Search Results: Authors starting with H from OSYLLEKTIS

Dr. Hermann L. Strack
Hebräisches Schreibheft - Hebrew Copybook
Ergänzung zu jeder hebräischen Grammatik - Addition to each Hebrew Grammar

4th Edition
Published in Munich by C. H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung Oskar Beck in 1906
8vo
Original Paperback

Hermann Leberecht Strack (1848 – 1922) was a German Protestant theologian and Orientalist; born in Berlin.

Deutsche Meisteraufnahmen(Nummer 10)
By Kurt Hilscher
Burgen im Bozener Land - Castles in the Bolzano Region
Verlag: F. Bruckmann Verlag, München., 1938
First Edition
8°, 22 pages
With many illustrations
Original brochure
In very good condition

Heinrich Hoffmann
Der Struwwelpeter
oder lustige Geschichten und drollige Bilder
für Kinder von 3 bis 6 Jahren
Published bai A. Anton & Co, Leibzig in the 30's
25 Pages (without pagination)
Original Hard Binding
19,5cm x 14,5cm (approx. 7,75 inch. x 5,75 inch.)
Heinrich Hoffmann (June 13, 1809 – September 20, 1894) was a German psychiatrist, who also wrote some short works including Der Struwwelpeter an illustrated book portraying children misbehaving.
Hoffmann published poems and a satirical comedy before, in 1845, a publisher friend persuaded him to have a collection of illustrated children's verses printed, which Hoffmann had done as a Christmas present for his son. The book, later called Struwwelpeter after one of its anti-heroes, became popular with the public and had to be reprinted regularly; many foreign translations followed. Struwwelpeter was not perceived as cruel or overly moral by Hoffmann's contemporaries. The original title, "Funny stories and droll pictures", indicates that… Read More

Russia in Central Asia in 1889 and the Anglo-Russian Question
By Hon. G. Curson, MP
published by Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1889
xxiii, 477 p. + 24 p.
Catalogue of books from Longmans, Green. 23 cm.
2 folding colour maps, 16 full-page illustrations, and numerous b&w illustrations within the text
Blue cloth hardcover with gold impressing. Hinges tender. Some wear to spine ends.
Owner's inscription on white 1st page (Edward Fitzgerald Law).
Topics include: Russian railways to the Caspian; Russian designs upon India; observations on Russian character; hostility to Germany and the Germans; Russian feeling towards England, Austria, France; the Anglo-Russian question; merits and demerits of Russian rule; Russian military strength; bravery and endurance of Russian character. The author traces a journey from London to the Caspian, along the Transcaspian Railway; from the Caspian to the Merv; from Merv to the Oxus; Bokhara the Noble; Samarkand and Tashkent.
Ex Libris Edward Fitzgerald Law!
Edward… Read More