Search Results: Authors starting with K from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

Cracoviae: Sumpt. Universitatis Jagellonicae Crac., 1953 8vo (25 cm), 480 pp, 6 plates. Cont. cloth. A catalog of documents written on parchment in the collection of Jagiellonian Library in Krakow.

Rizzoli, 2001 4to (27.5 cm), 164 pp. Publisher's cloth & dust jacket. From the blurb: "The history of the mapping of the Holy Land epitomizes the history of cartography itself. Situated at the crossroads of Africa, Asia, and Europe, the Holy Land has been the focus of intense interest for countless generations; under its various names--Canaan, The Promised Land, Palestine, or Terra Sancta -- it evinces the longest unbroken sequence of mapping in the world. Two principal cartographic traditions dominate this fascinating history: the religious one, based primarily on the Bible and its exegeses; and the classical tradition, represented by Ptolemy, which laid the foundations of modern cartography. The present volume brings together for the first time an historical panorama of these maps: from a 6th-century mosaic from Jordan; through early Hebrew, Christian, and Islamic maps; to maps of the recent past. We see the 13th-century Hereford World Map, with Jerusalem at its center, and the… Read More

Friburgi Helvetiorum: Typis Consociationis Sancti Pauli, 1891 4to (28 cm), VI, 83 pp, folding table. Printed wrappers. A study of Polish historian Józef Kallenbach (1861 - 1929) published in "Index Lectionum Quæ in Universitate Friburgensi Per Menses Hiemales Anni 1891-92 Inde a Die 15. Octobris Habebuntur" in Freiburg, where Kallenbach was teaching. Fine copy.

Kraków: Instytut Architektury, 2016 8vo (22 cm), 162 pp, Laminated wrappers. In Polish. The book is the first monograph on Wacław Nowakowski (1888-1955), of one of the most important Kraków architects of the first half of the 20th century. Through the ouevres of this architect is possible to reconstruct the architecture of the Second Polish Republic: from the traditionalist trends of the early 1920s, through art deco, expressionism, semi-modernism to functionalism and monumentality of the years of the 1930th. The book consists of two parts: the biographical essay and the catalogue, in which objects designed by Wacław Nowakowski are arranged according to the buildings' types.

Biblioteka Narodowa, 2014 2 parts in 3 volumes 8vo (24.5 cm), XLIII, 561 pp; 263 pp; LI, 556 pp. Publishers cloth. In Polish. A guide to manuscript collections in Poland. The first part in two volumes contains description of manuscript collections of Polish libraries and museums (the second volume contains indexes). The second part is a guide to manuscript collections of religious institutions. In Polish with the preface in English.

Warszawa: Biblioteka Narodowa, 1988 8vo (24 cm), 492; 24 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj little frayed at extremities). A guide to manuscript collections in libraries and museums in Poland. In Polish with introduction in English.

Praxis, 2007 8vo (24 cm), XXXIV, 382 pp, plates. Laminated wrappers. The beauty and awe generated by the celestial void captures our imagination and delights our aesthetic sense. Antiquarian map societies are prospering, and celestial maps are now viewed as a specialty of map collecting. This book traces the history of celestial cartography and relates this history to the changing ideas of man's place in the universe and to advances in map-making. Photographs from actual antiquarian celestial atlases and prints, many previously unpublished, enrich the text. The book describes the development and relationships between different sky maps and atlases as well as demonstrating contemporary cosmological ideas, constellation representations, and cartographic advances.

L'viv-Kyiv: Ukrains’ka knyzhka, 1918 8vo (20.5 cm). 53, [3] pp. Publisher’s wrappers (pencil notes bottom and verso of the title. Fine copy. Petro Karmansky (1878-1956) was a prominent member of the Ukrainian modernist group “Moloda Muza”. His early collections of poetry, including “Al Fresco”, reflect the typical fin de siècl ennui and pessimism. The book is contrasting the pictures of people’s grief and the horrors of war on the one hand and servility leaders on the other. Ukrains’ka knyha 1440; Ukrainomovna knyha 6707.

Brepols, 1998 4to (28 cm), 208 pp. Laminated wrapper (wrappers little stained). A collection of papers published on the occasion of 400 anniversary of Abraham Ortelius' death. For contents see scans.

Tübingen: Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, 1974 4to (27,5 cm), 163 pp. Publisher's cloth & dust jacket (dust jacket little frayed at extremities). From the blurb: "The first analytical work on Archipenko sculpture and graphic art, by Donald Karshan, the recognized expert on the artist. Contending that Archipenko was the most inventive and influential sculptor of the first quarter of this century, the author compares Archipenko's works with those of his contemporaries. The early and revolutionary constructions and sculpto-paintings, clearly illustrated for the first time, are analyzed against the historical background of Picasso's constructions and assemblages. Archipenko's wide range of innovations, forming a basic vocabulary for much of modern sculpture, is described with earliest known examples referenced. An attempt is made to establish more accurate dates for several of the sculptor's most important works and to explain Arhcipenko's post-dating of several early… Read More

Harvey Miller, 1975 4to (34 cm), 235 pp. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered spine (light shelf-wear). "The book contains a catalogue of just over a hundred illuminated manuscripts of the period 1066-1190. It should be stressed that this is not intended to be anything like complete corpus, but rather a selection drawn from immensely rich material. Same fine manuscripts from particularly well-represented centres have been omitted in favor of less well-known examples. It was felt that there should be a good selection of secular books to balance the inevitable predominance of Psalters and Bibles, but this does not imply the inclusion of every single illustrated astronomical text." (from the Foreword).

Oxford University Press, 2010 8vo (24.5 cm), XIII, 369 pp, CD in a back pocket. Laminated wrappers. "Based on only elementary mathematics, this engaging account of chaos theory bridges the gap between introductions for the layman and college-level texts. It develops the science of dynamics in terms of small time steps, describes the phenomenon of chaos through simple examples, and concludes with a close look at a homoclinic tangle, the mathematical monster at the heart of chaos. To ensure accessibility to motivated high school students, care has been taken to explain advanced mathematical concepts simply, including exponentials and logarithms, probability, correlation, frequency analysis, fractals, and transfinite numbers. These tools help to resolve the intriguing paradox of motion that is predictable and yet random, while the final chapter explores the various ways chaos theory has been put to practical use." (from the publisher's synopsis)

Yerevan: Academy of Sciences of Armenian SSR, 1978 8vo (20 cm), 12 pp. Printed wrappers. A paper delivered at the Second International Symposium on Armenian Art.

London : Secker & Warburg, 1989 8vo (24 cm), IX, 533 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear). This study aims to place English fiction in the context of a culture in the throes of dynamic change. The period that produced Trollope, Stevenson, Wilde, Henry James and Virginia Woolf also encompassed Rider Haggard, Conan Doyle, Ethel M.Dell, H.de Vere Stacpole, "Boys' Own Paper" and the Religious Tract Society, and ran from the heyday of the triple-decker to the birth of the cheap reprint, and the commercial devices for selling books ran in harness with the developing profession of authorship. The author sets this flowering of literacy firmly in the social context of the developing attitudes that shaped a society in transition. While late Victorian notions were subject to traumatic change under the impact of post-Darwinian social theory, new approaches to economics, radical concepts of religion, the family, empire, there were parallel forces in play in the business of… Read More

Vintage Books, 1977 8vo (20.5 cm), 355 p. Laminated wrappers (canceled stamp of an institutional library on the title, paper browned inside). From the blurb: "'The Face of Battle' is military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of individuals at the "point of maximum danger." Without the myth-making elements of rhetoric and xenophobia, and breaking away from the stylized format of battle descriptions, John Keegan has written what is probably the definitive model for military historians. And in his scrupulous reassessment of three battles representative of three different time periods, he manages to convey what the experience of combat meant for the participants, whether they were facing the arrow cloud of Agincourt, the musket balls at Waterloo, or the steel rain of the Somme. "

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971 8vo (24 cm), 241 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (paper slightly browned). "For centuries the exchange of letters between Ivan the Terrible (1530--1584) and Prince Kurbskii, Muscovy’s first notable defector, has been considered an authentic and important source for sixteenth-century Russian history. The Ivan portrayed in these letters has dominated posterity’s perception of him and his time. But the provenance of the “Correspondence” has never been properly established. Edward L. Keenan draws on all the tools of source study and literary criticism to demonstrate that the “Correspondence” is a forgery, and in fact was composed some decades later in the seventeenth century. He concentrates on the first letter of Kurbskii, which is the earliest of the letters as well as a source for the later ones, and concludes that it was written between 1623 and 1625 by Semen Ivanovich Shakhovskoi--a conclusion that will… Read More

Williams & Norgate, 1930 8vo (22.5 cm), XVI, 343 pp. Publisher's cloth, fore- and bottom edge untrimmed, spine and front board gilt, bookplate. Lectures by British anatomist and anthropologist Sir Arthur Keith (1866-1955) given at the Royal Institution Christmas 1916-1917.

Armstrong Browning Library of Baylor University, 1984 8vo (27 cm), lvi, [2], 708 pp, 32 plates, 7-leaf facsimile. Publisher's printed cloth. Included Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge 1913 sale catalog.

Princeton University Press, 1988 8vo (24.5 cm), LIII, 1107 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "Patricia Grimsted's internationally acclaimed reference series provides the only comprehensive information available in any language about the development, holdings, and published reference aids for the rich archives and manuscript collections of the Soviet Union. In this, the first of a two-part third volume of the work, Grimsted focuses on Soviet Ukraine and Moldavia. The first section of this book provides an annotated bibliography of basic reference works for those using archival materials. Subsequent sections offer directories of institutions now located in Kiev, Lviv, Kharkiv and other oblasts, and in Soviet Moldavia. Appendixes contain procedural information about Soviet archival organization and access restrictions and a table of geographic names in relevant languages." (from the publisher's description)

Dover Publications, 1974 4to (28 cm), 106 pp. Publisher's laminated wrappers. 100 modern display alphabets selected from Franklin Photolettering Catalogue.