kriterien der Ausgabe wird Rechenschaft gegeben; Karten und Register erschließen das Werk. Übersetzt von: Sporschill Johann Edward Gibbon der größte Historiker englischer Sprache wurde 1737 in Putney geboren. Er war ein Kosmopolit der lange Jahre in der französischen Schweiz und in Italien lebte. Gibbon starb 1794 in London. Sein Werk erregte einen Sturm der Entrüstung. Heute gehört es zum Kanon der englischen Literatur. Mitarbeit Dero Saunders Übersetzer Johann Sporschill Sprache deutsch Maße 210 x 120 mm Einbandart gebunden ISBN-10 3-8218-4497-3 / 3821844973 ISBN-13 978-3-8218-4497-8 / 9783821844978 Historiographie römische Geschichte imperiale Weltmacht römisches Reich Rom Roma <br/><br/>Die reichste raffinierteste Zivilisation der Welt geht an ihrer eigenen Unzulänglichkeit zugrunde die Metropole versinkt im Chaos die letzte Stunde des Imperiums hat geschlagen. Der europäische Fantasie kreist bis auf den heutigen Tag um diesen Geschichtsmythos. Ob es um den Untergang des Abendlandes geht oder um den allerletzten Science-Fiction-Film aus Hollywood - immer ist es die römische Geschichte die als Modell und Folie dient. Ihre klassische nie übertroffene Darstellung ein nie übertroffenes Meisterwerk der Historiographie stammt von Edward Gibbon. "Die Geschichte" schrieb er vor mehr als zweihundert Jahren " ist kaum mehr als ein Register aller Verbrechen Torheiten und Katastrophen des Menschengeschlechts." Sein Lebenswerk entfaltet diesen Gedanken. Heute da nur eine einzige imperiale Weltmacht geblieben ist und angesichts neuer Fundamentalismen ist es aktueller denn je. Es ist ein skandalöser Zustand dass es seit vielen Jahren keinen deutschen Gibbon mehr gibt. Um diesem Mangel abzuhelfen legen wir einen Band von neuem vor der 1987 in der Anderen Bibliothek erschienen ist. Leider müssen wir dabei auf die mehr als ordentliche Übersetzung von Sporschil aus den Jahren 1835-1837 zurückgreifen. Denn das Original umfasst mehr als 3000 Seiten und ein heroischer Neuübersetzer wie Hans Stiehl hat sich anders als im Fall Montaignes bisher nicht gefunden. Die Auswahl von Dero A. Saunders konzentriert sich auf den Hauptstrang der Erzählung. Das Fortgelassene wird in kurzen Worten referiert; von den Kriterien der Ausgabe wird Rechenschaft gegeben; Karten und Register erschließen das Werk. Übersetzt von: Sporschill Johann Edward Gibbon der größte Historiker englischer Sprache wurde 1737 in Putney geboren. Er war ein Kosmopolit der lange Jahre in der französischen Schweiz und in Italien lebte. Gibbon starb 1794 in London. Sein Werk erregte einen Sturm der Entrüstung. Heute gehört es zum Kanon der englischen Literatur. Mitarbeit Dero Saunders Übersetzer Johann Sporschill Sprache deutsch Maße 210 x 120 mm Einbandart gebunden ISBN-10 3-8218-4497-3 / 3821844973 ISBN-13 978-3-8218-4497-8 / 9783821844978 Historiographie römische Geschichte imperiale Weltmacht römisches Reich Rom Roma Eichborn Verlag hardcover
199630406Arlington Virginia U.S.A.: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc. New. 1996. Paperback. 0880489316 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - --BRAND NEW FLAWLESS COPY NEVER OPENED -- -- with a bonus offer-- . Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc paperback
199730405Arlington Virginia U.S.A.: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc. New. 1997. Paperback. 0880488107 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - --BRAND NEW FLAWLESS COPY NEVER OPENED -- -- with a bonus offer-- . Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc paperback
197927467München, Zurich, Delphin Verlag GmbH, 1979. 62 Seiten , 27 cm, Hardcover/Pappeinband
1911168735London : P.S. King 1911. First Edition. Hardback. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 354 pages; Physical desc.: xvii 354 p ; 22 cm. Subject: Unemployed - Unemployment insurance - Insurance - Unemployment - Europe. London : P.S. King hardcover
19845973New York Academy of Sciences. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. 0897662407 . HARDCOVER - Navy Blue boards w/ Silver embossed into cover and spine. Over 60 different articles written by scientists on the topic titled. Book is clean bright and tight - appears unread - better than VG . New York Academy of Sciences hardcover
190642471New York NY: Fred Defau & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1906. Hardcover. 15 volume set. Edition Lausanne. Number 590 of 1000 registered sets. Edited by J. B. Bury with an introduction by The Rt. Hon. W. D. H. Lecky. Magnificent leather work on both sides of front and back boards. Lettered in gilt on spines raised bands. Front and rear free silk endsheets face the internally decorated front and back boards. Personal bookplate of famed California industrialist and bibliophile Leonard Buck in each volume. Please call us to further discuss intricate binding. Due to number of volumes and insurance additional postage will be required. ; 6" x 8 3/4" . Fred Defau & Company hardcover
190698478New York: Fred Defau & Company 1906. The Complete Works of Edward Gibbon one of numbered 73 sets this is number 7. Octavo 15 volumes bound in full dark blue levant morocco inlaid red tulips at the corners of boards and center of each spine raised bands gilt titles to the spine brown morocco doublures and watered silk flyleaves binding by MacDonald plates in three states: photogravure colored on India paper and printed on velin. In fine condition. An exceptional set most rare and desirable. "This masterpiece of historical penetration and literary style has remained one of the ageless historical works Gibbon brought a width of vision and a critical mastery of the available sources which have not been equalled to this day; and the result was clothed in inimitable prose" PMM 222. "For 22 years Gibbon was a prodigy of steady and arduous application. His investigations extended over almost the whole range of intellectual activity for nearly 1500 years. And so thorough were his methods that the laborious investigations of German scholarship the keen criticisms of theological zeal and the steady researches of two centuries have brought to light very few important errors in the results of his labors. But it is not merely the learning of his work learned as it is that gives it character as a history. It is also that ingenious skill by which the vast erudition the boundless range the infinite variety and the gorgeous magnificence of the details are all wrought together in a symmetrical whole. It is still entitled to be esteemed as the greatest historical work ever written" Adams Manual of Historical Literature 146-7. Fred Defau & Company hardcover
1930346H5276New York: The International News Company 1930. Book. Illus. by Tresilian S.; Robinson T.H.; Wenban R.; Bestall A.E.; Holloway Cyril; Cleaver Reginald; Peddie T.H.; Goss G.W.; Inns Kenneth; Prater Ernest; Abbey S.;. Very Good. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Our Wild Boar - Coolies were afraid to work on a tea plantation in Assam India due to a huge wild boar; Two Mysteries - Two strange incidents that happened in a North Country hospital during WWI; Bred in the Bone - What happened to an Australian aborigine couple who offended their tribal elders; Photo of an excellent example of French topiary; Round the World in a "Baby" Car - Part II of II of Gladys de Havilland's world-tour in a midget car with photo of her in Hollywood talking to Mr. Lupino Lane plus five other wonderful photos; The Forbidden Valley - The fascinating photo-illustrated account of how RCMP officers Horsfield Berger and Greenfield accompanied a surveyor sent to the Kitwancool Valley in Northern British Columbia where the local natives had previously evicted the few settlers wanting nothing to do with the white man - with photos and illustrations; the "Fool Afoot" in Italy - Part V - John Gibbons continues his amusing walking trip; Photo and explanation of "Sati" memorials in India where wives were burnt in the same funeral pyre as their deceased husbands; The Haunting of the "Flamingo" - Bad luck strikes a vessel named Flamingo after her third engineer takes a shot at an albatross; Filming in the Wilds - Part II - Major C. Lestock Reid and his film crew experience major adventures as they attempt to film an adventure story in Siam - with photos; The Brand of the "Circle H" - A charming little story from the far west by Edith Ammons Kohl; Payment in Kind - A curious tale from Western India; The Mystery of the Post - Sergeant A.R. Cooper of the French Foreign Legion is sent to a lonely Moroccon outpost where N.C.O.s have been murdered - with photos; My Island Home - Henry G. Lamond describes his idyllic life on Homestead Bay on South Molle Island - article with photos; and more. 84 pages plus 32 pages of great ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A lovely vintage copy of this fascinating issue. The International News Company Paperback
19013141<p>A scarce 1st edition copy in the original pictorial cloth binding with colour frontispiece and title and numerous black and white and part coloured by the publisher illustrations by Charles Robinson. John Murray Gibbon 1875-1952 was a Scot who spent much of his life in Canada. He was fascinated by folklore and different cultures and was a promoter of cultural events. He was also a prolific author and founded the Canadian Authors Association. True Annals looks to be his first published book. This copy is inscribed by his father - William Duff Gibbon - who was a Tea Planter in Ceylon. The book has decorative endpapers with a box on the front free endpaper for children to put their names in. The inscription is in the box and says 'Miss Carruthey - Christmas remembrance from the Author's Father 1907'. The binding has decorative titles and designs to the front board and spine and designs on the back board. It has been rebacked preserving the original spine and repairing the edges and corners. There is general surface and edge scuffing. Page edges are gilted. The decorative endpapers have professional repair at the joints and are quite browned with some spotting. Contents: colour frontispiece colour title dated 1901 preface contents and illustration list pp xvii; title in black and red; text 338 pp with numerous illustrations and designs. The book is sound and tight and the contents are very clean with the occasional spot or mark. Please enquire if you would like to see additional images.</p> J M Dent & Co hardcover
190614325London; J. M. Dent & Co. 1906. 1906. Hard Cover. First edition octavo pp. 259. Photographic frontispiece and nine further photographic full page plates two maps including one large fold out to rear. Bevelled bottle green cloth boards with gilt titles and decorative detail to spine and upper board. A near fine copy. Major Spilsbury's account of his attempts to smuggle and run guns to southern Moroccan tribes outside of the control and authority of the Sultan in 1897 in breach of international and British domestic laws. Spilsbury argues that if the Sultan could not guarantee a foreigner's safely in the lands south of the Atlas mountains he should not claim to control them and he took it upon himself to negotiate directly with local leaders agreeing to supply them with arms. When Spilsbury tried to land his arms cargo in Mogador now Essaouria his men were met with hostile Moorish troops and he was forced to move away from the harbour leaving several of his crew on shore. In March 1898 Spilsbury left the Tourmaline and returned to London where The War Office suspended him from duty discharged him from the Army and charged him with illegally landing arms in Morocco. Subsequently acquitted by a jury of his peers he evaded arrest on a further charge by remaining outside of the jurisdiction. Spilsbury appears baffled in his conclusion that Morocco should be so resistant to colonisation. The appendix treats colonisation as inevitable and unashamedly motivated by access to Morocco's natural resources including gold. London; J. M. Dent & Co. 1906. hardcover
190652660259 pages 9 black & white plates and a folding map at the rear appendix on South-West barbary as a field for colonisation by W. B. Stewart Published by J. M. Dent & Co. unknown
19812403121Paul Harris 1981. 1st UK thus. Hardback. Very good. A little dusty to top edge but suits this rare reprint of Leslie Mitchell's most well known non-Grassic Gibbon 1931 book. Appears to have used the same printing plates. Paul Harris unknown
