Search Results: Authors starting with J from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969 8vo (22 cm), 128 pp, plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (few closed tears to dj, canceled stamp of an institutional library on the title). The classical study focuses on the concept of bandits within the mythology, folklore, and literature of Europe, specifically its relation to classical Marxist concepts of class struggle.

The MIT Press, 2006 8vo (23,5 cm), X, 395 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the blurb: "Historically, music was long classified as both art and science. Aspects of music -- from the mathematics of tuning to the music of the celestial spheres -- were primarily studied as science until the seventeenth century. In the nineteenth century, although scientists were less interested in the music of the spheres than the natural philosophers of earlier centuries, they remained committed to understanding the world of performing musicians and their instruments. In Harmonious Triads, Myles Jackson analyzes the relationship of physicists, musicians, and instrument makers in nineteenth-century Germany. Musical instruments provided physicists with experimental systems, and physicists' research led directly to improvements in musical-instrument manufacture and assisted musicians in their performances. Music also provided scientists with a cultural resource, which forged acquaintances and future… Read More

London: Readers Union / Faber and Faber, 1946 12mo (19 cm), 264 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj worn, parts of paper missing, some foxing to endpapers and facing leaves, edges slightly dusted and stained). George Holbrook Jackson (1874-1948), a British journalist, writer and publisher, was widely recognized as one of the leading bibliophiles of his time. "This anthology shows what the writers of books think of their predecessors, their contemporaries and themselves. It is not meant to be a collection of entertaining or elegant extracts but a mosaic made up of selected pieces, mostly, I hope, entertaining, and some elegant." (from the preface)

London: The Soncino Press, 1930 2 volumes, 8vo (24 cm), XI, 420 pp; XI, 434 pp. Publisher's cloth, top edge gilt (slight foxing of edges and endpapers, bookplates of Frederick Arnold Brett). This is the first edition, copy number 211 out of 1000 printed. George Holbrook Jackson (1874-1948), a British journalist, writer, and publisher, was widely recognized as one of the leading bibliophiles of his time. "The Anatomy of Bibliomania," the most ambitious and important work in Holbrook Jackson's extensive bibliography, is composed in the style of the seventeenth-century prose master, Robert Burton, whose prototype "The Anatomy of Melancholy" inspired this project. This monumental work showcases an erudition in its field comparable to Burton, along with the same racy and witty style of the earlier work. However, Jackson, in his love for and knowledge of books, emerges as a distinct personality as he writes on every conceivable topic in the world of bibliomania, ranging from the… Read More

Yale University Press, 2010 4to (28.5 cm), XX, 1561 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust-jacket. "A newly updated, expanded edition of the most comprehensive one-volume reference work on New York City ever compiled. Covering an exhaustive range of information about Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island, the first edition of The Encyclopedia of New York City was a success by every measure, earning worldwide acclaim and several awards for reference excellence.The revised edition includes 800 new entries that help complete the story of New York: from Air Train to E-ZPass, from September 11 to public order. The new material includes broader coverage of subject areas previously underserved as well as new maps and illustrations. Virtually all existing entries--spanning architecture, politics, business, sports, the arts, and more--have been updated to reflect the impact of the past two decades. The more than 5,000 alphabetical entries and 700 illustrations of the second edition of The… Read More

Cassell & Company, 1938 8vo (22.5 cm), XIII, [1], 285, [1] pp. Publisher's black and brown cloth, dust jacket, top edge painted red (dj stained and clipped, spine sunned). The first edition of this volume was printed by John Johnson at the Oxford University Press. George Holbrook Jackson (1874-1948), a British journalist, writer, and publisher, was widely recognized as one of the leading bibliophiles of his time. This collection of essays serves as a companion to the renowned "Anatomy of Bibliomania". "The title of this book is somewhat misleading, for although it is about the printing of books, it is not about the technicalities of printing. The theme of the first two sections is the art of printing from the point of view of readers and authors rather than that of printers. The need of the reader are upheld against those who would degrade typography by meanness or ostentation; and I have attempted to show the influence of authors on printing. The miscellaneous pieces in the… Read More

Yale University Press, 2010 8vo (20.5 cm), X, 256 pp. Laminated wrappers. From the blurb: "A tough, evenhanded investigation of changing public perceptions of the Alger Hiss case and why it has served as a litmus test of American political loyalties for sixty years. Books on Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss abound, as countless scholars have labored to uncover the facts behind Chambers’s shocking accusation before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in the summer of 1948 - that Alger Hiss, a former rising star in the State Department, had been a Communist and engaged in espionage. In this highly original work, Susan Jacoby turns her attention to the Hiss case, including his trial and imprisonment for perjury, as a mirror of shifting American political views and passions. Unfettered by political ax-grinding, the author examines conflicting responses, from scholars and the media on both the left and the right, and the ways in which they have changed from 1948 to our present post -… Read More

Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, 1927 2 volumes 8vo (24 cm), XXIII, 470 pp; [4], 384 pp. Uncut in printed wrappers (wrappers slightly toned and frayed at extremities). In Polish. A comprehensive bibliography of Polish fauna up to the year 1880, meticulously compiled by zoologist and explorer Antoni Władysław Jakubski (1885-1962) in collaboration with Maria Dyrdowska. 12 309 entries.

Michael O'Mara Books Ltd, 1995 8vo (24.5 cm), XXIV, 672, [4] pp. Publisher's cloth-backed boards and dust jacket. "A popular misconception exists that the builders of teh pyramids or the cavepainters of prehistory were somehow less intelligent than we are. This simply isn't true - there is no evidence that the human brain has evolved at all in the last 50,000 years at least. Modern people are merely benefiting from 1000s of years of accumulated knowledge and experimentation, not from increased intellect' - Introduction . This books explores the origins of a whole range of inventions from the ancient and medieval worlds, dividing them into a range of subject headings, including: medicine, transportation, sex life, military technology, personal effects, urban life, agriculture, communications, and sport and leisure. A mass of interesting information presented in an accessible manner." (from the publisher's description)

Éditions des Cendres, 2008 4to (28.5 cm), 35, {5] pp. Printed wrappers with flaps. Limited to 521 copies, this is copy 242. Beautifully printed essay on two great scholars of Aldus Manutius: Antoine Augustin Renouard and Ambroise Firmin Didot, who also were great book collectors.

Haarlem: Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, 1982 8vo (24.5 cm), 612 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Publisher's prospectus loosely inserted. Scholarly edition of the earliest Dutch printer's manual preserved in manuscript in the municipal archive of Rotterdam with comments and a general study of printers manuals. In Dutch with the long summary in English (PP. 549-570).

Little Brown and Company, 1999 8vo (23.5 cm), XX, 444 pp, plates. Laminated wrappers. "The Renaissance intellectual revolution remains one of the great unexplained events of history. What kind of upheaval was it that produced its permanent changes in our outlook and understanding? What triggered the acceleration in the growth of knowledge, such that in one century man acquired a pre-eminent ability to control nature? This work documents the forces for change which brought the human and natural sciences together and gave them shape. Each of her series of key components - among them, precise time measurement, enhanced astronomical observation, selective animal and plant breeding, and technological advances in navigation - lays a crucial part of the foundations for modern thought." (from the publisher's description)

Kraków: Muzeum Narodowe, 1952 8vo (21 cm), 10 pp, 38 plates. Printed wrappers. In Polish. 13th-18th century Bindigs in Czartoryski collections in Krakow. 38 Byzantine, German, French, Italian Persia, Spanish bindings from Czartoryski collections in Cracow.

Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1969 4to (27 cm), 190 pp. Uncut in printed wrappers (wrappers slightly frayed at extremities). In Polish. A bibliography of books printed in Toruń in the 16th century.

Godalming: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1983 8vo (24 cm), xiv, 224 pp. Publisher’s cloth and dj. St. Paul's bibliographies 8. The second edition of a descriptive list of 848 English libraries of the period 1500-1640, which includes catalogs of 574 private and 274 institutional libraries. Among the private libraries represented are those of Sir Walter Raleigh, Henry Wriotesley, Earl of Southampton, John Donne, Henry VIII, Ben Jonson and William Camden. 167 catalogs from Cambridge and 90 from Oxford are described. Dr Jaynes' description of each catalog includes the date and size of the collection, the number of manuscripts, the subject represented, arrangement and any special information catalogs gives such as prices.

Gdansk: Biblioteka Gdanska Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 1968 8vo (20 cm), 124 pp, plates. In Polish. A catalogue of Polish books or books related to Poland in the Gdansk Library not listed in Estreicher's bibliography.

Austin: The Jenkins Company, 1976 4to (28 cm), 312 pp. Printed wrappers.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019 4to (27.5 cm), 308 pp. Publisher's boars and dust jacket. "The first comprehensive look at the origins and diffusion across Europe of the etched print during the late 15th and early 16th centuries. The etching of images on metal, originally used as a method for decorating armor, was first employed as a printmaking technique at the end of the 15th century. This in-depth study explores the origins of the etched print, its evolution from decorative technique to fine art, and its spread across Europe in the early Renaissance, leading to the professionalization of the field in the Netherlands in the 1550s. Beautifully illustrated, this book features the work of familiar Renaissance artists, including Albrecht Dürer, Jan Gossart, Pieter Breughel the Elder, and Parmigianino, as well as lesser known practitioners, such as Daniel Hopfer and Lucas van Leyden, whose pioneering work paved the way for later printmakers like Rembrandt and Goya. The book also includes a… Read More

Austin: The Jenkins Company, 1974 4to (28 cm), without pagination. Printed wrappers. An annotated list of 100 items arranged alphabetically according author's name from Henry Adams to Marie Curie (ie from A to C).

Austin: The Jenkins Company, 1977 4to (28 cm), without pagination. Printed wrappers. Introduction by Edward J. Jennerich. Chronologically arranged annotated list of 597 items, "fine examples of the Early American printing arts and some works of great historical interest and value".