John Head’s Record of Craft and Commerce in Colonial Philadelphia, 1718-1753, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 271)
Jay Robert Stiefel
Foreword by Adam Bowett
Introduction by Patrick Spero
Price: $60.00
ISBN: 9780871692719
Pub Date: January 2019
Format: Hardcover
298 Pages
English joiner John Head (1688-1754) immigrated to Philadelphia in 1717 and became one of its most successful artisans and merchants. His prominence had been lost to history until the discovery of his...
Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 265)
Harvey M. Bricker and Victoria R. Bricker
Price: $115.00
ISBN: 9780871692658
Pub Date: January 2011
Format: Hardcover
907 Pages
The Precolumbian Maya were closely attuned to the movements of the Sun and the Moon, the stars and the planets. Their rituals and daily tasks were performed according to a timetable established by these...
A Grace Beyond the Reach of Art, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 269)
Edward J. Olszewski
Price: $60.00
ISBN: 9780871692696
Pub Date: January 2014
Format: Paperback
382 Pages
This is a comprehensive overview of Parmigianino’s enigmatic painting of The Madonna of the Long Neck. It treats the subject in terms of iconography, semiotics, studio practice, and art theory. The...
Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 154)
Edited by Clark Hunter
Alexander Wilson
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9780871691545
Pub Date: January 1983
Format: Hardcover
456 Pages
Alexander Wilson, expatriate Scotsman, poet, & reformer, has been called “the Father of American Ornithology.” This collection of his letters, many of them new & many complete for the first...
Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 233)
Edited by Alexander Jones
Price: $115.00
ISBN: 9780871692337
Pub Date: January 1999
Format: Hardcover
839 Pages
Presents 200 hitherto unpub. astronomical texts & horoscopes written in Greek on papyrus, which were excavated a century ago in the rubbish heaps of Oxyrhynchus, a district capital of Roman Egypt....
Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 140)
Martha Coleman Bray
Price: $60.00
ISBN: 9780871691408
Pub Date: January 1980
Format: Hardcover
300 Pages
A biography of Joseph Nicollet, the brave & tireless explorer in 1838 & 1839 of the great northwestern triangle between the Missouri & the upper Mississippi rivers. Author Martha Coleman...
Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 259)
Vincent Ilardi
Price: $60.00
ISBN: 9780871692597
Pub Date: January 2007
Format: Hardcover
378 Pages
Deals with the history of eyeglasses from their invention in Italy ca. 1286 to the appearance of the telescope three cent. later. “By the end of the 16th cent. eyeglasses were as common in western...
The 16th Century, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 161)
Kenneth M. Setton
Price: $95.00
ISBN: 9780871691613
Pub Date: January 1984
Format: Hardcover
564 Pages
The third of 4 vols. which trace the history of the later Crusades & papal relations with the Levant from the accession of Innocent III (in 1198) to the reign of Pius V & the battle of Lepanto...
The 16th Century, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 162)
Kenneth M. Setton
Price: $115.00
ISBN: 9780871691620
Pub Date: January 1984
Format: Hardcover
1179 Pages
The fourth of 4 vols. which trace the history of the later Crusades & papal relations with the Levant from the accession of Innocent III (in 1198) to the reign of Pius V & the Battle of Lepanto...
The 15th Century, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 127)
Kenneth M. Setton
Price: $115.00
ISBN: 9780871691279
Pub Date: January 1978
Format: Hardcover
580 Pages
The second of 4 vols. which trace the history of the later Crusades & papal relations with the Levant from the accession of Innocent III (in 1198) to the reign of Pius V & the battle of Lepanto...
