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Generally sharp-cornered,bright,clean, publisher's original,plain dark brown cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate brown+white map illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,v-xiipp+1- 228pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,illustration acknowledgements,a preface,8 chapters+postscript,profuse contemporary sepia photographs/illustrations/drawings throughout the text and the book,appendices(2),notes+references,a bibliography,an index of soldiers and a general index; plus [unpaginated] half-title,and a double-page sepia illustrated title page. At Christmas 1914 on the Western Front, British and German soldiers sang carols to each other and fraternized openly in No Man's Land. They exchanged souvenirs,took photographs and in many cases freely admitted they had no wish to make war.A British officer who took part in the Christmas Truce wrote (thus reversing an old saying) 'It wasn't war,but it was magnificent.' People who find no interest in tales of battles and campaigns are drawn to the story of the Christmas Truce,yet among the thousands of books on the Great War,there has never been one on this highly emotive and fascinating subject.This book is intended to fill the gap.Its authors demonstrate that the truce was much more extensive,involved many more and lasted far longer than has hitherto been realized.In some areas,it was not until February 1915 that war began again in earnest and it was characterized in many cases by the most astonishing friendliness and courtesy between opposing trenches. The authors who also collaborated in the BBC television documentary 'Peace in No Man's Land' have undertaken a far-reaching programme of research.They have combed the war diaries of units involved,talked to participants,collected a remarkable range of contemporary letters and journals and even unearthed some amusing anecdotes. "One human episode amid all the atrocities",was Conan Doyle's verdict on the Christmas Truce - and it is the human aspect which the authors believe give it its particular significance and appeal. 'It is' they suggest,'perhaps the best and most heartening Christmas story of modern times.' Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight/value of this item,for correct,insured (where necessary) shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence, then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always., LONDON.LEO COOPER in Association with SECKER & WARBURG,1984., 5, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,matt,colour pictorial artwork detail ('In the Seraglio' by Frederick Arthur Bridgeman) illustrated front panel of dw/dj and subject's sepia portrait photographic illustrated rear panel with brown+black lettering to front and spine; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean - no marks,foxing or spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate brown+cream 1st & 2nd Expeditions maps illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,xiv-xviiipp+2-428pp [paginated] includes recto of author's note,a timeline,23 chapters,profusely illustrated with contemporary b/w illustration reproductions and photographs,notes,a bibliography,a note on archives,illustration credits and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,acknowledgements,contents list/table, verso of author's note,verso of timeline,separator page and 2pp blanks at rear of the book., The events of Florence Baker's life read like a novel.Born in the 1840s into an aristocratic family who were murdered in the Hungarian revolution,Florence fled to the Ottoman empire with her nurse.She was next heard of living in a harem,barely in her teens.In 1859 she was presented at auction,and it was in this most unlikely of settings that she met her soulmate,Sam Baker,a wealthy English adventurer whose geographic discoveries proved crucial to England's understanding of the African landscape.Saving her from slavery,Sam offered his paramour much more - a life of danger,excitement and passion exploring the uncharted interior of Africa in search of the source of the Nile.Their expedition into the African wilderness was to be no less dramatic than Florence's early life.Sam and Florence were to suffer years of deprivation and conflict with local tribes before their amazing fortitude brought ultimate victory.Sam named the source of the Nile Albert N'yanza, after the Queen's consort.But a larger challenge awaited them: winning acceptance in polite Victorian society. In this absorbing book Pat Shipman brings the redoubtable and unique Florence out from beneath the shadow of her more famous husband. 'The Stolen Woman' is the story of a remarkable woman,of an extraordinary love affair,but also of the golden age of exploration. Reconstructed through journals,documents,maps and photographs, this fascinating biography chronicles the life of a tenacious, compassionate and unlikely explorer - a woman who stood alongside some of the toughest men in history to face the unknown. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always., LONDON.BANTAM PRESS/TRANSWORLD PUBLISHERS,2004., 5, UK,4 slim 8vo Quarterly softback volumes,1st edns thus. [Association members' quarterly magazine published in January,April,July and October - also available to non-members/general public.] FINE+. No owner inscrptn and no price removal from bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, glossy colour+b/w illustrated and/or historical b/w photographic covers.Top+fore-edges bright and unblemished; contents virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears unread,other than my own collation.Vol 52.No.1: Medieval life revealed in Coroners' rolls; Probate process and its documents in England and Wales; Women,railways and leisure in Victorian Britain; Domestic service and migration in early 20thC Berkshire; Arnold Bennet,'Anna of the Five Towns' and the Staffordshire Potteries. Vol 52.No.2: The Rev Jonathan Saunders and the Jolly Lecturer of Barking (1681); Anti-social behaviour in late medieval Tamworth; Electoral involvement in unenfranchised Stafford boroughs before 1832; A contrary view of workhouses: Westbury on Trym 1800-1834; Bishop Droxford's Register and the importance of a comprehensive index; Review article Communities of Resistance by Cyril Pearce. Vol 52,No.3: The Anglo-American Legal Tradition Archive and its resources; Penrith Workhouse: local chldren, fostering and boarding-out 1820-1930; Who wrote 'The Merry Wives of Windsor': local topographical evidence re-examined; Scots in rural Northumberland: a mid19thC snapshot; Faggot sales from the cecil Estates in Hertfordshire and Rutland 1550-1914; investigating the small ads: the elusive Dr Swedour of Liverpool; Reviews of books on agriculture and rural history. Vol 52,No.4: The Essex Sessions of the Peace and the Peasant's Revolt of 1381; West Indian wealth and the English country elite: the Morants of Brockenhurst and Jamaica; Wayfarers - driven by war or poverty? A study of 17thC Devon; Slips,trips and tumbles in public places: accidental falls in Wolverhampton 1850-1910; Meeting the challenges of wartime Cornish male voice choirs 1939- 1945; The commmercial world of the Basingstoke draper Thomas Burberry (1835-1926); Press coverage of Trawsfynydd power station's construction 1955-1965. BALH is a national charity which promotes local history and serves local historians. Its purpose is to encourage and assist the study of local history as an academic discipline and as a rewarding leisure pursuit for both individuals and groups. Please contact seller,because of the weight of this item just short of 1Kg unpackeaged,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. 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No owner inscrptn and no price-clip - absence of publisher's price - to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,monochrome photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj with b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - one 1/4" closed tear/nick at top,rear corner of dw/dj - no other nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain dark green cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,5-256pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,lists of illustrations,drawings and maps,a chronology with a note,25 assorted biographies (English+Boer),a prologue19 chapters,16pp contemporary +modern b/w photographs and illustration in 1 block,between pp128-145,5 b/w drawings interspersed throughout the text and the book,6 b/w maps between [unpaginated] pp9-15 respectively,an epilogue,a select bibliography,appendices(5) and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title with siege participant quotation to reverse,title page,unpaginated maps with diary entry from Victoria Regina's Journal for 3 July,1882 to reverse of last map and author's acknowledgements with blank to reverse. 'A Rain of Lead' is the first full-length book about the dramatic 95-day siege of Potchefstroom,which helped to shape a century of South African history. At the end of 1880,some 200 British soldiers and a handful of civilians began the defence of a makeshift fort the size of a tennis court.Most of these men had fought in the Zulu War: some had escaped from Isandlwana,others had defended at Rorke's Drift and been at Ulundi. Although heavily outnumbered,and suffering from lack of food, tremendous heat,the wettest summer for 30 years and no shelter save a few bullet-holed leaking tents,they were to hold out under constant fire for 95 days.When finally forced by starvation to surrender,with more than one third of the garrison killed,wounded or dead of disease, one of the officers remarked 'We can scarcely understand the perfect peace which has so suddenly fallen on us after three months 'rain of lead'.The place was Potchefstroom,the old Boer capital of the Transvaal,which had been annexed and occupied by the British in 1877.The siege marked the start of the first Anglo-Boer War. The original reports and eyewitness accounts give a vivid insight into the day by-day progress of the siege.Ian Bennett has investigated and evaluated the contemporary evidence to produce this in-depth history of the British and Boers at the siege of Potchefstroom. 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Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate colour photographic illustrated endpapers.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,8-256pp [paginated] includes author introduction,10 sections comprising 80 parts/treasures,profuse colour photographs throughout the text and the book,photographic credits+acknowledgements at rear.Plus [unpaginated] half-title page with colour photographic frntis to verso,title page,double-paged contents list/table,double-page colour world map+index of the 80 treasures locations. Dan Cruikshank's quest is to tell the story of civilisation through the greatest of man's achievements.In this book which accompanies the 10-part BBC television series,he writes of his travels in pursuit of the most famous,and infamous,man-made treasures in the world. In five months Dan traversed six continents and visited 40 countries, his journey,and who and what he encounters along the way,forming an equally important part of the story. His treasures include great churches and temples,statues,buildings and structures of achievement,weapons,art and artefacts.Whether standing before the solemn heads of Easter Island,investigating the mysterious Nazca Lines in Peru,climbing Machu Picchu or the magnificent temple of Borobudor in Java,contemplating the Ryoanji Temple garden in Kyoto or the pleasure palace at Sigiriya in Sri Lanka,Dan is never less than fascinating about the origins, construction,mysteries,years of glory and viscitudes of each of these monuments to the great civilsations of the world. Each treasure has its part to play in this story of human endeavour. Does it live up to expectation? Has it been left in ruin,ransacked or even over- restored? Dan's journal,written at the end of each day,records his most intimate thoughts and feelings,his expectations,the realities, the people he meets,the ups and downs of the journey,the perils,the joys,and the ongoing relationships formed on the road. 'Around the World in 80 Treasures' is a riveting story of adventure and the pursuit of knowledge. Dan Cruikshank is a regular presenter on the BBC,best known for his popular series 'Britain's Best Buildings' and for his appearances in 'The House Detectives' and 'What the Industrial Revolution Did For Us'.He is a leading expert in architecture and historic buildings,and a frequent contributor to 'The Architects' Journal' and 'The Architectural Review'.He is an active member of the Georgian Group and the Architectural Panel of the National Trust. 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Photographic endpapers, maps, photographs, index. " 'We lost the war in southern Afghanistan and it broke my heart.' So begins Graeme Smith's the Dogs Are Eating Them Now, and like all heartbreaks, this one happened despite the best intentions. Smith devoted more time to southern Afghanistan than any other Western journalist between 2005 and 2011, and his book offers a candid and critical look at the Taliban's rising influence and the West's continued miscalculations". Time Period 2005-2011. Locale: Afghanistan. (Military, Biography, Journalism, Reporters, Social Conditions, Taliban, Warfare)., Alfred A. Knopf Canada 978-0-307-39780-5, 0, Fulcrum Publishing, 2009. Hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author. Signed by Corinne Platt. A collection of narratives and photographs that begins a dialogue about the convergence of past, present and future in our region. This documentary-style collection of photographs and narratives profiles a wide range of prominent figures of the West as they engage in candid discussions about the region and its identity. A diverse group of visionary men and women, they may differ in politics but remain united in their belief that the West requires inspired action if it is going to endure challenges posed by political, cultural, and environmental pressures. Allowing those on each side of the issues to speak freely, this important work tackles such topics as education, recreation, immigration, ranching, alternative energy, wildlife habitat protection, oil and gas extraction, urban development, and water conservation. Exemplifying photography and journalism at its best, Voices of the American West provides a panoramic view of today's evolving West. The collection features Terry Tempest Williams, Stewart Udall, Katie Lee, Dave Foreman, and many others. 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1930. Master Surgeons of America - Surg., Gynec. & Obst. - Chicago ca. 1930, 26,4 x 19 cm. AUGUSTUS CHARLES BERNAYS (1854-1907) - Blessed with a distinguished inheritance, with a most un… More...

1930. Master Surgeons of America - Surg., Gynec. & Obst. - Chicago ca. 1930, 26,4 x 19 cm. AUGUSTUS CHARLES BERNAYS (1854-1907) - Blessed with a distinguished inheritance, with a most unusual mental equipment and with abundant physical vigor and afforded every opportunity for study, Augustus Charles Bernays entered the field of surgical practice. Among his ancestors was a Bernays, Bishop of Calcutta; another, professor of chemistry at St. Thomas' Hospital; a third built the Chatham docks; one, Isaac Bernays, was consulted by Napoleon while formulating the code that still lives. Some of these early distinguished Bernays remained orthodox Jews; others were 'getauft'. The parents of our own Bernays migrated from Germany to America in 1853; a year later, October 13, Augustus Charles was born at Highland, Illinois. At the early age of 12 he entered the preparatory department of McKendree College at Lebanon, Illinois, where his next 6 years, 4 of them in the college, were spent. His graduation thesis was on the "Darwinian Theory," a very early outcropping, it seems, of the interest in natural sciences later to mold his career. He entered Heidelberg at the age of 18 where he completed the course in medicine. There he came under the dominating influence of Gegenbauer, professor of anatomy, one of that early group inspired by Virchow at Wurzburg in the early fifties. The youthful Bernays was student and later assistant of the distinguished surgeon, Simon, being the first American to receive summa cum laude when he finished at Heidelberg shortly after his twenty-second birthday. He then spent the winter semester of 1876 with von Langenbeck, in Berlin, and the following summer semester remained at Vienna with Billroth. He then went to London to observe the work of Sir Joseph Lister and others; while there he passed the examinations for M.R.C.S. He was occasionally entertained at the Huxley home where he was thrilled by meeting and talking with Sir Charles Darwin. A few months after his twenty-third birthday he entered the private practice of surgery in St. Louis. He had entered Heidelberg only about 30 years after the Germans under Virchow's lead had initiated that epoch in surgery based on pathology. It had been only 12 years since Lister did that first operation of the antiseptic era; but a few months had elapsed since von Bergmann, whom he came to know extremely well, had introduced bichloride of mercury as more efficient than carbolic acid (9 years more were to elapse before von Bergmann's steam sterilization was to replace chemicals and initiate asepsis). Furthermore he had been in practice only a few years when physiology became a fundamental to all surgical considerations; thus the stage was set for a resourceful young man in a changing era by Virchow, Lister, von Bergmann, Koch, and the others known to him personally. He left his own mark on German medical science while under Gegenbauer's influence by producing at least three pieces of research work which anatomists say are considered fundamental to our knowledge of heart, joint, and thyroid development. I never realized how well known he was abroad until in the middle nineties Hertwig, the embryologist, said to me in Berlin, "You have certainly had a distinguished teacher in America; we consider Bernays' work on the heart and knee joint epoch-marking." That same year I asked von Bergmann, whose clinic I was attending, if he remembered Dr. Bernays of St. Louis; his rejoinder was, "Er ist mein lieber Freund." He seems to have reached the zenith of his fame abroad at the time of the International Congress at Berlin in 1890 where he read a paper, "Gunshot Wounds of the Abdomen," which was so well received that he was elected secretary of the surgical section. He was 38 years old when I became his student, so I knew the last 15 years only of a life that was picturesque, useful, and stimulating to a superlative degree. Yearly trips to Europe had then kept him in such intimate contact with current developments in surgery that he was already working under the influence of physiology in his field. In his late thirties and early forties his rapidly spreading reputation as a surgeon of unusual promise was based largely upon his ability as a brilliant, resourceful, and successful operator, the most difficult procedures being carried out without sacrifice of detail in an unbelievably short time. No local or regional anesthetic was available to warrant time-consuming operations; he used chloroform and naturally tried to cut down the dose and conserve the patient's resources by living up to the von Langenbeck inheritance from his student days when an operator had to be dexterous and a time-saver to get worth while results. Versatility was one of his distinguished characteristics as shown by equal facility in the performance of the following: the Italian nose reconstruction, resection of all three branches of the trigeminal nerve, total resection of the mandible, complete amputation of the tongue, thyroidectomy, total excision of neck glands, gastrectomy, vaginal hysterectomy, resection of knee and elbow; while his reputation seems to have been made for those dependent upon current literature by such publications as this, "Gastrotomy for the Removal of Swallowed Knife; recovery of the patient." Interest in him must have been vastly stimulated in 1888 by the publication of the first successful operation west of the Mississippi for bullet wounds of the intestine (its effect was certainly not lessened by St. louis voting the operator five Hundred dollars for saving the life ot the patient, a police officer). He was writing upon successful pylorectomy as early as 1887 shortly after Billroth's first successful operation of the kind; he was the first in America, too, to remove the entire stomach; he did the first cesarean section for placenta previa in 1894 and as early as 1901 was writing upon bladder drainage previous to successful prostatectomy. These and equally arresting titles appeared during the eighties and nineties under the general caption, unique as the man himself, "Chips from a Surgeon's Workshop"; indeed, his most virile years were productive of actions and ideas reflecting the fertility of an imagination handed down to him along with other oriental tendencies by a long line of Jewish ancestors on his father's side, his mother being of gentile birth. Dr. Bernays as teacher was no less engaging than as operator or writer; he was an unconscious actor of ability-coming as he did of a race of showmen-which insured his classroom being crowded. He had had private instruction in drawing at college and his lectures in anatomy were profusely illustrated by blackboard drawings in colors made with chalk in both hands at the same time. Of course, the student was profoundly impressed by such a display as he always was when this artist did plastic work, switching flaps to a perfect fit without making a preliminary mark or indulging in any but the most cursory preparatory survey. He was an extremist always in what he did and said, so now and then an amusing inconsistency appeared: he never failed in any lecture, no matter what the subject, to decry the use of drugs in the treatment of surgical patients, but years later when we operated upon the master himself he seemed wholly receptive then to powerful sedatives. Imagine the novelty of one lecture being punctuated by the teacher expressing his belief that no right thinking patient should submit to an operation at the hands of a man over 40; then when asked from the floor as to his own age admitting in confusion to having attained 39. We had in our city during his best years no university medical source of authoritative opinion, hence it seemed natural for the newspapers to interview occasionally this outstanding surgeon on happenings of medical interest. This, in addition to frequent reports of his own arresting accomplishments, gave him a unique position in the public eye to the end that probably no physician of his time was known by name, if not by sight, to so many in our section of the Middle West. He was characterized by reckless optimism; he leaned a bit to the revolutionary; he detested hypocrisy; was possessed of boundless enthusiasm; was inclined to premature expression of opinion; was intolerant of commonly accepted rules of procedure; was unguarded in action and expression; was easily excitable; singularly ill-tempered, and unreasonable at the least show of incompetence in one of his team, but was equally contrite when he had cooled down and capable of a quality of generosity which is known in those who must at times compensate for a wholly unfair estimate of another's ability or character. The vibrant Bernays, who so intrigued us in the eighties and nineties, was short of stature, stocky, dark, had a large head and prominent eyes, always in handsome clothes most carelessly worn, of most serious mien and day-dreaming when alone or unobserved, as he thought, was most approachable, affable, and genial with friends and casual acquaintances alike. His ready transition from work to play further illustrates his versatility. He was fond of night life as it existed in St. Louis 40 years ago; was a typical bon vivant, knowing just where to dine well; was the sort of dilettante that only a well-to-do bachelor could be; was one of our inveterate "first nighters" because of a real interest in music and the drama; was an art lover and collector as well as an artist at heart; indeed, the bachelor home which his gifted sister, Thekla, made more agreeable than a wife might have done, looked like a small public museum. His chief diversion, if not relaxation, was found on the race track where he attended almost every "meeting" as long as the old St. Louis Fair Grounds remained open. He maintained his own racing stable where he not only bred and trained running stock but initiated all sorts of original procedures-all to no purpose-for rapidly developing his horses and increasing their speed beyond the ordinary, but in spite of occasional large winnings the losses incurred by this amateur owner practically dissipated professional earnings. Other owners, trainers, jockeys, touts, and bookies invariably played him for a "sucker" and a backer of "sure" things, still the genial Bernays grasping the spirit of all this unlike most others of his kind seems to have been tolerant through it all and to have displayed a saving sense of humor because for several years he had his racing journals, dope sheets, etc., mailed to a mythical Mr. J. Easy. Surgery was in the back of his mind even on the race track since his best known horses were dubbed The Doctor, The Surgeon, and Sir Joseph Lister. Another owner who admired him named a racer "Dr. Bernays" and our sportsman won the largest bet of his life, five thousand dollars, upon his rival's entrant, one of- very few lucrative incidents to punctuate this all absorbing passion of his lighter side. Bernays seemed particularly impressed by contacts with certain individuals while attending Congresses; one remembers vividly his returns from these excursions with expressions of admiration for C. H. Mayo, Howard Kelly, Fur-bringer (Gegenbauer's successor), Lawson Tate, Nicholas Senn, William T. Bull, Sir John Bland Sutton, and Harry Fen wick in particular; they always seemed to be his guiding stars. He appeared up to the autumn of 1903 to retain his old time vigor; he surely remained extremely busy, then the handwriting on the wall became legible for even this buoyant optimist for after a camping expedition out West a slight stroke befell him; still, he made a rapid recovery and one of the heaviest professional winters of his life followed, then the summer of 1904 was spent in Japan. After a year more, being greatly improved, he wrote from the Alps that the "stroke-like" symptoms of 2 years ago seemed to be "a thing of the past," but in January, 1906, he broke down completely and a prolonged bed rest followed during which he wrote, "The Golden Rules of Surgery"; his professional publications of all sorts having by this time amounted to one hundred eleven. In a few months he was again strong enough to travel; he and his devoted sister made the last of their European trips in the summer of that year, but during the following spring there came anginal symptoms of ever increasing intensity. May 17, 1907, was his last day outside the house; then while reading aloud to his sister 5 days later he suddenly collapsed and expired in her arms-I had the empty satisfaction of being the first from outside to reach him after he was beyond help. Just as there had been nothing commonplace in his entire career so, too, he died from a ruptured aneurism of the left ventricle; he was then not yet 54 but had surely crowded much of dramatic intensity and spectacular beneficence into that brief span. The last rites, too, were out of the ordinary, to quote from his devoted sister's, "Augustus Charles Bernays, a Memoir": "They were of my own devising. He had casually expressed the wish that friends, and not strange, hired 1 priests, give him the last salute, and so, amidst a great concourse of those to whom the name and the form of A. C. Bernays had been the synonym of high scientific and humanitarian ideals, F. W. Lehmann, jurist, and Dr. Carl Barck, physician, loyal friends of long standing, spoke of his life and of his service with the sincerity and the simplicity that were befitting. Then his body was committed to the flames." He was an ardent admirer of Colonel Ingersoll whom he had known personally and whose belief he shared to the end, so immortality must for him have meant the propagation of himself through that youthful group in whom his pride was centered-the Bernays school of surgeons, former assistants to whom he had striven to hand on the torch." Willard Bartlett., 1930, 0, No imprint. (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1948).. Offprint. .. [NOTE: ANY ADDITIONAL ITEM FROM THIS LIST IS POST FREE]. Quarto. 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We took upon ourselves to collate, catalogue, and identify each item in accordance with Beinlich-Seeber or Annual Egyptological Bibliography, in the hope that this collection will prove useful for scholars and collectors alike. Your queries are most welcome] OFP-11, No imprint. (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1948)., 0, Fulcrum Group, 2009. Hard cover. Like New/Very Good. Signed by Author. Signature only by Platt and Ogilby; scarce thus. Signed by Corinne Platt. A collection of narratives and photographs that begins a dialogue about the convergence of past, present and future in our region. This documentary-style collection of photographs and narratives profiles a wide range of prominent figures of the West as they engage in candid discussions about the region and its identity. A diverse group of visionary men and women, they may differ in politics but remain united in their belief that the West requires inspired action if it is going to endure challenges posed by political, cultural, and environmental pressures. Allowing those on each side of the issues to speak freely, this important work tackles such topics as education, recreation, immigration, ranching, alternative energy, wildlife habitat protection, oil and gas extraction, urban development, and water conservation. Exemplifying photography and journalism at its best, Voices of the American West provides a panoramic view of today's evolving West. The collection features Terry Tempest Williams, Stewart Udall, Katie Lee, Dave Foreman, and many others. Corinne Platt is a writer living in the old mining town of Ophir, Colorado. She was formerly an English teacher in Carbondale, Colorado, and is now a freelance writer and lecturer. 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[EAN: 9781555917159], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Fulcrum Publishing], ASPEN|COLORADO|ROARING FORK VALLEY, Jacket, Signed by Corinne Platt. A collection of narratives and photographs that begins a dialogue about the convergence of past, present and future in our region. This documentary-style collection of photographs and narratives profiles a wide range of prominent figures of the West as they engage in candid discussions about the region and its identity. A diverse group of visionary men and women, they may differ in politics but remain united in their belief that the West requires inspired action if it is going to endure challenges posed by political, cultural, and environmental pressures. Allowing those on each side of the issues to speak freely, this important work tackles such topics as education, recreation, immigration, ranching, alternative energy, wildlife habitat protection, oil and gas extraction, urban development, and water conservation. Exemplifying photography and journalism at its best, Voices of the American West provides a panoramic view of today's evolving West. The collection features Terry Tempest Williams, Stewart Udall, Katie Lee, Dave Foreman, and many others. Corinne Platt is a writer living in the old mining town of Ophir, Colorado. She was formerly an English teacher in Carbondale, Colorado, and is now a freelance writer and lecturer. Meredith Ogilby is a freelance photographer and author whose images have been published extensively in Colorado. Her book A Life Well-Rooted: Women of Colorado's Roaring Fork Valley won the Caroline Bancroft History Award for the advancement of Colorado history., Books<

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