Search Results: Authors starting with V from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

New York: Edmond Jones & Co, 1865 12o (19 cm), xiv, 879 pp, folding map, 2 folding plans, 3 portraits, 2 folding facsimiles of authographs, 1 b&w view, 18 chromolithographs(2 folding). Publisher's tooled in gold and in blind brown cloth (spine little sunned, binding little dusted, cloth frayed top and bottom of the spine, inscriptions on the title, tears to the map and to the plan). David T. Valentine (1801-1869 was New York public official and publisher. "In 1841 he compiled and published the first edition of his "Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York", an illustrated compendium of official and historical material. The book proved popular and Valentine published annual edition until 1867". (Encyclopedia of New York) In1865 edition apart of wealth of official information and New York directory (508 pp) included historical studies: "History of Broadway", "Conveyances of Lots in New Amsterdam from 1659 to 1664", "Honorable Sir Van… Read More

Dominioni, 2011 Square 8vo (24 x 23 cm), 155 pp. Laminated wrappers with flaps.

Amsterdam: Gerard Valk, 1700 Engraving 48,5 x 58 cm, old color in outline (green little oxidized). Nice copy of a map of the Denmark, Sweden and neighboring regions, published by Dutch engraver and cartographer Gerard Valk (1652-1726).

Uitgeverij Vantilt, 2010 4to (31.5 cm), 256 pp. Laminated boards. A study of various aspects of private presses in the Netherlands 1910-2010. Included a list of Dutch private presses. 240 illustrtions.

Brill & Hes & De Graaf, 2011 8vo (24 cm), 256 pp. Laminated boards. The series "Guides to Dutch Atlas Maps" designed to give the reader clear, short, no-nonsense yet academically valid information about all Dutch atlas maps regarding a certain country or area. Each part will mainly address the edition of the atlas(es) in which the maps have been incorporated, the year of publication of the maps, the known states, cartographic references and remarks by the author. This first volume of the series offers a descriptive catalogue of all the maps of England, and particular parts of the country, published in Dutch atlases between 1570 and 1650. All the maps in the atlases of Ortelius, Mercator-Hondius, Janssonius, Blaeu and their followers are recorded.

Harvard University Press, 2009 8vo (22 cm), 418 pp. Publisher's laminated wrappers. From the blurb: "We think of the Hebrew Bible as the Book -- and yet it was produced by a largely non literate culture in which writing, editing, copying, interpretation, and public reading were the work of a professional elite. The scribes of ancient Israel are indeed the main figures behind the Hebrew Bible, and in this book Karel van der Toorn tells their story for the first time. His book considers the Bible in very specific historical terms, as the output of the scribal workshop of the Second Temple active in the period 500-200 BCE. Drawing comparisons with the scribal practices of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, van der Toorn clearly details the methods, the assumptions, and the material means of production that gave rise to biblical texts; then he brings his observations to bear on two important texts, Deuteronomy and Jeremiah. Traditionally seen as the copycats of antiquity, the scribes emerge here as… Read More

Rotterdam: Uitgeverij 010, 1993 8vo (25 cm), 272 pp. Publisher's cloth backed boards and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear).

Kraków: Biblioteka Jagiellonska, 2011 Oblong 4to (22 x 30 cm), 166 pp. Publisher's laminated boards. The catalog of an exhibition in the Jagiellonian Library of Krakow University 18-25 September 2011 on the occasion of AIB congress. 60 early bindings from the holding of Jagiellonian library are described and illustrated preceding by an essay on the development of bookbinding in Krakow in 15-16th centuries.

British Geological Survey, 1997 Square 8vo (20 x 21 cm), 72 pp. Laminated wrappers. "Earthquakes are big news, even in Britain. This book helps to explain all aspects of the subject in clear, straightforward language." (from the blurb)

Querido, 2015 8vo (22.5 cm), 400 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket.

Pavia: Edizione numismatica Varesi, 2005 8vo (24.5 cm), 168 pp. Laminated boards. List of prices loosely inserted.

Harvard University Press, 2008 12mo (18.5 cm), [6], 202 pp. Cloth backed boards and dust jacket. From the blurb: "When a master novelist, essayist, and critic searches for the wellsprings of his own work, where does he turn? Mario Vargas Llosa - Peruvian writer, presidential contender, and public intellectual - answers this most personal question with elegant concision in this collection of essays."

Albany: Lith of C. Van Benthuysen, 1857 Folding map, chromolithograph, presumably from the "Drawings of maps, bridges, profiles, coal burning locomotives, chairs, brakes, splices, &c. accompanying the Report of the Board of railroad commissioners for 1856."

Kyyiv: Kartohrafiya, 2009 4to (32 cm), 224 pp. Publisher's laminated boards. Text in English and Ukrainian. Descriptions and reproductions of 86 maps of Ukraine (middle 17 - 18th century) from collections of Lviv libraries.

Kyyiv: Kartohrafiya, 2006 4to (32 cm), 208 pp. Publisher's laminated boards. Text in English and Ukrainian. Descriptions and reproductions of 80 maps of Ukraine (15th - first half of 17th century) from collections of Lviv libraries.

Editions Kimé, 2005 8vo (21 cm), 295 pp., 54 plates. Laminated wrappers. "Au tournant du XIXe et du XXe siècle, le livre illustré acquiert en Europe une place inédite. Soumis aux constantes mutations dues à l''apparition de nouvelles techniques de reproduction de l''image, le livre illustré se fige en un monument plastique sous les espèces du livre d''artiste au XXe siècle. Privilégier la production des grands peintres-illustrateurs qui ont permis cette évolution tend cependant à occulter la façon dont a pu se constituer un langage illustratif au sein d''un ensemble plus global de pratiques.Le présent ouvrage, qui réunit un ensemble de chercheurs européens, tente de restituer la diversité des formes d''illustration, en une époque de transition qui permet à la fois la synthèse des traditions et l''émergence des… Read More

Luxembourg: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1984 8vo (25 cm), 261 pp. Printed wrappers (wrapper little rubbed).

Luxemburg: Nationalbibliothek, 1972 4to (30 cm), 143 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. No. 124 from 200 signed by author (overall limited to 1200 copies ). A catalogue of remarkable bindings from the National Library of Luxembourg. Sixty-two bindings described in detail and illustrated.

Moscow: Centrpoligraf, 2005 4to (27 cm), [2], XXXVIII, 310 pp. Laminated boards. In Russian. A facsimile reprint of an important bibliography of Russian illustrated books, 1720-1870. 997 entries.

Leipzig: Zentralantiquariat, 1975 Tall 4to (33 cm), publisher's cloth. In Russian. A facsimile reprint of a bibliography of Russian illustrated books originally published in four installments in 1908-1910. An important reference.