Search Results: Authors starting with C from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1963 8vo (22 cm), front., XXII, 305 pp, plates. Publiisher's cloth (binding stained, ex-library with usual marks and stamps). Included Catherine the Great, Lord Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace, Victor Choquet, Paul Durand-Ruel, Samuel Courtauld, M. Cognacq, Emil Georg Bührle, D. G. van Beuningen, Dr. Barnes, Dr. Girardin, Georges Wildenstein and Peggy Guggenheim.

Harvard University Press, 2004 12mo (17 cm), XXII, 631 pp, folding map. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj little rubbed at extremities, bookplate). With an English translation by H. J. Edwards.

Harvey Miller Publishers, 1996 2 volumes 4to (33.5 cm), 48 pp, 374 plates; 219 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the publisher's description: "This publication covers the very large body of material that survives from the Romanesque period, a time of intense creativity. Professor Cahn not only discusses the high points of the illuminator's art, but also surveys a broad range of books from Bibles and Saint's Lives to literary and historical writings. The manuscripts are arranged by region, within the present boundaries of France. In this introduction the author deals with themes such as the material evidence, types and styles of illumination and historiography. This gives scope for a consideration of patronage - both ecclesiastical and secular - and the development of libraries. The Catalogue gives detailed information about format, style and iconography, contents, provenance and literature for each manuscript, and is particulary valuable for the identification of… Read More

Harvey Miller Publishers, 1996 2 volumes 4to (33.5 cm), 48 pp, 374 plates; 219 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the blurb: "This publication covers the very large body of material that survives from the Romanesque period, a time of intense creativity. Professor Cahn not only discusses the high points of the illuminator's art, but also surveys a broad range of books from Bibles and Saint's Lives to literary and historical writings. The manuscripts are arranged by region, within the present boundaries of France. In this introduction the author deals with themes such as the material evidence, types and styles of illumination and historiography. This gives scope for a consideration of patronage - both ecclesiastical and secular - and the development of libraries. The Catalogue gives detailed information about format, style and iconography, contents, provenance and literature for each manuscript, and is particulary valuable for the identification of different artist and scribes.… Read More

San Francisco: John Caius Books, 1992 8vo (23 cm), 48 pp. Printed wrappers (minor shelf-wear). 115 items.

BBC Books, 1979 8vo (23.5 cm), X, 178 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. This book, published for the centenary of Einstein's birth, explains the salient ideas of relativity in plain language, taking full advantage of the latest research and the clear light that now shines upon such previously impenetrable concepts as warped space, time out of joint and the astounding energy hidden in ordinary matter.

Torino: CET , 2002 8vo (23 cm), 244 pp. Laminated wrappers. Inscribed on the title-page. "La 'Storia del Libro e della sua illustrazione' è un argomento che nei classici manuali di Storia dell'Arte viene trascurato, evidemente perchè difficile collocarlo in un ambito preciso: il libro è insieme scrittura e immagine e come tale coinvolge discipline che non necessariamente sono volte allo studio del puro fatto artistico. Un''indagine coordinata otterrebbe sicuramente risultati di grande valore storico-artistico e scientifico. Il corso di restauro libri e legatoria al quale questo manuale è dedicato, si avvale proprio di persone che con le loro conoscenze ed esperienze potrebbero contribuire a questo fine. La 'Storia del Libro e della sua illustrazione' che propongo agli allievi rappresenta dunque soltanto un'introduzione a questo grande e complesso argomento e non ha certo la pretesa di essere esauriente." (from the Introduction)

Harvard University Press, 1993 8vo (21 cm), XVIII, 238 pp. Laminated wrappers. From the blurb: "Marked by the shift of power from Rome to Constantinople and the Christianization of the Empire, this pivotal era requires a narrative and interpretative history of its own. Averil Cameron, an authority on later Roman and early Byzantine history and culture, captures the vigor and variety of the fourth century, doing full justice to the enormous explosion of recent scholarship. After a hundred years of political turmoil, civil war, and invasion, the Roman Empire that Diocletian inherited in AD 284 desperately needed the radical restructuring he gave its government and defenses. His successor, Constantine, continued the revolution by adopting - for himself and the Empire - a vibrant new religion: Christianity. The fourth century is an era of wide cultural diversity, represented by figures as different as Julian the Apostate and St. Augustine. Cameron provides a vivid narrative of its events and explores… Read More

University of Chicago Press, 2013 4to (31.5 cm), 328 pp. Publisher's boards and dust jacket (collector's blind stamp on half-title). "A library is not just a collection of books, but also the buildings that house them. From the great dome of the Library of Congress, to the white façade of the Seinäjoki Library in Finland, to the ancient ruins of the library of Pergamum in modern Turkey, the architecture of a library is a symbol of its time as well as of its builders' wealth, culture, and learning. Architectural historian James Campbell and photographer Will Pryce traveled the globe together, visiting and documenting over eighty libraries that exemplify the many different approaches to thinking about and designing libraries." (from the publisher's synopsis)

Martinus Nijhoff, 1962 8vo (23.5 cm), XII, [6], 630, V, 30, VII, 44, IV, 29, VI, 5 pp. Publisher's cloth, title gilt on the front board and the spine. Reprint of 1874 edition. Included four supplements published 1878-90.

The MIT Press, 2004 8vo (23.5 cm), VIII, 357 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "Essays examining the ways in which the Victorian periodical press presented the scientific developments of the time to general and specialized audiences. Nineteenth-century Britain saw an explosion of periodical literature, with the publication of over 100,000 different magazines and newspapers for a growing market of eager readers. The Victorian periodical press became an important medium for the dissemination of scientific ideas. Every major scientific advance in the nineteenth century was trumpeted and analyzed in periodicals ranging from intellectual quarterlies such as the Edinburgh Review to popular weeklies like the Mirror of Literature, from religious periodicals such as the Evangelical Magazine to the atheistic Oracle of Reason." (from the publisher's description)

Bruxelles: Edition Claude van Loock, 2000 8vo (22.5 cm), 47 pp, 19 plates. Laminated wrappers. Inscribed on the title by the author to Marianne Delvaux-Diercxsens. Limited to 1600 copies, this is no. 101.

Barnes and Noble, 1968 8vo (22.5 cm), front., XXII, 352 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj stained at the back). For contents see scan.

Faber & Faber, 1996 8vo (21.5cm), XXVII, 528 pp. Laminated wrappers (paper little browned). "The Faber Book of Science introduces hunting spiders and black holes, gorillas and stardust, protons, photons and neutrinos. In his acclaimed anthology, John Carey plots the development of modern science from Leonardo da Vinci to Chaos Theory. The emphasis is on the scientists themselves and their own accounts of their breakthroughs and achievements. The classic science-writers are included - Darwin, T.H. Huxley and Jean Henri Fabre tracking insects through the Provencal countryside. So too are today's experts - Steve Jones on the Human Genome Project, Richard Dawkins on DNA and many other representatives of the contemporary genre of popular science-writing which, John Carey argues, challenges modern poetry and fiction in its imaginative power." (from the publisher's description)

Faber & Faber, 1995 8vo (24 cm), XXVIII, 528 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj little dusted). ""The Faber Book of Science introduces hunting spiders and black holes, gorillas and stardust, protons, photons and neutrinos. In his acclaimed anthology, John Carey plots the development of modern science from Leonardo da Vinci to Chaos Theory. The emphasis is on the scientists themselves and their own accounts of their breakthroughs and achievements. The classic science-writers are included - Darwin, T.H. Huxley and Jean Henri Fabre tracking insects through the Provencal countryside. So too are today's experts - Steve Jones on the Human Genome Project, Richard Dawkins on DNA and many other representatives of the contemporary genre of popular science-writing which, John Carey argues, challenges modern poetry and fiction in its imaginative power. (from the publisher's description)

Silvana Editore, 1987 4to (31 cm), 184 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket, slip-case.

The MIT Press, 2001 8vo (23.5 cm), VIII, 246 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf wear, blind collector's stamp on the half-title). "The discipline of architecture depends on the transmission in space and time of accumulated experiences, concepts, rules, and models. From the invention of the alphabet to the development of ASCII code for electronic communication, the process of recording and transmitting this body of knowledge has reflected the dominant information technologies of each period. In this book Mario Carpo discusses the communications media used by Western architects, from classical antiquity to modern classicism, showing how each medium related to specific forms of architectural thinking." (from the publisher's synopsis)

Oak Knoll Press, 1995 8vo (21 cm), 224 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. The 7th edition. revised and with a new introduction by Nicolas Barker, editor of The Book Collector. "Here, in over 450 alphabetical entries, ranging in length from a single line to several pages may be found definition and analysis of the technical terms of book collecting and bibliography, interspersed with salutary comment on such subjects as auctions, condition, facsimiles and fakes, rarity, etc." (from the publisher's description)

London: Rupert Hart-Davis , 1948 12mo (19 cm). 95 pp. Publisher's wraps. Ex Libris collector Alex Bridge with bookplate and ink name. "Corrections & Additions" (1967) loosely inserted. An inquiry about the four Swinburne pamphlets produced under this fictitious imprint.

Scolar Press, 1990 8vo (23.5 cm), VIII, 187 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Essential biographical details of twentieth-century studio potters from Bernard Leach to the present day, not just British by birth but who have also made their home in Britain.