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256 pages, (Children's Classics). eng
London and New-York, Harper and Brothers, 1898. Petit in-8 carré, relié demi maroquin bleu à grain écrasé, à coins, dos à nerfs, filet doré sur les nerfs, tête dorée, 471 pp. Illustrations par l'auteur. Bon état.
pp. (13), 147. Thin 8vo. Handsome original full cloth binding, lettered in gold and decorated in blind, executed by Westleys & Clark, London - with their small ticket on the rear paste down. Mildly XLib. James Orchard Halliwell (1820-1889) was a biographer of Shakespeare, book collector, antiquarian, and prodigal scholar. In spite of his intelligence and industry, Halliwell's life was dogged with controversy on both personal and professional fronts. His marriage to the daughter of Sir Thomas Phillips did not meet with Phillips' approval, and the young couple was disinherited and placed in financial st aits. He was later investigated for book theft from the library of Trinity College, Cambridge, regarding several volumes later sold to the British Museum, but no charges were ever filed and Halliwell was able to clear his name. Later disputes arose over Halliwell's views concerning the authenticity of various Shakespeareian works. His quarrel with the authorities at Stratford-on-Avon led to his decision not to bequeath his important personal Shakespeare collection to their library; instead, it was sold to a buyer in the United States upon Halliwell's death. See the DNB JUN2B / NW23
146pp., with 78 bl/w illustrations in text and 6 bl/w plates, 31cm., publisher's hardcover in red cloth, illustrated dustwrapper, good condition, S96870
146pp.with 116 bl/w illustrations + frontispiece in colour, editor's hardcover in red cloth, illustrated dustwrapper, 31cm., good condition, S88427
433 p. 8vo. 240 mm. Some pencil underlinings. Original dust jacket soiled in places. Still, a very good example of a very interesting book that includes in its 'motley crew' : slaves; pirates; castaways; Maroons; Gypsies; Indians; Anabaptists; Amazons; Levelers; Diggers; Ranters; and various rebels and revolutionaries. AFRO AMER 1
xi + 373pp., original softcover, 25cm., some foxing on edges, VG
Book appears in unread condition, virtually mint. 384pp. This is a novel originally published in 1873, set around the last attempt by The Stuarts in 1745 to regain the Throne of England and the importance Lancashire and Manchester had on those events. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale.
Paperback in-16 - Original vintage mass market paperback book with the usual natural age toning GOOD ++ (No mark, no inscription). [LP-10]
20x13. 287p. Firma anterior poseedor. Enc. Cart. ed. sobrecubierta.
[24] pp.richly illustrated, in oblong (17x19cm.), illustrated cover, VG, S83340
DJ faded and chipped ; 8vo; 243 pages
v + 286pp., illustrated with 4 maps and some tables, 28cm., text in English, Doctoral Dissertation (A Dissertation submitted to the department of history and the committee on graduate studies of Stanford University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy), bound in solid hardcover in red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, stamp at verso of title page, text is clean and bright, weight: 1.6kg., G113150
First English language edition. Later Cloth, 8vo. 33, 358 pages; 29 cm. In English with Hebrew excerpts. First English-language publication of any part of Maimonides Yad Hachazakah." Maimonides was a medieval Sephardic Jewish philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages. In his time, he was also a preeminent astronomer and physician (Wikipedia 2017). Hermann Hedwig Bernard was an English Hebraist, for many years Hebrew teacher in the University of Cambridge An apostate from Judaism, Bernard was born Hirsch Ber Hurwitz and hailed from Uman, Ukraine. He is purported to have played chess with and read German stories before Rabbi Nachman of Breslov (Wikipedia 2017) . They are chiefly intended, however, to make the English reader acquainted, at a comparatively trifling expense of time and labour, with the sentiments of Maimonides respecting some of the most interesting and important questions in Theology, (such, for example, as regard the Deity, the Angels, Prophecy, Sin, Repentance, Free-will, Predestination, &c. , which are discussed by him in his justly celebrated work the Yad Hachazakah; a work, recognized by the Jews, even at the present day, as an admirable exposition of their law and of the main principles of their creed. . SUBJECT(S) : Jewish ethics, Maimonides. Very Light Wear to boards, bit of foxing to title page and final leaf, small old tape repair to outer margin of 2 leaves, otherwise Very Good condition. (HEB-51-4A)
A magazine for collectors and others interested in times past and in articles of daily use and adornment devised by the forefathers. Features: Cover illustration of details from Spitalfields brocade; Eighteenth-century Brocade Costumes - some French and English costumes in the Elizabeth Day McCormick Collection; On Dating New England Houses - Part III - The Great Georgian Period, 1735-1780; Counterfeit Flaxman Chessmen; The Style Antique in Furniture - Part I - Its sources and its creators; The Richard Derby House; Some Danish-American Heirlooms - A Case of Confused Identities; and more. Many pages of nostalgic ads from a broad assortment of prominent dealers. Profusely illustrated with excellent black and white photos. pp. 177-244. Printed upon glossy stock. Unmarked with somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy of this informative issue. Please note: back cover missing. Book
A magazine for collectors and others interested in times past and in articles of daily use and adornment devised by the forefathers. Features: Frontispiece photo of English Delft in an American Setting; Some Notes on English Delft in the American Colonies; A Morse [painting] Puzzle; On Dating New England Houses - Part I - The 17th Century - Floor Plans and Framing; Painters of the Hudson River School; A Hudson Valley Portrait - The Moot Question of the "Master of the Stringy Hair"; Washington Square North; An Apartment on Washington Square - The Washington Square apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene E. Dressner; George Washington Lived Here - Some Early Prints of Mount Vernon, Part II; and more. Many pages of nostalgic ads from a broad assortment of prominent dealers. Profusely illustrated with excellent black and white photos. pp. 129-192. Printed upon glossy stock. Unmarked with above-average wear. Covers detached but present. A worthy reference copy of this informative issue. Book
A magazine for collectors and others interested in times past and in articles of daily use and adornment devised by the forefathers. Features: Audubon cover illustration of Fork-Tailed Flycatcher; New England Kettle-Base Secretary c. 1760 (frontispiece illustration); Audubon's Technique - As Shown in His Drawings of Birds; Tables and Chairs - Some Significant Examples from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Taradash; American Flower Lithographs; Some British Pewter; The Campbell-Whittlesey House in Rochester, New York; Pennsylvania German Wood Carvings; Jacob Medinger - A Maker of Pennsylvania Redware; Traffic in Bogus Antiques (reprint of a 1906 Good Housekeeping article) and more. Many pages of nostalgic ads from a broad assortment of prominent dealers. Profusely illustrated with excellent black and white photos. pp. 329-392. Printed upon glossy stock. Unmarked with above-average wear. Covers loose but present. A worthy reference copy of this informative issue. Book
Pages 69-140. Features: Detail from Printed Cotton (c. 1850) cover; Carved Wood Circus Figure; About a Portrait of Benjamin Franklin; Pewter Pieces - In an English Collection; Charleston's First Artistic Couple; Living with Antiques - The Cape Cod Home of Mrs. Charles D. Cook; Two Early Massachusetts Houses; The Origin of the Hooked Rug; History on Staffordshire; New England Painting - A Prophe Enters the Wilderness; Carved Wood Circus-Wagon Figures; and more. Printed upon glossy stock. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Blondel and Richard the Lion Heart Book
Blondel and Richard the Lion Heart Book
New English Paperback. 4to. (28 x 24 cm). In English and Turkish. 360 p., color ills. The lure of the East: British orientalist painting.= Dogu'nun cazibesi: Britanya oryantalist resmi. [Exhibition catalogue]. This exhibition focused on the paintings made by British artists of the 'Orient', primarily during the nineteenth century. In this context the term 'Orient', to Western Europeans, meant those parts of the eastern Mediterranean world which could be accessed relatively easily such as Egypt, Palestine and Turkey, particularly after the development of steamboat and rail travel in the 1830s. In these places, predominantly Muslim and at least nominally under the control of the Ottoman Empire, British artists, such as David Roberts, David Wilkie, William Holman Hunt, John Frederick Lewis and Frederic Leighton, sought to develop imagery which captured what they believed to be characteristic of the people, cities and landscapes of the region. In the 1970s the Palestinian-American academic Edward Said published his treatise on Orientalism, initiating a global debate over Western representations of the Middle East. For many, such representations now appeared to be a sequence of fictions, serving the West's desire for superiority and control over the East. The argument for and against Said's Orientalism has continued for thirty years. Its resonance for an exhibition such as this one, however, is as strong as ever given that, by the 1920s (the end of the period covered by this exhibition), Britain was in direct control of much of the newly abolished Ottoman Empire, including Egypt, Palestine and Iraq. As Said argued, these images cannot be viewed in isolation from their wider political and cultural context. Keeping the debates around Orientalism in mind, "The Lure of the East" focuses on the range of pictorial options open to British artists, within five major themes: portraits, genre, religious and domestic subjects and landscape. British painters came to the Middle East from a culture steeped in technical and compositional artistic traditions. Such traditions were not easily unlearned, despite the apparent difference of the people and places the artists encountered on their travels. Given this, British Orientalist painters found many challenges in attempting to represent the Middle East, but they also found inspiration and, more importantly, the freedom to rework, reinvent and even discard those conventions that defined picture-making in Britain.
xi, 442 p. plates, ports., geneal. tab. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
257 p. Double column. 8vo. 210 mm. Later plain wraps. Blank corner missing from first two leaves. A wonderfully miscellaneous collection of late 18th century observation and commentary on (mostly English) life, history, manners, politics, economics, and all sorts of prominent men (and women). Some of the essays are quite substantial and illuminating. In many of them there is a generous portion of humorous misogyny. It make for worthwhile reading by anyone interested in 18th century Britain. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! HUMOR 8
Light browning to ffep. Former owner's bookplate on ffep "Prof. Alexander G. McKay" else Fine. ; Map intact; Sets out why the Romans first conquered and remained in the island; then in what ways its occupation proved useful and profitable to them; finally, what they bequeathed to us. ; Gregynog Lectures, 1949; 89 pages
Paperback book; no inscriptions. Très bel exemplaire - VG+++. [LP-10]
