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138p. 12mo. Original full cloth binding, worn with loss. Spine repaired. First Edition. Hardbound. Very good. The colonial custom of bundling - according to which a courting couple shared a common bed without undressing - had fallen into general disuse by 1800, it seemed to linger on another century or so among the Pennsylvania "Dutch". JUN5 BOX 4
138p. 12mo. Original full cloth binding, worn with loss. Spine repaired. First Edition. Hardbound. Very good. The colonial custom of bundling - according to which a courting couple shared a common bed without undressing - had fallen into general disuse by 1800, it seemed to linger on another century or so among the Pennsylvania "Dutch". **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PAG 04
88p., illus. On undercover socialization in Puritan New England. Hardcover Very good condition, in slipcase Iluus. by Herb Roth (woodcuts)
88p., illus. On undercover socialization in Puritan New England. Hardcover Very good condition, in slipcase, gift inscription Iluus. by Herb Roth (woodcuts)
Challenging the conventional notion that these often malevolent demons belong exclusively to a realm of folklore or superstition separate from Christianity, the author looks at beliefs about the exotica and the Orthodox Devil to demonstrate the interdependency of doctrinal and local religion.330p.illus bibliography, index. Book
Limited Edition for subscribers.This is no. 58 of 600 copies. 8vo. 444 pp. Bound in half green cloth over decorative boards, title in gilt on spine. Black and white frontispiece and numerous plates., Sexual life, Syria, Hungary, Gypsy, Hindu, Algeria, Greece, Turkey, Mediterrranean, Mid-East, India, Islam, the Koran, harems, marriage.
ix, 123 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. Hardcover Very good condition Includes bibliographical references and index
Fair French Modern full brown leather, gilt lettering of title on front board. Heavily water stained, and some chippings on extremities of some pages. A fair copy. 4to. (27 x 20 cm). In French. 63 p. The very rare autographed copy of this lecture given in Lebanon on January 20, 1937, at the Youth Center, by Ostrorog after his serving in China as Assistant High Commissioner, a French diplomat from a noble Polish family, who had served as Assistant High Commissioner in China and Syria in the 1930s. Signed and inscribed by Ostrorog as "Par Mahid, Avec autre au mille amitié, Damas, 1938". On the eve of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) between the Chinese and the Empire of Japan which is often regarded as the beginning of World War II in Asia, French ex-Assistant High Commissioner in China Ostrorog gave a lecture about Chinese power and policy. Some titles from book: "La Chine.; Le monde au temps de Confucius.; Humanisme Confuceen.; Opposition de l'humanisme Chinois a la morale idealiste de l'occident.; Facteur grammatical.; Universalite des caracteres.; Facteur geographique.; Facteur moral.; La republique des philosophes.; Reaction de Huang Ti au 3me siecle avant notre ere.; Evolution historique dans le cadre de l'unite.; Isolement.; Arrivee des Europeens au XVIme siecle les marchands et les missionnaires.; La querelle des rites condamnation des Jesuites.; Eclat du couchant Kien Lung.; Lettre de Kien Lung a Georges III.; Guerre de l'Opium.; Qeuvre des missions en Chine.; Tseu-hi et Abdul-Hamid.; Le Japon.; Propagande de Moscou.; Succes du mouvement nationaliste.; Intervention Japonaise en Mandchourie.; L'Unite Chinoise menacee.; La Grande pitie.; L'avenir de la Chine.". From the last chapter: "In our contract, the Chinese until now have taken only the faults and vices of Western civilizations. There is, however, something else to choose from and perhaps the time is near when the Chinese will understand it. Whether they are few in number, fifty, forty, ten, or five only, that will suffice. And on that day, with the power of assimilation which has always characterized it, China will integrate, in a way, all the foreign contributions of a moral or cultural order, to rebuild its unity, to resume the continuity of his story, and rediscover his genius." Only two copies in OCLC: 42804470. Signed and inscribed by Stanislas Ostrorog.
85 p. Drawings by Jean Forden. 8vo. Softcover. Original pictorial wraps. Very good Third printing. Contents include: How to Live Without Wars and Wedding Rings - The Old Order Mennonite Way; Those Mouth Watering Mennonite Meals - They really schmeck!; Market day in Kitchener; Why the Old Amish Want No Part of Progress; The happily married Cities - Kitchener and Waterloo (Ontario, Canada). PA GER-ENG PAMP BX2/BAG 32
Facsimile of the edition first published by Richard Bentley in 1842 NOTE: This is part 3 of a 3 volume set - and will NOT be sold separately. . Volume 3 is stuffed with fascinating details on such things as "smiths, cutlers, armourers, mining, charcoal making. house-builders, cabinet-makers, turners, musical instrument makers, potters, glass-workers. druggists, collectors of simples. weavers, glovers, sock-makers, cordwainers, tanners, hatters, dyers of purple. fishermen" 475p. Book
Facsimile of the edition first published by Richard Bentley in 1842 NOTE: This is part 2 of a 3 volume set - and will NOT be sold separately.Volume 2 is stuffed with fascinating details on such things as " Marriage, women, dress, housing, furnishing, food, entertainment and also of rural life including gardens, orchards, vineyards,,agriculture, pastoral life." 433p. Book
Facsimile of the edition first published by Richard Bentley in 1842 NOTE: This is part 1 of a 3 volume set - and will NOT be sold separately.Volume 1 is stuffed with fascinating details on such things as " People and their customs, places Athens, Sparta, children,toys, education,sports, hunting, philosophy, arts, literature, religion" 424p. Book
289 p., illus. A catalogue of objects from the Brick Store Museum. Paperback Very good condition
This delightful little book, designed in the shape of a gravestone by Jane Knights, contains a new assembly of epitaphs by Fritz Spiegl (flautist, humourist and linguist) some probably fictional, but others - possibly factual- displaying inadvertant humour.Unpaginated paper age-toned, else fine. Book
19632090502113718160Not Available 1963. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
1996100127532Oxford University Press USA 1996 512 pages 13 208x3 048x21 59cm. 1996. Broché. 512 pages.
1770174711770 un fort volume, reliure plein veau havane raciné in-quarto (binding full calfskin in-quarto) (20,5 x 25,6 cm), dos 5 nerfs (spine with 5 raised bands) - entre-nerfs à encadrements à double filets or avec fleuron au fer plein or et rinceaux aux angles avec des petits fers en remplissage (between the raised bands double gilt lines - floweret with hollowed out blocking stamp - with foliages executed in the curved lines in angles - with small blocking stamp in filling) - pièce de titre comportant le titre abrégé de l'ouvrage sur fond beige avec double filets or (garnet label of the title with the title abbreviated by the work with gilt line), rinceaux en tête et en pied (top and at the foot of spine with foliages carried out with the curved line), double filets sur les coupes (double gilt line on the cuts), toutes tranches jaspées bleues (all blue marbled edges), sans illustrations excepté des fronts de chapitre gravés sur bois en noir, des lettrines et culs-de-lampes gravées sur bois en noir et une vignette aux armes royales gravée sur bois en noir au bas de la page de titre, légers trous de ver sur 1/4 de cm dans la marge sans conséquence pour la compréhension du texte des trois dernières pages de table, XXII (2 ff) 403 et 268 pp et( 1 ff.) avec Approbation & Privilège du Roi, 1770 A Toulouse, chez Dupleix et Laporte, libraires Editeurs,
'...an account of a year spent on the Greek island of Paxos." "His wry and beautifully written excursion into a dystopian Arcadia is rooted in his sardonic wit and the pitiless eye that he turns on modern Greece, on modern Greeks, and, not the least, on himself." (this copy marred by underlinings and comments from a previous reader- some of which, however, are quite interesting-) Book
1990100136401SPARTACUS 1990 320 pages 15x1 8x20 8cm. 1990. Broché. 320 pages.
215 pages. Index. Footnotes. Reproductions of archival black and white photos. "This lively account of a dashing young man about town provides a firsthand description of society in early Victorian Toronto. Young Mr. Smith's diaries and letters, from 1839-1858, have been edited by his granddaughter and deftly interwoven with her own background comments." - from dust jacket. Clean, tight and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
1905DD3-1154New York and London, Funk & Wagnalls Co., 1905. original Leinenband, 8?, 280 Seiten illustrated by the author and other artists, with a water-color frontispiece by F. Hopkinson Smith, Vorsatz mit privater Widmung, sonst guter Zustand
pp. x, 347. Illustrated with photographs by Melvin J. Horst. Uncut and unopened. 8vo. Original coarse linen cloth binding. Issued as Pennsylvania German Folklore Society, Volume XXIV. An excellent study, that is still generally reliable when considering the Amish of today (2015). See Also: PGS86.**PRICE JUST REDUCED! PA GER SOC. BOX 4 x4
The ancient Athenians were "quarrelsome as friends, treacherous as neighbors, brutal as masters, faithless as servants, shallow as lovers--all of which was in part redeemed by their intelligence and creativity." Thus writes Philip Slater in this classic work on narcissism and family relationships in fifth-century Athenian society. Exploring a rich corpus of Greek mythology and drama, he argues that the personalities and social behavior of the gods were neurotic, and that their neurotic conditions must have mirrored the family life of the people who perpetuated their myths. The author traces the issue of narcissism to mother-son relationships, focusing primarily on the literary representation of Hera and the male gods and showing how it related to devalued women raising boys in an ambitious society dominated by men. "The role of homosexuality in society, fatherless families, working mothers, women's status, and violence, male pride, and male bonding--all these find their place in Slater's analysis, so honestly and carefully addressed that we see our own societal dilemmas reflected in archaic mythic narratives all the more clearly." 513p. bibliography. index. Clean,neat tight copy but with pencilled notes and underlinings Book
164p. Wide margins. Mildly foxed. XLib. From the library of the Philadelphia artist, James Cox (1751-1834). Duplicate sold by the Library Company of Philadelphia. 4to. Rebound in library buckram. Leather spine label, gold lettered. First and second Tours are here complete in one volume, and are apparently all that were published. Skrine (1755-1803) inherited a large estate from his father and used his income to travel. He does not seem to have been terribly impressed by the Scottish people. First Edition. Hardbound. OCLC apparently records only three copies in libraries world wide. VERY SCARCE. **PRICE JUST REDUCED TRAVEL/4
2008100136545Eland Publishing Ltd 2008 132 pages 13 6x1 4x21 2cm. 2008. Broché. 132 pages.
