History from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

Paris: Jean-Baptiste Coignard, 1711 2 volumes in-folio (43.5 x 28.5 cm), engraved frontispiece, [10], 54, [2], 214, [2], 444 pp; PP. 445-1017, [9], 140, [28] pp, 7 engraved maps and plans (6 folding), 7 engraved folding views, and 27 engraved plates (19 folding). Contemporary marbled calf, with spines in 6 raised bands gilt, red and brown morocco gilt-lettered labels, all… Read more about this item

Profile Books, 2023 8vo (24 cm), XVII, [1], 493, [1] pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "Emperor of Rome explores the fact and fiction of the rulers of the ancient Roman world, asking what they did, why they did it, and why their stories have been told in the extravagant, sometimes lurid, ways that they have. It looks at big… Read more about this item

Cygielman Publishers, 1997 8vo (24.5 cm), [10], III, [1], 493, [3] pp, folding map. Publisher's boards and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear). Selected documents on the autonomy of the Jewish community in Poland and Lithuania: scope, communal and extra-communal institutions and their modes of operation with a historical prologue and epilogue, annotated sources and indexes, map and photographs of… Read more about this item

Jagiellonian University Press, 2014 8vo (23 cm), 164 pp. Lamiated wrappers. "The classical work of Samuel Pufendorf on the reign of Charles X Gustav, King of Sweden, printed in Nuremberg in 1696, has not been systematically explored. The translation project made it possible to examine, inter alia, the issues of the Author's impartiality, or his method of research and writing… Read more about this item

Harvard University Press, 1983 8vo (23 cm), XI, 244 pp. Publisher's printed wrappers. From the blurb: "The linkages between nationalism and socialism and the nature of peasant and artisan politics in East Europe are the fundamental problems engaged by this study of socialism in nineteenth-century Galicia. Here, in imperial Austria’s largest and easternmost crown land, Polish and Ukrainian socialists organized… Read more about this item

McGraw-Hill, 2005 8vo (23 cm), XXVI, 383, 10, 6, 4, 38 pp. Laminated wrappers (marked copy). Marked by C. Warren Hollister's clear historical vision and engaging teaching style, this classic text has been judiciously revised by Judith Bennett; the tenth edition includes greater coverage of Byzantium and Islam, a revised map program, a new essay program on medieval myths, and… Read more about this item

Stanisławów: Drukarnia i Litografja Stanisława Chowańca, 1928 4to (30 cm), [68] pp, 1 folding plan, 9 illustrations tipped in and interleaved with tissue paper. Printed wrappers (wrappers slightly stained and rubbed at extremities, first quire loose). Limited to 400 copies, this is number 333. In Polish. A history of the Armenian community in Stanisławów (today Ivano-Frankivsk in Western Ukraine). A… Read more about this item

The British Library, 2004 8vo (25 cm), IX, 298 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. John Evelyn (1620-1706) has long been known as one of the best-loved of English diarists. But he was much else besides: gardener, environmentalist, connoisseur, bibliophile, intellectual in government service, influential lay Anglican -- in fact the quintessential virtuoso of seventeenth century England and a key… Read more about this item

Cambridge University Press, 1993 8vo (21.5 cm), XIV, 300 pp. Laminated wrappers (wrappers slightly rubbed at extremities). Although the importance of the advent of printing for Western civilization has long been recognized, it was Professor Eisenstein, in her monumental two-volume work, "The Printing Press as an Agent of Change," who provided the first full-scale treatment of the subject. This illustrated… Read more about this item

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1977 8vo (24.5 cm), X, 188 pp. Publisher's cloth (binding slightly rubbed). Papers presented at the conference held at Dumbarton Oaks on October 26-27, 1974. Contents include: "Seaborne contacts between early cultures in lower southeastern United States and Middle through South America" by William H. Sears; "Navigators of the winter sun" by Johannes Wilbert;… Read more about this item

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1987 8vo (23.5 cm), VI, 513 pp. Publisher's cloth (minor shelf-wear). Papers presented at the October 8-9, 1983 symposium at Dumbarton Oaks. Contents include: "Templo Mayor research, 1521-1978" by Elizabeth Hill Boone; "The ethnohistorical record for the Huey Teocalli of Tenochtitlan" by Miguel Leon-Portilla; "Templo Mayor architecture: so what's new?" by Augusto F. Molina… Read more about this item

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1990 8vo (23.5 cm), X, 548 pp. Publisher's cloth (minor shelf-wear). This volume comprises papers presented at the October 12-13, 1985, symposium at Dumbarton Oaks. Contents include: "Structure and history in the dynastic lore of Chimor" by Michael E. Moseley; "Internal Development and Organization. Architecture of the Chimu : memory, function, and image" by… Read more about this item

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1993 8vo (23.5 cm), XII, 482 pp. Publisher's cloth (minor shelf-wear). Papers presented at the October 7-8, 1989 symposium at Dumbarton Oaks. Contents include: "Eighth-century physical geography, environment, and natural resources in the Maya lowlands" by Don S. Rice; "The economics of social power and wealth among eighth-century Maya households" by Patricia A.… Read more about this item

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1988 8vo (23.5 cm), VI, 412 pp. Publisher's cloth. Papers presented at the October 6-7, 1984 symposium at Dumbarton Oaks. Contents include: "Copan as a Classic Maya center" by David Webster; "Quirigua as a Classic Maya center" by Robert J. Sharer; "Epigraphy of the Southeast Zone in relation to other parts of Mesoamerica" by… Read more about this item

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1975 8vo (24.5 cm), XII, 196 pp. Publisher's cloth (minor shelf-wear). Papers presented at the October 27, 1973 conference at Dumbarton Oaks. Contents include: "Spiro art and its mortuary contexts" by James A. Brown; "House of darkness and house of light : sacred functions of west Mexican funerary art" by Peter T. Furst; "Post-classic… Read more about this item

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1981 8vo (24.5 cm), X, 245 pp. Publisher's cloth (binding slightly rubbed at extremities). Papers presented at the conference held at Dumbarton Oaks on October 16-17, 1976. Contents include: "Caves, gods, and myths: world-view and planning in Teotihuacan" by Doris Heyden; "Monte Alban in the Valley of Oaxaca" by Horst Hartung; "The Great Temple… Read more about this item

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1993 8vo (23.5 cm), VIII, 373 pp. Publisher's cloth (minor shelf-wear). Papers presented at the October 11-12, 1986 symposium at Dumbarton Oaks. Contents include: "The making of Latin American horizons : an introduction to the volume" by Don Stephen Rice; "An overview of "horizon" and "horizon style" in the study of ancient American objects"… Read more about this item

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1996 4to (31 cm), VIII, 392 pp. Publisher's cloth (minor shelf-wear). Papers from the 1986 Summer Seminar, Empire, Province, and Village in Aztec History. The book is a comprehensive analysis of the economic and political geography of the Aztec empire. It is the fruit of a joint research project among ethnohistorians, archaeologists, and art… Read more about this item

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1983 8vo (23.5 cm), VIII, 263 pp. Publisher's cloth (binding slightly rubbed). Papers presented at the conference held at Dumbarton Oaks on October 18-19, 1980. Contents include: "Comparison of agrotechnologies in the basin of Mexico and central Maya lowlands" by B.L. Turner; "An instrument of expansion" by C. Coggins; "Obsidian trade and Teotihuacan influence… Read more about this item

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1995 8vo (23.5 cm), VIII, 425 pp. Publisher's cloth (minor shelf-wear). Papers presented at the October 12-13, 1991 symposium at Dumbarton Oaks. Contents include: Ancient Peruvian practices are summarized by J.H. Rowe; Chinchorro mummies by M.S. Rivera; San Agustín, Colombia, by R.D. Drennan; Moche by C.B. Donnan; Nasca by P.H. Carmichael; south coastal Peru… Read more about this item