Search Results: Titles starting with G from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

Padova, 1940 4to (27 cm), 86 pp. Printed wrappers (little foxing, small tear top of the front wrapper). Limited to 1000 copies, this is no. 465.

Zürich: Hellmut Schumann, 1970 4to (28 cm), 56 pp. Printed wrappers (wrappers little faded). Hellmut Schumann's catalogue 500. 36 entries, including all major Galileo's lifetime publications from "Le operazioni del compasso geometrico" to "Due nuove scienze", books by Kepler, Mersenne, Campanella and other supporters and opponents. Interesting concise reference.

Oxford University Press, 2003 8vo (24.5 cm), VIII, 380 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "Any literate person should be familiar with the central ideas of modern science. In his sparkling new book, Peter Atkins introduces his choice of the ten great ideas of science. With wit, charm, patience, and astonishing insights, he leads the reader through the emergence of the concepts, and then presents them in a strikingly effective manner. At the same time, he works into his engaging narrative an illustration of the scientific method and shows how simple ideas can have enormous consequences." (from the publisher's description)

Kraus Reprint Ltd.: Vaduz, 1963 2 volumes in one 4to (32.5 x 22.5 cm), XXII, 161; 183; [10], 733, [3] pp. Publisher's red cloth, spine gilt (minor shelf wear). A bibliography of 19th century editions in Ruthenian, Ukrainian and Russian published in Galicia and Bukovina (then parts of Austrin empire), including also publications in these languages printed in Austria and Hungary. A facsimile reprint of the very rare first edition printed in 300 copies (L'viv 1888 - 1895).

Edizioni Musei Vaticani, 2011 4to (26.5 cm), 122, [6] pp. Laminated wrappers with flaps. A guide to the Gallery of Maps in the Vatican. "The Gallery of the Geographical Maps is 120 meters long and represents one of the most fascinating areas within the Vatican Museums. In 1581 the then Pontiff, Pope Gregory XIII, commissioned the famous cosmographer, geographer and mathematician of the time, Ignazio Danti, to manage the ambitious project of depicting the entire Italian peninsula along the gallery walls. The friar was joined in the Capital by a well-known group of artists, such as the brothers Matteo and Paolo Bril, Girolamo Muziano and Cesare Nebbia. They decorated the walls with forty maps depicting the Italian regions and islands including perspective views of its most prominent port cities (Genoa, Venice, Civitavecchia and Ancona) as well as two fundamental episodes from the history of Christianity: the Siege of Malta by the Turks, and the Battle of Lepanto with the defeat of the Turkish… Read More

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2006 2 volumes 4to (31.5 cm), VIII, 108 pp, 4 folding plans loosely inserted + 32 ff of facsimile. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket + printed wrappers, in slipcase. "This fascinating two-volume set includes a photographic reproduction of an anonymous seventeenth-century Italian gardener’s notebook from Dumbarton Oaks’s Rare Books Collection. The notebook is a record of the planting of three flower gardens at San Lorenzo. It is now believed that the gardens were created for Margherita de’ Medici Farnese, duchess of Parma and Piacenza. The notebook provides insight into the creation of a seventeenth-century garden, from identifying flowers to planning flowerbeds. In turn, these sketches reveal the gardener’s own intentions and reflections on the designs. Ada Segre’s accompanying study of the notebook is a groundbreaking example of garden archaeology. She considers its provenance and connection to the world of the… Read More

Baltimore: The Walters Gallery of Art, 1974 4to (28.5 cm), XVIII, 355 pp. Publisher's cloth. Edited by Ursula E. McCracken, Lilian M. C. Randall; Richard H. Randall, Jr. Included bibliography of Dorothy E. Miner and among others papers "A Pair of Silver Book Covers in the Sion Treasure" by Ernst Kitzinger,"An Illustrated Greek New Testament of the Tenth Century in the Walter Art Gallery" by Kurt Weitzmann, "The Praxapostos of the Walters Art Gallery" by Sirapie der Nersessian, "Further Comments on Mamluk Playing Cards" by Richard Ettinghausen, "Marginal Drawings in an Ottonian Manuscript" by Rosalie Green, "French Bookbinding fro Sir Richard Wingfield and Jean Grolier" by Howard M. Nixon.

New York: The New York Public Library, 1946 4vo (26 cm), 86 pp. Publisher's wrappers. An effort to record in alphabetical order all know places where Hebrew books were printed. Each place is represented at least by the first printed Hebrew book or a book with Hebrew characters. Alphabetical table of Hebrew place names and Chronological table of Hebrew printing in appendixes.

Dallas and Northampton: The Bridwell Library & The Gehenna Press, 1992 4to (28 cm), [4], 237, [2] pp. Printed wrappers. The Gehenna Press was established in 1942 by sculptor and graphic artist Leonard Baskin (1922-2000). The award-winning press went on to publish approximately 200 books in nearly 60 years, finally ceasing operation shortly after Baskin's death in 2000. The book is the catalogue of an exhibition in the Bridwell Library curated by Lisa Unger Baskin, containing an assessment of the work of the press by Colin Frankin, a bibliography of the books of the Gehenna Press by Hosea Baskin, and notes on the books by the printer, Leonard Baskin.

Kodansha International, 1991 12mo (18 cm), VIII, 204 pp. Laminated wrappers.

VNTL, 2000 8vo (21.5 cm), 182 pp. Publisher's laminated wrappers. The monograph presents a systematic study of generalized Verma modules over a semi-simple complex finite-dimensional Lie algebra induced from a simple infinite-dimensional modules over a parabolic subalgebra. The study of generalized Verma modules begins with an analogue of the BGG Theorem which gives a criterion for embeddings of generalized Verma modules in the case of induction from a simple generic Gelfand-Zetlin module. Mathematical Studies: Monograph Series. Volume 8.

Oxford University Press, 2000 8vo (24 cm), VI, 356 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "the author offers us insightful portraits of twelve of our century's most distinguished physicists, all of whom he has known personally. We meet, among others, the famously taciturn Paul Dirac; Max Born, who coined the term 'quantum mechanics'; Wolfgang Pauli, famed for his exclusion principle and known as the conscience of twentieth-century physics; Mitchell Feigenbaum, inventor of chaos theory; and John von Neumann, one of the most influential mathematicians of the century. Other scientists profiled include Res Jost, Isidor Rabi, Viktor Weisskopf, and Eugene Wigner. In addition, because their work is so relevant to the others discussed, Pais has included chapters on Einstein and Bohr, in each case giving the essence of the man's character and scientific achievement." (from the publisher's description)

Simon & Schuster, 1990 8vo (24 cm), 352 pp, plates. Publisher's cloth backed boards and dust jacket (stamps of the Royal Institution). This is the story of the search to identify the genes that govern human health, illness and behavior. The book also examines the profound implications of genetic research, including its impact on the abortion controversy. It has been shortlisted for the 1991 Science Book award.

Fourth Estate, 1999 8vo (24 cm), VIII, 344 pp. Publisher's boards and dust jacket. "By picking one newly discovered gene from each of the 23 human chromosomes, and telling its story, Matt Ridley recounts the history of our species and its ancestors from the dawn of life to the brink of future medicine. He finds genes that we share with bacteria, genes that distinguish us from chimpanzees, genes that can condemn us to cruel diseases, genes that may influence our intelligence, genes that enable us to use grammatical language, genes that guide the development of our bodies and our brains, genes that allow us to remember, genes that exhibit the strange alchemy of nature and nurture, genes that parasitise us for their own selfish ends, genes that battle with each other and genes that record the history of human migrations. From BSE to cancer, he explores the applications of genetics: the search for understanding and therapy, the horrors of eugenics, and the philosophical implications for… Read More

Penguin Books, 1963 12mo (18 cm), 158 pp. Printed wrappers (binding little rubbed, paper slightly browned). This lighthearted work uses a variety of practical applications and puzzles to take a look at today's mathematical trends. In nine chapters, Professor Pedoe covers mathematical games, chance and choice, automatic thinking, and more.

Paris: Librairie Tross, 1865 8vo (22 cm), [4], VIII, 417 pp. Cloth, gilt-lettered spine, original wrappers bound in (binding little rubbed, wrappers browned, some foxing inside, pp 3-38 two tears to fore-edge). The second augmented edition of the classical study and bibliography of great French renaissance printer. Divided into 3 parts: biography, bibliography and iconography. Documents and some additional notes in appendices. Illustrated with facsimile of Tory's woodcuts.

Harvard University Press, 2005 12mo (17 cm), XLVI, 529 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear). "Strabo (ca. 64 BCE to ca. 25 CE), an Asiatic Greek of Amasia in Pontus, studied at Nysa and after 44 BCE at Rome. He became a keen traveller who saw a large part of Italy, various near eastern regions including the Black Sea, various parts of Asia Minor, Egypt as far as Ethiopia, and parts of Greece. He was a long time in Alexandria where he no doubt studied mathematics, astronomy, and history. Strabo's historical work is lost, but his most important "Geography" in seventeen books has survived. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Strabo is in eight volumes." (from the publisher's synopsis)

London: Map Collectors' Circle, 1963 8vo (24.5 cm), 22 pp, 20 plates. Printed wrappers (ex-library copy with stamp on title, title written along spine, number back of title but clean copy). The first volume of the Map Collectors' Circle.

Oliver & Boyd, 1971 12mo (18 cm), VIII, 133 pp. Printed wrappers.

London: Sotheby's, 1989 4to (30.5 cm), 260 pp. Publisher's cloth gilt, illustration tipped in on the front board (binding little rubbed, top corners scuffed). Price list loosely inserted. Auction catalog of a sale conducted in London on Thursday 16th and Friday - 17th November 1989. 238 entries, incunabula and early printed books, including Boccaccio's De claris mulieribus, Ulm, Johann Zainer, 1473 (GBP 286,000), Saint Augustine's De civitate Dei, Rome, Sweynheym and Pannartz, 1468 (88,000), Cicero's Tusculanae questiones, Venice, Nicolaus Jenson, 1472 (93,500). Preface by Paul Needham. Appended rubbings of binding tools.