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 catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablehe 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 malagaour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store
303 €
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The 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 casingthe title is between the never and the now
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Disc 1 2 the first hitof discs: 1 disc(s) studio / label: pink mist uk release date: 24 octdisc 1 8 a story, a sneakdisc 1 5 between the concrete and cloudsdisc 1 7 wait out the wreckdisc 1 4 awake in the dirt
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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 centuries 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 booksthese books provide clear and simple explanations of written and spoken latincomprehensive 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 bcethe 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 websitethis is the early edition of english translation in these volumes4th century ce) this vast storehouse of indian knowledge is normally hiddencatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablethese 11 volumes have been translated from the original sanskrit languagetraditionally, the authorship of the mahabharata is attributed to vyasathese volumes are an important translation which gives westerners a glimpse of this ancient indian civilisationbinding slightly-loose in volume iii & ivour 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, xiiare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiref:wikipedia kisari mohan ganguli (also kprinted calcutta - kolkata indiahis 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 successorsapprox 500 pages each volumeganguli) an indian translator first complete translation of the sanskrit epic mahabharata in englishgenerally good conditionthe mahabharata - mahabharata is one of the two major sanskrit epic of ancient india, the other being the ramaya?awith original red cloth covers, slight bumped corners
(England)
36 €
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Are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikititle: battaglia fra i romani e i sabini (battle between the romans and the sabines)catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablewonderful 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 canestrellithere is the blind stamp of the publisher below the titleour is plate number 9 (tavthe conditions are very good, and the quality of printing terrific (please see images of front and back)our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store
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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 umiddle 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 eastthis volume focuses on regions that were once part of the ottoman empire in western asia, the balkans, and north africacontributors 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 morethese engagements prompt larger questions about the consequences of american christian cultural projection into the wider worldsee 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 home
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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 centuriesit 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 formsincluding bibliography and indexa couple of bumps at corners, contents in excellent clean condition throughoutsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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 catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store
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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 everistthe 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 musicthe repertoire discussed ranges from schumann through wagner, mahler, zemlinsky, debussy, schoenberg, berg, webern and stravinsky to carter and birtwistlein very good conditioninterpretation is often considered only in theory, or as a philosophical problem, but this book attempts to demonstrate and reflect on the interpretive results of analysis1st edition published by cambridge university presshardback with dust jacketsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreowners book plate stamp on fly leaftwo 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 workthis book is devoted to music analysis as an interpretive activity
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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 makinglike their maker, they are quietly and lastingly effectivebeautifully 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 themselvesoxfam bookshop victoria book appears new & unread only blemish on back of floppy cover small rectangular mark, possibly remains of redundant price stickersee oxfam website for delivery information read morethey are still-lifes, piercingly final statements on their subject, and have endured owing to their technical brilliance and the ongoing fascination of students and photographersa serious man who earned his living as a teacher, karl blossfeldt () seems an unlikely candidate for aesthetic canonizationotherwise "as new"
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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 centuryoxfam bookshop byres road the development of literary theory in the lifetime of coleridge was to a surprising extent the making of the modern critical mindit 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 drsee oxfam website for delivery information read morejohnston, but there was also a discernible continuity in premises, aims and methodsthis 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-romantic
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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 catawikiin good conditioncatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableon the names of enrique iii and enrique iv and two billons still to be classified2) enrique iv castilla (), billon diamond blanca, sevilleobverse: 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 diamondmedieval periodinteresting lot for study, all the coins are very complete and bear beautiful tonalitiesplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitereverse: 'enricvs rex legioni' around a circle containing a border of 6 lobes with a rampant lion insidebillon coin to be classifiedfor a better evaluation of the lot, please see the photographsblanca in billon, struck in the name of enrique iii (), cobverse: 'enricvs rex castelles' around a circle with an edge of 6 lobes and a castle inside, with (mint) belowour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store
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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 centuryshe 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 explosionshe 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 mechanicsbergson, 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 timethe 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 timeoxfam shop kendal paperback as newsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe 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 todaycanales 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 timeeinstein considered bergson's theory of time to be a soft, psychological notion, irreconcilable with the quantitative realities of physics
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He 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 churchsome page edge and board wear, jacket is cutluther 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 easiersee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe sectarian movement was steadily gaining strength in england in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; dr whale examines its teachings and tells of its later developmentthe protestant tradition stems mainly from luther, calvin, and the sectariansoxfam 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 issuesafter 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 church
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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 catawikispine lightly detached from the cover but not broken, that’s the only flawcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablein , in the midst of the boulangist crisis, a million copies were printedthen, followed by albert londres, rené hachette, raymond patenôtre, saint-paulien, paul-émile victor, daniel-rops, roger vercel, stephen pichon, maxence van der meerschplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitele petit journal was a republican and conservative parisian daily publication, founded by moïse polydore millaud, which was published from tocollaborated with le petit journal in its early days: lamartine, alexandre dumas, alfred assolant, eugène chavette, charles monseletthe 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 conditioncarefully packed and protected shipping with insuranceour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store
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In 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 spiritualitythough 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 materialsee 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 bibleoxfam 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 pastorsincluded 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 theodoret
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 bookin a comparatively small area of land, eastwards from the cape, on territory demarcated by the great fish and the great kai rivershis starting point is the arrival of the first visitors to the cape, the portugeuse, ininternally all the pages are clean, tight and unmarkedit 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 impasseexternally 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 coverssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music beeston this book is in very good conditionnoel mostert vivdly recounts this momentous story and its appalling aftermath - the self-immolation of the xhosain 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 society
10 €
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The picture printer of the nineteenth century: george baxter (hardcover) stock photo, not the actual bookasin: beu38o plates in good condition with good colourbeing printed on hand made paper the edges are in original condition ie not been trimmededition: first edition description: condition: in very good condition without dust wrapper as issuedpublisher: sampson lowdate of publicationbinding: hardcoveryou can cut the plates out and sell individuallyplates in good condition with good colour95 or free collection read morecovers with minor rubbing and corners very slightly bumped
29 €
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Oxfam bookshop stratford upon avon church builders of the nineteenth century, by basil f l clarke  david & charles reprintscondition: very goodhardback; 8vo, xx+296ppa reprint with new preface, corrections and annotations by the authorinternally clean see oxfam website for delivery information read morebinding tight and appears little read; owners bookplate to ffepdust jacket condition: goodreprint of the originaltext and illustrations bright and clear throughoutin overall very good used condition with only slight signs of age and handling
9 €
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London's lost theatres of the nineteenth century by erroll shersonbook condition: very good - clean covers, tightly boundfeaturing 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 otherssee oxfam website for delivery information read morelight foxing to fore-edges and preliminaries, otherwise clean throughoutnotes on the plays and players follow the likes of ellen terry, edward blanchard, and henry irvinghardback, red cloth boardspublished john lane pp
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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 centuries see oxfam website for delivery information read morecovers a wide range of topics including astronomy, science and religion, natural philosophy, technology, medicine and alchemyrepresents a broad range of approaches from the seminal to the innovativepresents 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
14 €
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Contents clean and unmarked apart from light foxing to top page edges and an inscription on inside front coveroxfam 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 lifesee oxfam website for delivery information read moregrey cloth covers in very good conditiondust jacket in good condition with fading to the spine and sticker damage to the back cover
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 timethere are 50 black and white plates and a frontispiece together with 7 illustrations within the textthe 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 wrapperadhesive tape residue evident in some placesgood condition internallysee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis copy is the first, , edition but was subsequently rebound probably in when it was part of a university librarybinding in very good conditionthere is evidence of previous repair which was made good by the rebinding
17 €
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Oxfam bookshop knutsford 1st edition longman green and co pages show some tanning, but otherwise they are free of marks and annotationssee oxfam website for delivery information read more 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
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 centuriessee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis 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 index
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 centuriesthe 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 himselfrichly 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 churchsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit 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 england
6 €
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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 centuryit would have taken any other artist decades of reflection and formulation51 colour reproductions - oils, gouaches, pastel; 20 pen & pencil drawings in two tones show the full range of the artist's styleart series which offers a series of monographs on the great masters of modern artthe work of the blue and rose periods was produced by a very young man in a span of hardly more than four yearssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe four years were full of travel and abrupt changes of location, passion, poverty, depression and inspirationvery good condition with just some light tanning to the white parts of the dust jacket and some light edge wear to the jacket
19 €
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Lawrence, 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 eastit 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 inthe 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 yearsusing 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 revengesir mark sykes was a visionary politician; françois georges-picot a diplomat with a grudgethe 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 frontierterritory north of that stark line would go to france; land south of it, to britainin , 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 palestineagainst 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 rulesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethrough a stellar cast of politicians, diplomats, spies and soldiers, including toxfam books & music marlborough in , in the middle of the first world war, two men secretly agreed to divide the middle east between them
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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 €