Search Results: Authors starting with J from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969 8vo (22 cm), 128 pp, plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (few closed tears to dj, canceled stamp of an institutional library on the title). The classical study focuses on the concept of bandits within the mythology, folklore, and literature of Europe, specifically its relation to classical Marxist concepts of class struggle.

The MIT Press, 2006 8vo (23,5 cm), X, 395 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the blurb: "Historically, music was long classified as both art and science. Aspects of music -- from the mathematics of tuning to the music of the celestial spheres -- were primarily studied as science until the seventeenth century. In the nineteenth century, although scientists were less interested in the music of the spheres than the natural philosophers of earlier centuries, they remained committed to understanding the world of performing musicians and their instruments. In Harmonious Triads, Myles Jackson analyzes the relationship of physicists, musicians, and instrument makers in nineteenth-century Germany. Musical instruments provided physicists with experimental systems, and physicists' research led directly to improvements in musical-instrument manufacture and assisted musicians in their performances. Music also provided scientists with a cultural resource, which forged acquaintances and future… Read More

London: The Soncino Press, 1930 2 volumes 8vo (24 cm), XI, 420 pp; XI, 434 pp. Publisher's cloth, top edge gilt (slight foxing to edges and endpapers, bookplates of Frederick Arnold Brett). The first edition, copy no. 211 from 1000 printed. George Holbrook Jackson (1874-1948), a British journalist, writer and publisher, was widely recognized as one of the leading bibliophiles of his time. "The Anatomy of Bibliomania", the most ambitious and important work of Holbrook Jackson's many books, is written in the style of the seventeenth-century prose master, Robert Burton, whose prototype "The Anatomy of Melancholy" served as the spark for this project. This monumental work shows an erudition in its field comparable to Burton, as well as the same racy and witty style of the earlier work. However, Jackson, in his love for and knowledge of books, emerges a distinct personality as he writes of every conceivable topic in the world of bibliomania, from the most learned to the most frivolous.

Yale University Press, 2010 4to (28.5 cm), XX, 1561 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust-jacket. "A newly updated, expanded edition of the most comprehensive one-volume reference work on New York City ever compiled. Covering an exhaustive range of information about Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island, the first edition of The Encyclopedia of New York City was a success by every measure, earning worldwide acclaim and several awards for reference excellence.The revised edition includes 800 new entries that help complete the story of New York: from Air Train to E-ZPass, from September 11 to public order. The new material includes broader coverage of subject areas previously underserved as well as new maps and illustrations. Virtually all existing entries--spanning architecture, politics, business, sports, the arts, and more--have been updated to reflect the impact of the past two decades. The more than 5,000 alphabetical entries and 700 illustrations of the second edition of The… Read More

Avenel Books, 1981 8vo (23.5 cm), 668 pp. Hardcover in dust jacket (dj little frayed at extremities, paper toned). From the blurb: "It has been said that when man needs company, a book is his best friend; when in doubt, a book is his adviser; when in damp spirits, a book is his comforter; and when bored, a book is his best recreation. Books are the lifeblood of humankind. With this in mind some 85 years ago, Holbrook Jackson, a highly respected man of letters, published in a limited edition a book called The Anatomy of Bibliomania. The current edition, now titled The Book About Books, was welcomed by book collectors and book lovers everywhere because the original was long out of print. The Book About Books is written in the style of the seventeenth-century prose master, Robert Burton, whose prototype The Anatomy of Melancholy served as the spark for this project. This monumental work shows an erudition in its field comparable to Burton, as well as the same racy and witty style of the earlier… Read More

Yale University Press, 2010 8vo (20.5 cm), X, 256 pp. Laminated wrappers. From the blurb: "A tough, evenhanded investigation of changing public perceptions of the Alger Hiss case and why it has served as a litmus test of American political loyalties for sixty years. Books on Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss abound, as countless scholars have labored to uncover the facts behind Chambers’s shocking accusation before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in the summer of 1948 - that Alger Hiss, a former rising star in the State Department, had been a Communist and engaged in espionage. In this highly original work, Susan Jacoby turns her attention to the Hiss case, including his trial and imprisonment for perjury, as a mirror of shifting American political views and passions. Unfettered by political ax-grinding, the author examines conflicting responses, from scholars and the media on both the left and the right, and the ways in which they have changed from 1948 to our present post -… Read More

Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, 1927 2 volumes 8vo (24 cm), XXIII, 470 pp; [4], 384 pp. Uncut in printed wrappers (wrappers little faded and frayed). A bibliography of Polish fauna up to the year 1880 compiled by a zoologist and explorer Antoni Władysław Jakubski (1885 - 1962) in cooperation with Maria Dyrdowska. In Polish.

Michael O'Mara Books Ltd, 1995 8vo (24.5 cm), XXIV, 672, [4] pp. Publisher's cloth-backed boards and dust jacket. "A popular misconception exists that the builders of teh pyramids or the cavepainters of prehistory were somehow less intelligent than we are. This simply isn't true - there is no evidence that the human brain has evolved at all in the last 50,000 years at least. Modern people are merely benefiting from 1000s of years of accumulated knowledge and experimentation, not from increased intellect' - Introduction . This books explores the origins of a whole range of inventions from the ancient and medieval worlds, dividing them into a range of subject headings, including: medicine, transportation, sex life, military technology, personal effects, urban life, agriculture, communications, and sport and leisure. A mass of interesting information presented in an accessible manner." (from the publisher's description)

Éditions des Cendres, 2008 4to (28.5 cm), 35, {5] pp. Printed wrappers with flaps. Limited to 521 copies, this is copy 242. Beautifully printed essay on two great scholars of Aldus Manutius: Antoine Augustin Renouard and Ambroise Firmin Didot, who also were great book collectors.

Haarlem: Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, 1982 8vo (24.5 cm), 612 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Publisher's prospectus loosely inserted. Scholarly edition of the earliest Dutch printer's manual preserved in manuscript in the municipal archive of Rotterdam with comments and a general study of printers manuals. In Dutch with the long summary in English (PP. 549-570).

Little Brown and Company, 1999 8vo (23.5 cm), XX, 444 pp, plates. Laminated wrappers. "The Renaissance intellectual revolution remains one of the great unexplained events of history. What kind of upheaval was it that produced its permanent changes in our outlook and understanding? What triggered the acceleration in the growth of knowledge, such that in one century man acquired a pre-eminent ability to control nature? This work documents the forces for change which brought the human and natural sciences together and gave them shape. Each of her series of key components - among them, precise time measurement, enhanced astronomical observation, selective animal and plant breeding, and technological advances in navigation - lays a crucial part of the foundations for modern thought." (from the publisher's description)

Kraków: Muzeum Narodowe, 1952 8vo (21 cm), 10 pp, 38 plates. Printed wrappers. In Polish. 13th-18th century Bindigs in Czartoryski collections in Krakow. 38 Byzantine, German, French, Italian Persia, Spanish bindings from Czartoryski collections in Cracow.

Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1969 4to (27 cm), 190 pp. Uncut in printed wrappers (wrappers little frayed at extremities). A bibliography of books printed in Toruń in the 16th century. In Polish.

Godalming: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1983 8vo (24 cm), xiv, 224 pp. Publisher’s cloth and dj. St. Paul's bibliographies 8. The second edition of a descriptive list of 848 English libraries of the period 1500-1640, which includes catalogs of 574 private and 274 institutional libraries. Among the private libraries represented are those of Sir Walter Raleigh, Henry Wriotesley, Earl of Southampton, John Donne, Henry VIII, Ben Jonson and William Camden. 167 catalogs from Cambridge and 90 from Oxford are described. Dr Jaynes' description of each catalog includes the date and size of the collection, the number of manuscripts, the subject represented, arrangement and any special information catalogs gives such as prices.

Gdansk: Biblioteka Gdanska Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 1968 8vo (20 cm), 124 pp, plates. In Polish. Polish books or books related to Poland in the Gdansk library not listed in Estreicher bibliography.

Paris: Librairie Armand Colin, 1960 8vo (23 cm), 495 pp. Publisher's wrappers and dust jacket (dj little frayed at extremities).

Austin: The Jenkins Company, 1977 4to (28 cm), without pagination. Printed wrappers. Introduction by Edward J. Jennerich. Chronologically arranged annotated list of 597 items, "fine examples of the Early American printing arts and some works of great historical interest and value".

Austin: The Jenkins Company, 1976 4to (28 cm), 312 pp. Printed wrappers.

Austin: The Jenkins Company, 1974 4to (28 cm), without pagination. Printed wrappers. An annotated list of 100 items arranged alphabetically according author's name from Henry Adams to Marie Curie (ie from A to C).

The John Carter Brown Library, 1988 4to (28 cm), XX, 142 pp. Publisher's printed wrappers. The catalogue of an exhibition held in 1988 in The John Carter Brown Library in Providence, Rhode Island. 73 items illustrating the place of books and printing in the development of Latin America. Included a bibliographical supplement by Susan L. Newbury. 89 illustrations.