Nearly two hundred years
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An outstanding piece of scholarship and a fascinating read, the body emblazoned is a compelling study of the culture of dissection the english renaissance, which informed intellectual enquiry in europe for nearly two hundred yearssee oxfam website for delivery information read morelight wear on the cover edges, but a very clean unmarked bookoxfam books & music olneya richly interdisciplinary work, the body emblazoned re-assesses modern understanding of the literature and culture of the renaissance and its conceptualisation of the body within the domains of the medical and moral, the cultural and politicalthough the dazzling displays of the exterior of the body in renaissance literature and art have long been a subject of enquiry, the body emblazoned considers the interior of the body, and what it meant to men and women in early modern culturein this outstanding work, jonathan sawday explores the dark, morbid eroticism of the renaissance anatomy theatre, and relates it to not only the great monuments of renaissance art, but to the very foundation of the modern idea of knowledge
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Three hundred years of kitchen collectibles (300 years of kitchen collectibles) by linda c
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One hundred years of the motor car by marco ruiz read more
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Fifty pence celebrating one hundred years off girlguiding uk i don’t know how much this is warth
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Celebrating one hundred years of girlguiding uk 50p read more
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Title: the hundred years war: english in france, (history and politics)list price (msrp)condition: very goodfirst edition: falsedust jacket: false
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Rare fifty pence coin hundred years of girl guidescash on collectioncirculated but in good condition
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Bladestorm: the hundred years war (ps)dispatched with royal mail 2nd class large lettercondition is good
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Oxfam bookshop newport 'buckinghams: a hundred years in the shoe trade ' charts the history of j buckingham and sons, the family boot and shoe retailers business based in norwich, and the development of the shoe tradelittle signs of use and inside the text block and images are bright and cleanfull-page black and white photographs throughout (see images 2 and 3 for examples)there is a page of additional text on the company history glued in on the inside of the back boardno highlighting or other notes see oxfam website for delivery information read moreunusual, grained papervery good condition for its agetasteful soft-yellow cloth cover, with taped spine and title lettering in gilt along spine, shows minor weara quality, collectable item
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A nice lot related to stan sakai: - usagi yojimbo - two hundred jizo - deluxe hc edition - signed #x hc with dust jacket + original drawing the lot is in mint conditionplease look closely at the photos, they are part of the descriptiontake care of each other and stay healthy! happy bidding! comic shop barabas read moreour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiplease 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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Republic the two complete years with full gum, exclshipped via registered mail with trackingour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storethe values with tracesassone catalogue value: €880 please see the scanned images to form your own impressionare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiplease 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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Translated into over two thousand languages, it is estimated that more than six billion copies have been sold in the last two hundred years alonein this seminal account karen armstrong traces the gestation of the bible to reveal a complex and contradictory document created by scores of people over hundreds of yearsoxfam shop wolverhampton the bible is the most widely distributed book in the worldsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Its inviting design and graceful tone evokes a more genteel time while presenting a bevy of colorful socks not seen for nearly a hundred yearsoxfam books & music bridport knitting vintage socks: new twists on classic patterns adapts sock patterns from the weldon's practical needlework book seriessee oxfam website for delivery information read morenancy bush updates 23 classic patterns from their rich past and reinvents them for today's knitters by including gauges, up-to-date yarns, and twenty-first century methods and sizesreaders can rely on the thorough by easy-to-follow patterns and instructions - including a helpful techniques section - and will love the sturdy spiral binding that makes this book a breeze to bring alongtry the gentleman's shooting stockings with fluted pattern, the ladies silk stockings with clocks, baby's bootikins, or the child's french sock incitron pattern and diaper knitting
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nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the greek thinker heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words "phusis kruptesthai philei"oxfam books & music winchester 399pp  the aphorism, usually translated as "nature loves to hide", has haunted western culture ever since and is the subject of this engaging study by pierre hadot  dust jacket in very good condition with very slight signs of shelf wear  clean and tightly bound with no inscriptions or annotations but with very occasional side-linings in textgreen/black boards with gold titlesfine overall, with dj (unclipped "$")  (taken from inside the front of the dust jacket) see oxfam website for delivery information read more  taking the allegorical figure of the veiled goddess isis as a guide and drawing on the work of both the ancients and later thinkers such as goethe, rilke, wittgenstein and heidegger, hadot traces successive interpretations of heraclitus' words
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This already almost two hundred years old set is made of marbled bindings with fairly thin cardboard covers and linen/fabric spines with a smooth black top layerthe first volume contains an elaborate 'naamlijst der inteekenaren', with as first ‘zijne majesteit de koning der nederlanden’ - two copies and no less than thirteen pages with other subscribersthey are easy to read because of the relatively small text blocks with only approxeach volume has a separate table of contents and a mention of where the illustrations are placedfairly complete set consisting of eight volumes with eight different title engravings and a total of sixteen text engravings (two per volume) by gthe text blocks are practically intact, without stains or tearsthe books are very sturdily boundso a total of twenty-four engravingsthirty lines per page and a fairly large letter typethe title page and an illustration in volume 2 have a water stainthe photos give a good impression and all engravings are picturedplease 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 catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablethe eight volumes respectively have and 568 ppthe combined weight of the books is approxalso volumes 2 through 5 contain (a relatively short) list with subscribers8 kilograms and have a shelf width of approxour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storethe other volumes are withoutthe text pages are somewhat rough, though still very white
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Still an attractive row of now two hundred years old bookstwo multi-volume french language historical workseach volume has two or three ‘planches’ with little portraits of famous peoplethe spines of the publisher’s covers have crumbled and are missing parts of mainly the extremitiesvolume 1 misses the publisher’s front coversupplemental and uniformly bound: the four volumes 'supplement' (complete)the back cover of volume 12 had some more damage and the leather of the spine has some shortcomings at the top4) tome septième, p-r, 660 ppdédié au roi - five volumes, complete - louvain, vanlinthout and vandenzande, - d'après la seconde edition, revue, corrigee et augmentée - softcover, publisher’s covers, largely uncut or not cut at all, 14 x 22 cm12) tome iii, 650 pp10) tome i, xv, 562 ppas far as i have been able to determine, completede feller - dictionnaire historique ou histoire abrégé des hommes qui sont un nom par le génie, les talens, les vertus, les erreurs, depuis le commencement du monde jusqu'a nos jours - nine of twelve volumes - paris/lyon, méquignon/guyot, - nouvelle édition - hardcover, gold decorated leather spine, gold lettered title labels in (original) green and red, marbled covers, yellow page edges, 14 x 21 cmgood quality paper, minor browning and light to sometimes moderate foxing, little dirt8) tome onzième, i-r, 482 ppprovenance: ex-library college hageveld3) tome sixième, m-o, 680 ppgood quality paper, sometimes minor to moderate foxing, little dirtall corners have been treated with pva glue to stop the delaminationthe leather has been repeatedly treated with lanolin for preservationall covers have been slightly retouchedthe leather spines have signs of ageing here and there, though are (except for the wear) in complete and intact conditionsmall blemishes here and there on the covers7) tome dixième, c-h, 512 pp1) tome troisième, c-e, 703 ppplease 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 catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablethe leather of the spine extremities, along the hinges, and the cover corners have wearde saint-victor - tableau historique et pittoresque de paris, depuis les gaulois jusqu'a nos joursthe book blocks are in very good condition, are compact, firmly bound, smooth page edges5) tome huitième, s-z, 725 pp9) tome douzième, r-z, 578 ppthe hinges of volume 3 have been re-closed with the help of linen strips and damage at the top has been treated with pva gluein short: possibly a ‘project’ of a few thousand pages with a good base11) tome ii, 554 ppsmall list with other publications of the publisheronly sporadic paper damage2) tome quatrième, f-h, 687 pp13) tome iv, 676 ppsmall list of other publications by the publishercondition: in good condition considering the binding method6) tome neuvième, a-b, 331 ppthe book blocks are broken, though take in consideration that the sections were only affixed at publication with a single stitch14) tome v, 687 pp(wikipedia: 'college hageveld is an atheneum and a former small seminary in heemstede' etcour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storethe top of volume 6 has been reinforced with a linen strip and the leather has been somewhat supplementedthe exterior is smudgya blemish here and therein a generally good condition
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Although nearly two years old has hardly been used, cream coloured leather two piece sofa, cost £
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moremany monochrome illustrations, drawings and photos showing tenby during its 200 year historyspiralbound landscape format bookletoxfam bookshop newport publishedvery good condition
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Finally, in jean-pierre jeunet's 'alien resurrection' (), two hundred years after ellen ripley died bearing the alien queen, a group of scientists successfully produce clones of both her and the alienin ridley scott's 'alien' () the crew of a deep-space mining vessel come across something decidedly unpleasant on a mysterious planetsee oxfam website for delivery information read morein david fincher's dark and brooding 'alien ) ripley crash lands on an old prison planet for convicted murderers - but something has hitched a ride with heroxfam shop clitheroe all four films in the 'alien' sagait is not long before ripley is forced to team up with a gang of smugglers to repel the acid-blooded killing machinesafter leaving the desolate planet, they realise that something has survived and is on their shipin james cameron's sequel, 'aliens' (), sole survivor ripley (sigourney weaver) and a team of space marines return to the alien's home planet to investigate some mysterious happenings, but soon a new deadly game of cat-and-mouse beginsthe new ripley is different to the original in several respects, but some things never change
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In this pioneering book, 16 leading authorities explore a variety of aspects of oxford classics in the last two hundred years: curriculum, teaching and learning, scholarly style, publishing, gender and social exclusion and the impact of german scholarshipgreats (literae humaniores) is the most celebrated classical course in the world: here its early days in the mid-19th century and its reform in the late 20th are discussed, in the latter case by those intimately involved with the reformsthe book as a whole offers a pioneering, wide-ranging survey of classics in oxfordsee oxfam website for delivery information read more" fine conditionits rival, cambridge, was long dominated by mathematics, while oxford's leading study was classicsoxfam bookshop raeburn place "oxford, the home of lost causes, the epitome of the world of medieval and renaissance learning in britain, has always fascinated at a variety of levels: social, institutional, culturalan opening chapter sets the scene by comparing oxford with cambridge classics, and several old favourites are revisited, including such familiar oxford products as liddell and scott's "greek-english lexicon", the "oxford classical texts", and zimmern's "greek commonwealth"
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Oxfam bookshop raeburn place in the two hundred years from london was transformed from a medieval commune into a metropolis of half a million people, a capital city and a major european trading centrelawrence manley shows how the literature and culture of london contributed to the new structures of capitalism, the process of 'behaviour urbanisation', and a paradoxical liberation of the individual through the city's concentrated powersee oxfam website for delivery information read morenew possibilities emerged for cultural exchange and combination, social and political order, and literary expressionintegrating literary and historical analysis, and drawing on recent work in literary theory and cultural studies, literature and culture in early modern london provides a comprehensive account of the changing image and influence of london in lyrics, ballads, jests, epics, satires, plays, pageants, chronicles, treatises, sermons and official documents
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Oxfam bookshop beverley peverell press, respected london publishing house with two hundred years of tradition, is taken over by new managementcommander adam dalgliesh, policeman in charge of the investigation, is convinced that the reasons for the death lie in the sinister pastsee oxfam website for delivery information read moresoon he is found dead under bizzare circumstancesgerard etienne, new yuppie ceo, wants to implement radical changes
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Even the relative obscurity of the next two hundred years was occasionally illuminated by famous members such as john evelyn the diarist () and james stirling the mathematician ()balliol blazed the trail in the early nineteenth century by introducing a competitive entrance examination, becoming a dominant influence throughout the british empire in victorian and edwardian timessee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe college's sometime members include many poets and men of letters, heads of government, heads of state, and religious leadersthe revised second edition has been brought up to in the extended epiloguethe second edition included new detail throughout, a greatly increased number of illustrations, and it brought coverage up to in an extended epiloguethe first edition () which used much fresh material and was revisionist in its conclusions, ended with the outbreak of war inby this token it is the oldest college in oxford or cambridgeoxfam bookshop wallingford balliol college has existed as a community of scholars on its present site without interruption since aboutballiol men were prominent in the collection of humanist literature in the fifteenth century, and the college was notorious in the century after that for adherence to rome
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Danger is waiting for them there, including a trip two hundred years into the future without the tardissee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhen reports reach unit of a ghost at auderly house - the site for the conference - the doctor and jo decide to investigatemeanwhile, back in the 20th century, a peace conference is urgently needed to prevent world war threeoxfam music shop byres road on earth in the 22nd century, daleks have enslaved the planet, and humans live in fear of their masters
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For those that have, their secret must remain held close for two hundred years, but time is slipping away, and malign forces are gatheringoxfam bookshop hampstead the parentations by kate mayfield - signed eighteenth-century london - the lives of the sisters fitzgerald, constance and verity, become entwined with the nearby fowler household, charged with providing safe harbour to a mysterious baby from far awaysee oxfam website for delivery information read moredeep within the savage beauty of iceland, a hidden pool grants those who drink from it endless lifethere is no way of knowingthere is a very small scratch to the back dust jacket, barely noticeableand for those who have sipped from the pool, they discover all too quickly that immortality is no gift, because in the absence of death, true darkness emergesthis book is in very good condition throughoutcamden, london, , december 17th - the lives of the sisters fitzgerald, constance and verity, are consumed by the wait for this boy, who may or may not be dead
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There is a gift inscription, possibly from the author, on the front pastedown, and the last two pages are creased; the contents of the book are otherwise in excellent order, clean and brightsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreincluding appendicesoxfam bookshop henley-on-thames 117 ppdust jacket has some marks, and is a little bumped along the top edge, but is complete and not price-clipped
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Oxfam bookshop st albans two hundred years of harpischord music see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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For two hundred years it played an essential role in ubattleships have never played an actively important role in the outcome of any modern war but they have continued to be resurrected and refurbished, capturing the hearts of the public with their awesome beauty and size, and the myopic devotion of the military with their patently inefficient presencesacred vessels tells the story of the evolution of the battleshipedmunds awesome in size, immensely powerful and ingrained in the socio-economic and psychological structure of the usee oxfam website for delivery information read moremilitary affairs, yet as robert l o'connell demonstrates, the battleship was never actually an effective weapon of war - even before advances in submarine and aircraft technology rendered it impracticaloxfam books & music bury stnavy, the battleship served as chief guardsman of territory, reigning as monarch of the seait is a cautionary tale about the often unacknowledged influence of human faith, culture and tradition and of the exceedingly important, costly and, supposedly rational, process, of nations arming themselves for war
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The selection of material has been made from a very wide range of musical periods covering approximately the two hundred years betweenoxfam bookshop lower petergate collection of studies for flute, by various composers, including guiseppe gariboldi, joachim anderson & benoit tranquille berbiguier see oxfam website for delivery information read morepublished in as part of the universal wind series
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Over the last two hundred years, the railways of britain have progressed from a few pioneering wagonways and plateways of the late eighteenth century to what they are todaycash on collection
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