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Paris: Jules Gay, 1864 12mo (18.5 cm), [8], 364 pp. Cont. calf backed cloth boards, spine gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers (corners slightly scuffed). Limited to 260 copies, this is copy no. 226 on papier vergé. A collection of papers of French writer and journalist Paul Lacroix (1806-1884). Included: "La farce de Pathelin et ses suites", "La Prénostication de maistre Albert Songecreux Biscain", "Une lettre fausse de Rabelais", "Un poëte savoyard à la suite de la Pleïade", "Le véritable auteur du Moyen de parvenir", "Le Comte de Permission", "Les manuscrits de l'abbé de Choisy", "Les bibliographes de Molière", "A propos d'un exemplaire du Tartuffe, de Molière", "La bibliothèque de Molière". Brunet, Supl. I, 739.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966 4to (28 cm), front., XVI, 108 pp, 66 plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. First volume of the catalogue of illuminated manuscripts in the Bodleian Library. The second volume (Italian) was published in 1970, the third (British, Irish and Icelandic) in 1973.

Oxford: Claredon Press, 1969 3 volumes, 4to (28 cm), front., XVI, 108 pp, 66 plates; front., XII, 161 pp, 88 plates; front, XIII, 167 pp, 120 plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jackets. Volume 1 covers the German, Dutch, Flemish, French, and Spanish Schools (1969); Volume 2 focuses on the Italian School (1970); Volume 3 explores the British, Irish, and Icelandic Schools, with addenda to volumes 1 and 2 (1973). According to the publisher's description, "The Bodleian Library collections of Western illuminated manuscripts are among the richest in the world, but only a small proportion of them have ever been published or studied for their illumination alone. Here, for the first time, they are all arranged chronologically and by the country of origin. Post-medieval manuscripts are included if they are illuminated. Nearly 450 illustrations supplement the text of the first volume containing some 900 manuscripts." The second volume lists over 1000 manuscripts with the text supplemented by… Read More

Lwów: Nakł. Księg. B. Jabłońskiego i Syna, 1842 12mo (17 cm). VIII, 100 pp. Contemporary leather-backed boards, marbled paper, gilt-lettered spine (binding slightly rubbed, lacking the front endpaper, paper somewhat toned). From the library of H. Bednarski (bookplate). Tomasz Padura (1801-1871) was a Ukrainian-Polish poet, composer, and songwriter. He belonged to the Ukrainian school, a group of poets who produced a distinct style of Polish Romanticism by incorporating Ukrainian life, landscapes, history, and folklore into their works. Padura wrote in Ukrainian but in the Latin script. This book, "Tomasz Padura’s Songs," was the first printed book under the poet’s name, but it was published without the author’s permit and was a product of the enterprising publisher Kajetan Jabłoński. It includes a few poems not written by Padura. (Lewicki 254).

Yale University Press, 1994 8vo (23.5 cm), VIII, 216 pp. Laminated wrappers (minor shelf-wear). "For more than three centuries after Columbus's voyages to America, Europeans pondered how the Old World's encounters with the New World affected European sensibilities and intellectual horizons. In this book Anthony Pagden examines some of the varied ways in which Europeans -- the Prussian explorer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, French philosopher Denis Diderot, and German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder -- interpreted these encounters with America." (from the publisher's description)

Oxford University Press, 1986 8vo (24 cm), XIV, 666 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. In this groundbreaking new volume, Pais undertakes a history of the physics of matter and of physical forces since the discovery of x-rays. The book attempts to relate not only what has happened over the last hundred years but why it happened the way it did, what it was like for those scientists involved, and how what at the time may have seemed a series of bizarre or unrelated events, now with hindsight emerges as a logical sequence of events.

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)

Oxford University Press, 1997 8vo (23.5 cm), XVII, 1238 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear). A captivating memoir that recounts the extraordinary life and experiences of one of the most prominent physicists of the 20th century. Published in 1997, it provides a fascinating glimpse into the personal and professional journey of Abraham Pais. In this book, Pais shares his life story, starting with his childhood in the Netherlands and the challenges he faced growing up during World War II. He chronicles his academic pursuits and the development of his scientific career, which led him to work alongside renowned physicists such as Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein, and J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Yale University Press, 2003 4to (29 cm), 196 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. The catalogue published in connection with the exhibition "Treasures of a Lost Art" held in Cleveland, San Francisco and New York in 2003-2004. 87 entries. "This book presents one of the finest private collections of Italian manuscripts ever assembled after the First World War. Comparable only to the legendary Cini Collection in Venice, it was formed by Robert Lehman to complement his fathers holdings of early Italian panel paintings. Included are works by the major schools of illumination in southern Italy, Umbria, Tuscany, Emilia, Lombardy, and the Veneto. Also represented are works by three of the principal artists in the history of Italian painting: Duccio di Buoninsegna, Stefano da Verona, and Cosimo Tura." (from the blurb)

Yale University Press, 2003 4to (29 cm), 196 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. The catalogue published in connection with the exhibition "Treasures of a Lost Art" held in Cleveland, San Francisco and New York in 2003-2004. 87 entries. "This book presents one of the finest private collections of Italian manuscripts ever assembled after the First World War. Comparable only to the legendary Cini Collection in Venice, it was formed by Robert Lehman to complement his fathers holdings of early Italian panel paintings. Included are works by the major schools of illumination in southern Italy, Umbria, Tuscany, Emilia, Lombardy, and the Veneto. Also represented are works by three of the principal artists in the history of Italian painting: Duccio di Buoninsegna, Stefano da Verona, and Cosimo Tura." (from the blurb)

Venice: Libreria Serenissima, 1941 8vo (23 cm), 131, [5] pp, 56 plates. Printed wrappers (wrappers slightly stained and frayed at extremities, ownership entry at the top of the front wrapper and at the top of the half-title). The second edition. 613 entries.

Catedra, 2007 8vo (24 cm), 596 pp. Laminated wrappers (minor shelf-wear).

Dumont Buchverlag, 2006 2 volumes, 4to (32 cm), 566 pp, 316 pp, 513 black and white and 48 color illustrations. Edited by Jochen Sander and Stephan Kemperdick, this extensively published and richly illustrated classical monograph explores Early Netherlandish Painting. It is authored by Erwin Panofsky (1892-1968), a German-Jewish art historian whose academic career was primarily pursued in the U.S.

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

Dover, 1968 8vo (21.5 cm), XXII, 227 pp. Laminated wrappers. Inscribed by Geoffrey Keynes on the front free endpaper. Prepared in 1952 by the noted surgeon, bibliographer and writer Sir Geoffrey Keynes, this book brings together the major writings of Ambroise Paré (1510 - 1590), a leading figure of 16th-century surgery and the man who did most to transform a hitherto despised profession into a dignified one.

Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1965 8vo (24.5 cm), VIII, 290 pp, folding map. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "The origin and growth of English interest in those parts of the world that one day make up the British Empire can be followed in the books that came from English presses between 1481 and 1620. This book is an attempt to record these publications." 267 editions are described.

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2006 2 volumes 4to (28 cm), 1104 pp. Publisher's cloth gilt. From the publisher's description: "Until the 1980s, the Roman frontier in modern Jordan was among the least studied of the empire's far-flung border regions. From 1980 until 1989, the Limes Arabicus Project investigated the frontier east of the Dead Sea. Excavation focused on the late Roman legionary fortress of el-Lejjun as well as soundings of four smaller but contemporaneous forts. The project's regional survey recorded over five hundred other archaeological sites in the area, dating from the Paleolithic to the Late Islamic periods. This report presents detailed results from the excavated forts, a broad range of material cultural evidence from animal bones to bedouin burials, and provides a synthesis of the history of this frontier, which witnessed the first confrontation between the Byzantine Empire and the forces of Islam."

Mansell Publishing, 1985 8vo (24 cm), XII, 576 pp. Publisher's cloth. Provides a history of discoveries in astronomy, biology, chemistry, the earth and health sciences, meteorology, and physics.

Yale University Press, 2003 4to (31 cm), 240 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the blurb: "The Beinecke Library, one of the world’s greatest repository of books and manuscripts documenting the humanities, is also one of the gems of 20th-century modernist architecture. This book takes the visitor through the building with gorgeous views of the Gordon Bunshaft structure and into the reading room, with essays by library curators on the treasures it holds. A must-have for aficionados of rare books, this volume lovingly shows how a great research library is at the heart of the university educational experience."

L'viv: VNTL-Klasyka, 2014 8vo (20 cm), 300 pp. Laminated wrappers. Texts in German and Ukrainian. An anthology of texts about the events of the First World War in Galicia. For contents see scans.