Search Results: Authors starting with T from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

Harvard University Press, 2006 12mo (17 cm), XV, 360 pp, 2 maps. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (bookplate). "Agricola" translated by M. Hutton revised by R. M. Ogilvie; "Germania" translated by M. Hutton revised by E. H. Warmington; "Dialogus" translated by W. Peterson revised by Michael Winterbottom.

Harvard University Press, 2000 12mo (17 cm), VI, 644 pp, 3 maps. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj little frayed at extremities, tear of dj top of spine, bookplate). With an English translation by Clifford H. Moore (The Histories) and John Jackson (The Annals).

Harvard University Press, 2000 12mo (17 cm), VIII, 421 pp, 1 map. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (bookplate). With an English translation by John Jackson.

Harvard University Press, 2000 12mo (17 cm), XVIII, 482 pp, 2 maps. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj little creased and frayed, discount label, bookplate). With an English translation by Clifford H. Moore.

Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2017 8o (20.5 cm), 140 pp. Laminated wrappers. In Polish with an abstract in English. Geographical incunabula in the Polish collections. An overview of the books on geography printed until 1500 is followed by analysis of preserved geographical incunabula in the Polish collections. On the basis of this the author discusses the knowledge and popularity of geographical books among the intellectual elites in the 15th century Poland.

MIT Press, 1995 4to (25.5 cm), XIV, 296 pp. Laminated wrappers. "Pursuing the intersections of Venetian culture from the beginning of the sixteenth century through the first decades of the seventeenth, Manfredo Tafuri develops a story crowded with characters and full of surprises. He engages the doges Andrea Gritti and Leonardo Dona; architects and artists Sansovino, Serlio, Palladio, and Scamozzi; and scientists Francesco Barozzi and Galileo. He records the battle that was fought for architecture as metaphor for absolute truth and good government, and contrasts these with the myths that inspired them." (from the publisher's description)

Chicago: The Neberry Library, 1952 Oblong 16mo (10.5 x 16 cm), 17 pp, [16] ff of facsimile. Publisher's boards (bookplate).

Neriton, 2011 4to (29 cm), 409 pp, 53 plates. Laminated wrappers with flaps (collector's blind stamp on title). In Polish.
Książka jest pierwszym w literaturze przedmiotu opracowaniem podejmującym tytułowy temat. Kompleksowemu omówieniu podstawowych zagadnień towarzyszą wnioski natury ogólnej i próba odpowiedzi na pytania: o rolę grafiki w Polsce i jej status; o jej specyfikę i związki z przeciętnym obrazem produkcji graficznej w Europie; o wygląd strony artystycznej, technicznej i ocenę estetyczną rycin. Autorka stara się również dociec, kim byli twórcy dzieł graficznych i ich odbiorcy oraz gdzie znajdowały się główne ośrodki rytownictwa w Rzeczypospolitej.

Yerevan: Armenian Academy of Sciences, 1974 Folder 43 x 32 cm, 6 ff of text, 81 ff of plates. In Armenian, Russian and English. The third issue of the series "Monuments of Armenian Architecture" published by the Committee of Restoration and Preservation of Monuments of Armenian SSR.

Yale University Press, 2008 8vo (24 cm), XXII, 265 pp, plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (ownership signature on the front free end-paper). "Seizing the Hungarian throne at the age of fifteen, Matthias Corvinus, the "Raven King,” was an effervescent presence on the fifteenth-century stage. A successful warrior and munificent art patron, he sought to leave as symbols of his strategic and humanist ambitions a strong, unified country, splendid palaces, and the most magnificent library in Christendom. But Hungary, invaded by Turkey after Matthias's death in 1490, yielded its treasures, and the Raven King’s exquisite library of two thousand volumes, witness to a golden cultural age, was dispersed first across Europe and then the world. The quest to recover this collection of sumptuously illuminated scripts provoked and tantalized generations of princes, cardinals, collectors, and scholars and imbued Hungarians with the mythical conviction that the restoration of the… Read More

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010 8vo (24 cm), XI, 825 pp. Cloth-backed boards and dust jacket. From the blurb: "When Tony Tanner died in 1998, the world lost a critic who was as sensitive a reader of Jane Austen as he was of Thomas Pynchon, and who wrote with a warmth and clarity that belied his fluency in literary theory. In the final ten years of his life Tanner tackled the largest project any critic in English can take on--writing a preface to each of Shakespeare’s plays. This collection serves as a comprehensive introduction for the general reader, the greatest and perhaps the last in the line of great introductions to Shakespeare written by such luminaries as Samuel Johnson and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Tanner brings Shakespeare to life, explicating everything from big-picture issues such as the implications of shifts in Elizabethan culture to close readings of Shakespeare’s deployment of complex words in his plays. Although these prefaces are written for a general… Read More

Ballantine Books, 1993 8vo (23.5 cm), XVI, 544 pp. Laminated wrappers (canceled stamp of an institutional library on the title). From the blurb: "Here are the great minds of Western civilization and their pivotal ideas, from Plato to Hegel, from Augustine to Nietzsche, from Copernicus to Freud. Richard Tarnas performs the near-miracle of describing profound philosophical concepts simply but without simplifying them. Ten years in the making and already hailed as a classic, THE PASSION OF THE WESERN MIND is truly a complete liberal education in a single volume."

British Library, 2011 3 volumes 4to (27.5 cm), 392 pp; 948 pp; 240 pp. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered spines (ownership signature on front free end-papers). Volume One: An Account of the Engraving Workshop, its Masters and Apprentices; Volume Two: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Primary & Secondary Works & The Principal Larger Prints; Volume Three: Notes, References & Indexes to Volumes Two & Three. Generously illustrated and arranged alphabetically this book details some 750 titles, over 450 of which are unrecorded in earlier bibliographies. In addition it provides sections on newspaper mastheads, book cover designs, copy-book covers, maps and large single prints.

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2004 4to (31 cm), 250 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "Olmec Art at Dumbarton Oaks presents the Olmec portion of the Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art. It illustrates all thirty-nine Olmec art objects in color plates and includes many complementary and comparative black-and-white illustrations and drawings. The body of Pre-Columbian art that Robert Bliss carefully assembled over a half-century between 1912 and 1963, amplified only slightly since his death, is a remarkably significant collection. In addition to their aesthetic quality and artistic significance, the objects hold much information regarding the social worlds and religious and symbolic views of the people who made and used them before the arrival of Europeans in the New World. This volume is the second in a series of catalogues that will treat objects in the Bliss Pre-Columbian Collection. The majority of the Olmec objects in the collection are made of jade,… Read More

Wykeham Publications, 1977 8vo (21.5 cm), X, 170 pp. Printed wrappers (ownership signature on the half-title). the book describes what is known about the evolution of the chemical composition of the Universe.

Harvard University Press, 1992 8vo (23.5 cm), XII, 601 pp. Laminated wrappers. "In this extensive inquiry into the sources of modern selfhood, Charles Taylor demonstrates just how rich and precious those resources are. The modern turn to subjectivity, with its attendant rejection of an objective order of reason, has led - it seems to many - to mere subjectivism at the mildest and to sheer nihilism at the worst. Many critics believe that the modern order has no moral backbone and has proved corrosive to all that might foster human good. Taylor rejects this view. He argues that, properly understood, our modern notion of the self provides a framework that more than compensates for the abandonment of substantive notions of rationality. The major insight of Sources of the Self is that modern subjectivity, in all its epistemological, aesthetic, and political ramifications, has its roots in ideas of human good. After first arguing that contemporary philosophers have ignored how self and good connect,… Read More

The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007 8vo (24cm), XII, 874 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we - in the West, at least - largely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly in the last few centuries. In what will be a defining book for our time, Charles Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean—of what, precisely, happens when a society in which it is virtually impossible not to believe in God becomes one in which faith, even for the staunchest believer, is only one human possibility among others. Taylor, long one of our most insightful thinkers on such questions, offers a historical perspective. He examines the development in “Western Christendom” of those aspects of modernity which we call secular. What he describes is in fact not a single, continuous transformation, but a series of new departures, in which earlier… Read More

P. Harris, 1979 8vo (24 cm), 176 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (small tears to the top of dj, binding and text fine). From the blurb: "This is the long-awaited reprint of the only comprehensive study of the art nouveau book. Copies of the first edition of this definitive book are themselves now collectors' items and it is an important reference source for students and enthusiasts of the 1890s and early 1900s. This, the time of art nouveau and Arts and Crafts, the time when such presses as William Morris's Kelmscott Press and Charles Ricketts's Vale Press were flourishing and books and magazines were decorated by illustrators like Beardsley, Housman, Arthur Rackham and Jessie M. King, is the subject of John Russell Taylor's authoritative study. In it the author traces the rise of the art nouveau movement in Britain, suggesting a number of ways in which definitions of the style based primarily on Continental examples have obscured its true course and nature, and linking… Read More

Zurich: The Central European Times, 1935 8vo (21 cm), 1164, [4] pp. Publisher's cloth backed cloth boards, spine gilt, all edges painted grey (binding little stained and rubbed at extremities, hinges weak, title little foxed). A Biographical Dictionary containing about 10.000 biograhies of prominent people from Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Danzig, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Switzerland, Turkey and Yugoslavia.

Bottega delle Arti, 2008 Oblong 8vo (22 x 24 cm), VIII, 167 pp. Laminated wrappers with flaps.