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Wraps. Zustand: Very Good. Stiff card stock wraps. 12 pp. With a few black and white illustrations. All text in French. A catalog to a 1965 exhibition of art by Pierre Sicard, a French artist inspired by earlier Impressionism. Of note is an official invitation to dinner (presumably to Pierre Sicard) from General Jacob E. Smart of the US Armed Forces, who was serving as the Deputy Commander in Chief, United States European Command at the time. Includes a guest list of various generals, Sicard and others. VERY GOOD condition. Minor uneven toning, soiling and edgewear. …

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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. Fine large book in fresh clean black cloth covers with bright gilt titles to spine. Internally mint, free of inscriptions; lavishly illustrated. The dust jacket is fine and not price clipped. A most attractive copy.

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Publisher's printed boards, lightly worn, enleaves somewhat fragile, front hinge cracked but remains attached. Provenance: Swedish artist Vera Nilsson (1888-1979), with early ownership inscriptions, one dated Paris 1921. Jena, Verlegt bei Eugen Diederichs, 1909. Large 8vo. [iv] + 280 pp. With 200 reproductions of Italian Early Renaissance Art.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 240 pages. German language. 8.27x5.83x0.55 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: Sehr gut. Third Edition. 14.3cm x 21.5cm. 512 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of german sociologist Klaus Beyme, with his name on endpaper, dated in Heidelberg, 1977. This benchmark book launches a far-reaching exploration into the meaning, manifestations, and significance of ethnicity in modern society. The distinguished authors offer a kaleidoscope of facts, ideas, and perceptions, and they tempt inquiring readers to speculations and observations of their own. Contributions include: Basic Group Identity: The Idols of the Tribe: Harold R. Isaacs/ Some Theoretical Considerations on the Nature and Trends of Change of Ethnicity: Talcott Parsons/ Toward a General Theory of Racial and Ethnic Group Relations: Milton M. Gordon/ Ethnic Identity: Donal L. Horowitz/ Ethnicity and Social Change: Daniel Bell/ On the Subnations of Western Europe: William Petersen/ The Transmission of Cultural Heritages: The Case of the Irish and the Italians: Andrew M. Greeley and William C. McCready/ Blacks and Neo-Ethnicity in American Political Life: Martin Kilson/ Ethnic Pluralism in Canadian Perspective: John Porter/ Context and Choice in Ethnic Allegiance: A Theoretical Frameword and Caribbean Case Study: Orlando Patterson/ Indian, Mestizo, and Cholo as Symbols in the Peruvian System of Stratification: Francois Bourricaud/ Communal Conflict in Southeast Asia: Milton J. Esman/ Ethnic Stratification and the Military Agrarian Complex: The Uganda Case: Ali A. Mazrui/ Reflections on the Nationality Problems in the Soviet Union: Richard Pipes/ Ethnicity, Language Demands, and National Development in India: Jyotirindra Das Gupta/ China: Ethnic Minorities and National Security: Lucian W. Pye etc.…

Zustand: Befriedigend. 10 x 16.5 cm. LIX, 276 pages. Original hardcover. Very Good condition but with signs of external wear. From the library of George Wooley Gough, with his name to the pastedown (G.W.Gough). With annotations throughout. Presentation-copy blind-stamp to titlepage. Classical Series. Aristophanes (c. 446 c. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion (Latin: Cydathenaeum), was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. These, together with fragments of some of his other plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and are used to define it. Also known as "the Father of Comedy" and "the Prince of Ancient Comedy", Aristophanes has been said to recreate the life of ancient Athens more convincingly than any other author. His powers of ridicule were feared and acknowledged by influential contemporaries; Plato singled out Aristophanes' play The Clouds as slander that contributed to the trial and subsequent condemning to death of Socrates, although other satirical playwrights had also caricatured the philosopher. Aristophanes' second play, The Babylonians (now lost), was denounced by the demagogue Cleon as a slander against the Athenian polis. It is possible that the case was argued in court, but details of the trial are not recorded and Aristophanes caricatured Cleon mercilessly in his subsequent plays, especially The Knights, the first of many plays that he directed himself. "In my opinion," he says through that play's Chorus, "the author-director of comedies has the hardest job of all." (Wikipedia).…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Bücher zählen bis heute zu den wichtigsten kulturellen Errungenschaften der Menschheit. Ihre Erfindung war mit der Einführung des Buchdrucks ähnlich bedeutsam wie des Internets: Erstmals wurde eine massenweise Weitergabe von Informationen möglich. Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung, aber auch die Unterhaltung wurde auf neuartige, technisch wie inhaltlich revolutionäre Basis gestellt. Bücher verändern die Gesellschaft bei heute.Die technischen Möglichkeiten des Massen-Buchdrucks führten zu einem radikalen Zuwachs an Titeln im 18. Und 19 Jahrhundert. Dennoch waren die Rahmenbedingungen immer noch ganz andere als heute: Wer damals ein Buch schrieb, verfasste oftmals ein Lebenswerk. Dies spiegelt sich in der hohen Qualität alter Bücher wider.Leider altern Bücher. Papier ist nicht für die Ewigkeit gemacht. Daher haben wir es uns zur Aufgabe gemacht, das zu Buch gebrachte Wissen der Menschheit zu konservieren und alte Bücher in möglichst hoher Qualität zu niedrigen Preisen verfügbar zu machen.…

Provenance/Bookplate. Rosenstock, Morton. Louis Marshall, Defender of Jewish Rights. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1965. 334 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt stamped spine, near fine in very good price clipped dust jacket with Brodart. Bookplate of Alfred Heacock Whittaker to front pastedown, otherwise internally clean. $45. * A study of constitutional lawyer and communal leader Louis Marshall, focusing on his advocacy work during the early twentieth century. Rosenstock examines Marshall's leadership within the American Jewish Committee and his legal efforts to combat antisemitism, immigration restrictions, and civil rights violations. The text analyzes Marshall's methodology in navigating public policy, defending minority rights, and responding to domestic and international crises, including the Henry Ford antisemitic campaigns and the aftermath of the First World War. From the library of Dr. Alfred Heacock Whittaker (1894-1982). Whittaker was a prominent Detroit industrial surgeon, civic leader, and a dedicated bibliophile who served as President of the Book Club of Detroit in 1965 and President of the Detroit Historical Society in 1966. Provenance/Bookplate (illustrator).…

Zustand: Sehr gut. 12.9 cm x 19 cm. V, 120 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector's Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Moderate to heavy discolouration and foxing to edges, front and rear pastedown enpapers and endpapers. Dustjacket top and spine frayed. Blue cloth and gold gilted hardcover. 'A.A.Buchanan' inscription on front endpaper; Alan Alexander Buchanan's personal copy. Alan Alexander Buchanan was an Anglican bishop in the second half of the 20th century. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard. Includes for example the following essays: The Revelation of God in Nature / The Divine Love and Anger / The Revelation of God in Christ / The Resurrection of the Body / The Revelation of God in Mankind / Psychology and Institutional Religion / Vocation to the Ministry etc. A collection of W.J. Sparrow Simpson's sermons, a personal exploration of God in nature, man and community life in Christianity. William John Sparrow Simpson was an English Anglican priest and writer. He wrote the libretto for John Stainer's oratorio The Crucifixion, several hymns, and more than fifty books. He was chaplain of Ilford Hospital Chapel from 1904 until his death. (Wikipedia) Alan Alexander Buchanan (28 February 1905 4 February 1984) was an Anglican bishop in the second half of the 20th century. Buchanan was born in Fintona. Educated at Masonic Boys School and Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in history and political science in 1928. He was ordained in 1931. He served as a chaplain with military forces during the Second World War, notably parachuting into Arnhem in 1944 and being captured by the Germans. In the Airborne Museum at Oosterbeek there is a serviceman's prayer card displayed which is signed by Buchanan. He was with the Church of Ireland Mission in Belfast until 1937, after which he held incumbencies at St Cedma Inver and St Mary, Belfast and St Comgall, Bangor. He was Bishop of Clogher from 1958 to 1969, when he became Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland. He resigned in 1977 and died on 4 February 1984. Among other things, Buchanan was known as an advocate for women's ministry. In the early 1970s, he spoke to the Diocesan Synod of Dublin: "Is it right to limit the possibility of ordination to one half of the Church ? - Our House of Bishops has recently echoed the view of Lambeth that there is no theological reason against the ordination of women. The Church in Canada has already decided in favour.the Church of Ireland should at least declare its mind on the subject." He personally invited and trained the first five women to be commissioned Lay Readers in the Church of Ireland in 1975, including Daphne Wormell and Patricia Hastings-Hardy. When the group chose a maroon liturgical gown, which looks similar to the bishops' red, he told them, "If they like to think I am commissioning five lady bishops, let them think it!" His daughter, Desiree Stedman, was ordained in the Anglican Church of Canada. She was accepted into training in 1982 before the Church of Ireland voted to ordain women as deacons in 1984, and as priests and bishops in 1990. Buchanan missed these developments, having died in February 1984. (Wikipedia).…

Zustand: Sehr gut. Two Volumes (complete set). 15 cm x 23.9 cm. Pagination: Volume I: XXIV, 516 pages. Black and white frontispiece and twelve illustrations / Volume II: VI, 551 pages including a thorough Index. Black and white frontispiece and ten illustrations. Hardcover / Original publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Both volumes in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor rubbing to both spines. Deckled edges. Binding strong. Tissue-guards for illustrations and therefore the illustrations and portraits with some browning. From the library of british journalist and conservative politician James Mackenzie Maclean. Both volumes contain his Exlibris "J.M. MacLean". Includes for example the following chapters: Cambridge, 1828-1830 / London Life and the 1842 Volumes / Switzerland 1846, and Letters 1846-7 / Derbyshire and Yorkshire. Letters. 1862-1864 / My Mother's Journal , and Letters, 1873-74 / The Queen / Impressions, by T.Watts-Dunton, 1883-1892 etc. A chronological memoir and rich biography of British poet, Alfred Lord Tennyson. He was the Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets. (Wikipedia).…

Zustand: Wie neu. Small Octavo (10,5 cm x 18 cm). XXVIII, 269, [3] pages. Hardcover / Original full eather with gilt ornament to spine. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Several manuscript entries by preowners of the William Splaine - Family in Bandon.

Second, revised Edition. c. 21 x 14 cm. xiii, 304 pages. Complete with 38 Plates, 12 Illustrations in Text and a folding Map at the end of the book. Complete, as listed. Original light blue cloth. Hard cover. Gilt title on spine. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Name of previous owner on front free end paper. Top right corner of front free end paper cut out. Ex Libris of Sue and Charles Nelson on front paste down. Beautiful gift inscription by Charles Nelson to his wife Sue on first blank page. Provenance: E. Charles Nelson was a Taxonomist at the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin, and Foundation Chairman of the Irish Garden Plant Society. His Books include 'An Irish Flower Garden' (1984), 'The Brightest Jewel': a History of the National Botanic Gardens (1987), 'The Burren': a Companion to the Wildflowers of an Irish Limestone Wilderness (1991), 'An Irish Florilegium I & II', 'Flowers of Mayo' and 'Shamrock': Botany and History of an Irish Myth.…

Zustand: Wie neu. 13 cm x 19.5 cm. XIX, 93 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. From the library of poet and critic, Milton Hindus, with his name on the front free endpaper. Includes poems by the following writers: Victor Barnouw / Mary Bidgood / James H. Brown / Elizabeth J. Buchtenkirk / Sophie Himmell / Catherine Haydon Jacobs / Margaret Mc Garvey / Thomas Merton / Harry Rosenstein / Milton Hindus etc. "Thomas Merton (1915-1968) is arguably the most influential American Catholic author of the twentieth century. His autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain, has sold over one million copies and has been translated into over fifteen languages. He wrote over sixty other books and hundreds of poems and articles on topics ranging from monastic spirituality to civil rights, nonviolence, and the nuclear arms race."(Wikipedia) ____________________________________________.…

Zustand: Wie neu. No.155 of only 200 copies of a limited edition (for Subscribers only). 4°. XXV, 546 pages. Original Hardcover (red cloth with gilt lettering on spine). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Overall an excellent condition. Internally bright and clean. Bookplate of John Henry Hervey Vincent Lane "Garde le Roy" (Kings Bromley / Staffordshire) to pastedown.…

Zustand: Wie neu. First Edition. 15 cm x 23 cm. Frontispiece, XVI, 333 pages. 12 illustrations, including frontispiece. 8 maps, including fold-out colour map at rear showing "Major MacDonald's work in British East Africa." Hardcover [publisher's original maroon cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Deckled edges. Good- condition. Large yellow ''Mudie Select Library"- label on front board. Rear board bears remnant of removed label. Minor staining and rubbing to boards. Tears at gutters between pastedowns and endpapers with exposed cloth front and rear. Binding is shaky but bookblock still solid. Front endpaper partially loose. Armorial bookplate of Edmund Heathcote Thruston with latin inscription (Esse Quam Videri) on front pastedown. Names of two previous owners on half-title page. Occassional annotations throughout the book. Occasional foxing throughout. Rare ! Includes, for example, the following chapters: Ukambani - Company's Settlement and Fighting / Fighting in Kikuyu / War Against the Wavuma / First Contest Between Christians and Mohammedeans / Second Mohammedan War (Luggard's) / Events that led to the Third Mohammedan War / The last fortnight before the outbreak - Selim Bey's Intrigues / The Crisis - Victory at Rubaga / Fall of Selm Bey - Uganda Saved / Owen Victorious in Unyoro - Close of the Campaign / Concentration and Preparation Against Kabarega / Unyoro Expedition / Glossary etc. The maps listed include Kilimanjaro, Section of the Uganda Railway, Map of Uvuma Expedition, Map of the Mohammedan War 1889-1890 and Second Mohammedan War and maps for the Third Mohammedan War and Map of the Unyoro Expedition (all as sketched by the author). The author served as Chief Engineer of the preliminary survey for the Uganda Railway before being appointed as Acting-Commissioner of the Uganda Protectorate. The publication gives a narrative account of his role as the British forces attempted to quash a rebellion by the Wavuma tribe. Sir James Ronald Leslie Macdonald KCSI KCIE CB DL (1862 1927) was a Indian born, Scottish engineer, explorer and cartographer. He served as a British Army engineer, rose to the rank of Brigadier-General and was knighted in1900. After the period covered by this book, MacDonald was involved in some of major British imperial expeditions. In what became known as the Fashoda Incident, MacDonald helped secure the southern region of Sudan around the White Nile Basin for the British in 1898, he then served in the Second Anglo-Boer War in South Africa, took part in the international expedition against the Boxers in China and led the military force attached to an official expedition into Tibet in 19031904. (Wikipedia). …

Zustand: Sehr gut. First Edition. 21cm x 14.5cm. (8) 179 (4) pages. Fine copy in publisher's half cloth-covered boards and in near fine dust jacket. In protective Mylar. Very good + condition with only minor signs of wear. Inscribed by Robert Coles on front free endpaper to Francine (du Plessix Gray) in September 1971: "For Francine.Bob". These conversations, and the events surrounding them in the summer of 1970, describe a geography of faith whose landscape included open defiance of the government, a varied response from the psychiatric community, recourse to prayer and solitude, and, finally, nationwide attention that has heightened the meaning of nonviolent resistance in America. Underground from April to August, Father Daniel Berrigan refused to report to Federal authorities to begin imprisonment for his antiwar action at Catonsville, Maryland. Meanwhile, Daniel's brother Philip had been arrested and imprisoned in Lewisburg. In July he began a fast to protest prison harassment and the news provoked a reaction in many people, notable Dr. Robert Coles. Operating on both fronts, Coles visited Philip Berrigan in prison, then later met with Daniel Berrigan, still underground, to open a discussion on a variety of shared concerns. What is health anyway? What is the future of the nuclear family? How can the movement be 'a school of alternatives"? What are the responsibilities of the professionals? In general, how do a Jesuit priest and a child psychiatrist, in similar or dissimilar ways, deal with the demands placed upon human development in a time of war and national protest? This book, an edited transcript of the Berrigan-Coles conversations, deals with these and other questions. It also includes a remarkable, long introduction by Coles on the meaning of his own work and the example which Daniel Berrigan has tried to set. Dr. Robert Coles is a child psychiatrist presently associated with the Harvard University Health Services. Active in social issues, he is the author of a well-known study of the American poor, entitled 'Children of Crisis'.…

Zustand: Sehr gut. Onzieme Mille. Two Volumes (complete). Octavo. Volume I: Frontispiece-Portrait, 401 pages. / Volume II: 591 pages. Hardcover / Beautiful, blindstamped cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Inscribed by a family-member to Marie Cohn (Marie Helene Johanna Weber (Meyer-Cohn) 1887-1967), daughter of Berlin Banker Dr.Heinrich Cohn, on her birthday in 1898 (1887-1967). Marie Cohn has later added her own name to the books and dated her personal enry to 27.II.1898. Marie Cohn (1887-1967) was the eldest daughter of Dr. Heinrich Cohn, director of a private Berlin bank founded by one of the most established Jewish families, the Meyer-Cohns, in Berlin. (Source: Pinterest) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Marie Bashkirtseff, born Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva (24 November [O.S. 12 November] 1858 31 October 1884), was an émigré artist who was born into a noble family on their estate near the city of Poltava. She lived and worked in Paris, and died at the age of 25. From approximately the age of 13, Bashkirtseff kept a journal, and it is probably for this that she is most famous today. It has been called "a strikingly modern psychological self-portrait of a young, gifted mind", and her urgent prose, which occasionally breaks out into dialogue, remains extremely readable. She was multilingual and despite her self-involvement, was a keen observer with an acute ear for hypocrisy, so that her journal also offers a near-novelistic account of the late nineteenth century European bourgeoisie. A consistent theme throughout her journal is her deep desire to achieve fame, inflected by her increasing fear that her intermittent illnesses might turn out to be tuberculosis. In a prefatory section written toward the end of her life, in which she recounts her family history, she writes, "If I do not die young I hope to live as great artist; but if I die young, I intend to have my journal, which cannot fail to be interesting, published." Similarly: "When I am dead, my life, which appears to me a remarkable one, will be read. (The only thing wanting is that it should have been different)." In effect, the first half of Bashkirtseff's journal is a coming-of-age story while the second is an account of heroic suffering. (Wikipedia).…

Zustand: Wie neu. Octavo. Private Hardcover with original offprints and pamphlet bound in. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Extremely scarce and early publications by the pioneer of German ophthalmology. Cases listed within No. 3 of this collection are: 3. Vorträge aus der Gräfe'schen Klinik - Fortsetzung - (p.193 - p.275 aus dem Monatsblatt fuer Augenheilkunde, 1865): A. Fall I [Case I]: "Heilbare Form congestiver Amblyopie mit normalem Gesichtsfeld" B. Fall II [Case II]: "Progressive Amaurose durch Atrophie der Sehnerven" C. Fall IIII [Case III]: "Centrale Scotome mit Partieller Sehnerven-atrophie, nur allmaehlicher und unvollkommener Besserung faehig" D. Fall IV [Case IV]: "Gleichzeitige cerebrale Hemiopie, stationaer, als Residuum eines apoplectischen Insultes" E. Fall V [Case V]: "Progressive Amaurose, unter der Form centraler Scotome mit gleichzeitiger Anomalie der Gesichtsfeldperipherie auftretend" F. Fall VI [Case VI]: "Rasch entwickelte doppelseitige Erblindung mit einseitiger unvollkommener Restitution vermuthlich durch basilaren Tumor" G. Fall VII [Case VII]: "Anaesthesia retinae mit concentrischer Verengung des Gesichtsfeldes, rasche Heilung" H. Fall VIII [Case VIII]: "Temporale Hemiopie in Folge basilarer Affection (vermuthlich Periostitis) - Zweifelhafte Prognose. Heilung." Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Albrecht von Graefe (* 22. Mai 1828 in Berlin; 20. Juli 1870 ebenda) war ein deutscher Augenarzt, königlich preußischer Geheimer Medizinalrat und ordentlicher Professor der von ihm reformierten Augenheilkunde an der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin. Er begründete in Deutschland das Fach der Augenheilkunde oder Ophthalmologie, die bis dahin zur Chirurgie gehörte. Albrecht von Graefe entstammt einer sächsischen Familie und war der Sohn des königlich preußischen Geheimen Medizinalrats und Generalstabsarztes der Armee Carl Ferdinand von Graefe (17871840), ordentlicher Professor der Medizin und Chirurgie sowie Gründungsdirektor der Chirurgischen Klinik der Universität Berlin, und dessen Frau Auguste von Alten (17971857). Vater Carl Ferdinand war erst am 2./14. Februar 1826 in Sankt Petersburg in den polnischen erblichen Adelsstand erhoben worden mit preußischer Adelsanerkennung am 16. November 1826 in Berlin. Albrecht von Graefe war ein Patenkind des preußischen Königs Friedrich Willhelm III. Graefes Geburtshaus war die 1824 von Karl Friedrich Schinkel erbaute Villa Finkenherd in Berlin-Tiergarten, die ab 1880 das bekannte Ausflugslokal "Charlottenhof" beherbergte und 1943 den Bomben des Zweiten Weltkriegs zum Opfer fiel. An seiner Stelle wurde 1970 aus Anlass des hundertsten Todestages Albrecht von Graefes eine Gedenkstele errichtet, auf der zu lesen ist: "Hier stand der Finkenherd, das Geburtshaus Albrecht von Graefes, geb. 22. Mai 1828, gest. 20. Juli 1870". Albrecht von Graefe besuchte das Französische Gymnasium und studierte ab 1843 Medizin, Mathematik, Physik und Chemie in Berlin. Zu seinen Lehrern gehörten Lukas Schönlein, Emil du Bois-Reymond, Rudolf Virchow und Johann Christian Jüngken. Seine Dissertation mit dem Titel De bromo ejusque praesipuis praeparatis verfasste Graefe 1847 (auf Lateinisch) bei Johannes Müller. Danach war er Assistenzarzt in Prag, wo er begann, sich ganz der Augenheilkunde zu widmen. Als seinen ersten Lehrer auf augenheilkundlichem Gebiet nennt Graefe Ferdinand von Arlt, welchem er in Prag erstmals im Herbst 1848 begegnete. Er lernte weiter in Paris (bei Sichel und Desmarres), Wien (bei Friedrich Jäger von Jaxtthal) und London (bei William Bowman und George Critchett (18171882)) und kehrte 1852 nach Berlin zurück, wo er sich im selben Jahr für Chirurgie und Augenheilkunde habilitierte und eine private Augenklinik mit 120 Betten eröffnete, die sowohl in der Praxis wie auch in der Forschung alsbald Weltruhm genoss. Bei der Behandlung war Graefe außerordentlich sozial eingestellt, da er keinen Unterschied hinsichtlich der sozialen Schichten machte nicht zuletzt deshalb nannte ihn sein Schüler Julius Hirschberg in einem Nachruf einen "Apostel der leidenden Menschheit". Zwei Jahre später, 1854, gründete er mit dem "Archiv für Ophthalmologie" die erste augenärztliche Fachzeitschrift. Gemeinsam mit dem österreichischen Ophthalmologen Ferdinand von Arlt und dem niederländischen Physiologen Frans Cornelis Donders fungierte Graefe als Herausgeber. Zudem verfasste er zahlreiche wissenschaftliche Aufsätze. Er brachte die sich formierende Augenheilkunde mit anderen medizinischen Disziplinen dadurch in Verbindung, dass er die Zusammenhänge zwischen Augenleiden und inneren oder neurologischen Erkrankungen wie Diabetes mellitus, Nierenleiden oder Hirntumoren (Stauungspapille) aufdeckte. Im Jahr 1858 wurde Graefe zum Mitglied der Leopoldina gewählt. 1868 wurde Graefe Direktor der augenärztlichen Abteilung der Charité und war besonders erfolgreich bei der Behandlung des Grünen Stars und des von ihm schon zuvor ntersuchten Schielens (Strabismus). Ab 1866 wirkte er zudem als Ordinarius an der Universität Berlin. Die von Graefe entwickelte Operationstechnik, "modifiziert lineare Extraktionsmethode", des grauen Stars war Grundlage für die Operationsmethoden dieser Erkrankung bis in die 60er Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts. Bis dahin war das von ihm eingeführte schmale Starmesser, "Graefe-Messer", zur Eröffnung des Auges in Gebrauch. Mehr als 10.000 Augenoperationen soll er durchgeführt haben. Zu seinen bedeutenden Leistung zählt auch die Empfehlung der Iridektomie bei Glaukom. Verschiedene Fachbegriffe tragen den Namen des Mediziners, wie beispielsweise das "Graefe-Syndrom", der "Graefe-Fleck" oder der "Graefe-Reflex". Auch die konsequente Anwendung des von Helmholtz entwickelten Augenspiegels geht auf ihn zurück. Damit schuf er die Diagnostik der Augenkrankheiten des Augenhintergrundes (Aderhaut, Netzhaut, Sehnerv) und damit eine genauere Identifizierung der als Amblyopie bezeichneten Augenleiden. 1857 fand der erste Kongress der späteren "Deutschen ophthalmologischen.…

Zustand: Sehr gut. First Edition. Octavo. 99 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Rare Association ! Vernon Phillips Watkins (27 June 1906 8 October 1967) was a Welsh poet and translator. He was a close friend of fellow poet Dylan Thomas, who described him as "the most profound and greatly accomplished Welshman writing poems in English". Vernon Watkins was born in Maesteg in Glamorgan, and brought up mainly in Swansea. His birth coincided with slight earth tremors; another baby born that night was christened John Earthquake Jones. His parents were William Watkins, a manager for Lloyds Bank in Wind Street, Swansea, and Sarah ("Sally"), daughter of James Phillips and Esther Thomas of Sarnau, Meidrim. James Phillips was a Congregationalist, reputed to know most of the Welsh Bible by heart. Sarah had a love of poetry and literature; her headmistress arranged for her to spend two years as a pupil-teacher in Germany. William Watkins and Sarah Phillips married in 1902, and had three children, Vernon, Marjorie, and Dorothy. The family lived at "Redclliffe", a large Victorian house about 4 miles (6.4 km) from Swansea, at Caswell Bay. Watkins read fluently by the age of four, and at five announced that he would be a poet, although he did not wish to be published until after his death. He wrote poetry and read widely from eight or nine years of age and was especially fond of the works of John Keats and Shelley. He received his later education at a preparatory school in Sussex, Repton School in Derbyshire, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. In his early years at Repton, Watkins' quiet, gentle character provoked regular bullying from older boys, though in his last years he attained more popularity as he was able to show capacity in tennis and cricket. After he died, in 1968, the school wrote that he was "perhaps the best poet Repton has had". His headmaster at Repton was Geoffrey Fisher, who became Archbishop of Canterbury. Despite his parents being Nonconformists, Watkins' school experiences influenced him to join the Church of England. He read modern languages at Cambridge, but left before completing his degree. Dylan Thomas and the Swansea Group He met Dylan Thomas, who was to be a close friend, in 1935 when Watkins had returned to a job in a bank in Swansea. About once a week Thomas would come to Watkins' parents' house, situated on the very top of the cliffs of the Gower peninsula. Watkins was the only person from whom Thomas took advice when writing poetry and he was invariably the first to read his finished work. They remained lifelong friends, despite Thomas's failure, in the capacity of best man, to turn up to the wedding of Vernon and Gwen in 1944. Watkins was godfather to Thomas's son Llewelyn, the others being Richard Hughes and Augustus John. Thomas used to laugh affectionately at his friend's gossamer-like personality and extreme sensibility. A story is told that one evening in Chelsea, during the war time blackout, they were walking along and Vernon tripped over something and fell to the ground. Thomas looked with a torch to see what the offending object was and to his delight all that they could find was a small, black feather (FitzGibbon 1966). With Thomas, Watkins was one of a group of Swansea artists known as the "Kardomah boys" (because they frequented the Kardomah Café in Castle Street). Others among this Swansea Group were the composer Daniel Jenkyn Jones, writer Charles Fisher and the artists Alfred Janes and Mervyn Levy. Letters to Vernon Watkins by Dylan Thomas was published in 1957, four years after his death in New York. It proved to be the first in a number of books that linked Watkins and Thomas. The 1983 book Portrait of a Friend by Watkins' wife Gwen (née Davies) deals with the relationship between the two poets, and in 2013 Parthian Books published Vernon Watkins on Dylan Thomas and Other Poets & Poetry, a collection of previously-unpublished critical work with a foreword by Rowan Williams. Poems for Dylan, a collection of poems written by Watkins to Thomas, appeared from Gomer Press in 2003. It opens with the obituary Watkins wrote for his friend, which was originally published in The Times on 10 November 1953. Poems for Dylan also contains two poems ('At Cwmrhydyceirw Quarry' and 'Cwmrhydyceirw Elegaics') centred upon the quarry in Cwmrhydyceirw where, in August 1963, Watkins and the sculptor Ron Cour picked out the stone that would be inscribed with lines from 'Fern Hill' and placed in Cwmdonkin Park as a permanent memorial to Thomas. 'Cwmrhydyceirw Elegaics' had first seen publication in the January 1968 issue of Poetry magazine. Watkins' ambitions were for his poetry; in critical terms they were not to be fulfilled. On the other hand, he became a major figure for the Anglo-Welsh poetry tradition, and his poems were included in major anthologies. During the war he was for a time associated with the New Apocalyptics group. With his first book Ballad of the Mari Llwyd (1941) accepted by Faber & Faber, he had a publisher with a policy of sticking by their authors. In his case this may be considered to have had an adverse long-term effect on his reputation, in that it is sometimes thought that he over-published. Of the book, the publisher said: "Mr Vernon Watkins is a Welsh poet whose work hitherto has appeared only in periodicals and in recent anthologies. The only influence apparent upon his poetry is one he has thoroughly assimilated - that of W. B. Yeats. Otherwise his style differs radically from that of any of his older contemporaries, except for a racial quality which gives it something in common with that of Dylan Thomas. Mr Watkins is undoubtedly a poet with an uncommon sense of rhythm as well as of imagery." The British Library holds a manuscript draft of the poem with annotations by T. S. Eliot, showing Eliot at work as editor and board member at the publishing house Faber - his "day job" since 1925. The Lib.…