The Reprint Bulletin

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Category : Out-of-print books
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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The Reprint Bulletin

The Reprint Bulletin PDF Author:
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Category : Out-of-print books
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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Catalog of Reprints in Series

Catalog of Reprints in Series PDF Author:
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Category : Editions
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Sea Monsters

Sea Monsters PDF Author: Joseph Nigg
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226925188
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 161

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The mythic creature expert and author of Phoenix takes readers through a bestiary of sea monsters featured on the famous 16th century map Carta Marina. In the sixteenth century, sea serpents, giant man-eating lobsters, and other monsters were thought to swim the waters of Norther Europe, threatening seafarers who ventured too far from shore. Thankfully, Scandinavian mariners had Olaus Magnus, who in 1539 charted these fantastic marine animals in his influential map of the Nordic countries, the Carta Marina. In Sea Monsters, mythologist Joseph Nigg brings readers face-to-face with these creatures and other magnificent components of Magnus’s map. Nearly two meters wide in total, the map’s nine wood-block panels comprise the largest and first realistic portrayal of the region. But in addition to its important geographic significance, Magnus’s map goes beyond cartography to scenes both domestic and mystic. Close to shore, Magnus shows humans interacting with common sea life—boats struggling to stay afloat, merchants trading, children swimming, and fisherman pulling lines. But from the offshore deeps rise some of the most terrifying sea creatures imaginable—like sea swine, whales as large as islands, and the Kraken. In this book, Nigg draws on Magnus’s own text to further describe and illuminate these inventive scenes and to flesh out the stories of the monsters. Sea Monsters is a stunning tour of a world that still holds many secrets for us land dwellers, who will forever be fascinated by reports of giant squid and the real-life creatures of the deep that have proven to be as bizarre and otherworldly as we have imagined for centuries. It is a gorgeous guide for enthusiasts of maps, monsters, and the mythic. “[A] beautiful new exploration of the Carta Marina.”—Wired

International Books in Print, 1995

International Books in Print, 1995 PDF Author: Barbara Hopkinson
Publisher: K. G. Saur
ISBN: 9783598221316
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1340

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Sources of Chinese Tradition

Sources of Chinese Tradition PDF Author: William Theodore De Bary
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231109383
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1052

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Chronologically presents Chinese civilization, covering antiquity figures such as Confucius, Mencius, and Laozi; the Han dynasty, including readings from the "I Jing"; the development of Buddhism, including Daoism and Mahayana Buddhism; Neo-Confucianism; and thought in late imperial China.

American Bookfinder and Serially American Book Prices Current

American Bookfinder and Serially American Book Prices Current PDF Author:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 552

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Books in Print

Books in Print PDF Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2432

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The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record

The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record PDF Author:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 636

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Children's Books in Print

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Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2006

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The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 4, 1900-1950

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 4, 1900-1950 PDF Author: George Watson
Publisher: CUP Archive
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 746

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More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 4 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.