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(PHOTOGRAPHY; GREECE)Biblio.com

A Single Sheet Bearing Original Photographic Portraits of the King and Queen of Greece as Well as Her Capitol Athens.

Snider, Denton J [Jacques]Biblio.com

A Walk In Hellas True First Edition 1881 Inscribed By The Author Twice

1881032313St. Louis: Denton J Snider 1881. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 348 Pp. Olive Green Cloth Beveled Edges GiltYellow Endpapers "Privately Printed" And 1881 Date On Title Page. Inscribed To The Same Person Twice Same Date"With Friendly Regards" On Both Front And Rear Endpapers. Wear At Corners With A Few Small Losses Of Surface Of Cloth At Top And Bottom Of Spine And At Tips. Front And Rear Hinges Each Split About1 1/2" At Endpapers. Small Stamp Of The World Human Culture Foundation Mckay College Los Angeles Near Bottom Of Title Page No Other Marks Or Damage. Writer Educator And Literary Critic Denton Jacques Snider 1841-1925 Was One Of The Original Members Of The St. Louis Philosophical Society An Association Of Hegelians Founded In 1866 By William Torrey Harris And Henry C. Brockmeyer Whom Snider Met While Teaching In The St. Louis Schools. With His Knowledge Of Greek Latin French German And Italian Snider Brought A Love Of Literature A Fine Critical Sensibility And A Breadth Of Outlook To The St. Louis Group. He Spent Some Time Teaching Classics In Susan Blow's Kindergarten Training School. An Acrimonious Parting Of The Ways Resulted From Blow's Disapproval Of His Independence And Enthusiasm For Pagan Cultures. From 1884-97 Snider Wrote And Lectured Touring Extensively Mainly In The Midwest Including Speeches To The Grand Rapids Kindergarten Training School. According To The Dictionary Of American Biography Snider Would Move "Impetuously About The Stage Checking His Flow Of Eloquence Only To Chide Severely The Late-Comers." To Avoid The Commercialization Of His Work He Published His Writings Himself At His Own Expense Under The Imprint Of His Sigma Publishing Company. He Made Little If Any Money From The More Than Forty Volumes He Published And Often Gave Away Copies To People Attending His Lectures Who Wanted To Read Them. Snider's Earlier Works Many Of Them In Verse Deal With Greece And Rome A Walk In Hellas Homer In Chios Prorsus Retrorsus Agamemnon's Daughter. Between 1877 And 1897 He Produced Nine Volumes Of Commentary On "The Four Literary Bibles Of The Occident"-Shakespeare's Plays Goethe's Faust Homer's Works And Dante's Divine Comedy. Later He Embarked On An Ambitious Series Of Volumes Intended To Comprise A Grand Philosophic Or "Psychologic" System Which Included Works On History Science Psychology And Political Philosophy. Snider Also Wrote Poetry And Two Autobiographical Works A Writer Of Books In His Genesis 1910 And The St. Louis Movement In Philosophy Literature Education Psychology With Chapters Of Autobiography 1920. <br/> <br/> (Denton J Snider) hardcover

Arroyo Seco Books · États-Unis154,68 $US≈ 130,87 €

Plates Engraved By Edward Francis Finden And William Finden After Various Artists; From Library Of Hosmer JohnsonBiblio.com

Illustrations Of The Life And Works Of Byron First Hardcover Issue 120 Plates In 2 Volumes

1835036268John Murray 1835. First Hardcover Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Two Volumes. Full Black Calf With "Illustrations Of Byron" And Volume Numbers On Spine In Gilt Covers And Spine Elaborately Stamped In Blind Yellow Silk Endpapers. No Text. Simple Half-Title Followed By Table Of Contents In Each Volume 53 Plates In First Volume And 67 Plates In The Second Volume; Originally Issued In 24 Parts 1833-1834 With 120 Plates In Total Then This First Hardcover Issue Undated But 1835 With All Plates Bound In Two Volumes. Later The Complete Set Of 123 Plates With 3 Vignettes Was Published In 3 Volumes And Still Later It Was Enlarged To 126 And Then 130 Illustrations And Incorporated Into Sets With Explanatory Text Included. Slight Wear At Lower Edges And Corners And Fresh But Volume I Has A1/2" X 1/2" Chip At Upper Right Corner Of Spine And Volume Ii Has A 1" X 3/4" Chip Which Is Detached And Laid In Loosely. No Marks But Gift Card Of Mrs. Hosmer A. Johnson Dated In 1899 To Her Granddaughter. Hosmer Allen Johnson M.D. L.L.D. 1822 - 1891 Was An American Physician Academic And Mason From New York. After Graduating From The University Of Michigan He Moved To Chicago Illinois To Attend Rush Medical College. There He Became An Understudy Of William B. Herrick And Joined His Medical Practice. Receiving A Doctor Of Medicine In 1852 Johnson Was Named Lecturer On Physiology At Rush Eventually Chairing A Department There. In 1859 He Co-Founded The Chicago Medical College At Lind University Which Later Became The Feinberg School Of Medicine Of Northwestern University. During The Civil War Johnson Was The Top Medical Aide In The State Presiding Over The Board Of Medical Examiners For The State Of Illinois. Hosmer Johnson Was Initiated Into The Masonic Order In 1853 And Rose To Become Grand Orator Of The Grand Lodge Of Illinois. He Organized A Knights Templar Chapter For Illinois And Was First Officer Of That Branch For Two Terms. He Became A Member Of The Supreme Council Of The Scottish Rite Northern Jurisdiction In 1861 Later Becoming And Officer. He Could Speak Seven Foreign Languages Fluently And Also Had A Strong Knowledge Of The Ojibwe Language. He Served On The Board Of Trustees Of The University Of Chicago And Northwestern University. <br/> <br/> John Murray hardcover

Arroyo Seco Books · États-Unis462,07 $US≈ 390,96 €

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