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A sovereign people. A study of Swiss democracy. Edited by John A. Hobson.
New York, Doubleday, Page, 1907, gr. in-8°, XVI + 273 p., with a photographic plate (Urner Landsgemeinde bei Altdorf), title page lightly spotted, original cloth binding, fairly good copy.
First edition of this early study on Swiss democracy. This classical of politics was written during the two long visits the author paid to Switzerland in 1901 and 1902. Contains: A laboratory of democracy / The growth of Swiss democracy / The Commune / The Landsgemeinde or State commune / Popular checks on the representative system / Direct democracy in the federation / The nationalisation of the railroads / The state for the workers / Industrial peace / Municipal ownership / The co-operative movement / Swiss socialism / Effects of the referendum and initiative / The fruits of democracy.
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ORIGINAL METHODE TOUSSAINT-LANGENSCHEIDT, ENGLISCH
Langenscheidt. 1908. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. défraîchie, Dos abîmé, Intérieur acceptable. 695 pages. 40-50 plaquettes réunies dans leur couverture d'origine. Texte en caractères gothiques. Manque sur le dos. Emboîtage défraîchi et très abîmé.. . . . Classification Dewey : 430-Langues germaniques. Allemand
Methode Toussaint-Langenscheidt, Brieflicher Sprach- und Sprech-Unterricht für das Selbststudium der Englischen Sprache. Classification Dewey : 430-Langues germaniques. Allemand
Introduction à l’histoire de la guerre en Allemagne, en M. DCC. LVI. entre le Roi de Prusse, et l’Impératrice-Reine avec ses alliés. Ou Mémoires militaires et politiques du général Lloyd.
Londres, Chez A.F. Pion, 1784. In-4 de LXXII-218-[2]-V pages, plein veau marron, dos à nerfs orné. Dos frotté, mors fendus, coiffes manquantes, plats frottés avec manque au 2nd plat.
Illustré de 6 cartes et 5 plans dépliants en fin de volume. Bien complet. Lloyd (Henry, Humphrey, Evans), aventurier anglais né en 1720, mort à Huy en 1784. Il assista à la bataille de Fontenoy et attira l’attention du Maréchal de Saxe par ses croquis militaires. Après divers avatars, on le retrouve à Londres comme agent secret. Il se distingue en 1747 au siège de berg-op-Zoom comme officier du génie de l’armée française. Il passe ensuite au service de l’Espagne, puis de la Prusse. Il livre en 1754 au gouvernement anglais un plan du Maréchal de Belle-Isle pour une descente en Angleterre. Lloyd sert successivement l’Autriche, Ferdinand de Brunswick, la Prusse et la Russie. Il se fixe enfin en Belgique où il meurt en 1784.
Luxury and Power : Persia to Greece
, British Museum Press, 2023 Hardcover, 240 pages, ENG, 255 x 195 x 25 mm, NEW, illustrated in colour / b/w, very, very interesting!. ISBN 9780714111964.
Luxurious objects are celebrated for their exoticism, rarity and style, but also disparaged as indulgent, extravagant and corrupt. The ancient origins of these attitudes emerged at the boundary between the imperial Persian and democratic Athenian Greek worlds. Luxury was at the center of the royal Persian court and behaviors of ostentatious display rippled through the imperial provinces, whose elite classes emulated luxury objects in lesser materials. But luxury is contrastingly depicted through Athenian eyes - within the philosophical context of early democratic codes and the historical context of the Greco-Persian Wars, which suddenly and spectacularly brought eastern luxuries into the imagination of the Athenian populace for the first time. While Greek writers rejected luxury as eastern, despotic and corrupt, the Athenian elite adopted Persian luxuries in imaginative ways to signal status, distinction and prestige. Under the Macedonian empire of Alexander the Great and its subsequent kingdoms, royal Achaemenid luxury culture would later be adopted and displayed by the Macedonian and local elite across the Greek and Middle Eastern worlds: behaviors of ostentatious display were a means to seek advantage in the new Hellenistic world order. Ultimately, this publication demonstrates how competing political spins woven around 2,500 years ago still continue to shape modern perceptions of luxury today.
(Collectif) Gregory Battcock, Jack Burnham, Edward Fry, George Davis, Dore Ashton, Gerrit Henry, William Packer, G S Whittet, Conway Lloyd Morgan
Reference : f14540
(1972)
Art and artists. International art guide. "Amerikan rip-off" Volume 6. issue number 71
Colin Naylor, february 1972. Un volume agrafé, 215 x 280 mm, couverture illustrée, 70 p. Edition originale. Richement illustré en noir et couleurs. Texte en anglais. Couverture légèrement passée, intérieur bon.
