Search Results: Titles starting with M from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

Modern Philology, 1942 8vo (24 cm), PP. 313-319, 69-98, 197-212. Printed wrappers. Reprinted for private circulation from Modern Philology, Vol. XXXIX, No, 1-3, 1941-42. Inscribed by author "With pleasant memories of your visit to Yale".

Chronicle Books, 2021 4to (25.5 cm), 256 pp. Publisher's cloth. "Books written in blood and books that kill, books of the insane and books that hoaxed the globe, books invisible to the naked eye and books so long they could destroy the Universe, books worn into battle and books of code and cypher whose secrets remain undiscovered. Spell books, alchemist scrolls, wearable books, edible books, books to summon demons, books written by ghosts, and more all come together in the most curiously strange library imaginable." (from the publisher's description)

Amsterdam: Nicolas Visscher, 1679 Engraving 50 x 57.5 cm. Beautiful map of Turkish Empire by Nicolaes Visscher I, a Dutch engraver, cartographer and publisher.

New York: Sotheby's, 2001 4to (27 cm), 478 pp. Publisher's laminated wrappers and laminated jacket. Auction catalog of a sale conducted in New York 10-11 April 2001. The price list loosely inserted. 568 lots including Aldus edition of Aristotle (146-1498), first edition of Aristotle's Libri de Animalibus (1476), King James Bible, Champlain' Les Voyages de la Nouvelle France (1632), a presentation copy of Thèses by Marie Sklodowska Curie, first edition of Descartes' Discours de la méthode, first edition of Euclid' Elements (1482), William Hamilton' Campi Phlegraei (1779), first edition of Hortus Sanitatis (1491), Linnaeus' Systema naturae (1735), second edition of Plinius' Historia natiralis (1470)Peiesc copy of Ramelli' Machine (1588), Seba (1734-1739), Thucydides (1545) in Apollo and Pegasus binding.

London: Sotheby's, 1987 4to (27.5 cm), 428 pp. Publisher's cloth. Price-list loosely inserted. Auction catalogue of a sale of magnificent collection of botanical books formed by Belgian collector Robert de Belder (1921 - 1995). Highlights included Besler's Hortus Eystettensis in contemporary coloring (GBP 605,000), Catesby's The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands (1730-1747, GBP 165,000), large paper copy of L'Héritier de Brutelle's Strirpes novae (1784-1791, 107,800), Maria Sibylla Merian's Insectorum Surinamensium (1719, 121,000), Prévost's Collection de fleurs et des fruits (1805, 154,000), Redouté's Les Roses (1817-1824, 143,000), Rabel's Theatrum florae (1622, 187,000), Redouté's Les liliacées (1802-1816, 154,000), Sibthorp's Flora Graeca (1806-1847, 115,500), Thornton's New Illustration (1799-1807, 187,000), Trew's Hortus nitidissimus (1750-1786, 308,000).

Budapest, 2006 3 volumes 4to (33.5 cm), 156 pp, 334 plates; 164 pp, 341 plates; 184 pp, 99 plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jackets (minor shelf-wear). A bibliography of views of Hungarian castles, towns and villages up to 1800. Volume 1 contains 2200 views of 94 towns located in the territory of today's Hungary. Volume 2 includes 1986 views of 152 places which before 1914 belonged to Hungary and are now in Austria, Croatia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia and Ukraine. Volume 3 is a supplement.

Times Publishing Company, 1956 8vo (25 cm), IV, 44 pp. Printed wrappers (wrappers little dusted and darkened near staples). Biographies of Galileo Galilei, Newton, Lavoisier, Dalton, Faraday, Pasteur, Darwin, Mendeleev, Thomson and Rutherford.

Penguin Books, 1989 8vo (20 cm), XVI, 437, [11] pp. Printed wrappers (biding little crease, paper little browned). "This is an account of the history of mathematics as it is revealed in the lives and writings of the most distinguished practitioners of the art, such as Archimedes, Descartes, Fermat, Pascal, Newton, Leibniz, Euler, Gauss, Hamilton and Einstein. In his account of their lives, the author introduces and explains the part these figures have played in the development of mathematics and how their work relates to the discipline. While the emphasis in his survey is primarily biographical, the author also discusses major historical themes and explains new ideas and techniques." (from the blurb)

Harvard University Press, 2002 8vo (24 cm), 384 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "Offering a fundamental reinterpretation of the emergence of the Soviet state, Peter Holquist situates the Bolshevik Revolution within the continuum of mobilization and violence that began with World War I and extended through Russia's civil war. In so doing, Holquist provides a new genealogy for Bolshevik political practices, one that places them clearly among Russian and European wartime measures. From this perspective, the Russian Revolution was no radical rupture with the past, but rather the fulcrum point in a continent-wide era of crisis and violence that began in 1914. While Tsarist and Revolutionary governments implemented policies for total mobilization common to other warring powers, they did so in a supercharged and concentrated form. Holquist highlights how the distinctive contours of Russian political life set its experience in these years apart from other wartime societies. In pursuit of… Read More

Amsterdam: Nico Israel, 1976 Folio (35 cm), 256 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "This is the first work in English on the entire production of an early illustrated book. The survival of page by page layouts for a book of the incunabula period, as well as the original contracts for its illustration,for its printing and for the allotment of profits and unsold books is unique to the Nuremberg Chronicle of 1493. Furthermore, the astonishing discovery in 1972 of preliminary woodcut drawings and layouts reveals the first steps in how the book was planned. 'The Making of the Nuremberg Chronicle', which gathers into one volume all these factors, is a landmark in the study of incunabula." (from the publisher's description). Fine copy.

Amsterdam: Nico Israel, 1976 Folio (35 cm), 256 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear) "This is the first work in English on the entire production of an early illustrated book. The survival of page by page layouts for a book of the incunabula period, as well as the original contracts for its illustration,for its printing and for the allotment of profits and unsold books is unique to the Nuremberg Chronicle of 1493. Furthermore, the astonishing discovery in 1972 of preliminary woodcut drawings and layouts reveals the first steps in how the book was planned. 'The Making of the Nuremberg Chronicle', which gathers into one volume all these factors, is a landmark in the study of incunabula." (from the publisher's description).

Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1874 12mo (19.5 cm), 318, [2], 23 pp, 12 plates, 7 leaves of marbled paper. Publisher's blid-stamped cloth, gil-lettered title on the spine (cloth little chipped at the top of the spine and rubbed at the bottom of the spine and at the corners, a bookplate on the front end-paper, fresh and bright copy). Stereotype of the frist edition published in 1856.

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

Harvard University Press, 1922 8vo (22.5 cm), XLVII, 686 pp. Publisher's cloth, spine gilt. Harvard Bibliographies. Library Series, Vol. II. The aim of the book "has been to present for ready reference the contractual and conventional material of international relations down t the outbreak of the World War. The bibliographic form has been used for the sake of convenience and precision." (from the Preface). 3468 items and Appendix on the publication of treaties.

Paris: CNRS, 1998 4to (30 cm), 244 pp, 26 illustrations in color, 155 in b&w on unpaginated plates. Publisher's laminated boards. A catalogue of illuminated manuscripts in libraries and museums of the town of Chambéry in Savoy. 40 manuscripts are described in detail and illustrated.

Paris: Bibliotheque Nationale, 1980 4to (30.5 cm), XXII, 105 pp, 8 plates in color, 56 plates in b&w. Publisher's cloth (small stain top center). 157 manuscript of the Italian origin 6-12 century are described. The first volume in this Manuscrits enluminés d'origine italienne series.

University of California Press, 1977 4to (30 cm), font. in color, XXIV, 270 pp, 412 illustrations on unpaginated plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj little sunned). From the publisher's description: "This is the first book in 70 years to examine the enormous variety and richness of Parisian manuscript painting in the middle half of the 13th century. Robert Branner is concerned with the identification and stylistic histories of the many ateliers of manuscript illumination active in Paris during this time, when production of luxury volumes by professional scribes and artists soared in response to demands of large and growing patronage that included the king and court, wealthy burgers, and well-to-do studens of the new University. A working list of manuscript grouped by ateliers is included in an appendix, and critical specimens of each shop style are reproduced in 428 illustrtions (26 in color)."

Chatto & Windus, 1978 4to (28 cm), 120 pp. Laminated wrappers. 13 black-and-white illustrations and 40 illustrations in color. Excellent introduction to the manuscript painting at the court of France in the fourteenth century.

Kraków: Wydzial Filologiczny Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego w Krakowie, 2010 8vo (24 cm), 318 pp. Publisher's laminated boards. Description of 80 French manuscripts from the Berlin collection, now in the Jagiellonian Library in Krakow.

Walker Books, 2005 4to (30 x 26 cm), 360 pp. Publisher's boards and dust jacket (dj little rubbed at extremities). "Head of Map Collections at the British Library, Peter Barber has here compiled an historic and lavish atlas, charting the progress of civilization as our knowledge of the world expanded. Simply organized as a progression through time, The Map Book collects some 175 maps that span four millennia - from the famed prehistoric Bedolina (Italy) incision in rock from around 1500 B.C. to the most modern, digitally enhanced rendering. Many of the maos are beautiful works of art in their own right." (from the publisher's synopsis)