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Kuldip Nayar
Kuldip Nayar (1923-2018)

politician, journalist, diplomat, columnist

  • Medill School of Journalism, Forman Christian College

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Cross-border talks
Without fear
In jail
India House
Wall at Wagah
The martyr
Scoop!
Between the lines
Supersession of judges
Khāsa ḵẖabara!
India after Nehru
India, the critical years
Report on Afghanistan
The judgement
Tragedy of Punjab
Distant neighbours
David Hunter Strother
David Hunter Strother (1816-1888)

illustrator, topographer, diplomat

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A Virginia Yankee in the Civil War
Porte Crayon sampler
The capital of West Virginia and the Great Kanawha Valley
Porte Crayon's Mexico
Porte Crayon's Mexico
Virginia illustrated
A Virginia Yankee in the Civil War
Traveling through time
Batteaux
The Old South illustrated
North Carolina illustrated
Historical address delivered by Gen. David Hunter Strother at Berkeley Springs, W. Va
Marcin Kromer
Marcin Kromer (1511-1589)

diplomat, historian, music theorist, Catholic priest, philologist, Catholic bishop

  • Jagiellonian University, University of Bologna

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Mowa na pogrzebie Zygmunta I oraz, O pochodzeniu i o dziejach Polaków
Musicae elementa
Musica figurata
Historyja prawdziwa o przygodzie żałosnej książęcia finlandzkiego Jana i królewny polskiej Katarzyny
Martini Cromeri De origine et rebus gestis Polonorum libri XXX
Musicae elementa
Historyja prawdziwa o przygodzie żałosnej książęcia finlandzkiego Jana i królewny polskiej Katarzyny
Marcin Kromer i jego czasy (1512-1589)
Polonia
Polska
Rozmowy dworzanina z mnichem (1551-1554)
Historyja prawdziwa o przygodzie żałosnej ksia̦że̦cia Finlandzkiego Jana i królewny Polskiej Katarzyny
Marcina Kromera ... o sprawach, dzieiach y wszystikich inszych potocznościach koronnych polskich
De falsa Lutheranorum; sive, Evangelicorum nostri temporis et vera Christi religione libri duo, primi... polonica lingua... conscriptis..., nunc recens latina lingua donati & aucti
Mitnächtischer Völckern Historien
Marćina Kromera Biskupa Warmienskiego, O sprawach, dzieiach, y wszytkich inszych potocznosciach koronnych polskich, kśiąg XXX
A notable example of Gods vengeance, vppon a murdering king
Martini Cromeri De origine et rebvs gestis Polonorvm libri XXX. tertiv̀m ab avthore diligenter recogniti ...
De falsa nostri temporis, et vera Christi religione
William Caxton
William Caxton (1421-1492)

linguist, translator, publisher, diplomat, printer

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Legenda aurea
A Treasury of Christmas Classics
Dialogues in French and English
The fifteen O's and other prayers
Prologues and epilogues
Prefaces and prologues to famous books
Eneydos
Vocabulary in French and English
Selections from William Caxton
Lyf Of The Noble And Crysten Prynce, Charles The Grete
Caxton's Book of Curtesye
Golden Legend, or, Lives of the Saints; Volume 3
The history of Reynard the Fox
Authors of the Middle Ages: English Writers of the Late Middle Ages
The Tracts Of Clement Maydeston
Caxton's advertisement
Booke of Ovyde Named Metamorphose
Story of Queen Anelida and the False Arcite
Revival
Booke of Ovyde Named Methamorphose
The Golden Legend; Lives of the Saints
The Golden Legend
Caxton
The Golden Legend; Or, Lives of the Saints
William Caxton's prologues and epilogues
Here Begynneth a Lityll Treatise Spekynge of the Arte and Crafte to Knowe Well to Dye
Caxton's Aesop
Le Morte Darthur
Game And Playe of the Chesse
If it plese ony man spirituel or temporel to bye ony pyes of two and thre comemoracio[n]s of saliburi vse ..
Caxton's Book Of Courtesy
The Fables of Aesop
The fifteen O's and other prayers
Caxton's Blanchardyn and Eglantine c. 1489
Game and Playe of the Chesse (A Verbatim Reprint of the First Edition, 1474)
Golden Legend
The history of Reynard the Fox, his friends and his enemies, his crimes, hairbreadth escapes and final triumph; a metrical version of the old English translation
Le Morte Darthur; The History of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table
Game and Playe of the Chesse
Fables of Aesop, As First Printed by William Caxton in 1484, with Those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio, Now Again Edited and Induced by Joseph Jacobs; Volume 2
Caxton's own prose
Le Morte d'Arthur
Selections
Paris and Vienne
The Legendary History of the Cross
Game and Playe of the Chesse
Ars Moriendi
Vocabulary in French and English
W. Caxtons Infantia salvatoris
The Golden Legend
Ars Moriendi
The Churl and the Bird
Charlemagne and the Admiral of Spain
Morte D'arthur
Three sermons for Nova Festa, together with the Hamus Caritatis
Dialogues in French and English
Godeffroy of Boloyne; or, the Siege and Conqueste of Jerusalem
Morte Darthur; the History of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table
Morte d'Arthur. Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table. the Text of Caxton, Edited, with an Introd. by Sir Edward Strachey
The Golden Legend
Fables of Aesop, As First Printed by William Caxton in 1484, with Those of Avian, Alfonso and Po
The mirrour of the world
The booke of Raynarde the Foxe
Fifteen 0's
The lyf of the noble and Crysten prynce, Charles the Grete
Wm. Caxton's Prologues and epilogues
Morte Darthur
The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers. A Facsimile Reproduction of the First Book Printed in England by William Caxton in 1477
Morte Darthur; Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and His Noble Knights of the Round Table
The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troy; Volume 1
History of Reynard the Fox
Caxton's Eneydes, 1490
Game and Playe of the Chesse
Caxton's mirrour of the world
Dialogues in French and English
Aus Caxtons vorreden und nachworten
The Prologue and Epilogues of William Caxton (Eets, Os Series : No 176)
Renaud of Montauban
Renaud of Montauban
Quattuor sermones
The Doctrinal of sapience
Revival : Caxton's History of Jason
Caxton's Eneydos 1490
The subtyl historyes and fables of Esope
History of Reynard the Fox
Ars moriendi
The history of Reynard the Fox
Tulle of olde age
The Right Plesaunt and Goodly Historie of the Foure Sonnes of Aymon
Morte d'Arthur : King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table : Volume 1 and II
The lyf of the noble and Crysten prynce
In the state of innocensye
The history of Reynard the Fox
A reprint in facsimile of a treatise spekynge of the arte & crafte to knowe well to dye
Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round ..
[Fragments of "Chronicles"]
Caxton's Mirrour of the world
Caxton and Daniel selections
Caxton's mirrour of the world
Sayings of the Philosophers
Paris and Vienne
The right plesaunt and goodly historie of the foure sonnes of Aymon
The Tracts of Clement Maydeston: With the Remains of Caxton's Ordinale
Prefaces and prologues to famous books
The Book of Fayttes of Armes and of Chyalrye (Early English Text Society (Series). Original Series, 189.)
The historye of Reynart the Foxe (1489)
[Here begynneth the hystorye of reinard the foxe]
The history of Reynard the Fox
The fables of Esope
The dictes and sayings of the philosophers
Isoppu gūwashū
Godeffroy of Boloyne, Or, the Siege and Conqueste of Jerusalem (Early English Text Society (Series). Extra Series, 64.)
Caxton's Blanchardyn and Eglantine C. 1489: From Lord Spencer's Unique Imperfect Copy, Completed ..
Parvus Cato, magnus Cato
The booke of Raynarde the Foxe
The right plesaunt and goodly historie of the foure sonnes of Aymon
Here begynnneth a lityll treatise spekynge of the arte & crafte
The history of Reynard the Fox
The Descrypcyon of Englonde
Prefaces and prologues to famous books
The lyf of the noble and Crysten prynce, Charles the Grete
The history of Reynard the Fox
[Here begynneth the book of The subtyl historyes and fables of Esope ...]
The history of Reynard the Foxe
Caxton's Blanchardyn and Eglantine, c. 1489
Barlaam & Josaphat
The Lyf of Seynt Kenelme, kynge and martir
The history and Fables of Aesop
Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and His Noble Knights of the Round ..
Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble ..
Caxton's Blanchardyn and Eglantine c. 1489. ?h [microform]
The Game of Chesse
The History of Reynard the Fox: With Some Account of His Family, Friends ..
Caxton's advertisement
Caxton's Blanchardyn and Eglantine c. 1489
Biblia pauperum
Paris and Vienne
The helthe of mannes sowle
The fables of Esope
Paris and Vienne
Branislav Nušić
Branislav Nušić (1864-1938)

journalist, playwright, civil servant, diplomat, poet lawyer

  • University of Belgrade Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade

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Autobiografija
Autobiografija
Devetsto petnaesta
Svet
Pučina
Svet
Kosovo
Sabrana dela Branislava Nušića
Gospođa ministarka
S Kosova na sinje more
Izabrana dela
Narodni poslanik
Three comedies
Sumnjivo lice
Opštinsko dete
I︠U︡moristicheskie rasskazy
S Kosova na sinje more
Narodni poslanik ; Sumnjivo lice
Odabrane komedije
Beogradska čaršija
Stari Beograd
Narodni poslanik ; Sumnjivo lice
Dela Branislava Nušića
Neznani i malo znani spisi
Listići ispisani u Požarevačkom kaznenom zavodu 1888. god
Pripovetke
Dela
Sabrana dela
Odabrane komedije
Predgovor
Narodni poslanik
Retorika
Narodni poslanik
Dela
Eduard Vilde
Eduard Vilde (1865-1933)

diplomat, journalist, humorist, politician

  • Tallinn Kreis School

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V gosti︠a︡kh u krymskikh ėstont︠s︡ev
Mahtra sôda
Jack Brown
Estonian short stories
Reisikirjeldused
Kui Anija mehed Tallinnas käisid
Milkman of the manor
Ärapõletatud peigmehed ja vigased pruudid
Prohvet Maltsvet
Kui unija mehed käisid Tallinas
Raudsed käed
Jutustused
Kui tuli tähendus
Mäeküla piimamees
Külmale maale
Lunastus
Na zare
Pisuhänd
Aufruhr in Machtra
Voĭna v Makhtra
Kaak
Mahtra sõda
Reginald Johnston
Reginald Johnston (1874-1938)

diplomat, Hofmeister, sinologist

  • University of Edinburgh, University of Oxford

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Twilight in the Forbidden City
Confucianism and modern China
From Peking to Mandalay
From Peking to Mandalay
A Chinese appeal to Christendom concerning Christian missions
Lion and dragon in northern China
Twilight in the forbidden city
Buddhist China
Lion and dragon in northern China
Letters to a missionary
A Chinese appeal to Christendom concerning Christian mission
The Chinese drama
From Peking to Mandalay
Lion and dragon in northern China
Zi jin cheng de huang hun
Remarks on the province of Shantung
Count Francis Lützow
Count Francis Lützow (1849-1916)

historian, diplomat, aristocrat, politician, translator

  • University of Vienna

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The life & times of Master John Hus
The life & times of Master John Hus
Bohemia
Lectures on the historians of Bohemi
A history of Bohemian literature
The story of Prague
Lectures on the historians of Bohemia
The Story of Prague
The life & times of Master John Hus
A history of Bohemian literature
A history of Bohemian literatur
The life & times of Master Jan Hus
The story of Prague
Bohemia
A history of Bohemian literature
The life and times of Master John Hus
The Hussite wars
The Hussite wars
Bohemia, an historical sketch
A history of Bohemian literature
Lectures on the historians of Bohemia
The story of Prague
A history of Bohemian literature
Bohemia
The old town hall of Prague
The Hussite wars
The story of Prague
The life & times of Master John Hus
Bohemia