Catalogue d'estampes anciennes et modernes, montées et en feuilles, des écoles d'Italie


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Catalogue d'estampes anciennes et modernes, montées et en feuilles, des écoles d'Italie, des Pays-Bas et de France, suites de figures et vignettes pour différens ouvrages, galeries de Florence, d'Orléans, du Luxembourg et de Versailles; volumes du Cabinet national, et autres recueils, planches gravées. Tableaux, miniatures, dessins, pantographe, étuis de mathématique, microscopes, grand nombre de bordures dorées, papier blanc, cartons lissés, etc. Livres précieux à figures, tels que les Voyages d'Italie, de la Grèce et de la Suisse; le Tableau de l'Empire Ottoman; le Nouveau Testament, très-grand in-quarto, figures de Moreau, épreuves avant la lettre; oeuvres de Voltaire et autres ouvrages qui composoient le Cabinet et le fond de commerce de feu le Citoyen Delorme, ancien relieur et marchand d'estampes. Par F. L. Regnault. Cette vente commencera le 17 Vindemiaire an sept, cinq heures de relevée, rue des Bons-Enfans, près le ci-devant Palais royal, numéro 12, et continuera les 18, 19, 21, 22 et 23 à pareille heure. On verra chaque matin, depuis onze heures jusqu'à deux heures après midi, les objets qui seront vendus le soir. Date de l'édition originale: 1798 Le présent ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la littérature Française mise en place avec la BNF. HACHETTE LIVRE et la BNF proposent ainsi un catalogue de titres indisponibles, la BNF ayant numérisé ces oeuvres et HACHETTE LIVRE les imprimant à la demande. Certains de ces ouvrages reflètent des courants de pensée caractéristiques de leur époque, mais qui seraient aujourd'hui jugés condamnables. Ils n'en appartiennent pas moins à l'histoire des idées en France et sont susceptibles de présenter un intérêt scientifique ou historique. Le sens de notre démarche éditoriale consiste ainsi à permettre l'accès à ces oeuvres sans pour autant que nous en cautionnions en aucune façon le contenu. Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous sur www.hachettebnf.fr




Creating "Greater Malaysia"


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Malaysia came into existence on 9/16/63 as a federation of Malaya, Singapore, Sabah (North Borneo), and Sarawak; in 1965 Singapore withdrew from the federation. Offers an in-depth and detailed analysis of the political processes that led to formation of the Federation of Malaysia in 1963. It argues that the Malaysia that came into being following the amalgamation of Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak and North Borneo was a political creation whose only rationale was that it served a convergence of political and economic expediency for the departing colonial power, the Malayan leadership and the ruling party of self-governing Singapore. 'Greater Malaysia' was thus an artificial political entity, the outcome of a concatenation of interests and motives of a number of political actors in London and Southeast Asia from the 1950s to the early 1960s. This led to a number of unresolved compromises between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur and did not obviate the possibility of future difficulties, and the seeds of dissension sown by the disagreements between the two governments were to sprout into major crises during Singapore's brief history in the Federation of Malaysia.










Revolutionary Paris and the Market for Netherlandish Art


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Seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish paintings were aesthetic, intellectual, and economic touchstones in the Parisian art world of the Revolutionary era, but their importance within this framework, while frequently acknowledged, never attracted much subsequent attention. Darius A. Spieth’s inquiry into Revolutionary Paris and the Market for Netherlandish Art reveals the dominance of “Golden Age” pictures in the artistic discourse and sales transactions before, during, and after the French Revolution. A broadly based statistical investigation, undertaken as part of this study, shows that the upheaval reduced prices for Netherlandish paintings by about 55% compared to the Old Regime, and that it took until after the July Revolution of 1830 for art prices to return where they stood before 1789.




Orestes


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Orestes was produced in 1750, an experiment which intensely interested the literary world and the public. In his Dedicatory Letters to the Duchess of Maine, Voltaire has the following passage on the Greek drama: "We should not, I acknowledge, endeavor to imitate what is weak and defective in the ancients: it is most probable that their faults were well known to their contemporaries. I am satisfied, Madam, that the wits of Athens condemned, as well as you, some of those repetitions, and some declamations with which Sophocles has loaded his Electra: they must have observed that he had not dived deep enough into the human heart. I will moreover fairly confess, that there are beauties peculiar not only to the Greek language, but to the climate, to manners and times, which it would be ridiculous to transplant hither. Therefore I have not copied exactly the Electra of Sophocles-much more I knew would be necessary; but I have taken, as well as I could, all the spirit and substance of it."




The Eye of Josephine


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On Virginity ; Against Remarriage


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This is an English translation of these treatises. The work is also introduced by Elizabeth Clark, who sets forth the context of the treatises and makes an extended comparison between John's teaching and that of Paul in 1 Corinthians.