Search Results: Authors starting with L from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

Paris: Imprimerie Maréchal, 1931 8vo (25 cm), 31 pp, 33 pp of plates (heliographic engraving). Printed wrappers (wrappers slightly frayed at extremities). A beautifully produced illustrated essay celebrating the splendor of Parisian architecture. This captivating work showcases the timeless beauty and grandeur of the architectural marvels that grace the streets of Paris. Through exquisite illustrations and insightful prose, readers are transported on a visual journey through the city's iconic landmarks, from the majestic cathedrals and palaces to the charming streets and bridges that define its unique charm. Immerse yourself in the glory of Parisian architecture and discover the rich history and cultural heritage that continues to captivate admirers from around the world.

Leipzig: Joh. Christ. Wohlfahrt, 1682 In-12, engraved title, [37] ff, 671, [1] pp, 38 pp. Cont. yapp vellum, edges painted red, manuscript title on spine (biding rubbed, corners bumped, spine slightly creased, both titles somewhat brittle, some pages toned as the book seems to be used at some point as a herbarium). Forth edition of the first bibliography of bibliographies (first edition Paris, 1664) Compiled by French Jesuit scholar Philippe Labbe (1607-1667), the book quickly became an indispensable guide in the rapidly expanding field.. "It's basically an alphabetical list, arranged by author's first names, followed by eight intricate subject indices, among them one of publisher's and bookseller's catalogues." (Breslauer & Folter). "In addition to Labbe's work, this edition features, with a separate title and pagination, a concise guide to numismatics titled 'Bibliotheca nummaria,' authored by the English jurist and scholar John Selden (1584-1654). VD17… Read More

Harvard University Press, 1990 8vo (24 cm), xvi, 326 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj rubbed at the back and at extremities). From publisher's blur: This unique contribution to social and urban history describes the struggle of prosperous German bourgeois leaders to bring order to their rapidly growing cities during the tumultuous age of industrial expansion in the decades before World War I. Brian Ladd sets the emerging theory and practice of city planning in the context of debates about the nature of the modern city and the possibility of improving society by regulating its physical environment. In so doing, he reveals the extent to which modern city planning is a product of the aspirations, prejudices, and frustrations of the German burghers who created it. He sifts through the often contradictory motives underlying public health works (including waterworks, sewers, baths, and parks); plans for streets and squares, especially in new developments; working-class housing, zoning,… Read More

BNF, 1999 4to (30.5 cm), 247, [1] pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition "Reliures royales de la Renaissance : la librairie de Fontainebleau, 1544-1570" (Royal Bindings of the Renaissance: The Library of Fontainebleau, 1544-1570), held in the Bibliothèque nationale de France from March 26 to June 27, 1999. The catalogue presents 157 selected bindings out of 1,300 bindings preserved at the BNF, made for the kings of France between 1515 and 1565. These pieces, unparalleled in richness and variety, make the reign of Henri II the golden age of French bookbinding. This study situates the bindings within their historical, intellectual, and artistic context.

Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, 1853 2 volumes in one 4to (27.7 cm), [4], XIV, 428 pp; [4], IV, 390, [2] pp. Contemporary calf, covers with double fillets and arms of Christ's College Cambridge in gilt, spine gilt with gilt-lettered red morocco label, marbled edges, marbled end-papers, silk bookmark (biding slightly rubbed, extremities somewhat scuffed, occasional spotting or foxing). The second volume was published in 1855. A very good copy of the third edition of the foundational work on analytical mechanics, recognized as holding a position in the history of the subject second only to Newton’s Principia (Wolf). Lagrange’s masterpiece, first published in Paris in 1788, laid the groundwork for modern mechanics. "It is the first textbook to treat theoretical mechanics in a purely analytic way. Its mathematical importance stems mainly from the application of Lagrange's new formalization of the calculus of variations. An important factor for Lagrange was the unification of analytically… Read More

Simon Archery Foundation, 1974 4to (25.5 cm), XVII, 501 pp. Hardcover in dust-jacket (top edge slightly foxed, tipped in bookplate). An indexed catalogue comprising 5,000 entries encompassing articles, books, films, manuscripts, periodicals, and theses related to the utilization of the bow for hunting, warfare, and recreation. This comprehensive resource spans from antiquity to the present day.

Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2019 8vo (23.5 cm), XI, 124 pp. Laminated wrappers. Synopsis: This book presents classical relativistic mechanics and electrodynamics in the Feynman-Stueckelberg event-oriented framework formalized by Horwitz and Piron. The full apparatus of classical analytical mechanics is generalized to relativistic form by replacing Galilean covariance with manifest Lorentz covariance and introducing a coordinate-independent parameter 𝜏 to play the role of Newton's universal and monotonically advancing time. Fundamental physics is described by the 𝜏-evolution of a system point through an unconstrained 8D phase space, with mass a dynamical quantity conserved under particular interactions. Classical gauge invariance leads to an electrodynamics derived from five 𝜏-dependent potentials described by 5D pre-Maxwell field equations. Events trace out worldlines as 𝜏 advances monotonically, inducing pre-Maxwell fields by their motions, and moving under… Read More

Thomas Fischer Rare Book Library, 2005 4to (29 cm), 132 pp. Printed wrappers. Illustrated catalogue of an exhibition at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 26 September - 21 December 2005.

Strasbourg: Oberlin, 1945 Portfolio 21.5 x 15 cm, two pamphlets in German 12+4 pp, and French 12+4 pp, 36 plates, loosely inserted letter (small tears at the head and the tail of the spine, title in manuscript on the title, ownership signature on the upper flap, paper slightly browned). This portfolio was published in German in 1944 by Braun & Cie, Mulhouse. The French text dated 1945. Facimile of illustrations from the Alsatian 12th century manuscript of the "Garden of Delights", compiled by Herrad of Landsberg at the Hohenburg Abbey in Alsace (Mont Sainte-Odile).

A. Schram, 1970 4to (27 cm), 247 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj slightly stained). While the historical prints and topographical views by Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708) have long been appreciated and admired, this book marks the first comprehensive descriptive bibliography of the renowned Dutch engraver. It meticulously catalogs over 100 titles featuring approximately 2800 etchings. Furthermore, readers can trace the intricate relationships between the artist and many of his influential contemporaries through the extensive indexes provided.

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1992 8vo (23.5 cm), XII, 463 pp. Publisher's cloth (minor shelf-wear). Papers presented at the October 10-11, 1987 symposium at Dumbarton Oaks. Contents include: "The Intermediate Area: an introductory overview of wealth and hierarchy issues" by Frederick W. Lange; "The pervasive pejorative in Intermediate Area studies" by Payson D. Sheets; "Early Formative cultures in the Intermediate Area: a background to the emergence of social complexity" by John W. Hoopes; "Ancient Honduras: power, wealth, and rank in early chiefdoms" by Paul F. Healy; "The search for elite personages and site hierarchies in Greater Nicoya" by Frederick W. Lange; "Wealth and hierarchy in the archaeology of eastern and central Costa Rica" by Michael J. Snarskis; "Art-tools and the language of power in the early art of the Atlantic watershed of Costa Rica" by Mark Miller Graham; "The house and the… Read More

Chartwell House, 1991 4to (28.5 cm), 128 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "A practical guide that provides uncomplicated answer to many questions. Written with the amateur in mind, 'Silver' provides advice on assessing prices, where to buy and how to negotiate prices. There are tips on recognizing repairs and alterations as well as hints on cleaning and caring for cherished articles. Extensive lists of hallmarks and manufacturers' marks will assist the reader in identifying pieces." (from the publisher's description)

The MIT Press, 2003 8vo (23.5 cm), XVI, 532 pp. Publisher's cloth backed boards and dust jacket. "The origins of the modern science of engineering can be traced to France's Royal Corps of Engineering in the eighteenth century. In Conserving the Enlightenment, Janis Langins gives us a history of this prototypical technical bureaucracy, using as his point of entry a pivotal dispute on the respective merits of two methods of engineering military fortifications. The story he tells of the tribulations of military engineers at the end of the Old Regime sheds light not only on the evolution of modern engineering but also on the difficulty of innovation in a technical bureaucracy." (from the publisher's description)

Methuen & Co., 1920 12mo (17.5 cm), XII, 296, 8 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj slightly frayed at extremities, paper toned).

Faber and Faber, 2001 8vo (24 cm), XVI, 377 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear and toning of paper). Larkin's "Required Writing", his selection from his miscellaneous prose 1953-82, was highly praised and enjoyed when it appeared in 1983. It was the last book to be published by him during his lifetime and won the W. H. Smith Award. It was also chosen by many critics and reviewers as one of their books of the year. Larkin died in December 1985. "Further Requirements" gathers together many other interviews, broadcasts, statements and reviews.

Copenhagen: Høst & Søn, 1960 Tall 4to (30.5 x 15.5 cm), 84 pp. Publisher's cloth backed boards and dust jacket (dj repaired at the top with tape). Texts in Danish and English. 78 specimens of tableware from the collection of the Museum of Decorative Art in Copenhagen. Each object is described in Danish and English and illustrated with full page photograph.

Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2010 8vo (23.5 cm), XVIII, 637 pp. Laminated wrappers. "In the first complete history of the War of 1812 written from a British perspective, Jon Latimer offers an authoritative and compelling account that places the conflict in its strategic context within the Napoleonic wars. The British viewed the War of 1812 as an ill-fated attempt by the young American republic to annex Canada. For British Canada, populated by many loyalists who had fled the American Revolution, this was a war for survival. The Americans aimed both to assert their nationhood on the global stage and to expand their territory northward and westward." (from the publisher's description)

Yale University Press, 1995 2 volumes 4to (31 cm), XXX, 326 pp, 4 plates; XII, PP. 327-750. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear). From the blurb: "This two-volume set is a comprehensive catalogue of the architectural drawings of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, a key figure in the birth of the architectural profession in the United States. All Latrobe's architectural projects are considered in detail, and each project is illustrated with his surviving drawings. Among the works discussed are the U.S. Capitol, the Bank of Pennsylvania, the Baltimore Cathedral, the Virginia State Penitentiary, the Stephen Decatur house, and numerous other commissions for public and private buildings. The volumes also analyze Latrobe's style of architectural drawing, trace the evolution of his technique, and place his graphic legacy in the contexts of his own architectural work and international currents at the end of the eighteenth century. The Architectural Drawings represents the final… Read More

Vilnius: Leidykla "Mintis", 1967 2 volumes, 4to (33 cm), 288 pp; 580 pp. Publisher's cloth gilt and dust jacket, slipcase (slipcase rubbed, dust jacket frayed at extremities, paper missing at corners and spine of the dust jacket of the second volume). Inscribed on the front free end-paper of the first volume by the author, Lithuanian scholar and collector Edmund Laucevicius (1906-1973). Preface and summary are in Lithuanian, Russian, and English, with the text in Lithuanian. The first volume contains the text and the catalogue, while the second includes reproductions of 4276 watermarks.
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Paris: Arthur Loria, 1963 8vo (24 cm), [8] pp, 2 plates. Printed wrappers. Rare pamphlet contains short preface, description of authentic Apollo and Pegasus bindings, description of fake Apollo and Pegasus bindings, two plates illustrating corresponding authentic and fake bindings.