Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

Nieuwkoop: B. De Graaf, 1969 4to (27.5 x 17 cm), 350 pp. Publisher's cloth. Reprint of the first edition, published by Bernard Quaritch in parts, 1892-1921. "An alphabetical list of seventy-eight collectors. Each entry includes a biographical sketch and a catalog of principal books. The sketches also discuss the disposition of the collection." (Rosenblum)

Nieuwkoop: B. De Graaf, 1969 4to (27.5 x 17 cm), 350 pp. Publisher's cloth. Reprint of the first edition, published by Bernard Quaritch in parts, 1892-1921. "An alphabetical list of seventy-eight collectors. Each entry includes a biographical sketch and a catalog of principal books. The sketches also discuss the disposition of the collection." (Rosenblum)

Berkley Books, 1995 8vo (23 cm), IX, 533 pp. Laminated wrappers (canceled stamp of an institutional library on the title). From the blurb: "'I write of peoples and of a struggle.' So begins A New World, an ambitious and extraordinary book that challenges conventional historical narrative by presenting episodes in North America's history through the eyes and voices of the Europeans who established the first colonial outposts here. Beginning with the swaggering John Smith at Jamestown and ending with the beleaguered Montcalm at Quebec, Arthur Quinn allows towering historical figures to emerge from an often beautiful, sometimes forbidding early American landscape and speak. An elderly William Bradford looks back with growing despair at the early promise of the Pilgrim colony at Plymouth. Governor John Winthrop tries to administer a dose of practicality to the Puritans of Massachusetts. Jesuit missionaries bring Christianity and disaster to the Huron Confederacy. A blustering Peter… Read More

Heinemann, 1995 8vo (24 cm), 520 pp, plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "One hundred years ago, Marie Curie discovered radioactivity, for which she won the Nobel Prize in physics. In 1911 she won an unprecedented second Nobel Prize, this time in chemistry, for isolating new radioactive elements. Despite these achievements, or perhaps because of her fame, she has remained a saintly, unapproachable genius. From family documents and a private journal only recently made available, Susan Quinn at last tells the full human story. From the stubborn sixteen-year-old studying science at night while working as a governess, to her romance and scientific partnership with Pierre Curie-an extraordinary marriage of equals-we feel her defeats as well as her successes: her rejection by the French Academy, her unbearable grief at Pierre's untimely and gruesome death, and her retreat into a love affair with a married fellow scientist, causing a scandal which almost cost her the second Nobel Prize.… Read More