Search Results: Authors starting with E from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

Thames and Hudson, 1983 8vo (24 cm), 232 pp, plates. Laminated wrappers (canceled stamp of an institutional library on the title). A classic account of the language, culture, and traditions of the Celts. Using the evidence of history, archeology and linguistics it portrays the rich variety of Celtic, life, art and religion across the whole of barbarian Europe, from the Balkans in the east to Frances, Spain, Ireland and Great Britain in the west.

Pavilion, 2010 8vo (23 cm), 224 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "Here is the story of consumer medicine -- how drugstore health care emerged in just 50 years and how consumers still rely on hundreds of formulations and products that can trace their origins back to the 19th century. Sun cream; treatments for insomnia, dandruff, or warts; perfumes; and soaps are all as important today as they were 100 years ago and are stocked by the local pharmacist. This book takes a look at which products were on offer, whether they were effective, and how they are used today, showing that while the names of products on the pharmacy shelf have changed over time, consumers' hopes and aspirations remain much the same as their Victorian predecessors. This is also the story of the growth of the drugstore, and how families have come to rely upon them as dispensaries of health care." (from the publisher's description)

Paris & Bruxelles: Librairie Nationale d'Art et d'Histoire, 1926 Folio (36.5 cm), XIII, 112 pp, 72 pp. Uncut in publisher's wrappers (occasional foxing).

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931 2 volumes 8vo (25 cm), XVIII, 294, [2] pp; [8], 104 pp. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered spines (binding of the supplement slightly sunned).

Cracow : W Drukarni Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego, 1873 8vo (24 cm), title printed in black and red, III, 618, [2] pp, 4 chromolithographic plates. Cloth-backed boards, gilt-lettered title on the spine, the original front wrapper bound in (binding slightly rubbed at extremities, some toning of paper). In Polish. This work is a bibliography of scientific books authored or printed in Poland from the 13th century to the first half of the 19th century. 2640 items are described. Teofil Żebrawski (1800-1887) was a Polish mathematician, bibliographer, architect, and cartographer, recognized as a pioneer of modern Polish scientific bibliography. A very good copy of an uncommon book.

Allen Lane, 1999 8vo (22 cm), XII, 228 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "How has the Western Christian world responded in the past to repeated claims that the end of the world is nigh? How do different religions understand what is meant by the end of the world? What have science and philosophy got to say about the end of time? Why do people suffer? What is hell? Is time cyclical or linear? These are just a few questions tackled by Umberto Eco, Stephen Jay Gould, Jean Carriere and Jean-Paul Delumeau in a series of thought-provoking conversations. Mixing the religious with the profane and the deeply profound with the humorous, the conversations explore anything and everything from the concept of time as embedded in language to the reasons why war became an industrialized phenomenon in the 20th century." (publisher's synopsis)

Secker and Warburg, 2002 8vo (24 cm), [6], 522 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the blurb: "Eco returns to the Middle Ages with Baudolino - a wondrous, provocative, beguiling tale of history, myth, and invention. It is April, 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a Byzantine historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors, and proceeds to tell his own fantastical story. Born a simple peasant in northern Italy, Baudolino has two major gifts - a talent for learning foreign languages and skill in telling lies. One day, when still a boy, he met a foreign commander in the woods, charming him with his quick wit and lively mind. The commander - who proves to be the emperor Frederick Barbarossa - adopts Baudolino and sends him to the university in Paris, where he makes a number of fearless,… Read More

Harvard University Press, 2011 8vo (21 cm), xxxvi, 1125 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj and binding warped at the top). From the blurb: "This is the second volume, in two parts, of a projected six-volume set of the complete Vulgate Bible. Compiled and translated in large part by Saint Jerome at the turn of the fifth century CE, the Vulgate Bible was used from the early medieval period through the twentieth century in the Western Christian (and later specifically Catholic) tradition. It influenced literature, visual arts, music, and education during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and its contents lay at the heart of Western theological, intellectual, artistic, and even political history during that period. At the end of the sixteenth century, as Protestant vernacular Bibles became available, professors at a Catholic college first at Douay, then at Rheims, translated the Vulgate Bible into English, primarily to combat the influence of rival theologies. Volume II presents the… Read More

Harvard University Press, 2010 8vo (21 cm), xxxvi, 1151 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the blurb: "The Vulgate Bible, compiled and translated in large part by Saint Jerome at the intersection of the fourth and fifth centuries CE, was used from the early Middle Ages through the twentieth century in the Western European Christian (and, later, specifically Catholic) tradition. Its significance can hardly be overstated. The text influenced literature, visual art, music, and education during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and its contents lay at the heart of much of Western theological, intellectual, artistic, and even political history of that period. At the end of the sixteenth century, as a variety of Protestant vernacular Bibles became available, professors at a Catholic college first at Douay, then at Rheims, translated the Vulgate into English, among other reasons to combat the influence of rival theologies. This volume elegantly and affordably presents the text of the… Read More

Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1990 8vo (21.5 cm), XIII, 106 pp. Printed wrappers. The Augustan Reprint Society Publication No. 263-264.

Yale University Press, 2007 4to (34 cm), 655 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket, slip-case. "George Stubbs (1724-1806), now recognized as one of the greatest and most original artists of the eighteenth century, stands out from other practitioners in the field of animal painting. His most frequent commissions were for paintings of horses, dogs, and wild animals, and his images invariably arrest attention and frequently strike a deeply poetic note. Stubbs did not emerge as a painter until he was in his mid-thirties, but then his genius flowered astonishingly. He steadily celebrates English sporting and country life and reveals himself--in his "incidental" portraits of jockeys and grooms, for example--as a perceptive observer of different levels of social behavior. Among his many experiments with technique were his chemical experiments with painting in enamels, first on copper and later on earthenware "tablets," manufactured for him in Wedgwood's potteries. This is the… Read More

De Buitenkant, 1984 12mo (15.5 cm), 85 pp. Publisher's boards and dust jacket .

Princeton University Press, 2005 8vo (21.5 cm), LXXIV, 192 pp. Laminated wrappers (bottom corner slightly bumped). "Five extraordinary papers by Albert Einstein that transformed physics, edited and introduced by John Stachel and with a foreword by Nobel laureate Roger Penrose. After 1905, Einstein's miraculous year, physics would never be the same again. In those twelve months, Einstein shattered many cherished scientific beliefs with five extraordinary papers that would establish him as the world's leading physicist. This book brings those papers together in an accessible format." (from the blurb)

Methuen, 1964 8vo (20.5 cm), front., IX, 165 pp, 1 plate. Printed wrappers (wrappers slightly stained, common inscription on the front half-title). Translated from German and initially published in the 1920s, the book has been characterized by the author as aiming "to provide, as far as possible, a precise understanding of the theory of Relativity to readers who, while interested in the theory from a general scientific and philosophical perspective, are not familiar with the mathematical framework of theoretical physics."

London : The Scientific Book Club, 1960 8vo (20 cm), VIII, 183 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (fore edge slightly foxed). Loren Eiseley masterfully presents a sweeping panoramic exploration of humanity's evolving consciousness of the natural world and the enigmatic realms of life and death.

Oxford University Press, 1958 8vo (23.5 cm), VIII, 128 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj slightly frayed at extremities). First edition. The book offers a concise descriptive overview of a rapidly developing subject at the time. It predominantly avoids mathematical complexities and instead focuses on general assumptions of various theories, along with some of their consequences. The primary aim is to familiarize the reader with the key problems, outline proposed solutions, and assist them in further exploring more detailed expositions on the topic.

Cambridge University Press, 1993 8vo (21.5 cm), XIV, 300 pp. Laminated wrappers (wrappers slightly rubbed at extremities). Although the importance of the advent of printing for Western civilization has long been recognized, it was Professor Eisenstein, in her monumental two-volume work, "The Printing Press as an Agent of Change," who provided the first full-scale treatment of the subject. This illustrated and abridged edition of Professor Eisenstein's study offers a stimulating survey of the communications revolution of the fifteenth century. It begins with a discussion of the general implications of the introduction of printing and then explores how the shift from script to print entered into the three major movements of early modern times: the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the rise of modern science.

Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, 1984 4to (28.5 cm), 48 pp. Printed wrappers with flaps (wrappers slightly sunned). Text in German, Dutch and English. A survey of ten years of the Raamin Press from Hamburg doubles as an exploration of the work of the esteemed graphic artist Roswitha Quadflieg.

Clarendon Press, 1982 4to (28.5 cm), XXV, 180 pp, 331 illustrations on unpaginated plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the publisher's description: "During the High Middle Ages it became the practice to ornament Bible manuscripts with 'historiated' initials, that is, to place figural scenes within initial letters of each book of the Bible. This book is an original study of this imagery in Bibles produced in England and France in the 12th and 13th centuries. The illustrations for the fourteen Pauline letters for a considerable portion of the entire body of the imagery in a Bible, and because the scholars of the High Middle Ages took a special interest in Paul's letters, the study of their iconography can provide unexpected, at times, delightful, isight into medieval ways of thinking about the Bible."

Penguin Books, 1990 8vo (20 cm), 423 pp. Laminated wrappers (canceled stamp of an institutional library on the title). A brilliant study of the sudden rise of a barren and isolated country to be the greatest power on earth, and of its equally sudden decline.