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Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Catalogue of the Choice Theolgoical and Miscellaneous Library of the Late Rev. Dr. Willis ... to which is Added the Remaining Portion of the Topographical Library of the Late John Nichols ... which Will be Sold by Auction by Mr. Sotheby ... on Monday, May 5, 1828 and Three Following Days at Twelve O'clock
Author: English Book Collectors
Author: William Younger FletcherPublisher:
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Category : Book collectors
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A. D. 1598-A. D. 1867
Author: William Dunn MacrayThe Pedigree Register (Volume I)
Author: George SherwoodPublisher:
ISBN: 9789354033827
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Royal Mistresses and Bastards
Author: Anthony J. CampPublisher:
ISBN: 9780950330822
Category : Favorites, Royal
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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History of the Society of Dilettanti
Author: Lionel CustModern Enchantments
Author: Simon DuringPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674034392
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Magic, Simon During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, During's superlative work, written over the course of a decade, gets at the aesthetic questions at the very heart of the study of culture. How can the most ordinary arts--and by "magic," During means not the supernatural, but the special effects and conjurings of magic shows--affect people? Modern Enchantments takes us deeply into the history and workings of modern secular magic, from the legerdemain of Isaac Fawkes in 1720, to the return of real magic in nineteenth-century spiritualism, to the role of magic in the emergence of the cinema. Through the course of this history, During shows how magic performances have drawn together heterogeneous audiences, contributed to the molding of cultural hierarchies, and extended cultural technologies and media at key moments, sometimes introducing spectators into rationality and helping to disseminate skepticism and publicize scientific innovation. In a more revealing argument still, Modern Enchantments shows that magic entertainments have increased the sway of fictions in our culture and helped define modern society's image of itself.
Matter of Faith
Author: James RobinsonPublisher: British Museum Research Public
ISBN: 9780861591954
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A landmark publication exploring the relationship between sacred matter and precious materials in the Middle Ages."--Site web de l'éditeur.
Some Account of the Parish of Saint Clement Danes (Westminster) Past and Present
Author: John DiprosePublisher:
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Category : Elections
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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