Search Results: History from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1965 8vo (24.5 cm), VIII, 290 pp, folding map. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "The origin and growth of English interest in those parts of the world that one day make up the British Empire can be followed in the books that came from English presses between 1481 and 1620. This book is an attempt to record these publications." 267 editions are described.

London: British Library, 1999 4to (31.5 cm), X, 150 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the blurb: "Britain's 1000-year prominence on the international stage endures. Posterity owes the English language (spoken now by more than half the world's population) a tradition of democratic freedom, governmental and legal systems which have been adapted in many countries, and world figures in science, literature, and the arts. The "British Inheritance" is shared not just by the peoples of the UK but also by those of many lands -- the U.S.A., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, and India -- which were once its colonies and are now its allies and partners. Britain's rich historical heritage is evident in the great archive and manuscript collections found in such institutions as the Public Record Office, British Library, National Library of Scotland, Scottish Record Office, and National Library of Wales. From King Arthur, Alfred the Great, and William the Conqueror to… Read More

Harvard University Press, 2004 12mo (17 cm), XXII, 631 pp, folding map. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj slightly rubbed at extremities, tipped in bookplate). With an English translation by H. J. Edwards.

Edward O. Beck, 1935 12mo (19.5 cm), 202 pp. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered spine (binding rubbed at extremities, endpapers slightly spotted). Second edition. With an introduction by Lord Farrer.

Thames and Hudson, 1983 8vo (24 cm), 232 pp, plates. Laminated wrappers (canceled stamp of an institutional library on the title). A classic account of the language, culture, and traditions of the Celts. Using the evidence of history, archeology and linguistics it portrays the rich variety of Celtic, life, art and religion across the whole of barbarian Europe, from the Balkans in the east to Frances, Spain, Ireland and Great Britain in the west.

Canadian Institute of Ukranian Studies Press, 1986 8vo (20.5 cm), XII, 228 pp. Laminated wrappers. From the blurb: "Chernobyl and Nuclear Power in the USSR provides the first detailed account of the Soviet nuclear power industry and of the nature, impact and consequences of the Chernobyl disaster of late April 1986. It encompasses the first days after the accident and how the Soviet authorities released the news to the West; Soviet energy problems that have led to a new and unprecedented commitment to nuclear power; the co-operation and links of the USSR and the Comecon countries in the current nuclear programme (particularly with Soviet Ukraine); development in the USSR, including an analysis of the progress of individual stations in the Ukraine; construction and safety questions; the immediate aftermath of the disaster; and the political and economic consequences of the accident. The author raises the key questions: are Soviet nuclear power plants inherently unsafe? What impact will the… Read More

Manchuria Research Society: Harbin, 1928 Oblong 4to, 72, 19 pp, 19 ff plates (10 in color). Publisher's wrappers (covers slightly stained, soiled, and rubbed, corners of a few leaves at the beginning soiled). In Russian, English, and Chinese. A rare book published in Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang, China’s northernmost province. After the revolution and the civil war, the city was a center of Russian emigration.

Venice: Mekhitarians of San Lazaro, 1818 2 volumes in-4, [12], XL, 408 pp; [8], 380, [3] pp. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards (bindings slightly rubbed, free endpapers toned). From the libraries of M. A. G. du Plessis and P. de la Morandière (bookplates). Text in Armenian, Greek, and Latin. The first edition of the part of Eusebius’ Chronicle preserved only in Armenian, printed by Mekhitarian monks on San Lazaro island in Venice.

Yale University Press, 1991 8vo (23.5 cm), XII, 322 pp. Publisher's laminated wrappers. From the blurb: "For many centuries it was accepted that civilization began with the Greeks and Romans. During the last two hundred years, however, archaeological discoveries in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete, Syria, Anatolia, Iran, and the Indus Valley have revealed that rich cultures existed in these regions some two thousand years before the Greco-Roman era. In this fascinating work, H.W.F Saggs presents a wide-ranging survey of the more notable achievements of these societies, showing how much the ancient peoples of the Near and Middle East have influenced the patterns of our daily lives. Saggs discusses the invention of writing, tracing it from the earliest pictograms (designed for account-keeping) to the Phoenician alphabet, the source of the Greek and all European alphabets. He investigates teh curricula, teaching methods, and values of the schools from which scribes graduated. Analyzing the provisions… Read More

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010 4to (27 cm), 1088 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the blurb: "How do we get from the polis to the police? Or from Odysseus’s sirens to an ambulance's? The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred articles by a wide range of scholars investigate the afterlife of this rich heritage in the fields of literature, philosophy, art, architecture, history, politics, religion, and science. Arranged alphabetically from Academy to Zoology, the essays - designed and written to serve scholars, students, and the general reader alike - show how the Classical tradition has shaped human endeavors from art to government, mathematics to medicine, drama to urban planning, legal theory to popular culture. At once authoritative and accessible, learned and entertaining, comprehensive and surprising, and accompanied by an extensive… Read More

The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005 12mo (19 cm), VI, 340 pp. Laminated wrappers. "With the full panorama of her life forever lost, Cleopatra touches us in a series of sensational images: floating through a perfumed mist down the Nile; dressed as Venus for a tryst at Tarsus; unfurled from a roll of linens before Caesar; couchant, the deadly asp clasped to her breast. Through such images, each immortalising the Egyptian queen's encounters with legendary Romans - Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, and Octavian Augustus - we might also chart her rendezvous with the destiny of Rome. So Diana Kleiner shows us in this provocative book, which opens an entirely new perspective on one of the most intriguing women who ever lived. Cleopatra and Rome reveals how these iconic episodes, absorbed into a larger historical and political narrative, document a momentous cultural shift from the Hellenistic world to the Roman Empire." (from the publisher's description)

Armand Colin, 2010 8vo (23.5 cm), 330 pp. Laminated wrappers. from the blurb: "Cluny, c'est à la fois une abbaye, l'une des plus somptueuses qui fut, avec la plus vaste église de la Chrétienté médiévale, et un ordre monastique, l'ordre clunisien, d'un éclat et d'une puissance sans pareils. Moins de deux siècles après sa fondation en 909 ou 910, Cluny commande un réseau de plus d'un millier de prieurés disséminés dans toute l'Europe occidentale et fait de son abbé l'un des personnages les plus éminents de la Chrétienté. Mais toute médaille a son revers: le système clunisien tarde à se structurer. Concurrencé par de nouvelles formes de vie religieuse, en proie à des difficultés économiques, Cluny perd sa prééminence. Au XIIe siècle, renouant avec l'austérité… Read More

Harvard University Press, 1987 4to (28,5 cm), xxxviii, 805 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Meletij Smotryc'kyj (ca. 1577-1633), a man of great learning and wide cultural horizons, was one of the outstanding figures of the cultural revival in the Ukrainian and Belorussian lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. First as a staunch advocate of Orthodoxy and then after 1627 as an equally ardent defender of the Uniates, Smotryc'kyj wrote numerous polemical, homiletic, philological, and theological works that well illustrate the complexity of the intense confessional and cultural competition between Catholics, Protestants, and Orthodox. This volume reproduces in facsimile the original printed editions of eleven of his most important religious writings, beginning with the famous Threnos (1610) and concluding with Exaethesis (1629). The Introduction by David Frick surveys the controversial details of Smotryc’kyj’s… Read More

Harvard University Press, 2004 8vo (21 cm), VIII, 408 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (bookplate). "The diaries of Pius II give us an intimate glimpse of the life and thought of one of the greatest of the Renaissance popes. Pius II (1405-1464) began life as Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini in a small town near Siena, and became a famous Latin poet and diplomat. He was elected Pope Pius II (1458) and dedicated his pontificate to organizing a pan-European crusade against the Ottoman Empire. Pius's Commentaries, the only autobiography ever written by a pope, was composed in elegant humanistic Latin modeled on Caesar and Cicero. This edition contains a fresh Latin text based on the last manuscript written in Pius's lifetime and an updated and corrected version of the 1937 translation by Florence Alden Gragg." (from the publisher's description)

Harvard University Press, 2004 8vo (21 cm), XVI, 422 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (bookplate). "The diaries of Pius II give us an intimate glimpse of the life and thought of one of the greatest of the Renaissance popes. Pius II (1405-1464) began life as Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini in a small town near Siena, and became a famous Latin poet and diplomat. He was elected Pope Pius II (1458) and dedicated his pontificate to organizing a pan-European crusade against the Ottoman Empire. Pius's Commentaries, the only autobiography ever written by a pope, was composed in elegant humanistic Latin modeled on Caesar and Cicero. This edition contains a fresh Latin text based on the last manuscript written in Pius's lifetime and an updated and corrected version of the 1937 translation by Florence Alden Gragg." (from the publisher's description)

Harvard University Press, 2004 8vo (21 cm), VIII, 408 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (bookplate). “The diaries of Pius II give us an intimate glimpse of the life and thought of one of the greatest of the Renaissance popes. Pius II (1405-1464) began life as Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini in a small town near Siena, and became a famous Latin poet and diplomat. He was elected Pope Pius II (1458) and dedicated his pontificate to organizing a pan-European crusade against the Ottoman Empire. Pius's Commentaries, the only autobiography ever written by a pope, was composed in elegant humanistic Latin modeled on Caesar and Cicero. This edition contains a fresh Latin text based on the last manuscript written in Pius's lifetime and an updated and corrected version of the 1937 translation by Florence Alden Gragg.” (from the publisher’s description)

Harvard University Press, 2010 8vo (23.5 cm), XVIII, 571 pp. Laminated wrappers. "From Marx to Mao, from Engels to Allende, from Lenin and Stalin to Ceaucescu and Castro, Comrades tells the story of communism from its inception to the present day. It offers a succession of incisive pen-portraits of outstanding leaders and decisive events and spans the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. It draws on material from many national collections and several major languages and is the most up-to-date account produced since the 1960s. Ranging across not only the high politics and ideology of the most prominent communist regimes but also daily life under communism, culture and propaganda, Service analyses communism’s appeal abroad as well as local attempts to set up communist administrations. He ends by showing that there was more to communism than mere brutality and demonstrates that while communism in its primordial form is now dead in most countries, the causes of its ability to gather support… Read More

Wiley, 1991 8vo (23.5 cm), X, 337 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (NGO stamp on the title). "A concise dictionary of the most important military leaders in history, featuring detailed capsule biographies of 200 individuals from antiquity to the modern age. Included are military leaders known for their sheer genius (Genghis Khan, Frederick the Great, Napoleon); strategic ability (Wellington, Lee, Rommel, Eisenhower); incompetence or villainy (Custer, Budenny, Benedict Arnold); and administrative or theoretical mastery (Clausewitz, Liddel-Hart). Still others are included for their innovativeness (T. E. Lawrence), notoriety (Jeanne d'Arc, El Cid) or because, as with certain medieval figures, their careers are a particularly apt reflection of their times. Written by two respected authorities in the field, it is both an ideal reference for military historians and a uniquely entertaining and browsable text for general readers." (from the publisher's description)

Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1978 2 volumes 8vo (21.5 cm), XV, 394 pp; XII, PP. 395-790. Printed wrappers (wrappers slightly stained). "The present study will show how the Cossacks superimposed their military organization upon the Ukraine and governed the region during the existence of the Hetmanate. It will also identify the chief officers of the Hetmanate as well as the regional and district commanders of the Cossack Ukraine." (fro the publisher's synopsis)

Rome: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1966 8vo (21 cm), 64 pp, 4 plates. Beautifully printed catalog of an exhibition dedicated to the Christina, Queen of Sweden (1626-1689), who after abdication in 1654 lived mostly in Rome. 177 items including documents, letters, coins, medals, manuscripts and bindings.