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Mr. Christie was a professor for the University of Manchester. He past away before a University library was constructed and so he left in his will the offer to build the school a library at his expense, which the University gratefully accepted and now houses an array of material, called, the Christie Library....

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The Spencer Collection of modern book-bindings is now displayed at the Central Building of The New York Public Library. It consists of one hundred and seventy-five titles (two hundred and twenty-two volumes) by twenty-eight different binders, and illustrated by more than two hundred artists. A descriptive catalogue of the books appears in the following pages....

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First Edition printed in 1881. Second Edition. The final chapter enlarged, and further illustrations added 1892.

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A collection of varied rare books and manuscripts.

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The great library, a part of which is described in this catalogue, represents the literary accumulations of a busy financier and man of affairs during a period of over thirty years. The five thousand titles which will be included in this and subsequent sales during the season, and which are only a part of Mr. Poor's library, cover a field and will arouse the interest of all classes of collectors and all lovers of beautiful and rare books....

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The Latin Vulgate Bible is a bible originally translated in the late fourth century. Since then many more translations and editions have been published. The image cover for this particular one is from an illuminated chaptered Latin Vulgate Bible c.1250 A.D., from Paris, France that has been handwritten on vellum....

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Calendar symbols of one sort or another occur on a surprising variety of monuments, both of early and late periods. The most important of these monuments for the study of the workings of the calendar system in detail are certain remarkable picturebooks or manuscripts, made on folded strips of deerskin, or on paper made of the fibre of the maguey (Agave americana). These manuscripts are usually spoken of as "codices." Only a few of these native manuscripts survived the introduction of European civilization into America. Those which were preserved were taken to Europe as curiosities, and often preserved through mere luck. The ones still extant have received a great deal of attention since the early part of the last century. All but a few of the originals are still in Europe, and are at the present time considered priceless....

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Introduction 298 The Manuscripts 299 The Aztec Calendar System 300 The Time-periods 300 Method of Determining the Time-periods 302 System of Dating 303 The Twenty Day-symbols 304 The Numerals 308 The Method of Writing Dates 309 The Tonalamatl, or Book of Indexes 310 The Book of Indexes Applied to the Time-periods 311 Corrections of the Calendar 316 Origin of the Calendar System 321 The Keason for Twenty as a Factor 322 The Eeason for Thirteen as a Factor 323 Derivation of the Calendar Symbols 327 Probable Line of Evolution 327 The Delineation of the Calendar Symbols in the Manuscripts 328 The Twenty Day-signs; their Characteristics and Variations 332 Water-monster (Cipactli) 334 Wind (Ehecatl) 337 House (Calli) 342 Lizard (Cuetspalin) 343 Snake (Coatl) 346 Death (Miquiztli) 347 Deer (Mazatl) 351 Babbit (Tochtli) 353 Water (Atl) 357 Dog (Itzcuintli) 360 Monkey (Osomatli) 362 Grass (Malinalli) 364 Cane (Acatl) 368 Ocelot (Ocelotl) 370 Eagle (Quauhtli) 374 King-vulture (Coscaquauhtli) 376 Motion ( Olin) 377 Flint (Tecpatl) 382 Eain (Quiahuitl) 385 Flower (Xochitl) 390 Borrowing of Characteristics ...

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A collection of some royal English book bindings.

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Persian and Arabic Manuscripts, containing specimens of calligraphy (including one by Shah-Ma Jimud, dated A.H. 971, i.e. A.D. 1563), by the famous scribes Muliammed Alhusaini and Shah Murad, and decorated with 30 beautiful Persian Drawings, finely executed in vivid colours, heightened with gold and silver, representing portraits of shahs, horses, elephants (including white), wild beasts, ceremonies, processions, sporting scenes, lady swinging, all mounted on cardboard, within exquisitely designed borders of wild beasts, birds, flowers, c. executed in gold, silver and colours, bound in Oriental red morocco, ornamented with rich gold tooling. This superb Manuscript appears to have been arranged in 1776 for a French Officer named Major Polaire. Arabic prose and quotations from poets in Persian Verse Manuscript containing beautiful specimens of Oriental Caligrapihy, chiefly by the celebrated Scribe Mohammed AH, A.H. 1195 (a.d, 1780), and decoi-ated with 16 beautiful Persian Drawings, finely eoxcuted in vivid colours, heightened with gold and silver, representing views of palaces, horsemanship, concert of music, audience chamber, banque...

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This Guide to the Manuscripts, Autographs, Charters, Seals, Illuminations, and Bindings exhibited in the Department of Manuscripts and in the Grenville Library first appeared in its present shape, consisting of three parts, each with twenty plates, in 1912. Part III is now reprinted substantially in the same form. The most important changes in this part of the exhibition are the additions to the section of English illuminations of the Durham Life of St. Cuthbert and the St. Omer Psalter, and to the French section of the Sainte Abbaye. The acquisition of the St. Omer Psalter is due to the generosity of Mr. Henry Yates Thompson. All three manuscripts have for some time been on view in a separate case, but now take their proper places in the arrangement. A few minor alterations and slight revisions of the descriptions have been made, the work being done, as in 1912, by Mr. J. A. Herbert, now Deputy Keeper....

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The library is enriched by trophies of all the great sales of Mr. Hoe's half a century of collecting. Perhaps no such array of books of important provenance and high association interest was ever before assembled. Books with the arms of Kings and Queens; beautiful manuscripts ante-dating printing, and the earliest examples of printed books; books from Grolier's library in finest condition; autographs, manuscripts, and letters; annotated books- the imagination kindles at these intimate reminders of the great and illustrious names of many periods and nations....

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Leonardo da Vinci's thoughts on art and life.

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A lyriphoton nuclear reaction occurs when the high-energy lyriphotons collide with an atomic literary nucleus and disintegrate it (lyriphotofission) into words [lyrics] and images [photo(n)s]. See below....

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- Go big or go home - Oh, what minute minute! - I come in the afternoon or after afternoon - This abstract has no dimensions. That's the long and the short of it!...

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A private collection of sale of illuminated manuscripts, incunabula and early printed books, establishing an endowment fund for the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica....

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16 Important Notices to Buyers 17 Session One, Lots 1-122 Fifteenth century, Lots 1-105 Sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Lots 106-122 250 Indexes 275 Authenticity Guarantee 277 Catalogue Subscriptions Order Form 278 Guide for Prospective Buyers 281 Sotheby's Kings House 282 VAT Information for Buyers 284 Conditions of Business 287 Client Services 288 Specialist Departments 290 International Offices 294 Guide for Absentee Bidders 295 Absentee Bid Form 296 Board of Directors...

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The main collection is a result of Mr. Flinders Petrie's excavations in 1889, and was brought from Deir El-Hammam, three miles N. of Illahun. To it are added a few fragments (Nos. XX, XXVI, XLIX, and LIII), acquired at Hawara. The subjects represented are (I) Biblical texts :—To the one example previously described, a second is now added. (II) Patristic texts:—I have placed among these some curious fragments which give, inter alia, the account of a dream, because I was at a loss more appropriately to class them. (HI) Liturgical texts : A small group, put together since I wrote my former description. (IV) Letters : This section embraces (as in the other collections) a large proportion of the whole. (V) Lists and accounts: Some very small scraps are included here. Of the so-called Legal documents, numerous in Vienna,' there are but three mutilated specimens (Nos. XXXV, XXXVI, XXXVII). These I have held it allowable to class with the letters....

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This book presents a short panorama of commented art theories, together with experimental digital images using adopted techniques from various fields, in order to inspire the actual artists to choose from, and also to invent or adopt new procedures in producing their artworks. This book presents a short panorama of commented art theories, together with digital art images using adopted techniques from various fields, in order to inspire the actual artists to choose from, and also to invent or adopt new procedures in producing their artworks....

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Earth Art requires huge work on land, sod, grass. It started in 1968 with Robert Morris utilizing a pile of dirt, and Robert Smithson who filled some boxes with rocks. Some projects demand enormous effort, for example carving the American presidential portraits in Mount Rushmore by Gustom Borglum, or wrapping the Australian coastline in 1969 with plastic and rope by Javacheff and Jeanne-Claude Christo (packed objects). Ephemeral patterns (art) in the snow by Dennis Oppenheim. But some earthworks are criticized of disturbing the nature and upsetting the ecology. Earth Outer-Art takes the work done by nature, such as Volcanoes, Storms, Hurricanes, Tsunami, Earthquakes, etc. as Found Earth Outer-Art, but unfortunately destructive art. Let’s say volcano Krakatoa in Indonesia, Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans… see how impressive destructive earth outer-art they did! Or the falling of a meteor on planet Earth, creating big craters as work of natural art. Thomas Cole, in the 19th century, believed that nature was created by God, who is an Artist. Catastrophic Outer-Art at a large scale is that inflicted by atomic bombs, as those at ...

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Definition of Unification of Art Theories (UAT) --- 1, and back cover Preface – essay: Unification of Art Theories (UAT), a manifesto --- 5 Mail oUTER-aRT --- 34 Mail oUTER-aRT 2007 ------------- first cover Mail oUTER-aRT 1 ------------------ 35 Mail oUTER-aRT 2 ------------------ 36 Mail oUTER-aRT 3 ------------------ 37 Mail oUTER-aRT 4 ------------------ 38 Mail oUTER-aRT 5 ------------------ 39 Mail oUTER-aRT 6 ------------------ 40 Mail oUTER-aRT 7 ------------------ 41 Mail oUTER-aRT 8 ------------------ 42 Mail oUTER-aRT 9 ------------------ 43 Mail oUTER-aRT 10 ----------------- 44 Mail oUTER-aRT 11 ----------------- 45 Mail oUTER-aRT 12 ----------------- 46 Mail oUTER-aRT 13 ----------------- 47 Mail oUTER-aRT 14 ----------------- 48 Mail oUTER-aRT 15 ----------------- 49 Mail oUTER-aRT 16 ----------------- 50 Mail oUTER-aRT 17 ----------------- 51 Mail oUTER-aRT 18 ----------------- 52 Mail oUTER-aRT 19 ----------------- 53 Mail oUTER-aRT 20 ----------------- 54 Mail oUTER-aRT 21 ----------------- 55 Mail oUTER-aRT 22 ----------------- 56 Mail oUTER-aRT 23 ----------------- 57 Mail oUTER-aRT 24 ...

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NonNovel is indeed a novel of drawer, carried year after year in the bottomless sack of the exile. This fierce parabola about totalitarianism, about alienation, guilty obedience and lie, opportunism, cruelty, violence, monstrosity, written in a strong tensioned and lacking bashfulness style, situates Florentin Smarandache closer by Orwell, Konwicki, Koestler, Baconsky, and marks a new dimension of the Paradoxism....

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WARNING!: 5 Mister Editor (a letter arrived at the editorial office): 6 I: 7 Dedication: 10 The Adventures of Hon Hyn: 11 Happenings from Wodania: 23 II: 26 About patriotism: 28 The royal feast: 29 The press: 30 Post Office: 31 The State control: 32 Non-values’ Epoch: 36 Pluralism: 43 A leader not like anyone else: 45 Invisible barriers: 46 The graduates’ allocation: 49 The lunatic asylum: 50 The abolishing of the difference between man and animal: 56 III: 59 The Earthquake: 60 Modern gallinacean: 62 The crop of pea: 63 The peasantry: 64 The intellectuality: 66 A little meditation does not hurt: 67 The Fonfoist Party: 69 An unsafe life was provided to us: 70 A certain kind of speech: 72 The Fonfoist Society: 83 “We will live here in abundance”: 87 The multilateral development of personality: 93 The Police and the Revolution: 95 Imposing buildings of prisons: 97 Football: 99 Public genuflection: 100 The contemporary history: 102 Hon Hyn’s visit to Paris: 103 The National Museum: 104 The Management of the Economical Systems: 105 A few notions of psychology: 106 (editor’s note): 109 The wise po...