Gideon herbert (9 Ergebnisse)

1p., 4to. In fair condtion, lightly aged and creased. With a few autograph corrections by Roberts. Having been unsuccessful in placing an individual with Wilson, Roberts writes: 'Of course forty years ago the advent of a bookshop like yours was a tremendous event, and we all flocked to it as something new and wonderful, as indeed it was. I recollect that among my little batch I bought a "Sesame & Lillies" in a little grey cloth cover and it turned out afterwards that it was one of two that Ruskin had had experimentally bound and turned down because he did not like the cover, for which he substituted the well known brown.'.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 204 pages. 8.66x5.91x0.46 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. George Herbert's very scarce guide to the benefits of the Bankruptcy Act of 1869. A fascinating and very scarce instructional guide from Nottingham based accountant George Herbert, offering financial advice for 'Creditors, Debtors, Inspectors and Trustees' following the Bankruptcy Act of 1869.The work features extracts from the Act, which Herbert explains has the purpose of abolishing 'the cumbrous and expensive proceedings under which the estates of Insolvents and Bankrupts have hitherto been administered'.With library labels to the tail of the front wrap, and no further library markings. With three leaves of advertisements to the rear.A smart copy, in the publisher's original wraps. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Wraps age toned, with library labels to tail of front wrap. Front wrap detached to tail. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Good. None (illustrator). book.…

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. In German.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Die Neuen Diskurse führen den 2011 bei De Gruyter erschienenen Band gleichen Titels fort, bringen erneut Diskurse aus ganz verschiedenen Disziplinen und Gegenstandsfeldern zusammen und sind deshalb für Fragen der Disziplinengeschichte wie auch der Geschichte der Gelehrsamkeit generell interessant. Die 17 Beiträge zur Erforschung der frühneuzeitlichen Gelehrtenkultur behandeln u. a. die Prodigiendiskussion und den Streit um die Legitimität der Bilder, das Konzept der philosophia perennis und das Postulat der libertas philosophandi samt seiner Vorgeschichte, Debatten über Religionskritik und den libertinage érudit, über Polyhistorie und Polymathie, Konzepte der Utopie, der Kritik und der politischen Anthropologie, der Kosmographie und der Technik, Auseinandersetzungen um Definitionen des Todes in der Medizin sowie Diskurse über die Neue Welt; ein eigener Beitrag diskutiert kritisch die Konzepte, die über den Epochenbegriff Frühe Neuzeit im Umlauf sind.…

Zustand: New. pp. 1000.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1000 pages. German language. 9.25x6.10x2.17 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. 2016. Hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.