Search Results: Authors starting with A from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

De Buitenkant, 2017 8vo (24 cm), 1492 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. A catalogue of authors' collections of Jewish bookplates. 1700 bookplates are described and illustrated. The volume opens with an extensive introduction describing the history of the Dutch bookplate tradition and the remarkable role played by Jews. In Dutch with the Summary in English.

Inter Documentation, 1970 8vo (21 cm), [8], VI, 171 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj little frayed at extremities, small tear at the top near the spine).

Harvard University Press, 2007 8vo (24 cm), XI, 304 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the blurb: "The rise of global financial markets in the last decades of the twentieth century was premised on one fundamental idea: that capital ought to flow across country borders with minimal restriction and regulation. Freedom for capital movements became the new orthodoxy. In an intellectual, legal, and political history of financial globalization, Rawi Abdelal shows that this was not always the case. Transactions routinely executed by bankers, managers, and investors during the 1990s - trading foreign stocks and bonds, borrowing in foreign currencies - had been illegal in many countries only decades, and sometimes just a year or two, earlier. How and why did the world shift from an orthodoxy of free capital movements in 1914 to an orthodoxy of capital controls in 1944 and then back again by 1994? How have such standards of appropriate behavior been codified and transmitted internationally?… Read More

Cornell University Press, 1983 8vo (21.5 cm), XVIII, 353 pp. Laminated wrappers (canceled stamp of an institutional library on the title). This book argues that history and sociology share the same vital preoccupation: the desire to unravel the puzzle of human agency. How do large-scale social transformations occur, and what is the role of the individual in them? Phil Abrams devotes three chapters to the development of industrialism and scrutinizes, in that connection, the theories of Marx, Weber, and Durkheim. Subsequent chapters consider Talcott Parsons and the debate on "convergence"; the formation of "states"; the idea of the "event" as a legitimate concern of history and sociology; individuals and sociological generations; deviancy and revolution; and a final chapter on the limits of historical sociology.

The MIT Press, 1992 4to (28.5 cm), X, 318 pp. Publisher's cloth. "Poet, gardener, and moralist, Ian Hamilton Finlay is also an artist of international stature whose remarkable originality blurs the traditional genre distinctions between painting, sculpture, and architecture. Ian Hamilton Finlay: A Visual Primer will be an indispensable source for readers interested in any aspect of his work. Representing Finlay as both a visual artist and a poet, it brings together the widest range of printed texts, photographs, and environmental work yet assembled to provide a comprehensive overview of his achievements. Finlay became known in the 1960s as Britain's foremost concrete poet and promoted this movement through his Wild Hawthorn Press, which he continues to operate. Yet he is best known for his garden at Stonypath in Lanarkshire, Scotland, one of the most celebrated of modern gardens. "Little Sparta," as the garden is now called, is an inland island constantly transformed with… Read More

Yale University Press, 1994 8vo (20.5 cm), VIII, 152 pp. Laminated wrappers (canceled stamp of an institutional library on the title). From the blurb "Since 1989, the Cold War has ended, new nations have emerged in Eastern Europe, and revolutionary struggles to establish liberal ideals have been waged against repressive governments throughout the world. Will the promise of liberalism be realized? What can liberals do to make the most of their opportunities and construct enduring forms of political order? In this important and timely book, a leading political theorist discusses the possibility of liberal democracy in Western and Eastern Europe and offers practical suggestions for its realization. Bruce Ackerman begins by sketching the challenges faced a Western Europe free for the first time in half a century to determine its own fate without the constant intervention of the United States and the Soviet Union. Unless decisive steps are taken, this moment of promise can degenerate into a new cycle… Read More

Cambridge University Press, 1967 2 volumes 4to (26 cm), VIII, 768 pp; [4], 795 pp, errata loosely inserted. Publisher's green cloth, spines gilt, top edges painted green (bindings little rubbed, little foxing to fore-edges). Not all 16th century books printed on the continent of Europe are in Cambridge library but the work is the most important reference to them.

McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 1995 8vo (23.5 cm), XVI, 410 pp. Laminated wrappers (canceled stamp of an institutional library on the title). This text provides an overview of current developments, a brief historical study of post-Tsarist Russia, an examination of modern Soviet politics and political change, and an analysis of the prospects for a future of democracy, capitalism and nation-building in the former Soviet Union.

Harvard University Press, 1988 12mo (17 cm), xxiii, 528, 8 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "Aeschines, orator and statesman of Athens, 390 or 389–14 BCE, became active in politics about 350. In 348 he was a member of a mission sent to the Peloponnese to stir up feeling against the growing power of king Philip of Macedon; but in 347, when part of a peace-making embassy to Philip, was won over to sympathy with the king, and became a supporter of the peace policy of the Athenian statesman Eubulus. On a second embassy in 346 to ratify a peace Aeschines’s delaying tactics caused the famous orator Demosthenes and Timarchus to accuse him of treason, a charge which he successfully rebutted in the strong extant speech Against Timarchus. In 344–3, when Demosthenes accused him again in a speech, Aeschines replied in the fine extant speech having the same title On the False Embassy and was again acquitted. In 336, when Ctesiphon proposed that Demosthenes should be awarded a crown… Read More

Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, 1980 Oblong 4to (23 x 30.5 cm), 48 pp. Printed wrappers (wrappers little rubbed, paper toned). Illustrated catalogue of an exhibition held at the The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX September 18 - October 19, 1980. 139 entries.

Battenberg Verlag, 2004 8vo (24.5 cm), 272 pp. Laminated boards.

Yale University Press, 1966 8vo (20.5 cm), 141 pp. Laminated wrappers. Alberti’s Della Pittura was the first modern analytical study of painting, a pioneering treatise on the theory of art. A systematic description of the one-point perspective construction, it was primarily designed to persuade both patron and painter in the Renaissance to discard the old tastes in painting for the new. John R. Spencer's translation of Della Pittura is based on all the known manuscripts and is edited with an Introduction and Notes.

Faton, 1998 2 volumes 4to (31 cm), 354 pp; 210 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jackets, marbled slip-case. Among the large collections of furniture exhibited in Paris, Versailles, New York and other capitals, that of the Louvre is undoubtedly the richest and the most admired. Heir to the royal collections, it has been constantly enriched by a very selective acquisition policy of objects compatible with its prestigious origin. The publication of this collection required the contribution of art historians and an abundant and very high quality iconography. The work was designed and written for the most part by the curators of the Objets d'Art department who are responsible for the furniture of the Louvre museum. "This splendid collection has long awaited a richly illustrated publication that would show its magnificence to best advantage. After looking through this publication, a question comes to mind: does one prefer Boulle or Poussin, Cressent or Watteau, Riesener or David?" (from the… Read More

Jonathan Cape, 1973 4to (28 cm), 72 pp including 28 color plates. Laminated wrapper (little shelf-wear). With verses by William Plomber and nature notes by Richard Fitter.

Chapman and Hall, 1975 8vo (21 cm), 62 pp. Laminated wrappers. This resource booklet contains simple, fun, practical ideas each linked to biomechanical principles.

Yale University Press, 1992 4to (28 cm), VIII, 214 pp. Laminated wrappers. A classical survey of European manuscript illumination from the fourth to the sixteen century. Illustrating his discussion with examples from all over Europe, Jonathan Alexander discusses the social and historical contexts of the illuminators' lives, considers their methods of work, and shows the range and nature of their visual sources and the ways in which they were adapted, copied or created anew.

Prestel, 1994 4to (30 cm), 280 pp. Laminated wrappers. The catalogue of an exhibition at Royal Academy of Art, London, 27 October 1994 - 24 January 1995 and Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 15 February - 7 May 1995. "This book documents the first comprehensive exhibition of Italian Renaissance illuminations from collections in Europe and the United States. 137 manuscripts, printed books with hand-painted illustrations and single pages are illustrated in full color, ranging from small prayer books to large choir books, and from Greek, Roman, and Italian literature to collections of fables and historical treatises. Many of these volumes were commissioned by powerful wealthy, and discriminating patrons who included members of the ruling Italian families as well as cardinals and popes and many of whom were also prominent bibliophiles. Among other fascinating issues, the mechanics of patronage, patterns of production, and formation of libraries are discussed in three essays and in the catalogue… Read More

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970 4to (28 cm), XXIV, 266 pp, 55 plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the publisher's description: "Mont St. Michel was refounded as a Benedictine community in 966, and a series of manuscripts survives from its scriptorium which makes it possible to trace the development of scripts and illumination for the next 100 years. Important experiments were made, the study of which contributes to our understanding of the origins of Romanesque book painting. The scriptorium was eclectic, using Carolingian, Anglo-Saxon, Ottonian and north French models, but from these it produced its own innovations which were important for the future."

Chatto & Windus, 1977 4to (28 cm), 120 pp. Laminated wrappers. 19 black-and-white illustrations and 40 illustrations in color. Excellent introduction to the Italian Renaissance illuminations.

London: Harvey Miller, 1978 6 parts in 9 volumes 4to (33.5 cm), 219 pp; 243 pp; 235 pp; 276 & 374 pp; 72 pp, [64] ff of plates & 231 pp; 296 pp & 433 pp. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered spines (without dust jackets, bindings little rubbed and scratched, binding of vol. 3 little creased bottom of spine, number stumped on front free end-paper of vol. 2). Complete set comprising: 1. Alexander, J. J. G. Insular Manuscripts 6th-9th Century (1978); 2. Temple, E. Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts 900-1066 (1976); 3. Kauffmann, C. M. Romanesque Manuscripts 1066-1190 (1975); 4. Morgan, N. J. Early Gothic Manuscripts, 1190-1285, 2 vols, 1982-88; 5. Sandler, L. F. Gothic Manuscripts 1285-1385, 2 vols, 1986; 6. Scott, K. L. Later Gothic Manuscripts 1390-1490, 2 vols, 1996. "Conceived originally as a revision of Eric Millar's English Illuminated Manuscripts (1926-28), the scope and plan of this series has altered somewhat. We have retained the idea of listing the most important illuminated… Read More