Shaw frederick john (27 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: Very Good. iii, 33 pp., Paperback, very good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. An excellent copy of this volume of ten essays exploring the relation between Gnosticism and later Platonism in the first four centuries C.E. The essays, presented at seminars held between 1993 1998, include a variety of disciplines and methodologies covering a diversity of Gnostic texts, ritual, and doctrine. Softcover, 6 X 9 , 338 pgs. Binding solid, sound. Interior crisp and unmarked. Very minor scuffing to the glossy covers and some very light shelf wear to the corners, but overall a very crisp copy of this comprehensive resource.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

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).…

Hardcover. 1st Edition. Folio (21 x 14 6/8 inches). 60 etched plates by and after Miller, including 41 plates of ornithology, some sepia-printed, all with exceptionally fine original hand-colour and heightened with gum arabic (light intermittent spotting and browning to the text leaves). Later half green morocco, marbled paper boards (backstrip nearly detached, extremities worn). Provenance: Ink library stamps of the North Devon Athenaeum on verso of the verso of the title-page, pages 81 and 106, and the verso of the last plate, the bequest of H.H. Sharland Second edition, first published between 1776-1792 under the title 'Various subjects of Natural History, wherein are delineated birds, animals and many curious plants'. The descriptions by George Shaw are published here in the second edition for the first time. This copy WITH the list of plates but not the 10-leaf Linnean table which formed the text to the first edition and is sometimes included in the second edition. Internally a very attractive copy. Including images of a number of birds and plants from South Africa, North and South America, the East Indies, Australia, and Antarctica. The quadrupeds, include a moose and a chameleon; the 'rare and curious' birds are depicted in a similar fashion to those in Catesby's 'The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands' with an exotic and relevant plant. Miller was the eldest son of engraver and botanist John Sebastian Miller, and it was probably through the elder Miller's acquaintance with Joseph Banks that "John Frederick was taken into Banks's employment. He drew many of the artefacts collected on James Cook's Endeavour voyage of 1768-71 and both brothers were to have accompanied Banks on Cook's second voyage. When that plan foundered, John Frederick accompanied Banks on his travels to the Orkneys, Hebrides, and Iceland in 1772; his drawings are now in the Natural History Museum, London. He subsequently published some of his engravings made from the Iceland drawings without Banks's permission, and allowed other plates to be used by Thomas Pennant to illustrate his "Arctic Zoology" (1784-7). In 1786-92 he published forty-three plates with descriptions, entitled "Various Subjects of Natural History", and in 1796 he illustrated George Shaw's "Cimelia physica", both works treating rare quadrupeds, birds, and plants" (Timothy Clayton for DNB). Fine Bird Books p. 94; Nissen IVB 638; Stafleu and Cowan 6033; Wood p. 465; Zimmer p. 585.…

Hardcover. 1st Edition. Folio (20 4/8 x 14 inches). 60 hand-colored etched plates by and after Miller, including 41 plates of ornithology, some sepia-printed and heightened with gum arabic (light intermittent marginal spotting, one or two small marginal repairs). Contemporary straight-grained crimson morocco gilt (rebacked preserving the original spine, a bit marked, a bit scuffed). Second edition and an attractive copy. This copy without the plate list and Linnean table found in the first edition and in some copies of the second. Miller was the eldest son of engraver and botanist John Sebastian Miller, and it was probably through the elder Miller's acquaintance with Joseph Banks that "John Frederick was taken into Banks's employment. He drew many of the artefacts collected on James Cook's Endeavour voyage of 1768-71 and both brothers were to have accompanied Banks on Cook's second voyage. When that plan foundered, John Frederick accompanied Banks on his travels to the Orkneys, Hebrides, and Iceland in 1772; his drawings are now in the Natural History Museum, London. He subsequently published some of his engravings made from the Iceland drawings without Banks's permission, and allowed other plates to be used by Thomas Pennant to illustrate his "Arctic Zoology" (1784-7). In 1786-92 he published forty-three plates with descriptions, entitled "Various Subjects of Natural History", and in 1796 he illustrated George Shaw's "Cimelia physica", both works treating rare quadrupeds, birds, and plants (Timothy Clayton for DNB). Fine Bird Books p. 94; Nissen IVB 638; Stafleu and Cowan 6033; Wood p. 465; Zimmer p. 585. Catalogued by Kate Hunter.…

Printed in black on one side of piece of 33 x 20 cm thick paper [full page containg image, 20 x 13cm]. Dimensions of print 23 x 13.5 cm [largest image in book, 15 x 9.5cm] . In good condition, on lightly aged and creased paper, with slight foxing. The image depicts: on the left, and extending the height of the print, an athletically-built black man, naked but for wreaths of flowers across his brow and his groin, penis and scrotum evident, leaning forward to proffer a flower to a naked black girl (the "Black Girl in Search", 17cm high), viewed from the back, whose left arm is raised, while her right is behind her back, holding a flower. According to Farleigh's entry in the Oxford DNB, he 'achieved wide acclaim and recognition for his illustrations to The Adventures of the Black Girl in her Search for God, written by George Bernard Shaw and published by Constable in 1932. Shaw commissioned Farleigh after requesting a trial drawing and was closely involved in the designs. Farleigh duly acknowledged Shaw's input in his partly autobiographical work Graven Image (1940) where he gave a detailed account of the progress of the book. Shaw's witty, satirical text, and Farleigh's quasi-erotic depictions of the African girl, 'a fine creature, whose satin skin and shining muscles made the missionary folk seem like ashen ghosts' (Shaw, The Black Girl, 1932, 8), guaranteed its success. The first edition of 25,000 copies, priced inexpensively at 2s. 6d., was sold immediately. This was the first mass-produced book of the period to contain wood-engravings and it was effective in popularizing the medium for commercial book illustration as well as for the private presses.' No information has been found concerning this woodcut in Farleigh's "Graven Image" or elsewhere but one reviewer found "sexual symbolism" which he didn't know if Farleigh was aware of (!) ("Graven Image", p.268. Recalling how a character in "Happy Days" (set in the 'fifties) could only find images of naked or near naked women in National Geographic African scenes, could "Adventures" have provided pin-ups suited to its era! But the naked black man may have been a step too far. Any information welcome. White space of image on file slightly clipped.…