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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Original gilt decorated burgundy boards, 253 printed pages. Usual browning to the pages, no inscriptions. The dust jacket is chipped to the corners and spine ends and rear top edge.

Zustand: Good. Sheet Music. Folio. 6 pp. Soft Covers, Good with covers detached, minor losses, small tears, edge wear, some staining, minor creases. Illustrated cover.

Hardcover. 1033 p. Good condition. Reading pages are clean and without marks. Retired library exemplar, with stamps on front cover. Corners slightly rubbed or bumped. No dust jacket. Still good copy. 9789283221203 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 2291.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. xiv, 456 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. ; ISBN 9780669280029, 066928002X OCLC 31890473 LCCN 94076841 LC DG533 .M27 1995 Dewey 945/.05 ; color pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; This collection of readings offers the best of contemporary Italian Renaissance scholarship, classic studies, and excerpts from a great variety of important primary sources in a single volume. Unique to this text is the presentation of conflicting interpretations of major issues in Renaissance history ; Contents: Pt. 1. The Renaissance problem -- 1. The Renaissance problem -- The culture of the Italian Renaissance / Jacob Burckhardt -- Did women have a renaissance? / Joan Kelly -- pt. II. The material world -- 2. The plage and public health -- The plague strikes Orvieto / Elisabeth Carpentier -- Medical reputations and the Black Death / Nancy G. Siraisi -- Sexuality and medicine in the Middle Ages / Danielle Jacquart and Claude Thomasett -- 3. The economy of city and countryside -- Landed property and trade in medieval Siena / Giuliano Pinto -- The preconditions for luxury consumption / Richard A. Goldthwaite -- Women's work in Renaissance Tuscany / Judith C. Brown -- 4. Urban needs and opportunities -- The Italian urban experience / Marvin B. Becker -- Social mobility in Florence / David Herlihy -- The urban territory of a Florentine merchant, 1400 / Christiane Klapisch-Zuber -- pt. III. Political forms -- 5. Renaissance Venice and Florence emerge -- Guild republicianism in Trecento Florence / John M. Najemy -- The Venetian aristocracy takes control / Frederic C. Lane -- 6. Forms of government in Renaissance Italy -- Communes and despots in late-medieval Italy / P.J. Jones -- The rise of the Medici / Dale Kent -- 7. Machiavelli's world -- The prince : political science or political satire? / Garrett Mattingly -- Machiavelli's advice to princes / Quentin Skinner Pt. IV. Humanism -- The beginnings of humanism / Ronald G. Witt -- Petrarch and the discovery of human nature / Hans Baron -- 9. Humanism serves the state -- In defense of civic humanism / Hans Baron -- The significance of civic humanism / Albert Rabil, Jr -- The moral philosophy of a Venetian humanist, Giovanni Caldiera / Margaret L. King -- 10. Schools of humanism -- Humanism and scholasticism in the Italian Renaissance / Paul Oskar Kristeller -- Antiquity versus modernity / Charles Trinkaus -- pt. V. Urban society and culture -- Maternity, widowhood, and dowry in Florence / Christiane Klapisch-Zuber -- Wives and husbands in late medieval Venice / Stanley Chonjnacki -- 12. Conspicuous consumption -- The building of Renaissance Florence / Richard A. Goldwaite -- Sumptuary law and social relations in Renaissance Italy / Diane Owen Hughes -- 13. Spirituality and ritual -- Ritual behavior in Renaissance Florence / Richard Trexler -- Art and pageantry in Renaissance Venice / Edward Muir -- 14. The end of the Renaissance? -- Changing assumptions in later Renaissance culture / William J. Bouwsma -- Clerics and laymen in Italian literature / Carlo Dionisotti ; FINE. Book.…

Front pastedown a little wrinkled; binding tight; 'gilt' on spine tarnished; lovely period dust jacket, based on the Fox film, protected in removable clear film Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.

Softcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 69 pages (pp 137-206 as intended) plus advertising pages (complete). A comfortable copy. The covers have foxing, wear. They are secure. The contents are mild-mannered. They are tidy, neat, clean, clear, contented, alert. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 240 pages. 8.98x6.22x0.63 inches. In Stock.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A splendid Cartoon/caricature portrait, mounted (matted) and ready to frame, printed in 1926 from an original drawing by Powys Evans, better known as Quiz. Mount size approx 12 x 8 inches, 30 x 20 cms. A fine study of Lord Darling, Sir Herbert Austin and Sir Richard Muir at the Old Bailey. POWYS EVANS (QUIZ) (illustrator).…

Zustand: BUONO USATO. IED. Da revisionare ITALIANO Pubblicazione n. 69 della collana, periodico bimestrale, il nostro il numero 3 di giugno 1976: 'Le ustioni e il loro trattamento', anno XII, prima edizione italiana dalla seconda inglese, traduzione di Giovanni Creton e Giovanni Del Giudice. Volume brossurato con copertina pieghevole, si nota una leggera compressione del piatto anteriore, marginali le mende da uso, tonalità velate da ossidazione minima, buono lo stato. Fogli patinati molto ben preservati, pigmentazione naturalmente alterata, cerniera stretta. Alcune figure corredano il testo. N. pag. 204.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Adolescent Suicide and Self-Injury | Mentalizing Theory and Treatment | Laurel L. Williams (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | vii | Englisch | 2020 | Springer | EAN 9783030428747 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 233 pages. 9.75x6.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 132 Pp. Bright Red Cloth, Elaborately Gilt On Front Cover, Elaborately Stamped In Blind On Rear Cover; Floral Endpapers. Pacific Press Imprint On Copyright Page, And Their Pacific Press Book Bindery" Paper Label On Front Pastedown. Possibly The Earliest Book To Include "Pasadena" In Its Title. Presentation Inscription To A Member Of A Prominent Pasadena Family From Winifred Farnsworth Hall, Daughter Of The Editor, Dated In 1945, And With The Recipient's Ownership Signature And A Few Pencil Notes Around The Printed Text Referring To His Family.…

Paperback. Several previous owner stamps to titlepage and endpapers, a little wear to spine, a little flecking to rear cover, otherwise good condition. Fold-out map. Part of the Records of the Western Australian Museum series Supplement No. 1. B/W photos. 88pp. ISSN 0313-122X.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good/Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. 12mo., 253pp. Sharp First Edition, the "Copyright Edition" a novelization of the film of the same name released in 1925 by Fox Films and starring Madge Bellamy, George O'Brien, and Walter McGrail. Dust-jacket has illustrations from the film but no interior screen-shots from the film are included. Undated but c.1927-1928. Though notoriously flimsily made, this is square, tight and clean throughout save some moderately toned page edges. Mid wear to spine ends, edges and tips. Spine a bit dulled. Equally attractive unclipped, though unpriced, dust-jacket, has small chips to the spine ends, tips and bottom rear edge. Still remarkably fresh and bright and quite scarce in such nice condition. A very pretty copy of an uncommon title, particularly on this side of the Atlantic. …

Paperback. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Pages 1-53 plus nine pages of nice ads. Features: The National Museum of Canada; Australia's Great Barrier Reef; Turtle-Hunting in Coral Seas; Cartier at Montreal; An Eminent Geographer; Civil Engineering in Frozen Soil; Fur Production in the Northwest Territories - article with many great photos plus production statistics; The Scottish Borderlands; and more. Moderate wear. Binding intact. Small name stamp inside front cover. A sound vintage copy.…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: America's Murder Gangs Unmasked - A striking revelation of the forces at work behind the "murder-gangs," or organized criminal syndicates, of New York, Chicago, and other large American cities; My Menagerie - Photo-illustrated article about D. Maule and his odd experiences with his collection of animals, acquired in the wilds of Rhodesia; "Square-Pegs" - Part III of a story which should be studied by everyone considering settling in Canada - in this case a London family purchases a prairie farm; The Crowing Cock - How two Buddhist priests unmasked a cunning thief by a clever piece of 'divination'; on the outskirts of Colombo, Ceylon; Room Forty-Nine - A dangerous experience for an Englishman in Mexico; "Kruger's" Day Out - A bold, bad baboon is unfastened by mischievous troopers in South Africa; Hunting the "Moonshiners" - Interesting stories from the officers tasked with suppressing the flow of illegal liquor in the Prohibition-era United States - with photos; Photo of communal bakery in Brittany; "Tiger" - After 11 years in Malaya William Hodge saw his first live tiger; Two Girls on the Frontier - Part I - Two city-bred sisters take up homesteading in South Dakota - with photos; Nik's Homecoming - Life and death in a remote Albanian village last August is described, with photos, by Lieut-Colonel P.T. Etherton; Mart Dayton's Grizzly - It took him a year but he finally took revenge on the bear that killed his young partner in the remote MacGregor country in British Columbia; The Bridge-Builders - Two men knowing nothing of the business take on a contract to build a bridge across an obscure river in the wilds of Africa; Fire-Walkers of Mauritius - A Photo-illustrated account of an extraordinary ceremony; In Quest of Gold - Part II - Two young Americans in search of buried treasure are forced to turn around by the dreaded Yaqui Indians. 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Sutcliffe, Norman; Goss, G.W.; gale, W.G.; Sindall, A.W.; Moorsom, F.G.; tresilian, S.; Wood, Stanley L.; Brock, R.H.; Carruthers, G.P.; Saunderson, E.J.; Prater, Ernest; Cleaver, Reginald (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Red Witch of Modjaji - A weird story related by a member of the old South African Constabulary on the edge of the Great Bushveld; In Search of Sea-Monsters - Part I - In 1921 F.A. Mitchell-Hedges set out on a two-year trip to the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea to discover the world's largest big-game fish - photo-illustrated article; The Convict Who Captured a Prison - Murderer Tom Slaughter was able to escape from the Arkansas State Penitentiary's "death cell" and escape from the prison, leaving all other prisoners and guards lock up! - article with photos; An Englishwoman in Upper Egypt - Part III (conclusion) - Winifred S. Blackman spent three winters with local people in Upper Egypt - article with photos; Photo of man in India who has committed to roll his body for two thousand miles from Rameswara to Benares! Trade-Wind Cay - Three men find themselves stranded on an uninhabited islet, once the lair of pirates, in the Spanish Main; Our Andean Adventures - Harriett Chalmers Adams travelled into the region across the Peruvian Andes and the mysterious "inside" country beyond, which she was the first white woman to penetrate - article with photos; The Great Dog Derby of La Pas - Photo-illustrated account of the annual race for men and dog-teams over two hundred miles of snow-covered wilderness at La Pas, Manitoba; To Afghanistan in Disguise - Part IV - The story of a British officer's journey, disguised as an Oriental, across a large part of India and finally into forbidden Afghanistan and beyond, living among the natives; The Bell of Solavetski - Ralph Durand spent twenty pounds to travel to faraway Archangel and the ice-covered Arctic wastes of Nova Zembla - article with photos; "Grip" and I - Part IV - A bull-terrier spared from death rewards his new owner, Count Nils Cronstedt, by saving him multiple times during his time as Commander of H.M.S. Heron and Assistant Marine Superintendant in Northern Nigeria; Across the Atlantic in "Shamrock" - Sir Thomas Lipton's racing yacht travels an adventurous 3,000 miles home to Britain for a refit (with photos; The Head-Hunters of the Sepik - Part IV - Beatrice Grimshaw explored up the Sepik River of New Guinea where she dealt with the local cannibals - article with photos; The Grey Devils - A grim story of hungry wolves in the Canadian North-West; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nice vintage ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Crombie, Charles; York W.G.; Whitaker, W.G.; Robinson, T.H.; Woodville, R. Caton; Prater, E.; Williams, C. Fleming; Wood, Stanley L. (illustrator). …

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Black Cat Luck - Story related by John McAgee, a Texas cowman; The Fete of "St. Muslin" - Annual festival in Tarare, France to honour M. Antoine Simonet, inventor of Muslin which is made in local mills - article with photos; Exploring in Central Barzil - Part III - A small English expedition explores the Amazon's forests and studies the native peoples; The Signalman Baboon - Photo-illustrated article about "Jack", a baboon who assists his crippled master, James Edwin Wide, in operating railway signals and other important tasks at Uitenhage, near Port Elizabeth, South Africa; Among the Bohemians - Photo-illustrated article on the peoples of the little-known young Republic of Czecho-Slovakia; The Three Angleteers - Part II - The continuing adventures of three bored Englishmen who travelled in Europe; Msimba Konguo's Curse - A curse is put on an Irish trader by a native headman in Nyassaland; Marooned! - A strange and romantic story of the South Seas, reminiscent of the old Island days when unscrupulous traders did much as they pleased; Treed By a Bison - Many sportsmen consider the Indian bison a more dangerous opponent than the tiger; Beating Our Way - Two young men surpass a hobo at his own game of getting free train rides; A Hundred Dollars a Day - Salmon Fishing Off Vancouver Island - long photo-illustrated article by Charles Greenwood; The Watching Eyes - A tale from the South African constabulary of Mangwere; My Volcano Trip - Climbing La Nevada, an active volcano near Toluca, Mexico; A Bunch of Keys - A traveller's story of an odd little adventure in Boston, MA in 1911; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Wood, Stanley L.; Webb, Arch.; Reynolds, Warwick; Abbey, S.; Prater, E.; Cameron, John; Soper, Geo.; Elcock, H.K.; Waters, D.B.; Woodville, R. Caton; Robinson, T.H.; Lloyd, S. (illustrator).…

Brochure/Pamphlet. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. An exciting collection of First World War pamphlets from the Oxford University Press. First edition of this collection printed in its entirety. As stated to each cover, a number of the pamphlets were printed previously and are now in later impressions. Collection comprised of: Oxford Pamphlets 1914: Series IV; Oxford Pamphlets 1914-1915: Series XVI; Oxford Pamphlets 1914-1915: Series XVII; Coronel and the Falkland Islands by A. Neville Hilditch; Bombastes in the Shades : A Play in one Act by Laurence Binyon; National Ideals by P. E. Matheson; Canada and the War by A. B. Tucker. Each series is comprised of five pamphlets. Series IV is bound together in the publisher's original red card boards. The collection is also accompanied by a resourceful guide to the 1914-1915 series, also as a pamphlet, and four further pamphlets from alternate series, as listed. Alsace-Lorraine and Coronel and the Falkland Islands are each illustrated with a map to the inside front cover. A vast selection of First World War pamphlets, printed by the Oxford University Press as an exploration into the philosophy, politics and history of the contemporary war. With contributions from the likes of Ramsay Muir, Ernest Dimnet and Sir Herbert Warren. Each series is comprised of five pamphlets. Series IV is bound together in the publisher's original red card boards. The collection is also accompanied by five further pamphlets, including the contents pamphlet. Externally, smart with minor shelf wear. Series IV features subtle tearing to the spine head and tail and sunning along the spine, top and fore edge. Covers generally a little spotted, most notably to the contents copy, with the occasional crease, but otherwise in very nice condition for their age. Internally, firmly bound. Page one of Nietzsche and Treitschke to Series IV lightly creased. First and last few pages of Series IV moderately discoloured, leaving the remaining text bright and clean, with only the odd spot. Pamphlets also remarkably bright and clean, mildly age toned with the rare spot. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…