Search Results: Authors starting with H from Inanna Rare Books Ltd.

1950. [Aachen], c.1950. Neun originale, signierte Holzschnitte / Holzschnittfolge von Haacken's Handpresse mit Totentanz - Motiven. Gerahmt: c. 28 cm x 35 cm. Holzschnitt: 16 cm x 22 cm. Alle Holzschnitte gerahmt. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur einigen kleineren Gebrauchsspuren an den Rahmen. [The Danse Macabre, also called the Dance of Death, is an artistic genre of allegory of the Late Middle Ages on the universality of death: no matter one's station in life, the Danse Macabre unites all. The Danse Macabre consists of the dead or a personification of death summoning representatives from all walks of life to dance along to the grave, typically with a pope, emperor, king, child, and laborer. It was produced as memento mori, to remind people of the fragility of their lives and how vain were the glories of earthly life. Its origins are postulated from illustrated sermon texts; the earliest recorded visual scheme was a now-lost mural at Holy Innocents' Cemetery in Paris dating from 1424 to 1425.… Read More

1985. Köln, Taschen, 1985. 35,5 cm x 28 cm. 71 black-and-white and full colour illustrations. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Ken Haak (Apr. 1, 1923 - Jun.20 1991) was a celebrated fashion photographer. A native of Glendale, California, Haak attended the Art Center School in Los Angeles, where he studied painting and graphic design. Upon graduation, he moved to New York City and became an art director and graphic designer. He built a reputation in graphic design that led to receiving New York Art Director's Club Awards. His posters for The New York Times were exhibited by and formally entered into the permanent graphic design collection of The Museum of Modern Art. In mid-career he became a self-taught explorer in fashion photography who played light and shadow against skin and fabric to not simply dramatize the clothes, but exalt the body as well. His images reflect his strong sense of design in a style and manner both classic and contemporary. He… Read More

1979. Hamburg, Buske, 1979. 8°. 170 Seiten. Softcover / Kartoniert. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur geringen äusserlichen Gebrauchsspuren. KEINE Anstreichungen. KEIN Mängelexemplar. [Romanistik in Geschichte und Gegenwart ; Bd. 5] Lateinische Lehnswoerter in den Kontaktsprachen - Bezeichnungen von Pflanzen und deren Fruechten / Lexikalische Charakteristik der Kuestenlatinitaet als regionale Variante des Lateinischen in Suedosteuropa / etc.

1975. Graz, Horst Gerhard Haberl, 1975. Folio (30 cm wide x 35 cm high). 52 unnumbered pages with text and illustration. Original, illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. With a private gift-inscription. This publication exhibits video art of austrian artist Friederike Pezold (born in 1945), which is designed to support the liberation of women and art / women and their bodies / women and their reproductive organs / The publication reflects on Fertility Dances of Tribes on the Solomon Islands / Chapters include: "3 pieces of a woman's movement" / "die schwarz weisse Goettin" [translates: "the black and white goddess"] / "Fuss Werk" / "Scham Werk" /"48 Dreieke" ["translates "48 Triangles"] / "brust werk" [translates "Breast Work"] / etc. etc.

1990. Bielefeld, Westfalen Verlag, 1990. 19.9 cm x 30 cm. 223 pages. With many black and white illustrations. Original Hardcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some minor wear to cover. Otherwise very clean and bright. Contains label on front endpaper ' Bücherstube Ilona Hodes'. Includes for example the following chapters: Familie, Jugend und erste Schulzeit / Lehr- und Wanderjahre / Indien / Japan / Heimreise aus Asien / Letze Jahre in Lieme / In Moskau / Persepolis / Die Riese nach Siam und Japan / Medizinische Methoden- Akupunktur und Moxa etc. Engelbert Kaempfer (German Engelbert Kämpfer,1651–1716) was a German naturalist, physician, and explorer writer known for his tour of Russia, Persia, India, South-East Asia, and Japan between 1683 and 1693. He wrote two books about his travels. Amoenitatum exoticarum, published in 1712, is important for its medical observations and the first extensive description of Japanese plants (Flora Japonica). His History of… Read More

1959. 7th impression of the first edition - 1959. London, William Hodge & Co. 1959. 17 x 26 cm. 408 pages. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition. contains among others: The Monetary Theory of International Trade; The Pure Theory of International Trade etc. etc.

1963. 21. - 32. Tausend. Frankfurt, Suhrkamp, 1963. Oktav. 466 Seiten. Original Softcover. Sehr guter Zustand / Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. Inscribed / signed by german philosopher Jürgen Habermas to american philosopher Victor Gourevitch:"Victor Gourevitch mit herzlichem Dank - Jürgen Habermas - 12.I.72". Victor Gourevitch is Willialm Griffin Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Wesleyan University. He studied with Strauss at the University of Chicago, and published a review of Strauss’s On Tyranny and Strauss’s thought in The Review of Metaphysics in 1968. He edited Rousseau’s political writings for the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought series, and is editor with Michael S. Roth of Leo Strauss, On Tyranny, Corrected and Expanded Edition (Source: University of Chicago).

1968. Frankfurt a.M., Suhrkamp, 1968. 8°. 364 Seiten. Softcover. Originalausgabe, 1968. Sehr gut erhaltenes , leinenbezogenes Taschenbuch. Theorie : [Reihe] 2.

1999. Lengerich and others, Pabst Science Publishers, 1999. 23.8cm x 16.3cm. 620 (3) pages. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following chapters: C.S. Carver - Themes and Issues in the Self-Regulation of Behaviour / L.-G. Nilsson - Memory and Aging - Basic Dissociations between Episodic and Semantic Memory / C. Pléh - The Symbolics of Psychology under a Totalitarian System: The Case of Hungary in the 1960s / etc. etc.

1926. London, The Studio, 1926. 30.5 cm x 25 cm. 9 pages of introduction. Illustrated with 12 full-page tipped-in etching. Protected by tissue guards. Original hardcover. Good condition with some stronger signs of external wear to the cover. Clean inside with all illustrations protected and in very good condition. Includes the following contents:- Modern Masters of Etching - Frank Brangwyn, R.A. / James McBey / Anders Zorn / J. L. Forain / Sir Frank Short, R.A., P.R.E., R.I. / Frank W. Benson / Sir D. Y. Cameron, R.A. / Marius Bauer / Alphonse Legros / Edmund Blampied / Sir Francis Seymour Haden, P.R.E. In Preparation / F. L. Griggs, A.R.A., R.E. etc.

2004. First Harvard University Press paperback edition. Cambridge / Massachusetts / a.o., Harvard University Press, 2004. 14 cm x 21 cm. XII, 362 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following essays: The Platonic Definition of "Philosopher" and its Antecedents / Philosophy as a Way of Life / Interruption and Continuity: The Middle Ages and Modern Times etc.

1950. Erste Auflage. Hamburg, Claassen Verlag, 1950. 14 x 21,5cm. 347 Seiten. Hardcover / Originales Leinen in Mylar. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur ganz geringen Gebrauchsspuren. Aus der Bibliothek von Dr.Erna Scheffler. Handschriftliche Widmung, signiert vom Autor Carl Haensel: "Frau Bundesverfassungsrichterin Dr. Erna Scheffler erg[ebenst] ueberreicht. Baden-Baden, 18.VI.53. Carl Haensel". Inhalt: Der Völkerrechtsprozess / Göring / Hess / Der Geheimvertrag mit Russland - Ribbentrop / Keitel / Kaltenbrunner / Rosenberg / Franks Schuldbekenntnis / Franks Tagebuch / Der Nürnberger Rahmen / Lagerbesuch / Jodl / Die Kommission tagt Carl Haensel war ein deutscher Schriftsteller, Dramatiker und Rechtsanwalt. Haensel studierte Rechts- und Staatswissenschaften in Lausanne, Berlin und Marburg. 1946 betätigte sich als Rechtsanwalt am Badischen Oberlandesgericht. Im Nürnberger Hauptkriegsverbrecherprozess war er ab 1. April 1946 Assistent von Horst Pelckmann bei der Verteidigung der als verbrecherische… Read More

1976. Zürich, Diogenes-Verlag, 1976. 294 Seiten. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Diogenes-Taschenbuch, 119].

1980. Hanau, Dr. Hans Peters Verlag, 1980. 26,5 x 35 cm. Unpaginiert. Ca. 50 Seiten. Hardcover/ Gebundene Ausgabe. Sehr guter Zustand mit minimalen Gebrauchsspuren.

1914. Zweite Auflage. Stuttgart, Verlagsbuchhandlung von Eugen Ulmer. 1914. 16,5 x 23 cm. 500 Seiten. Hardcover/ Gebunden. Leinen. Sehr guter Zustand mit minimalen Gebrauchsspuren. Enthält unter anderem die folgenden Kapitel: Zellen, Gewebe und Bau der Organe; Knochen, Knorpel, Gelenke und Bänder; Muskellehre; Die Eingeweidelehre; Nervenlehre; Sinnesorgane und allgemeine Decke etc.

1964. Köln, Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg, 1964. 22,5 cm x 22,5 cm. Volume I: 416 Seiten, Volume II: 240 Seiten. Mit zahlreichen schwarz-weißen und farbigen Abbildungen und Illustrationen. Original Hardcover in protective Mylar. 2 Bände (vollständig) / Two Volumes (complete). Sehr guter Zustand mit nur geringen Gebrauchsspuren. Enthält u.a.: Einführung Werner Haftmann und Arnold Bode / Kabinette in der Alten Galerie / Kabinette im Museum Fridericianum / Bild und Skulptur im Raum / Licht und Bewegung etc etc. Pierre Bonnard / Marc Chagall / Lovis Corinth / Max Ernst / Wassily Kandinsky / Ernst Ludwig Kirchner / Oskar Kokoschka / Henri Laurens / Henri Matisse / Piet Mondriaan / Pablo Picasso / Jean Arp / Ernst Barlach / Jean Bazaine / Bellmer / Paul Cézanne / James Ensor / Max Ernst / Vincent van Gogh / Jackson Pollock etc etc.

1975. Köln und Wien, Böhlau, 1975. 8vo. VII, 235 Seiten. Hardcover / Gebundene Ausgabe. Originales Leinen. Sehr guter, nahezu neuwertiger Zustand. Mit handschriftlicher Widmung des Verfassers auf dem Vorsatzblatt. (Niederdeutsche Studien. Hrsg. von Jan Goossens, 21). Die Erfahrung der Macht / Schicksal als Gesetz / Glauben und Erkennen / Das Schicksal unter göttlicher Autorität und die Allmacht Gottes / Die Forschung zur Germanisierung im Heliand / Schicksal und goettliche Ordnung - Geburt und Kindheit Johannes des Taeufers und Christi etc. etc.

2007. Dublin, Nonsuch, 2007. 16,5 cm x 23,5 cm. 127 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Includes for example the following chapters: People and Occasions / Homes / Wartime / The Corner Shop / Church and Mission / Buildings / Leisure etc.

1970. New York / Avenel (New Jersey), Wings Books, 1970. Octavo. 317 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. Includes: Legends of Witches, Fairies and Leprechauns by Lady Wilde / Charles Robert Maturin - The Parricide's Tale / William Carleton - The Legend of Fin M'Coul / A.E.Coppard - The Man from Kilsheelan / Shane Leslie - The Coonian Ghost / Sinead de Valera - The Fairies' Revenge / Giraldus Cambrensis - The Man-Wolf / Ray Bradbury - A Wild Night in Galway / W.B.Yeats - The Crucifixion of the Outcast etc.

1969. Third Edition. London, Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1969. 16 x 24,5 cm. IX, 141 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. Contains among others the following chapters: Introduction: History of Research, Table of Formations; Pre-Cambrian: Uriconian, Charnian; Cambrian; Silurian: Upper Llandovery Series, Wenlock Series, Ludlow Series; Old Red Sandstone: Lower Old Red Sandstone, Upper Old Red Sandstone, The Mountsorrel Granodiorite etc.