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Tolerance / by Hendrik Willem van Loon.
LIBRA BR1610 .V3
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, 1882-1944.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Toleration.
- Penn Provenance:
- Harriman, Karl Edwin, 1875-1935 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, 1882-1944 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 399 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Boni & Liveright, 1925.
- Contents:
- The tyranny of ignorance
- The Greeks
- The beginning of restraint
- The twilight of the gods
- Imprisonment
- The pure of life
- The inquisition
- The curious ones
- The war upon the printed word
- Concerning the writing of history in general and this book in particular
- Renaissance
- The Reformation
- Erasmus
- Rabelais
- New signboards for old
- The Anabaptists
- The Sozzini family
- Montaigne
- Arminius
- Bruno
- Spinoza
- The new Zion
- The Sun King
- Frederick the Great
- Voltaire
- The Encyclopedia
- The intolerance of revolution
- Lessing
- Tom Paine
- The last hundred years.
- Notes:
- "Copyright 1925 by Boni & Liveright, Inc."
- Burgundy cloth boards with blue panel on spine lettered and decorated in gilt.
- Local Notes:
- Title page printed in light blue and black.
- Culture Class Collection copy front endpaper includes hand-drawn picture of person burning at a stake. Inscribed by author "Plus que ça change, Plus c'est la même chose. Sorry Mr. Harriman that this book cost you such a lot of money but-- all the same-- Thank you! Hendrik Willem Van Loom, 25/IXXVII."
- Culture Class Collection copy is "Seventh printing, August, 1926".
- Culture Class Collection copy has unopened leaves.
- OCLC:
- 1438458
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