Strack Henry (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Folio; 46 cm. Bound in library cloth. 50 plates. Perforated library stamp on first 2 text leaves. Soiling, darkening to margins. Original sketches and drawings, by Henry Strack. Translation of: Ziegelbauwerke des Mittelalters und der Renaissance in Italien, by Leigh Hunt. Sold AS-IS. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.

1/2 Leather. Condition: G/No Dustjacket. Black & White Illustrations & Plates (illustrator). New York, NY: Architectural Book Publishing Company. G/No Dustjacket. (1910). . 1/2 Leather. Elephant Folio, 31 pp., 50 plates, Cover rubbed, bumped, frayed, chipped, gutters split, page toning, spine chipped and frayed, .

Hardcover. First edition. 27 pages in text. Folio, 45 x 36 cm. Translated by Leigh Hunt. Fifty plates printed on glossy stock, most with multiple images -- photographs, drawings, plans, and details -- plus 103 figures in the text. The chief localities of brick -building regions are Tuscany, Umbria, Romagna, the Marches, Lombardy and Venice. Moderate extremity wear, interior contents clean and bright. Orig. publisher brown cloth, red leather spine labels printed in gilt (scuffed with slight loss). Very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Tracey L. Fedor (Graphic Designer) (illustrator). Presumed First Edition, First printing. Format is approximately 9.25 inches by 10.25 inches. [2] v, [1], 719, [1] pages. Illustrations. Appendices (including Biographies, Endnotes, Index of Subjects, and Index of Names). Through text and images, this 50th anniversary book presents an interactive comprehensive history of the Department of Energy's Savannah River Site. Mary Beth Reed helped co-found New South Associates in 1988. As the Director of History, she supervises a team of historians and architectural historians involved in documentation projects, architectural survey, landuse studies, Environmental Assessments and Environmental Impact Statements, and context development. Awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award for Preserving Georgia's History, 2000, presented by State of Georgia, Ms. Reed is a member of the South Carolina Historical Society, the Georgia Historical Society, and the Society for Historical Archaeology. She has produced documentation over the last two decades on the Dept. of Energy's Savannah River Site. New South Associates' hard cover book, Savannah River Site at Fifty, was the recipient of the 2002 American Cultural Resource Association's Quality Product Award. The product of five years research and writing on the history of the Department of Energy's Savannah River Site in South Carolina. Savannah River Site at Fifty traces the history of the site from the development of the Atomic Bomb during World War II, to the resulting nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union, through the selection of the site and its construction. The book then treats the operations of the site during the period when it was run by the Du Pont Company, looks at the Environmental Impact of the site, as well as the impact of the environmental movement on the site, and addresses the transition of site operations from Du Pont to Westinghouse Savannah River site. Extensively illustrated, the ACRA award cited the book's design and visual appeal in addition to its scholarship and writing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Eighth Edition. "I have [here] pointed out, even more emphatically than in the original edition, that superstition, especially the 'blood-superstition,' is even nowadays very wide-spread, and that it has had in the past, as it has in the present, deplorable, yes and horrible, consequences." - Preface. "Hermann Leberecht Strack (1848 1922) was a German Protestant theologian and orientalist; born in Berlin. He was the foremost Christian authority in Germany on Talmudic and rabbinic literature, and studied rabbinics under Steinschneider. Since the reappearance of anti-Semitism in Germany, Strack had been the champion of the Jews against the attacks of such men as Adolf Stoecker, August Rohling, and others." - Wikipedia. Translated from the Eighth edition with corrections. New preface and additions by the author. Translated from the German. xvi, [2], 19-289 p. Index. Bibliography. Footnotes. No dust jacket. The original binding of this title was notoriously short-lived, thus this example is expertly rebound in bright maroon buckram lettered in gilt upon spine. Two-inch opening to bottom of page 27. Trivial ink annotations to pages 25 and 37 otherwise tight and clean with light wear. A quality example.; Sm 4to.