‎Crossing Boundaries. Issues of Cultural and Individual Identities in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 1999 Hardback, XII+283 p., 15 b/w ill., 2 b/w tables, + 2 music scores, 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503508184.‎

‎The essays collected here cover a range of topics and periods, and have in common the concept of boundaries, which is defined according to discipline, and movement through boundaries. The essays collected here have in common the concept of boundaries, which is defined according to discipline, and movement through boundaries. The essays cover a range of topics and periods. The first section consists of literary approaches to boundaries, ranging widely in subject matter from Norman drama to sixteenth-century goodnight ballads. The second section includes mainly historical studies of such topics as social mobility in Geoffrey of Monmouth's twelfth-century History of the Kings of Britain, post-1453 Byzantine identity, and Milanese Renaissance musical genres. Individually and as a group, the essays contribute fresh insights into well-known and some less familiar works of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Contributions include: Linda Georgianna, 'Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae: lessons in self-fashioning for the bastards of Britain'; Robert L.A. Clark, 'Eve and her audience in the Anglo-Norman Adam'; John Damon, 'Seinte Cecile and Cristes owene knyghtes: violence, resignation, and resistance in the Second Nun's Tale'; Elaine R. Miller, 'Linguistic identity in the Middle Ages: the case of the Spanish Jews'; Emily Steiner, 'Medieval documentary poetics and Langland's authorial identity'; Patricia Marby Harrison, 'Religious rhetoric as resistance in Early Modern goodnight ballads'; Jami Ake, 'Mary Wroth's willow poetics: revising female desire in Pamphilia to Amphilanthus'; Annabel Patterson, '"The human face divine": identity and the portrait from Locke to Chaucer'; Jonathan Harris, 'Common language and the common good: aspects of identity among Byzantine emigres in Renaissance Italy'; Nolan Gasser, 'Beata et venerabilis Virgo: music and devotion in Renaissance Milan'; Elspeth Whitney, 'Sex, lies, and depositions: Pierre de Lancre's vision of the witches' sabbath'; Laura Hunt Yungblut, '"Straungers and aliaunts": the "un-English" among the English in Elizabethan England'. New.‎

‎La longue marche‎

‎ Editions Richelieu, 1969. Deux volumes petit In-4 joliment reliés par l'éditeur plein Reluskin , gardes en papier jaspé , signet , état remarquable tant sur le plan de la reliure que du texte , nombreux documents noir et couleurs , qq hors texte , 396 + 329 pages . Ensemble à l'état de neuf .‎

‎Un document remarquablement servi par les exigences de l'Imprimerie Nationale et son concours exceptionnel. Préface et notes de Lucien Bianco ( directeur d'étude à l'école Pratique des hautes études ) , propos recueillis par Agnes Smedley traduits par Claude Payen .BON ET BEL OUVRAGE . Très Bon Etat Franco de port France jusqu'à 29 euros iclus. MONDIAL RELAY pour : FRANCE, Portugal, Pologne, Espagne, Allemagne, Autriche, Pays Bas, Luxembourg, Italie, Belgique. Toutes les étapes sont accompagnées. Achat, estimations et listages France / Suisse (sur rdv). ‎

‎Vroedkunde - Verhandeling over het bespiegelend en bewerkend deel der Vroedkunde / In 't Engels geschreven door William Smellie ...; na de derde druk in 't Hollandsch gebragt, en met eenige weinige aanmerkingen en zaaken vermeerderd door Matthys van der Haage.‎

‎, Te Amsterdam, By Jan Morterre, 1765 + 1766, Gebonden, volleder, goudopdruk op front, 5 nerven en titelvignet op rug, originele titelpagina's, 210 x 280mm., 266 + 262 + 304 + 78pp + 41 gegraveerde platen met hun verklaring.‎

‎Verhandeling over het bespiegelend en bewerkend deel der Vroedkunde / In 't Engels geschreven door William Smellie; na de derde druk in 't Hollandsch gebragt, en met eenige weinige aanmerkingen en zaaken vermeerderd door Matthys van der Haage. Het geheel is in perfecte staat!‎

‎Flemish Miniatures from the 8th to the mid-16th Century. The Medieval World on Parchment.‎

‎ 1 Relié, pleine toile et jaquette illustrée de l'éditeur. 32 x 25 cm, 528 p., très nombreuses illustrations. Leuven, Davidsfonds, 1999. Edition originale ‎

‎Étude abondamment illustrée, bibliographie, index des manuscrits, index des enlumineurs. Textes en anglais. Très bon état ‎

‎Money and Financial Intermediation: The Theory and Structure of Financial Systems‎

‎Prentice Hall 1978 370 pages 22 86x2 286x15 748cm. 1978. Cartonné. 370 pages.‎

‎Bon état sans jaquette intérieur propre bonne tenue petit accroc sur le bords supérieur du premier plat‎

‎Vollständiger Lehrbegriff der Optik nach Herrn Robert Smiths Englischen mit Aenderungen und Zusätzen ausgearbeitet von Abraham Gotthelf Kästner.‎

‎Altenburg, Richterischen Buchhandlung, 1755. 4to. Contemp. boards. Handwritten titlelabel on spine. Engraved titlevignette. (20),531,(5) pp. and 22 folded engraved plates. A few scattered brownspots, but in general clean.‎

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‎Scarce first German edition of this hugely influential textbook in optics.""Smith wrote on optics and harmonics. In 1738 he published A Compleat System of Optics in Four Books, viz. A Popular, at Mathematical, a Mechanical, and a Philosophical Treatise. Both comprehensive and reliable, the work became probably the most influential optical textbook of the eighteenth century. It was also published in Dutch in 1753, in German in 1755, and in two different French translations in 1767, In 1778 an abridged version was published in English. In turn, its popularity helped to establish the eighteenth-century conviction that light is particulate."" (DSB).‎

‎Hellenistic Sculpture: A Handbook (World of Art) + Greek sculpture: the late classical period‎

‎Thames & Hudson Ltd 1991 288 pages in8. 1991. Broché. 2 volume(s). 288 pages.‎

‎très bon état couvertures un peu défraîchies intérieurs propres‎

‎Bad Boys [VHS]‎

‎G.C.T.H.V 2001 2001.‎

‎Molekular-kinetische Theorie der Opaleszenz von Gasen im kritischer Zustande. sowie einiger verwandter Erscheinungen. (Kinetic Theory of Gas Opalescence at the Critical State). (Bearbeitet nach einer am 2. December 1907 der Krakauer Akademie vorgelegt...‎

‎(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth), 1908 No wrappers. In: ""Annalen der Physik. Vierte Folge. Hrsg. von W. Wien und M. Planck."", Vierte Folge. Band 25, No 2. Pp. 185-376. The entire issue offered. Smoluchowski's paper: pp. 206-226The block is punched in inner margins after cords.‎

‎First German edition. ""His paper ""Teoria kinetyczna opalescencji gazów w stanie krytycznym"" (""kinetic Theory of Gas Opalescence at the Critical Stale"" 1907) - the paper offered in the German version - shows why the critical point plays such an important role and states that the opalescence of pure gas also should be observable under normal conditions: ""Each of us has observed it innumerable times when admiring the blue of the sky or the glow of the rising sun."" Smoluchowski combined the theory of fluctuations with the results of Lord Rayleigh’s researches on the blue of the sky" his finding (Einstein also took part in the discussion) was that the blueness of the sky was caused by fluctuations in the density of the air. Smoiuchowski’s laboratory production of sky blue closed the investigation to a certain extent.that pure air can opalesce in the laboratory under normal conditions.‎

‎Women in Educational Policy-making. A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of the Situation in the E.U.‎

‎Leuven, Universitaire Pers, 1999 Paperback, English, original editor's jacket, 16x24 cm., 148 pp. ISBN 9789061869528.‎

‎ Studia Paedagogica : 24. Enhancing the participation of women in high-level decision-making in several sectors of society has been on the agenda of national and international institutions for several years. These endeavours, however, are not always equally successful. In this book, the authors evaluate the participation of women in the field of educational policy-making in western Europe, both from a quantitative and a qualitative perspective. Over the last decennia, many countries have taken legal steps in order to eliminate structural obstacles to women's access to high level positions; nevertheless, women still take up only a small minority of these functions, which suggests that cultural factors are obstructing women's empowerment as much as juridical factors. Increasing the numbers of women as a purely quantitative approach to the problem is inadequate, because it leaves these cultural elements unchallenged. Therefore, in the first, theoretical part of this book, the authors address the question of the relationship between women's participation in politics and the question of social emancipation. Through a deconstruction of the different arguments for increasing women's participation in policy-making, the authors try to indicate in what sense or under what conditions women's participation in politics can address not only the problem of women's equal rights, but also that of engendering a less discriminative, more democratic and emancipatory politics. In the second part, they analyse on an empirical level the participation of women in educational policy-making in the member countries of the E.U. The aim thereby is to explore some general tendencies and to formulate hypotheses concerning interrelationships between some of the data. This part gives rise to a number of interesting questions for further research. ‎

‎art of Soviet Palekh‎

‎Moskau, , 1958 55pp 39 coloured plates all in an original red box. + slipcase..‎

‎Highlights from the Moscow exhibition of artists of Palekh invluding paintings of miniatures.Text in 3 languages:English,French and Russian. A very good and clean copy.Palekh, the village from which the art originated, traditionally decorated icons in this manner.‎

‎Sur plusieur composés détonants produits avec l'acide nitrique et le sucre, la dextrine, la lactine, la mannite et la glycérine.‎

‎(Paris, Bachelier),1847. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome XXIV, No. 7. Pp. (209-) 252. (Entire issue offered). Sobrero's paper: pp. 247-248. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of the paper in which Sobrero announced his discovery of nitroglycerin.""When I think of all the victims killed during nitroglycerine explosions, and the terrible havoc that has been wreaked, which in all probability will continue to occur in the future, I am almost ashamed to admit to be its discoverer."" (Sobrero)""Nitroglycerin was synthesized by the chemist Ascagne Sobrero in the middle of the nineteenth century. When he tasted it, as all good nineteenth century chemists did when they discovered a new compound, it gave him what he called a migraine, because of its vasodilatory effect, which was later harnessed in the treatment of angina by William Murrell (1879), following the experience of a distinguished British clinician, Lauder Brunton, using amyl nitrite (1867) Later in the nineteenth century, Alfred Nobel discovered how to stabilize nitroglycerin, using kieselguhr (diatomite) clay"" this led to highly successful industrial applications of dynamite and created the fortune that eventually funded the eponymous prizes. For medical purposes nitroglycerin was subsequently renamed glyceryl trinitrate, to hide the fact that it was literally dynamite as well as metaphorically.""‎

‎The prints of Paul Klee‎

‎New York Curt Valentin 1945 In-4 En feuilles, portfolio toilé ‎

‎Edition originale de cette étude sur les estampes de Klee. Fascicule de texte avec 5 illustrations (44 pp.) & 40 planches en noir et en couleurs (8) reproduisant les lithographies et gravures de l'artiste, souvent à taille réelle. Sous portfolio dépliant toilé noir avec pièce de titre jaune sur le premier plat et au dos.Tirage unique à 1000 exemplaires. >Bel exemplaire. Très bon 0‎

‎Extracts from an Article contained in the 58th Number of the "Annals of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith" Also a piece entitled "Glance at the Missions" extracted from the Dublin review.‎

‎Lyon Society for the Propogation of the Faith 1838 ‎

‎First edition. A single sheet, folded octavo, with 8 printed pages, uncut. This comprises two articles extracted from Annals of the Propagation of the Faith. One is a summary of the income and expenditure of the missions. An interesting summary - showing which of the missions and individuals received grants. The other, is a summary of the work of the missions, first published in the Dublin Review (no. 8). Overall, this is in a good condition. There is a touch of marking to the rear page only. Otherwise very clean and tidy.‎

‎Myth in Early Northwest Europe,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2007 Hardback, XLII+338 p., 8 b/w ill., 155 x 225 mm. ISBN 9782503526652.‎

‎This collection of fifteen essays by distinguished scholars addresses a formative era (approximately 500-1000 C.E.) in Northwest Europe. Myths of the time exhibit the interplay of classical, biblical, Celtic, and Germanic (including Old Norse and Old English) cultures during the Carolingian and Viking periods, showing how Christian and native religions engaged with each other. The studies also attend to current myth theory. Myths and mythology from early-medieval Northwest Europe remain influential through the works of Tolkien and contemporary self-realization movements; this volume offers readers the latest research by many of the world's leading scholars on the subject. New.‎

‎Baroque du paraguay‎

‎Musee-Galerie de la Seita 1995 in4. 1995. Broché.‎

‎tranches légèremetn fânées intérieur propre‎

‎Les prêtres de l'ancienne Egypte‎

‎Perse?a 1988 207 pages in8. 1988. Broché. 207 pages.‎

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‎Bon état intérieur propre bonne tenue bords un peu frottés‎

‎Liza of Lambeth. The Jubilee Edition.‎

‎London William Heinemann LTD 1947 Cartonnage décoré, jaquette assortie ‎

‎Préface de l'auteur. Tirage à 1000 exemplaires sur beau papier vergé, signés par Somerset Maugham. Cartonnage éditeur demi-vélin avec pièce de titre maroquin noir et lettre or au dos lisse, plats de papier vieux rose décoré, repris pour la jaquette assortie avec lettee argent au dos, tête dorée.>Très bel exemplaire de ctte édition publiée pour célébrer le cinquantième anniversaire de la parution du premier livre de l'écrivain. Très bon 0‎

‎Zur Quantentheorie der Spektrallinien. (+) Fortzetzung. (2 Parts).‎

‎(Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1918). Without wrappers in ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Bd. 51, No.17 a. 18. The entire issues offered. Pp. 1-124 a. pp. 125-236. Sommerfeld's papers: pp. 1-94 a. pp. 125-167. Punched in inner margins after cords. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of Sommerfeld's main contribution to Quantum Theory, incorporating the ""Sommerfeld Model"" of the atom and his creation of a general theory of spectral lines based on quantum concepts.""In the winter Semester 1914/15 his topic was the Bohr model. He extended it considerably and was able to find a number of new results which were published early in 1916 (in the paper offered).The gist of Bohr's theory was the fact that it allowed only certain electron orbits. Sommerfeld tried to find the ""quantum conditions"" by which these orbits could be singled out from the classically allowed ones.""(Siegmund Brandt ""The harvest of a Century"", Episode 27, p. 110 ff.).""This extraordinary extension, enrichment, and precision of Bohr's theory by Sommerfeld contributed decisively to its rapid and widespread acceptance. Only five years after Bohr's first publicatuion Sommerfeld, recognizing that the mathematical development of thsi quantum-theoretical atomic model had reached a conclusion of sorts, undertook a comprehensive exposition of the field. His ""Atombau und Spektrallinien"", of which the first edition appeared late in 1919, immediately became the bible of atomic physics and its successive editions, appearing almost annually in the early 1920's, chronicled the progress of this field up to the eve of quantum mechanics.""(DSB XII, p. 529).The offered papers contains also 2 importent contribution in the same field by Sommerfeld's pupils: Paul S. Epstein ""Zur Quantentheorie"" pp. 168-188 and J. Stark: ""Der Träger der Haupt- un Nebenserien der Alkalien, alkalischen Erden und des Heliums"", pp. 220-236.‎

‎Zur Quantentheorie der Spektrallinien. I-III. (I. Theorie der Balmerschen Serie. II. Die Feinstruktur der Wasserstoff- und der wasserstoffähnlichen Linien. III. Theorie der Röntgenspektren.‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1916. Contemp. hcloth. Gilt lettering to spine. VIII,888 a. 4 plates. (entire volume offered). Sommerfelds paper: pp. 1-94 a. pp. 125-167. A stamp on verso of titlepage. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of Sommerfeld's elaborated version of the fine structure of the hydrogen atom, in which he was the first to show, that relativity theory gives a quantitative account of the fine structure, and thus creating a general theory of spectral lines based on the quantum concepts.""Sommerfeld's two papers...and a more elaborate version (the paper offered)...surely deserves a lenghty chapter in the history of the old quantum theory...""Pais, Bohr p. 186 ff).""This extraordinary extension, enrichment, and precision of Bohr’s theory by Sommerfed contributed decisively to its rapid and widespread acceptance. Only five years after Bohr’s first publication Sommerfeld, recognizing that the mathematical development of this quantum-theoretical atomic model had reached a conclusion of sorts, undertook a comprehensive exposition of the field. HisAtombau and Spektallinien, of which the first edition appeared late in 1919, immediately became the bible of atomic physics and its successive editions, appearing almost annually in the early 1920’s, chronicled the progress of this field up to the eve of the introduction of quantum mechanics.""(DSB). - Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1916 P.The volume contains other notable papers by Paul S. Epstein ""Zur Quantentheorie"", Stark, P. Ehrenfest ""Adiabatische Invarianten und Quantentheorie"" and A. Einstein ""Über Friedrich Kottlers Abhandlung ""Über Einsteins Áquivalenzhypothese und die Gravitation"" pp. 639-642.‎

‎Reliefs (Les) (Histoires probables).‎

‎Paris, E. de Boccard, 1925 ; in-12, broché ; 186, (6) pp., couverture beige illustrée en couleurs, rempliée.‎

‎EDITION ORIGINALE, exemplaire N°28 des 50 sur pur fil Lafuma, seul grand papier ; envoi autographe signé à Eugène Simon, président du Syndicat d’Initiative de Lyon. Le jugement de Caïen ; Timandra ; le Pape Jean VIII ; la curieuse existence de Nicolas Flamel ; Chegrin d’Infante ; un ménage célèbre sous la Terreur.Couverture défraichie avec deux taches, intérieur très correct. ‎

‎Oliver ou La fabrique d'un manipulateur‎

‎Denoël 2015 256 pages 14 86x21 41x1 85cm. 2015. Broché. 256 pages.‎

‎Le pétrole‎

‎Studyrama 2008 160 pages 12x1 4x18 2cm. 2008. Broché. 160 pages.‎

‎Très bon état‎

‎Recherches sur quelques Combinaisons du Chlore.‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1831. No wrappers as extracted from ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 2. Series, Tome 48. Titlepage to vol. 48. Pp. 113-157. A few brownspots, but fine. Small stamps on verso of titlepage.‎

‎First appearance of an importent paper in chemistry and medicine as it for the first time relates the finding of Chloroform, which some years later was proved to have anaesthetic effects and was introduced in chirurgy in 1848 by Simpson.Justus von Liebig, Souberain and Guthrie independently discovered Chloroform in 1831, but Souberain was the first to publish his results. - Garrison & Morton No. 1851. - Gedeon ""Science and Technology in Medicine"" 36.7.‎

‎Recherches sur quelques Combinaisons du Chlore. (Communiqué par l'auteur).‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1831. Contemp. hcloth. Some scattered brownspots. ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 2. Series, Tome 48. 448 pp., 1 engraved plate. (Entire volume offered). Soubeiran's paper: pp. 113-157. Scattered brownspots.‎

‎First appearance of an importent paper in chemistry and medicine as it for the first time relates the finding of Chloroform, which some years later was proved to have anaesthetic effects and was introduced in chirurgy in 1848 by Simpson.Justus von Liebig, Souberain and Guthrie independently discovered Chloroform in 1831, but Souberain was the first to publish his results. Garrison & Morton No. 1851. - Gedeon ""Science and Technology in Medicine"", 36.7.The volume contains other notable papers by LIEBIG, DUMAS, DUTROCHET, WÖHLER, LECANU, BECQUEREL etc.‎