General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 1230
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Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 1230
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Jefferson
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 538
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Benjamin Franklin
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Published: 1840
Total Pages: 666
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henry William Fischer
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 362
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henry Ridgely Evans
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 422
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ezra Meeker
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 428
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Neil Hanson
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Published: 2010-01-26
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 0470450703
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAcclaim for The Great Fire of London "Popular narrative history at its best, well researched, imaginatively and dramatically written. . . . The author marshals his story and his mass of contemporary quotations with great skill." —Times Literary Supplement "The brilliance of its narrative chapters . . . a marvelous eye for evocative detail. Hanson’s prose is animated by the ferocious energy of the fire and seems to be guided by its inexorable movement. He creates the literary equivalent of the special effects in a disaster movie. . . . A rich mixture of imagination and research." —The Daily Telegraph (London) "He writes with knowledge and verve. As if making a television documentary on a natural disaster, he includes a gripping technical chapter on the mechanism and chemistry of combustion. This works brilliantly. . . . The book gains immeasurably from the author's eye for detail and from his understanding of the beliefs and prejudices of the day. . . . Informative and lively account." —The Sunday Times (London) "The best depiction of the Great Fire seen to date. . . . He manages to describe not only the atmosphere of the event itself, but also the experience of living in seventeenth-century Britain." —Soho Independent "A riveting book for those who like their history with a bit of mystery." —The Brisbane News "A rollicking good yarn." —The Age (Melbourne) "Blends high-class original research with a narrative style that mimics fiction. . . . Horrific subjects have served this man well and he has a knack for plugging into the dark themes that run like molten rivers beneath our social veneer." —New Zealand Herald "Neil Hanson’s descriptions of the inferno are like CNN reports from Kosovo." —Camden New Journal "It's not the technical data which makes the book so riveting though. It's the flair with which Hanson invests his account with qualities usually reserved for novels–narrative drive, persuasive character sketches, vivid scene stealing." —Sunday Star Times (New Zealand)
Author: Adam Gacek
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2009-06-24
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9047443039
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArranged alphabetically by subject and/or concept, the present handbook has been conceived, for convenience sake and quick reference, as an aid to students and researchers who are often puzzled or even sometimes intimidated by the ‘mysterious’ world of Arabic manuscripts and the technical language that goes with it. A companion volume to the recently published The Arabic Manuscript Tradition (2001) and its Supplement (2008), the vademecum comprises some 200 entries of varying lengths dealing with almost all aspects of Arabic manuscript studies (codicology and palaeography). It is richly illustrated with specimens from manuscripts and expertly executed drawings. The main sequence is followed by a number of appendices covering abbreviations, letterforms, sūrah-headings, major reference works and a guide to the description of manuscripts, as well as charts of major historical periods and dynasties.
Author: Joseph von Karabacek
Publisher: Archetype Publications
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781873132029
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBibliophiles in Europe at the end of the nineteenth century began to take a serious interest in the manuscripts of the Middle East and the paper on which they were written. Perhaps the most important of these men were C.-M. Briquet working in Geneva, and J. Wiesner and J. von Karabacek working in Vienna. All three were concerned with the burning topic of the moment: Was oriental paper made of cotton? Within the space of two years these three writers published seminal articles for the European study of Arab paper. Das Arabische Papier is one of those articles. The late Don Baker's inspiration to set about the translation and interpretation of this work was 'simply the desire to know the contents of this much quoted article'. Students, historians, curators, collectors, conservators and all those interested in the historical development and spread of papermaking will realise why Don Baker wished to make this important text available to English readers. This Archetype edition is a revised edition of the volume, which Don Baker produced in 1991.
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Published: 1885
Total Pages: 1208
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