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 yearsoxfam books & music olneythough 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 culturesee oxfam website for delivery information read morein 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 knowledgea 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 politicallight wear on the cover edges, but a very clean unmarked book
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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)dust jacket: falselist price (msrp)first edition: falsecondition: very good
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Rare fifty pence coin hundred years of girl guidescirculated but in good conditioncash on collection
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Bladestorm: the hundred years war (ps)condition is gooddispatched with royal mail 2nd class large letter
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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 tradethere is a page of additional text on the company history glued in on the inside of the back boardfull-page black and white photographs throughout (see images 2 and 3 for examples)little signs of use and inside the text block and images are bright and cleanunusual, grained papera quality, collectable itemtasteful soft-yellow cloth cover, with taped spine and title lettering in gilt along spine, shows minor wear see oxfam website for delivery information read moreno highlighting or other notesvery good condition for its age
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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 conditionare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikitake 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 storeplease look closely at the photos, they are part of the descriptionplease 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, exclare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikithe values with traceour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storesassone catalogue value: €880 please see the scanned images to form your own impressionplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteshipped via registered mail with trackingcatawiki’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 yearssee oxfam website for delivery information read morereaders 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 knittingoxfam books & music bridport knitting vintage socks: new twists on classic patterns adapts sock patterns from the weldon's practical needlework book seriesnancy 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 sizes
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nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the greek thinker heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words "phusis kruptesthai philei"  (taken from inside the front of the dust jacket) see oxfam website for delivery information read morefine overall, with dj (unclipped "$")  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  clean and tightly bound with no inscriptions or annotations but with very occasional side-linings in textgreen/black boards with gold titlesoxfam books & music winchester 399pp  dust jacket in very good condition with very slight signs of shelf wear  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
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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 subscribersthirty lines per page and a fairly large letter typefairly complete set consisting of eight volumes with eight different title engravings and a total of sixteen text engravings (two per volume) by gour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeeach volume has a separate table of contents and a mention of where the illustrations are placedthe eight volumes respectively have and 568 ppthey are easy to read because of the relatively small text blocks with only approxso a total of twenty-four engravingsthe other volumes are withoutthe books are very sturdily boundcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available8 kilograms and have a shelf width of approxplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitethe text pages are somewhat rough, though still very whitethe title page and an illustration in volume 2 have a water stainthe photos give a good impression and all engravings are picturedalso volumes 2 through 5 contain (a relatively short) list with subscribersare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikithe text blocks are practically intact, without stains or tearsthe combined weight of the books is approx
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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 peoplesmall blemishes here and there on the coversour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeall covers have been slightly retouchedde saint-victor - tableau historique et pittoresque de paris, depuis les gaulois jusqu'a nos joursthe back cover of volume 12 had some more damage and the leather of the spine has some shortcomings at the toponly sporadic paper damage13) tome iv, 676 ppgood quality paper, sometimes minor to moderate foxing, little dirtthe spines of the publisher’s covers have crumbled and are missing parts of mainly the extremities2) tome quatrième, f-h, 687 pp5) tome huitième, s-z, 725 ppthe top of volume 6 has been reinforced with a linen strip and the leather has been somewhat supplemented3) tome sixième, m-o, 680 pp9) tome douzième, r-z, 578 ppcondition: in good condition considering the binding method(wikipedia: 'college hageveld is an atheneum and a former small seminary in heemstede' etc12) tome iii, 650 pp1) tome troisième, c-e, 703 ppthe leather has been repeatedly treated with lanolin for preservation6) tome neuvième, a-b, 331 ppin a generally good conditiongood quality paper, minor browning and light to sometimes moderate foxing, little dirtcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availabledédié 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 cmthe hinges of volume 3 have been re-closed with the help of linen strips and damage at the top has been treated with pva glue4) tome septième, p-r, 660 ppthe book blocks are broken, though take in consideration that the sections were only affixed at publication with a single stitch7) tome dixième, c-h, 512 ppthe book blocks are in very good condition, are compact, firmly bound, smooth page edgesthe leather of the spine extremities, along the hinges, and the cover corners have wearsmall list with other publications of the publisher11) tome ii, 554 ppthe leather spines have signs of ageing here and there, though are (except for the wear) in complete and intact conditionplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitesmall list of other publications by the publishersupplemental and uniformly bound: the four volumes 'supplement' (complete)are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiall corners have been treated with pva glue to stop the delamination14) tome v, 687 ppprovenance: ex-library college hageveld10) tome i, xv, 562 ppin short: possibly a ‘project’ of a few thousand pages with a good basede 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 cm8) tome onzième, i-r, 482 ppvolume 1 misses the publisher’s front coverthe exterior is smudgya blemish here and thereas far as i have been able to determine, complete
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Although nearly two years old has hardly been used, cream coloured leather two piece sofa, cost £
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Spiralbound landscape format bookletsee oxfam website for delivery information read moremany monochrome illustrations, drawings and photos showing tenby during its 200 year historyoxfam 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 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 beginssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe new ripley is different to the original in several respects, but some things never changeit is not long before ripley is forced to team up with a gang of smugglers to repel the acid-blooded killing machinesin ridley scott's 'alien' () the crew of a deep-space mining vessel come across something decidedly unpleasant on a mysterious planetin 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' sagaafter leaving the desolate planet, they realise that something has survived and is on their ship
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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 scholarshipoxfam 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, culturalgreats (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 reformssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe book as a whole offers a pioneering, wide-ranging survey of classics in oxfordits rival, cambridge, was long dominated by mathematics, while oxford's leading study was classicsan 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"" fine condition
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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 powerintegrating 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 documentsnew possibilities emerged for cultural exchange and combination, social and political order, and literary expressionsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop beverley peverell press, respected london publishing house with two hundred years of tradition, is taken over by new managementsee oxfam website for delivery information read morecommander adam dalgliesh, policeman in charge of the investigation, is convinced that the reasons for the death lie in the sinister pastsoon 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 ()see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe first edition () which used much fresh material and was revisionist in its conclusions, ended with the outbreak of war inoxfam bookshop wallingford balliol college has existed as a community of scholars on its present site without interruption since aboutballiol 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 timesby this token it is the oldest college in oxford or cambridgethe 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 epilogueballiol 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 romethe second edition included new detail throughout, a greatly increased number of illustrations, and it brought coverage up to in an extended epilogue
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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 gatheringand 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 throughoutsee 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 knowingcamden, 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 deadthere is a very small scratch to the back dust jacket, barely noticeableoxfam 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 away
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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 moredust jacket has some marks, and is a little bumped along the top edge, but is complete and not price-clippedoxfam bookshop henley-on-thames 117 ppincluding appendices
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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 uit 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 warsacred vessels tells the story of the evolution of the battleshipsee oxfam website for delivery information read morebattleships 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 presencemilitary 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 impracticalnavy, the battleship served as chief guardsman of territory, reigning as monarch of the seaedmunds awesome in size, immensely powerful and ingrained in the socio-economic and psychological structure of the uoxfam books & music bury st
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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 betweenpublished in as part of the universal wind series see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop lower petergate collection of studies for flute, by various composers, including guiseppe gariboldi, joachim anderson & benoit tranquille berbiguier
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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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