Search Results: Authors starting with I from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

Harvard University Press, 2004 8vo (21 cm), XVI, 422 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (bookplate). "The diaries of Pius II give us an intimate glimpse of the life and thought of one of the greatest of the Renaissance popes. Pius II (1405-1464) began life as Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini in a small town near Siena, and became a famous Latin poet and diplomat. He was elected Pope Pius II (1458) and dedicated his pontificate to organizing a pan-European crusade against the Ottoman Empire. Pius's Commentaries, the only autobiography ever written by a pope, was composed in elegant humanistic Latin modeled on Caesar and Cicero. This edition contains a fresh Latin text based on the last manuscript written in Pius's lifetime and an updated and corrected version of the 1937 translation by Florence Alden Gragg." (from the publisher's description)

Harvard University Press, 2004 8vo (21 cm), VIII, 408 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (bookplate). "The diaries of Pius II give us an intimate glimpse of the life and thought of one of the greatest of the Renaissance popes. Pius II (1405-1464) began life as Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini in a small town near Siena, and became a famous Latin poet and diplomat. He was elected Pope Pius II (1458) and dedicated his pontificate to organizing a pan-European crusade against the Ottoman Empire. Pius's Commentaries, the only autobiography ever written by a pope, was composed in elegant humanistic Latin modeled on Caesar and Cicero. This edition contains a fresh Latin text based on the last manuscript written in Pius's lifetime and an updated and corrected version of the 1937 translation by Florence Alden Gragg." (from the publisher's description)

Harvard University Press, 2004 8vo (21 cm), VIII, 408 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (bookplate). “The diaries of Pius II give us an intimate glimpse of the life and thought of one of the greatest of the Renaissance popes. Pius II (1405-1464) began life as Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini in a small town near Siena, and became a famous Latin poet and diplomat. He was elected Pope Pius II (1458) and dedicated his pontificate to organizing a pan-European crusade against the Ottoman Empire. Pius's Commentaries, the only autobiography ever written by a pope, was composed in elegant humanistic Latin modeled on Caesar and Cicero. This edition contains a fresh Latin text based on the last manuscript written in Pius's lifetime and an updated and corrected version of the 1937 translation by Florence Alden Gragg.” (from the publisher’s description)

Weatherhill, 1986 4to (26.5 cm), XII, 128 pp, 8 plates in color. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "A third-generation traditional bookbinder gives easy-to-follow instructions for making all the major, historically important styles of Japanese bindings as well as traditional book cases -- the custom-made folding boxes that afford handsome protection for Japan's exquisite books. The authoritative text, written by one of Japan's leading professional bookbinders, has been fully adapted for Western readers. Both American and Japanese suppliers of traditional tools and materials are provided and substitutes are recommended for items not readily available." (from the publisher's synopsis)

Ghedina & Tassotti Editori, 1990 4to (29.5 cm), 224 pp. Laminated wrappers with flaps (minor shelf-wear). Contents include: I. Una famiglia della borghesia imprenditoriale veneta. Giovanni Antonio Remondini: la nascita della casa Remondini (1650-1725) Giuseppe Remondini: il consolidamento (1725-1742) Giambattista e Giuseppe Remondini: l'espansione (1742-1797). II. Le cartiere e le carte. Le cartiere Remondini Gli impianti e la manodopera Le carte comuni Le carte lavorate Il protezionismo governativo. III. La stamperia. Gli stabilimenti Remondini di Piazza: elementi nuovi ed elementi tradizionali Il lavoro e gli operai Il commercio La direzione delle attività remondiniane. IV. Le incisioni su rame e su legno. Le stampe Il commercio ambulante: i Tesini L'espansione commerciale delle stampe: la controversia con i calcografi di Augsburg La causa di Spagna. V. I libri. La produzione tipografica Le edizioni Remondini I rapporti tra i Remondini e gli autori Il commercio librario. VI.… Read More

Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011 8vo (21.5 cm), XV, 609 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "Hitherto relegated to the closets of art history and literary studies, book illustration has entered mainstream scholarship. The chapters of this collection offer only a glimpse of where a complete reconfiguration of the visual periphery of eighteenth-century texts might ultimately take us. The use of the gerund of the verb “to reconfigure” in the subtitle of this collection, instead of the corresponding noun, underlines the work-in-progress character of this interdisciplinary endeavour, which aims above all to discern new vistas while charting or revisiting landmarks in the rich field of eighteenth-century book illustration. The specific interpretive lenses through which contributors to this collection re-evaluate the visual periphery of the text cover an array of disciplines and areas of interest; among these, the most prominent are book history and print culture, art history and… Read More

Utrecht: Stichting De Roos, 1959 12mo (18 cm), 64 pp. Publisher's cloth (bookplate mounted on the front past-down). Limited to 175 copies, this is no. 32. Printed in Bembo on Pannekoek mouldmade wove paper. Typography by Susanne Heynemann.

Utrecht: Stichting De Roos, 1959 12mo (18 cm), 64 pp. Publisher's cloth (bookplate mounted on the front past-down). Limited to 175 copies, this is no. 64. Printed in Bembo on Pannekoek mouldmade wove paper. Typography by Susanne Heynemann.

Pan Books, 1971 12mo (18 cm), 288 pp. Printed wrappers (wrappers creased and stained, browning of paper). The first part of a biography of Elizabeth I of England. It focuses on her years as a princess during the reign of her father Henry VIII. It was followed by two sequels "Elizabeth, Captive Princess" and "Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain".

Mons-Bruxelles: Université de Mons, 1988 8vo (24 cm), 161, [7] pp. Printed wrappers and dust jacket. 13 papers. "Le contributions visent en premier lieu le classement méthodique des ornements typographiques, en particulier des lettrines, dans les ouvrages imprimés jusqu'en 1800 environ. Les études de ce type scrutent les graphismes pour en dégager les grands traits d'une évolution technique et esthétique."

Oak Knoll Press, 2001 8vo (21.5 x 15 cm). Publisher's laminated boards. From the blurb: "The Moving Market", fifth in our Print Networks series, offers fifteen authoritative essays from some of the leading scholars in the field. Their writings discuss a wide range of book trade related issues and their historical significances. The list of scholarly contributors are: Iain Beavan, Wallace Kirsop, Peter Isaac, Barry McKay, John Hinks, Michael Powell, Terry Wyke, Richard B. Sher, Hugh Amory, Jeffrey Smith, Philip Henry Jones, Janet Phipps, and Maureen Bell.

London: Bain & Williams, 1993 4to (28.5 cm), 198 pp. Publisher's cloth. A detailed account of life and work of an English printer and typographer William Bulmer (1757-1830). "In this volume, which has been expanded from his 1984 Sandars Lecture, Isaac not only brings Bulmer into wider perspective, he also makes the kind of statement on provincial printing that is much needed if the subject is to live beyond lists, catalogues and indexes. He highlights the extraordinary range of contracts which this erstwhile Newcastle apprentice formed on his way to the top echelon of the nation's printers." (from the foreword by F. W. Ratcliffe)

L'viv, 1970 8vo (20.5 cm), [2], 49 pp. Printed wrappers (browning of paper). In Ukrainian. A bibliography of books printed in L'viv in 16 - 18 th centuries.

L'viv: Vyshcha shkola, 1989 4to (29.5 cm), 192 pp. Hardcover in dust jacket (dj little frayed at extremities). In Ukrainian. A study of the literary heritage of Ivan Fedorov (ca 1525 - 1583), the first known Russian printer who later worked in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In three parts: Ivan Fedorov as a publisher and scholar; Fedorov's editions as literary monuments; Marginal notes in Fedorov's editions.

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1991 4to (31 cm), X, 321 pp, 4 folding plates in the back pocket. Publisher's cloth (corners little scuffed). Papers resulting from the 15-17 May 1985 round table. Contents include: 1."A history of Hari Studies and Introduction to current interpretations" by William H. Isbell and Gordon F. McEwan; 2. "Architecture and Spatial Organization at Huari" by William H. Isbell, Christine Brewster-Wray and Lynda E. Spickard; 3. "Cheqo Wasi Huari" by Mario Benavides; 4. "Archaeological Excavations in the Vegachayoq Moqo Sector of Huari" by Enrique Bragayrac; 5. "A Community of Potters" by Denize Pozzi-Escot; 6. "Investigation at the Pikillacta Site: A Provincial Huari Center in the Valley of Cuzco" by Gordon F. McEwan; 7. "Colonies and Conquest: Tiahuanaco and Huari in Moquegua" by Michael E. Moseley, Robert A. Feldman, Paul S. Goldstein, Luis Watanabe; 8. "Huari and Huamachuco"… Read More

VNTL Publishers, 2003 8vo (21.5 cm), 238 pp. Laminated wrappers. The book is dedicated to various kinds of coefficient inverse problems for parabolic equations and to inverse problems connected with non-characteristic Cauchy problem for the heat equation. The considered problems are united by the same method of investigation based on the Schauder fixed point theorem and on the use of the parametrix method for finding solutions of direct problems. Mathematical Studies: Monograph Series. Volume 10

Toruń: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, 2007 8vo (23.5 cm), 142 pp. Laminated wrappers. A study of book auction in the city of Toruń in the eighteenth century. Included chapters on the running of auctions, catalogues, advertising, bidding, libraries auctioned, advertising, prices and bidders. In Polish with 4 pages summary in German.