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Paris Books & Co 1999 96 pages in-8. 1999. cartonné. 96 pages. In-8 étroit (286x107 mm) 96 pages. Cartonnage illustré. Illustrations en noir et en couleurs. Très bon état. Poids : 320 gr
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The Mirror of News, Wylie: yul phyogs so so'i gsar 'gyur gyi me long, ZYPY: Yulchog Soseu Sargyour Mélong) or Mirror of News from All Sides of the World 1925 - 1931 the first five years complete. Not in any library worldwide
Kalinpong 1925 Gegen (Gergan) Dorje Tharchin Hardcover 1st Edition
Not in any library worldwide:. IFolio (34,4 x 19,5 cm): 60 installments (4 double) in blue and black stencil (install. 11, vol. III printed in gold) totalising 122 ff. hand-numbered in blue pencil, illustr. (2 textlvs on red paper bound with; overall good condition).. Contemp. half black sheep, title in gold on flat spine (joints cracked, corners blunt).. Only run known being complete of the first 5 years missing at all sets registered worldwide, including 1925-1926, the very first volume.rnIn 1925, "Yul phyogs so so?i gsar ?gyur me lon" (often abbreviated as "me lon" and "melon") or the "The Tibetan Newspaper", also known as "The Mirror of News" or "The Tibet Mirror", was founded at Kalimpong in West Bengal, India. Published after "The Ladakh Journal", it is the second Tibetan language newspaper to have been started, per available records. Its founder was one Gergan Dorje Tharchin, a Tibetan of Christian denomination who was a pastor at Kalimpong, at the time a border town that acted as a centre for the wool trade between Tibet and India. He was born in 1890 in Himachal Pradesh and was educated by Moravian missionaries although he did not use his newspaper as a platform for proselytising Christianity to his readers.rnPublished on a monthly basis, the journal's first record was given in October 1925 under the title "The Mirror of News of All Sides of the World", followed by a second one in February 1926. Only 50 copies were printed and all sent to Tharchin's friends in Lhasa, including one for the 13th Dalai Lama who sent a letter encouraging him to continue with the publication and became an ardent reader.rnIts founder Tharchin was at the same time journalist, chief editor and publisher. He would select the news from newspapers of which he was a subscriber, and translate them into Tibetan. He had assigned to himself opening up Tibet to the outside world. The journal reported on what went on in the world at the Chinese Revolution, at World War II, during the Indian independence movement, and covered events in Tibet, India, and in Kalimpong itself. The more it informed about western material civilisation such as gramophone, photographic camera, clocks, flashlite, horse saddle, fountain pen, printer's press, an automobile etc, all illustrated. One finds also in the text the photographic portraits of the 13th and of the 14th Dalai Lama, a small view on the Potala Palace in Lhasa, the crash of a zeppelin aircraft etc.rnStarted as a Tibetan language chronicle of world events, by the 1950's became a vehicle for the fight for Tibetan freedom from the Chinese invasion and occupation. By the early 1960's, with financial troubles that never seemed to end, Tharchin ceased the publication in 1963 and died in 1976.rnApparently, our set is the only one known to contain the complete first 5 volumes (1925/1926-1930), as neither the "Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Libray" at Yale University, nor "The Tharchin Collection" at Columbia University, being Tharchin's personal archives, have complete runs, both starting with the year 1930 (a part from only one record -vol. 2, n. 5- at Columbia).rnRef. Paul G. Hackett, Barbarian Lands: Theos Bernard, Tibet, and the American Religious Life. Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, 2008.rnVolume 1 : 1925/1926 : 1 12 complete rnvolume 2 : 1927 : 1 12 completernVolume 3 : 1928 : 1 12 completernVolume 4 : 1929 : 1 12 completernVolume 5 : 1930 : 1 12 completern
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Art and the Sacred in Mumuyeland
Oostkamp 2018 Stichting Kunstboek Hardcover 1st Edition
Hardcover, 29 x 22 cm, 144 pp., English, 1st Edition, Illustrations, book condition: Very Good. Despite some field research our knowledge of the sacred among the Mumuye is still embryonic. In all these acephalic groups of a binary and antinomic nature, the complex va constitutes an extremely varied semantic field in which certain aspects are accentuated depending on the circumstances. Religious power is linked to the strength contained in sacred objects, of which only the elders are the guardians. Moreover, this gerontocracy relies on a system of initiatory stages which one must pass to have access to the status of 'religious leader'. Geographically isolated, the Mumuye were able to resist the attacks of the Muslim invaders, the British colonial authority and the activities of the different Christian missions for a long time. As a result, the Mumuye practised woodcarving until the beginning of our century.In 1970 Philip Fry published his essay on the statuary of the Mumuye of which the analysis of the endogenous network has so far lost nothing of its value. Basing himself on in situ observations, Jan Strybol attempted to analyze the exogenous network of this woodcarving. Thus he was able to document about forty figures and some masks and additionally to identify more than twenty-five Mumuye artists as well as a specific type of sculpture as being confined to the Mumuye Kpugbong group. During and after the Biafran war, hundreds of Mumuye sculptures were collected. Based on information gathered between 1970 and 1993 the author has demonstrated that a certain number of these works are not Mumuye but must be attributed to relic groups scattered in Mumuye territory.
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.
The Golden Bough A Study in Magic and Religion Third edition, 12 vols complete
London 1932 Macmillan & Co Hardcover Very Good
Hardcover, Jacket: Very Good, 22 x 14 cm, English, 12 volumes, Illustrations, book condition: Very Good rnThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by the Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer.rnThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion Third edition : revised and enlarged, 12 volsrnuniform publishers hardcover green cloth with the original dustjackets (very good conditon), gilt lettering on the spine, gilded design front cover, small imperfections on the covers, inside almost mint condition, a very scarce very good copyrnVolume 1 (1932 ) Part I: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings (Volume I), 426 pagesrnVolume 2 (1932): Part I: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings (Volume II), 417 pagesrnVolume 3 (1936): Part II: Taboo and the Perils of the Soul, 446 pagesrnVolume 4 (1930): Part III: The Dying God, 305 pagesrn Volume 5 (1927): Part IV: Adonis, Attis, Osiris (Volume I), 317 pages rnVolume 6 (1927): Part IV Adonis, Attis, Osiris (Volume II), 321 pages rnVolume 7 (1933): Part V: Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild (volume I), 319 pagesrnVolume 8 (1933): Part V: Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild (Volume II), 371 pages rnVolume 9 (1933): Part VI: The Scapegoat, 453 pagesrnVolume 10 (1930): Part VII: Balder the Beautiful (Volume I), 346 pagesrnVolume 11 (1930): Part VII: Balder the Beautiful (volume II), 389 pagesrnVolume 12 (1935): Bibliography and General Index, 536 pagesrn
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Under the sanction of the directors. Report of the directors to a special general meeting of the Chamber of commerce and manufactures at Manchester. on the injurious effects of restrictions on trade, and the necessity of immediate changes in our commercial policy ; arising out of the report and evidence of the select committee of the House of Commons on import duties, during the last session of Parliament. 11th March 1841
Londres, Pelham Richardson, Ridgway, Manchester, White & Carter, 1841 in-8, 24 pp., dérelié.
Vigoureux plaidoyer en faveur du libre-échange et opposé aux droits de douane excessifs : "Is it fitting that we should go on sacrificing our greatest national interests to the practice of giving protection to the private interests of a comparatively small portion of the community ? Shall we look in silence and unconcern on the singular anomaly of a country presenting the greatest natural advantages for commerce and manufactures, - a boundless demand for its productions, - the means of illimitable employment, with the most industrious, skillful, and enterprising population in the world, sinking into pauperism ?"Fils d'un marchand de Manchester, John Benjamin Smith (1794-1879) fut président de la Chambre de commerce de cette ville de 1839 à 1841, avant d'entamer une carrière politique qui lui permit de siéger à la Chambre des Communes de 1847 à 1874 sans interruption, comme membre du parti libéral.Un seul exemplaire au CCF (BnF). - - VENTE PAR CORRESPONDANCE UNIQUEMENT - LIEN DE PAIEMENT, NOUS CONSULTER.
