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Dickens, Charles: Tales from Charles Dickens's Works. (The British Standard Library). London Maxwell o.J.,

8°, including: Master Humphrey's Clock, Master Humphrey's Visitors, Old Curiosity Shop, Dick the Dwarf, Dick Swiveller, Kit Nubbles, Codlin and Short, Cheeryble Brothers, The Boarding House, Mr. Watkins Tottle, Nice young Gentlemen, Nice young Ladies, jeweils 32 Seiten. Beigebunden: The Arabian Nights' Entertainments. With numerous Illustrations by Frederick Gilbert, 364 Seiten (London, John Dicks, ohne Jahr). Blinder Festeinband, Stempel und Name auf der ersten Titelseite, Stempel auf der zweiten Titelseite, leichte Gebrauchsspuren, Außenseite des Rückgelenks leicht beschädigt, kleiner Drucksatz.

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Depew, Chauncey M. The Library of Oratory Ancient and Modern Volume IX, Current Literature 1902 ; fester Einband / hard cover
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009312 The Library of Oratory Ancient and Modern Volume IX edited by Chauncey M. Depew. Published by Current Literature in 1902. HARD COVER 12mo @C Rhetoric Book Condition GOOD NO JACKET Jacket Condition Details missing. Book Condition Details Binding: bumped ends, Cover: bumped corners, edge wear, minor soiling, rubbing, Text: light tanning, Gilt on top edge, soiled page edge(s), creasing. Notes SUBTITLE: with Critical Studies of the World's Great Orators by Eminent Essayists. In Fifteen Volumes. Edition De Luxe. Illustrated. Mini-Review Three illustrations. Contents A Plea For Imperial Armament by Prince Bismark; A Plea For The Modern Languages by James Russell Lowell; Address To The Talian Electors by Francesco Crispi; Against Liberalism: A Prussian Royalist Confession Of Faith by Prince Bismark; America Free -- Or America Slave by John Jay; Character And Results Of The War by Benjamin Franklin Butler; Eulogy Of Abraham Lincoln by Josiah Gilbert Holland; From Speech On Canadian Fisheries by Sir John Alexander Macdonald; In Honor Of Patriot Heroes by John Albion Andrew; Inauguration Of The Freedman's Memorial Monument To Abraham Lincoln by Frederick Douglas; On National Policy by Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley; On Reconstruction by Henry Winter Davis; On The Greek Myths by John Ruskin; On The Indian Policy by Henry Lawrens Dawes; On The Progress Of American Independence by George Sewall Boutwell; On The Return Of The Battle Flags by John Albion Andrew; On The Value Of Clear Views As To The Laws Regulating The Enjoyment Of Property by Lord Coleridge; Oration At The 250Th Anniversary Of The Founding Of Harvard College by James Russell Lowell; Patriotic Oration At Boston, July 4, 1850 by Edwin Percy Whipple; Sermon: Christian Victory by Newman Hall; Sermon: Jesus Of Nazareth by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley; Sermon: The Loneliness Of Christ by Frederick William Robertson; Sermon: The Transfiguration by Charles Kingsley; Speech Against The Press Law by Ramon De Campoamor; Speech On Conadian Confederation by Sir John Alexander Macdonald; Speech On Reconstruction by Henry Jarvis Raymond; Speech On The Sectional Party by John Armor Bingham; Speech On The Sumner Assault by Preston Smith Brooks; Temperance Address by John Bartholomew Gough; The Eve Of War by John Albion Andrew; The Evolution Of University Extension by Sir Lyon (Lord) Playfair; The People's Heritage Squandered by Andrew Gregg Curtin; Valedictory Address by John Albion Andrew; What The Age Owes To America by William Maxwell Evarts; What The Black Man Wants by Frederick Douglas. No Jacket Hard Cover 12mo @C

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DALE, LEIGH & SIMON RYAN [EDS.]. The Body in the Library. Amsterdam-Atlanta., Rodopi., 1998.
ISBN: 90-420-0743-5.

Original publisher's sewn paperback, pictorial frontcover, 8vo; x, 272pp. and [6]pp adds, illustrations, notes, bibliographical notes. Contents: Introduction. Leigh Dale & Simon Ryan: The Body in the Library. Part I. Bodies in Pain: Torture/Sacrifice/Trade. 1. Beryl Langer: Complicit Bystanders: Post-Colonial Bodies and Imperial Crime. 2. John Frow: Bodies in Pieces. 3. Shane Wilcox: The Sacrificial Body. Part II. Bodies in the Contact Zone. 4. Jo-Ann Wallace: "A Class Apart": Josephine Butler and Regulated Prostitution in British India, 1888-1893. 5. Chris Prentice: No Body at Home: (Un)Homely Post-Colonial Metahistories. 6. Howard McNaughton: Mapping as Disturbance: First-World Iconography at the Border. 7. Anne Maxwell: Theorizing Settler Identities: Images of Racial and Cultural Difference in Colonial Exhibitions and Photographic Tourism. Part III. Re-presenting the Body. 8. Johanna Gibson: Humanity Shows: A Sensation of Wellbeing. 9. Robert Dingley: 'Resurrecting' the Australian Past: Henry Lawson's "The Bush Undertaker". 10. Veronica Kelly: "Who's the bigger dill"? The Madhouse in Recent Australian Drama. 11. Joanne Tompkins: Dressing Up/Dressing Down: Cultural Transvestism in Post-Colonial Drama. Part IV. The Gendered Body. 12. Gillian Whitlock: The Intimate Empire. 13. Bill Ashcroft: Constructing the Post-Colonial Male Body. 14. Christy Collis: Vertical Body/Horizontal World: Sir John Franklin and Fictions of Arctic Space. 15. Simon Ryan: Ludwig Leichhardt: Australia's Missing Penis. 16. Wendy Woodward: Riddles in the Marketplace: Gossip and the Surveillance of Settler Women's Bodies. 17. Helen Gilbert: Responses to the Sex Trade in Post-Colonial Theatre. As new. Volume 33: Cross/Cultures. Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English.

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[collectif]: The Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany. Vol. 17. London, Longmans, 1880.
Sommaire : ADBAY, The Rev. R., M.A., F.G.S., Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford. - Observations on Iremileia vastatrix, the socalled Coffee-leaf Disease. (Plates XIII. and XIV.) (Communicated by W. T. THISELTON DYER, M.A., F.L.S.). - ALLMAN, Professor, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., President Linnean Society, Note on the probable Migration of Pinguieula grandiflora through the Agency of Birds. - BAILEY, F. MANSOR, F.L.S. &c. (of Brisbane, Queensland), Remarks on Carpesium as indigenous to Australia. - BAKER, J. GILBERT, F.R.S., F.L.S., A Synopsis of the Hypoxidacee . - A Synopsis of Colchicacem and the Aberrant Tribes of Liliaceoe. - BAKER, J. G., F.R.S., F.L.S., and S. LE MARCHANT MOORE, F.L.S., A Contribution to the Flora of Northern China. - BALFOUR, Dr. ISAAC BAYLEY, F.L.S., F.R.S.E., &c., Observations on the Genus Pandanus (Screw-Pines) ; with an Enumeration of all Species described or named in Books, Herbaria, and Nurserymen's Catalogues ; together with their Synonyms and Native Countries as far as these have been ascertained. - BENNETT, ALFRED W., M.A., B.Sc., F.L.S., Lecturer on Botany at St. Thomas's Hospital., Notes on Cleistogamic Flowers ; chiefly of Viola, Oxalis, and Impatiens. (With 15 woodcuts.). - BENTHAM, GEORGE, F.R.S., F.L.S., Notes on Euphorbiacese. - BERKELEY, the Rev. M. J., M.A., F.L.S., Enumeration of the Fungi collected during the Arctic Expedition 1875-76. - BERNAYS, LEWIS, A., F.L.S., Vice-Pres. Queensland Acclimatization Society., On the Existence of Carpesium cernuum ?,Willd., in Queensland, in a Letter addressed to the Society's Secretary. - BROWN, N. E., Herbarium, Royal Gardens, Kew., The Stapelieae of Thunberg's Herbarium, with Descriptions of four new Genera of Stapelieoe. (Plates XI. and XII.) (Communicated by Prof. OLIVER, ERS., F.L.S. - CLARKE, CHARLES BARON, M.A., F.L.S., On two kinds of Dimorphism in the Rubiaceoe. (With 4 woodcuts.), Note on Gardenia turgida, Roxb. (With 3 woodcuts.). - Ferns of North India. (Abstract.). - COOKE, M. C., A.L.S., The Fungi of Texas. (Abstract.). - CROMBIE, the Rev. J. M., F.L.S. &c., Enumeration of Australian Lichens in Herb. Robert Brown (Brit. Mus.), with Descriptions of new Species On the Lichens of Dillenius's Historia Muscorum,' as illustrated by his Herbarium. - DARWIN, FRANCIS, M.B., F.L.S., Experiments on the Nutrition of Drosera rotundifolia. - Additional Memorandum concerning the Nutrition of Drosera rotundifolia. - DICKIE, Prof. GEORGE, M.D., F.L.S., On the Algoe found during the Arctic Expedition. - Notes on Algoe from. Lake Nyassa, E. Africa. (With a woodcut.). - DYER, W. T. THISELTON, M.A., B.Sc., F.L.S., Note on the Fruiting of Wistaria sinensis in Europe. - FRIES THEODOR M., Professor of Botany in the University of Upsala. On the Lichens collected during the English Polar Expedition of 1875-76. (Communicated by Sir JOSEPH Hooli-Ea, C.B., F.RS). - HARTOG, MARCUS M., M.A., B.Sc., F.L.S., Some Morphological Notes on certain Species of Thunbergia . - HENSLOW, the Rev. GEORGE, M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S., On the Absorption of Raire and Dew by the Green Parts of Plants. - On the Origin of the so-called Scorpioid Cyme. (Abstract.). - HOOXER, Sir JOSEPH D., C.B., K.C.S.I., F.R.S., On the Discovery of a Variety of the Cedar of. Lebanon on the Mountains of Cyprus, with Letter thereupon front Sir Samuel Baker, F.R.S. - KING, GEORGE, M.B., F.L.S., Superintendent Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta.. - On the Source of the Winged Cardamom of Nepal. - LOCKWOOD, E., Esq. - Notes on the Mahwa Tree (Bassia latifolia). (Communicated by THOS. CHRISTY, F.L.S.) . - LYNCH, R. IRWIN, of Kew Gardens. - On the Mechanism for the Fertilization of Meyenia erecta, Benth (With a woodcut.) (Communicated by Dr. J. MURIE, F.L.S.) . - On the Seed-Structure and Germination of Pacleira aquatica.. - (Plate VIII.) (Communicated by Dr. J. MURIE, F.L.S.) . - On Branch Tubers and Tendrils of Vitis gongylodes.. - and woodcut.) (Communicated by Dr. J. MURIE, F.L.S.). - MARSIIALL-WARD, see under WARD. - MASTERS, MAXWELL T., M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c., Note on the Occurrence of a Restiaceous Plant in Cochin China. - Note on the Relations between Morphology and Physiology in the Leaves of certain Conifers . - MEEHAN, Thomas, Esq., Germantown, Philadelphia. - On the Laws governing the Production of Seed in Wistaria sinensis. (Communicated by the Rev. G. IIENSLOW, F.L.S.). - MIERS, JOHN, F.R.S., F.L.S., &c., Dignit. and Commend. Ord. Imp. Bras. Rosae. - On the Schoepfieae and Cervantesiae, distinct Tribes of the Styraceae. (Plates I.-I4.). - On some Genera of the Olacaceae. (Plates V.-VII.). - On Marupa, a Genres of the Simarubaceae (Plates IX. and X.). - On the Symplocaceae . - On some South-American Genera of uncertain position, and others not recognized by Botanists. - Notes on Moquilea, with a Description of a new Species. - MOORE, S. LE MARCHANT, F.L.S., and J. G. BAKER, F.R.S., F.L.S., A Contribution to the Flora of Northern China. (Plate XVI.). - Monitis, D., B.A. Trin. Coll. Dubl., F.G.S., Director of the Botanical Department, Jamaica, late on special duty, Coffee-leaf Disease Inquiry, Ceylon. - Note on the Structure and Habit of Ilemdeia vastatriv, the Coffeeleaf Disease of Ceylon and Southern India. (With a wood eut.) (Communicated by W. T. THISELTON DYER, F.L.S.). - PHILLIPS, WILLIAM, F.L.S., On Helvella californica. (Abstract.). - STIRTON, JAMES, M.D., F.L.S. - Remarks on Mr. Crombie's Paper on the Challenger' Lichens in Journ. Linn. Soc. XVI. - TRIMEN, Dr. HENRY, F.L.S., Note on the Genus Oudneya, Brown. - WARD, H. MARSHALL, A Contribution to our Knowledge of the Embryo-Sac in Angiosperms. (Plates XVII.-XXV.) (Communicated by W. T. THISELTON DYER, F.L.S.). - WEALE, W. MANSELL., Note on South-African Orchids. (Communicated by Sir J. LIIBBOCK, Bart., M.P., and abridged.).

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