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Geschiedenis & aardrijkskunde. (Slot).
Scott, Captain Robert F.: The Voyage of the ‘Discovery’. With Illustrations and Photographs by Dr. E.A. Wilson and other members of the Expedition. London, Smith Elder & Co.
f 29.40
‘Never has a polar expedition returned with richer results, geographical and scientific, than those of which the record is contained in these two splendid volumes... a book which is in every way worthy of so remarkable an expedition’. - Athenaeum.
‘The ablest and most interesting record of travel to which the present century has yet given birth’. - Spectator.
‘No more glowing narrative of adventure is to be met with in the english language’. - Punch. |
Seestern ‘1906’. Der Zusammenbruch der alten Welt. Leipzig, Dieterich'sche Verlagsbuchh. (Theod. Weicher).
f 1.65; geb. 1.95 |
Sichel, Edith: Catherine de Medici and the French Reformation, with 12 Illustrations. London, Constable & Co.
f 10.50
‘Miss Edith Sichel has done a fine and distinguished piece of work. She has written a brilliant and a scholarly book; a book it is both tempting and difficult to overpraise. For Miss Sichel is gifted with much of the rare projective vision of the born historian’. - Times. |
Smith, J.F.: Book for a rainy day, or recollections of events of the years 1766-1833. Ed. by Wilfred Whitten. Illustr. London, Methuen & Co.
f 8.75 |
Stead, Alfred: Great Japan. Study of a national efficiency. London, J. Lane.
f 7.35 |
Steinschneider. Mor: Die Geschichtsliteratur der Juden in Druckwerken u. Handschriften. 1. Abtg. Bibliographie der hebr.-Schriften. Frankfurt a.M., J. Kauffmann.
f 3.90 |
Suau, Pierre: l'Espagne, terre d'épopée. Les vieilles villes et leurs souvenirs. Paris, Perrin & Cie., av. 12 pl.
f 2.75 |
Taine, H.: Sa vie et sa correspondance. Tome III. Paris, Hachette & Cie.
f 1.90 |
Tardieu, André: Questions diplomatiques. Paris.
f 1.90
L'auteur réussit en ce volume la série d'études et d'interviews qu'il a publiées sous un pseudonyme dans le Journal Le Temps: ‘Il serait téméraire, à si peu de distance des événements, de prétendre en écrire l'histoire. Il peut être utile d'apporter à cette histoire la contribution de documents exacts et qui gardent, toute fraîche l'empreinte de la vie’. - Revue de Paris. |
Waddington, Mary King: Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Wife. With 24 Portraits, Views &c., London, Smith Elder & Co.
f 7.35
‘One of the most interesting books of the season.... Chatty, vivacious, observant, good-humoured, pleasantly descriptive, and teeming with references to famous and notable people, and events of interest, these letters are models of their kind’. - World. |
Wellesly, F.A.: With the Russians in peace and war. Recollections of a military attaché. London, Nash a Co.
f 8.15 |
Wilkens, W.H.: Mrs. Fitzherbert and George IV. Illustr. London, Longmans & Co.
f 23.40 |
Wilson, H.W.: Japan's fight for freedom. Story of the war between Russia and Japan. Illustr. Vol 1. London, The Amalgameted Press.
f 8.75 |
Wright, H, C.S.: With Togo. Story of seven months' active service under his command. Illustr. London, Hurst & Blackett.
f 7.35 |
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