Lindsay, WM. Early Latin Verse.
by Lindsay, WM.
$ 27.00“Wallace Martin Lindsay FBA (1858 – 1937) was a classical scholar of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and a palaeographer.”
Berg, Oivind. Fire : From Spark to Flame, the Scandinavian Art of Fire-Making.
by Berg, Oivind.
$ 22.00“When early humans learned how to control fire, they changed the course of evolution. In this beautifully illustrated book, Øivind Berg traces the use of fire as a heat source, a means of preparing food, and a social gathering point, both indoors and out. He explains how to kindle a fire, the characteristics of different woods as fuel, and how to cook over a fire, Norwegian style.”
Grund, Peter. Misticall Wordes and Names Infinite. An edition and study of Humfrey Locke’s Treatise on Alchemy.
by Grund, Peter.
$ 32.00
“Adding to the few edited early English texts on alchemy, this book presents an edition of Humfrey Lock’s (fl. 1560s–1570s) treatise on the philosopher’s stone, the miraculous substance that would turn base metals into silver and gold or cure diseases. The substantial introduction weaves together struggles between competing merchant factions in Russia, the Elizabethan court’s fascination with alchemy, and the origins and evolution of Lock’s alchemical treatise. The book offers new insights into the circulation of alchemical texts in early modern England, the reuse and adaptation of alchemical literature, and the emergence of English as a language of science. “
Hess, Catherine. Italian Ceramics : Catalogue of the J. Paul Getty Museum Collection.
by Hess, Catherine.
$ 45.00“This book catalogues the Getty Museum’s fine collection of forty-five Italian ceramic objects spanning four hundred years, including a pair of eighteenth-century candlesticks representing mythological scenes, a tabletop with hunting scenes, and, from the 1790s, the beautifully modeled and painted Saint Joseph with the Christ Child. Containing the most recent scientific, historical, and iconographic information about the Museum’s holdings, Italian Ceramics offers a wealth of new information about the Getty Museum’s superb collection of Italian ceramic art.”
Elizabeth Simpson and Krysia Spirydowicz. Gordion : Ahsap Eserlier : Wood Furniture.
by Elizabeth Simpson and Krysia Spirydowicz
$ 35.00Elizabeth Simpson and Krysia Spirydowicz. Gordion : Ahsap Eserlier : Wood Furniture. Gordion Furniture Project 1999 Softcover. Like New Unused Quarto 172 pp
“This book details 18 years of research and conservation work on the wooden furniture and small objects excavated at the site of Gordion, Turkey, by the University of Pennsylvania Museum between 1950 and 1973, uncovering what is now considered to be the most important collection of well-preserved wooden objects surviving from the ancient Near East. Forty-seven pieces of fine furniture and more than 70 wooden sculptures and household objects were recovered from the three largest tombs at Gordion, once considered to be the tombs of King Midas, who ruled the kingdom of Phrygia from Gordion in the eighth century B.C. ” GoodReads
Whitehouse, David. Cage Cups : Late Roman Glasses.
by Whitehouse, David.
$ 35.00Contents include : Two early cage cups and a cage cup of uncertain date, The discovery and study of late Roman cage cups
The characteristics of cage cups, Distribution and date, The manufacture of cage cups, Catalog, Cage cups with inscriptions
Cage cups and colors, Chemical analyses, Datable and approximately datable cage cups, Lost or incorrectly identified cage cups,
A silver and glass cage cup in context, Some hardstone objects with openwork, Recently examined cage cups,
The cutting of cage cups / David Hill.
The characteristics of cage cups, Distribution and date, The manufacture of cage cups, Catalog, Cage cups with inscriptions
Cage cups and colors, Chemical analyses, Datable and approximately datable cage cups, Lost or incorrectly identified cage cups,
A silver and glass cage cup in context, Some hardstone objects with openwork, Recently examined cage cups,
The cutting of cage cups / David Hill.
Dien, M Izzi. Theory and Practice of Market Law in Medieval Islam.
by Dien, M Izzi.
$ 37.00“This book represents an explanation of the institution of hisba in medieval Islam, through one of the most used texts in the field. It includes a thorough translation of the text, written by a practising muhtasib, scholar and judge, together with accompanying biographical and bibliographical notes.”
Harris, CRS. The Heart and Vascular System in Ancient Greek Medicine from Alcmaeon to Galen.
by Harris, CRS.
$ 32.00
“Harris traces the development of the Greeks’ ideas about the physiological function of the heart from the earliest writings 9in 5th century BC) by Alcmaeom of Croton, a pupil of Pythagoras who placed the seat of consciousness in the brain and, in his theory of unbalance of opposite qualities, offered the first rational explanation of disease, to the sphymology of Galen (AD 129-199/216).”
M. Teresa Tavormina. Sex Aging Death in a Medieval Medical Compendium.
by M. Teresa Tavormina.
$ 40.00“Trinity College Cambridge MS R.14.52 is one of the most important extant witnesses to vernacular medical and scientific writing in late medieval England. This two-volume collection of essays and texts opens with studies of the physical manuscript, its contents and textual relations to other Middle English medical compendia, its scribe, scribal dialect, and the translation strategies of its principal translator, followed by editions of over a dozen texts from the manuscript, nearly all unique and hitherto unpublished. The book concludes with two linguistic appendices, a list of manuscripts cited, an extensive general glossary and specialized glossaries of materia medica and proper names, and a bibliography.
Wang, Guojun. Staging Personhood : Costuming in Early Qing Drama.
by Wang, Guojun.
$ 42.00
“Staging Personhood uncovers a hidden history of the Ming-Qing transition by exploring what it meant for the clothing of a deposed dynasty to survive onstage. Reading dramatic texts and performances against Qing sartorial regulations, Guojun Wang offers an interdisciplinary lens on the entanglements between Chinese drama and nascent Manchu rule.”