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200889049Morelia Michoacán: Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo Coordinación de la Investigación Científica Consego Estatal de Ciencia y Tenología 2008. 23 cm. Colaboración de: Carlos Salvador et al 162p bibl. apend. plus color plates plans facs. maps meas. draws. pict. fldg. wrps. Contents: La vivienda purépecha. notas en torno a s istoria y la habitabilidad en la época colonial Carlos Salvador Paredes Martínez / La vivienda purépecha: haitabilidad y forma de vida Eugenia María Azevedo Salomao / El espacio doméstico en pueblos purépecha como producto histórico y cultural Aida Castilleja González / Tecnología en la tradición constructiva de la vivienda purépecha Luis Alberto Torres Garibay / La vivienda purépecha evaluación del confort térmico Héctor Javier González Licón / La vivienda purépecha como elemento estrtégico de desarrollo local en una región de Michoacán Carlos Alberto Hiriart Pardo / Bibliografía / Anexo: Tipologías de viviendas tradicionales en Michoacán. LIMITED EDITION OF 1000. Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Coordinación de la Investigación Científica, Conse unknown books
200481185San Andres Colombia: Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2004. 31cm. 155p b/w and color plates maps tbls. chrts. indice bibls. color pict. fldg. wrps The book is the resulting work of the research project San Andrés Architectural and Cultural Heritage presented in the 2000 forum "Basis for a National Plan 2001-2010" organized by the Ministry of Culture of Colombia. The resulting inventory identifies elements for conservation purposes and registers group of houses or residential complexes left from the Spanish French English and Dutch colonies established between the 16th to the 19th century in the small Caribbean island of San Andrés in Colombia and that share historical social aesthetic and environmental backgrounds. LIMITED EDITION OF 1000. ENGLISH AND SPANISH TEXT Universidad Nacional de Colombia unknown books
199111622Paris: Centre National de la Photographie Collection Photo Poche 1991. Original wraps. Near Fine. The 1991 1st edtion #49 in the very impressive "Photo Poche" series out of Paris. SIGNED BY JOEL-PETER WITKIN on the front free endpaper. Clean and Near Fine in its black pictorial wrappers. 12mo first-rate reproductions thruout. <br/><br/> Centre National de la Photographie (Collection Photo Poche) paperback books
1991180271Paris France: Centre national de la photographie avec le concours du ministère de la Culture et de la Communication 1991. Softcover. VG. Black glossy covers. 17 pages 63 pages of plates : illustrations. text in French. Includes bibliographical references. Centre national de la photographie, avec le concours du ministère de la Culture et de la Communication unknown books
1926WRCAM50158Charleston: Southern Printing and Pub. Co. 1926. 1011pp. plus fifteen plates. Modern three-quarter calf and cloth boards leather label by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with original wrappers bound in. Front board slightly bowed. Mild toning. Very good. A biography of James Oglethorpe British general and founder of the colony of Georgia. Oglethorpe was a member of Parliament and a renowned humanitarian conceiving the plan to resettle many of England's poorest particularly those in debtors' prisons to the New World. Southern Printing and Pub. Co. hardcover books
20081330044Roma: Edizioni Quasar 2008. Softcover. Quarto; VG-; Paperback; Spine b&w illustration with white text; Cover is clean and bright; Text block clean and tight but for name in ink on front flyleaf; Text in Italian; 307 pages illustrated b&w folded site map laid in. <br /> <br /> NOTE: Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. 1330044. FP New Rockville Stock. Edizioni Quasar unknown books
197421738Detroit: Broadside Press 1974. First Edition. Very good . 4to. Broadside printed recto only. 10.875" by 8.5" approx. Very good plus. Small crease to one edge; else about fine. <br/><br/>Attractively printed broadside from this African-American press operated by Dudley Randall in Detroit beginning in the mid-60s and throughout the 1970s. From an edition of 500 copies. Broadside Press unknown books
1934WRCLIT83772London: Watts & Co. 1934. viii551pp. 12mo. Stiff printed wrapper. Small Portsmouth bookseller's blindstamp in upper fore-corner of half title a bit of scattered foxing early and late otherwise an unusually nice copy. First edition published as No 19 in "The Forum Series." Includes overviews of activities at home and abroad including 24 pages on a "Successful Experiment" in California discussions of birth control and of course the highly sensitive primary subject. Watts & Co. unknown books
1982153856Los Angeles: UCLA 1982. Softcover. Very clean tight interior but with light general wear to covers and a small wrinkle to top right corner of front cover and pages. Silver-grey stapled wraps with color image and blue lettering. 35 pp. with bw frontis and 38 bw illustrations including 1 map. Catalogue from the exhibition of December 1982 to February 1983 at the Museum of Cultural History Gallery UCLA. The catalogue is No. 18 in the Monograph Series. Includes a bw map of the Papuan Gulf region of New Guinea an introductory essay text on The Elema Socio-Economic System essay on The Hevehe Cycle a summary and notes and a bibliography. Includes some fabulous masks! UCLA paperback books
198651743Paris: Musée des Arts Décoratifs/Flammarion 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Le Secq Henri. 4to. 191 pp. full-page captioned photos plus a pictorial catalogue of 717 images in reduced format. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket housed in the publisher's plain cardstock slipcase. Le Secq 1818-1882 a painter was commissioned in 1851 to document the historic architecture of France at which time he became a founder-member of the Societé Héliographique. Noted for his use of light and mass Le Secq made still-lifes landscapes architectural and genre scenes. <br/><br/> Musée des Arts Décoratifs/Flammarion hardcover books
198623427Paris: Musée des Arts Décoratifs/Flammarion 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Le Secq Henri. 4to. 191 pp. full-page captioned photos plus a pictorial catalogue of 717 images in reduced format. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper from Christian Le Secq. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket housed in the publisher's plain cardstock slipcase. Le Secq 1818-1882 a painter was commissioned in 1851 to document the historic architecture of France at which time he became a founder-member of the Societé Héliographique. Noted for his use of light and mass Le Secq made still-lifes landscapes architecture and genre scenes. <br/><br/> Musée des Arts Décoratifs/Flammarion hardcover books
1986180905Paris: Musee des Arts Decoratifs 1986. Hardcover. VG/VG some cover wear. Dj has some curling along edges and some tearing near spine. French language edition. Black cloth boards with silver letering pn spine. SIlver dj with photographs. 191 pages : chiefly illustrations some color. Museum exhibition. Musee des Arts Decoratifs hardcover books
1994148935Santa Fe NM: Twin Palms Publishers 1994. First edition. Hardcover. First printing of 5000 copies. Introduction by Witkin. Essays by Stanley Burns Eugenia Perry Janis Aaron H. Esman and James Crump. A collection of over 100 black and white images. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Twin Palms Publishers unknown books
27441Madrid: La Kabala Galeria De Arte. Postcard. Folded card announcing the opening of an exhibit of Granell's paintings signed and inscribed by Granell to the leaders of US Surrealism Penelope and Franklin Rosemont. The first page is a color reproduction of a Granell painting pp. 2-3 is a text in Portuguese by Luis Garcia-Ochoa and p. 4 is a printed postcard that can be mailed but has not been filled out. See photos. Fine; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 4 pp . La Kabala Galeria De Arte unknown books
201234478New Haven: Yale University Press 2012. Paperback. Very good. 201pp index. Internally fine with clean text that has no underlining highlighting or notes. <br/><br/> Yale University Press paperback books
199430619Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Art Museum 1994. Softcover. VG- exlibrary with small sticker to cover at head light wear to cover edges. Purple ill. wraps. 64 pp. 16 bw plates numerous bw ills. Exhibition held September 23 to December 18 1994; three additional venues/times. University of New Mexico Art Museum paperback books
15943000London: : Printed by Adam Islip for C. Hunt of Excester 1594. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH translated from the 1582 Italian translation of Camillo Camilli d. 1615. . Quarto: . 19 x 14 cm. . 16 333 3 pp. A-Y8 Bound in 19th c. calf rebacked the boards ruled in gold. This is a fine copy; title a little dusty. Occasional marginal pencil notations in margins. “To Distinguish and discern these natural difference’s of man’s wit and to apply to each by art that science wherein he may profit is the intention of this my work.†“This sentence concisely summarizes the ultimate purpose of one of the most successful and influential Spanish scientific books published in the early modern period one with long-lasting influence upon the European intellectual world: the ‘Examen de Los Ingenios para Las Ciencias’ 1575 by the Spanish physician and philosopher Juan Huarte de San Juan 1529-1588… Huarte is now hailed as the precursor of several branches of pedagogy and psychology including differential pedagogy and differential psychology and their practical applications professional orientation and selection. Recently too Noam Chomsky recognized in Huarte a forerunner of the rationalist innatism and the linguistic theory of 17th-century French scholars notably Descartes. In the eyes of Chomsky the ‘Examen’ is the first scientific treatise to define human wit as a generative power that reveals the creative capacities of the human mind… “For Huarte wit denotes the totality of the psychological abilities of an individual; more precisely an individual ability or predisposition dependent on temperament linked to the qualities of the four basic elements earth air water and fire organically connected to the brain and under the influence of other organs. The starting point for Huarte’s theory of wits is that the temperature of the four qualities hot cold moist and dry of the elements has an impact upon the function of the rational as well as the ‘sensitive’ soul and that intemperate and ever-changing environmental conditions lead to a diversity of the wits. Wit is subject to age region of birth sex currents of air weather diet physical exercise and lifestyle in general since these factors have an impact upon the predominance in every individual of one of three powers of the intellective soul: memory imagination or understanding… Huarte’s goal is to clearly delineate what makes a man capable of one science and incapable of another to discover the number of differences of wits the arts and sciences that correspond to each and most importantly to illustrate how all this can be known. The Brain & Faculties of Mind “Contrary to the view of Aristotle and following Plato Hippocrates and Galen instead Huarte argues that ‘the brain is the principal seat of the reasonable soul.’ In his view in order for the reasonable soul to discourse and philosophize the brain ‘should be tempered with measurable heat and without excess of the other qualities’ and divided into four ventricles ‘distinct and severed each duly bestowed in his seat and place.’ Huarte describes the ventricles of the brain as four little hollows of ‘one self composition and figure without anything coming in between which may breed a difference.’ The three ventricles in the forepart of the head are used to ‘discourse and philosophize’ while the fourth ventricle deals with the least noble operations as it ‘hath the office of digesting and altering the vital spirits and to convert them into animal.’ The conviction that the three mental powers understanding imagination and memory necessarily work in collaboration with each other –to the extent that without one the rest would malfunction- makes Huarte conclude that ‘in every ventricle are all the three powers.’… Building a Better Society by Compulsion. “Huarte took his theories very seriously and believed that they could have practical repercussions upon the society of his time. His dedicatory to King Philip II of Spain suggests in fact a law by which subjects exclusively performed the profession art or science that corresponded to them by nature. Huarte envisioned appointing ‘men of great wisdom and knowledge who might discover each man’s wit at a tender age and cause him perforce to study that science which is agreeable to him not permitting him to make his own choice… to the end he may not err in choosing that which fitteth best with his own nature.’ Huarte’s reasoning was that if every man carried out the job that suited his natural capabilities best progress in the scientific artistic and technological production of Spain would promptly follow and a body of naturally accomplished and efficient professionals would ensue… “Huarte allows for a body of intellectuals defined by their merits and not by the social class into which they were born; nature should then be made the key for social mobility. Nobility by birth is no guarantee of sophisticated wits and Huarte remarks that precisely within the highest strata of society numerous witless children are born whereas poor families often produce witty offspring. Eugenics “The ‘Examination’ interacts with numerous treatises on midwifery and procreation in England in the early modern period. Indeed Chapter XV of the book is a short treatise on eugenesis i.e. the application of the biological laws of inheritance to the perfection of mankind particularly concerned with four issues: 1. ‘to show the natural qualities and temperature which men and women ought to possess to the end they may use generation’; 2. To discuss ‘what diligence the parents ought to employ that their children may be male and not female’ and 3. ‘how they may become wise and not fools’ and finally 4. ‘how they are to be dealt withal after their birth for preservation of their wit.’. This final chapter is of the utmost importance to Huarte who is of the opinion that ‘parents apply not themselves to the act of generation with that order and concert which is by nature established neither know the conditions which ought to be observed to the end their children may prove of wisdom and judgment.’ In other words ‘The Examination’ aims to prevent parents from engendering witless children out of ignorance and by so doing to remedy the problems of society prior even to the moment of conception: ‘if by art we may procure a remedy for this begetting witless children we shall have brought to the commonwealth the greatest benefit that she can receive.’â€RocÃo G. Sumillera “Richard Carew The Examination of Men's Wits†pp. 1-66 STC 2nd ed. 13892; Garrison-Morton 4964 1575 Spanish edition; Durling 2498. Hunter & Macalpine p. 46. Thorndike VI pp. 413-14 Printed by Adam Islip, for C. Hunt of Excester, unknown books
20021315505Woolloomooloo: Artspace Visual Arts Centre 2002. Softcover. Octavo: VG-/noDJ paperback: Thin black spine with red text: Covers have general shelfwear extensive rubbing/scuffing binding solid: Textblock is clean title page inscribed by the author: Unpaginated. 1315505. FP New Rockville Stock. Artspace Visual Arts Centre unknown books
198337438N.p. New Yorki: International Center of Photography 1983. First Limited Edition. Limited to 250 signed and numbered copies this no. 74. Large folio. Emerald silk-covered boards in publisher's pictorial board slipcase; 44pp; illus. Slipcase with a few minor surface scratches and mild bumps to corners else Fine. Sensual dramatic large-format black-and-white photographs of cacti and succulent plants by the Mexican photographer. International Center of Photography unknown books
1947176672Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery 1947. Hardcover. Good Library markings on spine library plate inside front cover foxing to block edges bumping to corners boards have light shelfwear pages internally are clean. Brown/cream decorative papers/boards. Maroon cloth spine. Grey end papers. 172 pp. text; 121 bw plates on glossy paper. Catalogue lists 897 works ranging from coins & seals to stone sculpture wood carvings bronzes arms & armor ivories pottery paintings etc. - Byzantine Syrian Coptic German Thuringian Venetian Carolingian Egyptian Early Christian Roman Greek migratory peoples and more. With a four-page introductory essay by Marvin Chauncey Ross and a 7-page essay by Sarah Freeman about Byzantine coins. An excellent catalogue with clear annotations and very good bw photos. 3 pp. of coin images. Walters Art Gallery hardcover books
198927914Madrid: Fundacion Cultural MAPFRE VIDA. 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very good- with bad bump at head of spine causing a tear at the head of the front joint; the bump has also left a small horizontal crease on the spine. Granell has glued to the pastedown endpaper a signed and inscribed note "To Franklin and Penelope Rosemon our very dear great friends . Eugenio and his wife Amparo."; 4to 9" - 11" tall; 250 pp . Fundacion Cultural MAPFRE VIDA hardcover books
2011170852Santa Fe NM / Chicago IL: Radius Books / The Art Institute of Chicago 2011. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 129 pages. Published in conjunction with a traveling show that began at The Art Institute of Chicago and then went on to San Francisco and Philadelphia. Text by Eugenia Parry and Elizabeth Siegel. Includes numerous black and white images. A very fine copy in a very fine dust jacket. As new and still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. A beautifully printed book. Radius Books / The Art Institute of Chicago unknown books
198056168NY: Lippincott & Crowell 1980. First Edition first printing. Signed presentation by Price on the half-title page: "Signed for Houston H. Robertson- welcome to a year in my life- Eugenia Price Nov.15 1980.". 8vo. two-toned blue cloth in dust jacket; 150 pages. Very Good covers nice; contents clean & tight with very minor abrasion pastedowns; interior upper & lower edges reinforced with clear tape d/j. <br/><br/> Lippincott & Crowell hardcover books
200888983Morelia Michoacán: Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo; Consejo Nacional para la Ciencia y la Tecnología 2008. 27 cm. Coordinadores: Carlos Salvador Paredes Martínez. et al. 2 vols: 468p; pp 471-843 color and b/w plates maps facs. tbls. chts. graphs diags. bibl. index color pict. wrps. The most detailed architectural study and inventory of Michoacán region during the colonial period that has been printed. The study is the result of a multi- disciplinary group investigation between institutions in Mexico. The book has two main themes: the architecture of habitable space and the dynamics and organization and urban structure in relation to the population. There are 42 contributions by noted scholars divided into six parts. The last chapter is a survey of architecture throughout Latin America. Contents: Población poblamientos y reorganización de los asentamientos humanos en la Temprana Época Colonial -- Apropiación control y territorialidad en la concepción y construcción del territorio -- Los Asentamientos Humanos y sus espacios -- Arquitectura religiosa en el contexto del territorio y de los asentamientos humanos -- Tecnología y tradición constructiva -- Del territorio a la arquitectura en América colonial. AN ESSENTIAL REFERENCE. LIMITED EDITION OF 1000. Sold as set Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo; Consejo Nacional para la Ciencia y la Tecnología unknown books
196830817Greenwich: Fogg Art Museum / New York Graphic Society 1968. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/very good. Clothbound quarto in dustwrapper. Unpaginated. Introduction notes and catalogue by Eugenia Parry Janis. With 79 full-page plates and 321 catalogue illustrations. A thorough study of the Degas monotype. Very good in clipped but otherwise very good dustwrapper. A large and heavy book. Additional shipping charges may apply. Fogg Art Museum / New York Graphic Society unknown books
