Search Results: Titles starting with I from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

Florence: Bonechi, 1968 Folio (36 cm), 72 pp, 32 ff of plates. Hardcover in dust jacket and printed plastic wrappers (plastic wrappers chipped at bottom, dj slightly rubbed at extremities). The library of the Dominican monastery of San Marco in Florence is widely regarded as the first public library in Europe. Commissioned by Cosimo de' Medici between 1437 and 1444, it houses a wealth of valuable manuscripts, including those once owned by the Medici family, Pico della Mirandola, and Poliziano. This book serves as an illustrated catalogue of the illuminated manuscripts within this esteemed collection.

Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1983 Oblong 4to (27 x 30 cm), 128 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj slightly frayed at extremities and price-clipped). Ralph Steadman, renowned as one of Britain's most distinctive and ingenious illustrators, channeled his obsession with Leonardo da Vinci into a magnificent flight of imagination.

Genova: Sagep Editrice, 1979 4to (27.5 cm), 400 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj slightly sunned). The first attempt to comprehensively present the collection of manuscripts assembled by Giacomo Filippo Durazzo (1729-1812), a notable Genoese politician, scientist, and bibliophile. A total of 299 medieval and Renaissance manuscripts are described, with the most significant ones being illustrated.

Ghedina & Tassotti Editori, 1990 4to (29.5 cm), 224 pp. Laminated wrappers with flaps (minor shelf-wear). Contents include: I. Una famiglia della borghesia imprenditoriale veneta. Giovanni Antonio Remondini: la nascita della casa Remondini (1650-1725) Giuseppe Remondini: il consolidamento (1725-1742) Giambattista e Giuseppe Remondini: l'espansione (1742-1797). II. Le cartiere e le carte. Le cartiere Remondini Gli impianti e la manodopera Le carte comuni Le carte lavorate Il protezionismo governativo. III. La stamperia. Gli stabilimenti Remondini di Piazza: elementi nuovi ed elementi tradizionali Il lavoro e gli operai Il commercio La direzione delle attività remondiniane. IV. Le incisioni su rame e su legno. Le stampe Il commercio ambulante: i Tesini L'espansione commerciale delle stampe: la controversia con i calcografi di Augsburg La causa di Spagna. V. I libri. La produzione tipografica Le edizioni Remondini I rapporti tra i Remondini e gli autori Il commercio librario. VI.… Read More

Nardini Editore, 1990 4to (31.5 cm), 278 pp. Hardcover in dust jacket (dj slightly creased and stained at the back). This beautifully printed and illustrated volume presents the highlights of the collection of the Vatican Library. It includes "Profilo storico della Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana" by Mons. Paolo de Nicolo, as well as descriptions of 126 illuminated manuscripts.

Nardini Editore, 1990 4to (31.5 cm), 278 pp. Hardcover in dust jacket (dj slightly rubbed at extremities and stained). This beautifully printed and illustrated volume presents the highlights of the collection of the Biblioteca Reale in Turin. It includes the "Profilo storico" by Giovanna Giacobello Bernard, along with descriptions of 169 manuscripts, printed books, drawings, maps, prints, and photographs.

[Reykjavík], 1901 3 volumes, 8vo (23.5 cm), 10 pp; PP. 35-70; VI; PP. 71-187. Printed wrappers (paper slightly browned). In Icelandic. Inserted into the third issue is a prospectus in English. Three of the four issues published of the first Icelandic chess periodical. "The title of the publication is an Icelandic phrase, used as far back as the 13th century (in the 'Sturlunga Saga') as a technical chess expression. It is equivalent to the French 'en prise' - which the modern chess-playing nations have been content to borrow, having no vernacular method of representing, with sufficient conciseness and exactness, the idea of a piece or pawn exposed to capture." (from the publisher's prospectus). The magazine contains mostly chess problems. In the third issue, portraits and biographical sketches of two principal living Icelandic chess-players are included: Þorvaldur Jónsson and Magnús Magnússon Smith. The periodical was published by Willard… Read More

Nardini Editore, 1988 4to (31.5 cm), 277 pp. Hardcover in dust jacket (dj slightly rubbed, few pages at the beginning somewhat punctured). This beautifully printed and illustrated volume showcases the highlights of the collection of the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice. It includes "Profilo storico," "Cronologia," "Glossario," and "Bibliografia" by Martino Zorzi, along with descriptions of 157 illuminated manuscripts.

Nardini Editore, 1991 4to (31.5 cm), 278 pp. Hardcover in dust jacket (minor shelf-wear). This beautifully printed and illustrated volume showcases the highlights of the collection of the Vatican Apostolic Archive. It includes the "Profilo storico e Linee bibliografiche" by Terzo Natalini, along with descriptions of 143 illuminated manuscripts and documents.

The MIT Press, 1992 4to (28.5 cm), X, 318 pp. Publisher's cloth. "Poet, gardener, and moralist, Ian Hamilton Finlay is also an artist of international stature whose remarkable originality blurs the traditional genre distinctions between painting, sculpture, and architecture. Ian Hamilton Finlay: A Visual Primer will be an indispensable source for readers interested in any aspect of his work. Representing Finlay as both a visual artist and a poet, it brings together the widest range of printed texts, photographs, and environmental work yet assembled to provide a comprehensive overview of his achievements. Finlay became known in the 1960s as Britain's foremost concrete poet and promoted this movement through his Wild Hawthorn Press, which he continues to operate. Yet he is best known for his garden at Stonypath in Lanarkshire, Scotland, one of the most celebrated of modern gardens. "Little Sparta," as the garden is now called, is an inland island constantly transformed with… Read More

Counterpoint, 1999 12mo (19 cm), VIII, 257 pp. Publisher's cloth backed boards. "In the middle of the nineteenth century three diverse men discovered and named the Ice Ages. The heroes of the tale are an explorer-poet, Elisha Kent Kane (1820-1857), who spent two years trapped on Greenland's north coast, the renowned Swiss professor-author-lecturer, Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), and the Scottish geologist (and master politician) Charles Lyell (1797-1875). With their investigations, these adventurers changed our understanding of natural history and transformed Geology into the foundational science that supports biology, paleontology, oceanography, and, of course, glaciology." (from the publisher's description)

Amsterdam: Freres Chatelain, 1713 In-12, [4], 209, [3] pp, 4 pl. Veau marbré de l'époque, super ex-libris doré sur le plat supérieure (Hovelt), dos orné doré à 5 nerfs (légèrement frotté), tranches rouges. Édition originale de cet ouvrage à but instructif, inspiré du "Traité des plus belles bibliothèques de l'Europe" de Pierre Le Gallois (1680). Complet des 4 planches dépliantes gravées figurant le "plan de l'ordre d'une bibliothèque divertissante et curieuse" avec des "idées" pour créer une bibliothèque d'histoire antique, de sciences et de curiosités ou d'érudition. Henri-Philippe de Limiers (16 ..- 1728) était un historien == Cont. marbled calf, supralibros gilt (Hovelt), spine in compartments gilt, all edges painted red (binding slightly rubbed). The first edition of an… Read More

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009 8vo (24 cm), XXVIII, 468 pp. Publisher's cloth backed boards and dust jacket. From the blurb: "Social justice: an ideal, forever beyond our grasp; or one of many practical possibilities? More than a matter of intellectual discourse, the idea of justice plays a real role in how--and how well--people live. And in this book the distinguished scholar Amartya Sen offers a powerful critique of the theory of social justice that, in its grip on social and political thinking, has long left practical realities far behind. The transcendental theory of justice, the subject of Sen’s analysis, flourished in the Enlightenment and has proponents among some of the most distinguished philosophers of our day; it is concerned with identifying perfectly just social arrangements, defining the nature of the perfectly just society. The approach Sen favors, on the other hand, focuses on the comparative judgments of what is “more” or “less”… Read More

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009 8vo (24 cm), XXVIII, 468 pp. Publisher's cloth backed boards and dust jacket (binding somewhat bumped, dj frayed at extremities, a new but slightly damaged copy). From the blurb: "Social justice: an ideal, forever beyond our grasp; or one of many practical possibilities? More than a matter of intellectual discourse, the idea of justice plays a real role in how--and how well--people live. And in this book the distinguished scholar Amartya Sen offers a powerful critique of the theory of social justice that, in its grip on social and political thinking, has long left practical realities far behind. The transcendental theory of justice, the subject of Sen’s analysis, flourished in the Enlightenment and has proponents among some of the most distinguished philosophers of our day; it is concerned with identifying perfectly just social arrangements, defining the nature of the perfectly just society. The approach Sen favors, on the other hand,… Read More

Princeton University Press, 1995 8vo (23.5 cm), XII, 241 pp. Laminated wrappers (canceled stamp of an institutional library on the title). From the blurb: "As the countries of East-Central Europe struggle to create liberal democracy and the United States and other Western nations attempt to rediscover their own tarnished civil institutions, Adam Seligman identifies the neglect of the idea of "civil society" as a central concern common to both cultures today. Two centuries after its origins in the Enlightenment, the idea of civil society is being revived to provide an answer to the question of how individuals can pursue their own interests while preserving the greater good of society and, similarly, how society can advance the interests of the individuals who comprise it. However, as Seligman shows, the erosion of the very moral beliefs and philosophical assumptions upon which the idea of civil society was founded makes its revival much more difficult than is generally recognized."

Basil Blackwell, 1984 8vo (24.5 cm), VIII, 54 pp. Laminated wrappers. the book looks at some of the ideas and principles which guide scientist's work -- cause and effect, reproducibility, modeling, statistics; discusses the nature of experiments and the role of the imagination in scientific work.

Warszawa: Druk. "Progres", 1935 8vo (20.5 cm), pp. 161-320; 160 pp. Publisher's wrappers. Untrimmed and uncut (spines restored, small parts of wrappers missing on the outer edges). This includes two issues of Idisze Uniwersal-Bibliotek, encompassing the first and second parts (from a total of 12) of Mikhail Sholokhov's "And Quiet Flows the Don."

Amsterdam: Amsterdamsche Grafische School, 1932 12mo (19.5 cm), 56 pp, 88 plates. Publisher's cloth, front cover and spine gilt (spine sunned, binding slightly rubbed, tipped in bookplate).

Maximilian-Gesellschaft, 1990 4to (30.5 cm), 295 pp. Publisher's cloth in a slipcase. A monograph about German bookbinder Ignatz Wiemeler (1892-1952). Included a catalogue of Wiemeler's bindings.

Kraków: Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie, 2019 3 volumes 4to (30 cm), 759 pp; 343 pp; 611 pp. Publisher's laminated boards. Texts in Polish and English. Vol. I: Catalogue; Vol. II: Technological tests; Vol. III: Illustrations. The catalog of the oldest icons in the collection of the National Museum in Krakow is a distinctive three-volume publication that encapsulates the outcomes of several years of meticulous research. This comprehensive study encompasses an analysis of the most exquisite and prized icons dating from the 14th to 16th centuries. These icons predominantly originate from regions situated along the contemporary Polish-Ukrainian borderland, with additional pieces hailing from the Balkans, Moscow, and Novgorod.