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Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Reading Room Only
Author: Philip CohenPublisher:
ISBN: 9781907869785
Category : Bibliomania
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This memoir moves through Cohen's life in the counterculture, discussing book collecting, the pleasures of browsing and the need for bookshops.
The First Emperor
Author: Jane PortalPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674026971
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The rise of Qin and the military conquest of the warring states -- The First Emperor and the Qin empire -- Imperial tours and mountain inscriptions -- The First Emperor's tomb: the afterlife universe -- A two-thousand-year-old underground empire.
On the Supply of Printed Books from the Library to the Reading Room of the British Museum
Author: Sir Anthony PanizziPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : National libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Enoch Soames
Author: Max BeerbohmPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Book Excerpt: ...was out.""But you were in. You showed me some of your paintings, you know. I hear you're in Chelsea now.""Yes."I almost wondered that Mr. Soames did not, after this monosyllable, pass along. He stood patiently there, rather like a dumb animal, rather like a donkey looking over a gate. A sad figure, his. It occurred to me that "hungry" was perhaps the mot juste for him; but--hungry for what? He looked as if he had little appetite for anything. I was sorry for him; and Rothenstein, though he had not invited him to Chelsea, did ask him to sit down and have something to drink.Seated, he was more self-assertive. He flung back the wings of his cape with a gesture which, had not those wings been waterproof, might have seemed to hurl defiance at things in general. And he ordered an absinthe. "Je me tiens toujours fidele," he told Rothenstein, "a la sorciere glauque.""It is bad for you," said Rothenstein, dryly."Nothing is bad for one," answered Soames. "Dans ce monde il n'y a ni b..
Treasures of the British Library
Author: Nicolas BarkerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780712304092
Category : Library resources
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In this highly-illustrated account, Nicolas Barker reveals the history of the British Library's treasure house of books and manuscripts. The Library's holdings cover collections spanning almost three millennia, from the establishment of the British Museum, which brought together the libraries of Sir Hans Sloane, Sir Robert Cotton and Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford, to the foundation of the British Library in 1973 and to some outstanding acquisitions of the present day.
New Reading-Room and Libraries
Author: Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals
Author: British museumThe British Museum Library
Author: Gertrude Burford RawlingsPublisher: London : Grafton
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
A List of the additions made to the Library of the London Institution, during the years 1859 and 1860, etc. (During ... 1861 to March 1862.-During ... 1862 to March 1863.).
Author: London Institution (LONDON)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
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