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Australian Womens We: Vegie Stars ("Australian Women's Weekly") ACP Publishing Pty Ltd 2008 ; weicher Einband / soft cover ISBN: 1863967907
This book presents more than 100 delicious recipes. It is divided by vegetable, alphabetically. Not only are there wonderful innovative recipes for all of the vegetables in the book, but there is also information and answers to questions about such things as preparing and eating artichokes, ways to cook unusual Asian vegetables, how to use grapevine leaves, preparing and cooking radicchio, whether or not to peel asparagus. With more than 100 recipes for salads, purees, roasted and steamed vegetables, soups, gratins, mixed vegetable dishes and single vegetable dishes, it's a vegetable-lover's dream.

en 120S. 27,61 x 19,99 x 0,79cm

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Sprenger, A[loys]. The life of Mohammad from original sources. Allahabad, Presbyterian Mission Press, 1851. ; 1. Ed.
Exceedingly rare Indian-printed work; the English-language nucleus of what was to become the author's chef d'oeuvre (in German) a decade later. It was in the quest for materials for this work that Sprenger travelled extensively in Egypt, Syria, and Mesopotamia (cf. DNB). From the collection of the orientalist Wilhelm Ahlwardt (1828-1909) with his autogr. ownership to front wrapper. No copy in the Austrian National Library. - The Austrian-born orientalist Aloys Sprenger (1813-93) studied medicine and natural sciences as well as oriental languages at Vienna, receiving tutelage from Hammer-Purgstall but failing to be accepted into the Oriental Academy, open only to the nobility. In 1836 he moved to London, where he worked with the Graf von Münster on the latter's "History of Military Science among the Muslim Peoples", and thence in 1843 to Calcutta. In 1848 he was sent to Lucknow, to prepare a catalogue of the royal library there, the first volume of which appeared in 1854. In 1850 Sprenger was named examiner, official government interpreter, and secretary of the Asiatic Society of Calcutta. He published many works while holding this latter position, among them "Dictionary of the Technical terms used in the sciences of the Musulmans" (1854) and "Ibn Hajar's biographical dictionary of persons who knew Mohammed" (1856). Sprenger took a position as professor of oriental languages at the University of Bern in 1857, moving in 1881 to Heidelberg. His voluminous collection of Arabic, Persian, Hindustani and other manuscripts and printed material was eventually acquired by the Prussian State Library in Berlin. Several of his editions remain the standard Received Text. Although never having taught or worked in Austria, Sprenger is considered a typical example of the Austrian school of oriental studies, traditionally aiming for a better understanding of the Middle-Eastern peoples (cf. ÖBL XIII, 49). "Sprenger was not only an ardent and successful book-collector [...] He is said to have acquired a good practical knowledge of no less than twenty-five languages. While in the north of India he was an enthusiastic mountaineer, and, though he did not grapple with the difficult subject of old Arabic geography until he was over sixty, he dealt with it with an insight and acumen that seemed almost instinctive" (DNB). He is remembered as one of the most prominent orientalists of the 19th century. - Of the utmost rarity; no copy in auction records. - Pfannmüller 166, 180 ff. Fück 176 ff. Wurzbach XXXVI, 262. DNB XVIII, 833f.

8vo. 210 pp. Original wrappers.

[KW: Naher Osten: Reisen, Geschichte, Falknerei und Pferde]

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United States Congress: American State Papers. 1832-1861. 38 vols. Reprint edition, 0

Session of the First to the Second of the Twenty-Second Congress, inclusive... [1789-1838]...Selected and edited under the authority of Congress by Walter Lowrie, Secretary of the Senate, and Matthew St. Clair of the House of Representatives. Washington, Gales and Seaton, 1832-1861. 38 vols. Reprint. Wm. S. Hein, 1998. 8-1/2" x 13" cloth with gilt stamped spine labels. All maps reproduced in microfiche at rear of books. New. * Widely recognized as the most comprehensive compilation of important documents and reports from the first twenty-two Congresses. The set was originally sanctioned by an Act of Congress in 1831 in an edition of 750 copies. "This valuable work was printed by order of the United States Government, and distributed through Members of Congress. It contains reprints, not only of all the early occasional publications of the Congress that could be found, but many important papers from the Archives of the Government never before published." Sabin 1228. The documents are grouped in 10 classes, each class arranged chronologically: 1. Foreign Affairs, 6 vols.; 2. Indian Affairs, 2 vols.; 3.Finance, 5 vols.; 4.Commerce and Navigation, 2 vols.; 5. Military Affairs, 7 vols.; 6. Naval Affairs, 4 vols.; 7. Post Office, 1v.; 8.Public Lands, 8v.; 9. Claims, 1v.; 10. Miscellaneous, 2v. There is an index for each class at the end of its final volume. Boyd 97-98. Individual volumes are also available at USD145 each.

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Watson, William (Editor). The Great Japan Exhibition - Art of the Edo Period 1600 -. 1868. London, Royal Academy of Arts in association with Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981. ; Schutzumschlag / dust cover
[The Volume contains many colored and Black-and-White-Illustrations.].

4°. 365 Pages. Original Cloth-Volume (Title-Impression on the Spine) with original Dust-acket (titled, illustrated). Volume in very good Condition. No Markings in the Text! No Underlinings! No Owner-Notation! As new! Dust-jacket only with minimal Signs of Use.

[KW: Art; Edo; Japanese Art; Japanische Kunst; Kunst]

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