Search Results: Titles starting with O from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

Warsaw: Druk. P. Laskauera i W. Babickiego, 1900 4to (25.5 cm), VI, 159, III pp, 14 plates. Cont. cloth, gilt-lettered spine (binding little stained, collectors' stamp and blind stamp. In Polish. A rare study of illuminated manuscripts in Poland by Polish art historian Mathias Bersohn (1824-1908). After extensive introduction described are manuscripts from the Wrocław City Library and from the various monastic libraries, mostly in Kraków.

Kraków: Biblioteka Jagiellońska, 1980 8vo (21 cm), 16 pp, 1 plate. Publisher's wrappers and dust cover. In Polish. Limited to 200 copies printed on laid hand made paper, this is copy no. 140. A study of 3 bookbinders who worked in Kraków at the end of 15th - beginning of 16th century: so called S Monogramist, who signed his works with the letter S, Hammers and Cross binder and IC Monogramist.

Upperville: Oak Spring Garden Library, 1990 4to (29.5 cm), xxxvi, 277 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "An Oak Spring Pomona" is the second in a series of catalogues describing selections of rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection formed by Mrs. Paul Mellon. The Pomona describes one hundred books and manuscripts about fruit, with illustrations taken from some of the most beautiful books on the subject as well as from original drawings and paintings. The earliest book described is Bussatos Giardino di Agricoltura of 1592, the latest The Herefordshire Pomona, an encyclopedia of apples and pears from the 1870s. In between there are fruit books large and small: La Quintinie's Instruction pour les Jardins fruitiers, Duhamel's Traite des arbres fruitiers, and many others. The book is divided into sections on fruit-growing in France and Britain, fruit elsewhere in Europe, and fruit in America, as well as citrus fruit, apples and pears, peaches… Read More

Upperville: Oak Spring Garden Library, 1989 4to (29.5 cm), xxvii, 149 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "An Oak Spring Sylva" is the first of a series of discursive catalogues describing selections of the rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection formed by Mrs. Paul Mellon. Each volume in the Oak Spring series will be a lovely and useful compendium for book collectors, librarians, and garden historians. "An Oak Spring Sylva" focuses on a unique selection of forty-six books, manuscripts and drawings devoted to trees and shrubs. With vivid illustrations and rich descriptions, it covers a vast range of works -- from a tiny 1555 book on oaks to early 19th-century advice on large-scale tree-planting. Among these are world-renowned books like Evelyn's Sylva, Duhamel's Traite des Arbres, and Michaux's North American Sylva, as well as rather unknown treasures, such as Marshall's American Grove, which helped introduce the riches of… Read More

Upperville: Oak Spring Garden Library, 1990 4to (29.5 cm), xxxvi, 277 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear). "An Oak Spring Pomona" is the second in a series of catalogues describing selections of rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection formed by Mrs. Paul Mellon. The Pomona describes one hundred books and manuscripts about fruit, with illustrations taken from some of the most beautiful books on the subject as well as from original drawings and paintings. The earliest book described is Bussatos Giardino di Agricoltura of 1592, the latest The Herefordshire Pomona, an encyclopedia of apples and pears from the 1870s. In between there are fruit books large and small: La Quintinie's Instruction pour les Jardins fruitiers, Duhamel's Traite des arbres fruitiers, and many others. The book is divided into sections on fruit-growing in France and Britain, fruit elsewhere in Europe, and fruit in America, as well as citrus fruit, apples… Read More

Moscow: Izd. A. G. Mironova, 1922 8vo, 80 pp. Publisher's wrappers (slightly stained and dusted). The social meaning of Russian futurism with preface by Lunacharsky.

Florence: Istituto e Museo di Storia di Firenze, 1985 8vo (22.5 cm), 180 pp. Laminated printed wrappers. The art and the science of the glasses.

Brussels: Bibliotheca Wittockiana, 1985 4to (29.5 cm), 171 pp, errata loosely inserted. Laminated wrappers with flaps. In Spanish, Dutch and French. Catalogue of an exhibition of Spanish bindings held in the Bibliotheca Wittockiana in Brussels. 42 items.

Harvard University Press, 1964 12mo (17 cm), XXI, 436, 8 pp. Publisher's cloth (without dust jacket, edges little rubbed, pencil notes inside). With an English translation by C. E. Bennett.

Harvard University Press, 1991 8vo (23 cm), XVIII, 411 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "Odessa, one of the world's unique cities, was founded by Empress Catherine II in 1794 on the northern shore of the Black Sea. Settled close to the fertile Ukrainian steppe, Odessa soon became the Russian Empire's chief exporter of cereals to western Europe. Attracted by trade and the liberal policies of its early governors, Greeks, Italians, Jews, French, Armenians, and other nationalities immigrated to the city and the surrounding countryside. By the late nineteenth century Odessa was the most polyglot and cosmopolitan city in the empire. In the first decades of the twentieth century, however, strikes, revolutionary agitation, and pogroms brought about the city's decline. In this book Patricia Herlihy contrasts Odessa's rapid development during the nineteenth century with the growing tension within its society up to the First World War. Besides Ukrainian and Russian sources, she… Read More

Paris: L. Curmer, 1866 2 parts in 2 volumes 4to (29.5 cm), [15] ff, 214, [7] pp; [2] ff, X, [2], XII, 168 pp, [46] ff, 24, [2], 42, [18] pp. Cont. maroon morocco, raised bands, gilt-lettered spines, gilt double filets on the boards's edges, marbled end-papers, gilt doublure dentelles, t.e.g. The first part is a book of hours illustrated with lithographic facsimile of miniatures from The Hours of Étienne Chevalier, commissioned by Étienne Chevalier, treasurer to king Charles VII of France, from the miniature painter and illuminator Jean Fouquet (ca.1420-1481). The second part (published in 1867) includes a biography of the artist, an essay on his portrait of the pope Eugene IV and notes on the miniatures of the Hours. Published by Léon Curmer, printed in Chromolithographie Lemercier in 550 copies for subscribers, which included Napoleon III, the pope Pius IX and the emperor Alexander II of Russia. Fine copy of a luxurious book produced in the middle nineteenth century Paris… Read More

Warsaw: PWN 3 volumes 8vo (24.5 cm), 300 pp, 1 plate; 780 pp, 1 plate; 688 pp, 1 plate. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj little rubbed and frayed at extremities). Published in French selected works of eminent Polish mathematician Wacław Sierpiński (1882-1969). He is known for contributions to set theory, number theory, theory of functions and topology. Vol. 1 includes a biography by Kazimierz Kuratowski, Sierpiński's bibliography (888 entries), theory of numbers and calculus (published par S. Hartman et A. Schinzel); vol. II and III contains set theory and its applications (published by S. Hartman, K. Kuratowski, E. Marczewski, A. Mostowski and A. Schinzel).

De Buitenkant, 1995 8vo (25 cm), 237 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket.

Brussel: 's-Gravenhage, 1965 8vo (25 cm), 64 pp, 5 plates. Printed wrappers. Loosely inserted a leaf 'Booken Gezet en Gedrukt in de Stamperia Valdonega, Verona in Samenwerking met de Officina Bodoni'. The catalogue of an exhibition in the Royal Library of Belgium 16 January - 13 February 1965 and in the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum in The Hague 10 March - 3 April 1965. Limited to 600 copies. 123 books printed to the date by Officina Bodoni, operated by Giovanni Mardersteig from 1923, are described. An introduction by Luc Indestege. Also included Giovanni Mardersteig's "Credo" in Italian.

London: The British Library, 1978 4to (26 cm), 96 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. The catalogue of an exhibition held in the King's Library, British Library Reference Division, 9 August - 22 October 1978. From the blurb: "The Officina Bodoni, the distinguished private press founded and operated by Giovanni Mardersteig (1892-1977), has over the last half century produced books of outstanding quality which are admired and collected by connoisseurs of fine book printing. In Montagnola and since 1927 in Verona, Mardersteig, following the tradition of the scholar-printers of the Renaissance, printed on the hand press close on two hundred books, most of which are discussed in this detailed study. Some were edited by Mardersteig himself; some illustrated by noted modern artists; all are remarkable for their impeccable presswork, carried out either by the printer himself or under his close supervision. This tribute to Mardersteig is published in connection with the British Library's… Read More

Verona: Stamperia Valdonega, 1965 8vo (25 cm), 64 pp, 9 plates. Printed wrappers. The catalogue of an exhibition in the Royal Library of Belgium 16 January - 13 February 1965 and in the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum in The Hague 10 March - 3 April 1965. Limited to 600 copies. 123 books printed to the date by Officina Bodoni, operated by Giovanni Mardersteig from 1923, are described. An introduction by Luc Indestege. Also included Giovanni Mardersteig's "Credo" in Italian.

Doubleday, 1997 8vo (21.5 cm), XII, 276 pp. Publisher's cloth backed boards and dust jacket. From publisher's description: "Louisa May Alcott once wrote that she had taken her pen for a bridegroom. Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern, friends and business partners for fifty years, have in many ways taken up their pens and passion for literature in much the same way. The "Holmes & Watson" of the rare book business, Rostenberg and Stern unlocked the hidden secret of Louisa May Alcott's life when they discovered her pseudonym, A.M. Barnard, along with her anonymously published "blood and thunder" stories on subjects like transvestitism, hashish smoking, and feminism. Old Books, Rare Friends describes their mutual passion for books and literary sleuthing as they take us on their earliest European book buying jaunts. Using what they call ""Finger-spitzengefuhl,"" the art of evaluating antiquarian books by handling, experience, and instinct, they… Read More

London: The Studio, 1909 4to (29.5 cm), vi, 42 pp, 40 plates. Publisher's cloth (binding rubbed, a label with number pasted on the front board, little browning of paper inside). An essay on the history of English color-prints illustrated by engravings by Bartollozzi, John Jones, C. Wilkin, Geo. Keating, L. Schiavonetti, C. Knight, and others.

Maggs Bros. Ltd, 1960 8vo (21 cm), [4], 152 pp, 4 plates. Printed wrappers. 926 items, including 22 manuscripts.

Faber and Faber, 1967 8vo (24.5 cm), [4], 223 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (top edge little foxed). "Adhering rigorously to his chosen subject, the author concentrates on the more modest and more domestic aspect of the goldsmith's art and its intimate links with the everyday life of the past. In a carefully analytical spirit he classifies and describes usage, form and ornaments of the beakers, jugs, coffee-pots, tea-pots, bowls, plates, knives, forks and candlesticks and many other pieces which stood daily upon the tables of the European countries from the 16th to the 19thcentury." (from the publisher's description)