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Reitschule Fur Damen: Nach Dem Lady\'s Equestrian Manual
Braunschweig, Oehme & Muller, 1839. Hardcover. Brown cloth binding with blind debossed boards and gilt lettering and decoration on the spine. 92 pp. Illustrated throughout. Marbled edges. German. "Riding school for women: after the Lady\'s equestrian manual." A book outlining principles of horsewomanship and proper sidesaddle technique, from general care to jumping. An interesting look into how the German classical riding tradition translated to women who partook of the sport. VG-, some stains on cover and endsheets, foxing throughout, pencil markings on front flyleaf and some wear to front hinge. Still very readable.
Kevin Mullen, Bookseller Professional sellerBook no.: 177902
USD 225,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 195 | £UK 171.25 | JP¥ 34695]
Catalogue: Manners and Customs - European
Keywords: Manners and Customs, Equestrian, Horses ; Equestrian ; ;
Perfume E Maquilagem, Numa Exposição, Museu de Arte de Sao Paolo Assis Chateaubriand
Sao Paulo, Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo, 1978. Hardcover. Pink boards with black lettering and reflective mirror illustration. 119 pp. Color and BW illustrations. Text in Portuguese. It can be said that the history of perfume and make-up is inseparable from the history of customs, since from cave man until our days the use of perfumes and cosmetics is a constant and is part of the daily ritual of life. -First sentence of preface, translated to English. VG, ex-museum library copy with call number label, book plate, and sticker.
Kevin Mullen, Bookseller Professional sellerBook no.: 164011
USD 50,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 43.5 | £UK 38.25 | JP¥ 7710]
Catalogue: Manners and Customs - European
Keywords: Manners and Customs, Perfume, Cosmetics ; Makeup and Perfume ; ; Manners and Customs
The Oriental, the Ancient and the Primitive: Systems of Marriage and the Family in the Pre-Industrial Societies of Eurasia
Cambridge/ New York, Cambridge University Press, 1990. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; red dj with bw illustration; xix, 542 pp; bw maps. In The Oriental, the Ancient and the Primitive one of the world\'s most foremost anthropologists looks in depth at kinship practice in Asia, and continues the comparative survey of pre-industrial family formation undertaken in The Development of Family and Marriage in Europe (1983) and elsewhere. Professor Goody\'s findings cause him to question many traditional assumptions about the \'primitive\' east, and he suggests that, in contrast to pre-colonial Africa, kinship practice in Asia has much in common with that prevailing in parts of pre-industrial Europe. Goody examines the transmission of productive and other property in relation both to the prevailing political economy and to family and ideological structures, and then explores the distribution of mechanisms and strategies of management across cultures. He concludes that notions of western \'uniqueness\' are often misplaced, and that much previous work on Asian kinship has been unwittingly distorted by the application of concepts and approaches derived from other, inappropriate, social formations, simple or post-industrial. -- Back cover. Contents include: Machine derived contents note: List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Preface -- 1. The nature of the enterprise -- Part I. China: 2. The incorporation of women -- 3. The lineage and the conjugal fund -- 4. Differentiation, hierarchical and regional -- 5. Land, polyandry and celibacy in Tibet -- Part II. India: 6. Marriage and the family in Gujarat (with Esther Goody) -- 7. The high and the low -- 8. The North and the South -- 9. Kinship and modes of production -- Part III. The Near East: 10. The abominations of the Egyptians -- 11. Jacob\'s marriages -- 12. Marriage and property in the Arab world -- Part IV. Greece and Rome, Yesterday and Today: 13. The heiress in ancient Greece -- 14. Monogamy, property and control in Rome -- 15. Dowry, continuity and change in the eastern Mediterranean -- 16. Asia and Europe -- Notes -- References -- Index. VG-/VG- (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear to boards and block. Pages are otherwise clean and clear.) .
Kevin Mullen, Bookseller Professional sellerBook no.: 184720
USD 40,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 34.75 | £UK 30.5 | JP¥ 6168]
Catalogue: Manners and Customs - European
Keywords: European Manners and Customs ; Marriage Customs ; ; European Manners and Customs
Good Humor, Bad Taste: A Sociology of the Joke
Berlin, De Gruyter Mouton, 2015. Paperback. Color-illustrated wraps with white lettering. xviii, 282 pp. Illustrations. "Good Humor, Bad Taste is the first extensive sociological study of the relationship between humor and social background. Using a combination of interview materials, survey data, and historical materials, the book explores the relationship between humor and gender, age, social class, and national differences in the Netherlands and the United States. The exploration of social differences in sense of humor starts off from one specific, and not very prestigious, humorous genre: the joke. Good Humor, Bad Taste explains why jokes are good humor to some, bad taste to others."--Jacket. New in shrinkwrap.
Kevin Mullen, Bookseller Professional sellerBook no.: 172090
USD 40,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 34.75 | £UK 30.5 | JP¥ 6168]
Catalogue: Manners and Customs - European
Keywords: European Culture, Dutch Humor ; Dutch Humor ; ; European Culture
A Collection of Modern Entries, or, Select Pleadings in the Courts of King's Bench, Common Please, and Exchequer: To Which Is Added a Collection of Writs in Most Cases Now in Practice: With Two Tables, One of the Names of the Cases, and the Other of the Pleadings and Writs. Volume 2
Dublin, Printed for Burnett, 1792. Hardcover. Full leather over boards; five raised bands on spine; one red and one black applied leather blocks in gilt design in compartments; 328 pp. THIS IS VOLUME 2 ONLY. "First published in 1732 and a standard work for decades, it contains pleadings arranged alphabetically, entries on the rolls of the court and precedents of writs original and judicial" -- website. Fair(front cover is detached and very worn and portions of leather are cracking off at corners and edges; spine and hinges are split and some leather is cracking off; names of previous owners written on front cover and inside front cover; pages are age toned, as expected. Some pages show closed tears; minor damp staining on inside of both front and back covers.) .
Kevin Mullen, Bookseller Professional sellerBook no.: 191257
USD 125,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 108.5 | £UK 95.25 | JP¥ 19275]
Catalogue: Manners and Customs - European
Keywords: British Law ; British CIVIL Procedure ; ; British Law
Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times: In Three Volumes
London, John Darby, 1727. Hardcover. Full leather; Spine with five raised bands; 364 pp.; bw illustrated frontispiece of the author; bw illustration on title page; bw illustrated divisional headpieces. THIS IS VOLUME 1. "Volume 1. A letter concerning enthusiasm -- Sensus communis : an essay on the freedom of wit and humour -- Soliloquy, or advice to an author" -- FirstSearch. Fair(Front cover is missing; back cover is rubbed on edges and faded; some portions of back cover has cracked off at the edges; spine is partially detached from foot end of back cover; spine is faded; title on spine compartment has been rubbed away; pages have some damp staining and age toning; some markings and minor stains in the text throughout; front endpaper torn almost entirely from hinge; pages are clean and lightly age toned, as expected with age) .
Kevin Mullen, Bookseller Professional sellerBook no.: 191288
USD 125,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 108.5 | £UK 95.25 | JP¥ 19275]
Catalogue: Manners and Customs - European
Keywords: Manners, Customs, Ethics ; Manners and Customs -- European ; ; Manners, Customs, Ethics
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