Dodd william translator (2 résultats)

FIRST EDITION THUS of Callimachus; FIRST EDITION of Akenside; FIRST EDITION of Green. Three works bound in one volume. Large 4to. (26 x 20 cm). pp.[24]+212+[16]; 5-125+[2]; xii+159+[1]. Contemporary green morocco spine over marbled boards, smooth spine with gilt rules, gilt decoration, and gilt lettering, marbled endpapers. Title page to 'The Pleasures of Imagination' printed in red and black. Engraved vignette to title-pages of 'The Hymns of Callimachus' and 'The Pleasures of Imagination'. The Kinnaird copy, with the armorial bookplate of Lord Kinnaird to the front pastedown with his motto: 'patitur qui vincit'. Books from the Kinnaird library are generally notable for their fine condition. Small tear to inner margin of title-page of 'Callimachus', some light toning and occasional faint spotting, spine a bit wrinkled, all works generally in very good condition and handsomely bound together into a single volume. -Sole edition of this translation of verses by Callimachus, the Hellenist poet-scholar who worked in the library at Alexandria. The Hymns of Callimachus was described after the translator's death as 'upon the whole an agreeable accession to an English classical library' (Monthly Review, 1793). -The Pleasures of the Imagination is a long didactic poem by Mark Akenside, first published in 1744. The first book defines the powers of imagination and discusses the various kinds of pleasure to be derived from the perception of beauty; the second distinguishes works of imagination from philosophy; the third describes the pleasure to be found in the study of man, the sources of ridicule, the operations of the mind, in producing works of imagination, and the influence of imagination on morals. -Poetical parts of the Old Testament is a book by William Green that was published in 1781. It includes newly translated poetical pieces from the Hebrew, along with notes. The book includes the following passages: The Blessing of Noah, Gen. IX The Blessing of Isaac, Gen. XXVII The Blessing of Jacob, Gen. Xlix The Blessing of Moses, Deut. XXXIII The Song of Moses, Exod. XV Deut. XXXII Of Deborah, Judg. V Of Isaiah, Chap. V Of the Jews, XXV.…

Early printing, but not the first, of the first edition. xxxviii, 280 pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth with black and red stamping. Very Good+ with foxing and a few small stains to cloth, slight lean. Lacking dust jacket. An uncommon English translation of The Handbook of Hitler Youth, apparently penned by Fritz Brennecke (although uncredited) for the indoctrination of the Nazi Party's youth organization-- seven million strong at the time of publication. It was published in the lead-up to WWII to elucidate Nazi concepts of race (based on eugenics, skull shapes, and Mendelian heredity), politics (fascism, antisemitism, anti-masonry, and anticommunism) and lebensraum ( or "living space," the belief in a new German empire incorporating large swaths of the globe) to Americans, who were still overwhelmingly reluctant to enter into another war after WWI. It remains one of the best summaries of official Nazi propaganda pre-WWII.…