Search Results: Authors starting with U from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

Hilversum: The Paper Publications Society, 1962 4to (31.5 cm), frontispiece, XXX, 304 pp, X plates, 2 folding maps. Publisher's cloth (minor shelf-wear). Edited and adapted for English publication by J. S. G. Simmons. The work is divided into two parts, with the first and larger part focusing on the history of paper-making, particularly paper mills in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Baltic areas. Part II delves into watermarks. Five appendices discuss moulds, chain-line and laid-line dimensions, the time-lag between paper manufacture and use, the technique of attributing Russian papers to their places of manufacture, and ream-wrapper labels. The appendices are followed by a list of the 815 watermarks reproduced. Lists of dates within the watermarks, a typological index, and an index of the letters and words in the marks conclude the text of the volume.

Moscow: Nauka, 1988 4to (28 cm), 264 pp, plates. Printed wrappers. In Russian. For contents see scans.

1990 8vo (23.5 cm), [10], 166 pp. Printed wrappers. The proof copy of the doctoral thesis features a title and preface in Dutch, while the main text is in English.

Faber and Faber, 2002 8vo (24 cm), XX, 588 pp. Publisher's boards and dust jacket. "In the 1760s a group of amateur experimenters met and made friends in the English Midlands. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the center of things, but they were young and their optimism was boundless: together they would change the world. Among them were the ambitious toymaker Matthew Boulton and his partner James Watt, of steam-engine fame; the potter Josiah Wedgwood; the larger-than-life Erasmus Darwin, physician, poet, inventor, and theorist of evolution (a forerunner of his grandson Charles). Later came Joseph Priestley, discoverer of oxygen and fighting radical. Uglow's vivid, exhilarating account uncovers the friendships, political passions, love affairs, and love of knowledge (and power) that drove these extraordinary men. It echoes to the thud of pistons and the wheeze and snort of engines and brings to life the tradesmen, artisans, and tycoons who shaped and fired the modern… Read More

Institute Ukrainien des Sciences Économiques, 1975 8vo (24 cm), 144 pp, folding map. Hardcover. The name of "Russia" in western cartography from the beginning of the 16th to the end of the 18th century.

Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1977 4to (25 cm), 298, (2) pp, 2 plates with tipped in facsimile (dj slightly frayed at extremities). In Polish. Interesting essays meticulously exploring Kraków's Renaissance books and their printers. Tadeusz Ulewicz (1917-2012) was a literary historian, a professor of Old Polish literature at the Jagiellonian University.

Amsterdam : Meulenhoff, 1985 8vo (21.5 cm), 143 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1937 2 volumes 8vo (24 cm), XL, 292 pp, 192 illustrations (one folding); xix, 326 pp, ill. 193-367 (one folding). Publisher's cloth (first volume slightly sunned). An extensively revised second edition of the classic study on the art of typography, spanning from the invention of printing to the 20th century, authored by Daniel Berkeley Updike (1860-1941), an American printer and historian of typography. Originally published in 1922, this seminal work played a pivotal role in elevating typographical standards. Volume I delves into the inception of printing, the evolution of typefaces in the 15th century, and examines German, Italian, and French typographies from 1500 to 1800. In Volume II, Updike further explores Dutch, Spanish, and English typographies from the same period, elucidating on 19th-century "classical" typefaces such as those of Bodoni and Didot, as well as English types from 1800 to 1844 and American typographical developments. Additionally,… Read More

Wrocław: Muzeum Architektury we Wrocławiu, 2010 4o (29 cm), 510 pp. Publisher's laminated boards and dust jacket. A lavishly illustrated monograph presenting the model housing estate, a pivotal feature of the WUWA (Wohnung und Werkraum Ausstellung, Living and Work Space) exhibition in Wroclaw, showcasing one of the most intriguing European examples of the Modern Movement in the 1920s. Within the exhibition vicinity, an experimental housing estate emerged, with eleven architects invited to design innovative buildings under the guidance of urban planning pioneers Heinrich Lauterbach and Adolf Rading. The primary goal was to exhibit new types of small and medium dwellings, diverse house forms, and the incorporation of cutting-edge technologies and construction materials. The buildings were open to the public for three and a half months, then leased for two years to the Wrocław Housing Estate Association for functional testing. After the exhibition's closure, the estate… Read More

Warszawa: Instytut Geografii PAN, 1972 8vo (20.5 cm), 76 pp. Printed wrappers. In Polish. A catalogue of geographical manuscripts in libraries of Poznań and Kórnik. Descriptions of 80 manuscripts including Marco Polo (the second half of 15th century), Mikolaj Radziwill' Peregination to the Holy Land (1596), Lippomano' Relations from Poland (end of 16th century), Ricaut' Descriptions of Turkey (1668).