‎Bref, rörande en resa til Island 1772. - [EARLY IMPORTANT WORK ON ICELAND]‎

‎Uppsala, Magnus Swederus, 1777. 8vo. In a nice contemporary half calf binding with richly gilt spine. Light occassional marginal miscolouring. Plates closely trimmed but generally a very nice copy. (2), (24), 376, (4) pp. + 12 plates and 2 folded maps. ‎

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‎First edition of von Troil’s seminal work on Iceland's geology, flora, fauna, climate, and geography, contributing to the broader scientific understanding of the region during the 18th century. Von Troil's writings about his travels in Iceland helped popularize the island as a destination for European travelers and intellectuals. His account was influential in shaping perceptions of Iceland in the broader European consciousness. “One aim of the Enlightenment period was “to observe everything” on a journey, and Uno von Troil was one of many young scholars who followed these ideas. He seems to have had a general interest in natural history, humanitarian matters and local traditions as well as specialist knowledge in languages, history, philosophy and theology. His initial period abroad – 1770 to 1772 – included visits and regular attendance on lectures at several universities as well as network-building with learned men, particularly in Göttingen. At the arrival in France, he came in contact with the Enlightenment philosophers Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) and Denis Diderot (1713-1784) among others in Paris. The glimpse into the world of these well-known men – more than thirty years his senior – may have influenced him in many ways. To have met Diderot for instance, at the time for his ongoing editing of the Encyclopédie must have been an inspiration for a young man like von Troil, who in the coming year got the possibility to amass facts from a wide range of subjects on the Iceland journey – including weaving, local clothes as well as trade in wool and eiderdown. In the smaller format, it almost became like an encyclopaedia of Icelandic traditions. It is noticeable too, that von Troil had no prior knowledge of the planned Iceland journey when arriving in London 1772, for the reason that Joseph Banks (1743-1820) had changed his travelling arrangements in short notice. James Cook (1728-1779) actually departed without him and found other botanists to explore the flora and fauna on his second voyage, which set sail in July 1772 – that is to say in the same month as the Iceland journey. Uno von Troil came to accompany the twelve-man crew – primarily invited due to his interest in the Icelandic language – on an expedition led by the naturalist Joseph Banks.” (Linda Hall Library) The present work was shortly after publication translated into several other languages: German (1779) English (Letters on Iceland, 1780-83) French (1781) and Dutch (1784). Fiske 608‎

‎De Colica Pictonum.‎

‎Genevæ, Fratres Cramer, 1757. Cont. boards. Light staining to upper corner on frontcover. XII,82 pp. A few scattered brownspots. On good paper.‎

‎First edition. ""Tronchin, sometimes physician to Voltaire, showed that the so-called ""Poitou-colic"" was caused by drinking water which had passed through lead gutters. Tronchin introduced inoculation into Holland, France, and Switzerland"" he was Boerhaave's favourite pupil and became a very wealthy practioner."" (Garrison & Morton No. 2095). - Waller 9686.‎

‎Bicentenaire‎

‎Editions Hatier 2012 160 pages 12 6x1 2x17 4cm. 2012. pocket_book. 160 pages.‎

‎Très bon état‎

‎Treasures of Asian art from the Idemitsu Collection‎

‎ 1981 Editions Seattle Art Museum - 1981 - In-4, broché, couverture illustrée - 202 p. - Très riche iconographie in et hors-texte en couleurs et en N&B - Ouvrage en anglais‎

‎Bon état - Coins très légèrement émoussés - Très légers frottements sur la couverture ‎

‎DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI.‎

‎Zwolle/ Amsterdam / Liverpool, Waanders / Van Gogh Museum / the Walker, 2004 Paperback , geillustreerde kartonomslag in kleur, 24x29 cm., 248 pp., uitgebreide illustratie in kleur en z/w. ISBN 9040089140.‎

‎Dante Gabriel Rossetti was onmiskenbaar een van de meest opwindende kunstenaars van de prerafaelieten, de kunstenaarsgroep die in de tweede helft van de negentiende eeuw met een terugkeer naar de middeleeuwse traditie de oprechte eenvoud en bezieling wilde laten terugkeren in de kunst. Rossetti gaf aan dit uitgangspunt vanaf 1860 een geheel eigen invulling in de voor hem zo karakteristieke vrouwenportretten, geinspireerd op vroeg Italiaanse Renaissance portretten. Het zijn roodharige femmes fatales in een omgeving vol verborgen symboliek; aantrekkelijk maar tegelijk afstandelijk. Tijdens zijn leven waren Rossetti's schilderijen bijna alleen in particuliere collecties te vinden en nauwelijks te zien voor het publiek. De intrigerende verhalen die de ronde deden over zijn liefdesaffaires en zijn bohemienachtig bestaan, droegen bij aan de mythevorming. Wie was Rossetti en hoe moet zijn kunst begrepen worden? Deze publicatie geeft een volledig overzicht van Rossetti's kunst: de middeleeuwse onderwerpen, de karakteristieke vrouwenportretten, zijn inspiratiebronnen zoals Elizabeth Siddal en de symbolische gelaagdheid ervan. Ook wordt de acceptatie en appreciatie van zijn werk beschreven. De uitgebreide catalogus biedt een compleet overzicht van de belangrijkste Rossetti-werken, en plaatst de schilderijen in hun tijd en context. Boek is in nieuwstaat.‎

‎Chronology ; Or the Historian Vade-Mecum abridged [ Full set ]‎

‎Wherein Occurence in Ancient and Modern History is alphabetically recorded, with the Dates affixed ; and rendered exceedingly accurate, by a careful comparing of one Historian with another, 1 vol. in-32, Printed in the Literary Press, London, 1790 ‎

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‎Abridged version. Fair (spine rubbed wit small lack on top, old library stamp, ink notation on half title and title page) ‎

‎Company She Keeps. The Medieval Swedish Cult of St. Katherine of Alexandria and Its Transformations,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2010 Hardback, XXII+276 p., 175 x 255 mm. ISBN 9782503533780.‎

‎This volume offers an interdisciplinary collection of original essays by both new and established scholars that surveys the complex relationships between law and sovereign power in medieval and early modern Europe. Sovereignty, law, and the relationship between them are now among the most compelling topics in history, philosophy, literature and art. Some argue that the state's power over the individual has never been more complete, while for others, such factors as globalization and the internet are subverting traditional political forms. This book exposes the roots of these arguments in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The thirteen contributions investigate theories, fictions, contestations, and applications of sovereignty and law from the Anglo-Saxon period to the seventeenth century, and from England across western Europe to Germany, France, Italy, and Spain. Particular topics include: Habsburg sovereignty, Romance traditions in Arthurian literature, the duomo in Milan, the political theories of Juan de Mariana and of Richard Hooker, Geoffrey Chaucer's legal problems, the accession of James I, medieval Jewish women, Elizabethan diplomacy, Anglo-Saxon political subjectivity, and medieval French farce. Together these contributions constitute a valuable overview of the history of medieval and Renaissance law and sovereignty in several disciplines. They will appeal to not only to political historians, but also to all those interested in the histories of art, literature, religion, and culture. Robert Sturges is Professor of English at Arizona State University, where he teaches late medieval literature and literary theory. New.‎

‎Methodus datae figurae, rectis lineis & curva Geometrica terminate, aut Quadraturam, aut impossibilitatem ejusdem Quadraturae determinandi. (+) Nova Methodus determinandi Maxima & Minima (+) Aufrendi omnes terminos intermedios ex data aequatione. - [FORCED LEIBNIZ TO PUBLISH THE CALCULUS]‎

‎Leipzig, Grosse & Gleditsch, 1683. 4to. Contemporary full vellum. Handwritten title on spine. Library label to pasted down front free end-paper and a small stamps on titlepage. In: ""Acta Eruditorum Anno MDCLXXXIII"". As usual with various browning to leaves and plates. Tschirnhaus' paper: pp. 122-124" Pp. 204-207" Pp. 433-437. [Entire volume: (8), 561, (7) pp + 13 plates].‎

‎First appearance of Tschirnhaus's three exceedingly important papers which were to to initiate one of the most famous mathematical discoveries. In the papers he used infinitisimal methods which were very close to Leibniz's method and where he tried to lay down criteria for rational quadratures in the case of conic, cubic and quadratic curves, papers that led Leibniz to publish his first paper on the differential calculus, the ""Nova Methoda"" in the Acta for 1684 in order to secure his priority over Tschirnhaus concerning the calculus. Leibniz discovered, when he read Tschirnhaus' papers, that Tschirnhaus had here published results showing similarity with Leibniz's invention of the calculus as he had confided to Tschirnhaus earlier, during their Parisian stay, and this without references to Leibniz.The present volume of Acta also contain the first edition of Tschirnhaus' ""Tschirnhaus Tranformation"". Tschirnhaus work intensively on finding a general method for solving equations of higher of higher degree. ""His transformations constituted the most promising contribution to the solution of equations during the seventeenth century" but his elimination of the second and third coefficients by means of such transformation was far from adequate for the solution of the quintic.(Boyer. A History of Mathematics, 1968, 472 p.).Tschirnhaus (1651-1708) , a Saxon nobleman, had as wide interest as acquaintances: He studied in Leyden, served in the Dutch army, visited England and Paris several times. He set up a glassworks in Italy and is said to have introduced Porcelain to Europe. He wrote about philosophy and mathematics and was a close friend of Leibniz.‎

‎Aufrendi omnes terminos intermedios ex data aequatione.‎

‎Leipzig, Grosse & Gleditsch, 1683. 4to. Without wrappers. In: ""Acta Eruditorum Anno MDCLXXXIII"", No. V (May issue). Pp.177-224 (entire issue offered). Tschirnhaus' paper: pp. 204-207. Some browning as usual. With titlepage to the volume 1683. Titlepage with a stamp and a faint dampstain.‎

‎First edition of Tschirnhaus' ""Tschirnhaus Tranformation"".Tschirnhaus work intensively on finding a general method for solving equations of higher of higher degree. ""His transformations constituted the most promising contribution to the solution of equations during the seventeenth century"" but his elimination of the second and third coefficients by means of such transformation was far from adequate for the solution of the quintic.(Boyer. A History of Mathematics, 1968, 472 p.).Tschirnhaus (1651-1708) , a Saxon nobleman, had as wide interest as acquaintances: He studied in Leyden, served in the Dutch army, visited England and Paris several times. He set up a glassworks in Italy and is said to have introduced Porcelain to Europe. He wrote about philosophy and mathematics and was a close friend of Leibniz.""In mathematics, a Tschirnhaus transformation, also known as Tschirnhausen transformation, is a type of mapping on polynomials developed by Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus in 1683. It may be defined conveniently by means of field theory, as the transformation on minimal polynomials implied by a different choice of primitive element. This is the most general transformation of an irreducible polynomial that takes a root to some rational function applied to that root.""(Wikipedia).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs 1683 M.‎

‎Methodus datae figurae, rectis lineis & curva Geometrica terminate, aut Quadraturam, aut impossibilitatem ejusdem Quadraturae determinandi. (+) Nova Methodus determinandi Maxima & Minima.‎

‎Leipzig, Grosse & Gleditsch, 1683. 4to. Without wrappers. In: ""Acta Eruditorum Anno MDCLXXXIII"", No.III + X (March and October issues). Pp. 81-128 + pp. 417-464 a. 2 engraved plates. (Entire issues offered). Tschirnhaus's papers: pp. 122-124 + pp. 433-437. Some browning as usual.‎

‎First appearance of Tschirnhaus's two papers in which he used infinitisimal methods which were very close to Leibniz's method and where he tried to lay down criteria for rational quadratures in the case of conic, cubic and quadratic curves, papers that led Leibniz to publish his first paper on the differential calculus, the ""Nova Methoda"" in the Acta for 1684 in order to secure his priority over Tschirnhaus concerning the calculus. Leibniz discovered, when he read Tschirnhaus' papers, that Tschirnhaus had here published results showing similarity with Leibniz's invention of the calculus as he had confided to Tschirnhaus earlier, during their Parisian stay, and this without references to Leibniz.The second issue contains an original paper by LEIBNIZ: ""Meditatio Juridico-Mathematica de Interusurio simplice"". Pp. 425-32.‎

‎Das Thierleben der Alpenwelt. Naturansichten und Thierzeichnungen aus dem schweizerischen Gebirge.‎

‎2. Aufl. Leipzig, J. J. Weber, 1854. 8°. XVI, 612 (1) S. Mit 24 Holzstich-Tafeln nach Illustrationen von E. Rittmeyer und W. Georgy. Orig.-Leinenband mit Rücken- und Deckelvergoldung und Goldschnitt.‎

‎Ausgeschiedenes Bibliotheksexemplar mit entsprechenden Stempeln und einem Rückenschild. – Einband berieben. Papier durchgehend stockfleckig.‎

‎Das Thierleben der Alpenwelt. Naturansichten und Thierzeichnungen aus dem schweizerischen Gebirge.‎

‎7. Auflage. Leipzig, J. J. Weber, 1865. 8°. XV (1), 590 S., (2) S. (Anzeigen). Mit 24 Tafeln nach E. Rittmeyer und W. Georgy. Blind- u. goldgepr. Leinenbd. d. Zt. (stärker bestossen).‎

‎Mit Widmung auf erstem leeren Blatt. Stockfleckig. - Einbandrücken restauriert unter Verwendung des Orig.-Rückens.‎

‎Histoire d'Arménie. Des origines à la perte de l'indépendance XIVe siècle: Des origines jusqu'à la perte de l'indépendance (XIVe siècle)‎

‎Ophrys 2005 194 pages 15 4x1 4x23 4cm. 2005. Broché. 194 pages.‎

‎Bon état‎

‎LUIS MELENDEZ: SPANISH STILL-LIFE PAINTER OF THE EIGTHEENTH CENTURY,‎

‎Dallas, Texas, Meadows Museum, 1986 Illustrated cardboard cover in colour, 210 x 280mm., 133pp., illustrated in colour and b/w.‎

‎Exhibition in Raleigh, Dallas and New York January - September 1985. Book is in good condition.‎

‎Lettre autographe signée « B », rédigée au crayon et adressée au compositeur américain Eugène Kurtz. 2 Mai [1974], 1 p. et demie in-4. Enveloppe conservée avec adresse et marques postales. ‎

‎Très belle lettre relative à « The last Contrabass in Las Vegas », œuvre composée par Eugène Kurtz, pour ses amis les époux Turetsky. Cette première interprétation à l’école a été un véritable succès. « UCSC and ECD flipped out over the Last Contrabass ! It is simply a winner and in fact, we played it for a 4th grade 6 (in del mar) and they too were absolutely enthralled is what can tell you. It's a smash !! Nancy does it very well… ». Devant un tel succès, il espère pouvoir organiser de nombreuses interprétations en France en Mars « hoping we can cook us some radio/concert in France for march and i am beginning set up a real nifty tour ».‎

‎HOME AND ABROAD Dutch and Flemish Landscape Drawings from the John and Marine Van Vlissingen Art Foundation‎

‎BCD 2015 Livre en anglais. In-4 relié. 273 pages. Jaquette en bon état. Très bon état d’occasion.‎

‎MAISON ET ÉTRANGER Dessins de paysages hollandais et flamands de la John et Marine Van Vlissingen Art Foundation Très bon état d’occasion ‎

‎Succédanés sauvages du thé et du café au Canada. Plantes sauvages comestibles du Canada, 2.‎

‎Musée National Des Sciences Naturelles - Musées Nationaux Du Canada Ottawa 1978 In-4 carré ( 205 X 210 mm ) de 111 pages, broché par spirale métalique sous couverture illustrée en couleurs. Figures dans le texte, photographies en couleurs hors-texte. EDITION ORIGINALE. Bel exemplaire.‎

‎Care for the Here and the Hereafter. Memoria, Art and Ritual in the Middle Ages‎

‎, Brepols, 2005 Paperback 332 p., 127 b/w ill. + 18 colour ill. + + ills., 240 x 280 mm,. ISBN 9782503515083.‎

‎Truus van Bueren, Care for the Here and the Hereafter: a Multitude of Possibilities; Samuel K. Cohn, Jr., Triumph over Plague: Culture and Memory after the Black Death; Truus van Bueren and Otto Gerhard Oexle, Das Imaginarium der Sukzession: Uber Sukzessionsbilder und ihren Kontext; Brigitte B?ggild Johannsen, Genealogical Representation in Gendered Perspective: on a Lost Royal Mausoleum from Early Sixteenth-Century Denmark; Jeroen Stumpel, The Case of the Missing Cross: Thoughts on the Context and Meaning of the Nassau Monuments in Breda; Volker Schier, Memorials Sung and Unsung: Liturgical Remembrance and its History; Corine Schleif, Forgotten Roles of Women as Donors: Sister Katerina Lemmel?s Negotiated Exchanges in the Care for the Here and the Hereafter; Bram van den Hoven van Genderen, Utrecht Canons, Death and Funeral Regulations; Llewellyn C.J.J. Bogaers, Commemoration in a Utrecht Collegiate Church: Burial and Memorial Culture in St. Peter?s (1054-1784); Louise van Tongerloo, Grablegung und Totengedenken bei Pilgerbruderschaften in Utrecht, mit einer Neuinterpretation von Scorels und Mors Bildnisreihen von Jerusalemfahrern; Bini Biemans and Truus van Bueren, A Veritable Treasure Trove: the Memorial Book of St. Nicholas?s Convent in Utrecht and Its Art Donations; Bram van den Hoven van Genderen, Remembrance and Memoria: the Descriptions of Four Churches Compared; Julian Gardner, Epilogue: ?From hence your memory death cannot take?; About the authors and editors, Indexes. ‎

‎Functions and Decorations: Art and Ritual at the Vatican Palace in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2004 Paperback, 242 p., 98 b/w ill., 240 x 340 mm. ISBN 9782503521718.‎

‎This volume is a collection of new essays by art historians from Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United States dedicated to shedding new light on the complex historical interrelationship between functions and decorations within architectural settings. It concentrates on the historical context of works of art, that is their ritual embedding in liturgy, ceremony and habit. The authors thereby focus on a particularly rewarding object, namely the Vatican Palace as it appeared between the 13th and the 16th century. The contributions consider various aspects: the Vatican's medieval textile decorations, the impact of ceremonial concerns on architectural form, the relationship between music and ceremony, Pinturicchio's and Raphael's wall paintings in the papal apartments, the decorations of the Cappella Paolina and the Sala Regia, the history of the Vatican Library, and also methodological questions concerning the history of functions of art. Languages: English, German, Italian.‎

‎DISQUE VINYLE 33T DISQUE 1: SONG FOR AMERICA, POINT OF KNOW RETURN, PARADOX, PORTRAI, CARRY ON WAYWARD SON. DISQUE 2: DUST IN THE WIND, LONELY WIND, MYSTERIES AND MAYHEM, THE WALL, CLOSET CHRONICLES, MAGNUM OPUS.‎

‎KIRSHNER. non daté. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. Pochette en couleurs et trés abîmé, deux disques en anglais.. . . . Classification : 410-33 Tours‎

‎Disque n° AL 35662/ BL 35661 Classification : 410-33 Tours‎

‎1. Thorlakur Skulason: Responsio subitana. 2. Brynjulfur Sveinsson: Historia de rebus Islandicis relatio. Edited by Jakob Benediktsson.‎

‎Coph., 1943. Lex8vo. XXXI,60 pp. (Bibl.Arnamagn.vol.3).‎

‎Reality of the Lowest Rank, Een visie op Centraal-Europa‎

‎Belgie, lannoo, 2010 hardcover 288pp Formaat : 260 x 280 . ISBN 9789020989960.‎

‎Dit boek biedt een caleidoscopische visie op hedendaagse kunst uit Centraal-Europa, gepresenteerd in de historische setting van Brugge. Het terugkerende thema van de omnipresente geschiedenis en hoe dat zich artistiek vertaalt via het geheugen, zo aanwezig in het werk van Luc Tuymans, biedt hier een uniek uitgangspunt voor een ongewoon visueel onderzoek. Bestaande en originele teksten en documenten, alfabetisch geordend, laten een lezing in eender welke volgorde toe. Beschouwingen en literaire extracten in de linkerkolom lichten het geheel toe. Het begint met Poolse kunstenaars, onder wie Bruno Schulz, Tadeuzs Kantor, Andrzej Wroblewski en Zbigniew Libera. Vervolgens wordt de focus verlegd naar andere delen van Centraal-Europa, met kunstenaars zoals Sigmar Polke, Katharina Fritsch, Gerhard Richter, David Maljkoviae, Zlatko Kopljar, Pavel Buchler en Anri Sala. Animatie krijgt bijzondere aandacht dankzij het werk van onder meer Jan Svankmajer en de Quay Brothers. De niet-lineaire aanpak van het project reikt tot de beginselen van popart in de persoon van Andy Warhol en verrast met het innemende Japanse naoorlogse perspectief van Takashi Murakami.‎

‎Further Researches on the Deportment and Vital Persistence of Putrefactive and Infective Organisms from a Physical Point of View. Received May 14, - Read May 17, 1877.‎

‎(London, Taylor and Francis, 1878). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1877, Vol. 167 - Part I. Pp. 149-206. Illustrations in the text. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearnace of this important paper in which Tyndall announced his discovery of fractional sterilization ""Tyndallization"".""In my last paper I made some remarks upon this subject"" and in relation to our present experiments, the influence of drying and hardening was brought home to me by the fact that in all the foregoing cases the infusions which five minutes boiling proved sufficient to sterilize were, without exception, derived from fresh hay mowen in 1876, while the infusions which five minutes' boiling failed to sterilize were derived, without exception, from old hay mown either in 1875 or some previous year.""(p. 159 in the paper).""Tyndall interested himself in atmospheric germs and dust. His experiments on sterilization by heat lead him to the discovery in 1877 (the paper offered) of fractional sterilization (Tyndallization)....The reseraches of Tyndall, even more than those of Pasteur, dealt the final blow to the doctrine of spontaneous generation"" they were fundamental for the progress of bacteriology.""(Garrison & Morton 2495, listing his later book from 1881 ""Essays on the floating-matter of the air..."").During the 1870s Pasteur and Tyndall were in frequent communication.‎

‎On Calorescence. Received October 20, - Read November 23, 1865.‎

‎(London, Taylor and Francis, 1866). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", Vol. 156 - Part I, pp. 1-24, textillustr. a. 1 lithographed plate. Plate with minot brownspots.‎

‎First appearance of this mpirtent paper in which Tyndall shows that infrared radiant energy absorbed by matter emissed visible radiant energy. This transformation had not previously been observed. He also coined the word ""Calorescence"".These new effects had noting to do with fluorescence.‎

‎On the Atmosphere as a Vehicle of Sound. Received February 5, - Read February 12, 1874.‎

‎(London, Taylor and Francis, 1874). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1874. Vol. 164. Pp. 183-244. Clean and fine.‎

‎First printing of a classic paper on the theory of sound propagation, containing the famous fog signal experiments aiming at establishing fog-signals on the Coast of England. The investigations started from South Foreland near Dover at the signal-station.‎