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L'ete Grec: Une Grece Quotidienne De 4000 Ans

1986réf. 029005Paris: Plon 1986. 3rd Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good DJ. 21 Illustrastions And 2 Maps 51 Illustrations Hor-Texte. 457 Pp. Catalog At End. Black Cloth Stamped In Silver. Copyright 1975 Colophon Shows 1986 Printing Date And Text Includes Additions Through At Least 1982. Inscribed At Length By The Author In 1987 To "Vania". Book Fine No Wear Or Stains; Dj Would Be Near Fine Trace Of Rubbing At Corners But Some Wear At Upper Corners Minute Losses At Top Of Spine And 1 1/2" Closed Tear At Top Of Rear Panel. Date Stamp Jun 11 1990 On Half Title. Per Wikipedia Jacques Lacarrière 1925 - 2005 Was A French Writer Born In Limoges. He Studied Moral Philosophy Classical Literature And Hindu Philosophy And Literature. Professionally He Was Known As A Prominent Critic Journalist And Essayist.A Passionate Admirer Of Ancient Greece And Its Mythology Lacarrière Wrote About It Extensively. His Essay L'été Grec Greek Summer Was An Immense Popular Success. His Classical Works Maria Of Egypt And Dictionnaire Amoureux De La Grèce Dictionary For One Who Loves Greece Were Also Successes. Of Interest To Ethnographers And Ecologists Is His Chemin Faisant: Mille Kilomètres À Pied À Travers La France 1974 On The Way: One Thousand Kilometers By Foot Across France. It Was Based On His Walking Across France In 1971 When He Kept To Small Roads And Byways Stopping At Villages. Beginning In August He Traveled From Saverne In The Vosges Reaching Leucate In November Which Is Located In The Corbières. It Was Reprinted By Fayard In 1997 With A Postscript Entitled "Memory Of Roads" And Addition Of Selected Letters From Readers. It Was Released Again In 2014 Again By Fayard. Lacarrière's 1973 Literary Essay Les Gnostiques Is Well Respected For Its Insights Into The Early Christian Religious Movement Of Gnosticism. The Writer Had Met English Author Lawrence Durrell In 1971 Who Had Been Studying Some Gnostic Texts Since The Early 1940S. Durrell Featured Gnosticism As A Plot Element In The Novels Of His The Avignon Quintet 1974 To 1985. He Also Wrote A "Foreword" To The 1974 English Translation Of Lacarrière's Essay. He Was Correspondent Member Of Greek Writers Association "Unifying Process Of Authors". For The Whole Of His Work In 1991 Lacarrière Was Awarded Le Grand Prix De L'académie Française The Great Prize Of The French Academy. Plon hardcover

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Pausanias [Translated By Thomas Taylor]; Bookplates Of General Francis John Davies, At PershoreBiblio.com

The Description Of Greece By Pausanias Translated From The Greek With Notes In Which Much Of The Mythology Of The Greeks Is Unfolded From A Theory Which Has Been For Many Ages Unknown. Illustrated With Maps And Viewsd. A New Edition With Considerable Augmentation. In Three Volumes Complete In Original Boards

1824réf. 027252London: Richard Priestley 1824. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Maps and Plates. Xv 409; Iii 341; Iii 392 Pp With Half Titles In Volumes 2 And 3. A Complete Set In Original Brown Cloth Spines Over Gray Boards With Original Paper Spine Labels 4.7 Cm Tall Volume Numbers In Arabic Numerals Also Known With Taller Spine Labels With Roman Numerals Priority Unknown. Taylor's Corrected Second Edition Adding His Notes Which Were Omitted From The First Printing. Worn With Some Fraying At Corners Volume 1 With Cracked Front Joint Along Which Is A 2 1/2" X 1/4" Loss Of Spine Cloth Not Affecting The Labels. Bookplates Of Francis Davies Of Pershore With Rampant Lion And Motto "Lucem Spero" No Other Names Or Marks. Per Wikipedia General Sir Francis John Davies Kcb Kcmg Kcvo 1864 - 1948 Was A Senior British Army Officer Who Commanded The 8Th Division During The First World War. Davies Was Born In London The Son Of Lieutenant General Henry Fanshawe Davies And His Wife Ellen Christine Alexandra Hankey. His Grandfather Was General Francis John Davies Brother And Heir Of Thomas Henry Hastings Davies Mp For Worcester And His Great-Grandfather Was Admiral Of The Fleet Sir Thomas Byam Martin. The Family Seat Was Elmley Castle Pershore Worcestershire. His Younger Brother Was Major General Henry Rodolph Davies. He Was Educated At Eton College. In October 1899 He Served As A Daag Responsible For Intelligence At Army Headquarters In South Africa And As Acting Commissioner Of Police For Johannesburg In 1900. In 1902 He Was Temporarily Employed In The Intelligence Department Until He Became Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General Daqmg At The War Office On 7 September 1902. Two Years Later He Was Appointed Assistant Director Of Military Operations In 1904 He Was Made General Officer Commanding Goc Of The 1St Guards Brigade. He Then Took Over As Brigadier General General Staff Bggs Of Aldershot Command. He Was Promoted To Major General In May 1913 And In October Of That Year Became Director Of Staff Duties At The War Office. In October 1914 Davies Was Appointed As Goc Of The 8Th Division. The Division Along With Its Goc Was Soon Sent To The Western Front. Towards The End Of July Davies Was Posted Away From The Fighting In France And Belgium To Take Over The Command Of Viii Corps Then Heavily Engaged In The Gallipoli Campaign. Davies Promoted To The Temporary Rank Of Lieutenant-General30 Took Over As Its Goc On 8 August . He Brought With Valuable Combat Experience And It Is Said " Over The Five Months Of His Tenure His Ideas And Energy Were The Catalyst For A Myriad Of Tactical And Systematic Improvements Which Greatly Improved The Fighting Efficiency Of His Force Allowing His Troops To Achieve Tactical Superiority Over The Enemy Facing Them". In The Aftermath Of The Evacuation Of British And Allied Forces From Gallipoli In January 1916 Davies Was Moved On To Being Goc Of Ix Corps. Davies Was In Command Only Until June When He Returned To The United Kingdom To Serve As Military Secretary At The War Office. He Held This Post Until After The End Of The War.His Rank Of Lieutenant General Became Substantive In January 1917. Later That Year Davies Was Appointed General Officer Commanding-In-Chief Goc-In-C Of Scottish Command In June 1919. After Being Promoted To The Rank Of Full General In July 1921And After Serving As Lieutenant Of The Tower Of London Which He Had Been Appointed To In June 192335 He Retired From The Army In April 1926. He Had Been Appointed An Aide-De-Camp General To King George V In April 1922. Richard Priestley hardcover

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The Glory That Was Greece: A Survey Of Hellenic Culture And Civilisation

1921réf. 022279London 1915: Sidgwick & Jackson 1921. Second Revised Edition Reprinted . Red Cloth Gilt. Near Fine/No DJ. 10" Tall. Plates Throughout. 292 Pp. Maps On Endpapers. Red Cloth Gilt. Second Edition Reprinted 1921. A Particularly Bright Clean Example With Gilt Still Brilliant No Names Or Marks Hinges Tight. Almost Fine Except Just Beginning To Fray Along Top Edge Of Spine. Per Wikipedia John Clarke Stobart 1878 - 1933 Commonly Known As J. C. Stobart Was A Classical Scholar A University Of Cambridge Lecturer An Hm Inspector Of Schools And The Bbc's First Director Of Education. After The War He Helped Organize The 1924 British Empire Exhibition At Wembley And In 1925 Joined The Bbc As Its First Director Of Education. He Was Responsible For Two Long-Lasting Programs Children's Hour And The Epilogue And According To One Source Suggested The Bbc's Motto 'Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation'. He Also Proposed Creating A New Cultural Network To Be Named The Minerva Programme After The Roman Goddess Of Wisdom But This Idea Was Turned Down And Was Not Realised Until The Creation Of 'The Third Programme' At The End Of The Second World War. Stobart Became Well-Known All Over The World For His Regular New Year's Eve Broadcast 'The Grand Good-Night'. He Disagrees With Edward Gibbon's Pessimistic View Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Pointing Out That 'The Mere Notion Of Empire Continuing To Decline And Fall For Five Centuries Is Ridiculous' And Remarking That 'This Is One Of The Cases Which Prove That History Is Made Not So Much By Heroes Or Natural Forces As By Historians' Since 'If All The Roman Historians Had Perished And Only The Inscriptions Remained We Should Have A Very Different Picture Of The Roman Empire A Picture Much Brighter And I Think Much More Faithful To Truth.' He Admires The Romans For Their Law Discipline Engineering And Especially Their Sanitation But It Is Clear That He Prefers The Greeks For Their Art Philosophy Mathematics And Literature. Sidgwick & Jackson hardcover

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Stobart, J CBiblio.com

The Grandeur That Was Rome: A Survey of Roman Culture and Civilisation

1920réf. 022280London: Sidgwick & Jackson 1920. Second Revised Edition 1st P:rinting 1st Printing. Red Cloth Gilt. Near Fine/No DJ. 10" Tall. Plates Throughout; Folding Color Map; Map Endpapers. 352 Pp. Red Cloth Gilt Deckled Foredge. Maps On Endpapers. First Printing 1920 Of The Second Revised Edition. A Particularly Bright Clean Example With Gilt Still Brilliant No Names Or Marks Hinges Tight. Almost Fine Except Just Beginning To Fray Along Top Edge Of Spine And A Small Area At Bottom Of Spine And A Point At Lower Front Tip. Per Wikipedia John Clarke Stobart 1878 - 1933 Commonly Known As J. C. Stobart Was A Classical Scholar A University Of Cambridge Lecturer An Hm Inspector Of Schools And The Bbc's First Director Of Education. After The War He Helped Organize The 1924 British Empire Exhibition At Wembley And In 1925 Joined The Bbc As Its First Director Of Education. He Was Responsible For Two Long-Lasting Programs Children's Hour And The Epilogue And According To One Source Suggested The Bbc's Motto 'Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation'. He Also Proposed Creating A New Cultural Network To Be Named The Minerva Programme After The Roman Goddess Of Wisdom But This Idea Was Turned Down And Was Not Realised Until The Creation Of 'The Third Programme' At The End Of The Second World War. Stobart Became Well-Known All Over The World For His Regular New Year's Eve Broadcast 'The Grand Good-Night'. He Disagrees With Edward Gibbon's Pessimistic View Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Pointing Out That 'The Mere Notion Of Empire Continuing To Decline And Fall For Five Centuries Is Ridiculous' And Remarking That 'This Is One Of The Cases Which Prove That History Is Made Not So Much By Heroes Or Natural Forces As By Historians' Since 'If All The Roman Historians Had Perished And Only The Inscriptions Remained We Should Have A Very Different Picture Of The Roman Empire A Picture Much Brighter And I Think Much More Faithful To Truth.' He Admires The Romans For Their Law Discipline Engineering And Especially Their Sanitation But It Is Clear That He Prefers The Greeks For Their Art Philosophy Mathematics And Literature. Sidgwick & Jackson hardcover

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