Robert jasper more (4 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - bTitle:/b Under the Balkans. Notes of a visit to the district of Philippopolis in 1876 . With map . and illustrations, etc.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.br/br/The HISTORY OF EUROPE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection includes works chronicling the development of Western civilisation to the modern age. Highlights include the development of language, political and educational systems, philosophy, science, and the arts. The selection documents periods of civil war, migration, shifts in power, Muslim expansion into Central Europe, complex feudal loyalties, the aristocracy of new nations, and European expansion into the New World. br/br/++++br/The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:br/++++br/br/b/b British Librarybr/b/b More, Robert Jasper; br/b/b 1877.br/b/b 8º.br/b/b 10126.aaa.14.br/.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z: 228p. - The evocative duotone photographs show John Cage alone and in association with Merce Cunningham, Marcel Duchamp, Octavio Paz, Aaron Copland, and many others. The book provides public and private glimpses into the man who transformed chance from an inescapable inevitability of life into disciplined creativity through music, writing, philosophy, printmaking, and, on the largest scale of all, living. John Cage Was gives us a privileged view of an irreplaceable man who had few enemies and innumerable disciples.…

Cloth. Zustand: Good. First edition. An uncommon and fascinating travel account in Bulgaria following the April Uprising, 'from the author', with a foldign map. The uncommon first edition of Under the Balkans: Notes of a Visit to the District of Philippopolis, written by Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament Robert Jasper More. Published in 1877, the same year as the Russo-Turkish War. In the publisher's decorative original green cloth, with an engraved frontispiece by Swain, a folding map, a folding table, and an engraved plate of a Bulgarian family. Collated complete. Contains an inscription 'from the author' to half-title. A fascinating account from More's time staying in Philippopolis, modern day Plovdiv in Bulgaria, including stories from locals, his visit to the governor, and his various travels around the area following the April Uprising. His visit was during the final year of Ottoman rule over Bulgaria, with the country becoming independent the following year with the Treaty of Berlin, following the Russo-Turkish war. A Member of Parliament for Shropshire South and then later Ludlow, More took a keen interest in mining and supported Lord Winchilsea's Agricultural Union. In the publisher's decorative original green cloth. Externally, signs of mottling to bottom corners of boards. Slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine, and to the extremities. Brown end papers are generally clean with fading to the extremities. Slight spotting to previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with the odd spot, mostly to first and final leaves, and to folding table. Heaviest spotting to p.1. Good. Swain (illustrator). signed by author. book.…