Search Results: Authors starting with U from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

Hilversum: The Paper Publications Society, 1962 4to (31.5 cm), front., XXX, 304 pp, X plates, 2 folding maps. Edited and adapted for publication in English by J. S. G. Simmons. The work is divided into 2 parts, of which the first and larger part is concerned with the history of paper-making and, especially, of paper-mills in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Baltic areas. Part II is devoted to watermarks. Five appendixes discuss moulds, chain-line and laid-line dimensions, the time-lag between paper-manufacture and paper-use, the technique of attributing Russian papers to their places of manufacture, and ream-wrapper labels. Appendixes are followed by a list of the 815 watermarks which are reproduced. Lists of dates occurring in the watermarks, a typological index and an index of the letters and words in the marks conclude the text of the volume.

Moscow: Nauka, 1988 4to (28 cm), 264 pp, plates. Printed wrappers. In Russian. For contents see scans.

Faber and Faber, 2002 8vo (24 cm), XX, 588 pp. Publisher's boards and dust jacket. "In the 1760s a group of amateur experimenters met and made friends in the English Midlands. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the center of things, but they were young and their optimism was boundless: together they would change the world. Among them were the ambitious toymaker Matthew Boulton and his partner James Watt, of steam-engine fame; the potter Josiah Wedgwood; the larger-than-life Erasmus Darwin, physician, poet, inventor, and theorist of evolution (a forerunner of his grandson Charles). Later came Joseph Priestley, discoverer of oxygen and fighting radical. Uglow's vivid, exhilarating account uncovers the friendships, political passions, love affairs, and love of knowledge (and power) that drove these extraordinary men. It echoes to the thud of pistons and the wheeze and snort of engines and brings to life the tradesmen, artisans, and tycoons who shaped and fired the modern… Read More

Institute Ukrainien des Sciences Économiques, 1975 8vo (24 cm), 144 pp, folding map. Hardcover. The name of "Russia" in western cartography from the beginning of the 16th to the end of the 18th century.

Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1977 4to (25 cm), 298, (2) pp, 2 plates with tipped in facsimile (dj little frayed at extremities). Beautifully printed essays on the Kraków renaissance books and their printers. In Polish.

Amsterdam : Meulenhoff, 1985 8vo (21.5 cm), 143 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1937 2 volumes 8vo (24 cm), xl, 292 pp, 192 illustrations (one folding); xix, 326 pp, ill. 193-367 (one folding). Publisher's cloth (first volume little sunned). An extensively revised second edition of classical study of the art of typography from the invention of printing to the 20th century by Daniel Berkeley Updike (1860 - 1941), an American printer and historian of typography. Published in 1922 the book was essential to improving the standards of typography. Volume I deals with the invention of printing, types in the 15th century, German, Italian and French types 1500 - 1800. In volumes II Updike discusses Dutch, Spanish and English types 1500 - 1800, 19th century ''classical'' types of Bodoni and Didot, English types 1800 - 1844, American types, and practical matters of the choose of types for a composing-room and the industrial conditions of the past and their relationship to printer's problems to-day. Second edition, second printing.

Wrocław: Muzeum Architektury we Wrocławiu, 2010 4o (29 cm), 510 pp. Publisher's laminated boards and dust jacket. Lavishly illustrated monograph presents the model housing estate, part of the WUWA (Wohnung und Werkraum Ausstellung, Living and Work Space) exhibition in Wroclaw and one of the most interesting European examples of Modern Movement in the 1920s. In the area next to the exhibition an experimental housing estate was built. Eleven architects were invited to design buildings. The principle authors of the urban planning project were Heinrich Lauterbach and Adolf Rading. The main goal was the presentation of new types of small and medium dwellings and forms of houses, and related new technologies and construction materials. New buildings were open to the public for three and a half months and then they were rented for two years by the Wrocław Housing Estate Association to test functionally of the new architecture. After the exhibition had closed, the estate became an… Read More

Warszawa: Instytut Geografii PAN, 1972 8vo (20.5 cm), 76 pp. Printed wrappers. In Polish. A catalogue of geographical manuscripts in libraries of Poznań and Kórnik. Descriptions of 80 manuscripts including Marco Polo (the second half of 15th century), Mikolaj Radziwill' Peregination to the Holy Land (1596), Lippomano' Relations from Poland (end of 16th century), Ricaut' Descriptions of Turkey (1668).