Maire Roger (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Lee Boltin (lead photographer) (illustrator). 1st Edition. 86 plates in full colour and 48 black and white photographs are supplemented by 5 scholarly essays on the history of Irish art during this 3,000 year period. A sumptuous publication.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Jack B. Yeats (illustrator). 72 pages. Original pictorial card covers. A dynamic issue of this iconic literary and political journal, with: announcements of the resignation of the general editor and the poetry editor (Geoffrey Taylor); changes to policy with the end of wartime censorship; a letter of apology to two prominent members of the legal profession, alluded to in a previous article; a letter of complaint from 'Máire' (Séamus Ó Grianna); a short homage to the sculpture Henry Moore by Louis le Brocquy, an illustration by Jack B. Yeats used as a Cuala Press / The Bell marketing initiative. A fine copy without any library stamps, inscriptions, or other markings. Images available on request *** Lower than average weight - shipping charge will be reduced at processing stage of order. ***.

Couverture souple. Condition: Très bon. Un volume 19 x 24 cm broché de 88 pages. Très bon état. Catalogue de l'exposition de 1984-1985 dans les mairies du Xe et du XIIIe arrondissements parisiens, recueil d'articles thématiques de spécialistes et collectionneurs, illustrés en noir.

Couverture souple. Condition: Très bon.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Couverture souple. Condition: Très bon. Edition originale. Grand in-octavo broché, 147 pages. Comme neuf. Thèse de doctorat en exemplaire de thèse de la Faculté soutenue devant Guillain. Précieux exemplaire de Jean Delay avec le cachet gras de sa bibliothèque sur la page de garde.

Condition: Good. Envoi rapide couv. un peu salie texte tres bon. in8. 1989. broché. 60 pages. Good.

4to, pp. xxi, (i), 516, (3) errata, and 4 folding and stilted engraved plates. Extra-illustrated with the map on three large folding engraved plates (see below). Half-title, title-page in red and black with woodcut ornament, some fine woodcut headpieces and initials. Some minor foxing on the first and last leaves, cut in lower margin of first leaf of dedication neatly repaired, cut in lower margin of Eee4, a few small wormholes in the endpapers just encroaching on title and margin of final map sheet. Contemporary vellum (short tear at top of lower joint, a few small wormholes in spine), spine lettered in gilt, red sprinkled edges. FIRST EDITION. The first measurements of the shape of the earth to prove Newton?s theory that it was ellipsoid and flattened at the poles were taken by French expeditions to Peru in 1735, and to Lapland in 1736. Interest was aroused and Pope Benedict XIV commissioned two learned Jesuits, Christopher Maire, who was English, and Roger Joseph Boscovich, from Dubrovnik, to measure an arc of the meridian between Rome and Rimini and to prepare a new map of the Papal States. ?The onerous work took three years. its results confirmed?the geodetic consequences of unevenness in the earth?s strata, the possibility of determining surface irregularities by such measurements, as well as the deviation of meridians and parallels from a properly spherical shape? (DSB). The result appeared in this fine volume divided into five parts of which the first, fourth and fifth are the work of Boscovich. ?Part One describes past studies on the shape of the earth and gives a vivid account of the history of the journey? Part Three corrects the existing geographical map. Part Four is one of the few treatises of that time on practical astronomy. Part Five is devoted to the theories of geodesy?? (Whyte, Boscovich, p. 45). The map, which was issued separately and is rarely found with the book, as here, shows the Papal States. It has a large explanatory tablet on the first sheet and a fine title cartouche on the third.