‎Faith and Knowledge in Late Medieval and Early Modern Scandinavia‎

‎, Brepols, 2020 Hardback, 306 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:19 col., 6 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503579009.‎

‎Summary This book investigates the interface between faith and knowledge in Scandinavia in the centuries before and after the Reformation, a period in which the line between belief and knowledge was often blurred, and local traditions remained influential. While Scandinavia was undoubtedly an integral part of Latin Christendom before the arrival of Lutheranism, the essays gathered together in this volume demonstrate that religious discourse still took a unique form in this region. Faith was influenced by magical practices centred on remnants of Nordic paganism, local wisdom literature, and metaphoric language about the divine that diverged considerably from that of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Texts, motifs, and practices that were common throughout Europe were also transformed and altered within this northern setting. Covering the late medieval up to the early modern period, this volume offers new insights into intellectual culture in Scandinavia, and the remarkable longevity of local beliefs even into the early post-Reformation period. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Learning the Truth - KAROLINE KJESRUD AND MIKAEL MALES The European Challenges of Faith & Knowledge in the Late Middle Ages: The Concepts of Nature and Knowledge - AKSEL HAANING The Distribution of Authority as Reflected in Literary Transmission - KAROLINE KJESRUD 'Apparuit ei Christus in eodem loco': Physical Presence and Divine Truth in Birgitta of Sweden's Revelations from the Holy Land - MARIA H. OEN Mapping Hagiographical Literature in Medieval and Early Modern Iceland - NATALIE?M. VAN DEUSEN AND KIRSTEN WOLF How Do We Know, How Did They Know? The Cult of Saints in Iceland in the Late Middle Ages -MARGARET CORMACK Denoting the Holy in Skaldic Tradition - MIKAEL MALES 'A allra or a undirsta an sie riettlig fundin': The Virgin Mary and the Holy Spirit in Lilja 90 - MARTIN CHASE Faith and Knowledge in Nordic Charm Magic - STEPHEN A. MITCHELL Christian Knowledge in Late Medieval Norway - ELISE KLEIVANE The Cross before Christ: Ecclesiastical History and Esotericism in the Antiquarian Scholarship of Johannes Bureus - MATTHEW NORRIS Biblical Magic as a Manifestation of Folk Belief in the North - ALESSIA BAUER‎

‎An account of experiments for determining the ariation in the lenght of the pendulum vibrating seconds, at the principal stations of the Trigonometrical Survey of Great Britain. Read June 24, 1819.‎

‎London, W. Bulmer & Co., 1819. 4to. No wrappers as issued in ""Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London for the Year MDCCCXIX."", Part III. With titlepage to Part III. (4), pp. 337-508. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of Kater's great paper, a report of his results as member of ""The Survey of Great Britain"", using his invention, ""Kater's Pendulum"".""On the basis of the principle enunciated by Huygens that the centers of suspension and oscillation are interchangeable, Kater devised a reversible pendulum (which became known as ""Kater’s pendulum"") with knife edges accurately adjusted to lie at the conjugate points. By using the distance between these points as the ""length"" in the formula for a simple pendulum, he was able to determine with great accuracy the length of a pendulum beating seconds under specified conditions. He thereby obtained accurate values for g, the acceleration due to gravity, at several stations of the Trigonometrical Survey of Great Britain and estimated the ellipticity of the earth. Kater performed these experiments as a member of a committee appointed by the Royal Society in response to a request by the governmnet for assistance in standardizing weights and measures.""(DSB).‎

‎Notice respecting a volcanic appearance in the Moon, in a Letter addressed to the President. Read February 8, 1821.‎

‎(London, W. Bulmer and W. Nicol, 1821). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1821 - Part II. Pp. 130-132 and 1 engraved moon-plate. Offsetting from the plate to the last leaf.‎

‎This paper represent the first observation of volcanic-like activity on the Moon, taken place the 4th, the 6th and the 7th Februar 1821. The next year it was confirmed by Olbers. ""I observed a luminous spot in the dark part of the moon, which I was inclined to ascribe to the eruption of a volcano.""(Kater).‎

‎Co-production of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam Artefacts, Rituals, Communities, Narratives, Doctrines, Concepts‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2025 Hardback, Pages: 364 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:19 b/w, 12 col., Language:English , *new. ISBN 9782503616148.‎

‎Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have always formed, re-formed, and transformed themselves in conversation. That is, these religions have come to exist in all their varieties by interacting with, thinking about, and imagining each other. In this sense they are co-produced, linked by a dynamic and ongoing inter-dependence. The fifteen essays collected in this volume explore moments of such religious coproduction from the second to the twenty-first century, from early pilgrimage sites to social media. The case studies range across textual and material cultures, showing how a variety of artefacts, coins, rituals, communities, narratives, theological doctrines, and scholarly concepts, were all co-produced across the three religious traditions. In so doing they present a panorama of possibilities from the past, as well as a taxonomy that can help us think about the future of religious co-production. An introductory essay describes the advantages of approaching the past, present, and future of these religions through the lens of co-production, and reflects on crucial methodological issues related to the understanding of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as co-produced religions. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: The Co-production of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam KATHARINA HEYDEN and DAVID NIRENBERG Artefacts Jewish Printers and Christian Artists Designing a Book for the Sephardi Community of Naples, 1492 KATRIN KOGMAN-APEL From pre-Reform Umayyad Solidi to the ?morabitino alfonsino?: A Full-Circle Case of Co-production PAUL NEUENKIRCHEN Co-produced Legal Documents: Compliance and Resistance in Fatimid Jewish Debt Acknowledgements in the Cairo Geniz SARAH ISLAM Rituals The Life of Jeremiah: A Co-produced Window into a Jewish Cult of the Martyrs during the Early Roman Period MAUREEN ATTALI Moments of Religious Co-production in a Super-Diverse Community in Germany: An Ethnographic Reconstruction of an Interreligious Prayer for Peace ANDREA BIELER Communities ?The Jews of this Nation?: The Co-production of Sectarian Identity in the Fatimid Caliphate, ca. 1120 MOHAMAD BALLAN Embrico of Mainz: Re-Inventing Muhammad for the Christian Simony Controversy VOLKER LEPPIN Religion as a Function of Social Circumstances? Co-production in Shlomo ibn Vergas Shevet Yehuda WOLFRAM DREWS Narratives The Other One Who Curses the Fig Tree: A Jewish Counter Narrative to Christian Missionary Endeavours SUSANNE TALABARDON The ?Livre de Sidrac? and the Co-Production of a Mediterranean Encyclopedia URI ZVI SHACHAR Contemporary Media as Space for Religious Co-production: Some Reflections on Mass Media and Digital Media as Spaces for Imagining and Contacting ?the Other? ANNA NEUMAIER Doctrines The Doctrine of Alteration Leading to the Doctrine of Sticking to the Text: Muslim Attitudes to the Qur'an in Opposition to Accusations against Jews of Changing the Torah AMIR DZIRI A Christology Sensitive to Jewish and Muslim Concerns REINHOLD BERNHARDT Concepts The Concepts of Migration and Alienation in the Twelfth-Century Maghreb: Intramural Co-production MIRIAM FRENKEL Lex Abrahae. The Co-production of a Qur?an-Inspired Concept in Renaissance Christendom DAVIDE SCOTTO‎

‎WIJ: VAN ZALIG TOT ZOT: VLAAMSE MEESTERS‎

‎, Hannibal Publishing, 2021 Hardcover , 290 x 250 mm, 304 pages, NL edition.*goede staat ISBN 9789463887434.‎

‎Wij - Van zalig tot zot is een unieke rollercoaster ride door drie eeuwen kunst- en cultuurgeschiedenis. Honderd adembenemende topstukken uit de collectie van The Phoebus Foun dation, van onder meer Hans Memling, Quinten Metsys, Peter Paul Rubens en Antoon Van Dyck, nemen de lezer mee langs een wereld vol zotheid en zonde, fascinatie en ambitie. Ze vertellen over rijke burgers en arme heiligen, over kunstenaars en wijnkelders, en over Antwerpen als Hollywood aan de Schelde. Dit boek is een meeslepend verhaal over het beeld en zijn betekenis, en over de band tussen cultuur en maatschappij. Want bovenal gaat dit over ons en over wie wij vandaag zijn - als mensen. Publicatie bij de grote tentoonstelling From Memling to Rubens - The Golden Age of Flanders in het Kadriorg Art Museum in Tallinn, Estland, en in het MAS in Antwerpen.‎

‎Perception and Awareness: Artefacts and Imageries in Medieval European Jewish Cultures‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Paperback, 360 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:57 b/w, 65 col., 1 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503583945.‎

‎Summary What did the world look like for Jews living in medieval Europe? How did they perceive and make use of the elements of their daily life, from items on the street to religious iconography within holy spaces ? in particular synagogues and at the exterior of churches ? and profane elements from the home? And how did they experience the visual and material cultures of their non-Jewish neighbours? These questions form the core of this volume, which explores pre-modern Jewish approaches to images and material objects from a variety of perspectives. From clothing to manuscripts, and from lighting devices to the understanding of the invisible, the chapters gathered together in this multifaceted volume combine analyses of images and artefacts together with in-depth analyses of texts to offer fresh insights into the visual cultures that informed the world of European Jews in the Middle Ages. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface and Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction Elisheva Baumgarten, Elisabeth Hollender, Katrin Kogman-Appel, and Ephraim Shoham-Steiner Part One: The Perception of the Visual, the Material, and the Tangible in Shared Public Spaces 1. The Writing on the Wall ? A Mahzor, a Bimah, and a Privilege. A Look at Social Processes in the 13th-Century Jewish Community of Cologne Ephraim Shoham-Steiner 2. Illuminations: Lights, Identities, and the Society of Spectacle in the Late Middle Ages Eleazar Gutwirth 3. Materialization of Memoria Memory and Remembrance of Benefactors in Building Inscriptions in Medieval Ashkenaz Rainer Josef Barzen 4. Differing Perceptions of Church Garments and Worship Implements in the Writings and Thought of the Tosafists Ephraim Kanarfogel 5. Not Black and White Clothes and Difference in Medieval Ashkenaz Elisheva Baumgarten Part Two: Utilizing the Faculties of Visual Means 6. Jewish Chivalry in Late Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts Sara Offenberg 7. The Handling of Diagrams in Medieval Scientific Manuscript Transmission The Sefer ha-mar?im le-Eqlides and its First Proposition Sabine Arndt 8. Non-Verbal Aspects of Astrolabe Knowledge (Fifteenth- to Eighteenth-Century Hebrew Manuscripts) Josefina Rodr guez-Arribas 9. Artifacts that Desire Medieval Perspectives Kalman P. Bland (OBM) 10.The Agency of Images The Temple Vessels in Hebrew Bibles from Roussillon (c. 1300) Katrin Kogman-Appel 11.Visualizing the Invisible: Portrayals of Elijah the Prophet in Fifteenth-Century Ashkenazi Haggadot Chana Shaham-Rosby 12.Visualizing Divine Communication in Medieval Jewish Art Shulamit Laderman Index About the Authors‎

‎Premodern Jewish Books, their Makers and Readers in an Era of Media Change‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, 464 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:106 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503604633.‎

‎Summary This volume brings together studies about books as artefacts within transitional zones. The history of the book from the handwritten to the printed medium is understood as a process marked by innovation and social change, but also by disorientation and bewilderment. The journey of a book from production to use was determined by a complex set of factors: communication among authors, makers of books, patrons, and readership; the emergence of publishers; and decisions to be made concerning production and publication. These factors underwent tremendous changes during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries owing to the spread of printing and the rise of Humanism in Europe. Particular focus is put on the physical evidence of books, both handwritten and printed, and what it can tell us about a book's production and its reception. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Katrin Kogman-Appel and Ilona Steimann Part One: Media Change Chapter 1: Changes in Bookmaking: Joel ben Simeon's Manuscripts in the Transition from Customized to Mass Production? Rodica?Herlo-Lukowski Chapter 2: Joel ben Simeon in Transition Evelyn M. Cohen Chapter 3: Jewish Books between Portugal to the Early Sefardi Diaspora.? D bora Marques de Matos Chapter 4: The Emergence of the Printing Self: Egodocuments and Micro-Egodocuments in Jewish Paratexts from Manuscript to Print Avriel Bar-Levav Chapter 5: From Manuscript to Print and Back Again. Two Case Studies in Late Sixteenth-Century Jewish Book Culture Pavel Sl dek Chapter 6: Lishmah Qedushat Sefer Torah or the Impossibility of Printing a Kosher Torah Scroll from Rabbinic Perspectives Annett Martini Part Two: The Craft of Editing Chapter 7: The 1514 'Grace after Meals and Sabbath Hymns and Qiddush' and the Experimental Beginnings of Woodcut Illustrations in Prague Sarit Shalev-Eyni Chapter 8: Hayyim Shahor and Jewish Life in Sixteenth-Century Ashkenaz Lucia Raspe Chapter 9: Of Roots and Signs: Printing Ashkenazi Responsa in Sixteenth-Century Venice Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg Part Three: Reading Chapter 10: The Masorete and His Readers: A Relationship Obscured Now Rediscovered Dalia-Ruth Halperin Chapter 11: Early Hebrew Printing and the Quality of Reading: A Praxeological Study Hanna Liss Chapter 12: Hegemonies of Reading. Layout, Materiality, and Authorship in Early Hebrew Prints Federico Dal Bo ? Part Four: Confiscation and Destruction Chapter 14: Burning the Talmud. Before and After Print David Stern Chapter 15: The Bookless Talmud and the Talmud Book: The Loss of Books in the Medieval and Early Modern World? Yakov Z. Mayer ? Part Five: Christian Collections Chapter 16: A Medieval Hebrew Psalter with Latin Glosses (MS Paris, BnF h breu 113) and Its Cambridge Connection ? Judith Olszowy-Schlanger Chapter 17: A Forced Journey between Two Faiths. The Hebrew Manuscripts of the University of Vienna Ilona Steimann? Chapter 18: 'Ben Hacane Liber qui dicitur Pelia'. Egidio da Viterbo's Kabbalistic Excerpts Saverio Campanini? Chapter 19: Alfonso de Zamora and Hebrew Manuscripts on Grammar and Exegesis in Sixteenth-Century Spain Javier del Barco Chapter 20: On the Beginnings of Christian Hebraist Bibliography in the Sixteenth Century Maximilian de Moli re Manuscript Index General Index‎

‎Pius VI, Pius VII, Pius IX en de vervolging‎

‎Tilburg, E. Goewie Jr. 1862 61pp., 23cm., blinde contemporaine omslag, enkele roestplekjes, deels nog onopengesneden, goed, zeldzaam, R96079‎

‎L'Amateur de Cigare, Hors-Série de Mai 2003 : Les bons plans 2003‎

‎L'AMATEUR DE CIGARE. 2003. In-Folio. En feuillets. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Pliures. Journal de 44 pages. Nombreuses illustrations en couleurs, dans le texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 633.7-Plantes alcaloïdes (tabac, thé, cacao, café, pavot)‎

‎ Classification Dewey : 633.7-Plantes alcaloïdes (tabac, thé, cacao, café, pavot)‎

‎The Administrative Behavior of Federal Bureau Chiefs‎

‎Brookings Institution Press 1981 235 pages 15 24x1 778x22 606cm. 1981. Broché. 235 pages.‎

‎Très Bon Etat de conservation intérieur propre bonne tenue‎

‎Die magnetische Ablenkbarkeit der Kathodestrahlen und ihre Abhängigkeit vom Entladungspotential.‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1897. No wrappers. In: ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie, Neue Folge"", Bd. 61, No 7. Titlepager to vol. 61. Pp. 417-640 a. 1 folded plate. (Entire issue offered). Kaufmann's paper: pp. 544-552, textillustrations. A stamp to upper corner of titlepage. Clean and fine.‎

‎First printing of this landmark paper in particle physics, in which Kaufmann found that the cathode are negatively charged particles, that certain properties of the cathode rays are independent of the nature of the gas that they traverse, and determining the ratio e/m. (charge/mass)""To define the 'birth of an era' is perhaps best left for parlor games. Let me write of the BIRTH OF PARTICLE PHYSICS nevertheless, define it to take place in April 1897, and appoint Kaufmann and Thomson as keepers of the gate. Their respective experimental arrangements...are of comparable quality, their experimental results equally good.""(Pais ""Inward Bound"", p. 84.).""In 1897 three physicists, Weichert, Kaufmann, and Thomson, in independent experiments, found that cathode rays are indeed negatively charged particles having the peculiar property that the ratio of the mass and the charge of these particles is in the order of 1000 times smaller than for the lightest ion, the ion of the hydrogen. The term 'electron', which had previously been used to denote the 'elementary charge' , was soon adopted as the name of the new particle. The electron was the first of the later so-called 'elementary particles' to be discovered."" (Siegmund Brandt ""The Harvest of a Century"" No. 4 (p.16 ff.).‎

‎Three Years in Tibet with the original Japanese Illustrations.‎

‎Madras, The Theosophist Office, Benares and London, 1909. Orig. full cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Frontispiece. XV,719 pp., many textillustr. and plates. 1 folded map.‎

‎First English edition of this classic travel account of Tibet.‎

‎Middle English 'Mirror'. An Edition Based on Bodleian Library, MS Holkham misc. 40,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2003 Hardback, XLVIII+558 p., 155 x 230 mm. ISBN 9782503514383.‎

‎Robert de Gretham's Mirror is a collection of sixty sermons for Sundays and feast-days throughout the liturgical year. Originally composed in Anglo-Norman (c. 1250-1300), and later translated into Middle English, the texts was dedicated to 'Aline', a lady of high status whose literary tastes ran more towards romaunces & gestes than prayer books. In an attempt to remedy the situation, Gretham proposed that Aline read the Mirror instead. In it, Gretham argued, she would surely find material more profitable for the soul than stories of 'Tristrem [or] Gy of Warrewyk'. The question is this: did Aline find 'better' stories among the tales included in the Mirror? Through an analysis of Gretham's clerical discourse, Blumreich argues that the sermon exempla intended for Aline's spiritual improvement assert different, but not particularly better, virtues than what she might have gleaned from a romance, especially when these moral tales are considered from a feminist perspective. New.‎

‎subjects from history. III. The Constantine Series, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard part XIII subjects from history. volume 3.‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2011 Hardback 400 pages ., 180 x 265 mm, Languages: English, ISBN 9781905375868.‎

‎In 1622, Rubens designed his second tapestry series, The Story of Constantine, for which he executed twelve oil sketches, all of which are currently preserved in public and private collections in America and Europe. Tapestries produced after the lost cartoons, which were in turn painted after the oil sketches, were woven in the tapestry factories in the faubourgs of Saint Marcel and Saint Germain in Paris. Based on new archival research and a critical examination of the literature on the Constantine series, this book firmly embeds the genesis, and iconographical and stylistic features of the set in its specific artistic, manufactural, and commercial matrix, and thus develops the first truly inclusive approach to Rubens's Story of Constantine. Analysis of the entrepreneurial strategy of Marc Comans and Francois de la Planche, directors of the factory in the faubourg of Saint Marcel, the correspondence between Rubens and Peiresc, the provenance of the twelve oil sketches, and the iconographical programme reveals that the series was not commissioned by the French king Louis XIII, as has long been believed, but by Comans and de la Planche. A close reading of Rubens?s primary literary source, Caesar Baronius?s Annales Ecclesiastici, shows that the artist must have intended the twelve scenes to hang in a sequence different from the generally accepted one, though seventeenth-century buyers and viewers could have seen and interpreted the Constantine series quite differently, as their view was distorted by the jumble of Constantinian legends and motifs that had lodged in the cultural memory of Latin Christianity. Finally, the book explores the area of tension between the set?s austere monumentality and highly sophisticated aesthetic, which was rooted in Rubens?s profound knowledge of classical and Renaissance art and in his earlier forays into the free and creative application of these sources, contemporary French and Brussels tapestry sets, and the pictorial and decorative qualities, possibilities and challenges inherent in the medium itself‎

‎DISQUE VINYLE 33T DISCO MANIA FLY ROBIN FLY / GET UP BOOGIE / SOUL DRACULA / ROCK COLLECTION / QUIET VILLAGE / I LOVE TO LOVE / GIVE ME MORE LOVE / SPRING RAIN...‎

‎DISCO MANIA. 1978. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. Nombreuses photos au dos de la pochette.. . . . Classification : 410-33 Tours‎

‎ Classification : 410-33 Tours‎

‎Unity and Discontinuity. Architectural Relationships between the Southern and Northern Low Countries (1530-1700). ‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2007 Paperback, original editor's jacket, english, 22x28 cm., VIII+428 pp., 342 b/w illustrations. ISBN 9782503513669.‎

‎Architectura Moderna ARCHMOD 5. This study focuses on change and continuity within the architecture of the Southern and Northern Low Countries from 1530 to 1700. Instead of looking at both regions separately and stressing the stylistic differences between the classicist North and the baroque South, the book establishes a new, common history of architecture for both parts of the Low Countries during the 17th century. Their reception of Antiquity in the guise of the Italian Renaissance, first introduced in Court circles in the early 16th century, constituted the common heritage on which they built after the political separation. The book also reassesses the position of Netherlandish architecture in the international debate on the Renaissance north of the Alps. ‎

‎Unity and Discontinuity. Architectural Relationships between the Southern and Northern Low Countries (1530-1700),‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2007 Paperback, VIII+428 p., 342 b/w ill., 220 x 280 mm. ISBN 9782503513669.‎

‎This study focuses on change and continuity within the architecture of the Southern and Northern Low Countries from 1530 to 1700. Instead of looking at both regions separately and stressing the stylistic differences between the classicist North and the baroque South, the book establishes a new, common history of architecture for both parts of the Low Countries during the 17th century. Their reception of Antiquity in the guise of the Italian Renaissance, first introduced in Court circles in the early 16th century, constituted the common heritage on which they built after the political separation. The book also reassesses the position of Netherlandish architecture in the international debate on the Renaissance north of the Alps. New.‎

‎Crusade and Mission: European Approaches Toward the Muslims (Princeton Legacy Library)‎

‎Princeton University Press 2016 262 pages in8. 2016. Cartonné jaquette. 262 pages.‎

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‎Bon état avec sa jaquette intérieur propre bonne tenue‎

‎Ueber die Constitution und die metamorphosen der chemischen Verbindungen und über die chemische Natur des Kohlenstoffs.‎

‎Leipzig und Heidelberg, C.F. Winter'sche Verlagshandlung, 1858. 8vo. Later hcloth. Spine with gilt lettering. In: ""Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie. hrsg. von Friedrich Wöhler, justus Liebig und hermann Kopp"", Band CVI. With both titlepages. (8),392 pp. a. 1 litographed plate (shaved in outer margin, ut not belonging to Kekule's paper). (Entire volume offered). Kekule's paper: pp. 129-159. Internally clean.‎

‎First appearance of this milestone paper in organic chemistry in which he demonstrated the mutual linking together of carbon atoms, developed the idea of affinity units, later called ""valence bonds"", and thus making it possible to explain the formation of organic compounds containing large numbers of carbon atoms. This was ""the final step in the development of modern structural formulas for organic compounds..."" (Leicester & Klickstein, p. 417)""It was not till 1858 that a satisfactory theory of molecular constitution was advanced, simultaneously and independently, by thwo young chemists, Friedrich August Kekulé and Archibald Scott Couper. The theory of molecular constitution put foreward....by Couper and Kekulé rested on two main postulates, the quadriivalency of carbon,....and the capacity of the carbon atom for mutual linking or combining together to form a carbon ""chain"". By this hypothesis of the mutual linking together of carbon atoms - which waslater confirmed by experiment - it was possible to explain the formation of organic compounds containing a large number of carbon atoms. On the foundation of their postulates two postulates, moreover, (they) showed how the molecular constitution or mutual linking together of the atoms of a compound could be represented diagrammatically and the relstions between different compounds made readily intelligible. In his classic paper ""On a New Chemical Theory"" (the paper offered here in its first appearance) advanced beyond Kekulé by representing the constitutions of the compounds by means of GRAPHIC FORMULA in which, as at the present day, the valencies pf the atoms are represented by lines....his formulae are similar to those at present in use...""(Findlay pp. 34 ff)""The theory of Kekulé and Couper gave the chemists the means of solving the problems of chemical constitution"" and by means of the graphic or constitutional formulae it became possible to represent the molecular constitution of known compounds and to foresee the possible existence of isomeric compounds.""(Findlay).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"" 1858 C. - Ostwald's Klassiker No. 183. - Leicester & Klickstein ""A Source Book in Chemistry"", pp. 417-425. - Exhibition of First Editions of Epochal Achievements in the History of Science, Berkeley 1934. No 57.‎

‎AMERICA BEFORE COLUMBUS. PRE-COLUMBIAN ART IN THE COLLECTION OF THE SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM ASSOCIATION,‎

‎, Texas, The San Antonio Museum Association, 1985, Softcover with relief-impression, illustrated dustjacket, inner platters : map, frontispice in color, 215 x 275mm., 132pp., beautiful b/w illustration.‎

‎Bilingual edition Eng/Sp. In good condition.‎

‎Die keltischen Pfahlbauten in den Schweizerseen. (Erster-) Achter Bericht.‎

‎Zürich, Meyer und Zeller, (1854-) 1879. 4to. Contemporary halfcalf. Gilt spine, gilt letterinf. Fronthinge weakening. 1. Bericht (title without year): pp. (66-) 100 - 2.: pp. (110-) 155 - 3.: X,(73-) 116 - 4.: 34,(2) pp. - 5.: (4),(131-) 188 pp. - 6.: VIII,(245-) 320 pp. - 7.: (2),(4),69,(2),XII,(2) pp. - 8.: VIII,58 pp. and 85 lithographed plates, each with numerous illustr., 2 views (complete). Siebenter berich has 2 titlepages, the first: ""Résultat des Recherches exécutées dans les Lacs de la Suisse Occidentale depuis l'année 1866 decrit par V. Gross, F.-A. Forel et Edm. de Fellenberg"". The second: ""Pfahlbauten. Siebenter Bericht. Von Ferdinand Keller"". A few minor brownspots, internally clean.The work was published in ""Mittheilungen der antiquarischen Gesellschaft in Zürich"", Bde IX,,XII,,XIII,,XIV,.XV,,XIX, a. XX. The work has successively belong to three well-known Danish archaeologist: Georg Sarauw, Axel Steensberg and J. Troels-Smith with their names on front free endpaper.Troels-Smith is internatonally known as one of the pioneers in Pollen Analysis, especially with his work ""Pollenanalytische Untersuchungen zu einigen Schweizerischen Pfahlbauproblemen"" founded on his excavations on the ""Pfahlbauten"".‎

‎First edition of this pioneer work in Swiss archaeology, exposing in a long series of reports his finds in the Swiss lakes (the Swiss lake Dwellings), - describing the Swiss ""Urbevölkerung"" with their Stake Buildings and the rich finds around these in the Swiss lakes.‎

‎Zoltan Kemeny‎

‎ Editions du Griffon, Neuchatel - 1960 - In-4, cartonné sous jaquette illustrée de l'éditeur - 101 pages - Très nombreuses illustrations et reproductions photographiques en couleurs et en N&B in et hors texte - Ouvrage trilingue allemand, anglais et français‎

‎Bon état - Menus frottements sur la jaquette - Bords des pages très légèrement jauni ‎

‎OOSTBRABANTSE PLAATSNAMEN. ( DEEL 5 ). HAKENDOVER.‎

‎Leuven, Instituut voor Naamkunde, 1991 Originele uitgeversomslag, 24x16 cm., 92 pp., geillustreerd in z/w. ISBN 9068313746.‎

‎Toponymica. Bijdragen en bouwstoffen uitgegeven door het Instituut voor Naamkunde te Leuven, IX, 5.‎

‎Around the Cragged Hill: A Personal and Political Philosophy‎

‎WW Norton & Co 1993 272 pages 16x3 3x23 11cm. 1993. Cartonné jaquette. 272 pages.‎

‎Très Bon Etat de conservation intérieur propre bonne tenue‎

‎Hawk's Grey Feather (The Keltiad)‎

‎Collins 1992 464 pages 11 2x3 2x16 8cm. 1992. Broché. 464 pages.‎

‎Bon état‎