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Berlin, Propyläen-Verlag, n.d. (1923?). 57pp. text + 55 full-page facsimiles (several in colour) and 18 facs. of initials in the text. Sm. folio. Halfcloth (rebacked).
Apples and Pears in Orchards of Michurin Experimenters by Smirnov, V.F - 1951
by Smirnov, V.F
Apples and Pears in Orchards of Michurin Experimenters
by Smirnov, V.F
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COLOR ATLAS OF APPLES BASED ON TECHNIQUES DEVELOPED BY IVAN MICHURIN BEFORE THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION.
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IVAN VLADIMIROVICH MICHURIN (1855 – 1935) was a Russian practitioner of selection to produce new types of crop plants, Honorable Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and academician of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agriculture. Michurin was one of the founding fathers of scientific agricultural selection. He worked on hybridization of plants of similar and different origins, cultivating methods in connection with the natural course of ontogenesis, directing the process of predominance, evaluation and selection of seedlings, and acceleration of the process of selection with the help of physical and chemical factors. One of the most highly cited phrases by Michurin was: "We cannot wait for favors from Nature. To take them from it – that is our task." During the Lysenkoism campaign, work by Michurin was misused, after his death, by the Soviet propaganda as an argument against genetics.
COLOR ATLAS OF APPLES BASED ON TECHNIQUES DEVELOPED BY IVAN MICHURIN BEFORE THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION.
10 1/4 inches tall volume with original navy flexible cloth covered boards, cover with blindstamped image of apple, and gilt title; gilt title to spine, decorative endpapers with sepia orchard scene. 130 black & white figures throughout text, and 32 colored plates of apples and pears. Corners and spine ends rubbed, very good.
IVAN VLADIMIROVICH MICHURIN (1855 – 1935) was a Russian practitioner of selection to produce new types of crop plants, Honorable Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and academician of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agriculture. Michurin was one of the founding fathers of scientific agricultural selection. He worked on hybridization of plants of similar and different origins, cultivating methods in connection with the natural course of ontogenesis, directing the process of predominance, evaluation and selection of seedlings, and acceleration of the process of selection with the help of physical and chemical factors. One of the most highly cited phrases by Michurin was: "We cannot wait for favors from Nature. To take them from it – that is our task." During the Lysenkoism campaign, work by Michurin was misused, after his death, by the Soviet propaganda as an argument against genetics.
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Gotische Holzschnitte. Ausgewählt und eingeleited von ---.
by GLASER, CURT.
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CAROL TWOMBLY: HER BRIEF BUT BRILLIANT CAREER IN TYPE DESIGN
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New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. hardcover, dust jacket. 6.625 x 9.875 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 176 pages. "The detailed research and design process behind all these fonts (as well as the evolving technology) is conveyed through the many half-tone illustrations in Nancy Stock-Allen's excellent study." - Nancy Campbell, TLS "Carol Twombly... has been billed as 'the first book on type design centered around the career of one woman.' I would argue that it is more important than that. It is the first full-length biography of a type designer of the digital era - man or woman. ... an essential addition to the bookshelves of anyone seriously interested in the history of type design." - Paul Shaw, PRINT Magazine "Very well-written and - dare I say it, (this is a type nerd book after all) - quite an engaging read." - Elizabeth Carey Smith, Type Director's Club (blog review) "The book provides broad and deep context for Twombly's work within the insular typographic community that…
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Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters And Seymour
by Salinger J. D
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Alaska and Klondike Region; [With inset of Klondike Region on the Upper Yukon detail] [From an atlas, "Gazetteer of Alaska and Yukon Region " pp. 105 and 106]
by Miller, J. Martin
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Chicago: J. Martin Miller, 1899. Unknown. Map. Very Good. [Map copyright 1899, printing date of Atlas later] [19.875x15.125in]; Colored map of Alaska with steamer routes from Portland and Seattle, insets of the Klondike Region on the Upper Yukon and Western portion of Aleutian Islands; On verso index of places and names with two large black and white images; Age toning to all edges, water stain marks on bottom, slight printing offset of colors, small chips and closed tears to lower edge;.
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The Ten Master Minds of Dairying
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Des Moines: Successful Farming, 1930. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". 78pp. Wear to black paper wraps with rubbing, toning, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges. Tear to bottom corner at rear cover. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Toning to endpapers. Faint musty smell to pages. Pages are free of marks and notation. Binding is sound. An overall solid copy of this work on masters of dairying, including chapters on Stephen Moulton Babcock, Wiliam Dempster Hoard, Clarence Henry Eckles, Carl Gustaf Patrik De Laval, Elmer Verner McCollum, Louis Pasteur, Theophilus Levi Haecker, Gail Borden, William Arnon Henry, and Otto Frederick Hunziker.
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READING & WRITING ACCESSORIES: A STUDY OF PAPER-KNIVES, PAPER FOLDERS, LETTER OPENERS AND MYTHICAL PAGE TURNERS
by Spellerberg, Ian
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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. paperback. 8.27 x 11.69 inches. paperback. 128 pages. "Spellerberg has become an important new authority on implements designed to do controlled damage to paper. In the process, he's turned what most people thought they knew about these objects, particularly about page turners, on its head." - Ben Marks, Collector's Weekly "The book is illustrated with paper-knives and paper-folders of every design... There are cutters in the form of a stockinged leg, a hammer, a cricket bat, a ruler (with postal information, and an alligator." - J.C, TLS "As its subtitle notes, this is indeed a study, implying thoughtful, balanced and well considered [writing] rather than a mere price guide or pictorial history... You'd never think such a narrow subject (!) could be so deeply explored, but Spellerberg does so in a lively yet scholarly fashion." - William Butts, Manuscripts "Well-researched and eloquently presented... Readers are provided with a dazzling array…
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GRANJON'S FLOWERS: AN ENQUIRY INTO GRANJON'S, GIOLITO'S, AND DE TOURNES' ORNAMENTS, 1542-1586
by Vervliet, Hendrik D.L.
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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. hardcover, dust jacket. 7.25 x 9.75 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 248 pages. "Overall, an astonishing achievement from a scholar with an unerring eye for the minutiae of typgraphical identification, this is a volume that will long remain useful for printing historians." -- David Shaw, The Library, June 2018 "Nobody is better qualified than Hendrik Vervliet... to establish which of these ornaments are by Granjon, and to say when and where they were used. ... Definitive." -- James Mosely, Journal of the Printing Historical Society Robert Granjon (1513-1590) was a younger contemporary of Claude Garamont (c.1510-1561) and with him one of the great names in the history of type-design. His typefaces have been studied in some depth, but except for a dozen combinable type-ornaments surveyed by the author previously, his printers' flowers, however elegant and innovative, have attracted only cursory attention in such broader works as Morison's on the…
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Blizzards: Reunion and Fiftieth Anniversary.1888-1938, Fairview School, District No. 60, Fillmore County, Nebraska
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This volume contains a record of the "happenings" at a little white schoolhouse on two days separated by 50 years. It also includes letters from the "outside world" and contributed accounts of blizzards, storms grasshopper blights and fires. Acknowledgements made to local residents for pictures and stories.. special recognition to University Publishing Co.,Lincoln, NE for the use " Nebraska Old and New"and to the Rev Wesley children for use of their book, "A Frontier Life"
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Self - Portrait: U.S.A.
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New York: Harry N. Abrams, , 1969. 325 fascinating b/w photographs giving a unique and intimate insight in to the Republican and Democratic conventions of 1968. In publisher's blue/green cloth with gilt, inside its dust jacket. Very good condition dust jacket, with lightly bumped corners (one has a very small closed tear shown in photographs). Book itself is in a fine condition. David Douglas Duncan was an American photojournalist renowned for his photographs of combat situations in the Vietnam War, during which he was an officer in the Marine Corps. His camera of choice was the Nikon F. This was Nikon's first SLR camera, and one of the most advanced cameras of its day. 240 pages. 360 x 285 mm (14¼ x 11¼ inches).
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The Death Notebooks
by Anne Sexton
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Osnovy ekonomicheskikh znanij dlya rabochikh / Основы экономических знаний для рабочих
by Baranov A.A., Medvedev V.A., Moldavan V.S., Rumyantsev A.F., Smirnov A.A., Trunov Yu.I., Fedinin V.K., Fillipov V.F. / Баранов А.А., Медведев В.А., Молдаван В.С., Румянцев А.Ф., Смирнов А.А., Трунов Ю
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Политиздат, 1972. Hardcover/Hardback. Good. Основы экономических знаний для рабочих; Учебник, Баранов А.А., Медведев В.А., Молдаван В.С., Румянцев А.Ф., Смирнов А.А., Трунов Ю.И., Фединин В.К., Филлипов В.Ф., Руководитель авторского коллектива проф. Румянцев А.Ф.
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Germaniya i Rossiya: Sobytiya, obrazy, Lyudi. Sbornik Rossijsko-germanskikh issledovanij Vypusk 1 / Германия и Россия: События, образы, Люди. Сборник Российско-германских исследований Выпуск 1
by Artemov V.A., Gusev V.V., Smirnov V.F. / Артемов В.А., Гусев В.В., Смирнов В.Ф
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Изд. ВоронежГУ. Воронеж. 1998. Softcover/Paperback. As New. Диалог историков России и Германии приобретает в настоящее время особое значение. Одной из площадок этого диалога стал воронежский сборник "Германия и Россия. События, образы, люди" под редакцией доктора исторических наук, профессора Воронежского государственного университета (ВГУ) С.В. Кретинина вышли выпуски с четвертого по десятый. До этого сборник выходил под редакцией д.и.н., проф В.А. Артемова. Таким образом, ВГУ и функционирующий на его основе Воронежский региональный центр германских исследований…
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Nijinsky and the Last Years of Nijinsky
by Nijinsky, Romola
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Nijinsky, Romola. Nijinsky and the Last Years of Nijinsky. The Definitive Biography Copyright 1980. Simon and Schuster stated First Impression Thus. Number line starts with 1. EXLIB. Good Condition/ VG original dust jacket. 260 pages, indexed. ISBN0671411233. PERFORMING ARTS, RUSSIA, BALLET, VASLAV NIJINSKY. Summary: "The life of Vaslav Nijinsky is not merely a record of a great dancer's artistic triumphs; it is one of the strangest stories ever written. There is madness everywhere. From the child's first appearance with a troupe of wandering Russians to that last terrible performance, his "Marriage With God" , it is a growing chaos of madness, abnormality, distortion, genius and beauty." 260 pages, indexed. 5 3/4 X 8 3/4.
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Negotiating with the Soviets
by Raymond F. Smith
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Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press and Institute with the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, September 1989. Trade paperback. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Near Fine. Slight reading wear to lower corners, otherwise Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Covers clean. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xii + 148 pages.
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Dmitry: Called the Pretender, Tsar and Great Prince of all Russia, 1605-1606
by Barbour, Philip L
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket tattered.. 1966. Hardcover. Photographs. Maps and tables by Samuel H. Bryant. Index, bibliography. Black cloth binding. Map endpapers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 387 pages .
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SOVIET POLITICAL THOUGHT: AN ANTHOLOGY
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Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1967. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book is in NF condition with light bumping to spine ends else a bright and solid copy. Dust jacket is in VG condition with light rubbing to edges & spine, bumping to spine ends, scuffing to rear cover else still bright, intact and whole.
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Michael Strogoff: The Courier Of The Czar (PHOTOPLAY EDITION)
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Verne, Jules MICHAEL STROGOFF, THE COURIER OF THE CZAR. No info on copyright page. Grosset & Dunlap 1926 Universal-Film de France Photoplay Edition. USED. VG/Acceptable Original charging charioteer dust jacket. Front panel and spine of jacket have some loss. Please see our photos. Apple green boards with orange titles box. Film directed by Jacques de Baroncelli. Now protected by a mylar wrap. 315 pages 5 ¼ X 7 5/8.Please excuse our stack of books photos. Michael Strogoff is the only title available here.
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Russian Realities: Being Impressions Gathered During Some Recent Journeys in Russia
by Hubback, John
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London: John Lane, the Bodley Head. Good in Fair dust jacket; Front boards and spine waterstained, boards . worn, owner name on front free endpaper, pages toned, jacket toned and . tattered and split in two.. 1915. Later Printing. Hardcover. Green cloth titled in gilt. Green topstain. xv, 271pp. 9.5 x 13 inch folding map of Russia at rear. 16 photo reproductions. The author relates his travels through European regions of Russia in the years just before the Revolution, based on eleven short trips between 1910-1915. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Lenin for Beginners (Pantheon Documentary Comic Books)
by A&Z; Richard Appignanesi; Oscar Zárate
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The Intimate Diary of a Russian Woman: My Search for Meaning in the Midst of My Country's Upheaval
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New York, William Morrow & Co, 1992, hardcover, 236 pp, Signed and inscribed by the Author on the half-title page, First Edition stated, First Printing by numberline, Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. Straight. tight and clean with no markings, slight spine-end touches. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight edge bumps, light rubs, in new Brodart sleeve. A young woman writes candidly of a choice she feels she must make, between her country's uncertain future, and the promise of life in the West. Translation by Antonina W. Bouis. ISBN 9780688104160
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Katalog Inkunabulov
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Leningradakogo: Univ. Nauchnoi Bibliotaki Im. Gor'kogo, 1967. Cloth. Octavo (7¾" - 9¾" tall). Russian text, with Latin 42, (18)pp. Bibliography. Suite of 18 b&w plates. Bound in white cloth boards, with white illustrated dust jacket. Light wear to book and jacket. Pencil notes on rear panel; Library bar-code sticker on rear endpaper. Very Good/Very Good.
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Oeuvres Posthumes de M. de Rhulières
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Paris, Lavillette, 1792. First Edition. Hard Cover. iv, [7] - 248 pages; 17 cm. Chapters: Tableau esquisse de la fermentation qui agite actuellement l'Empire Ottoman, la Russie & la Pologne; Commerce de Russie; Maree de la mer Germanique; Palais imp de la Haye le lundi cinq Septembre 1735; Anecdotes sur M. de Richelieu. Rulhières was "a knight of St. Louis, of the French academy, accompanied the marquis de l'Hèpital into Russia, as secretary to the embassy, and witnessed the revolution" in which Catherine II replaced Peter III (in 1762). "He wrote the history of the catastrophe in a few pages but those pages are worthy of Sallust. ...He also produced a picture of the revolution in Poland... being informed by sure correspondents, and having collected excellent materials..." OCLC records three copies. Cioranescu 57811. Bound in contemporary full leather, rebacked; very good. Stock#OB735.
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