Search Results: Authors starting with B from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

Bruxelles et Paris: Librairie Nationale d'Art et d'Histoire, 1913 Folio (37 cm), [6], VIII, 6 pp, 56 plates. Loose in cloth backed folder.

The British Library, 1990 4to (27.5 cm), 64 pp, 51 plates. Laminated wrappers (wrappers little faded, inscription on the half-title). From the blurb: "The Bedford Hours is one of Britain's major treasures. An outstanding example of late medieval manuscript art, it was written and illuminated in the early 15th century for John, Duke of Bedford, younger brother of King Henry V, and his wife, Anne of Burgundy. The principal artist of the leading Parisian workshop in which it was produced takes his name, the 'Bedford Master' from his English patron. Expertly planned and professionally executed, the Bedford Hours is celebrated for the enormous range of its pictorial scheme, with many superb large miniatures in brilliant colours, and almost 1250 exquisite marginal details. Here Janet Backhouse examines the overall design of the Hours, discussing the historical background to its production and ownership, with 60 colour and black-and-white plates showing full pages and details beautifully… Read More

Oxford : Phaidon, 1979 4to (29 cm), 80 pp, 70 plates (28 in color). Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (small scratch to the front of dj, internally fine). Inscribed by the author to John Rowlands, his bookplate. The seventy manuscripts represented in this book, from Lindisfarne Gospels to the Diogo Homem's Atlas (mid 16th century), span almost nine hundred years of European art history. The technicalities of manuscript production are clearly explained. But it is the illuminations themselves and their variety both in style and content that are so amazing.

London: Folio Society, 1971 8vo (22 cm), front. in printed in color, 256 pp, 12 b&w plates. Publisher's leather backed cloth boards and slip-case. Edited with an Introduction by Roger Lockyer. Beautifully printed history of King Henry VII of England by one of the great luminaries of English scholarship, a masterpiece, influence of which on English history has been enduring. The standard text was edited by J. Rawson Lumby and published by Cambridge University Press in 1881.

Amsterdam: Landshoff, 1974 Oblong 4to (27 x 32 cm), 200 pp. Laminated wrappers.

Lwów: Zakł. Graf. Piller - Neumanna, 1928 4to (34 cm), 22 pp, 21 plates. In publisher’s folder (folder little frayed at extremities, old stamp on the title, bookplate). In Polish. Watermarks from the Lviv chancery books 1382-1600. Limited to 350 copies, this is no. 65.

Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1962 8vo (21 cm), X, 214 pp, plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the blurb: "In this volume Sir Edward Bailey describes life and work of Scottish geologist Charles Lyell (1797-1875), showing, how by his many excursion in Britain, Europe and North America, Lyell gained a wide and varied personal knowledge of the features of the landscape. Lyell's chief work, the 'Principles of Geology', which attempted to explain the changes of the earth's surface in pas ages be reference to causes operating at the present day, had a profound affect on scientific thought in th 19th century. This work is described in detail and Lyell's other contributions to the study of the earth are analyzed and their importance assesed."

Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1962 8vo (21 cm), X, 214 pp, plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the blurb: "In this volume Sir Edward Bailey describes life and work of Scottish geologist Charles Lyell (1797 - 1875)., showing, how by his many excursion in Britain, Europe and North America, Lyell gained a wide and varied personal knowledge of the features of the landscape. Lyell's chief work, the 'Principles of Geology', which attempted to explain the changes of the earth's surface in pas ages be reference to causes operating at the present day, had a profound affect on scientific thought in th 19th century. This work is described in detail and Lyell's other contributions to the study of the earth are analyzed and their importance assesed."

Rizzoli, 1984 4to (30.5 cm), 299 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear). "For this book the distinguished Italian photographer Liberto Perugi has made a complete photographic record of Michelangelo's surviving works which amounts to an independent critical essay of the highest quality." (from the blurb)

Kyiv: Radians'ka shkola, 1948 8o (22 cm), [4], 216 pp. Publisher's cloth backed boards (faint number on the upper board, library stamp on the title, some browning of end-papers but fresh unused copy). Ukrainian translation of the Banach's classic monograph on the linear metric spaces, the foundation work of functional analysis. The book was published in 1931 in Polish under the title "Teorja Operacyj. Operacje Linjowe" and in 1932 in French ("Théorie des opérations linéaires" as the first volume of "Monografie Matematyczne" series). Included Banach's photograph and his biography.

New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1958 4to (31 cm), V, 40 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj frayed at extremities, parts of paper missing, binding little scuffed, interior fine). Review copy with a slip tipped in front end-paper. Printed on strong paper. A book to delight amateur craftsmen undertaking their own binding and repairing, and everyone who is interested in bookbinding as a hobby. A minimum of text and almost 200 carefully laid out photographs and drawings enable the reader to learn the procedures for each of six different styles of binding.

Warszawa: Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1958 2 volumess 8vo (24 cm), 448 pp; 120 pp. Publisher's cloth (canceled library stamps). Copernicus' bibliography up to 1971. The second volume was published in 1973.

BOSZ, 2010 4to (30 cm), 336 pp. Publisher's boards and dust jacket. Printed in color. An introduction by Zbigniew Brzezinski. "Three different, yet complementary points of view coincide in this book, to tell the story of Polish diplomacy. Acknowledged authorities on the subject, Marek K. Barański, Teresa Chynczewska-Hennel and Andrzej Szwarc, present the main directions and strategies defining Polish foreign policy since the birth of the Nation, to the year 1918, when Poland regained independence. The richly illustrated book contains a great variety of reproductions of valuable documents, works of art, treasures of national heritage and photographs of Polish historical landmarks. The unique graphic design was created by prof. Maciej Buszewicz." (from the publisher's description)

Waddeson Manor: The Rothschild Foundation, 2013 2 volumes 4to (31 cm), 520, [64] pp; [6] pp, PP. 521-1161. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the blurb: "The outstanding collection of late 17th- and 18th-century books, together with their sumptuous bindings, built up by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild in the last 20 years of the 19th century, match his other extraordinary collections (covered by earlier catalogues in the series), and is among the best of its kind outside Paris. This catalogue reveals for the first time the riches of his book collection. The 790 books reflect Baron Ferdinand’s interests as a refined connoisseur and amateur historian. Not interested in first editions or rare texts, he collected instead books with a distinguished provenance, those with magnificent bindings and ones illustrated by celebrated artists. Many of these also related to his interest in the history of this period, documenting social culture, costume, travel, architecture and, in particular,… Read More

Walker Books, 2005 4to (30 x 26 cm), 360 pp. Publisher's boards and dust jacket (dj little rubbed at extremities). "Head of Map Collections at the British Library, Peter Barber has here compiled an historic and lavish atlas, charting the progress of civilization as our knowledge of the world expanded. Simply organized as a progression through time, The Map Book collects some 175 maps that span four millennia - from the famed prehistoric Bedolina (Italy) incision in rock from around 1500 B.C. to the most modern, digitally enhanced rendering. Many of the maos are beautiful works of art in their own right." (from the publisher's synopsis)

Laterza, 2006 8vo (21 cm), XVIII, 333, [17] pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear). From the blurb: "Un mondo che si considera prospero e civile, segnato da disuguaglianze e squilibri al suo interno, ma forte di unamministrazione stabile e di uneconomia integrata; allesterno, popoli costretti a sopravvivere, minacciati dalla fame e dalla guerra, e che sempre più spesso chiedono di entrare; una frontiera militarizzata per filtrare profughi e immigrati; e autorità di governo che debbono decidere volta per volta il comportamento da tenere verso queste emergenze. Potrebbe sembrare una descrizione del nostro mondo, e invece è la situazione in cui si trovò per secoli limpero romano di fronte ai barbari."

Dawson Publishing, 1978 8vo (22.5 cm), [8], 194 pp. Publisher's cloth. A bibliography of an English poet, surgeon and clergymanGeorge Crabbe (1754-1832). Included works published during Crabbe's lifetime, all subsequent editions (British and American); Letters, Sermons, etc; Bibliographical notes and bibliographies; Critical reviews and studies.

London: The British Library, 2003 8vo (23.5 cm), XIV, 514 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Nicolas Barker, OBE FBA, has made many contributions to the study of the book. In celebration of his 70th birthday, the British Library has published a selection of his essays that show the range of his interests in a number of related fields: books and texts; books and people; typography and early printing; the history of the book; bookselling; and forgery. None of these essays has previously been reprinted and collectively they offer a series of authoritative insights into various aspects of the book as physical and cultural artifact. The collection is prefaced by an introduction by Alan Bell, former Librarian of the London Library.

Ipswich: W. S. Cowell, 1969 8vo (21.5 cm), 40 pp. Publisher's cloth. Limited to 800 copies, this no. 683. A Radio Portrait of an influential British typographer and historian of printing Stanley Morison (1889-1967) compiled from recollections by T.F. Burns, Arthur Crook, Francis Meynell, John Carter, Brooke Crutchley, Graham Pollard, Janet & Reynolds Stone, Beatrice Warde.

London: Printed for presentation to the Roxburghe Club, and published by Bernard Quaritch, 1977 4to (28 cm), xviii, 415 pp, 24 plates, folding genealogical chart. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered spine, t.e.g. (spine little sunned). A history of a library built by Alexander Lindsay (1812-1880) and his son Ludovic Lindsay (1847-1913), 25th and 26th earls of Crawford. Bibliotheca Lindesiana, as the library was known, over 70 years, from the early 1830s to the turn of the century, at its fullest extent, comprised over 100,000 printed books, tens of thousands of documents and six thousand manuscripts. "Bibliotheca Lindesiana was a vision of the human intellect, an ideal too high for any man to achieve, but one to which two men, father and son, both remarkable attainments, came closer than anyone else, before or since." (from the Preface)