Nancy e gwinn foreword (9 risultati)

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. 108 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. The Number Line Indicates A Second Printing Of This Hardcover Edition. Gray Marker Ribbon Bound In.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Cloth, 179 pages, illustrations (some colour), colour maps; 27 cm. Ribbon book mark. Near fine. Gently browsed, clean copy. Fine DJ. Another copy available. *** "Situated at the center of the world's largest museum complex, the Smithsonian Institution Libraries links the twenty-two libraries that support Smithsonian museums and research centers into one system encompassing 1.5 million books and manuscripts. The expansive collection includes many rare and unusual works equal to the celebrated art and artifacts of the Smithsonian's museums. This illustrated accompaniment to a new Smithsonian Libraries exhibition of the same name provides a three-part expedition through the collection. The first presents works such as a 1511 edition of Ptolemy's Liber geographiae (Book of geography) and the pop-up book Buck Rogers, 25th Century, featuring Buddy and Allura in "Strange Adventures in the Spider Ship" to illustrate how the world has been imagined, seen, and recorded by Europeans and Americans. The second journey explores how scientists have extended our understanding of the world, and includes a 1641 edition of Galileo's Systema cosmicum (System of the world) and a copy of Walden inscribed by Henry David Thoreau to Spencer Baird, then assistant secretary of the newly founded Smithsonian Institution. The final section journeys through the imaginations of artists, architects, and book designers, presenting among many pictorially rich selections a 1535 edition of Albrecht Durer's Institutionum geometricarum (Geometric instruction) and Doxford Opposed Piston Oil Engine, a paper-and-board pamphlet with movable pistons and levers from 1922." - Publisher. Size: 4to.…

Hardcover. dj. 4to. Black and white and color photographs and illustrations. Lightest shelfwear; very good+ in very good+ dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Hardback with dust jacket in good condition.

HC. 179pp ISBN 1588340368 fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). color illustrations (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Cloth, 179 pages, illustrations (some colour), colour maps; 27 cm. Ribbon book mark. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Fine DJ. *** "Situated at the center of the world's largest museum complex, the Smithsonian Institution Libraries links the twenty-two libraries that support Smithsonian museums and research centers into one system encompassing 1.5 million books and manuscripts. The expansive collection includes many rare and unusual works equal to the celebrated art and artifacts of the Smithsonian's museums. This illustrated accompaniment to a new Smithsonian Libraries exhibition of the same name provides a three-part expedition through the collection. The first presents works such as a 1511 edition of Ptolemy's Liber geographiae (Book of geography) and the pop-up book Buck Rogers, 25th Century, featuring Buddy and Allura in "Strange Adventures in the Spider Ship" to illustrate how the world has been imagined, seen, and recorded by Europeans and Americans. The second journey explores how scientists have extended our understanding of the world, and includes a 1641 edition of Galileo's Systema cosmicum (System of the world) and a copy of Walden inscribed by Henry David Thoreau to Spencer Baird, then assistant secretary of the newly founded Smithsonian Institution. The final section journeys through the imaginations of artists, architects, and book designers, presenting among many pictorially rich selections a 1535 edition of Albrecht Durer's Institutionum geometricarum (Geometric instruction) and Doxford Opposed Piston Oil Engine, a paper-and-board pamphlet with movable pistons and levers from 1922." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Foreword, by Nancy E. Gwinn; Realms of Wonder, by Michael Dirda; A Voyage through the Smithsonian Libraries; The Curator and the Book, by Storrs L. Olson. ADVENTURES IN THE SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES: Introduction; PART I: JOURNEYS OVER LAND AND SEA; Travelers and Places; In the Air. PART II: JOURNEYS OF THE MIND: Classifiers and Describers; Explaining the Heavens. PART III: JOURNEYS OF THE IMAGINATION: Book Arts; Architecture and Design; Trade Literature; Index; Acknowledgments. Size: 4to.…

Condizione: FINE. First printing. A beautiful and lavishly produced exhibition catalogue for The Grolier Club exhibition from May to August 2001 entitled "Voyages: A Smithsonian Libraries Exhibition " and the same exhibition at the Smithsonian Libraries Gallery from May 2002 to May 2003 under the title used in this book. Includes a foreword by Nancy E. Gwinn, essays by Michael Dirda and Storrs Olson. The exhibition (and this book) is divided into three major sections - Journeys over Land and Sea, Journeys of the Mind, Journeys of the Imagination - and features book about flight, travel, exploration, natural history, children's books, book arts, architecture and more, fully illustrated in black and white, sepia tone, and full color - sometimes with 2 or more photographs for one book. INSCRIBED on the title page by Thomas, the curator of the show, who also wrote an essay on the history of the Smithsonian Libraries for this book. Index. Large format. 179 pp. Map illustrated endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket. (small nick to bottom edge of front cover of dj and at fold.).…

Full Cloth. Condizione: Fine. Near Fine. Presumed FIRST EDITION. Full blue cloth with silver lettering on the front cover and the spine, blind stamped butterfly design on the front cover, light wear to the jacket. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall a EXCELLENT book in a EXCELLENT brodart protected dust jacket. A good gift. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover.…