ACKERMANN, R.,

10 Prints By R. Ackermann + One Other Print Together 11 Prints, All Framed

. A collection of 10 Ackermann prints , all framed and all from the walls of Thornton's Bookshop in Broad street (1835 - 2002) namely: University and Queen's colleges. High street / Oriel college / St. Peter's church / Hall of Exeter college / Merton Chapel Queen's College Chapel / A view of Magpie Lane / The Old Tower / View of Oxford taken from New College tower: (damaged bottom margin) / All Souls College, taken from the top of the Radcliffe Library From A History of The University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings. London: R. Ackermann, 1814. After David Loggan's Oxonia, Ackermann's History of Oxford is the best known of works on that great university. The plates from this volume are justly known as perhaps the aesthetically finest views of the city and its colleges, halls, etc. Their interesting compositions, many showing students, travelers, dons, and so on, are finely depicted with the excellent engraving and vivid, rich colour for which these prints are known. + one other print (not Ackermann) View in Broad-Street in Oxford. J. Farington R.A. delt. J. C. Stadler Sculpt. Pub. June 1, 1793, by J. & J. Boydell, Shakespeare Gallery, Pall Mall, & No. 90, Cheapside. Sepia aquatint. 320 x 220mm. From the 'History of the River Thames'.Abbey: 432. PAYMENT VIA BANK TRANSFER ONLY. COST OF FORWARDING AND INSURANCE IN UK VIA UPS. WE CANNOT SEND THIS COLLECTION ABROAD.

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DEMIDOFF, ANATOLE, PRINCE OF SAN DONATO.

Voyage Dans la Russie Méridionale & la Crimée Par la Hongrie, la Valachie & la Moldavie Exécuté En 1837. . . Par Mm. De Sainson, le Play, Hout, Léveillé, de Nordmann, Rousseau Et Du Ponceau 2 Volumes

. Dédié à Sa Majesté Nicolas Premier, Empereur de toutes des Russies. Dessiné d'après nature et lithographié par (Auguste) Raffet. With 100 tinted lithographs printed on India paper, by Auguste Raffet and printed by Auguste Bry (including additional lithographed title, and 9 other lithographed section titles), all with tissues. Half-title, illus. lithogr. title to face the title-page, with a plate list on verso numb. 1-100. 2 unn. pp. (half title), pp. 3- 64 with descriptive text for the plates nos. 1-87 (no description for the text of the plates 88-100 as usual, so complete). Large folio (530 x 350 mm). Contemp. black half chagrin, back gilt. With heraldic bookplate Louis Mondanton. Paris: Publié par Gihaut Frères, [1838-1848 ] First edition of this rare and complete album of an expedition through Hungary to southern Russia, returning by way of Constantinople and Smyrnia. Plates nos. 1 (frontispiece) - 8, Hungary; nos. 9- 19, Wallachia; nos. 20- 24, Moldova; nos. 25- 30 Bessarabia; nos. 31- 54 Crimea, 1st part; nos. 55- 68, Camp of Vosnessensk, inter alia portrait of Nicolas I; nos. 69- 80; Crimea, 2nd part; nos. 88- 100 show the portraits of the members of the expedition. The present huge work describes and illustrates scenery and exotic architecture, not only of the Russian meridional region, and depicts also uniforms, military camps, costumes, professions, festivities, trade, custom and manners of Armenians, Cossacks, Gipsies, Jews, Russians, Tartars, Turks, etc. An interior of a coffee shop is shown. This scientific journey to southern Russia and the Crimea, etc. was organized by Count Demidoff (1812-70) on behalf of the government. 22 scholars (of which Jules Janin wrote the descriptive text), and artists (of which Raffet was the most important one) accompanied the expedition. Opposite plate 93, (portrait of J. J. Huout) is a 3- page A.L.S. by his son Paul dated Colmar, 1 July 1868 . Prince Demidoff was a famous art collector. His collection was sold in Paris in 1870.- 2 small stamps and stamped number on title, a few slight spots, and some light smudging to margins at the beginning. A nice association copy on large paper. Brunet II, 583; Vicaire III, 167; NBG 13/14, p. 559 & NBG 25/26, p. 578; cf. Atabey 337 (later ed.); not in Blackmer.+ A de Démidoff: Voyage dans La Russie meridionale et la Crimee, par la Hongrie, la Valachie et la Moldavie, execute en 1837. Paris, 1840.in half blue morocoo binding, gilt titling. 7+621+(3) pp. pag. 64 plates by affet. Frontispiece: Nicolaas I on horseback . PAYMENT FOR THESE 2 VOLUMES ONLY VIA BANK TRANSFER.

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HAUSDORFF, RITA

Silesian Story : The Story of a Jewish Family in Germany

. Free German League of Culture in Great Britain . No front cover only the rear wrapper left. 7 editions were published between 1943 and 1945 in English and German. the original German titles was die Hellers. Rita Hausdorff became prominent in exile with this booklet. writer, She was a journalist and Communist whose life and work in Germany, Czechoslovakia, Britain and back in Germany have today been virtually forgotten (in this she may perhaps be seen as exemplary of the female political exile. She made contributions in various capacities to the work of the Freie Deutsche Kulturbund, especially in areas regarded as predominantly female concerns, as well as her editorship of the Britishbased journal Frau in Arbeit and her other writing in exile.

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Book number: F3244

Catalogue: German History

Keywords: Nazi World War 2 Jewish Germany

LEVITT, M., TOPORKOV, A. (EDS.)

Eros and Pornography in Russian Culture/Eros I Pornografiya V Russkoi Kul'ture: Sbornik Statei. (Russian Forbidden Literature/Russkaya Potaennaya Literatura)

. Moskva: Ladomir, 1999; 700pp. coloUr illustrations, tipped in plates, b/w illustrations; fine hardback. This bi-lingual collection of articles addresses a broad spectrum of questions connected to the history and national character of erotica in Russian literature, folklore and art of the 18th-20th centuries. It is based on papers given at the international Russian-American " Conference on Russian Pornography," held at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles) on May 22-24, 1998. In addition, the volume contains a unique set of illustrations the greater part of which was supplied by the collector and bibliophile L.V. Bessmertnykh. CONDITION: NEW.

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Keywords: Wim Meeuws Russian Literature Russian Culture Slavic Russian Folklore Erotica

RUSSELL, BERTRAND,

The Collected Papers Volume 26 : Cold War Fears and Hopes, 1950-'52

. Introduction by Andrew G. Bone, Routledge, 2020, 1132pp. 15 B/W Illustrations. NEW COPY. Table of Contents: Introduction Andrew G. Bone. Chronology. Part 1: Australian Broadcasts, Lectures, Articles and Miscellanea / 1. Guest of Honour [1950] Three Broadcasts for Window on the World / 2. The World as I See It [1950] / 3. My Philosophy of Life [1950] / 4. What Hope for Man [1950] / 5. Ferment in Asia [1950] / 6. Obstacles to World Government [1950] / 7. Blurb for C. K. Bliss, Semantography [1950] / 8. We and U.S. Can Lead and Help Asian People [1950] / 9. Science Can Help Australia Support More People [1950] / 10. Communism, Capitalism, Socialism [1950] / a. Bertrand Russell Tells Us What Communism Is / b. Private Monopoly Is Bane of Capitalism / c. Greater Democracy Is Socialism's Purpose / 11. Living in the Atomic Age [1950] / a i. Institutions / b ii. Individuals / 12. Refuting the Archbishop of Melbourne [1950] / a. Reply to Dr. Mannix / b. Telegram from Perth / 13. Why Western Australians Should Be Happy [1950] / 14. Land with a Future for Ambitious Youth [1950] / 15. My Impressions of Australia [1950] / 16. Happy Australia [1950] / 17. Hopes for Australia in a Hundred Years [1951] / Part 2: "A Common-Sense Paradise" / 18. If We Are to Survive This Dark Time- [1950] / 19. What Desires Are Politically Important? [1950] / 20. Loquacious Man and His Mind [1950] / 21. "To Replace Our Fears with Hope" [1950] / 22. "What Can I Do?" [1951] / 23. What Does the Single Individual Signify? [1951] / 24. The Future of Science [1951] / 25. "Living in an Atomic Age": Abstract, Foreword and Related Blurb [1951] / a. Provisional Abstract / b. Living in an Atomic Age / c. Blurb for New Hopes for a Changing World / 26. Christianity and Science: Is There a Gulf? [1951] / 27. Prof. Gilbert Murray Honoured [1951] / 28. Are Human Beings Necessary? [1951] / 29. Competition and Co-operation in Politics and Economics [1951] / 30. Denies Categorization as a "Humanist" [1951] / 31. New Hopes for a Changing World [1951] / 32. The Road to Happiness (i) [1951] / 33. Lecture to Young Men and Young Women's Hebrew Association [1951] / a. Life without Fear: A View of Poetry / b. Questions and Answers / 34. Sex Education Is Desirable [1951] / 35. My Faith in the Future [1951] / 36. A Liberal Decalogue [1951] / 37. Prefatory Note to Reprint of "The Elements of Ethics" [1952] / 38. The Road to Happiness (ii) [1952] / 39. How Fanatics Are Made [1952] / 40. Future of the B.B.C. [1952] / 41. Leonardo's Day-and Our Own [1952] / Part 3: Autobiography, Humour, Fiction / 42. Celebrity [1950] / 43. How to Grow Old [1951] / 44. How I Write [1951] / 45. The Use of Books [1951] / 46. Things I Know and Things I Conjecture [1951] / a. Things I Know / b. Things I Conjecture / 47. Bertrand Russell: Biographical Notes [1951] / 48. The Corsican Ordeal of Miss X [1951] / Part 4: Avoiding War / 49. The Fanatics [1950] / 50. Message to Japanese Students [1950] / 51. On Nationalism [1950] Two Letters on Preventive War / 52. Resignation from the Cambridge University Labour Club [1950] / 53. Lord Russell and the Atom Bomb [1951] / 54. Dictatorship Breeds Corruption [1951] / 55. My Plan for Peace [1951] / 56. Why Defend the Free World? [1951] / 57. Soviet Humour-Does It Exist? [1951] / 58. Fifty Years' Movement towards Equality [1951] / 59. Communism and Christian Socialism [1951] / 60. European Unity and the Atlantic Alliance [1951] / 61. China in the Light of History [1951] / 62. The Problem of Germany [1951] / 63. Preface to A World Apart [1951] / 64. The Narrow Line [1951] / 65. Western Values [1952] / 66. How Near Is War? [1952] / 67. One World-Is It Feasible? [1952] / 68. Message to Anti-Franco Protest Meeting [1952] / Part 5: Cold War America at Home and Abroad / 69. On Mass Hysteria [1951] / 70. Every Crisis an Opportunity [1951] / 71. Why America Is Losing Her Allies [1951] / 72. Lord Russell Sees MacArthur Dismissal as "Act of Courage" [1951] / 73. What's Wrong with Anglo-American Relations [1951] / 74. Are These Moral Codes Out of Date? [1951] / 75. Commentary on "U.S.A. The Permanent Revolution" [1951] / 76. Meet the Press [1951] Three Papers on Political Conformity and Civil Liberties / 77. Using Beelzebub to Cast Out Satan [1951] / 78. Bertrand Russell and the U.S.A. [1952] / 79. Bertrand Russell and the U.S. [1952] / 80. Is America in the Grip of Hysteria? [1952] / Appendixes / Interviews and Reported Speech / Multiple-Signatory and Other Non-Authorial Texts / Broadcast Transcripts / Original Non-English Texts. / Missing and Unprinted Papers / Annotation / Textual Notes / Bibliographical Index / Index of Paper Titles / General Index. (ISBN: 9780049200920) .

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WALLACE, A.F. .

The Progress of Plastic Surgery; an Introductory History

. Oxford, W.A. Meeuws, 1982, paper, xii, 184 pages, as new , paper GM 5768.5. [ see our other entry for the hardback edtiion ].

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WALLACE, A.F.,

The Progress of Plastic Surgery. An Introductory History.

. Oxford: W.A.Meeuws, 1982; xii,184 pp. illus. Mint. hardback in d/j GM 5768.5.

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