Goron j (8 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Zustand: New. In.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. The Coins of the Indian Sultanates is a very important primary source for helping us to understand the political and economic history of much of what is now India, Pakistan and Bangladesh during the period from the beginning of the thirteenth century ad until the seventeenth century when the last of the sultanates, that of Bijapur, was absorbed into the Mughal Empire. The right of sikka, i.e. the right to strike coins was one of the two juridically recognised expressions of the right of the ruler to sovereignty, and it was a right that was jealously guarded. It is a happy feature of Islamic coinage that the coins bear information not only about the rulers' names and titles but very often also the place and date of minting. In this way we can follow the progress of their rule as their territories expanded or contracted. We can learn of rulers who are otherwise not known to history, their usually ephemeral reigns not recorded in any literary sources that have come down to us. We can also examine the metals used for the currency, its fineness or debasement, and seek to draw conclusions from that. The present book, however, does not go that far. It is not intended as an economic history of the sultanate period but as an extensive, illustrated catalogue of coin types. More types are included here than in any previously published book on sultanate coins. Many are published for the first time. They come from both public and private collections in India and elsewhere. Brief histories are included for each sultanate as well as comments on the coinage and the coin legends. An extensive bibliography is also provided. This book will serve as an essential reference for students and collectors of Indian sultanate coins and for anyone else interested in this period of South Asian history.…

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Mäßig. kA. Auflage. Anzahl Bände: 1 - Bd.Nr.: kA - Sprache: de - Einband: Hardcover - Gewicht: 576 - Illust.: Illustriert v. Wely J. - Zustand: Mäßig - Umschlag berieben, Seiten gebräunt, das vordere Gelenk aufgebrochen. Illustriert v. Wely J. (illustrator).

Éditions Jules Rouff et Cie, Paris - Sans date (vers 1900) - In-8, demi basane aubergine; dos 4 nerfs avec titre, nom de l'auteur et fleurons dorés - 512 p. - Illustrations de J. Wely en N&B hors et in-texte Bon état - Frottements sur la reliure - Dos insolé.

[Love in Paris by Goron, former Chief of The Sûreté.]. First illustrated edition. 8vo., title, 928pp., plate, pp-931- 1888, plate, pp-1891-2832, profusely illustrated with line drawings, contemporaneously rebound, with the original decorative title page, into three in half red roan and marbled paper boards, titles and fillets in gilt on spine, marbled endpapers, all edges speckled red, copiously annotated in pencil by collector or bookseller in front of volume one, French text. Paris, Jules Rouff et Cie, n.d., 1900. £450.00 Binding a bit bumped and rubbed, endemic light browning of paper. Uncommon with seemingly only three copies on WorldCat. Provenance: from the collections of Jean Pierre Faur and Emmanuel Pierrat. Goron was an eminent policeman who is considered to be one of the founding fathers of modern French evidence-based criminal investigation. He was the head of the Su?rete? , the French FBI perhaps, between 1887-1894 but was dismissed during a corruption purge and, like Vidocq, he became a private detective. This very detailed, and famous, memoir of his time with the police recounts crimes passionelles and the sexual organisation and mores of Paris during the Belle E?poque . The opening scene of the first chapter describes the dead body of a murdered young 'fille publique' of the ' lowest' type, thus: 'Cette femme e?tait une fille publique de la dernie?re cate?gorie, une ?gigolette' des boulevards exte?rieurs, la tre?s vulgaire pierreuse'. 219035 NOTE: THESE ARE HEAVY AND LARGE BOOKS AND WILL ACCRUE EXTRA SHIPPING COSTS.…