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Leopold Von Ranke A Review of his Life
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Leopold Von Ranke A Review of his Life

by Adams, Henry Brook

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Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volumes 22-23 pages 542-558, signed "H. B. A" Leopold Von Ranke a review of his life. by Herbert Baxter Adams;
Adams was born to Nathaniel Dickinson Adams and Harriet (Hastings) Adams in Shutesbury, Massachusetts. On his mother's side, he was a descendant of Thomas Hastings who came from the East Anglia region of England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634.[1] Adams received his early training in the Amherst, Massachusetts public schools and Phillips Exeter Academy. He graduated from Amherst College in 1872. In 1873 Adams traveled to Europe to study and write. In 1874 he then moved to Heidelberg, Germany to pursue the Ph.D. degree. There he was influenced by Johann Gustav Droysen and Johann Kaspar Bluntschli, the latter also becoming his mentor. Heidelberg did not then require a thesis from its doctoral candidates, instead it required an oral examination, for which he chose political science for his major field (Hauptfach), with two minors… Read More
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Nouvelle Allegorique ou Histoire des Derniers Troubles Arrivez au Royaume d'Eloquence
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Nouvelle Allegorique ou Histoire des Derniers Troubles Arrivez au Royaume d'Eloquence

by Antoine Furetière

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Furetiere, Antoine. (1619-1688) Novvelle Allegoriqve ov Histoire des Derniers Trovbles arrivez au Royaume d'Eloquence. Seconde Edition, reveue & corrigee. Paris: chez Pierre Lamy, au Palais au second Pilier de la grand' Salle, au grand Cefar, 1659. Duodecimo. Second Edition a8, A-H12, I6, K3. This book is bound in red quarter calf over marbled boards. The edges of the leaves are marbled as well. The spine is gilded. The leaves have some browning and spotting but nothing that impairs legibility. Antoine Furetiere: Well esteemed by both Racine and Moliere, Furetiere is probably best known for his Dictionary. His 'Nouvelle Allegoriques,' however, is a fascinating piece that was first printed in 1658. It describes eloquence, allegory, and writing in general. Antoine Furetiere was "a French writer, born in Paris in 1620, became Abbe of Chalivoy. He was chosen a member of the French Academy in 1662. In his "Bourgeois Romance" ("Romance Bourgeois," 1666) he satirized the manners of the middle or… Read More
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Moravian Church.; Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee to Whom the Petition of...
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Moravian Church.; Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee to Whom the Petition of the Deputies of the United Moravian Churches, in Behalf of Themselves and Their United Brethren, was Referred.; Great Britain. A composite volume. Some exemplars arranged differently. First item ([2], 635-638 p.) includes, with separate t.p.: Anno regni Georgii II Regis Magnae Britanniae, Franciae & Hiberniae, vicesimo secundo : at the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster the tenth day of November Anno Dom. 1747 ... London : Printed by Thomas Baskett ... and by the assigns of Robert Baskett, 1749, London: Printed by the Assigns of R. and Edw. Atkins Esquires. For Thomas Basset at the Sign of the George near Cliffords Inn in Fleetstreet.
Small 2vo, 12x 7.75 in. First Edition. [Blank]; 2, [Tittle page, iii]; 7F-5; B-F2; A-I2; K-O2; X-Z2; Aa-Ii2; Kk-Qq2; [Blank]. This copy is bound in full contemporary sheepskin, the pages are crisp but the boards are loose and last section of Epilogue is disbound… Read More
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Ionae Avrelianensis Ecclesiae Episcopi Libri II. De Cvltv Imaginvm: Ad Carolum Caluum Aduersus...
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Ionae Avrelianensis Ecclesiae Episcopi Libri II. De Cvltv Imaginvm: Ad Carolum Caluum Aduersus haeresin Claudii Praesulis Taurinensis, ante annos quidem D.C.C. conscripti, numc vero primum ab innumeris quibus scatebant mendis repurgati.

by Jonah Aurelian

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Aurelian, Jonah. (d. 843 or 844) Ionae Avrelianensis Ecclesiae Episcopi Libri II. De Cvltv Imaginvm: Ad Carolum Caluum Aduersus haeresin Claudii Praesulis Taurinensis, ante annos quidem D.C.C. conscripti, numc vero primum ab innumeris quibus scatebant mendis repurgati. Antwerp: Ex Officina Christophori Plantini, 1565
Octavo, 2.7 x 4.25 in. Second edition, A-N8. This book is in modern binding made from blind-stamped pigskin of a sixteenth century book over modern boards. Despite the strangeness of this binding it is not displeasing. The leaves are edged in gilt. The pages are in excellent condition. A rare work and very difficult to find.
Jonah Aurelian:
This work "on the veneration of images was written at the request of Louis the Pious in refutation of the Iconoclastic views of Claudius, Bishop of Turin. Jonas wrote it without having read the writings of Claudius which he knew only through an extract sent to him by Louis the Pious. He maintains that images are justified for the purposes of… Read More
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