Montefiore leonard 1853 (3 risultati)

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Presentation copy from the author's wife with her presentation slip mounted to ffep. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown. Mounted card with text in Hebrew facing half-title. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 345 pages; Physical description: lxii, 345 p ; 20 cm. Notes: "In memoriam." --half-title. Subjects: Montefiore, Leonard A., 1853-1879 -- Essays -- Europe -- Politics and government -- 19th century. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Presentation copy from the author's wife with her presentation slip mounted to ffep. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown. Mounted card with text in Hebrew facing half-title. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 345 pages; Physical description: lxii, 345 p ; 20 cm. Notes: "In memoriam." --half-title. Subjects: Montefiore, Leonard A., 1853-1879 -- Essays -- Europe -- Politics and government -- 19th century. 1 Kg. …

orig. cloth. 20x13cm, xii,345 pages., A small tear to spine. "Leonard Montefiore: Posthumous collection of essays by the grandson of the brother of Moses Montefiore. Leonard A. Montefiore, "English author and philanthropist; brother of Claude G. Montefiore; born in London May 4, 1853; died at Newport Sept. 6, 1879; educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he came under the influence of Jowett, T. H. Green, and of his fellow student Arnold Toynbee. Even before he left college he had contributed to some of the principal periodicals, as "The Nineteenth Century" and "The Fortnightly Review," and was at the time of his death devoting himself to the study of the German struggle for emancipation, on which he published some preliminary essays. Montefiore was associated with many philanthropic movements, especially with the movement for women's emancipation. His "Literary Remains" were privately printed by his family after his death (1880)" - Jewish Encyclopedia. [Contents: Memoir; Politics:Liberty in Germany; Alsace-Lorraine since 1871. Letters to the "Times" on Freedom in Germany; Literature: Heine in Relation to Religion and Politics;New translations of Heine's Poems; Mr. Hayward's Göthe; Seeley's "Life and Times of Stein"; Treischke's "German Hiistory in the XIX th Century"; Joseph Johann Görres; Social and Miscellaneous Essays: The Socialists of Oneida; A new "Song of the Spirit"; Working Women; The Position of Women in the Labour- Market; A Visit to a Jewish Home; Undergraduate Oxford; My Cousin Ethel; In a Boarding-House; Boarding Out; The Art Museum at Berlin. Some rubbing. Some cover soil. Good.…