Search Results: Titles starting with W from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

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

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

Bubb Kuyper, 1996 8vo (24.5 cm), 341 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket.

Kraków: Instytut Architektury, 2016 8vo (22 cm), 162 pp, Laminated wrappers. In Polish. The book is the first monograph on Wacław Nowakowski (1888-1955), of one of the most important Kraków architects of the first half of the 20th century. Through the ouevres of this architect is possible to reconstruct the architecture of the Second Polish Republic: from the traditionalist trends of the early 1920s, through art deco, expressionism, semi-modernism to functionalism and monumentality of the years of the 1930th. The book consists of two parts: the biographical essay and the catalogue, in which objects designed by Wacław Nowakowski are arranged according to the buildings' types.

Lwów: Wyd. sumptem Fundacji W. Baworowskiego, 1929 8vo (23.5 cm), XV, 139, [3] pp, 18 plates. Printed wrappers. (wrappers little frayed at extremities). In Polish. A study of provenance of manuscript and printed books from the Czarnecki’s collection in the former Baworowianum library in L'viv. Limited 550 copies, this is no. 198. Illustrations mostly of bindings with supralibros.

Harvard University Press, 2004 8vo (21.5 cm), VIII, 300pp, plates. Publisher's cloth backed boards and dust jacket. From the blurb: " In Nazi eyes, the Soviet Union was the "wild east," a savage region ripe for exploitation, its subhuman inhabitants destined for extermination or helotry. An especially brutal dimension of the German army's eastern war was its anti-partisan campaign. This conflict brought death and destruction to thousands of Soviet civilians, and has been held as a prime example of ordinary German soldiers participating in the Nazi regime's annihilation policies. Ben Shepherd enters the heated debate over the wartime behavior of the Wehrmacht in a detailed study of the motivation and conduct of its anti-partisan campaign in the Soviet Union. He investigates how anti-partisan warfare was conducted, not by the generals, but by the far more numerous, average Germans serving as officers in the field. What shaped their behavior was more complex than Nazi ideology… Read More

London: Sotheby's, 2005 2 volumes 4to (27.5 cm), 344 pp; 368 pp. Publisher's cloth (minor shelf-wear). Auction catalogues of sales held in London on 18 October, 2005 and 10 October, 2006. The library assembled by the Lord Wardington was one of the best cartographic collection of the time. 562 entries including Ptolemy's Cosmographia, Bologna, 1477; the Doria Atlas, Venice: Ferrando Bertelli, c. 1570; Ptolemy's Cosmographia, Ulm, 1486; Strabo's Geographia, Rome, 1469.

The Silver Society, 2005 4to (27 cm), 144 pp. Laminated wrappers.

Pen and Sword Military, 2021 8vo (24 cm), XVI, 346 pp, plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "
Justinian I was the last great conquering Roman emperor, who dramatically increased the size of his realm although he never actually led an army in person. His long reign (527-565) was devoted to the challenging project of renovatio imperii, that is the renovation of Empire. This is the only book available devoted to analyzing all of Justinian's campaigns on the basis of the full range of sources. Besides narrating the course and outcome of these wars, Michael Whitby analyses the Roman army of the period, considering its equipment, organization, leadership, strategy and tactics, and considers the longer-term impact of Justinian’s military ventures on the stability of the empire." (from the publisher's description)

London: Bonhams, 2018 4to (26.5 cm), 182 pp. Laminated wrappers. Price list loosely inserted. Auction catalogue of a sale held in London on 30 May 2018. 233 items, including Goul's "The Birds of Australia" (1840-1869, sold for £ 187,500), Gould's "The Birds of New Guinea and the Adjacent Papuan Islands" (1875-88, £ 102,500) and Lear's "Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots" (1830-1832, £ 90,000).

John Wiley & Sons, 2003 8vo (23.5 cm), XIV, 365 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "The most influential scientist of the last century, James Watson has been at dead center in the creation of modern molecular biology. This masterful biography brings to life the extraordinary achievements not only of Watson but also all those working on this cutting edge of scientific discovery, such as Walter Gilbert, Francis Crick, Francois Jacob, and David Baltimore. From the ruthless competition in the race to identify the structure of DNA to a near mutiny in the Harvard biology department, to clashes with ethicists over issues in genetics, Watson has left a wake of detractors as well as fans. Victor McElheny probes brilliantly behind the veil of Watson's own invented persona, bringing us close to the relentless genius and scientific impresario who triggered and sustained a revolution in science." (from the publisher's description)

Wroclaw: Wroclaw Muzeum of Architecture, 2016 4to (29 cm), 329 pp. Publisher's laminated wraps. Architecture of the Werkbund estates in Stuttgart (1927), Brno (1928), Wroclaw (1929), Zurich (1931), Vienna (1932), and Prague (1932). Experimental Werkbund housing estate built in Europe between 1927-1932 significantly influenced the development of the modern architecture. The catalog accompanied the exhibition in the Wroclaw Museum of Architecture from 30th of March till 5th of June 2016.

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1992 8vo (23.5 cm), XII, 463 pp. Publisher's cloth (minor shelf-wear). Papers presented at the October 10-11, 1987 symposium at Dumbarton Oaks. For contents see scans.

Oxford University Press, 1965 12mo (17 cm), [8], 199 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (canceled stamp of an institutional library on the title). From the blurb: "This book reviews English economic history from the eve of the discovery of America to a time when Industrial Revolution was well on its way. It emphasizes the connexion of the wealth of England with developments in Europe generally and in the other continents. Although it is written in the light of searching theoretical analysis, it is neither obscure nor difficult. It gives clear account of the agriculture, trade, industry, and social structure of the country, showing how they all changed continuously and how each influenced the other."

Faber & Faber, 1956 4to (25.5 cm), front., XV, 55 pp, 96 plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj rubbed and frayed at extremities). "This is a selection of masterpieces of Wedgwood ware of all periods down to the present day. In choosing and introducing them, Mr Honey has shown the various classes for the first time in proper perspective, giving due prominence to the fine colour-glazed earthenwares and other early Staffordshire types which Wedgwood made at Burslem for ten years before the building of his famous factory at Etruria; some of these are newly identified as Wedgwood ware. It is also shown that Josiah Wedgwood's true greatness lay less in his achievements in blue-jasper and other decorative stonewares, exquisite though they are, than in his work in cream-coloured ware, made principally for use." (from the publisher's description)

Buitenkant, 1988 Oblong 8vo (21.5 x 16 cm), 125 pp. Publisher's boards.

Harvard University Press, 2007 8vo (21 cm), XXII, 372 pp. Laminated wrappers. From the blurb: "This book is a profound reexamination of the role of the German army, the Wehrmacht, in World War II. Until very recently, the standard story avowed that the ordinary German soldier in World War II was a good soldier, distinct from Hitler's rapacious SS troops, and not an accomplice to the massacres of civilians. Wolfram Wette, a preeminent German military historian, explodes the myth of a "clean" Wehrmacht with devastating clarity."

Shire Publications, 2002 8vo (21 cm), 32 pp. Printed wrappers.

Wellcome Institute, 1993 8vo (21 cm), 50 pp. Laminated wrappers.

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."