The Year Of The Century

Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Marble Faun or the Romance of Monti Beni. Two volume edition. Boston und New York, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1890.
Very light cover wear. Some papers few foxed. A good and clean copy.

266, 261 pages. With an introductory note by George Parsons Lathrop. Red cloth and white cloth spine. Gilt design on the front covers. Gold gilt lettering on spines. Illustrated throughout with fifty tissue covered photogravure plates, illustrating points of interest in Italy. Protective tissue. Volume I with engraved frontispiece of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Two-color title page. Top edges gilt. 21 x 14 cm. This was Hawthorne's last novel completed after returning to American from a two year stay in Italy. It is a provocative look at American artists abroad and a groundbreaking exploration of the influence of European thought on American morality that anticipates the work of Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway, among others. The story centers around the mysterious, tormented Miriam, her friends Kenyon and Hilda, their alluring Italian acquaintance, the faunlike Donatello, and the crime that irrevocably links them all.

[KW: American Literature 19th Century, Symbolic Literature, Rome, Victorian Rome, Fiction.]

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Staunford [Stanford], Sir William: Les Plees del Coron [and] An Exposition of the Kinges Prerogative... 1574

Staunford, Sir William [1509-1558]. Les Plees del Coron, Divisees in Plusors Titles & Comen Lieux. Per Queux Home Plus Redenen & Plenairement Trouvera Quelque Chose quil Quira, Touchant les Dits Plees. Dernierment Corrigee Avecques un Table Parfaicte des Choses Notables Contenues en Ycelle, Nouvelment Revue et Corigee. [London]: In Aedibus Richardi Tottelli, 1574. [xiv], 198 ff. [Bound with] Staunford, Sir William. An Exposition of the Kinges Prerogative Collected Out of the Great Abridgement of Iustice Fitzherbert And Other Olde Writers of the Lawes of Englande. Whereunto is Annexed the Proces to the Same Prerogative Appertaining. [London: Imprynted...in Flete Strete Within Temple Barre...By Rychard Tottel, 1568]. [i], 85 ff. Quarto (7-1/4" x 5-1/4"). Contemporary calf, blind frames to boards, corners mended, rebacked, raised bands and lettering pieces to spine, early hand-lettered title to fore-edge, endpapers renewed. Moderate rubbing to extremities, minor chipping to spine ends, front joint cracked, rear joint starting, cracks in text block before title page and after final index leaf. Title page of Plees printed within large woodcut architectural border, woodcut decorated initials to both works. Minor toning, light soiling to title pages. Later owner signature (of Wm. H. Stillingfleet, 1797) to front endleaf, notes in sixteenth and eighteenth-century hands in a few places, some affected by trimming with negligible loss. A nice copy. * Later editions. First published in 1557, Staunford's Plees is considered a "principal book" by Pollock and Maitland, one that enables us "to trace our modern laws of crimes, from the later middle ages onwards." Based on Bracton and the Year Books, Staunford's treatise is divided into three parts. The first treats offences, the second treats jurisdiction, appeals, indictments, and defenses. The third addresses trials and convictions. Plees was written after Staunford was appointed judge of the common pleas in 1554. Exposition of the Kinges Prerogative was first published in 1567. It addresses discretionary rights enjoyed by the monarchy in foreign policy, domestic affairs, legal and governmental administration, religion and economic m

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Verkauft wird ein Konvolut von ca. 15 Büchern zu Natur und Landleben von Großbritannien. Alle Bücher sind in englischer Sprache. Überwiegend Bildbände.
Verkauft wird ein Konvolut von ca. 15 Büchern zu Natur und Landleben von Großbritannien. Alle Bücher sind in englischer Sprache. Überwiegend Bildbände. Der Bestand entstammt dem Nachlass eines leidenschaftlichen Sammlers. Er kaufte die Titel teils in Antiquariaten. Die Bücher sind ergo teils gebraucht und deshalb mit den üblichen Spuren versehen: Z.B. berieben, lichtrandig, Besitzervermerk, mit Buchhandelsaufklebern, fleckig o.ä. Der Großteil der Bücher dieses Konvoluts ist allerdings schön erhalten und wirkt ungelesen. Gravierende Mängel wie z.B. Anstreichungen sind unten angegeben. Die Bücher des Konvoluts sind überwiegend fest gebunden (zumeist fester Karton) und zumeist mit Umschlag. Die Bücher sind staubig. Schön ist das Buch der Ehepaares Waite, die ein Jahr des Landlebens auf einer schottischen Insel dokumentieren, und zwar in einem aufwändig gearbeiteten handgeschriebenen und handgemalten Buche, welches hier als Druck vorliegt. Tolle Bilder bringt das Portrait des Naturmalers Tunnicliffe. Natur: - Angel, H.: The Natural History of Britain and Ireland (Michael Joseph 1981, 256 St.); - Waite: Island, diary of a year on Easdale (Century 1985, 145 St.); - Young: The country year, a nature watcher's calendar and field guide (Guild 1989, 256 St.); - Reader's Digest, The ever-changning woodlands, the living countryside (1984, 192 St.), - Angel/Wolseley: The family water naturalist, a practical expedition to the world of ponds, rivers and the sea shore (Michael Joseph 1982, 180 St.); - Thelwell, N.: A plank bridge by a pool (Eyre Methuen 1978, 158 St.); - Furnell, D.: The country book of the year (David & Charles 1980, 239 St.). Natur und Garten: - Chindery: The living garden, a practical guide to attracting and conserving garden wildlife (Dorling Kindersley 1986, 188 St.); - Marsh, Janet: Nature Diary (Joseph 1979, 160 St.); - Jones/Weare: Garden wildlife, the living world of your garden (Ebury 1981, 152 St.). Natur und Kunst: - Niall: Portrait of a country artist, Charles Tunnicliffe 1901-1979 (Gollancz 1980, 160 St.); - Thompson, Flora: The illustrated Lark Rise to Candleford (Cresset 1999, 224 St.). Schäfer: - Hudson: The illustrated Shepherd's life (Bracken 1987, 222 St.); - Wills, Barclay: The Downland shepherds (Guild 1989, 183 St., verdruckt); - Hudson, W.: A shepherd's life (Book club 1981, 223 St., Nachdruck eines Textes von 1910). Und dazu: - A4 Book of Country Walks, a concise edition of No through road' (Autom.Ass. 1979, Kunststoff-Ordner mit ca. 200 eingelegten Blatt); - Young, G.: Country Eye, a walker's guide to Britain's traditional countryside (Philip 1991, 196 St.).

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Heathcote, Edwin: Bank Builder. ISBN: 0471853593, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, United Kingdom, 2000,

OLWd.mit OUmschlag, 224 S., Fol. mit zahlreichen Zeichnungen u. farbigen Aufnahmen im Text. Neues Exemplar/Brand new. Versand für dieses Buch: 14.5 EUR. The bank building has become a pivotal part of our cities and our suburbs. Both public and private; secure and yet welcoming, bank architecture needs to embody our desire to see that our money is secure; yet welcome us and make us feel a part of the arcane and often impenetrable financial process. A paradoxical mix of alienation and embrace, it is a challenge which has faced architects since the Renaissance. In this book Edwin Heathcote examines the roots of the architecture of banking - from the money changers' stalls to the palaces and banking houses of the Florentine dynasties; through the developments of modern banks and exchanges to the incredible changes and radical departures which recent banking buildings embody. Using some the best recent examples of the architecture of banking and exchange, the author attempts to se patterns in the recurrence of certain banking archetypes which persist even today and to examine some of the buildings which set new precedents and innovative patterns for change and adaptation. Bank Builders covers the work of a great range of international architects including Foster Associates, KPF, Cesar Pelli, Gunther Behnisch, Erick van Egeraat, Mario Botta and Frank O Gehry. In putting the work of these architects into the context of the work of their forebears, from John Soane to Otto Wagner, the author hopes to show that banks and financial institutions - despite their often conservative image - have been at the heart of the most interesting and radical architectural commissioning over the last century. EDWIN HEATHCOTE is an architect and writer working in London. He has written a number of books on architecture including Monument Builders, Church Builders and Imre Makovecz: The Wings of the Soul for Wiley-Academy. He also writes on architecture for the Financial Times and a number of architectural journals. * Wir haben während des Jahres 2008 völlige Produktion von Gesellschaft Fraktaly Publishers, GmbH eingekauft. Es sind diese Bereiche: Architektur, Design (Ladislav Sutnar etc.) und ihre Herstellung. Falls Sie interessiert wird, teilen Sie uns mit: info@valentinska.cz During the year 2008 we have purchased the whole production of company Fraktaly Publishers, s.r.o. .We can offer the books focused on:Architecture, Design (Ladislav Sutnar, etc.) and the production of Fraktaly Publishers, s.r.o. . Any question, please , don't hesitate to contact us on this e-mail: info@valentinska.cz *

[KW: Architektur, Geschichte, F.]

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