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‎Early Netherlandish Painting - The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection‎

‎London 1989 Philip Wilson Publishers, Limited Hardcover Very Good ‎

‎Hardcover, Jacket: Very Good, 30 X 25 cm, 288 pp., English, Illustrations, book condition: Very Good. Early Netherlandish Painting will be equally welcome to the art lover , the museum and the reference library, giving access to the last major collection early Netherlandish painting to remain in private posession. It includes over forty masterpieces by Robert Campin, Petrus Chritus, Jacques Daret, Jan van Eyck, Hans Memling and Rogier van der Weyden. The collection is also rich in works by the painters of the new generation of the early 16th century. An extensive introduction to the period precedes the catalogue of 43 paintings by masters including Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Robert Campin and Hans Memling. A very substantial introduction by Colin Eisler illuminates the background to early Netherlandish art and traces its development through the paintings. The extensively illustrated catalogue was prepared with the collaboration of graduate students at the Intsitute of Fine Arts, New York. Dr Emil Bosshardt, Conservator at the Villa Favorita, and Elizabeth Ardrery contribute to the paintings' technical examination. Infra-red reflectography has been used to examine each work and the results are published alongside the finished painting.‎

‎The History of Linguistic and Grammatical praxis - proceedings of the XIth International Colloquim of the Studienkreis "Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft".‎

‎Leuven 2000 Peeters Publishers Soft cover 1st Edition ‎

‎Soft cover, 24 x 16 cm, 604 pp., English, 1st Edition, book condition: Very Good. The contibutions in this volume constitute a selection of the papers presented at the 11th International Colloquium of the West-European (German-based) society for the history of linguistic ideas, the Studienkreis "Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft". The central theme of the conference was the history of linguistic and grammatical praxis. While this topic served, for the first time, as the central theme of a conference in the history of linguistics, the various types of linguistic praxis - language teaching and language learning, description and codification of languages, diffusion of linguistic knowledge, language planning and language policies - constitute the first attestation of linguistic preoccupations worldwide. The twenty-seven contributions in this volume cover the history of grammatical and linguistic praxis from Antiquity to the present day. While most of the papers deal with Europe and the United States, some of them analyse linguistic activity in relation to languages in Africa, Asia or Australia.‎

‎COBBETT'S PAPER AGAINST GOLD: Containing the History and Mystery of the Bank of England, the Funds, the Debt, the Sinking Fund, the Bank Stoppage, the lowering and the raising of the value of Paper-Money and shewing, that Taxation, Pauperism, Poverty, Mi‎

‎Printed By W. Molineux - Published By W. Cobbett London 1817 In-8 ( 230 X 145 mm ) de VIII-470 colonnes ( 2 colonnes par page ), cartonnage muet de l'époque. Dos et page de titre absents, premier plat en partie détaché ( exemplaire à relier ).COBBETT'S PAPER AGAINST GOLD: Containing the History and Mystery of the Bank of England, the Funds, the Debt, the Sinking Fund, the Bank Stoppage, the lowering and the raising of the value of Paper-Money and shewing, that Taxation, Pauperism, Poverty, Misery and Crimes have all increased, and ever must increase with a Funding System.‎

‎Giordano Bruno and the Kabbalah - Prophets, Magicians, and Rabbis‎

‎New Haven London 1997 Yale University Press Hardcover Very Good 1st Edition ‎

‎Hardcover, Jacket: Very Good, 24 x 16 cm, 273 pp., English, 1st Edition, book condition: Very Good. In this major new interpretation of the thought of the heretical philosopher Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), Karen de Leon-Jones depicts the influential thinker as mystic and Kabbalistic. She rejects the popular view of Bruno as Hermetic magus - a position initiated by Frances Yates and widely accepted by succeeding scholars. Bruno's interest in mysticism and the Kabbalah was not merely intellectual or satiric, de Leon-Jones contends: a close look at his study of the Kabbalah reveals him as a practicing believer. This book sets Bruno's thought in the context of the widespread interest in non-Christian religions in fifteenth- and sixteenth century Italy. His quest for an alternative model to the strict spirituality of post-Reformation churches, for a way to encompass both scientific and mystical views of the universe, led Bruno to the Kabbalah. De Leon-Jones argues that Bruno's dialogue Cabala del cavallo (Kabbalah of the pegasean horse) expressed his mystical, kabbalistic doctrine. For Bruno, the Kabbalah reconciled science with theology and provided a biblical support for theories such as metempsychosis that he wished to prove scientifically through atomic theory and physiognomy. Balancing his mystical Cabala dialogue with the Hermetic vein of his dialogue Spaccio della bestia trionfante and the Napoleonic emblems of De'li eroici furori, Bruno creates a solid syncretic trilogy, as well as a strikingly modern apology for scientific and philosophical debates still of interest today.‎

‎HERMETICA: The Ancient Greek and Latin Writings which contain Religious or Philosophic Teachings ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus 4 volumes complete set first edition‎

‎Oxford 1924 Claredon press Hardcover 1st Edition ‎

‎Hardcover, 23 x 15 cm, English, 1st Edition, 4 volumes, book condition: Very Good. Oxford at the Claredon press: vols 1-4 dated: 1924, 1925, 1926, & 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Four volumes (complete). Volume I: viii + 550pp, b&w frontis; Volume II: vi + 482pp; Volume III: viii + 632pp; Volume IV: xlix + 576pp. Original publishers cloth with gilt title etc. to spines, Thoth to covers.. A rare first edition set of this landmark work in Hermetic studies. The Hermetica is the name given to an extraordinary collection of writings ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus, the Greek name for the legendary teacher, prophet and scribe deified by the Egyptians as the god Thoth and known to the Hebrews as Enoch.. Volume I contains the original Greek and Latin texts as well as the translations and notes. Volumes II and III provide extra commentaries on the Corpus Hermeticum, the Asclepius and the Strobaeus. Volume IV provides Testimonia as well as addenda to the notes on the earlier texts, copious indexes.. Fine condition, a rare complete set ‎