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CAPTAIN AMERICA CIVIL WAR THE MARVEL STUDIOS AVENGERS FILMABAA

Original Production Material for the Marvel Studios Avengers Film Captain America: Civil War. Originally Titled â€˜Sputnikâ€™

Caruthers William Alexander By the author of the "Cavaliers of Virginia " &c. &cABAA

THE KNIGHTS OF THE HORSE-SHOE; A TRADITIONARY TALE OF THE COCKED HAT GENTRY IN THE OLD DOMINION by the author of the "Cavaliers of Virginia" &c. &c

184561443Wetumpka Alabama: printed and published by Charles Yancey 1845. First edition originally published serially in Charleston SC in "The Magnolia" Jan. -- Oct. 1841; the original manuscript was destroyed when the author's Savannah house burned and had to be reconstructed for the serial publication. 8vo. iv 248 pp. Noted as "Two Volumes in One" on the front wrapper with a separate title page for volume two but continuous pagination and chapter numbering throughout. Hubbell "The South in American Literature p. 497: "His best novel." BAL 2795: "Written not later than July 1838." Wright I 495 noted as one of 45 novels published in the South among the 2775 entries in that volume covering 1774-1850 in the University of Virginia online catalogue description. Ellison 530 calling for 246 pages. For a full account of the book's writing publication and reception see Curtis C. Davis "Chronicler of the Cavaliers" Richmond 1953. Gift inscription at the head of the front wrapper: "C. B. Adams Daily Journal / from T. H. Pease. / July 16 1847." After studying at Yale and Amherst Charles Baker Adams 1814-1853 became State Geologist of Vermont Thomas H. Pease was a mid-century bookseller and publisher In New Haven Ct. Scattered foxing but still a very good copy. Original printed blue-green wrappers soiled some old insect damage at lower front corner spine ends show a little wear. 9756. A novel of colonial Virginia Governor Alexander Spotswood's service 1710-1722. Harper had published Caruthers' earlier novels but his loss of the original manuscript in the fire combined with the 1837 economic crash closed that door; after the serial publication he looked south to Charles Yancey brother of congressional firebrand William Lowndes Yancey in the boomtown of Wetumpka Alabama "about to try very patriotically to establish a Southern Publishing House for ourselves." printed and published by Charles Yancey unknown books

Bartlebys Books · États-Unis6 500,00 $US≈ 5 499,65 €

Catherine the GreatABAA

Catherine the Great Signed Document.

98658Document in Cyrillic boldly signed by Catherine the Great "Ekaterina." Renewal of an appointment for Lieutenant General Otto von Derfelden dated 1784. Double-matted with an image of Catherine Catherine II Russian: Yekaterina Alekseyevna also known as Catherine the Great born Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst was Empress of Russia from 1762 until 1796 the country's longest-ruling female leader. She came to power following a coup d'etat which she organized--resulting in her husband Peter III being overthrown. Under her reign Russia was revitalized; it grew larger and stronger and was recognized as one of the great powers of Europe. That said however she was a usurper of the Russian throne because her son Paul I should have naturally been the Tsar following Peter III's death. In her accession to power and her rule of the empire Catherine often relied on her noble favourites most notably Grigory Orlov and Grigory Potemkin. Assisted by highly successful generals such as Alexander Suvorov and Pyotr Rumyantsev and admirals such as Fyodor Ushakov she governed at a time when the Russian Empire was expanding rapidly by conquest and diplomacy. In the south the Crimean Khanate was crushed following victories over the Ottoman Empire in the Russo-Turkish wars and Russia colonised the territories of Novorossiya along the coasts of the Black and Azov Seas. In the west the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ruled by Catherine's former lover king Stanislaw August Poniatowski was eventually partitioned with the Russian Empire gaining the largest share. In the east Russia started to colonize Alaska establishing Russian America. Catherine reformed the administration of Russian guberniyas and many new cities and towns were founded on her orders. An admirer of Peter the Great Catherine continued to modernise Russia along Western European lines. However military conscription and the economy continued to depend on serfdom and the increasing demands of the state and private landowners led to increased levels of reliance on serfs. This was one of the chief reasons behind several rebellions including the large-scale Pugachev's Rebellion of cossacks and peasants. Catherine decided to have herself inoculated against smallpox by a Scottish doctor Thomas Dimsdale. While this was considered a controversial method at the time she succeeded. Her son Pavel was later inoculated as well. Catherine then sought to have inoculations throughout her empire stating: "My objective was through my example to save from death the multitude of my subjects who not knowing the value of this technique and frightened of it were left in danger." By 1800 approximately 2 million inoculations were administered in the Russian Empire. The period of Catherine the Great's rule the Catherinian Era is considered the Golden Age of Russia. unknown books

Raptis Rare Books · États-Unis6 500,00 $US≈ 5 499,65 €

CATHERINE THE GREATBETZKY ie. Betskoi Ivan IvanovichABAA

LES PLANS ET LES STATUTS; des differents etablissements ordonnes par sa Majest Imperiale Catherine II.Pour L'education de la jeunesse et L'utilit Generale de son Empire. Translated by Mr. Clerc

177557996Amsterdam: Chez Marc-Michel Rey 1775. First continental edition after the first edition in Russian of 1766. 8vo Two volumes pp. 408 110; 375. Bound in full calf that shows some light rubbing to head bands and edges free endpaper loose in volume one. A nice clean copy. Illustrated with 4 folding tables. Scarce. Cioranecu 38333; V. Gestel-Van het Schip 14; Mortier & Mat Diderot et son temps 196 note; STCN 4 copies. from Wikipedia: "Catherine II Russian: Yekaterina Alekseyevna; 2 May O.S. 21 April 1729 - 17 November O.S. 6 November 1796 also known as Catherine the Great Yekaterina Velikaya was Empress of Russia from 1762 until 1796 the country's longest-ruling female leader and arguably the most renowned. She came to power following a coup d'Ã©tat when her husband Peter III was assassinated. Russia was revitalised under her reign growing larger and stronger than ever and becoming recognised as one of the great powers of Europe. She enthusiastically supported the ideals of The Enlightenment thus earning the status of an enlightened despot. As a patron of the arts she presided over the age of the Russian Enlightenment a period when the Smolny Institute the first state-financed higher education institution for women in Europe was established. At the instigation of her factotum Ivan Betskoy she wrote a manual for the education of young children drawing from the ideas of John Locke and founded 1764 the famous Smolny Institute which admitted young girls of the nobility." Betskoi who had worked with Diderot was Catherine's chief advisor for this enlightened educational initiative. Catherine was not advocating universal education but girls were included with boys and children of the petit bourgeois were mixed with children of the nobility in pilot schools. This idea along with that of Catherine's orphanage and theories on the duties of enlightened rule were an attempt to assimilate the advances in political thinking on the continent with the traditional Russian temperament while establishing Catherine as a center of European thought. Chez Marc-Michel Rey unknown books

Second Life Books Inc · États-Unis2 200,00 $US≈ 1 861,42 €