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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to... Read More about A Critical Essay on Oil-Painting; Proving That the Art of Painting in Oil Was Known Before the Pretended Discovery of John and Hubert Van Eyck; To Whi

Baron Munchausen is a fictional German nobleman. The character is loosely based on a real baron, Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr von M nchhausen (1720-1797) Born in Bodenwerder, Electorate of Brunswick-L neburg, the real-life M nchhausen fought for the Russian Empire in the Russo-Turkish War of ... Read More about The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Alan Rodgers Books)

The only available hardcover edition of the fantastical story of the semi-mythical folk hero Baron Munchausen, who has delighted generations of readers all over the world. With a full-cloth, quality hardcover binding, a silk ribbon marker, and gorgeous illustrations by Gustave Dore.Baron Munchausen ... Read More about The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen: Illustrated by Gustave Dore (Everyman's Library Children's Classics Series)

The restored, unbowdlerized text of Raspe’s slapstick travel epic featuring the classic illustrations from Strang & Clark (1895)   No one has journeyed to as many foreign lands as Baron von Munchausen. Nor, when it comes time to fire a cannon, will you find anyone more accurate. The comfort... Read More about The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Neversink)

It is a curious fact that of that class of literature to which Munchausen belongs, that namely of Voyages Imaginaires, the three great types should have all been created in England. Utopia, Robinson Crusoe, and Gulliver, illustrating respectively the philosophical, the edifying, and the satirical ty... Read More about The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen