Search Results: Titles starting with M from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

Modern Philology, 1942 8vo (24 cm), PP. 313-319, 69-98, 197-212. Printed wrappers. Reprinted for private circulation from Modern Philology, Vol. XXXIX, No, 1-3, 1941-42. Inscribed by author "With pleasant memories of your visit to Yale".

Chapman & Hall, 1989 8vo (23 cm), XV, 255 pp. Laminated wrappers (ownership entry on title). "This book aims to present the key findings of machine learning research, explained by experts in the field, in an accessible manner for both students and computer professionals. The authors attempt to convey some of the excitement of working in this dynamic area at the frontier of computer science. They also show how the techniques described can lead to practical results." (from the blurb)

Chronicle Books, 2021 4to (25.5 cm), 256 pp. Publisher's cloth. "Books written in blood and books that kill, books of the insane and books that hoaxed the globe, books invisible to the naked eye and books so long they could destroy the Universe, books worn into battle and books of code and cypher whose secrets remain undiscovered. Spell books, alchemist scrolls, wearable books, edible books, books to summon demons, books written by ghosts, and more all come together in the most curiously strange library imaginable." (from the publisher's description)

John Libbey & Co Ltd, 1997 8vo (24 cm), XIII, 617 pp. Laminated wrappers (wrappers somewhat rubbed at extremities). "This book focuses in particular the latest information on 'Magnesium in Cardiology' which is surely the most attractive topic since controversial outcomes on the efficacy of intravenous magnesium application in acute myocardial infraction resulted from the clinical mega-trials LIMIT-2 and ISIS-4. Furthermore the book contains important news of clinical and experimental research in the field of diabetogy, nephrology, neurology and psychiatry. Additionally, physiological topics, expecially, physical exercise, metabolism and nutrition are covered and the latest information on basic research and laboratory topics, especially referring to magnesium ion analysis is represented. " (publisher's synopsis)

Amsterdam: Nicolas Visscher, 1679 Engraving 50 x 57.5 cm. A very good copy of a map of the Turkish Empire by Nicolaes Visscher I, a renowned Dutch engraver, cartographer, and publisher.

London: Sotheby's, 1987 4to (27.5 cm), 428 pp. Publisher's cloth. Price-list loosely inserted. Auction catalogue of a sale of magnificent collection of botanical books formed by Belgian collector Robert de Belder (1921-1995). Highlights included Besler's Hortus Eystettensis in contemporary coloring (GBP 605,000), Catesby's The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands (1730-1747, GBP 165,000), large paper copy of L'Héritier de Brutelle's Strirpes novae (1784-1791, 107,800), Maria Sibylla Merian's Insectorum Surinamensium (1719, 121,000), Prévost's Collection de fleurs et des fruits (1805, 154,000), Redouté's Les Roses (1817-1824, 143,000), Rabel's Theatrum florae (1622, 187,000), Redouté's Les liliacées (1802-1816, 154,000), Sibthorp's Flora Graeca (1806-1847, 115,500), Thornton's New Illustration (1799-1807, 187,000), Trew's Hortus nitidissimus (1750-1786, 308,000).

New York: Sotheby's, 2001 4to (27 cm), 478 pp. Publisher's laminated wrappers and laminated jacket. Auction catalog of a sale conducted in New York 10-11 April 2001. The price list loosely inserted. 568 lots including Aldus edition of Aristotle (146-1498), first edition of Aristotle's Libri de Animalibus (1476), King James Bible, Champlain' Les Voyages de la Nouvelle France (1632), a presentation copy of Thèses by Marie Sklodowska Curie, first edition of Descartes' Discours de la méthode, first edition of Euclid' Elements (1482), William Hamilton' Campi Phlegraei (1779), first edition of Hortus Sanitatis (1491), Linnaeus' Systema naturae (1735), second edition of Plinius' Historia natiralis (1470)Peiesc copy of Ramelli' Machine (1588), Seba (1734-1739), Thucydides (1545) in Apollo and Pegasus binding.

Budapest, 2006 3 volumes 4to (33.5 cm), 156 pp, 334 plates; 164 pp, 341 plates; 184 pp, 99 plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jackets (minor shelf-wear). A comprehensive bibliography of views depicting Hungarian castles, towns, and villages up to the year 1800. Volume 1 encompasses 2,200 views capturing 94 towns within the present-day borders of Hungary. Volume 2 presents 1,986 views portraying 152 locations that were part of Hungary before 1914, now situated in Austria, Croatia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia, and Ukraine. The third volume serves as a supplement.

Times Publishing Company, 1956 8vo (25 cm), IV, 44 pp. Printed wrappers (wrappers slightly dusted and toned near staples). Biographies of Galileo Galilei, Newton, Lavoisier, Dalton, Faraday, Pasteur, Darwin, Mendeleev, Thomson and Rutherford.

Penguin Books, 1989 8vo (20 cm), XVI, 437, [11] pp. Printed wrappers (biding slightly crease, paper somewhat browned). "This is an account of the history of mathematics as it is revealed in the lives and writings of the most distinguished practitioners of the art, such as Archimedes, Descartes, Fermat, Pascal, Newton, Leibniz, Euler, Gauss, Hamilton and Einstein. In his account of their lives, the author introduces and explains the part these figures have played in the development of mathematics and how their work relates to the discipline. While the emphasis in his survey is primarily biographical, the author also discusses major historical themes and explains new ideas and techniques." (from the blurb)

Harvard University Press, 2002 8vo (24 cm), 384 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "Offering a fundamental reinterpretation of the emergence of the Soviet state, Peter Holquist situates the Bolshevik Revolution within the continuum of mobilization and violence that began with World War I and extended through Russia's civil war. In so doing, Holquist provides a new genealogy for Bolshevik political practices, one that places them clearly among Russian and European wartime measures. From this perspective, the Russian Revolution was no radical rupture with the past, but rather the fulcrum point in a continent-wide era of crisis and violence that began in 1914. While Tsarist and Revolutionary governments implemented policies for total mobilization common to other warring powers, they did so in a supercharged and concentrated form. Holquist highlights how the distinctive contours of Russian political life set its experience in these years apart from other wartime societies. In pursuit of… Read More

Amsterdam: Nico Israel, 1976 Folio (35 cm), 256 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear) "This is the first work in English on the entire production of an early illustrated book. The survival of page by page layouts for a book of the incunabula period, as well as the original contracts for its illustration,for its printing and for the allotment of profits and unsold books is unique to the Nuremberg Chronicle of 1493. Furthermore, the astonishing discovery in 1972 of preliminary woodcut drawings and layouts reveals the first steps in how the book was planned. 'The Making of the Nuremberg Chronicle', which gathers into one volume all these factors, is a landmark in the study of incunabula." (from the blurb)

Amsterdam: Nico Israel, 1976 Folio (35 cm), 256 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-war). "This is the first work in English on the entire production of an early illustrated book. The survival of page by page layouts for a book of the incunabula period, as well as the original contracts for its illustration,for its printing and for the allotment of profits and unsold books is unique to the Nuremberg Chronicle of 1493. Furthermore, the astonishing discovery in 1972 of preliminary woodcut drawings and layouts reveals the first steps in how the book was planned. 'The Making of the Nuremberg Chronicle', which gathers into one volume all these factors, is a landmark in the study of incunabula." (from the blurb).

Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1874 12mo (19.5 cm), 318, [2], 23 pp, 12 plates, 7 leaves of marbled paper. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth, gilt-lettered title on the spine (binding chipped at the head of the spine and rubbed at extremities, a bookplate on the front free endpaper, inside a fresh and bright copy). Stereotype of the first edition published in 1856.

New York: Edmond Jones & Co, 1865 12mo (19 cm), xiv, 879 pp, folding map, 2 folding plans, 3 portraits, 2 folding facsimiles of autographs, 1 black and white view, 18 chromolithographs (2 folding). Publisher's brown cloth, tooled in gold and blind (spine slightly sunned, binding somewhat dusted, cloth frayed at the head and the tail of the spine, inscriptions on the title page, small tears to the map and plan). David T. Valentine (1801-1869) was a New York public official and publisher. In 1841, he compiled and published the first edition of his "Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York," an illustrated compendium of official and historical material. The book proved popular, and Valentine published annual editions until 1867 (Encyclopedia of New York). The 1865 edition, apart from the wealth of official information and the New York directory (508 pp), included historical studies: "History of Broadway," "Conveyances of Lots in New Amsterdam from 1659 to… Read More

Harvard University Press, 1922 8vo (22.5 cm), XLVII, 686 pp. Publisher's cloth, spine gilt. Harvard Bibliographies. Library Series, Vol. II. The aim of the book "has been to present for ready reference the contractual and conventional material of international relations down t the outbreak of the World War. The bibliographic form has been used for the sake of convenience and precision." (from the Preface). 3468 items and Appendix on the publication of treaties.

Paris: Firmin Didot Frères, Fils, et Cie, 1860 8 volumes, 8vo (25.5 cm), contemporary uniform morocco-backed boards, 4 raised bands, spines gilt, front and back boards with double gilt fillets, top edges gilt, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed, marbled endpapers (bindings slightly rubbed, corners somewhat scuffed, paper slightly toned). Together with Dictionnaire de géographie ancienne et moderne à l'usage du libraire et de l'amateur de livres. Paris: Firmin Didot Frères, 1870. 8vo (24.5 cm). Contemporary chagrin-backed marbled boards. Raised bands, spine gilt (binding slightly rubbed, paper slightly toned). From the library of American collector Owen Franklin Aldis (bookplates designed by Ralph Seymour Fletcher tipped in the front endpapers, Aldis heraldic bookplates on the back endpapers ). The fifth and the best edition. The first edition of Jacques-Charles Brunet's Manual was published in 1810. "The three-volume work expanded to its fifth edition,… Read More

Paris: CNRS, 1998 4to (30 cm), 244 pp, 26 illustrations in color, 155 in b&w on unpaginated plates. Publisher's laminated boards. A Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts in Libraries and Museums of the town of Chambéry in Savoy meticulously describes and illustrates 40 manuscripts. This comprehensive work offers detailed insights into the rich heritage of illuminated manuscripts held within the cultural institutions of Chambéry.

Chatto & Windus, 1978 4to (28 cm), 120 pp. Laminated wrappers (lamination slightly wrapped top of the front wrapper). 13 black-and-white illustrations and 40 illustrations in color. Excellent introduction to the manuscript painting at the court of France in the fourteenth century.

Paris: Bibliotheque Nationale, 1980 4to (30.5 cm), XXII, 105 pp, 8 plates in color, 56 plates in b&w. Publisher's cloth (small stain top center). This is the first volume in the "Manuscrits enluminés d'origine italienne" series, describing 157 manuscripts of Italian origin from the 6th to the 12th century housed in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The volume provides detailed descriptions of each manuscript, offering insights into the artistic and historical richness of the Italian manuscript tradition during this significant period. This series aims to illuminate and showcase the cultural and artistic heritage encapsulated in these manuscripts within the French national library's collection.