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026201372X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
73-3468Washington London: 20th Century American or English Publisher circa 1900s. 59x39 cm. Black and white poster. Very Good. In plastic. [Washington?, London?: 20th Century American or English Publisher, circa 1900s] unknown
19442091502135401830Mitsuo-kan 1944. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Mitsuo-kan paperback
8120305019.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1975Q-0139141014Prentice Hall 1975-06-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Prentice Hall hardcover
1330816382.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
19750098271975. Hardcover. Very Good. Publisher: Prentice Hall Inc. 1975 V.Good HB ISBN: 0-13-914101-4 hardcover
197511888Prentice-Hall. 1975. Hardcover. Good. Hardback/surplus library copy with the usual library stampings; reference n umber written on spine then blackened out; fading and edge wear to cover; otherwise in good condition with clean text tight binding. . Prentice-Hall hardcover
179525158Paris: Chez Maradan 1795. 1st edition. Leather. Very Good. 1st edition. 3 volume set complete. A Very Good set. 8vos. Vol.1 xvi 422; Vol.2 viii 456; Vol.3 viii 471 pp. illustrated with 7 numbered folding plates. Bound in period full speckled calf; with boards and spine decorated with gilt fillets and spine compartment designs. Title and volume on tan morocco labels. End papers and all edges marbled. Boards moderately rubbed at the edges. Parts of the title labels on vol. 2&3 missing. Text in French. An attractive set. Chez Maradan unknown
B9781501368394Paperback / softback. New. What happens when fashionable forms of unserious speech prove to be contagious when they adulterate and weaken communicative spheres that rely on honesty trust and sincerity Demonstrating how the tension between irony and avowal constitutes a central conflict in Fontane’s works this book argues that his best-known society novels play out a struggle between the incompatible demands of these two modes of speaking. Read in this light the novels identify an irreconcilable discrepancy between word and deed as both the root of emotional discord and the proximate cause of historical and political upheaval. Given the alarm since 2016 over unreliability falsehood and indifference to truth it is now easier to perceive in Fontane’s novels a profound concern about language that is not sincere and not meant to be taken literally. For Fontane irony exemplifies a discrepancy between language and meaning a loosening of the ethical bond between words and the things to which they refer. His novels investigate the extent to which human relationships can continue to function in the face of pervasive irony and the erosion of language’s credibility. Although Fontane is widely regarded as an ironic writer Tucker’s analyses reveal a critical distance between his works and the prospect of irony as a dominant idiom. Revisiting Fontane’s novels in a post-truth age brings the conflict between irony and avowal into sharper relief and makes legible the stakes and contours of our own post-truth condition. paperback
A9781501368356Hardback. New. What happens when fashionable forms of unserious speech prove to be contagious when they adulterate and weaken communicative spheres that rely on honesty trust and sincerity Demonstrating how the tension between irony and avowal constitutes a central conflict in Fontane's works this book argues that his best-known society novels play out a struggle between the incompatible demands of these two modes of speaking. Read in this light the novels identify an irreconcilable discrepancy between word and deed as both the root of emotional discord and the proximate cause of historical and political upheaval. Given the alarm since 2016 over unreliability falsehood and indifference to truth it is now easier to perceive in Fontane's novels a profound concern about language that is not sincere and not meant to be taken literally. For Fontane irony exemplifies a discrepancy between language and meaning a loosening of the ethical bond between words and the things to which they refer. His novels investigate the extent to which human relationships can continue to function in the face of pervasive irony and the erosion of language's credibility. Although Fontane is widely regarded as an ironic writer Tucker's analyses reveal a critical distance between his works and the prospect of irony as a dominant idiom. Revisiting Fontane's novels in a post-truth age brings the conflict between irony and avowal into sharper relief and makes legible the stakes and contours of our own post-truth condition. hardcover
17094788Amsterdam Leeuwarden 1709. Small 8vo. Jan ten Hoorn Pieter Ruirds Contemporary vellum title in ink in manuscript on spine. With fine engraved frontispiece by J. Luyken. 2 parts in one volume. 8 320; 196 20 pp. Rare 3rd edition of the Dutch translation of a popular work on medicinal herbs plants minerals etc. with recipes. It starts with the Theatrum sympateticum divided into two parts by the English diplomat and philosopher Kenelm Digby 1603-1665. The first contains notes on medicinal herbs and plants curing everyday ailments the second explains how to make the "powder of sympathy" "a potion which allowed the healing of the wound by treating the weapon which caused it" MacDonald and includes extracts from works by Papinius and Sylvester Rattrat. The powder of sympathy could also be put on a bandage that had been in contact with the wound without ever touching the wound. Digbys work is followed by 't Groote licht der natuurkunde by Athanasius Kircher 1602-1680 a work on magnetic forces and the influence of the moon sun and planets on the earth. The book closes with extracts from Digby's memoirs containing recipes for "new" medicines including mostly household and cosmetic recipes like face powder for women and water to whiten teeth. The first Dutch edition was published in 1681.With bookplate of Kenneth Garth Huston 1926-1987 physician book collector and bibliographer of Digby on the front paste-down. Hinges weak with a very small wormhole in the outer margin of pp. 127-320 of the first part and the entire second part not affecting the text with some wormholes in the upper-outer corner of the leaves of the bladwyser and the index of the second part affecting the text and in some leaves repared with paper.l Caillet 10601; DNB V 970; DSB IV 95-6 ; Ferguson Bib. chem. I pp. 212-213; cf: Duveen pp. 172-173 & 574; Muller Pop. proza 763 2nd ed. 1697; De Vries Pop. proza 473 idem. hardcover
mu576Samedi 13 Jullet 1844. "Une Chaine Comedie en cinqu actes et en prose de M. E. Scribe." Lists personnage and acteurs. 8x10 inches small decorative vignette printed on one side only. 1.5 inch tear in margin not affecting text frayed around edges. Near VG. Original printing. . unknown
1579B6621A Lyon: Par Barthelemy Vincent M.D. LXXIX. 1579. . A near fine example reinforcement on margin of leaf B4. Plates are clean and crisp. Binding: Full embossed cotemporary pigskin with central medallion; spine expertly rebacked saving the original with six 6 raised bands gilt lettered title on Morocco label on two; all edges sprinkled red. Notes: Text in Middle French. <br>Second French edition after its first of 1578; first Lyon French edition with commentaries to illustrations by Beroald de Verville. <br>"In 1578 after the death of Besson c. 1572 the Theater of Mathematical and Mechanical Instruments was published in Geneva a work in which we note an evolution in turning techniques with the appearance of the first mandrels and first fixed glasses. Other Geneva editions will follow in French Latin Italian German and finally Spanish until 1602. in rue de la Harpe opposite Saint-Cosme presented twenty-one models of machines eleven of which were executed from the plates of Jacques Besson. … The work belongs to … a genre consisting of presenting series of engravings of instruments and machines often newly invented. These printed writings are used by the inventors in order to protect their invention and to guarantee their right in an irrefutable way. These printed ‘machine’ books appeared in France at the end of the 16th century when the formation of the intermediate class of technicians crystallized grouped together today under the name of engineers. These engineers first appeared in Italy in the 15th century then in Germany and finally in France. … Besson's book which is unanimously considered to be the first true "machine theatre" marks a break with its passage to print. There are sixty figures in all each occupying a full page. Each engraving is accompanied by a legend indicating the manner of construction and its function. … Besson presents four major series of machines: machines for raising water mills cranes and winches. He often suggests ways to multiply the force in order to be able to replace two or three workers with one." <br>“When King Charles IX of France made a royal visit to Orléans in 1569 Besson presented to the King a draft of his new treatise what was to become the Theatrum Instrumentorum. and returned with him to Paris as "master of the King's Engines". Charles gave Besson exclusive rights to his designs in that same year. While employed by the court Besson also created an ingenious screw-cutting lathe that was semi-automatic in that the operator only needed to pull and release a cord. … Besson's Theatrum Instrumentorum Theater of Machines was completed and published in 1571 or 1572. It was a unique work; previously works on engineering and technology such as Valturio's De re militari 1472 Biringuccio's Pirotechnia 1540 and Agricola's De re metallica 1556 had had only limited descriptions of new inventions or recounted inventions of the past without much detail. In contrast Besson's work was a collection of his own new inventions with detailed illustrations of each engraved by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau to his specifications. Some of his designs suggested important improvements to lathes and the waterwheel. The Latin captions to the highly detailed drawings were sparse however which would seem to indicate that the text was probably produced in a hurry. Even the title page does not give the name of the printer or the date of publication. The rush in publishing the book may have been due to the crackdown on French Protestants that culminated in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 1572. … Although Besson was favoured by King Charles IX he feared the increasing anti-Protestant sentiment in France and emigrated to England shortly after the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 1572 where he died in 1573. … The Theatrum Instrumentorum had proved so popular that a second edition appeared in 1578 with more detailed descriptions of the instruments and machines by François Béroalde de Verville. The copper plates from the original edition were reused except for four which were replaced by new engravings produced by René Boyvin.â€<br><br> Size: Folio 342x238mm. Illustration: Illustrated allegorical wood engraved title; large ornamental and floral woodcut initials head- and tailpieces; moreover sixty 60 insert wood engraved plates depicting mathematical and mechanical instruments and inventions. Provenance: Upper pasted endpaper with a bookplate black ink manuscript ownership note dated 1588. Pages: Ll: bl. 20 60 ill bl.; collation: bl. illustrated title A2-E4 engraved plates numbered 1-60; bl. Category: Book Early Printed 1500; Book Plate Books General; Book Science & Technology; Par Barthelemy Vincent, M.D. LXXIX. hardcover
1923240826Hollywood CA: Paramount PIctures 1923. Stapled Pamphlet. Very Good binding. “The Covered Wagon†is considered the first great Western epic in movie history establishing a number of cliches that became staples. Very nice copy of the booklet that “has been prepared to present to the public some interesting facts in connections with the production of this Paramount picture†price 25 cents. Interesing item for the Teddy Roosevelt completist as the Paramount dedicated the movie to his memory; it so states on the verso of the front panel. Very Good binding. Paramount PIctures unknown
0365876968.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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189761925Victoria B.C.: R.E. Gosnell Agent General 39 Victoria St. 1897. 8vo. 500 7 pp. plus 26 pp. publisher’s illustrated advertisements. Over 50 photo plates 4 maps 2 large folding recto & verso text illustrations. Red pebbled publisher’s cloth black lettering & decorated border front cover gilt & black lettering on spine minor edgewear rubbing ownership stamps & writing on title still VG copy from the library of former California State Librarian Gary Kurutz. First edition thus of this expanded edition of Gosnell’s 1860-1931 noted British Columbia Year Book and was originally self-published by first British Columbia Legislative Librarian and the first Provincial Archivist. Unlike the initial print run for this publication which consisted of only 216 pages this Year Book in reaction to the Klondike Gold Rush excitement expanded with a section on “The Canadian Yukon†with notes drawn from William Ogilvie article by H. Bratnober additional maps and even includes a section on the “Routes into Klondyke.†Also featured are numerous printed photos documenting stampeders on their way into the golden rivers and streams of the North. See: Kurutz Klondike & Alaska Gold Rushes A Descriptive Bibliography 211c. R.E. Gosnell, Agent General, 39, Victoria St., hardcover
2016__0323446868Elsevier Science Health Science 2016. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 452 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches. Elsevier Science Health Science hardcover
1985Q-0300030037Yale University Press 1985-09-10. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Yale University Press hardcover