‎Douanes‎

‎Multiple Contributors‎

‎Canadian Collector Magazine - May/June 1980, Vol. 15 No. 3 - Friedrich K. Ploethner‎

‎Features: International Floralies, Montreal 1980; Cabinetmaker and Weaver Friedrich K. Ploethner; 19th Century Ontario Animal Portraits; The B. Lent Pottery c. 1836-1841- Lincoln County redware; In Search of a Canadian Sampler-Maker - a fascinating story of three closely intertwined pioneer Ontario families - Robertsons, Barnharts and Smiths; the Dugald Costume Collection; The Careful Collector - Part II - International Customs and Transport. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book‎

‎Multiple Contributors‎

‎Harper's Bazar (Bazaar) Magazine, May 6, 1876 - A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure, and Instruction‎

‎16 pages. Contents: Spring Wrappings for Girls and Boys from 6 to 14 Years Old; The Old Clothes Men; Household Furniture - woman's share; New York Fashions - polonaises and mantles, mantles, gingham suits with Smyrna lace, pink and blue batistes, mor hints about dresses; Personal; embroidered foot-stool; Work-bag; Embroidered Work-bag; Monogram for lingerie, etc. - white embroidery; Section of cover for parasol - wrought guipure and lace stitch; How to Preserve the Hearing; Cravat End - silk braid, gold cord, and lace stitch; Ladies' House Dresses - illustraiton; As Long as She Lived! - continued; A.T. Stewart; Sayings and Doings; Spring bonnets; agrafes and buckle for bonnets; The Literary Lamtreatment of Music; Parasols; Head-dress of cream-colored serge ribbon; head-dress of pink serge ribbon; Ladies' and Children's Spring Wrappings and Dresses - illustration; Dill's Love Affair; Centennial Customs; Trellis-Work, etc.; A Right of Way; Great full-page illustration "" Right of Way" shows conflicting man-powered cabs and their fares; Lapland costuem; A Curious Sicilian Legend; Gold-Fish; humor. Average wear. Book‎

‎Multiple Contributors‎

‎Harper's Bazar (Bazaar), December 4, 1869 - A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure, and Instruction‎

‎16 pages. Contents: Ladies' and children's toilettes; The Eye; Recovering from Illness; New York Fashions- wedding dresses, the trousseau, etiquette of weddings; Personal; The Scene-Painter's Wife; The Mapleton Mystery, by Annie Thomas; Embroidered clothes rack; Crochet fraises for children; watch and jewel case; cambric cravat ends; crochet cap crown, toilette cushion cover; Promenade Toilette; Insertions for Lingerie; Afghan customs; Paris fashions; Debenham's Vow - continued; Harry's Anti-Society - great large photo; Humor; and more. Above-average wear. Book‎

‎Multiple Contributors‎

‎The Wide World Magazine, August 1955 - Australian Edition - Amateur Ontario Lumberjacks‎

‎Features: "The Eye of Allah" - a curious story by veteran mining engineer Cassiter Wright; The Masab Kunta Mystery - A weird story from India; Amateur Lumber jacks - A glimpse of life in an Ontario timber-camp where two ex-Servicemen earn money for another year of University; Seeking Pirate Treasure - a shrewed businessman invests in a scheme to locate hidden millions; A South Sea Hair-Cut - close-ups descriptive of manners and customs and prevailing conditions in various parts of the globe - Mangaia, Cook Islands, South Pacific; Gold Galore - New Guinea (near Bulolo Airport); Money in Shell - a trophy fishing trip to the Great Barrier Reef; The Inca's Emerald - alleged to be one of the crown jewels of Peru; The Sea Gypsies of Mergui off the coast of Burma; A lump of rust - seeking a silver deposit in northern Quebec; Canadian Curiosities - some interesting relics of the Gold Rush days of the Canadian Yukon; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Book‎

‎Munsen, Sylvia‎

‎Cooking the Norwegian Way (From the Easy Menu Ethnic Cookbooks Series)‎

‎47 pages including index and colour photography. "Presents favourite Norwegian recipes including easy, step-by-step recipes from Sweden, Denmark, and Finland. Author's suggestions for setting the table and serving the meal will acquant you with Norwegian customs, and you can share what you've learned with your guests as you eat the delicious dishes found in this book." - from back board. Usual library markings. Binding sound. Average wear. Solid working copy. Book‎

‎Musée des Douanes‎

‎Lot de 5 Catalogues d'exposition du Musée des Douanes de Bordeaux [ 1987-1990 ] : Charles Desmoulins 1798-1875 Artiste, savant et douanier ; Halte ! Frontière. Les variations des frontières françaises de 1791 à 1959 ; Douane et protection de la faune sauvage ; La douane et la drogue ,; Hippolyte Bayard et Louis Ducos du Hauron, Pionniers méconnus de la photographie.‎

‎5 vol. in-4 sous reliure spirale, 1987 à 1990, circa 25 pp. par volume‎

‎Bon ensemble. Prix du lot, non séparable‎

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‎MUSTAFA AKSOY.‎

‎Kültür sosyolojisi açisindan Dogu Anadolu.‎

‎Fine Turkish Paperback. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. [x], 209 p. Kültür sosyolojisi açisindan Dogu Anadolu.‎

‎Naipaul, V.S.‎

‎Turn in the South‎

‎8vo, cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. Fine copy. A Turn in the South is Mr. Naipaul's first book to speak directly to an American audience. It does sometimes take an outsider to help a culture see more clearly the things that are close to it. Naipaul demonstrates an astounding clarity of vision as he describes such places as Atlanta, Charleston, Tallahassee, Tuskegee, Jackson, Nashville and other places in the American South. We hear the voices of the people - black, white, rich poor, politicians, writers, farmers and ministers.‎

‎Neil McWilliam‎

‎Aesthetics of Reaction. Tradition, Faith, Identity, and the Visual Arts in France, 1900-1914‎

‎, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, 376 pages, Size:215 x 280 mm, Illustrations:7 b/w, 80 col., Language(s):English, French. ISBN 9782503591575.‎

‎Summary This study focuses on anti-modernist artists, critics and political theorists in Belle poque France hostile to secular democracy and its allegedly decadent culture of individualism. It examines their reassertion of social and artistic values which, they claimed, had been distorted and repressed by the 1789 revolution. Exploring the cultural implications of the Catholic revival, the impact of the royalist movement Action fran aise and nationalist calls for a 'Renaissance fran aise', it challenges previous assessments of nationalists' artistic agenda and recasts ways of thinking about classicism and the notion of a 'return to order' in pre- and post-war French cultural discourse. The book offers the first comprehensive overview of nationalism's impact on pre-war French art, which it complements with synthetic studies of three figures affected by these political and artistic debates: the painters Maurice Denis (Catholic revival) and Emile Bernard ('Renaissance francaise), as well as the critic Joachim Gasquet (Action fran aise). In such a way, the book goes beyond previous accounts to highlight contradictions and complexities in pre-war artistic discourse that enrich our understanding of the ideological stakes involved in clashes over modernity, tradition and identity in pre-war France. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction : An Essential Part of Ourselves : Culture, tradition and the French nation. (General overview of main themes) Part 1: Scenes & Doctrines Chapter 1. Id ologies of National Identity in the Third Republic. (An introductory study of nationalist ideologies and their impact on culture during the late 19th and early 20th centuries) Chapter 2. Contending Traditions. Approaching the Past in Republican France. (Background discussion of debates around tradition c. 1900 and their impact on discussions of the history of French art & its contemporary character) Chapter 3. Making French Art. Defining a National Culture before 1914. (Introduction to debates during the period to define a characteristically national culture, particularly from a Republican perspective) Part 2. Religion Chapter 4. Representing Spirituality. Tradition, Beauty and Faith in the Catholic Revival. (Exploration of the impact of the Catholic revival on French art, particularly in relation to the influence of renewed interest in Neo-Thomism and its aesthetic implications). Chapter 5. Catholic Tastes. Religiosity, Aesthetics and Tradition in the Art of Maurice Denis. (Explores the impact of Catholicism on Denis's career as a painter, critic and theorist, focusing on its interplay with his royalist sympathies and his understanding of art's history as an apologetic form) Part 3. Royalism Chapter 6. Action fran aise : the Experience of Centuries. (A comprehensive analysis of royalist interventions in the arts in terms of art-critical writing, aesthetics, and art-historical research by figures such as Charles Maurras, Louis Dimier and Pierre du Colombier). Chapter 7. Joachim Gasquet : the Politics of Lyricism. (Revisits the career of a figure best known for his controversial 1921 publication on C zanne. For the first time, the totality of Gasquet's artistic writing (much of it unpublished) is discussed. The emerging picture contributes to a redefinition of contemporary notions of classicism and of C zanne's reputation as a classical artist - both themes that re-emerge as motifs elsewhere in the book). Part 4. Renaissances Chapter 8. Modernizing tradition: Towards a new French Renaissance. (For the first time, a broad spectrum of cultural commentary, united by a shared nationalist commitment to French rebirth, is brought together in ways that reframe some central debates in pre-war art criticism and bring to the fore artists generally overlooked in retrospective surveys of the period. The chapter revisits debates around the aesthetic impact of 'celtic nationalism' and argues against previous suggestions that this position aligns with progressive poiltics. The chapter also looks at Latinist modernism and its place in the avant-garde publication 'Montjoie!'). Chapitre 9. mile Bernard : the Dogma of tradition. (Bernard was a prolific artist and theorist whose contribution to French art is typically considered only in relation to his early career around Paul Gauguin and the School of Pont-Aven in the late 1880s and early 90s. This chapter looks at Bernard's rejection of the artistic vanguard and his ostentatious championing of tradition, rooted in the High Renaissance, both in his pictorial output after 1900 and in his enormous body of published and unpublished writing. Bernard's eulogies of Tintoretto and Michelangelo in particular stand in contrast to his growing disdain for modern art, epitomized by his growing disenchantment with C zanne. The chapter demonstrates how Bernard's artistic retrenchment forms part of a more broadly elitist disparagement of democratic republicanism.) Conclusion‎

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‎Neusner, Jacob‎

‎VANQUISHED NATION, BROKEN SPIRIT The Virtues of the Heart in Formative Judaism‎

‎Very faint shelfwear to book. DJ has minor edgewear along top edge. ; xiv+184pp.; 184 pages‎

‎New Light on Its People, Customs, Business and Tra‎

‎South America‎

‎paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 0243090242.G ISBN : 0243090242 9780243090242

‎Nicholson, George (Signed)‎

‎Vancouver Island's West Coast 1762-1962 *Signed By Author*‎

‎356 pages including index, 110 illustrations, map and list of shipwrecks. Signed by author upon title page. Endpapers decorated with local maps. A condensed summary of practically every event of historic value which occured in the area. Commences with the sighting of the shores of the Northwest Coast of America for the first time - by the Spaniards - and the landing of Captain Cook at Nootka, where the history of British Columbia begins. Old West Coasters will enjoy reading the pages which so vividly recall the pattern of life and the customs familiar in that part of the island half a century ago. Includes list of 243 ships wrecked on this part of the coast. This list includes type of vessel, date and locality. Moderate wear to book. Binding firm. Somewhat above-average wear to dust jacket. A sound copy of this informative work. Book‎

‎Nimrod (Charles Apperley); Alken, Henry.‎

‎MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF THE LATE JOHN MYTTON, ESQ.‎

‎pp. vii, 206 + Plus color frontis and numerous colored plates by Henry Alken and T. J. Rawlins. Title page printed in red and black. Stamped ownership on title page of Dr. J. A. Dayard Kane. Reprint of the original title page. Foxed. Plates clean. 8vo. Original full red cloth binding. Chipped at top of spine. Original paper spine label. "Illustrated Pocket Library of Plain and Coloured Books." HORSE 1‎

‎Nitzsche, Elsa Koenig.‎

‎MARRIAGE BY LOT. A Novel Based on Moravian History.‎

‎154p. 8vo. Original coarse linen cloth binding. Pennsylvania German Folklore Society, Volume XXII. Tells of Pennsylvania German and Moravian marriages based on the casting of lots and drawing of straws. **PRICE JUST REDUCED!‎

‎Nobilio, Elvira‎

‎Vita tradizionale dei contadini abruzzesi nel territorio di Penne.‎

‎cm. 15 x 21,5, xii-240 pp. Biblioteca di ?Lares? 420 gr. xii-240 p.‎

‎NORA SENI.‎

‎Marie et Marie. Une saison a Constantinople, 1856-1858.‎

‎Fine English Paperback. Pbo. Demy 8vo. (22 x 15 cm). In French. 301, [4] p. Marie et Marie. Une saison a Constantinople, 1856-1858.‎

‎Norwich, John Julius‎

‎Love in the Ancient World‎

‎"In search of long-lost attitudes to love, lust, passion and desire." Film maker Christopher Miles and historian John Julius Norwich tour the Mediterranean Basin, looking at how ancient civilizations regarded sex and sexuality. They take in European cave paintings, Eygptian cosmologies, the teachings of Plato, and the histories of Plutarch.176p. illus (col) bibliography.index Book‎

‎Nweeya, Samuel K.‎

‎Persia The Land of the Magi or The Home of the Wise Man. An Historical and Descriptive Account of Persia From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time; With a Detailed View of its People, their Manners, Customs, Matrimony and Home Life, Religion, Education a‎

‎A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full green cloth boards with gilt lettering and design. Light wear to cover, especially at corners and top and bottom of spine. Black and white photos. 426 pages. Includes sections on sections on the regions of: Fars, Laristan, Kuzistan, Irak Ardelan, Azerbijan, Ghilan, Mazunderan, Astrabad, Khorasan, Seistan, Kerman, Mekran, and more.‎

‎OECD‎

‎Australia - OECD Economic Surveys‎

‎A sound book with clean pages and clear content.‎

‎Office of the Collector of Customs, Burma‎

‎Schedules to Open General Licences Issued by the Ministry of Commerce and A Guide to Open-General-Licence Notices Issued and Published under the Authority of the Collector of Customs‎

‎Rangoon: White Lotus Press 1954. Paperback. Good/no dj. 0.07. Schedules to Open General Licences Issued by the Ministry of Commerce and A Guide to Open-General-Licence Notices Issued and Published under the Authority of the Collector of Customs White Lotus Press paperback‎

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‎Ois n Plumb, Alexandra Sanmark (eds)‎

‎Alternative Facts and Plausible Fictions in the Northern European Past. How Politics and Culture Have Written and Rewritten History‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, 192 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:18 b/w, 10 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503605753.‎

‎Summary The use of the past for contemporary purposes has been a feature of historical and archaeological investigation from ancient times. This 'politicization of the past' is often associated with, at best, an inadvertent detachment from an objective use of evidence, and at worst, its wilful misuse. Such use of the past is perhaps most evident in the construction of narratives of nations and ethnic groups ? particularly in relation to origins or the perceived 'golden ages' of peoples. This book seeks to assess the role played by different ideologies in the shaping of the past, from early times up until the present day, in the interpretation of the history and archaeology of Northern Europe, whether in Northern Europe itself or further afield. It also considers how those who research, interpret, and present the Northern European past should respond to such uses. The chapters drawn together here explore key questions, asking how contemporary ideologies of identity have shaped the past, what measures should be taken to discourage an inaccurate understanding of the past, and if scholars should draw on the past in order to counter racism and xenophobia, or if this can itself lead to potentially dangerous misunderstandings of history. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations 1. Introduction Ois n Plumb and Alex Sanmark 2. Finnar, Skr lingar and the Orkney Picts: A Comparative Study of the Imagined 'Other' in Early Medieval Norse Culture Tara Athanasiou 3. The Icelandic Sagas and the Importance of Social Status in Viking Age Identity Patrick Temperilli 4. Shifting Views of Scotland's Past in Nineteenth-Century German-language Travelogues Bernhard Maier 5. Reinterpreting the Celtic Past in Scotland: The Pre-War Work of John Duncan Frances Fowle 6. 'From the Curved Branches of Skulls': Old Norse and Origins of the Gothic romance Peter J. Church 7. American Valkyries: Equality, Exclusion, and Old Norse Imagery in the Nineteenth-Century Struggle for Women's Rights Zachary J. Melton 8. Between Finland and Asia: The Changing Medievalist Models in Hungarian Nation-Building during the Interwar Period Andrea Kocsis 9.'Anglo-Saxon' identity: A Critique from the Graveside Stuart Brookes 10. The Political Dimensions of Archaeology Today: A Personal View Caroline Wickham-Jones‎

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‎OLD CUSTOMS OF CHINESE FESTIVALS‎

‎OLD CUSTOMS OF CHINESE FESTIVALS‎

‎China c.1900 n.p. Accordion-folding album very good 10 hand-painted scenes on silk in delicate watercolors full text in Chinese & English 14.5 x 20.5 cm. wood covers with a green deeply carved "Fu" Chinese character for wealth.RARE A charming work made for distribution to foreign visitors to China. Done in the Chinese fashion beginning right to left. Covers the Confucian devotions and festivals to give honor to ancestors offering sacrifices to the Gods and establishing general holidays for public entertainment. This work covers the ten main festivals: New Year Greetings on Yuan Tan. The Lantern Show on Shang Yuan. Cleansing Tombs on Ching Min or Tombs Festival Day. Dragon-boat Racing on Tuan Yang. Meditation of Kinsmen on Chung Yuan. Enjoying the Moon light at mid-Autumn festival. Ascending a height on Double-Nine. Thanksgiving for Good Harvests. Offering to God of the Kitchen Range for Blessing. Thanks to Heaven on New Year's Eve. Each of the ten festivals are portrayed in a delicate hand-painted illustration of festivals. Delicately painted in full color on rough silk with traditional Chinese silk mounting style with Chinese & English text on the opposite side. A fine example of the Chinese illustrated book with silk mountings on the borders of the paintings. Nicely done with two edge gilt as usual a bit of warping to covers. THE BINDING: This title comes in two variant bindings: one is wood covers with the Chinese character "FU" carved and stained green. Another variant is brown silk covered boards. The contents remains the same as does the price. . unknown‎

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‎Omotani, Les (Signed)‎

‎Two Roads to Japan‎

‎112 pages. A pleasantly illustrated introduction to Japan for younger readers. Introduces Japan's language, lifestyles, foods, transportation, alphabets, history, and more. A worthwhile book for young students of the Japanese language, or those who will be visiting that wondeful country. Author's signature and inscription upon decorated front free endpaper. Gift greetings inside front board, else clean and unmarked with light wear. Book‎

‎Orso, Ethelyn G.‎

‎Modern Greek Humor : A Collection of Jokes and Ribald Jokes‎

‎"This authentic and unexpurgated collection of jokes and tales told by today's Greeks, demonstrates the universality of humor as it reflects particular and pervasive concerns of modern Greek society.To be found here are stories about the "clever Greeks", ethnic slurs, political jokes (many of which are directed against the repressive Papadopoulos regime) and humor told at the expense of the clergy and the Greek Orthodox Church..." 262p. Book‎

‎OWEN T.M.‎

‎Welsh Folk Customs [Second Edition]. elsh Folk Customs [Second Edition].‎

‎8vo., Second Edition, with 16 plates, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A detailed study and standard reference, first published in 1959.‎