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| ALFTHAN, MAX ET AL Atlas De Finlande 1910 Helsinki, Finland, Societe Geographique De Finlande. 1911. Gilt-Embossed Leather, 24.5 x 18.5 cms. 2 vols. 1,505 pages - in French - 4 plates, 12 maps and 293 b/w figs. - an atlas of Finland put together by a panel of 6 experts in 1910 - vol.I, Nature, describes Finland's surface areas, its rocks, minerals, surrounding seas, archipelagos, swamps, climate, flora & fauna, forests and forest economy - vol.2, Population & Civilization, describes the local populations, illnesses, agriculture, industry, foreign trade, shipping, telecommunications, banks, insurances, languages, history, archeological finds, folklore and cities. Very Good-. CHF 120.00 [Appr.: EURO 79.5 US$ 118.92 | £UK 71.5 | JP¥ 10496] Book number: 005296 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu. | ||
| GAMWELL, LYNN Exploring the Invisible - Art, Science and the Spiritual Princeton, New Jersey,USA, Princeton Univ.Press. 2002. (ISBN: 0691089728) pictorial hardcover-, 29 x 25 Cms. 344 pages - in English - 309 mostly color illustrations - two art curators describe how, since the 18th Century, advances in science and parts of nature which were previously invisible to the naked eye influenced the art of Fuseli, Constable, Turner, Whistler, Monet, Van Gogh, Braque, Kandinsky, Calder, Magritte, Man Ray, Miró, Stella, Kiefer and many others - chronology, biblio. and index. New-/New-. CHF 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 66.25 US$ 99.1 | £UK 59.75 | JP¥ 8746] Book number: 005779 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu. | ||
| GILLESPIE, CHARLES C. Diderot Pictorial Encyclopaedia of trades and Industry (A) New York, Dover. (ISBN: 0486222845) Cloth-, 31 x 24 Cms. slight tear along d.j. upper spine - undated (probably 1993) - 2 vols. 920 pages - in English - over 2,000 b/w illustrations, incl. 485 plates - a reissue of the copperplate illustrations from Denis Diderot's 18th Century encyclopaedia, featuring descriptions of period industrial processes - vol.1: agriculture, iron foundry, forge, extractive industries, and metal working - vol.2: glass, masonry, carpentry, textiles, paper, printing, leather, gold, silver, jewelry, leather, fashion, miscelaneous trades, index of persons & places, and, index of subjects illustrated in plates. New-/New-. CHF 140.00 [Appr.: EURO 92.75 US$ 138.74 | £UK 83.5 | JP¥ 12245] Book number: 008575 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu. | ||
| HARMAN, P. M. Natural Philosophy of James Clerk Maxwell Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press. 1998. (ISBN: 0521561027) Silver-embossed Blue cloth-, 23.5 x 16 cms. 242 pages - in English - 2 b/w plates and 8 b/w figs. - an account of the life, physics and philosophy of Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) - index. New-/New-. CHF 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 39.75 US$ 59.46 | £UK 35.75 | JP¥ 5248] Book number: 008022 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu. | ||
| KEPES, GYORGY Nature et Art Du Mouvement Brussels, Belgium, La Connaissance. 1968. Cloth-, 28 x 23 Cms. slight tear along d.j. upper spine, signs of rubbing along corners and faint smudges on front and back d.j. covers - the book itself is in pristine condition and the contents are bright and clean - 198 pages - in French - over 100 duotone and b/w illustrations - this work is part of the Bibliothèque des Synthèses series which explores the impact of evolution in the worlds of art and technology and features essays by eleven distinguished specialists on the perception of movement as the source of vision and understanding - images, the role of movement in our visual routines, perceiving movement, negative isometry, the morphology of movement, the study of kinetic art, structure, an experience of movement in painting & film, seven faces of time: a cinema aesthetic, structure and continuity in the conceiving of showings, sequence & the city and much more. Fine-/fair-. CHF 90.00 [Appr.: EURO 59.5 US$ 89.19 | £UK 53.75 | JP¥ 7872] Book number: 006500 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu. | ||
| MARGUIN, JEAN Histoire Des Instruments et Machines a Calculer - Trois Siecles De Mecanique Pensante, 1642-1942 Paris, France, Hermann. 1994. (ISBN: 2705661663) Gilt-Embossed Cloth, 28 x 24 Cms. 208 pages - in French - over 200 color, duotone and b/w illustrations - a remarkable history of adding machines, from 1642 to 1942, featuring many beautiful, ancient and ingenious devices created to help man resolve mathematical problems - early primitive instruments, the mechanization of calculating, Pascal & mechanical adding, Liebnitz & mechanical multiplication, marvellous mechanical curiosities, the Industrial Revolution, steel brains, analogic machines and instruments, mechanics and the birth of computers - classification of instruments & machines, biblio. and index. New-/New-. CHF 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 49.75 US$ 74.33 | £UK 44.75 | JP¥ 6560] Book number: 005832 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu. | ||
| ROBINSON, ANDREW Story of Measurement (The) London, England, Thames & Hudson. 2007. (ISBN: 9780500513675) Cloth-, 26 x 20 Cms. 224 pages - in French - 334 illustrations, incl. 153 in color - a fully illustrated survey of the science of measurement - the meaning of measurement, measuring nature and measuring man - epilogue; the measure of all things - biblio. and index. New-/New-. CHF 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 39.75 US$ 59.46 | £UK 35.75 | JP¥ 5248] Book number: 006839 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu. | ||
| TSARONG, T. J. ET AL Fundamentals of Tibetan Medicine Dharamsala, India, Tibetan Medical Centre. 1981, First Edition. Cloth, 23 x 14.5 Cms. dedication in ink on title page - 124 pages - in English, 19 pages in Tibetan - 16 duotone and b/w illustrations, mostly full-page - 2,500-year-old, mind-body, traditional Tibetan medicine according to the Rgyud-Bzhi - intro. parthogenesis, diagnosis and therapeutics - roots of aetiology, diagnosis and therapeutics - Rtza-Rgyud Sdong-'Grems - notes, references, transliteration, contents of rGyud-Bzhi, bibliography, glossary, comparative sphygmology and allegorical tree chart. Fine/Fine. CHF 70.00 [Appr.: EURO 46.5 US$ 69.37 | £UK 41.75 | JP¥ 6122] Book number: 003864 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu. | ||
| VAN BERCHEM, CHARLES Image De La Realite (L') Geneva, Swirzerland, Kundig. 1981. (ISBN: 2880180014) softcover-, 26.5 x 38 cms. oblong-. 62 pages - in French - one color and 18 b/w full-page illustrations - includes a short autobiography on a loose typewritten A4 sheet - a work which describes the relationship between scientific disciplines such as geometry and harmony in visual perception. Fine-. CHF 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 39.75 US$ 59.46 | £UK 35.75 | JP¥ 5248] Book number: 009107 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu. | ||
| WITKOWSKI, NICOLAS ET AL. Dictionnaire Culturel Des Sciences Paris , France, Seuil / Regard. 2001. (ISBN: 2841051285) Hard Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 443 pages - text in French - this book is a dictionary, but not a common one - the concept of this dictionary is particular: this is a scientific dictionary but not in the usual sense, it concerns science in relation to art, litterature, sociology, history, poetry, etc.. through 1000 articles, this book offers ecclectic panorama of what is linked to humanism and culture in general - color illustrations. New -/New -. CHF 129.00 [Appr.: EURO 85.5 US$ 127.84 | £UK 77 | JP¥ 11283] Book number: 001086 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu. | ||
| WITTING, ROLF ET AL Atlas of Finland 1925 Helsinki, Finland, Geographical Society of Finland. 1929. Gilt Embossed Cloth, 25 x 18.5 cms. small tear along cover's upper spine - various b/w maps, figs. and tables - the geography and populations of Finland, a bathy-orographical map, ancient rocks, sea, inland waters, flora & fauna, statistics, anthropology, languages, ethnography, forestry, mining, industry, foreign trade, shipping, banking, telecoms, education, health care, religion,law and much more. Fine-. CHF 80.00 [Appr.: EURO 53 US$ 79.28 | £UK 47.75 | JP¥ 6997] Book number: 005359 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu. |
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