Search results for: 'legacy min'
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MARX, Karl. Das Kapital.Hamburg : 1885
First edition of the second volume of Das Kapital. Only the first volume of Das Kapital was published in Marx's lifetime, in 1867. Following Marx's death in 1883, the second and third volumes were edited from Marx's manuscripts and seen through the press by Friedrich Engels, with the present second volume published in 1885, and the third volume in 1894.... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 136477
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MARX, Karl. Kapitalen.Copenhagen : 1885 & 1887
First edition in Danish of Das Kapital. Marx's seminal work first appeared in German in 1867, and the first translation of the work was that into Russian (1872). The first English translation appeared after the Danish, in 1887.
"The history of the twentieth century is Marx's legacy. Stalin, Mao, Che, Castro the icons and monsters of the modern age... Learn More£6,250.00Stock Code: 122813
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RIEFENSTAHL, Leni. Schönheit im Olympischen Kampf.Berlin : 1937
First edition, first printing, an exceptional copy retaining the rare glassine and card slipcase. This photobook, which includes an image of Jesse Owens before his record-breaking long jump (p. 100) and at the sprint start line (p. 68), was produced alongside Riefenstahl's landmark documentary of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The film, Olympia, was truly... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 141073
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(MARX, Karl, & Friedrich Engels.) DIXON, Richard, & others. Collected Works.London : 1975-2005
First edition, first impressions, all with the London imprint except for vol. 5 and 22 (New York), and vol. 26 (Moscow). It was published in conjunction with the Institute of Marxism-Leninism and Progress Publishers, both Moscow, and International Publishers Inc., New York. "This edition will provide for the first time to the English-speaking world... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 119043
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MARX, Karl. Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Oekonomie.Hamburg : 1894
First edition of the third volume of Das Kapital. Only the first volume of Das Kapital was published in Marx's lifetime, in 1867. Following Marx's death in 1883, the second and third volumes were edited from Marx's manuscripts and seen through the press by Friedrich Engels, with the second volume published in 1885, and the present third volume... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 136478
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WARBURTON, William. The Alliance between Church and State,London : 1736
First edition of Warburton's "controversial defence of the established church and the Test Acts... Warburton argued that religion alone can supply the rewards necessary to ensure that individual virtue continues to underpin the proper function of civil government. The magistrate was to oversee the government of the body, the church that of the soul.... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 113461
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(PAVLOVA, Anna.) Theatre bill for a fund raising matinee at the Palace Theatre.London : 1935
A rare theatre bill for a fund raising performance at the Palace Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, on Thursday 21 February 1935; the fund had been established to erect a memorial to Anna Pavlova in Regents Park. The performers included Tilly Losch, Larry Adler, Alicia Markova, Robert Helpman, and Anton Dolin, and Sir Edwin Lutyens, Sir William Rothenstein,... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 115100
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HAYDN, Joseph. Die Schoepfung, Ein Oratorium … The Creation, An Oratorio.Vienna : 1800
First edition, published by the composer, extremely uncommon, particularly so with the seldom-encountered 4-leaf subscribers list; an excellent copy of this monumental work, widely recognised as one of the highpoints of the Western musical canon. "The Creation is a masterwork in the special sense that it has no weak point, nothing that could be changed... Learn More£12,000.00Stock Code: 125770
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GARNIER, François. Voyage d'exploration en Indo-Chine effectué pendant les années 1866, 1867 et 1868 par une commission française.Paris : 1873
First edition of the superbly illustrated official account of the most important 19th-century expedition into Indo-China. Following the death of the commander, Captain Ernest Doudard de Lagrée, Garnier was forced to take command of this French government sponsored expedition to explore the navigability of the Mekong. After a voyage of nearly 5,500... Learn More£30,000.00Stock Code: 117168
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Corrected draft typescript, signed, of an article on Disarmament.1931
"Over the lacerated face of Europe the League of Nations has drawn a discreet veil. Behind that veil stir the passions, the revenges and the fears which are the legacy of the 'war to end war'". Extensively corrected typescript for one of a series of articles on foreign affairs commissioned from Churchill by "the Hearst newspapers and syndicated throughout... Learn More£30,000.00Stock Code: 80695
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GRIGORYEV, Vasily Vasilyevich. Rossiya i Aziya: Sbornik Issledovaniy i Statey po Istorii, Etnografii i Geografii, Napisannykh v Raznoye Vremya …St Petersburg : 1876
First and only edition, OCLC locates a single copy at the University of Aberdeen. Collection of ten articles by leading Russian Orientalist and Central Asia specialist Vasily Grigoryev (1816-81). A compilation with much material on the early history of Kazakhstan, one of Grigoryev's key research interests being the Khazars and the Golden Horde, interpreted... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 121738
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TARLETON, Priscilla Susan Bertie. Manuscript volume of poetry with numerous pen, ink, and pencil vignettes.London : 1796-1821
A superbly presented and deeply personal manuscript volume of largely unpublished poetry and drawings by Priscilla Susan Bertie Tarleton (1778-1864), wife of the notorious army officer and rakehell Sir Banastre Tarleton. The manuscript was produced between the years 1796, when the author was only 18 years old, and 1821, when she was 43. It contains... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 94720
