Wild life among the Koords /

Illustrated title page, with ruled border and title in red and black.

Die anfänge der hellenischen kultur. Homer,

Title in red and black.

Philosophical, medical, and experimental essays ... /

Contiene: I. On the state of the population in Manchester, and other adjacent places -- II. On the proportional mortality of the small pox and measles, in the several periods of life, and different seasons of the year; together with its comparative fatality to males and females -- III. On the different quantities of rain which fall, at different heights, over the same spot of ground -- IV. On the solution of stones of the urinary and of the gall bladder, by water impregnated with fixed air -- V. On the nature and composition of urinary calculi -- VI. On the internal regulation of hospitals -- VII. On the influence of fixed air on the colours and vegetation of plants -- VIII. On the action of different manures -- IX. On the properties of different absorbents -- X. Miscellaneous observations, cases, and inquiries.

Le Parthénon; l'histoire, l'architecture et la sculpture,

Written to accompany his volume of 136 plates with the same title.

Der Grosse Kurfürst,

Title in red and black.

Das Leben und die gantz ungemeine Begebenheiten des Weltberühmten Engelländers Robinson Crusoe ... Von ihm selbst beschrieben,

"Nachwort des Herausgebers" signed: Hermann Ullrich.

Dave Porter at Star ranch, or, The cowboy's secret /

Bound in green ; stamped in red, gray, and black.

Calendarium sanctorum & historiarum : das ist, Einbesonderetägliche Hauss und Kirchen historia ... /

Title in red and black.

Histoire des chevaliers hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jerusalem : appellez depuis chevaliers de Rhodes, et aujourd'hui chevaliers de Malthe /

Also issued in the same year in a 5 v. edition.

Histoire des chevaliers hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jerusalem, appellez depuis chevaliers de Rhodes, et aujourd'hui chevaliers de Malthe.

Duodecimo edition. Also issued in the same year in a 4 v. quarto edition.

Sir Courtly Nice: or, It cannot be; a comedy, as it was acted by Her Majesty's servants. /

No. 5 of a volume of pamphlets with spine title: Etherege. Old plays, v. 43.

Schlegel's German-American families in the United States; genealogical and biographical, illustrated.

Title in red and black.

Le Roman comique de Scarron /

"Notices explicatives mises au-dessous de chaque planche."

Friendship in fashion. : A comedy. /

Head-pieces and tail-piece; initials.

Spectacular Disappearances : Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801 /

How can the modern individual control his or her self-representation when the whole world seems to be watching? This question is a familiar one amid the the twenty-first century's architecture of 24-hour newsrooms, chat rooms and interrogation rooms, but this book traces this question back to the stages, the pages, and the streets of eighteenth-century London--and to the strange and spectacular self-representations performed there by England's first modern celebrities. These self-representations include the enormous wig that the actor, manager, and playwright Colley Cibber donned in his most famous comic role as Lord Foppington--and that later reappeared on the head of Cibber's cross-dressing daughter, Charlotte Charke. They include the black page of 'Tristram Shandy,' a memorial to the parson Yorick (and his author Laurence Sterne), a page so full of ink that it cannot be read. And they include the puffs and prologues that David Garrick used to hiehgten his publicity while protecting his privacy; the epistolary autobiography, modeled on the sentimental novel, of Garrick's protégée George Anne Bellamy; and the elliptical poems and portraits of the poet, actress, and royal courtesan Mary Robinson, known throughout her life as Perdita. Linking all of these representations is a quality that Fawcett terms "over-expression." 'Spectacular Disappearances' theorizes over-expression as the unique quality that allows celebrities to meet their spectators' demands for disclosure without giving themselves away. Like a spotlight so brilliant it is blinding, these exaggerated but illegible self-representations suggest a new way of understanding some of the key aspects of celebrity culture, both in the eighteenth century and today. They also challenge many of the disciplinary divides between theatrical character and novelistic character in eighteenth-century studies, or between performance studies and literary studies today. Drawing on a wide variety of materials and methodologies, 'Spectacular Disappearances' provides an overlooked but indispensable history for scholars and students of celebrity studies, performance studies, and autobiography--as well as to anyone curious about the origins of the eighteenth-century self.