Between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
List between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
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Work by a magnificent watercolourist who lived and painted between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, enrique marĂn sevilla (granada -madrid )are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storehe was a painter and draughtsman belonging to the andalusian school of the 19th centuryplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitehe devoted himself to watercolour, a specialty that he mastered with great skillhe was a contemporary of enrique marĂn higuero (arriate -madrid ), a sculptor from malagacatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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The title is between the never and the nowthe item format is a cdfor this specific sale the cds sleeve condition refers only to the inner paper insert sleeve, and does not refer to the outer digipak, jewel case or cardboard outer casing
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Disc 1 5 between the concrete and cloudsdisc 1 7 wait out the wreckdisc 1 2 the first hitof discs: 1 disc(s) studio / label: pink mist uk release date: 24 octdisc 1 4 awake in the dirtdisc 1 8 a story, a sneak
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Oxfam bookshop ipswich kennedy's latin books have acquired a firm place in english culture: they are not simply excellent textbooks on the latin language but are symbols of what schoolchildren have endured and enjoyed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuriesthese books provide clear and simple explanations of written and spoken latin see oxfam website for delivery information read moreeven thought this famous book is being brought to you in a new edition it remains complete and includes extra material from kennedy's other grammar bookscomprehensive and easy to use with coverage of all the key points of latin grammar, the shorter primer is the ideal learning tool for the beginner in latin
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The mahabharata was probably compiled between the 3rd century bce and the 3rd century ce, the original events related by the epic probably fall between the 9th and 8th centuries bcethis is the early edition of english translation in these volumesganguli) an indian translator first complete translation of the sanskrit epic mahabharata in englishref:wikipedia kisari mohan ganguli (also kour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecondition volumes included i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi (vii not included) viii, ix, x, xi, xiihis translation published as the mahabharata of krishna-dwaipayana vyasa translated into english prose between and , by protap chandra rai (), a calcutta bookseller who owned a printing press and raised funds for the project it narrates the struggle between two groups of cousins in the kurukshetra war and the fates of the kaurava and the pa??ava princes and their successorsthese volumes are an important translation which gives westerners a glimpse of this ancient indian civilisationgenerally good conditionapprox 500 pages each volumewith original red cloth covers, slight bumped cornersthe mahabharata - mahabharata is one of the two major sanskrit epic of ancient india, the other being the ramaya?aprinted calcutta - kolkata indiacatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablethese 11 volumes have been translated from the original sanskrit languagebinding slightly-loose in volume iii & iv4th century ce) this vast storehouse of indian knowledge is normally hiddentraditionally, the authorship of the mahabharata is attributed to vyasathe text probably reached its final form by the early gupta period (cplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki
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36 €
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Are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storetitle: battaglia fra i romani e i sabini (battle between the romans and the sabines)our is plate number 9 (tavwonderful lithographs after the famous frescoes by ludovico, annibale and agostino carracci in bologna on the founding of romeplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website9) of a set of 28 published by litografia zannoli in bologna in year , engraved by gioan battista frulli and gaetano canestrellithe conditions are very good, and the quality of printing terrific (please see images of front and back)catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablethere is the blind stamp of the publisher below the title
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Oxfam bookshop knutsford during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, american missionary encounters in the middle east set foundations for later usee oxfam website for delivery information read moremissionaries presented examples of american culture to middle eastern peoples, just as they interpreted the middle east for americans back homecontributors explain the distinctly american dimensions of these missionary encounters, the cultural influences they exerted on the region, and their consequences for local nationalism, print culture, education, and morethis volume focuses on regions that were once part of the ottoman empire in western asia, the balkans, and north africamiddle eastern relationsthis is an excellent resource for specialists in history, middle eastern studies, american studies, religious studies, missiology, and anyone interested more broadly in american engagement in the middle eastthese engagements prompt larger questions about the consequences of american christian cultural projection into the wider world
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Oxfam bookshop henley-on-thames the beaten track is a major study of european tourism during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuriessee oxfam website for delivery information read moreincluding bibliography and indexit draws on a wide variety of sources from high literature and travel writing to periodicals and guidebooks to reveal an important current in the history of the modern concept of 'culture', in both popular and elite formsa couple of bumps at corners, contents in excellent clean condition throughout
20 €
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1 "the poets of the nineteenth century" by rev robert aris willmott george routledge, london - first thus edition - 394p, 20cmx15cm - condition; good, original binding with some wear and rubbing, some page foxing, some scribbling and inscription endpapers"english sacred poetry of the sixteenth seventeenth eighteenth and nineteenth centuries" selected by willmott george routldge, london - new edition - ill by various incl gilbert and engraved by brothers danziel - 419p, 25cmx20cm - condtion: good, gift inscription to ffep, some foxing, complete with all illustrations, housed in mylar coverare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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Oxfam books & music fareham analytical strategies and musical interpretation: essays on nineteenth and twentieth century music edited by craig ayrey and mark everistinterpretation is often considered only in theory, or as a philosophical problem, but this book attempts to demonstrate and reflect on the interpretive results of analysistwo associated types of practice are emphasised: 'translation', the transformation of one type of experience or art object into the musical work, the artistic attempt to persuade us that the new product is as valid as its original, or more so than its origin; and 'rhetoric', the attempt to persuade us, through structure, to accept the signifying power of the workin very good conditionthe repertoire discussed ranges from schumann through wagner, mahler, zemlinsky, debussy, schoenberg, berg, webern and stravinsky to carter and birtwistle1st edition published by cambridge university presssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis book is devoted to music analysis as an interpretive activitythe unifying theme of the essays is the interpretive transformation of concepts, ideas and forms that constitutes the heart of the compositional process of nineteenth- and twentieth-century musicowners book plate stamp on fly leafhardback with dust jacket
23 €
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But his photographs of plants, which he took in the thousands over more than thirty years, reveal a formally rigorous talent whose precision and dedication bridge the nineteenth and twentieth century worlds of image makingbeautifully but starkly composed against plain cardboard backgrounds, blossfeldt's images, relying on a northern light for their sense of volume, reveal nothing of the man but everything of themselvesthey are still-lifes, piercingly final statements on their subject, and have endured owing to their technical brilliance and the ongoing fascination of students and photographersotherwise "as new"see oxfam website for delivery information read morelike their maker, they are quietly and lastingly effectivea serious man who earned his living as a teacher, karl blossfeldt () seems an unlikely candidate for aesthetic canonizationoxfam bookshop victoria book appears new & unread only blemish on back of floppy cover small rectangular mark, possibly remains of redundant price sticker
15 €
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The primary concern of this book is with the english theory of poetry, and to a lesser extent of the other major arts, during the first four decades of the nineteenth centuryit stresses the common orientation which justifies us in identifying a specifically 'romantic' criticism; but not, i trust, at the cost of overlooking the many important diversities among the writers who concern themselves with the nature of poetry or art, its psychological genesis, its constitution and kinds, its major criteria, and its relation to other original and enduring critics of the time, rather than with the run-of-the-mill reviewers who often had more immediate, though shorter-lived influence on the general reading publicthere were many important differences between, let us say, horace's art of poetry and the criticism of drthis continuity was broken by the theories or romantic writers, english and german; and their innovations include many of the points of view and procedures which make the characteristic differences between traditional criticism and the criticism of our own time, including some criticism which professes to be anti-romanticsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop byres road the development of literary theory in the lifetime of coleridge was to a surprising extent the making of the modern critical mindjohnston, but there was also a discernible continuity in premises, aims and methods
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4 €
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Medieval spain, set of coins struck between the 13th and 14th centuriesare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikireverse: 'enricvs rex legioni' around a circle containing a border of 6 lobes with a rampant lion inside2) enrique iv castilla (), billon diamond blanca, sevilleon the names of enrique iii and enrique iv and two billons still to be classifiedbillon coin to be classifiedinteresting lot for study, all the coins are very complete and bear beautiful tonalitiesour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeblanca in billon, struck in the name of enrique iii (), cin good conditionfor a better evaluation of the lot, please see the photographsplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteobverse: 'enricvs rex castelles' around a circle with an edge of 6 lobes and a castle inside, with (mint) belowobverse: enricvs dei gracia around a rhombus containing a castle, with s (mint) below reverse: xps vincit xps around a rhombus containing a crowned rampant lion no decoration between the circular edging and the diamondcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablemedieval period
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Jimena canales introduces readers to the revolutionary ideas of einstein and bergson, describes how they dramatically collided in paris, and traces how this clash of worldviews reverberated across the twentieth centurythe physicist and the philosopher is a magisterial and revealing account that shows how scientific truth was placed on trial in a divided century marked by a new sense of timesee oxfam website for delivery information read morebergson, who gained fame as a philosopher by arguing that time should not be understood exclusively through the lens of science, criticized einstein's theory of time for being a metaphysics grafted on to science, one that ignored the intuitive aspects of timeshe also discusses how bergson and einstein, toward the end of their lives, each reflected on his rival's legacy-bergson during the nazi occupation of paris and einstein in the context of the first hydrogen bomb explosioncanales explains how the new technologies of the period-such as wristwatches, radio, and film-helped to shape people's conceptions of time and further polarized the public debateon april , in paris, albert einstein and henri bergson publicly debated the nature of timeoxfam shop kendal paperback as newshe shows how it provoked responses from figures such as bertrand russell and martin heidegger, and carried repercussions for american pragmatism, logical positivism, phenomenology, and quantum mechanicsthe physicist and the philosopher tells the remarkable story of how this explosive debate transformed our understanding of time and drove a rift between science and the humanities that persists todayeinstein considered bergson's theory of time to be a soft, psychological notion, irreconcilable with the quantitative realities of physics
12 €
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreafter him calvin, with his remorseless logic, may seem an unsympathetic figure; but here he is shown in his proper light as the great statesman and doctrinarian of the young churchhe speaks with conviction and vigour about issues including religious tolerance and intolerance and the conflict between church and state; he closes with a plea for unity the churchoxfam bookshop carlisle first published in , this book was intended to offer a new interpretation of early protestantism and, against this background, a searching treatment of modern religious issuessome page edge and board wear, jacket is cutthe protestant tradition stems mainly from luther, calvin, and the sectariansthe sectarian movement was steadily gaining strength in england in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; dr whale examines its teachings and tells of its later developmentluther was the revolutionary genius; because of his acute sense of paradox his teaching is difficult to understand, but dr whale's summing-up makes it a good deal easier
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Between the 19th and 20th centuries and up to the first world war, it was one of the four largest french daily newspapers, along with le petit parisien, le matin and le journalare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikithe illustrations are fresh and the colours are vibrant and of very good qualitywe are offering you this bound copy of 51 issues of le petit journal supplément illustré from 2 january to 25 decemberpaperboard binding in perfect conditionle petit journal was a republican and conservative parisian daily publication, founded by moïse polydore millaud, which was published from tocarefully packed and protected shipping with insuranceour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storethen, followed by albert londres, rené hachette, raymond patenôtre, saint-paulien, paul-émile victor, daniel-rops, roger vercel, stephen pichon, maxence van der meerschin , in the midst of the boulangist crisis, a million copies were printedcollaborated with le petit journal in its early days: lamartine, alexandre dumas, alfred assolant, eugène chavette, charles monseletplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitespine lightly detached from the cover but not broken, that’s the only flawcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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Included in this ministry were homilies on the old testament by john chrysostom and written commentaries by his mentor diodore and his fellow student theodore, and later by theodoretin the course of this survey, readers will gain an insight also into antioch's worldview and its approach to the person of jesus, to soteriology, morality and spiritualitysee oxfam website for delivery information read morestudents and exegetes of the old testament and its individual authors and books will be introduced here to antioch's distinctive approach and interpretation by commentators reading their local form of the greek biblethough the biblical text was admittedly jewish in origin, "the text and the meaning are ours," claimed chrysostom; and the great bulk of extant remains reveals the pastoral priority given to this often obscure materialoxfam bookshop glossop road very good condition, no real marks or wear in the period between the councils of nicea and chalcedon in the fourth and fifth centuries, the faithful in the churches of the ecclesiastical district of antioch were the beneficiaries of the ministry of the word from distinguished pastors
70 €
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The story of the nine 'kaffir' wars, fought in the 18th and 19th centuries between the whites and the xhosa nation, form the heart of this astonishing booksee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music beeston this book is in very good conditionin an epilogue he observes that the end of the wars did not mean the end of the agony, but rather a legacy of pain and anger that to this day shapes south african societyit was here that the crucial frontier was variously to be found - the volatile border where colonial expansion met local intransigence and brutal warfare proved the only solution to the impassehis starting point is the arrival of the first visitors to the cape, the portugeuse, innoel mostert vivdly recounts this momentous story and its appalling aftermath - the self-immolation of the xhosainternally all the pages are clean, tight and unmarkedin a comparatively small area of land, eastwards from the cape, on territory demarcated by the great fish and the great kai riversexternally the bottom right corner of the front cover has been creased and the is some slight signs of edge wear on the front and back covers
10 €
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The picture printer of the nineteenth century: george baxter (hardcover) stock photo, not the actual bookpublisher: sampson lowplates in good condition with good colourbinding: hardcoverbeing printed on hand made paper the edges are in original condition ie not been trimmedcovers with minor rubbing and corners very slightly bumpedyou can cut the plates out and sell individually95 or free collection read moreasin: beu38o plates in good condition with good colouredition: first edition description: condition: in very good condition without dust wrapper as issueddate of publication
29 €
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Oxfam bookshop stratford upon avon church builders of the nineteenth century, by basil f l clarke  david & charles reprintsin overall very good used condition with only slight signs of age and handlinghardback; 8vo, xx+296ppbinding tight and appears little read; owners bookplate to ffepa reprint with new preface, corrections and annotations by the authorcondition: very goodreprint of the originaldust jacket condition: good see oxfam website for delivery information read moreinternally cleantext and illustrations bright and clear throughout
9 €
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London's lost theatres of the nineteenth century by erroll shersonpublished john lane pplight foxing to fore-edges and preliminaries, otherwise clean throughoutsee oxfam website for delivery information read morehardback, red cloth boardsfeaturing numerous black-and-white plates detailing the stadiums, performers, and streets of london during this time period (all checked and accounted for), this volume revisits the olympic theatre, the princess's theatre, the old strand theatre, toole's theatre, the bower saloon amongst many othersbook condition: very good - clean covers, tightly boundnotes on the plays and players follow the likes of ellen terry, edward blanchard, and henry irving
(England)
14 €
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Introduces students to the best recent writings on the scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuriesoxfam shop bishop's stortford this book introduces students to the best recent writings on the scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuriescovers a wide range of topics including astronomy, science and religion, natural philosophy, technology, medicine and alchemypresents work by scholars who have been at the forefront of reinterpreting the scientific revolution great condition copy of a excellent book for students and historians of the period see oxfam website for delivery information read morerepresents a broad range of approaches from the seminal to the innovative
14 €
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Contents clean and unmarked apart from light foxing to top page edges and an inscription on inside front coverdust jacket in good condition with fading to the spine and sticker damage to the back coversee oxfam website for delivery information read moregrey cloth covers in very good conditionoxfam bookshop tavistock this book of extracts from 'the west briton', cornwall's leading newspaper, spans the years from and is the last of four sequent volumes which together encompass all aspects of everyday cornish life
6 €
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Oxfam shop newcastle upon tyne starting from the premise that the most important contributions to tool building up to the end of the nineteenth and into the early 20th century came from english (the author probably means british) and american tool builders, the author, in this book, tries to bring out the importance of the work and influence of the great tool builders on the industry of their timeadhesive tape residue evident in some placesthis copy is the first, , edition but was subsequently rebound probably in when it was part of a university librarygood condition internallythere are 50 black and white plates and a frontispiece together with 7 illustrations within the textsee oxfam website for delivery information read morebinding in very good conditionthere is evidence of previous repair which was made good by the rebindingthe scope of the book is evident in the table of contents seen in the second image included with this listingsome grubby marks and a few pages show foxingno dust wrapper
17 €
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop knutsford 1st edition longman green and co some rubbing on the top and bottom of the spine and minor marks on cover inscriptions in ink on one page in front of book pages show some tanning, but otherwise they are free of marks and annotations
19 €
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This is a study of the epidemiology of the plague, covering religious belief, plague in the ancient world, middle ages up to the 18th and 19th centuriesthis covers vectors of plague ie rats, fleas, other rodents, human transmission of plague, finally dealing with methods of containment and controloxfam shop macclesfield the conquest of plague, by l fabian hirst, md, oxford university press, pp including indexsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
40 €
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham this fascinating new book explores what life was like during the templars' stay in somerset during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuriessee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe author has found compelling evidence to suggest the church was not only built on templar land, but had a connection with the grand master of the order himselfit reveals the struggles over land ownership in the county, and introduces the reader to little known historical characters including william de marisco, revealing his struggle with the templars, and claim to the throne of englandrichly illustrated and compiled using original research, this book is sure to appeal to everyone interested in medieval historythe final chapter explores the controversy surrounding a carved wooden man's head discovered in a somerset church
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Oxfam bookshop lymington this book traces the life and work of a painter twenty years old at the beginning of the twentieth centurythe work of the blue and rose periods was produced by a very young man in a span of hardly more than four yearsvery good condition with just some light tanning to the white parts of the dust jacket and some light edge wear to the jacketsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreart series which offers a series of monographs on the great masters of modern art51 colour reproductions - oils, gouaches, pastel; 20 pen & pencil drawings in two tones show the full range of the artist's stylethe four years were full of travel and abrupt changes of location, passion, poverty, depression and inspirationit would have taken any other artist decades of reflection and formulation
19 €
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Sir mark sykes was a visionary politician; françois georges-picot a diplomat with a grudgesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreagainst the odds their pact survived the war to form the basis for the post-war division of the region into five new countries britain and france would rulelawrence, winston churchill and charles de gaulle, a line in the sand vividly tells the story of the short but crucial era when britain and france ruled the middle eastin , after many years of intrigue and espionage, britain finally succeeded in ousting france from lebanon and syria, and hoped that, having done so, it would be able to cling on to palestineoxfam books & music marlborough in , in the middle of the first world war, two men secretly agreed to divide the middle east between themthe creation of britain's 'mandates' of palestine, transjordan and iraq, and france's in lebanon and syria, made the two powers uneasy neighbours for the following thirty yearsthrough a stellar cast of politicians, diplomats, spies and soldiers, including tit explains exactly how the old antagonism between these two powers inflamed the more familiar modern rivalry between the arabs and the jews, and ultimately led to war between the british and the french in and between the arabs and the jews inusing newly declassified papers from the british and french archives, james barr brings this overlooked clandestine struggle back to life, and reveals, for the first time, the stunning way in which the french finally got their revengeterritory north of that stark line would go to france; land south of it, to britainthe deal they struck, which was designed to relieve tensions that threatened to engulf the entente cordiale, drew a line in the sand from the mediterranean to the persian frontier
19 €
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Oxfam shop clitheroe the only book of its kind in any language, travel in the ancient world offers a lively, comprehensive history of ancient travel, from the first egyptian voyages recorded in old kingdom inscriptions through greek and roman times to the christian pilgrimages of the fourth and sixth centuriesrich in anecdote and colorful detail, it now returns to print in paperback with a new preface by the authorsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
15 €