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Africa--History

 
Aaboe, Asger et al,
Saros Cycle Dates and Related Babylonian Astronomical Texts
Transactions 81-6 (1991)
Cloth. 75 pp.
$12

 
Feinberg, Harvey M.,
Africans and Europeans in West Africa
Transactions 79-7 (1989)
Cloth. 186 pp., Illus..
$30

 
Lambrecht, Frank L.,
In the Shade of an Acacia Tree: Memoirs of a Health Officer in Africa, 1945-1959
Memoir 194 (1991)
Cloth. 418 pp. Illus.
$30

 
Moser, Gerald M.,
Changing Africa: The First Literary Generation of Independent Cape Verde
Transactions 82-4 (1992)
Cloth. 102 pp.
$15
Agriculture--History

 
Berman, Constance H.,
Medieval Agriculture, the Southern French Countryside, and the Early Cistercians
Transactions 76-5 (1986)
Cloth. 179 pp.
$15

 
Klingelhofer, Eric,
Settlement and Land Use in Micheldever Hundred, Hampshire, 700-1100
Transactions 81-3 (1991)
Cloth. 156 pp.
$15
American Academy of Arts and Sciences

 
Manuel, Frank E. and Fritzie,
James Bowdoin and the Patriot Philosophers
A history of the early years of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the life and career of James Bowdoin, the Academy's first president, are given careful consideration by Frank and Fritzie Manuel. The strength of the work rests in a combination of its subject matter and execution. The subject matter is both intrinsically interesting and simultaneously neglected. Neither the accomplishments of Bowdoin nor the contributions of the members of the Academy have been adequately studied, and the Manuel's careful exploration is a valuable addition to our understanding of the founding of the nation. Using primary manuscript sources in the AAAS itself, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Archives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the Huntington Library, the work is, by turns, witty, learned, and often simply fascinating. The Manuels have produced a volume that offers an incomparable account of one of Revolutionary America's most elusive and fascinating figures.
Memoir 247 (2003)
Cloth. .
$40
American Philosophical Society

 
Bearn, Alexander G.,
Useful Knowledge: The Millennium Program
Memoir 234 (1999)
Cloth. 307pp.
$30

 
Bell, Whitfield J.,
Patriot-Improvers: Members of the American Philosophical Society, Volume One: 1743-1768
When Benjamin Franklin adopted John Bartram's 1739 idea of bringing together the "virtuosi" of the colonies to promote inquiries into "natural secrets, arts and syances," the result was, in 1743, the founding of the American Philosophical Society. Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. records the early years of the Society through sketches of its first members, those elected between 1743 and 1769. Volume 1 includes biographies of some of the Society's best known members such as Franklin, David Rittenhouse, John Bartram, Benjamin Rush, John Dickinson, Thomas Hopkinson and many lesser known merchants, artisans, farmers, physicians, lawyers and clergymen with familiar surnames such as Biddle, Colden, and Morris. A history of this earliest society and its offshoots before 1769, the Young Junto and the American Society for Promoting and Propagating Useful Knowledge, are also included. These sketches, written over several decades, represent in Whitfield J. Bell's words, "the first systematic attempt to collect and preserve data on the lives of [the Society's first] members" and add much to our knowledge of the history and culture of eighteenth-century America.
Memoir 226 (1997)
Cloth. 531 pp., Illus..
$40

 
Bell, Whitfield J.,
Patriot-Improvers: Members of the American Philosophical Society, Volume Two: 1768
Memoir 227 (1999)
Cloth. 425 pp., Illus..
$30

 
Catlett, J. Stephen,
A New Guide to the Collections in the Library of the American Philosophical Society
Memoir 66S (1987)
Cloth. 414 pp.
$20

 
Kendall, Daythal,
A Supplement to A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian in the Library of the American Philosophical Society
Memoir 65S (1982)
Cloth. 168 pp.
$15

 
Masthay, Carl,
Schmick's Mahican Dictionary
Memoir 197 (1991)
Cloth. 188 pp., Illus..
$30

 
Smith, Murphy D.,
"Realms of Gold": A Catalogue of Maps in the Library of the American Philosophical Society
Memoir 195 (1991)
Cloth. 599 pp.
$20

 
Smith, Murphy D.,
Due Reverence. Antiques in the American Philosophical Society
Memoir 203 (1992)
Cloth. 77 pp.
$25
Ancient history and culture

 
Aaboe, Asger et al,
Saros Cycle Dates and Related Babylonian Astronomical Texts
Transactions 81-6 (1991)
Cloth. 75 pp.
$12

 
Broughton, T. Robert,
Candidates Defeated in Roman Elections: Some Ancient "Also Rans."
Transactions 81-4 (1991)
Cloth. 64 pp.
$10

 
Buraselis, Kostas,
Kos Between Hellenism and Rome: Studies on the Political, Institutional and Social History of Kos from ca. the Middle Second Century B.C. until Late Antiquity
Transactions 90-4 (2000)
Paper. 189pp.
$22

 
Clagett, Marshall,
Ancient Egyptian Science, Vol. 1
Memoir 184 (1989)
Paper. 863 pp., Illus..
$30

 
Clagett, Marshall,
Ancient Egyptian Science, Vol. 2
Memoir 214 (1995)
Paper. 575 pp., Illus.
$30

 
Clagett, Marshall,
Ancient Egyptian Science, Vol. 3
THIS VOLUME CONTINUES Marshall Clagett' s studies of the various aspects of the science of Ancient Egypt. Like its predecessors, it has two main objectives: first to summarize and analyze the principal features of a nascent and yet important part of that science, namely its mathematics, and second to present in English six of the most important mathematical documents on which the preceding analysis was based. Thus we find treated in the first part of the work Egyptian measurement that lay behind the various calculating procedures, the procedures themselves, and the model problems that were gathered together to aid the calculators in their efforts to complete practcal measures. The author includes detailed descriptions of the various kinds of tables that the Egyptians depended upon in their calculations, an important one being the Table of Two that presented the division of 2 by the odd numbers from 3 to 101. This table reveals the nature of Egyptian fractions and their form of notation as the sums of unit fractions, a form leading to the use of a concept very useful for measure-ment, that of significant fractional approximations achieved by dropping one or more of the lesser fractions at the end of a set of unit fractions. The Table of Two occupies the first section of the most important of all Egyptian mathematical documents, the Rhind Papyrus, the papyrus which stands at the head of the documents in Part II of the volume. Following the series of documents in Part II with their extensive endnotes, the author gives in Part III a bibliography, an Index of Egyptian Terms, and an Index of Proper Names and Subjects. To assist the reader who controls the Egyptian language there is finally an extensive collection of illustrations which includes, together with pertinent diagrams and tables, reproductions of the hieratic texts of the documents with their hieroglyphic transcriptions.
Memoir 232 (1999)
Cloth. Illus.
$30

 
Daly, Lloyd W.,
Iohannis Philoponi: de Vocabulis Quae Diversum Significatum. Exhibent Secundum Differnetiam
Memoir 151 (1983)
Cloth. 250pp.
$20

 
Jones, Alexander,
Astronomical Papyri from Oxyrhynchus
Memoir 233 (1999)
Cloth. 2 vols., 839pp.
$50

 
Jones, Alexander,
Ptolemy's First Commentator
61 pp., $15.00 paper.
Transactions 80-7 (1990)
Paper. 61pp.
$15

 
Jones, Nicholas F.,
Public Organization in Ancient Greece: A Documentary Study
Memoir 176 (1987)
Cloth. 403pp.
$35

 
Lind, L. R.,
Gabriele Zerbi, Gerontocomia; On the Care of the Aged and Maximianus, Elegies on Old Age and Love
Memoir 182 (1988)
Cloth. 346 pp.
$20

 
Mirkovic, Miroslava C.,
The Later Roman Colonate and Freedom
Transactions 87-2 (1997)
Cloth. 144 pp.
$18

 
Mitford, T. B.,
The Inscriptions of Kourion
Memoir 083 (1971)
Cloth. 422pp.
$30

 
Murray, William M.,
Octavian's Campsite Memorial for the Actian War
Transactions 79-4 (1989)
Cloth. 172 pp.
$18

 
Neugebauer, Otto,
Greek Horoscopes
Memoir 048 (1987)
. 213 pp.
$20

 
Palmer, Robert E.,
Studies of the Northern Campus Martius in Ancient Rome
Transactions 80-2 (1990)
Cloth. 64 pp., Illus..
$12

 
Pingree, David,
Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit
Memoir 081 (1970)
Cloth. Series A, Volume I, 147pp.
$20

 
Pingree, David,
Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit
Memoir 213 (1994)
Cloth. Vol. 5, 756pp.
$45

 
Pingree, David,
Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit
Memoir 111 (1993)
Cloth. Vol. 4. Reprinted 1995.
$20

 
Porter, Barbara N.,
Images, Power, and Politics: Figurative Aspects of "Esarhaddon's Babylonian Policy (681-669 B.C.
Memoir 208 (1993)
Cloth. 230 pp.
$30

 
Reiner, Erica,
An Adventure of Great Dimension: The Launching of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary
Babylonian and Assyrian early civilizations left a "vast corpus of records and scribes," preserved through the medium of cuneiform writing on clay tablets. Erica Reiner looks back on the last half-century and more of work on the Chicago Assyrian dictionary project at the Oriental Institute of Chicago, focusing particularly on the reformulation of the task that took place during her early years of participation in the 1950s and 1960s. This included intellectual clashes between eminent scholars such as Thorkild Jacobsen and Leo Oppenheim. Benno Landsberger, an unrivaled older magister of the field in they eyes of both Jacobsen and Openheim, in the end supported Oppenheim and helped to move the project forward. Oriental Institute director Robert McC. Adams "concurs warmly in the course that has finally made the CAD not only a reality of the kind Oppenheim envisioned but one of the great and enduring humanistic achievements of our time."
Transactions 92-3 (2002)
Paper. 140pp.
$24

 
Reiner, Erica,
Astral Magic in Babylonia
Transactions 85-4 (1998)
Cloth. 150 pp. Illus.
$15

 
Rochberg, Francesca,
Babylonian Horoscopes
Interpretation of heavenly phenomena as signs of the future was a Mesopotamian tradition of great antiquity. The practice of Babylonian celestial divination, spanning a period from ca. 1800 B.C. to Hellenistic times, is known in the form of celestial omens portending the life of the king and stability of the state. Emerging for the first time in the fifth century B.C., horoscopes reflect the application of the idea and practice of celestial divination to the life of the individual. Whereas an omen focuses on a single astronomical phenomenon, the horoscope takes into account the positions of the moon, sun, and five naked-eye planets at the moment of a birth. As such, Babylonian horoscopes presuppose the concept of the ecliptic and a methodology for obtaining the positions of heavenly bodies when they are not observable. This is the first complete edition of the extant cuneiform horoscopes-- with transcription and philological and astronomical commentary. It is the first study to offer a systematic description of the documents as a definable class of Babylonian astronomical/astrological texts. Publication of the Babylonian horoscopes fills a significant gap in our materials for the history of Western astrology as well as of ancient astronomy, and provides a rich source for further study of the transmission of astronomical science from ancient Babylonia to the Greeks
Transactions 88-1 (1998)
Cloth. 164 pp.
$20

 
Romano, David G.,
Athletics and Mathematics in Archaic Corinth: The Origins of the Greek Stadion
Memoir 206 (1993)
Paper. 117 pp., Illus..
$20

 
Smith, A. Mark,
Ptolemy and the Foundations of Ancient Mathematical Optics: A Guided Study
Transactions 89-3 (1999)
Paper. 172pp.
$20

 
Smith, A. Mark,
Ptolemy's Theory of Visual Perception: An English Translation of the Optics. With Introduction and Commentary
Transactions 86-2 (1996)
Cloth. 300 pp.
$15

 
Springer, Carl P.,
The Manuscripts of Sedulius: A Provisional Handlist
Transactions 85-5 (1995)
Cloth. 244 pp.
$15

 
Westermann, W. L.,
The Slave Systems of Greek and Roman Antiquity
Memoir 040 (1955)
Paper. 180 pp.
$15
Anthropology

 
Goodenough, Ward H.,
Under Heaven's Brow: Pre-Christian Religious Tradition in Chuuk
For the people of Chuuk and for students of religion and Micronesian culture, this book pulls together and makes available in English the somewhat scattered published accounts (largely in German), along with Goodenough's own (as yet unpublished) information about religious beliefs and ritual practices in pre-Christian Chuuk. The materials are presented in a way that seeks to document and illustrate a particular approach, a functional one, to understanding the kinds of human concerns that give rise to religious behavior. Simply to describe traditional beliefs and rituals without the relevant social background information leaves the reader without any feeling for what were the emotional concerns, engendered by life in Chuukese society, that ritual practices helped people address. Ward Goodenough offers a theoretical introduction, the necessary background information about Chuuk and the ways in which members of Chuukese society experienced themselves and their fellows, the world view and overall set of beliefs providing the intellectual framework within which ritual practices were formulated and understood, and the various bodies of ritual practices. He concludes the book with a summary that pulls together how the rituals described appear to related to the emotional concerns that growing up and living in Chuuk tended to create.
Memoir 246 (2002)
Cloth. 421 pp.
$30

 
Trautmann, Thomas R. and Karl Sanford Kabelac,
The Library of Lewis Henry Morgan
Transactions 84-6 (1994)
Cloth. 336 pp.
$20
Archaeology

 
Aveni, Anthony F. et al,
The Lines of Nazca
Memoir 183 (1990)
Cloth. 343 pp., Illus. Photomozaic fold-out map.
$30

 
Bodnar, Edward W. and Charles Mitchell,
Vita Viri Clarissimi et Famosissimi Cyriaci Anconitani
Transactions 86-4 (1996)
Cloth. 246 pp.
$25

 
Goodenough, Ward H.,
Prehistoric Settlement of the Pacific
Transactions 86-5 (1996)
Cloth. 169 pp., Illus. Second Printing, 1998.
$20

 
Jopling, Carol F.,
The Coppers of the Northwest Coast Indians, Their Origin, Development, and Possible Antecedents
Transactions 79-1 (1989)
Cloth. 164 pp., Illus..
$15

 
Murray, William M.,
Octavian's Campsite Memorial for the Actian War
Transactions 79-4 (1989)
Cloth. 172 pp.
$18

 
Palmer, Robert E.,
Studies of the Northern Campus Martius in Ancient Rome
Transactions 80-2 (1990)
Cloth. 64 pp., Illus..
$12
Architecture

 
Markman, Sidney D.,
Architecture and Urbanization in Colonial Chiapas, Mexico
Memoir 153 (1984)
Cloth. 443pp.
$50

 
Schmidt, Albert J.,
The Architecture and Planning of Classical Moscow: A Cultural History
Memoir 181 (1989)
Cloth. 218pp.
$38
Astronomy and astrology

 
Aiton, E. J., A. M. Duncan, and J. V. Field,
The Harmony of the World by Johannes Kepler
Memoir 209 (1997)
Cloth. 549 pp., Illus.
$45

 
Clagett, Marshall,
Archimedes in the Middle Ages. Volume Three: The Fate of the Medieval Archimedes, 1300-1565
Memoir 125 (1978)
Cloth. 1,582pp.
$0

 
Gingerich, Owen and Barbara Welther,
Planetary, Lunar, and Solar Positions, New and Full Moons, A.D. 1650-1805
Memoir 59S (1983)
Cloth. 97 pp.
$20

 
Gingerich, Owen and Robert S. Westman,
The Wittich Connection: Conflict and Priority in Late Sixteenth-Century Cosmology
Transactions 78-7 (1988)
Cloth. 148 pp., Illus..
$20

 
Goldstein, Bernard R. and José Chabás,
Astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula: Abraham Zacut and the Transition from Manuscript to Print
Transactions 90-2 (2000)
Paper. 196pp.
$22

 
Goldstein, Bernard R.,
Levi ben Gerson's Prognostication for the Conjunction of 1345
Transactions 80-6 (1990)
Cloth. 60 pp.
$12

 
Goldstine, Herman,
New and Full Moons, 1001 B.C. to A.D. 1651
Memoir 094 (1994)
Paper.. Reprinted in 1994.
$25

 
Jones, Alexander,
Astronomical Papyri from Oxyrhynchus
Memoir 233 (1999)
Cloth. 2 vols., 839pp.
$50

 
Kennedy, E. S.,
Islamic Astronomical Tables
Transactions 46-2 (1956)
Cloth. 57 pp.Illus..
$15

 
Neugebauer, Otto,
Greek Horoscopes
Memoir 048 (1987)
. 213 pp.
$20

 
Pingree, David,
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Astronomical Manuscripts Preserved at the Maharaja Man Singh II Museum un Jaipur, India
This catalogue of the astronomical manuscripts preserved at the Maharaja Man Singh Museum provides a substantial part of the foundation for an extensive and penetrating analysis of the astronomical activities of Sawäï Jayasimha Maharaja from 1700 to 1743. Jayasimha collected Sanskrit manuscripts of traditional Indian astronomy, acquired Arabic and Persian manuscripts representative of the Muslim interpretation of Ptolemaic astronomy, built five observatories at which he employed both Hindu and Muslim observors, and produced a set of astronomical tables in Persian based on the Latin tables of Philippe de La Hire.
Memoir 250 (2003)
Cloth. .
$20

 
Reiner, Erica,
Astral Magic in Babylonia
Transactions 85-4 (1998)
Cloth. 150 pp. Illus.
$15

 
Rochberg, Francesca,
Babylonian Horoscopes
Interpretation of heavenly phenomena as signs of the future was a Mesopotamian tradition of great antiquity. The practice of Babylonian celestial divination, spanning a period from ca. 1800 B.C. to Hellenistic times, is known in the form of celestial omens portending the life of the king and stability of the state. Emerging for the first time in the fifth century B.C., horoscopes reflect the application of the idea and practice of celestial divination to the life of the individual. Whereas an omen focuses on a single astronomical phenomenon, the horoscope takes into account the positions of the moon, sun, and five naked-eye planets at the moment of a birth. As such, Babylonian horoscopes presuppose the concept of the ecliptic and a methodology for obtaining the positions of heavenly bodies when they are not observable. This is the first complete edition of the extant cuneiform horoscopes-- with transcription and philological and astronomical commentary. It is the first study to offer a systematic description of the documents as a definable class of Babylonian astronomical/astrological texts. Publication of the Babylonian horoscopes fills a significant gap in our materials for the history of Western astrology as well as of ancient astronomy, and provides a rich source for further study of the transmission of astronomical science from ancient Babylonia to the Greeks
Transactions 88-1 (1998)
Cloth. 164 pp.
$20

 
Tuckerman, Bryant,
Planetary, Lunar and Solar Positions, 601 B.C. to A.D. 1, at Five-Day and Ten Day Intervals
Memoir 056 (1962)
Paper. 333 pp.
$20

 
Tuckerman, Bryant,
Planetary, Lunar, and Solar Positions, A.D. 2 to A.D. 1649, at Five-Day and Ten-Day Intervals
Memoir 059 (1964)
Paper. 842 pp.
$30
Bandinelli, Baccio

 
Waldman, Louis A.,
Baccio Bandinelli and Art at the Medici Court: A Corpus of Early Modern Sources
More than five centuries after his birth, the contradictions embodied by the Florentine sculptor Baccio Bandinelli (1493-1560) remain as mysterious as ever. Revered by contemporaries as one of the most important sculptors of his time, he was reviled by his enemies as a truculent, foul-mouthed, avaricious, sycophantic, craven humbug. But the originality and power or Bandinelli's work, and the long shadow it cast over the arts in sixteenth-century Florence and Rome, are as clear today as they were to the artists Medici patrons, who recognized his art as a potent tool for constructing an image of dynastic legitimacy.

Based on a decade of research in archives all over Italy, Baccio Bandinelli and Art at the Medici Court: A Corpus of Early Modern Sources brings this great, but often neglected, Renaissance artist into sharper focus for modern scholarship. It comprises a comprehensive collection of the documentation on Bandinelli's life and work. The great majority of the texts included in this volume were discovered by the author and are published for the first time, and many come from the private archive of the Bandinelli family.

All the documents are furnished with historical commentary and textual apparatus discussing their broader historical context, problems of chronology and interpretation, and later interpolations -- including hundreds of forged passages inserted by the artist's grandson, genealogist Baccio Bandinelli the Younger (1578-1636), whose role as forger of the Bandinelli legacy is exposed here for the first time.

"An incomparable achievement of scholarship" -- William Wallace, Washington University in St. Louis

"A very sizable contribution to the entire range of the Renaissance art historical academic community" -- Patricia Emison, University of New Hampshire

Memoir 251 (2004)
Cloth. 935p.
$60
Bartram, John

 
Hoffman, Nancy and John Van Horne,
America's Curious Botanist: A Tercentennial Reappraisal of John Bartram (1699-1777)
The Academy of Natural Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, John Bartram Association, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, and the Philadelphia Botanical Club sponsored a three-day symposium in May 1999 to commemorate the three-hundredth anniversary of John Bartram's birth. This collection of essays arises from that symposium. All of the essays contribute to the telling of the story of the multifaceted John Bartram, whose life spanned most of the eighteenth century and who was called "the greatest natural botanist in the world." The work is published in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia and John Bartram Association.
Memoir 249 (2003)
Cloth. .
$40
Berlin, Isaiah

 
Mali, Joseph and Robert Wolker, eds.,
Isaiah Berlin's Counter-Enlightenment
As the essays in this collection make plain, Isaiah Berlin invented neither the term "Counter-Enlightenment" nor the concept. However, more than any other figure since the eighteenth century, Berlin appropriated the term, made it the heart of his own political thought, and imbued his interpretations of particular thinkers with its meanings and significance. His diverse treatment of writers at the margins of the Enlightenment, who themselves reflected upon what they took to be its central currents, were at once historical and philosophical. Berlin sought to show that our patterns of culture, manufactured by ourselves, must be explained differently from the ways in which we seek to fathom laws of nature. Many of the essays in this volume were prepared for the International Seminar in memory of Sir Isaiah Berlin, held at the School of History in Tel Aviv University during the academic year 1999-2000.
Transactions 93-5 (2003)
Paper. .
$24
Biology--History

 
Fruton, Joseph S.,
Contrasts in Scientific Style: Research Groups in the Chemical and Biological Sciences
Memoir 191 (1990)
Cloth. 473 pp.
$20
Botany

 
Appel, John,
Francisco Jose de Caldas: A Scientist at Work in Nueva Granada
Transactions 84-5 (1994)
Cloth. 154 pp.
$20

 
Armstrong, Alan W.,
"Forget not Mee & My Garden..." Selected Letters, 1725-1768, of Peter Collinson, F.R.S.
"Forget not Mee & My Garden. . . ," Peter Collinson wrote his Maryland friend George Robins in 1721. "If you have any Shells, Curious Stones, or any other Naturall Curiosity Remember Mee. I want one of your Humming Birds which you may send dry'd in its Feathers, and any Curious Insect." This theme echoed through Collinson's letters for the rest of his life, along with thanks for rarities received, introductions, cultivation instructions, encouragements, importunings, queries. Armstrong describes Collinson's correspondence as, "vigorous, brisk, and emphatic." His letters talk mainly of plants, but there are also antiquities, birds, butterflies, British imperial interests, sheep management in Spain, electricity, weather, fossils, insects, earthquakes, vine culture, Colonial policy, tithes, wars, terrapins, "an Infalible Remedy for the bite of a Mad Dog,' red Indians, astronomy, the making of salt, cheese fairs, the price of wheat, the power of snakes to charm, the Spanish threat to Florida, geology, French expansion," Hints . . . to Incorporate the Germans more with the [Pennsylvania] English. . . , the history of rice growing, premiums to encourage the production of silk, whether swallows migrate or winter-over under water, "Old Hock" as a remedy for gout, thundergusts, magnetism, Bezoar stones, and now and then a Quakerly comment. This selection of 187 letters is enhanced with over 120 illustrations (portraits and botanical drawings among them) , some by Mark Catesby, Georg Dionysius Ehret, William Bartram, many in color. The edition contains notes and commentary for most letters.
Memoir 241 (2002)
Cloth. 300 pp.
$60

 
Hoffman, Nancy and John Van Horne,
America's Curious Botanist: A Tercentennial Reappraisal of John Bartram (1699-1777)
The Academy of Natural Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, John Bartram Association, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, and the Philadelphia Botanical Club sponsored a three-day symposium in May 1999 to commemorate the three-hundredth anniversary of John Bartram's birth. This collection of essays arises from that symposium. All of the essays contribute to the telling of the story of the multifaceted John Bartram, whose life spanned most of the eighteenth century and who was called "the greatest natural botanist in the world." The work is published in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia and John Bartram Association.
Memoir 249 (2003)
Cloth. .
$40

 
Rhoads, Ann F. and William Klein,
The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas
Memoir 207 (1993)
Cloth. 636 pp., Illus., reprinted 1996.
$25
Bowdoin, James

 
Manuel, Frank E. and Fritzie,
James Bowdoin and the Patriot Philosophers
A history of the early years of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the life and career of James Bowdoin, the Academy's first president, are given careful consideration by Frank and Fritzie Manuel. The strength of the work rests in a combination of its subject matter and execution. The subject matter is both intrinsically interesting and simultaneously neglected. Neither the accomplishments of Bowdoin nor the contributions of the members of the Academy have been adequately studied, and the Manuel's careful exploration is a valuable addition to our understanding of the founding of the nation. Using primary manuscript sources in the AAAS itself, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Archives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the Huntington Library, the work is, by turns, witty, learned, and often simply fascinating. The Manuels have produced a volume that offers an incomparable account of one of Revolutionary America's most elusive and fascinating figures.
Memoir 247 (2003)
Cloth. .
$40
Chemistry--History

 
Fruton, Joseph S.,
Contrasts in Scientific Style: Research Groups in the Chemical and Biological Sciences
Memoir 191 (1990)
Cloth. 473 pp.
$20

 
Fruton, Joseph S.,
Methods and Styles in the Development of Chemistry
Chemistry as it is known today is deeply rooted in a variety of thought and action, dating back at least as far as the fifth century B.C. In this book, Joseph S. Fruton weaves together the history of scientific investigation with social, religious, philosophical, and other events and practices that have contributed to the field of modern chemistry. The story begins with the influence of alchemy on early Greek numerology and philosophy, followed by the historical account of chemical composition and phlogiston. The life and work of Antoine Lavoisier receive extensive coverage in Chapter Three, with the remaining six chapters devoted to atoms, equivalents, and elements; radicals and types; valence and molectualr structure; stereochemistry and organic synthesis; forces, equilibria, and rates; and electrons, reaction mechanisms, and organic synthesis.
Memoir 245 (2002)
Cloth. 332 pp.
$40

 
Siegfried, Robert,
From Elements to Atoms: A History of Chemical Composition
Seeking to enlarge an understanding of the nature of chemical science and explain how the concepts being taught in the classroom came to be, Robert Siegfried presents a simple, readable account of how in the eighteenth century chemical composition slowly abandoned the centuries- long tradition of metaphysical elements of earth, air, fire, and water. Through the work of such scientist as Lavoisier, Dalton, and Davy, chemical theory moved from metaphysical ELEMENTS to operationally functional ATOMS. The content of the book is based on chemical writings of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century chemists; references to recently published secondary works are intended for the benefit of readers who wish to enlarge their contextual perspectives on the development of early chemical thinking.
Transactions 92-4 (2002)
Paper. 278pp.
$24
China--History

 
Kennedy, Thomas L.,
Confucian Feminist. Memoirs of Zeng Baosun (1893-1978)
The autobiographical memoirs of Zeng Baosun, an extraordinary Chinese woman who was a pioneer in promoting education for girls and Christian values, are expertly translated and adapted by Thomas Kennedy. The commentary recounts Zeng Baosun's life and education, from her studies abroad, to her experiences through two world wars, to her exile in Taiwan. She emphasized the feminist commitment to leadership and improvement in the condition of women, but always within an established social and economic order.
Transactions 91-1 (2003)
Paper. .
$24

 
Kim, Young Sik,
The Natural Philosophy of Chu Hsi
Memoir 235 (2000)
Cloth. 380pp.
$30
Davy, Humphry

 
Fullmer, June Z.,
Young Humphry Davy
Memoir 237 (2000)
Cloth. 385pp.
$30
Demography

 
Klepp, Susan E.,
"The Swift Progress of Population": A Documentary and Bibliographic Study of Philadelphia's Growth, 1642-1859
Memoir 187 (1991)
Cloth. Contains over 200 broadsides..
$10
Dictionaries

 
Goodenough, Ward H. and Hiroshi Sugita,
Trukese-English Dictionary, Supplementary Volume
Memoir 14l (1990)
Paper. 560 pp.
$30

 
Goodenough, Ward H. and Hiroshi Sugita,
Trukese-English Dictionary
Memoir 141 (1980)
Paper. 399 pp.
$15

 
Masthay, Carl,
Schmick's Mahican Dictionary
Memoir 197 (1991)
Cloth. 188 pp., Illus..
$30
Europe--History

 
Baladouni, Vahe and Margaret Makepeace,
Armenian Merchants of the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries
AS AN ORGANIC WHOLE, the present collection of documents--gathered together from a variety of original sources--tells a fascinating story about the trade relationship between the English East India Company and the powerful Armenian merchant community of New Julfa that lasted over one hundred years (17th and early 18th centuries). Multifarious and complex, this relationship revolved around the Company's continual efforts to break into the Armenian held silk and cloth markets. Perhaps more than any other single event, this trade relationship epitomizes the economic climate of the period, an age of competitive partnership. With the publication of this volume, Professor Baladouni and Mrs. Makepeace place for the first time at the disposal of historians a substantive body of documents that tell how this intricate Anglo-Armenian trade relationship started and evolved. Beyond that, these documents also reveal to the astute historian the human experiences that lie behind the participants' actions. The extensive topical indexes provided in the volume will be of great assistance to researchers. Finally, in the Introduction, Professor Baladouni addresses the question "What was the key to the Armenian merchants' success during the pre-modern period?" and submits a hypothesis for consideration. He proposes that their "fabulous success" may be attributed to the rare atmosphere of trust that prevailed among the Armenian merchant community which, in turn, led to two significant benefits: (1) organizational cost savings; and (2) organizational innovations. A glossary of terms and several indexes complete the study.
Transactions 88-5 (1998)
Cloth. 294 pp.
$22

 
Cummings, Anthony M.,
The Maecenas and Madrigalists: Patrons, Patronage, and the Origins of the Italian Madrigal
Historians of European music of the early-modern period have focused particular attention upon the formal institutions and agents of patronage: ecclesiastical institutions, royal and aristocratic courts, etc. Like their colleagues in sister humanistic disciplines, musicologists are increasingly focusing upon less formal private "institutions" and traditions of patronage: informal academies and societies, the activities of individuals, convivial aristocratic companies. Cultural life in early-sixteenth-century Florence was characterized by the practices of a series of vital institutions of this type: the famous group that met in the Rucellai garden, the Medici Sacred Academy, the Companies of the Broncone, Cazzuola, and Diamante. Such informal institutions had considerable virtues as agents of patronage; their less routinized practices freed them to engage in experimentation that the larger and more public and formal institutions were less likely to support, given their regularized practices and well-established traditions. For music historians, the importance of these informal agents of patronage is that they reveal a relationship to the early madrigal: to early madrigal poets and composers, whose professional activities were closely aligned to those of the contemporary informal academies and literary societies. Through reference to sources multidisciplinary in nature, this study reconstructs the memberships, cultural activities, and musical experiences of these informal Florentine institutions and relates them to the emergence of the madrigal, the foremost secular musical genre of early-modern Europe.

Anthony M. Cummings received a Ph.D. in Musicology from Princeton University in 1980, where he was a Lecturer in Music. His dissertation was on "A Florentine Sacred Repertory from the Medici Restoration." From 1990-1992 he was a member of the program staff at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He has been an Associate Professor of Music in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Tulane University since 1992. Dr. Cummings currently is Chairman of the Newcomb Department of Music at Tulane. Articles and other publications include "Giulio de' Medici's Music Books" (in Early Music History X, Cambridge University Press, 1991, pages 63-120), The Politicized Muse: Music for Medici Festivals, 1512-1537 (Princeton Essays on the Arts, Princeton University Press, 1992), University Libraries and Scholarly Communication: A Study Prepared for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (with William G. Bowen, et al., The Haworth Press, 1996), and "Music: Transmission of Music" (in Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, edited by Paul F. Grendler, Charles Scribner's Sons in association with the Renaissance Society of America, 2000.

"The scholarship is sound, well documented, and up to date. One of the strengths of the book is the breadth of its coverage. The material will be of interest to scholars in all areas of Florentine Renaissance studies. The author's comprehensive organization of the material and the conclusions he draws from it, and his ideas about the role of Medici patronage of the early madrigal, are original and important. The book is richly illustrated with both visual materials and musical examples. A wonderful contribution." -- Ruth I. DeFord, Ph.D., Professor of Music, Harvard University
Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York

Memoir 253 (2004)
Cloth. .
$50

 
Fanning, Steven,
A Bishop and his World before the Gregorian Reform
Transactions 78-1 (1988)
Paper. 292pp.
$22

 
Feinberg, Harvey M.,
Africans and Europeans in West Africa
Transactions 79-7 (1989)
Cloth. 186 pp., Illus..
$30

 
Fenyo, Mario,
Literature and Political Change: Budapest, 1908-1918
Transactions 77-6 (1987)
Paper. 156pp.
$20

 
Gorecki, Piotr,
Parishes, Tithes, and Society
Transactions 83-2 (1993)
Paper. 146 pp.
$15

 
Hann, Estelle,
From Academia to Amicitia: Milton's Latin Writings and the Italian Academies.
Transactions 88-6 (1998)
Cloth. 208 pp.
$20

 
Hassell, James E.,
Russian Refugees in France and the United States Between the World Wars
Transactions 81-7 (1991)
Paper. 96pp.
$12.5

 
Jackson, Michael W.,
Fallen Sparrows: The International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War
Memoir 212 (1994)
Cloth. 157 pp.
$25

 
Karet, Evelyn,
The Drawings of Stefano da Verona and His Circle and the Origins of Collecting in Italy: a Catalogue Raisonné
In this comprehensive catalogue of the work of the 15th-century painter and draftsman, Stefano da Verona (1375-ca. 1438), Karet reviews past scholarship and corrects old misunderstandings that produced an inconsistent, heterogeneous and misinformed corpus. Her attributions are based on stylistic arguments, technical analysis, and the relationship of the drawings to a limited number of secure paintings by this important Late Gothic North Italian painter. The restricted but sound body of works Stefano da Verona executed is compiled in rich catalogue entries that include discussions of style, iconography, patronage, paper and sketchbook analysis, important issues of workshop production and of the history of drawings and collectionism. Karet also transcribes and translates 15th-century Italian inscriptions and texts in various dialects found on the drawings. The catalogue includes a group of fully annotated rejected works that touch upon important issues involving drawings by Stefano's contemporaries. The author also reconstructs a sketchbook drafted by Stefano, one of the first artists to preserve his ideas in this way. Karet's Drawings of Stefano da Verona is a significant addition to the history of drawing in the important transitional decades from the Late Gothic to the Renaissance.
Memoir 244 (2002)
Cloth. .
$40

 
Mayer, Thomas F.,
A Reluctant Author: Cardinal Pole and his Manuscripts
Transactions 89-4 (1999)
Paper. 115pp.
$15

 
Munman, Robert,
Sienese Renaissance Tomb Monuments
Memoir 205 (1993)
Cloth. 180 pp., Illus..
$20

 
Oldson, William O.,
A Providential Anti-Semitism: Nationalism and Polity in Nineteenth-Century Romania
Memoir 193 (1991)
Paper. 177 pp.
$20

 
Olszewski, Edward,
Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1667-1740) and the Vatican Tomb of Pope Alexander VIII
Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1667-1740) and the Vatican Tomb of Pope Alexander VIII examines the commission of the Vatican tomb of Pope Alexander VIII Ottoboni by his great-nephew Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni. Although neglected for centuries, the Ottoboni monument occupies the most strategic liturgical position in the complex of tombs in the Vatican basilica. It is impressive in scale, and offers a commanding presence on the path from the papal entryway to the apse and main altar, with a majestic papal effigy, a visually compelling narrative relief carving, and symbolically important allegories.

Using unpublished archival documents in the Vatican and Lateran archives, this study discusses in detail the thirty-year campaign for the construction of the tomb and identifies the artists and artisans responsible for the project. The monograph is comprehensive in its stylistic analysis, exploration of iconography, discussion of liturgical practice, and consideration of studio procedures beginning with patron and artist, architect and sculptors, and sculptor and artisans. reveals why the project required three decades to complete.

Edward Olszewski received a Ph.D. in Renaissance-Baroque Art in 1874 from the University of Minnesota. His thesis topic was "Armenini's Treatise on Painting." He also has a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Illinois, received in 1964. Dr. Olszewski has worked at the University of South Florida as a Visiting Research Associate Professor, ADM Chemicals as a Research Chemist, and the University of Minnesota as a Teaching Associate. Currently he is a Professor of Art History at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Additional honors and leadership positions include nomination for the John S. Diekhoff Award for Distinguished Graduate Teaching at Case Western Reserve University in 2002 (he won the award in 1986), Program Coordinator of the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference in 2000, Fellow of Early Modern History, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, in 1998, and Program Chair of the Midwest Art History Society Annual Meeting in 1996. Dr. Olszewski was President of the Midwest Art History Society from 1981-1984, received a Grant-in-aid from the Butkin Foundation in 1990, was given a travel grant from the American Council of Learned Societies, Seventh International Congress on the Enlightenment (Budapest, Hungary) in 1987, and was named a Delmas Fellow by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation in 1986. Dr. Olszewski has written several books, including Drawings in Midwestern Collections, I: Early Drawings (1996) and Drawings in Midwestern Collections, II: 1500-1600 (2003). He also is the author of The Draftsman's Eye (1981), and Giovanni Battista Armenini: On the True Precepts of the Art of Painting (1977). Articles that Dr. Olszewski has written have appeared in art journals worldwide, including Römischen Jahrbuch der Bibliotheca Hertziana, Artibus et Historiae, and Cleveland Studies.

"Professor Olszewski has produced a well-written, informative, and important monograph. And, in the process, he has expanded our understanding of contemporary workshop practice and art making in the Rome of the later Baroque period.

There are sections where the author's meticulous care and insightful reconstruction of events gives the reader a sense of "being there" in the day-to-day process of work on the site. These parts make for especially exciting and engaging reading." -- Brian Curran, Department of Art History, Pennsylvania State University

"An absolutely wonderful piece of work." -- Helen North, Centennial Professor of Classics Emerita, Swarthmore College

Winner of the John Frederick Lewis Award for 2004, American Philosophical Society.

Memoir 252 (2004)
Cloth. .
$60

 
Pettas, William,
A Sixteenth-Century Spanish Bookstore. The Inventory of Juan de Junta
Transactions 85-1 (1995)
Paper. 247pp.
$20

 
Setton, Kenneth M.,
The Papacy and the Levant, Vol. III: The Sixteenth Century
Memoir 161 (1984)
Cloth. 564 pp.
$25

 
Setton, Kenneth M.,
The Papacy and the Levant, Vol. IV: The Sixteenth Century
Memoir 162 (1984)
Cloth. 1179 pp., Note: Index for vol. 161 and 162 is in 1.
$25

 
Setton, Kenneth M.,
The Papacy and the Levant. Vol. I: The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
Memoir 114 (1976)
Cloth. 512 pp.
$20

 
Setton, Kenneth M.,
The Papacy and the Levant. Vol. II
Memoir 127 (1978)
Cloth. 580 pp.
$25

 
Setton, Kenneth M.,
Venice, Austria and the Turks in the Seventeenth Century
Memoir 192 (1991)
Cloth. 502 pp.
$25

 
Setton, Kenneth M.,
Western Hostility to Islam and Prophecies of Turkish Doom
Memoir 201 (1992)
Cloth. 63 pp.
$10

 
Waldman, Louis A.,
Baccio Bandinelli and Art at the Medici Court: A Corpus of Early Modern Sources
More than five centuries after his birth, the contradictions embodied by the Florentine sculptor Baccio Bandinelli (1493-1560) remain as mysterious as ever. Revered by contemporaries as one of the most important sculptors of his time, he was reviled by his enemies as a truculent, foul-mouthed, avaricious, sycophantic, craven humbug. But the originality and power or Bandinelli's work, and the long shadow it cast over the arts in sixteenth-century Florence and Rome, are as clear today as they were to the artists Medici patrons, who recognized his art as a potent tool for constructing an image of dynastic legitimacy.

Based on a decade of research in archives all over Italy, Baccio Bandinelli and Art at the Medici Court: A Corpus of Early Modern Sources brings this great, but often neglected, Renaissance artist into sharper focus for modern scholarship. It comprises a comprehensive collection of the documentation on Bandinelli's life and work. The great majority of the texts included in this volume were discovered by the author and are published for the first time, and many come from the private archive of the Bandinelli family.

All the documents are furnished with historical commentary and textual apparatus discussing their broader historical context, problems of chronology and interpretation, and later interpolations -- including hundreds of forged passages inserted by the artist's grandson, genealogist Baccio Bandinelli the Younger (1578-1636), whose role as forger of the Bandinelli legacy is exposed here for the first time.

"An incomparable achievement of scholarship" -- William Wallace, Washington University in St. Louis

"A very sizable contribution to the entire range of the Renaissance art historical academic community" -- Patricia Emison, University of New Hampshire

Memoir 251 (2004)
Cloth. 935p.
$60
Feminism

 
Kennedy, Thomas L.,
Confucian Feminist. Memoirs of Zeng Baosun (1893-1978)
The autobiographical memoirs of Zeng Baosun, an extraordinary Chinese woman who was a pioneer in promoting education for girls and Christian values, are expertly translated and adapted by Thomas Kennedy. The commentary recounts Zeng Baosun's life and education, from her studies abroad, to her experiences through two world wars, to her exile in Taiwan. She emphasized the feminist commitment to leadership and improvement in the condition of women, but always within an established social and economic order.
Transactions 91-1 (2003)
Paper. .
$24
Fernel, Jean

 
Forrester, John M. (trans. and annotated),
The Physiologia of Jean Fernel (1567)
Jean Fernel (1497-1558) was one of the foremost medical writers of his day, ranked by his contemporaries alongside Andreas Vesalius, reformer of anatomical studies, and Paracelsus, radical reformer of theories of disease and treatment. He is arguably the leading expositor of the Galenic system of medicine. He exemplifies in his Physiologia the method and approach of a typical Aristotelian philosopher in the period immediately before the downfall of Renaissance Scholasticism. John Forrester offers the Physiologia here in its entirety and provides, for the first time, a complete English translation of the work.
Transactions 93-1 (2003)
Paper. .
$24
France--History

 
Babbitt, Susan M.,
Oresme's Livre de Politiques and the France of Charles V
Transactions 75-1 (1985)
Paper. 158pp.
$15

 
Benedict, Philip,
The Huguenot Population of France, 1600-1685: The Demographic Fate and Customs of a Religious Minority
Transactions 81-5 (1994)
Cloth. 164 pp., reprint.
$25

 
Berman, Constance H.,
Medieval Agriculture, the Southern French Countryside, and the Early Cistercians
Transactions 76-5 (1986)
Cloth. 179 pp.
$15

 
Brown, Elizabeth A.,
Franks, Burgundians, and Aquitanians and the Royal Coronation Ceremony in France
Transactions 82-7 (1992)
Cloth. 189 pp.
$20

 
Brown, Elizabeth A.,
The Oxford Collection of the Drawings of Roger de Gaignieres and the Royal Tombs of Saint-Denis
Transactions 78-5 (1998)
Cloth. 74 pp., Illus..
$12

 
Chambers, Frank M.,
Old Provencal Versification
Memoir 167 (1985)
. 299 pp.
$20

 
Chisick, Harvey,
The Production, Distribution and Readership of a Conservative Journal of the French Revolution: The Ami du Roi of the Abbeacute; Royou
Memoir 198 (1992)
Paper. 262 pp.
$20

 
Denton, J. H.,
Philip the Fair and the Ecclesiastical Assemblies of 1294-1295
Transactions 81-1 (1991)
Cloth. 82 pp.
$18

 
Friedlander, Alan,
Processus Bernardi Delitiosi: The Trial of Fr. Bernard Delicieux
Transactions 86-1 (1996)
Cloth. 393 pp.
$30

 
Hamscher, Albert N.,
The Conseil Prive and the Parlements in the Age of Louis XIV: A Study in French Absolutism
Transactions 77-2 (1987)
Paper. 162pp.
$25

 
Harris, M. Roy,
The Occitan Translations of John XII and XIII-XVII from a Fourteenth-Century Franciscan Codex
Transactions 75-4 (1985)
Paper. 149pp.
$20

 
Hill, Peter,
French Perceptions of the Early American Republic, 1783-1793
Memoir 180 (1988)
Cloth. 196 pp.
$24

 
Lillich, Meredith Parsons,
The Queen of Sicily and Gothic Stained Glass in Mussy and Tonnerre
FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF ST LOUIS, a new court fashion of ostentatious display was introduced into French stained glass with the advent of Queen Marie de Brabant, who in 1274 became the second wife of St Louis's heir Philippe le hardi. Little stained glass in this new style survives, since the very motifs that made it different--large donor 'portraits,' elaborate heraldry, lavish name--inscriptions -- became the most attractive targets of vandalism during the Hundred Years War, the Franco -- Burgundian struggles of the fifteenth century, the Huguenot conflict thereafter, and finally the French Revolution. This study reconstructs two ensembles in the new court style, at Mussy--sur--Seine in southern Champagne and at the famous medieval hospital of Tonnerre in Burgundy. Both of them can be directly connected with the extraordinary figure of Marguerite de Bourgogne. Burgundian princess, second wife and then widow of Charles d'Anjou, St Louis' brother, and titled the Queen of Sicily, Marguerite was a great peacemaker and one of the most revered agents of Christian charity of the Gothic era. The Mussy windows can be reconstructed almost completely with evidence from the surviving images, archival data, early photographs and drawings, stylistic analysis, and careful identification of the heraldry and inscriptions. One bay was a gift of Gui de Genève, bishop of Langres; another window was donated by the mason Perrenet Barottier (here identified as the designer of Mussy and Tonnerre) and his wife Jacquette; yet another was a memorial to Gui de Mussy, soldier of Charles d'Anjou in Naples and undoubtedly killed in the Sicilian Vespers massacre of 1282. Finally, the Queen contributed the axial clerestory (the Crucifixion), the bay beneath it (the local St Vallier, patron of her parish at her residence in Tonnerre) and probably another window--totally destroyed but probably adorned with crowned images of Marguerite and Charles d'Anjou and their heraldry.
Transactions 88-3 (1998)
Cloth. 131 pp., Illus..
$20

 
McClellan, James E., III,
Specialist Control: The Publications Committee of the Académie Royale des Sciences (Paris)
The Comité du Librairie of the Académie Royale des Sciences in Paris and its influence on modern scientific refereeing are examined in this 2003 J.F. Lewis Award-winning monograph. James McClellan investigates the development and growth of the Comité du Librairie in the late eighteenth century, and its influence in establishing international norms for processing, modifying, and authorizing books and papers for publication. Pointing out that "historians of the Académie Royale des Science have known about the Comité de Libraririe and had logged the existence of its registers, but no one had studied them in detail," he presents a comprehensive and authoritative history of the Comité.
Transactions 93-3 (2003)
Paper. .
$24

 
Parrow, Kathleen,
From Defense to Resistance: Justification of Violence during the French Wars of Religion
Transactions 83-6 (1993)
Cloth. 79 pp.
$15

 
Stroup, Alice,
Royal Funding of the Académie Royale des Sciences in the 1690s
Transactions 77-4 (1987)
Cloth. 167 pp., Illus..
$15
Franklin, Benjamin

 
Arbour, Keith,
Benjamin Franklin's First Government Printing: The Pennsylvania General Loan Office Mortgage Register of 1729, and Subsequent Franklin Mortgage Registers and Bonds
Transactions 89-5 (1999)
Paper. 90pp.
$15

 
Huang, Nian-Sheng,
Franklin's Father Josiah: Life of a Colonial Boston Tallow Chandler, 1657-1745
Transactions 90-3 (2000)
Paper. 155p.
$15

 
Miller, William,
Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia Printing: A Descriptive Bibliography
Memoir 102 (1974)
Cloth. 583pp.
$50
Geography

 
Brauer, R. W.,
Boundaries and Frontiers in Medieval Muslim Geography
Transactions 85-6 (1995)
Cloth. 73 pp.
$12

 
Kennedy, E. S.,
Al-Kashi's Geographical Tables
Transactions 77-7 (1987)
Cloth. 45 pp.
$12

 
Spilhaus, Athelstan,
Atlas of the World with Geophysical Boundaries Showing Oceans, Continents, and Tectonic Plates in Their Entirety
Memoir 196 (1991)
Cloth. 92 pp., Includes 29 four-color maps.
$30
Geology--History

 
Collie, Michael and John Diemer,
Murchison in Moray: A Geologist on Home Ground,With Correspondence of Roderick Impey Murchison and Rev. Dr. George Gordon of Birnie
Transactions 85-3 (1995)
Cloth. 263 pp.
$20

 
Livingstone, David N.,
The Preadamite Theory and the Marriage of Science and Religion
Transactions 82-3 (1992)
Cloth. 81 pp.
$16
Germany--History

 
Maehl, William Harvey,
The German Socialist Party: Champion of the First Republic, 1918-1933
Memoir 169 (1986)
Cloth. 270pp.
$40

 
West, Franklin M.,
A Crisis of the Weimar Republic: A Study of the German Referendum of 20 June 1926
Memoir 164 (1985)
Cloth. 360pp.
$30
Great Britain--History

 
Daly, Martin W., Jr.,
The Sirdar: Sir Reginald Wingate and the British Empire In the Middle East
Memoir 222 (1997)
Cloth. 345 pp., Illus.
$30

 
Huch, Ronald K. and Paul Ziegler,
Joseph Hume: The People's M.P.
Memoir 163 (1985)
Cloth. 172pp.
$17

 
Jansson, Maija and Nikolai Rogozhin,
England and the North: The Russian Embassy of 1613-1614
Memoir 210 (1994)
Cloth. 236 pp.
$25

 
Jansson, Maija,
Proceedings in Parliament 1614 (House of Commons)
Memoir 172 (1988)
Cloth. 561 pp.
$25

 
Kaplan, Herbert H.,
Russian Overseas Commerce with Great Britain During the Reign of Catherine II
Memoir 218 (1995)
Cloth. 309 pp., With charts and tables.
$30

 
Klingelhofer, Eric,
Settlement and Land Use in Micheldever Hundred, Hampshire, 700-1100
Transactions 81-3 (1991)
Cloth. 156 pp.
$15

 
Proctor, Tammy M.,
On My Honour. Guides and Scouts in Interwar Britain
Arising in the first decades of the twentieth century, the Boy Scout and Girl Guide movements came into existence in Britain in an era of social and political unrest and were initially the center of intense controversy. Through the years, Guiding and Scouting broke down class, race, and gender distinctions and helped youth cope with an emerging mass culture and allowed boys and girls to stretch gender and generational boundaries. Using official documents, logbooks, diaries, and oral histories, Tammy Proctor explores the formation of the Scouts and Guides and their transformation during and after World War I. The interwar period marked a departure for the two organizations as they emerged as large multinational organizations that targeted not only adolesents, but also smaller children and young adults.
Transactions 92-2 (2002)
Paper. 180pp.
$24

 
Weston, Corinne C.,
The House of Lords and Ideological Politics: Lord Salisbury's Referendal Theory and the Conservative Party, 1846-1922
Memoir 215 (1995)
Cloth. 242 pp.
$25
Herschell, William

 
Jerome, Davis,
The Oboe Concertos of Sir William Herschel
Memoir 225 (1998)
Cloth. 66p.
$40
History and philosophy of science

 
Aaboe, Asger et al,
Saros Cycle Dates and Related Babylonian Astronomical Texts
Transactions 81-6 (1991)
Cloth. 75 pp.
$12

 
Appel, John,
Francisco Jose de Caldas: A Scientist at Work in Nueva Granada
Transactions 84-5 (1994)
Cloth. 154 pp.
$20

 
Armstrong, Alan W.,
"Forget not Mee & My Garden..." Selected Letters, 1725-1768, of Peter Collinson, F.R.S.
"Forget not Mee & My Garden. . . ," Peter Collinson wrote his Maryland friend George Robins in 1721. "If you have any Shells, Curious Stones, or any other Naturall Curiosity Remember Mee. I want one of your Humming Birds which you may send dry'd in its Feathers, and any Curious Insect." This theme echoed through Collinson's letters for the rest of his life, along with thanks for rarities received, introductions, cultivation instructions, encouragements, importunings, queries. Armstrong describes Collinson's correspondence as, "vigorous, brisk, and emphatic." His letters talk mainly of plants, but there are also antiquities, birds, butterflies, British imperial interests, sheep management in Spain, electricity, weather, fossils, insects, earthquakes, vine culture, Colonial policy, tithes, wars, terrapins, "an Infalible Remedy for the bite of a Mad Dog,' red Indians, astronomy, the making of salt, cheese fairs, the price of wheat, the power of snakes to charm, the Spanish threat to Florida, geology, French expansion," Hints . . . to Incorporate the Germans more with the [Pennsylvania] English. . . , the history of rice growing, premiums to encourage the production of silk, whether swallows migrate or winter-over under water, "Old Hock" as a remedy for gout, thundergusts, magnetism, Bezoar stones, and now and then a Quakerly comment. This selection of 187 letters is enhanced with over 120 illustrations (portraits and botanical drawings among them) , some by Mark Catesby, Georg Dionysius Ehret, William Bartram, many in color. The edition contains notes and commentary for most letters.
Memoir 241 (2002)
Cloth. 300 pp.
$60

 
Carter, Edward C., II,
Surveying the Record: North American Scientific Exploration to 1930
Papers given at a conference on Scientific Exploration in North America to 1930 with topics including Cartography, Oceanic Exploration, Art, Anthropology, Lewis and Clark, and the West.
Memoir 231 (1999)
Cloth. 344pp.
$25

 
Clagett, Marshall,
Ancient Egyptian Science, Vol. 1
Memoir 184 (1989)
Paper. 863 pp., Illus..
$30

 
Clagett, Marshall,
Ancient Egyptian Science, Vol. 2
Memoir 214 (1995)
Paper. 575 pp., Illus.
$30

 
Clagett, Marshall,
Ancient Egyptian Science, Vol. 3
THIS VOLUME CONTINUES Marshall Clagett' s studies of the various aspects of the science of Ancient Egypt. Like its predecessors, it has two main objectives: first to summarize and analyze the principal features of a nascent and yet important part of that science, namely its mathematics, and second to present in English six of the most important mathematical documents on which the preceding analysis was based. Thus we find treated in the first part of the work Egyptian measurement that lay behind the various calculating procedures, the procedures themselves, and the model problems that were gathered together to aid the calculators in their efforts to complete practcal measures. The author includes detailed descriptions of the various kinds of tables that the Egyptians depended upon in their calculations, an important one being the Table of Two that presented the division of 2 by the odd numbers from 3 to 101. This table reveals the nature of Egyptian fractions and their form of notation as the sums of unit fractions, a form leading to the use of a concept very useful for measure-ment, that of significant fractional approximations achieved by dropping one or more of the lesser fractions at the end of a set of unit fractions. The Table of Two occupies the first section of the most important of all Egyptian mathematical documents, the Rhind Papyrus, the papyrus which stands at the head of the documents in Part II of the volume. Following the series of documents in Part II with their extensive endnotes, the author gives in Part III a bibliography, an Index of Egyptian Terms, and an Index of Proper Names and Subjects. To assist the reader who controls the Egyptian language there is finally an extensive collection of illustrations which includes, together with pertinent diagrams and tables, reproductions of the hieratic texts of the documents with their hieroglyphic transcriptions.
Memoir 232 (1999)
Cloth. Illus.
$30

 
Collie, Michael and John Diemer,
Murchison in Moray: A Geologist on Home Ground,With Correspondence of Roderick Impey Murchison and Rev. Dr. George Gordon of Birnie
Transactions 85-3 (1995)
Cloth. 263 pp.
$20

 
Damkaer, David M.,
The Copepodologist's Cabinet: A Biographical and Bibliographical History
Copepod crustaceans are the most numerous multicellular animals on earth. They occur in every free-living and parasitic aquatic niche. Copepods have been known since the time of Aristotle, yet there has never been a history of the study of copepods. This volume, the first in a planned three-volume series, reviews the discoveries of copepods to 1832, the year that the two distinct branches, the free-living copepods (long-known as insects) and the parasitic copepods (thought to be molluscs or worms) were finally acknowledged as members of the same Class Crustacea. The narrative includes the biographies of 90 early copepodologists and recounts their most important contributions to science. Portraits are included for two-thirds of the subjects, with considerable new material as well as information and illustrations from obscure sources. Milestones include the first description of copepods (ca. 350 B.C.), the first illustration (1554), the first free-living freshwater copepod (1688), the first explanation of a free-living copepod's metamorphosis (1756), the first permanently named copepod (1758), the first free-living marine copepod (1770), and the first description of a parasitic copepod's metamorphosis (1819). The work ends with a transition to the mid-19th century, previewing numerous personal connections that pointed toward copepodology's Golden Age in the 1890s, to be covered in Volume 2. A final volume will take the history of the study of copepods to ca. 1950.
Memoir 240 (2002)
Cloth. 300 pp.
$60

 
Dawson, Virginia,
Nature's Enigma: The Problem of the Polyp in the Letters of Bonnet, Trembley and Reaumur
Memoir 174 (1987)
Cloth. 266 pp., Illus..
$20

 
Fruton, Joseph S.,
Contrasts in Scientific Style: Research Groups in the Chemical and Biological Sciences
Memoir 191 (1990)
Cloth. 473 pp.
$20

 
Fruton, Joseph S.,
Methods and Styles in the Development of Chemistry
Chemistry as it is known today is deeply rooted in a variety of thought and action, dating back at least as far as the fifth century B.C. In this book, Joseph S. Fruton weaves together the history of scientific investigation with social, religious, philosophical, and other events and practices that have contributed to the field of modern chemistry. The story begins with the influence of alchemy on early Greek numerology and philosophy, followed by the historical account of chemical composition and phlogiston. The life and work of Antoine Lavoisier receive extensive coverage in Chapter Three, with the remaining six chapters devoted to atoms, equivalents, and elements; radicals and types; valence and molectualr structure; stereochemistry and organic synthesis; forces, equilibria, and rates; and electrons, reaction mechanisms, and organic synthesis.
Memoir 245 (2002)
Cloth. 332 pp.
$40

 
Gingerich, Owen and Robert S. Westman,
The Wittich Connection: Conflict and Priority in Late Sixteenth-Century Cosmology
Transactions 78-7 (1988)
Cloth. 148 pp., Illus..
$20

 
Goldstein, Bernard R.,
Levi ben Gerson's Prognostication for the Conjunction of 1345
Transactions 80-6 (1990)
Cloth. 60 pp.
$12

 
Graham, Jenny,
Revolutionary in Exile: The Emigration of Joseph Priestley to America
Transactions 85-2 (1995)
Cloth. 213 pp.
$15

 
Hoffman, Nancy and John Van Horne,
America's Curious Botanist: A Tercentennial Reappraisal of John Bartram (1699-1777)
The Academy of Natural Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, John Bartram Association, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, and the Philadelphia Botanical Club sponsored a three-day symposium in May 1999 to commemorate the three-hundredth anniversary of John Bartram's birth. This collection of essays arises from that symposium. All of the essays contribute to the telling of the story of the multifaceted John Bartram, whose life spanned most of the eighteenth century and who was called "the greatest natural botanist in the world." The work is published in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia and John Bartram Association.
Memoir 249 (2003)
Cloth. .
$40

 
Jones, Alexander,
Ptolemy's First Commentator
61 pp., $15.00 paper.
Transactions 80-7 (1990)
Paper. 61pp.
$15

 
Kardel, Troels,
Steno on Muscles: Introduction, Texts and Translation
Transactions 84-1 (1995)
Cloth. 252 pp., Reprint.
$20

 
Klein, Randolph S.,
Science and Society in Early America. Essays in Honor of Whitfield J. Bell, Jr.
Memoir 166 (1986)
Cloth. 426pp.
$30

 
Livesey, Steven J.,
Antonius de Carlenis, O.P. Four Questions on the Subalternation of the Sciences
Transactions 84-4 (1994)
Cloth. 74 pp.
$15

 
Livingstone, David N.,
The Preadamite Theory and the Marriage of Science and Religion
Transactions 82-3 (1992)
Cloth. 81 pp.
$16

 
Maquet, Paul,
Dissertations on the Mechanics of Effervescence and Fermentation, and on the Mechanics of the Movement of the Muscles by Johann Bernoulli
Transactions 87-3 (1997)
Paper. 158 pp., Illus..
$18

 
McClellan, James E., III,
Specialist Control: The Publications Committee of the Académie Royale des Sciences (Paris)
The Comité du Librairie of the Académie Royale des Sciences in Paris and its influence on modern scientific refereeing are examined in this 2003 J.F. Lewis Award-winning monograph. James McClellan investigates the development and growth of the Comité du Librairie in the late eighteenth century, and its influence in establishing international norms for processing, modifying, and authorizing books and papers for publication. Pointing out that "historians of the Académie Royale des Science have known about the Comité de Libraririe and had logged the existence of its registers, but no one had studied them in detail," he presents a comprehensive and authoritative history of the Comité.
Transactions 93-3 (2003)
Paper. .
$24

 
McCormmach, Russell K.,
Cavendish
Memoir 220 (1996)
Cloth. 414 pp., Illus..
$32

 
Medawar, Peter Brian,
Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought
Memoir 075 (1969)
Paper. 62 pp.
$10

 
Oppenheimer, Jane M.,
Karl Ernest von Baer-Anton Dohrn Correspondence
Transactions 83-3 (1993)
Cloth. 156 pp.
$15

 
Pingree, David,
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Astronomical Manuscripts Preserved at the Maharaja Man Singh II Museum un Jaipur, India
This catalogue of the astronomical manuscripts preserved at the Maharaja Man Singh Museum provides a substantial part of the foundation for an extensive and penetrating analysis of the astronomical activities of Sawäï Jayasimha Maharaja from 1700 to 1743. Jayasimha collected Sanskrit manuscripts of traditional Indian astronomy, acquired Arabic and Persian manuscripts representative of the Muslim interpretation of Ptolemaic astronomy, built five observatories at which he employed both Hindu and Muslim observors, and produced a set of astronomical tables in Persian based on the Latin tables of Philippe de La Hire.
Memoir 250 (2003)
Cloth. .
$20

 
Pingree, David,
Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit
Memoir 081 (1970)
Cloth. Series A, Volume I, 147pp.
$20

 
Pingree, David,
Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit
Memoir 213 (1994)
Cloth. Vol. 5, 756pp.
$45

 
Pingree, David,
Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit
Memoir 111 (1993)
Cloth. Vol. 4. Reprinted 1995.
$20

 
Prince, Sue Ann, ed.,
Stuffing Birds, Pressing Plants, Shaping Knowledge: Natural History in North America, 1730-1860
The Curatorial Department of the American Philosophical Society presents a catalogue of the exhibition being held in Philosophical Hall from June 2003 through December 2004. The exhibit focuses on the blending of art and science in the study of natural history in North America. It explores the cultural assumptions that governed the practice of natural history on the North American continent in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Focusing on the study of living things -- plants, animals, and indigenous peoples -- it looks at how and why Euro-Americans of the Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment periods went about explaining the world the way they did. Exhibit items include historical specimens, manuscript materials, first-edition books, and art work.
Transactions 93-4 (2003)
Paper. .
$20

 
Rasmussen, Charles and Rick Tilman,
Jacques Loeb: His Science and Social Activism and their Philosophical Foundation
GERMAN BORN, JACQUES LOEB was both a biologist (nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1901) and political activist. Drawing on his correspondence, the authors highlight Loeb's organizational actions and political opinions during the years of 1906 to 1924, the year of his death. As a social activist and scientist, Loeb influenced, Rasmussen and Tilman say, "the scientific community, the politically sensitive public, and ultimately the underlying population against conservative and reactionary attitudes toward race, ethnicity, poverty, criminality, war and religion." In chapters on Loeb's research agenda, position on World War I, social activism, his influence on the economist Thorstein Veblen and finally on his philosophy and politics, the authors sketch a man who was hailed early in his career for his work on spontaneous generation of marine embryos and recognized later for his active challenge to social intolerance.
Memoir 229 (1998)
Cloth. 176 pp.
$20

 
Schuler, Robert M.,
Francis Bacon and Scientific Poetry
Transactions 82-2 (1992)
Cloth. 65 pp.
$10

 
Siegfried, Robert,
From Elements to Atoms: A History of Chemical Composition
Seeking to enlarge an understanding of the nature of chemical science and explain how the concepts being taught in the classroom came to be, Robert Siegfried presents a simple, readable account of how in the eighteenth century chemical composition slowly abandoned the centuries- long tradition of metaphysical elements of earth, air, fire, and water. Through the work of such scientist as Lavoisier, Dalton, and Davy, chemical theory moved from metaphysical ELEMENTS to operationally functional ATOMS. The content of the book is based on chemical writings of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century chemists; references to recently published secondary works are intended for the benefit of readers who wish to enlarge their contextual perspectives on the development of early chemical thinking.
Transactions 92-4 (2002)
Paper. 278pp.
$24

 
Smith, A. Mark,
Alhacen's Theory of Visual Perception
Sometime between 1028 and 1038, Ibn al-Haytham completed his monumental optical synthesis, Kitab al-Manazir ("Book of Optics"). By no later than 1200, and perhaps somewhat earlier, this treatise appeared in Latin under the title De aspectibus. In that form it was attributed to a certain "Alhacen." These differences in title and authorial designation are indicative of the profound differences between the two versions, Arabic and Latin, of the treatise. In many ways, in fact, they can be regarded not simply as different versions of the same work, but as different works in their own right. Accordingly, the Arab author, Ibn al-Haytham, and his Latin incarnation, Alhacen, represent two distinct, sometimes even conflicting, interpretive voices. And the same holds for their respective texts.

To complicate matters, "Alhacen" does not represent a single interpretive voice. There were at least two translators at work on the Latin text, one of them adhering faithfully to the Arabic original, the other content with distilling, even paraphrasing, the Arabic original. Consequently, the Latin text presents not one, but at least two faces to the reader. This critical edition represents fourteen years of work on Dr. Smith's part.

Awarded the 2001 J. F. Lewis Award.

Transactions 91-5 (2001)
Paper. 819 pp. in 2 vols. Latin and English..
$32

 
Smith, A. Mark,
Descartes's Theory of Light and Refraction: A Discourse on Method
Transactions 77-3 (1987)
Cloth. 92 pp., Illus..
$18

 
Smith, A. Mark,
Ptolemy and the Foundations of Ancient Mathematical Optics: A Guided Study
Transactions 89-3 (1999)
Paper. 172pp.
$20

 
Smith, A. Mark,
Ptolemy's Theory of Visual Perception: An English Translation of the Optics. With Introduction and Commentary
Transactions 86-2 (1996)
Cloth. 300 pp.
$15

 
Stroup, Alice,
Royal Funding of the Académie Royale des Sciences in the 1690s
Transactions 77-4 (1987)
Cloth. 167 pp., Illus..
$15

 
Sweeney, Gerald,
"Fighting for the Good Cause": Reflections on Francis Galton's Legacy to American Hereditarian Psychology
Sir Francis Galton is well understood to have served as an influential mentor for the educational psychologists who supplied crucial doctrine to American eugenics in its classic period, 1903 to 1930. Yet the nature of his influence has never been specified. The psychologists' own claim as to the Galton's contribution-that he provided sufficient justification for their absolutist hereditarianism-was clearly disingenuous. Rather, the English polymath appears to have functioned in large part as a model for these figures, who appear to have been instrumentally informed by their perceptions of Galton's ulterior purposes in constructing eugenics as he did. Any of various features in the forty-five-year-long course of that development could have encouraged these particular legatees to appreciate both Galton and his product as surreptitious stanchers of democracy.
Transactions 91-2 (2001)
Paper. 136 pp.
$18

 
Zupko, Ronald E.,
A Dictionary of Weights and Measures for the British Isles: The Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century
Memoir 168 (1985)
Cloth. 520 pp.
$18

 
Zupko, Ronald E.,
Italian Weights and Measures from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century
Memoir 145 (1981)
Cloth. 339 pp.
$15

 
Zupko, Ronald E.,
Revolution in Measurement: Western European Weights and Measures Since the Age of Science
Memoir 186 (1990)
Cloth. 548 pp., Illus..
$18
History of art

 
Balas, Edith,
Joseph Csaky: A Pioneer of Modern Sculpture
Memoir 230 (1999)
Cloth. 237pp.
$30

 
Balas, Edith,
Michelangelo's Medici Chapel
Memoir 216 (1995)
Cloth. 196 pp., Illus.
$40

 
Brown, Elizabeth A.,
The Oxford Collection of the Drawings of Roger de Gaignieres and the Royal Tombs of Saint-Denis
Transactions 78-5 (1998)
Cloth. 74 pp., Illus..
$12

 
Fanelli, Doris Devine,
History of the Portrait Collection, Independence National Historical Park
The American Philosophical Society in conjunction with the Independence National Historical Park announces the publication of the first catalog of the portraits in the INHP collection. These portraits, most of which are exhibited in the Second Bank of the United States, consist of 255 works, 109 of them by Charles Willson Peale. Many were first exhibited in Peale's Museum and included likenesses of heroes of the American Revolution and founders of American government, statesmen, jurists, men of science, art and letters. The collection was enhanced by the addition of the works of notable 18th and 19th Anglo-American artists. The book is divided into two major sections-a history of the collection dividing it chapters covering works pre-1950, 1850-1900 and 1900-1951, and a catalog. Each catalog entry is enhanced with either a black and white or four-color reproduction and contains a physical description of the portrait, a brief biography of the subject, the circumstance of the portrait's commission and its provenance. The editor and authors made extensive use of the Peale papers and other special collections in the American Philosophical Society Library archives. This study should be useful for museum staff, historians (of American and Art history), and visitors to Independence Historical National Park.
Memoir 242 (2001)
Cloth. 360 pp.
$65

 
Karet, Evelyn,
The Drawings of Stefano da Verona and His Circle and the Origins of Collecting in Italy: a Catalogue Raisonné
In this comprehensive catalogue of the work of the 15th-century painter and draftsman, Stefano da Verona (1375-ca. 1438), Karet reviews past scholarship and corrects old misunderstandings that produced an inconsistent, heterogeneous and misinformed corpus. Her attributions are based on stylistic arguments, technical analysis, and the relationship of the drawings to a limited number of secure paintings by this important Late Gothic North Italian painter. The restricted but sound body of works Stefano da Verona executed is compiled in rich catalogue entries that include discussions of style, iconography, patronage, paper and sketchbook analysis, important issues of workshop production and of the history of drawings and collectionism. Karet also transcribes and translates 15th-century Italian inscriptions and texts in various dialects found on the drawings. The catalogue includes a group of fully annotated rejected works that touch upon important issues involving drawings by Stefano's contemporaries. The author also reconstructs a sketchbook drafted by Stefano, one of the first artists to preserve his ideas in this way. Karet's Drawings of Stefano da Verona is a significant addition to the history of drawing in the important transitional decades from the Late Gothic to the Renaissance.
Memoir 244 (2002)
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$40

 
Lillich, Meredith Parsons,
The Queen of Sicily and Gothic Stained Glass in Mussy and Tonnerre
FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF ST LOUIS, a new court fashion of ostentatious display was introduced into French stained glass with the advent of Queen Marie de Brabant, who in 1274 became the second wife of St Louis's heir Philippe le hardi. Little stained glass in this new style survives, since the very motifs that made it different--large donor 'portraits,' elaborate heraldry, lavish name--inscriptions -- became the most attractive targets of vandalism during the Hundred Years War, the Franco -- Burgundian struggles of the fifteenth century, the Huguenot conflict thereafter, and finally the French Revolution. This study reconstructs two ensembles in the new court style, at Mussy--sur--Seine in southern Champagne and at the famous medieval hospital of Tonnerre in Burgundy. Both of them can be directly connected with the extraordinary figure of Marguerite de Bourgogne. Burgundian princess, second wife and then widow of Charles d'Anjou, St Louis' brother, and titled the Queen of Sicily, Marguerite was a great peacemaker and one of the most revered agents of Christian charity of the Gothic era. The Mussy windows can be reconstructed almost completely with evidence from the surviving images, archival data, early photographs and drawings, stylistic analysis, and careful identification of the heraldry and inscriptions. One bay was a gift of Gui de Genève, bishop of Langres; another window was donated by the mason Perrenet Barottier (here identified as the designer of Mussy and Tonnerre) and his wife Jacquette; yet another was a memorial to Gui de Mussy, soldier of Charles d'Anjou in Naples and undoubtedly killed in the Sicilian Vespers massacre of 1282. Finally, the Queen contributed the axial clerestory (the Crucifixion), the bay beneath it (the local St Vallier, patron of her parish at her residence in Tonnerre) and probably another window--totally destroyed but probably adorned with crowned images of Marguerite and Charles d'Anjou and their heraldry.
Transactions 88-3 (1998)
Cloth. 131 pp., Illus..
$20

 
Minor, Vernon Hyde,
Passive Tranquility: the Sculpture of Filippo della Valle
This is a monographic study of the eighteenth-century Italian sculptor. Born in Florence in 1698, Della Valle came to Rome in 1725 upon the death of his uncle and master, Giovanni Saftista Foggini. There he remained until his death in 1768. The phrase "passive tranquillity" refers both to the style of Della Valle's sculpture and the ambiance of eighteenth-century Rome, and, further, serves to distinguish Della Valle from his better known precursors, Gianlorenzo Bernini and Michelangelo. Theirs was a sculpture of the heroic and highly expressive. Della Valle's sculpture represents figures of an introverted, self-effacing, and serene type. In its demonstrations of the ways in which Della Valle's art could have been formed by the institutions and broader cultural currents of eighteenth-century Rome, the text seeks to account for that sense of quiescence and composure common to the arts of settecento Rome. The catalogue raisonné brings together previously unpublished documents and photographs of Della Valle's work and provides evidence for attributions and the circumstances of patronage.
Transactions 87-5 (1997)
Cloth. 304 pp., Illus..
$22

 
Munman, Robert,
Optical Corrections in the Sculpture of Donatello
Transactions 75-2 (1985)
Paper. 96pp.
$18

 
Olszewski, Edward,
Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1667-1740) and the Vatican Tomb of Pope Alexander II
Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1667-1740) and the Vatican Tomb of Pope Alexander VIII examines the commission of the Vatican tomb of Pope Alexander VIII Ottoboni by his great-nephew Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni. Although neglected for centuries, the Ottoboni monument occupies the most strategic liturgical position in the complex of tombs in the Vatican basilica. It is impressive in scale, and offers a commanding presence on the path from the papal entryway to the apse and main altar, with a majestic papal effigy, a visually compelling narrative relief carving, and symbolically important allegories.

Using unpublished archival documents in the Vatican and Lateran archives, this study discusses in detail the thirty-year campaign for the construction of the tomb and identifies the artists and artisans responsible for the project. The monograph is comprehensive in its stylistic analysis, exploration of iconography, discussion of liturgical practice, and consideration of studio procedures beginning with patron and artist, architect and sculptors, and sculptor and artisans. reveals why the project required three decades to complete.

Edward Olszewski received a Ph.D. in Renaissance-Baroque Art in 1874 from the University of Minnesota. His thesis topic was "Armenini's Treatise on Painting." He also has a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Illinois, received in 1964. Dr. Olszewski has worked at the University of South Florida as a Visiting Research Associate Professor, ADM Chemicals as a Research Chemist, and the University of Minnesota as a Teaching Associate. Currently he is a Professor of Art History at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Additional honors and leadership positions include nomination for the John S. Diekhoff Award for Distinguished Graduate Teaching at Case Western Reserve University in 2002 (he won the award in 1986), Program Coordinator of the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference in 2000, Fellow of Early Modern History, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, in 1998, and Program Chair of the Midwest Art History Society Annual Meeting in 1996. Dr. Olszewski was President of the Midwest Art History Society from 1981-1984, received a Grant-in-aid from the Butkin Foundation in 1990, was given a travel grant from the American Council of Learned Societies, Seventh International Congress on the Enlightenment (Budapest, Hungary) in 1987, and was named a Delmas Fellow by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation in 1986. Dr. Olszewski has written several books, including Drawings in Midwestern Collections, I: Early Drawings (1996) and Drawings in Midwestern Collections, II: 1500-1600 (2003). He also is the author of The Draftsman's Eye (1981), and Giovanni Battista Armenini: On the True Precepts of the Art of Painting (1977). Articles that Dr. Olszewski has written have appeared in art journals worldwide, including Römischen Jahrbuch der Bibliotheca Hertziana, Artibus et Historiae, and Cleveland Studies.

"Professor Olszewski has produced a well-written, informative, and important monograph. And, in the process, he has expanded our understanding of contemporary workshop practice and art making in the Rome of the later Baroque period.

There are sections where the author's meticulous care and insightful reconstruction of events gives the reader a sense of "being there" in the day-to-day process of work on the site. These parts make for especially exciting and engaging reading." -- Brian Curran, Department of Art History, Pennsylvania State University

"An absolutely wonderful piece of work." -- Helen North, Centennial Professor of Classics Emerita, Swarthmore College

Winner of the John Frederick Lewis Award for 2004, American Philosophical Society.

Memoir 252 (2004)
Cloth. .
$60

 
Prince, Sue Ann, ed.,
Stuffing Birds, Pressing Plants, Shaping Knowledge: Natural History in North America, 1730-1860
The Curatorial Department of the American Philosophical Society presents a catalogue of the exhibition being held in Philosophical Hall from June 2003 through December 2004. The exhibit focuses on the blending of art and science in the study of natural history in North America. It explores the cultural assumptions that governed the practice of natural history on the North American continent in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Focusing on the study of living things -- plants, animals, and indigenous peoples -- it looks at how and why Euro-Americans of the Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment periods went about explaining the world the way they did. Exhibit items include historical specimens, manuscript materials, first-edition books, and art work.
Transactions 93-4 (2003)
Paper. .
$20

 
Stanton, Anne Rudloff,
The Queen Mary Psalter: A Study of Affect and Audience
Illuminated manuscripts are among the more intimate works of art surviving from the medieval period, for they usually were designed to edify and delight a specific owner. The Queen Mary Psalter (c. 1316?-21) has long been recognized as one of the most outstanding English Gothic manuscripts. Its straightforward devotional texts are framed by a richly encyclopedic series of narrative images painted in a delicate and courtly style. The psalms are introduced by an Old Testament preface in which lively tinted drawings are explained by chatty French captions. The psalm decoration incorporates a combination of framed illuminations of the life of Christ at the beginnings of important psalms, and tiny tinted drawings in the bottom margin of every page that tell stories ranging from the bestiary to the lives of the saints. Queen Mary Tudor owned the Psalter two centuries after it was made, but substantial contextual evidence suggests that its original owner was Isabelle of France, the queen of Edward II of England and mother of Edward III. For Isabelle and her household, the Psalter provided a richly layered experience in the reading of texts, and images, for the wide variety of viewers in the queen's household.

Winner of the 2000 Millennium Award.

Transactions 91-6 (2001)
Paper. 287 pp.
$25

 
Waldman, Louis A.,
Baccio Bandinelli and Art at the Medici Court: A Corpus of Early Modern Sources
More than five centuries after his birth, the contradictions embodied by the Florentine sculptor Baccio Bandinelli (1493-1560) remain as mysterious as ever. Revered by contemporaries as one of the most important sculptors of his time, he was reviled by his enemies as a truculent, foul-mouthed, avaricious, sycophantic, craven humbug. But the originality and power or Bandinelli's work, and the long shadow it cast over the arts in sixteenth-century Florence and Rome, are as clear today as they were to the artists Medici patrons, who recognized his art as a potent tool for constructing an image of dynastic legitimacy.

Based on a decade of research in archives all over Italy, Baccio Bandinelli and Art at the Medici Court: A Corpus of Early Modern Sources brings this great, but often neglected, Renaissance artist into sharper focus for modern scholarship. It comprises a comprehensive collection of the documentation on Bandinelli's life and work. The great majority of the texts included in this volume were discovered by the author and are published for the first time, and many come from the private archive of the Bandinelli family.

All the documents are furnished with historical commentary and textual apparatus discussing their broader historical context, problems of chronology and interpretation, and later interpolations -- including hundreds of forged passages inserted by the artist's grandson, genealogist Baccio Bandinelli the Younger (1578-1636), whose role as forger of the Bandinelli legacy is exposed here for the first time.

"An incomparable achievement of scholarship" -- William Wallace, Washington University in St. Louis

"A very sizable contribution to the entire range of the Renaissance art historical academic community" -- Patricia Emison, University of New Hampshire

Memoir 251 (2004)
Cloth. 935p.
$60
History of medicine

 
Carlson, Eric T., Jeffrey L. Wollock, Patricia S. Noel,
Benjamin Rush's Lectures on the Mind
Memoir 144 (1981)
Cloth. 735pp.
$0

 
Forrester, John M. (trans. and annotated),
The Physiologia of Jean Fernel (1567)
Jean Fernel (1497-1558) was one of the foremost medical writers of his day, ranked by his contemporaries alongside Andreas Vesalius, reformer of anatomical studies, and Paracelsus, radical reformer of theories of disease and treatment. He is arguably the leading expositor of the Galenic system of medicine. He exemplifies in his Physiologia the method and approach of a typical Aristotelian philosopher in the period immediately before the downfall of Renaissance Scholasticism. John Forrester offers the Physiologia here in its entirety and provides, for the first time, a complete English translation of the work.
Transactions 93-1 (2003)
Paper. .
$24

 
Gaw, Jerry L.,
A Time to Heal. The Diffusion of Listerism in Victorian Britain
Transactions 89-1 (1999)
Cloth. 173pp.
$25

 
Lind, L. R.,
Berengario da Carpi, On the Fracture of the Skull or Cranium
Transactions 80-4 (1990)
Cloth. 164 pp.
$15

 
Lind, L. R.,
Gabriele Zerbi, Gerontocomia; On the Care of the Aged and Maximianus, Elegies on Old Age and Love
Memoir 182 (1988)
Cloth. 346 pp.
$20

 
Luis García-Ballester, Michael R. McVaugh, and Agustín Rubio-Vela,
Medical Licensing and Learning in Fourteenth-Century Valencia
Transactions 79-6 (1989)
Cloth. 128 pp.
$15

 
Maquet, Paul,
William Croone, on The Reason of the Movement of the Muscles
Transactions 90-1 (2000)
Paper. 130pp.
$22

 
McCarthy, Michael P.,
Typhoid and the Politics of Public Health in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
Memoir 179 (1988)
Cloth. 101pp.
$10

 
McVaugh, Michael and Lola Ferre,
The Tabula Antidotarii of Armengaud Blaise and its Hebrew Translation
Transactions 90-6 (2000)
Paper. 218pp.
$22
Hume, Joseph

 
Huch, Ronald K. and Paul Ziegler,
Joseph Hume: The People's M.P.
Memoir 163 (1985)
Cloth. 172pp.
$17
Indians of North America

 
Goddard, Ives and Kathleen Bragdon,
Native Writings in Massachusett
Memoir 185 (1988)
Cloth. 791 pp., In two books..
$60

 
Grumet, Robert S.,
Journey on the Forbidden Path: Chronicles of a Diplomatic Mission
Transactions 89-2 (1999)
Paper. 156pp.
$20

 
Jopling, Carol F.,
The Coppers of the Northwest Coast Indians, Their Origin, Development, and Possible Antecedents
Transactions 79-1 (1989)
Cloth. 164 pp., Illus..
$15

 
Kendall, Daythal,
A Supplement to A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian in the Library of the American Philosophical Society
Memoir 65S (1982)
Cloth. 168 pp.
$15

 
List, George,
Stability and Variation in Hopi Song
Memoir 204 (1993)
Cloth. 102 pp., Illus..
$28

 
Masthay, Carl,
Schmick's Mahican Dictionary
Memoir 197 (1991)
Cloth. 188 pp., Illus..
$30

 
Parmenter, Ross,
The Lienzo of Tulancingo, Oaxaca
Transactions 83-7 (1993)
Cloth. 86 pp., Illus..
$15

 
Vecsey, Christopher,
Traditional Ojibwa Religion
Memoir 152 (1998)
Paper. 233 pp., reprinted 1998.
$15
Islamic history

 
Brauer, R. W.,
Boundaries and Frontiers in Medieval Muslim Geography
Transactions 85-6 (1995)
Cloth. 73 pp.
$12

 
Kennedy, E. S.,
Al-Kashi's Geographical Tables
Transactions 77-7 (1987)
Cloth. 45 pp.
$12

 
Kennedy, E. S.,
Islamic Astronomical Tables
Transactions 46-2 (1956)
Cloth. 57 pp.Illus..
$15

 
Setton, Kenneth M.,
Venice, Austria and the Turks in the Seventeenth Century
Memoir 192 (1991)
Cloth. 502 pp.
$25

 
Setton, Kenneth M.,
Western Hostility to Islam and Prophecies of Turkish Doom
Memoir 201 (1992)
Cloth. 63 pp.
$10
Latin America--History

 
Greenfield, Gerald,
The Realities of Images: Imperial Brazil and the Great Drought
Toward the end of February in 1877, a letter from the county council of Telha, a municipio of some six hundred inhabitants located in the Serra da Mattos reported that people were dying from starvation. The previous year's rainy season or "winter" had been sparse, and the harvest, poor. Now, this season's rains still had not appeared. This was the Great Drought-three years of failed rains enshrined in subsequent Brazilian historical memory as the worst drought ever to hit Brazil's northeast. Drought had visited the region throughout its history, with the earliest recorded occurrences dating back to the sixteenth century. Prior to the Great Drought, the last significant drought had taken place in 1844-45. That relatively long interval of good rains made the failure of rains in 1877 even more devastating, for it caught the provinces of the north totally unprepared.

Despite all this official concern, the numerous academic studies, ambitious plans, and publicly-funded projects, the specter of periodic droughts producing dislocation and death continues to haunt the region. As Nancy Schepper-Hughes affirms, "if there is one raw and vital nerve among Nordestinos [northeasterners] it is their horror of drought . . . and thirst." Northeasterners see drought as both a cause and symbol of their region's relative underdevelopment, and claim that this reflects a longstanding pattern of government favoritism toward the south. In this view as well, the northeast has been exploited by southern business and financial interests, drained of both its people and capital. Outside the region, the derisive terms "drought industries" and "drought industrialists" express a widely-held belief that northeastern politicians have shamelessly exploited drought to provide patronage for their cronies, waxing rich off the misery of the ignorant masses. This supposedly explains the long history of failed attempts to "solve" the drought problem.

Transactions 91-1 (2001)
Paper. 147 pp.
$20

 
Pinero, Eugenio,
The Town of San Felipe and Colonial Cacao Economics
Transactions 84-3 (1994)
Cloth. 189 pp.
$20
Law--History

 
Bryson, W. Hamilton,
Virginia Law Books
Memoir 239 (2000)
Cloth. 622pp.
$45
Lewis and Clark

 
Carter, Edward C., II,
Surveying the Record: North American Scientific Exploration to 1930
Papers given at a conference on Scientific Exploration in North America to 1930 with topics including Cartography, Oceanic Exploration, Art, Anthropology, Lewis and Clark, and the West.
Memoir 231 (1999)
Cloth. 344pp.
$25
Linguistics, language, philology

 
Dyen, Isidore, Joseph B. Kruskal, and Paul Black,
An Indoeuropean Classification: A Lexicostatistical Experiment
Transactions 82-5 (1992)
Cloth. 132 pp.
$16

 
Emeneau, Murray B.,
Toda Grammar and Texts
Memoir 155 (1984)
Cloth. 426pp.
$35

 
Goddard, Ives and Kathleen Bragdon,
Native Writings in Massachusett
Memoir 185 (1988)
Cloth. 791 pp., In two books..
$60

 
Goodenough, Ward H. and Hiroshi Sugita,
Trukese-English Dictionary, Supplementary Volume
Memoir 14l (1990)
Paper. 560 pp.
$30

 
Goodenough, Ward H. and Hiroshi Sugita,
Trukese-English Dictionary
Memoir 141 (1980)
Paper. 399 pp.
$15

 
Goodenough, Ward H.,
Prehistoric Settlement of the Pacific
Transactions 86-5 (1996)
Cloth. 169 pp., Illus. Second Printing, 1998.
$20

 
List, George,
Stability and Variation in Hopi Song
Memoir 204 (1993)
Cloth. 102 pp., Illus..
$28

 
Lloyd, Paul,
From Latin to Spanish
Memoir 173 (1987)
Paper. 439 pp., Third printing.
$30

 
Masthay, Carl,
Schmick's Mahican Dictionary
Memoir 197 (1991)
Cloth. 188 pp., Illus..
$30

 
Parmenter, Ross,
The Lienzo of Tulancingo, Oaxaca
Transactions 83-7 (1993)
Cloth. 86 pp., Illus..
$15

 
Rajam, V. S.,
A Reference Grammar of Classical Tamil Poetry
Memoir 199 (1992)
Cloth. 1081 pp. C.
$25

 
Reiner, Erica,
An Adventure of Great Dimension: The Launching of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary
Babylonian and Assyrian early civilizations left a "vast corpus of records and scribes," preserved through the medium of cuneiform writing on clay tablets. Erica Reiner looks back on the last half-century and more of work on the Chicago Assyrian dictionary project at the Oriental Institute of Chicago, focusing particularly on the reformulation of the task that took place during her early years of participation in the 1950s and 1960s. This included intellectual clashes between eminent scholars such as Thorkild Jacobsen and Leo Oppenheim. Benno Landsberger, an unrivaled older magister of the field in they eyes of both Jacobsen and Openheim, in the end supported Oppenheim and helped to move the project forward. Oriental Institute director Robert McC. Adams "concurs warmly in the course that has finally made the CAD not only a reality of the kind Oppenheim envisioned but one of the great and enduring humanistic achievements of our time."
Transactions 92-3 (2002)
Paper. 140pp.
$24

 
Ringe, Donald A., Jr.,
On Calculating the Factor of Chance in Language Comparison
Transactions 82-1 (1992)
Cloth. 110 pp.
$16
Literature

 
Fenyo, Mario,
Literature and Political Change: Budapest, 1908-1918
Transactions 77-6 (1987)
Paper. 156pp.
$20

 
Mullally, Evelyn,
The Artist at Work: Narrative Technique in Chretien de Troyes
Transactions 78-4 (1988)
Paper. 242pp.
$30
Maclure, William

 
Doskey, John,
The European Journals of William Maclure
Memoir 171 (1988)
Cloth. 815pp.
$40
Maps

 
Smith, Murphy D.,
"Realms of Gold": A Catalogue of Maps in the Library of the American Philosophical Society
Memoir 195 (1991)
Cloth. 599 pp.
$20
Medieval history and culture

 
Berman, Constance H.,
Medieval Agriculture, the Southern French Countryside, and the Early Cistercians
Transactions 76-5 (1986)
Cloth. 179 pp.
$15

 
Brauer, R. W.,
Boundaries and Frontiers in Medieval Muslim Geography
Transactions 85-6 (1995)
Cloth. 73 pp.
$12

 
Clagett, Marshall,
Archimedes in the Middle Ages. Volume Three: The Fate of the Medieval Archimedes, 1300-1565
Memoir 125 (1978)
Cloth. 1,582pp.
$0

 
Demaray, John G.,
Dante and the Book of the Cosmos
Transactions 77-5 (1987)
Cloth. 114 pp.Illus..
$18

 
Denton, J. H.,
Philip the Fair and the Ecclesiastical Assemblies of 1294-1295
Transactions 81-1 (1991)
Cloth. 82 pp.
$18

 
Friedlander, Alan,
Processus Bernardi Delitiosi: The Trial of Fr. Bernard Delicieux
Transactions 86-1 (1996)
Cloth. 393 pp.
$30

 
Goldstein, Bernard R.,
Levi ben Gerson's Prognostication for the Conjunction of 1345
Transactions 80-6 (1990)
Cloth. 60 pp.
$12

 
Gorecki, Piotr,
Parishes, Tithes, and Society
Transactions 83-2 (1993)
Paper. 146 pp.
$15

 
Karet, Evelyn,
The Drawings of Stefano da Verona and His Circle and the Origins of Collecting in Italy: a Catalogue Raisonné
In this comprehensive catalogue of the work of the 15th-century painter and draftsman, Stefano da Verona (1375-ca. 1438), Karet reviews past scholarship and corrects old misunderstandings that produced an inconsistent, heterogeneous and misinformed corpus. Her attributions are based on stylistic arguments, technical analysis, and the relationship of the drawings to a limited number of secure paintings by this important Late Gothic North Italian painter. The restricted but sound body of works Stefano da Verona executed is compiled in rich catalogue entries that include discussions of style, iconography, patronage, paper and sketchbook analysis, important issues of workshop production and of the history of drawings and collectionism. Karet also transcribes and translates 15th-century Italian inscriptions and texts in various dialects found on the drawings. The catalogue includes a group of fully annotated rejected works that touch upon important issues involving drawings by Stefano's contemporaries. The author also reconstructs a sketchbook drafted by Stefano, one of the first artists to preserve his ideas in this way. Karet's Drawings of Stefano da Verona is a significant addition to the history of drawing in the important transitional decades from the Late Gothic to the Renaissance.
Memoir 244 (2002)
Cloth. .
$40

 
Klingelhofer, Eric,
Settlement and Land Use in Micheldever Hundred, Hampshire, 700-1100
Transactions 81-3 (1991)
Cloth. 156 pp.
$15

 
Lillich, Meredith Parsons,
The Queen of Sicily and Gothic Stained Glass in Mussy and Tonnerre
FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF ST LOUIS, a new court fashion of ostentatious display was introduced into French stained glass with the advent of Queen Marie de Brabant, who in 1274 became the second wife of St Louis's heir Philippe le hardi. Little stained glass in this new style survives, since the very motifs that made it different--large donor 'portraits,' elaborate heraldry, lavish name--inscriptions -- became the most attractive targets of vandalism during the Hundred Years War, the Franco -- Burgundian struggles of the fifteenth century, the Huguenot conflict thereafter, and finally the French Revolution. This study reconstructs two ensembles in the new court style, at Mussy--sur--Seine in southern Champagne and at the famous medieval hospital of Tonnerre in Burgundy. Both of them can be directly connected with the extraordinary figure of Marguerite de Bourgogne. Burgundian princess, second wife and then widow of Charles d'Anjou, St Louis' brother, and titled the Queen of Sicily, Marguerite was a great peacemaker and one of the most revered agents of Christian charity of the Gothic era. The Mussy windows can be reconstructed almost completely with evidence from the surviving images, archival data, early photographs and drawings, stylistic analysis, and careful identification of the heraldry and inscriptions. One bay was a gift of Gui de Genève, bishop of Langres; another window was donated by the mason Perrenet Barottier (here identified as the designer of Mussy and Tonnerre) and his wife Jacquette; yet another was a memorial to Gui de Mussy, soldier of Charles d'Anjou in Naples and undoubtedly killed in the Sicilian Vespers massacre of 1282. Finally, the Queen contributed the axial clerestory (the Crucifixion), the bay beneath it (the local St Vallier, patron of her parish at her residence in Tonnerre) and probably another window--totally destroyed but probably adorned with crowned images of Marguerite and Charles d'Anjou and their heraldry.
Transactions 88-3 (1998)
Cloth. 131 pp., Illus..
$20

 
Livesey, Steven J.,
Antonius de Carlenis, O.P. Four Questions on the Subalternation of the Sciences
Transactions 84-4 (1994)
Cloth. 74 pp.
$15

 
Luis García-Ballester, Michael R. McVaugh, and Agustín Rubio-Vela,
Medical Licensing and Learning in Fourteenth-Century Valencia
Transactions 79-6 (1989)
Cloth. 128 pp.
$15

 
McVaugh, Michael and Lola Ferre,
The Tabula Antidotarii of Armengaud Blaise and its Hebrew Translation
Transactions 90-6 (2000)
Paper. 218pp.
$22

 
Ocker, Christopher,
Johannes Klenkok: A Friar's Life, c. 1310-1374
Transactions 83-5 (1993)
Cloth. 116 pp.
$15

 
Richards, Mary P.,
Texts and their Traditions in the Medieval Library of Rochester Cathedral Priory
Transactions 78-3 (1988)
Cloth. 129 pp.
$15

 
Stanton, Anne Rudloff,
The Queen Mary Psalter: A Study of Affect and Audience
Illuminated manuscripts are among the more intimate works of art surviving from the medieval period, for they usually were designed to edify and delight a specific owner. The Queen Mary Psalter (c. 1316?-21) has long been recognized as one of the most outstanding English Gothic manuscripts. Its straightforward devotional texts are framed by a richly encyclopedic series of narrative images painted in a delicate and courtly style. The psalms are introduced by an Old Testament preface in which lively tinted drawings are explained by chatty French captions. The psalm decoration incorporates a combination of framed illuminations of the life of Christ at the beginnings of important psalms, and tiny tinted drawings in the bottom margin of every page that tell stories ranging from the bestiary to the lives of the saints. Queen Mary Tudor owned the Psalter two centuries after it was made, but substantial contextual evidence suggests that its original owner was Isabelle of France, the queen of Edward II of England and mother of Edward III. For Isabelle and her household, the Psalter provided a richly layered experience in the reading of texts, and images, for the wide variety of viewers in the queen's household.

Winner of the 2000 Millennium Award.

Transactions 91-6 (2001)
Paper. 287 pp.
$25

 
Vitto, Cindy L.,
The Virtuous Pagan in Middle English Literature
Transactions 79-5 (1989)
Cloth. 100 pp.
$15

 
Williman, Daniel,
The Right of Spoil of the Popes of Avignon, 1316-1415
Transactions 78-6 (1988)
Paper. 270pp.
$20

 
Wolfgang, Lenora D.,
Le Lai de l'Oiselet. An Old French Poem of the Thirteenth Century
Transactions 80-5 (1990)
Cloth. 129 pp.
$20
Meteorology

 
Chenoweth, Michael,
The 18th Century Climate of Jamaica Derived from the Journals of Thomas Thistlewood, 1750-1786
Thomas Thistlewood is known for his daily records of life on a slave plantation in eighteenth-century Jamaica. Thistlewood's previously unexamined weather journal is shown here to be the most important written record from the Earth's tropical regions available. His observation methods are superior to most of his contemporaries and provide a high-quality daily record of more than 35 years. Comparison of his records with modern weather records indicates that Thistlewood's Jamaica was a much cooler and moister place than in modern times. a 252-year record of tropical storm and hurricane frequency in Jamaica reveals that the late twentieth century minimum in storm frequency is unprecedented.
Transactions 93-2 (2003)
Paper. .
$24
Mexico--History

 
Markman, Sidney D.,
Architecture and Urbanization in Colonial Chiapas, Mexico
Memoir 153 (1984)
Cloth. 443pp.
$50
Music

 
Cummings, Anthony M.,
Maecenas and Madrigalists: Patrons, Patronage, and the Origins of the Madrigal
Historians of European music of the early-modern period have focused particular attention upon the formal institutions and agents of patronage: ecclesiastical institutions, royal and aristocratic courts, etc. Like their colleagues in sister humanistic disciplines, musicologists are increasingly focusing upon less formal private "institutions" and traditions of patronage: informal academies and societies, the activities of individuals, convivial aristocratic companies. Cultural life in early-sixteenth-century Florence was characterized by the practices of a series of vital institutions of this type: the famous group that met in the Rucellai garden, the Medici Sacred Academy, the Companies of the Broncone, Cazzuola, and Diamante. Such informal institutions had considerable virtues as agents of patronage; their less routinized practices freed them to engage in experimentation that the larger and more public and formal institutions were less likely to support, given their regularized practices and well-established traditions. For music historians, the importance of these informal agents of patronage is that they reveal a relationship to the early madrigal: to early madrigal poets and composers, whose professional activities were closely aligned to those of the contemporary informal academies and literary societies. Through reference to sources multidisciplinary in nature, this study reconstructs the memberships, cultural activities, and musical experiences of these informal Florentine institutions and relates them to the emergence of the madrigal, the foremost secular musical genre of early-modern Europe.

Anthony M. Cummings received a Ph.D. in Musicology from Princeton University in 1980, where he was a Lecturer in Music. His dissertation was on "A Florentine Sacred Repertory from the Medici Restoration." From 1990-1992 he was a member of the program staff at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He has been an Associate Professor of Music in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Tulane University since 1992. Dr. Cummings currently is Chairman of the Newcomb Department of Music at Tulane. Articles and other publications include "Giulio de' Medici's Music Books" (in Early Music History X, Cambridge University Press, 1991, pages 63-120), The Politicized Muse: Music for Medici Festivals, 1512-1537 (Princeton Essays on the Arts, Princeton University Press, 1992), University Libraries and Scholarly Communication: A Study Prepared for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (with William G. Bowen, et al., The Haworth Press, 1996), and "Music: Transmission of Music" (in Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, edited by Paul F. Grendler, Charles Scribner's Sons in association with the Renaissance Society of America, 2000.

"The scholarship is sound, well documented, and up to date. One of the strengths of the book is the breadth of its coverage. The material will be of interest to scholars in all areas of Florentine Renaissance studies. The author's comprehensive organization of the material and the conclusions he draws from it, and his ideas about the role of Medici patronage of the early madrigal, are original and important. The book is richly illustrated with both visual materials and musical examples. A wonderful contribution." -- Ruth I. DeFord, Ph.D., Professor of Music, Harvard University
Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York

Memoir 253 (2004)
Cloth. .
$50

 
Jerome, Davis,
The Oboe Concertos of Sir William Herschel
Memoir 225 (1998)
Cloth. 66p.
$40
Natural history

 
Armstrong, Alan W.,
"Forget not Mee & My Garden..." Selected Letters, 1725-1768, of Peter Collinson, F.R.S.
"Forget not Mee & My Garden. . . ," Peter Collinson wrote his Maryland friend George Robins in 1721. "If you have any Shells, Curious Stones, or any other Naturall Curiosity Remember Mee. I want one of your Humming Birds which you may send dry'd in its Feathers, and any Curious Insect." This theme echoed through Collinson's letters for the rest of his life, along with thanks for rarities received, introductions, cultivation instructions, encouragements, importunings, queries. Armstrong describes Collinson's correspondence as, "vigorous, brisk, and emphatic." His letters talk mainly of plants, but there are also antiquities, birds, butterflies, British imperial interests, sheep management in Spain, electricity, weather, fossils, insects, earthquakes, vine culture, Colonial policy, tithes, wars, terrapins, "an Infalible Remedy for the bite of a Mad Dog,' red Indians, astronomy, the making of salt, cheese fairs, the price of wheat, the power of snakes to charm, the Spanish threat to Florida, geology, French expansion," Hints . . . to Incorporate the Germans more with the [Pennsylvania] English. . . , the history of rice growing, premiums to encourage the production of silk, whether swallows migrate or winter-over under water, "Old Hock" as a remedy for gout, thundergusts, magnetism, Bezoar stones, and now and then a Quakerly comment. This selection of 187 letters is enhanced with over 120 illustrations (portraits and botanical drawings among them) , some by Mark Catesby, Georg Dionysius Ehret, William Bartram, many in color. The edition contains notes and commentary for most letters.
Memoir 241 (2002)
Cloth. 300 pp.
$60

 
Carter, Edward C., II,
Surveying the Record: North American Scientific Exploration to 1930
Papers given at a conference on Scientific Exploration in North America to 1930 with topics including Cartography, Oceanic Exploration, Art, Anthropology, Lewis and Clark, and the West.
Memoir 231 (1999)
Cloth. 344pp.
$25

 
Dawson, Virginia,
Nature's Enigma: The Problem of the Polyp in the Letters of Bonnet, Trembley and Reaumur
Memoir 174 (1987)
Cloth. 266 pp., Illus..
$20

 
Donkin, R. A.,
The Peccary: With Observations on the Introduction of Pigs to the New World
Transactions 75-5 (1985)
Paper. 152pp.
$25

 
Doskey, John,
The European Journals of William Maclure
Memoir 171 (1988)
Cloth. 815pp.
$40

 
Hunter, Clark,
The Life and Letters of Alexander Wilson
Memoir 154 (1983)
Cloth. 456pp.
$20
Ornithology

 
Hunter, Clark,
The Life and Letters of Alexander Wilson
Memoir 154 (1983)
Cloth. 456pp.
$20
Pacific area--History and culture

 
Goodenough, Ward H. and Hiroshi Sugita,
Trukese-English Dictionary, Supplementary Volume
Memoir 14l (1990)
Paper. 560 pp.
$30

 
Goodenough, Ward H. and Hiroshi Sugita,
Trukese-English Dictionary
Memoir 141 (1980)
Paper. 399 pp.
$15

 
Goodenough, Ward H.,
Prehistoric Settlement of the Pacific
Transactions 86-5 (1996)
Cloth. 169 pp., Illus. Second Printing, 1998.
$20

 
Goodenough, Ward H.,
Under Heaven's Brow: Pre-Christian Religious Tradition in Chuuk
For the people of Chuuk and for students of religion and Micronesian culture, this book pulls together and makes available in English the somewhat scattered published accounts (largely in German), along with Goodenough's own (as yet unpublished) information about religious beliefs and ritual practices in pre-Christian Chuuk. The materials are presented in a way that seeks to document and illustrate a particular approach, a functional one, to understanding the kinds of human concerns that give rise to religious behavior. Simply to describe traditional beliefs and rituals without the relevant social background information leaves the reader without any feeling for what were the emotional concerns, engendered by life in Chuukese society, that ritual practices helped people address. Ward Goodenough offers a theoretical introduction, the necessary background information about Chuuk and the ways in which members of Chuukese society experienced themselves and their fellows, the world view and overall set of beliefs providing the intellectual framework within which ritual practices were formulated and understood, and the various bodies of ritual practices. He concludes the book with a summary that pulls together how the rituals described appear to related to the emotional concerns that growing up and living in Chuuk tended to create.
Memoir 246 (2002)
Cloth. 421 pp.
$30
Paleontology

 
Carroll, Robert L. & Pamela Gaskill,
The Order Microsauria
Memoir 126 (1978)
Cloth. 211pp.
$20

 
Kalb, Jon E. and Assefa Mebrate,
Fossil Elephantoids from the Hominid-Bearing Awash Group, Middle Awash Valley, Afar Depression, Ethiopia
Transactions 83-1 (1993)
Paper. 114 pp.
$15

 
Sanders, Albert E., ed.,
Paleobiology of the Williamsburg Formation (Black Mingo Group; Paleocene) of South Carolina, U.S.A.
The excavation of an immense pit near the Santee River in South Carolina has produced the first Paleocene vertebrate fauna from the South Atlantic coast of the United States, as well as a rich flora that provides extensive knowledge of the paleoenviromental setting in which those animals flourished nearly 60 million years ago. The excavation penetrated the Late Paleocene Williamsburg Formation and yielded many specimens collected from the spoil piles, among which were the first Paleocene mammal remains from the east coast of North America. In this important volume, eight paleobiologists interpret the discoveries systematically and compare them with Paleocene floras and faunas from elsewhere in North America and around the globe. The authors include: Bruce Erickson (crocodilians and a snake); Robert E. Weems (bony fishes); Weems and Laurel Bybell (geological setting); Lucy Edwards (dinoflagellates); Robert C. Melchior (pollen, spores, fossil wood, and amber); Robert W. Purdy (sharks and rays); Howard Hutchison and Robert Weems (turtles); Robert Schoch (mammals), Glenn Sawyer (coprolites); and Erickson and Melchior (trace fossils). Editor Albert E. Sanders wrote the Introduction and the Summary and Conclusions for this work, which is easily one of the most significant contributions to our knowledge of early Tertiary times in this region.
Transactions 88-4 (1998)
Cloth. 276 pp.
$25

 
Sanders, Albert E.,
Additions to the Pleistocene Mammal Faunas of South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia
The Southeastern area of the United States is one of the richest vertebrate fossil localities on the east coast of North America and was recognized as such by Louis Agassiz during his first visit to Charleston in 1847 when he saw the first collection of fossils accumulated by local planter Francis S. Holmes. Holmes was made curator of The Charleston Museum in 1850 and spent the following years writing books on paleontology and leading the way in developing the mining of phosphate in the Charleston area. Albert Sanders reports discoveries of vertebrate fossils near Charleston and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and in Brunswick County, North Carolina, which have provided new records of 37 Pleistocene mammal taxa on the Atlantic Coastal Plain.
Transactions 92-5 (2002)
Paper. 152pp.
$24

 
Weems, Robert E.,
A Late Triassic Footprint Fauna from the Culpeper Basin, Northern Virginia
Transactions 77-1 (1987)
Paper. 79pp.
$15
Peru--Antiquities

 
Aveni, Anthony F. et al,
The Lines of Nazca
Memoir 183 (1990)
Cloth. 343 pp., Illus. Photomozaic fold-out map.
$30
Philadelphia (Pa.)--History

 
Fanelli, Doris Devine,
History of the Portrait Collection, Independence National Historical Park
The American Philosophical Society in conjunction with the Independence National Historical Park announces the publication of the first catalog of the portraits in the INHP collection. These portraits, most of which are exhibited in the Second Bank of the United States, consist of 255 works, 109 of them by Charles Willson Peale. Many were first exhibited in Peale's Museum and included likenesses of heroes of the American Revolution and founders of American government, statesmen, jurists, men of science, art and letters. The collection was enhanced by the addition of the works of notable 18th and 19th Anglo-American artists. The book is divided into two major sections-a history of the collection dividing it chapters covering works pre-1950, 1850-1900 and 1900-1951, and a catalog. Each catalog entry is enhanced with either a black and white or four-color reproduction and contains a physical description of the portrait, a brief biography of the subject, the circumstance of the portrait's commission and its provenance. The editor and authors made extensive use of the Peale papers and other special collections in the American Philosophical Society Library archives. This study should be useful for museum staff, historians (of American and Art history), and visitors to Independence Historical National Park.
Memoir 242 (2001)
Cloth. 360 pp.
$65

 
Klepp, Susan E.,
"The Swift Progress of Population": A Documentary and Bibliographic Study of Philadelphia's Growth, 1642-1859
Memoir 187 (1991)
Cloth. Contains over 200 broadsides..
$10
Philosophy and culture

 
Scharf, Peter M.,
The Denotation of Generic Terms in Ancient Indian Philosophy
Transactions 86-3 (1996)
Cloth. 336 pp.
$15
Philosophy--History

 
Mali, Joseph and Robert Wolker, eds.,
Isaiah Berlin's Counter-Enlightenment
As the essays in this collection make plain, Isaiah Berlin invented neither the term "Counter-Enlightenment" nor the concept. However, more than any other figure since the eighteenth century, Berlin appropriated the term, made it the heart of his own political thought, and imbued his interpretations of particular thinkers with its meanings and significance. His diverse treatment of writers at the margins of the Enlightenment, who themselves reflected upon what they took to be its central currents, were at once historical and philosophical. Berlin sought to show that our patterns of culture, manufactured by ourselves, must be explained differently from the ways in which we seek to fathom laws of nature. Many of the essays in this volume were prepared for the International Seminar in memory of Sir Isaiah Berlin, held at the School of History in Tel Aviv University during the academic year 1999-2000.
Transactions 93-5 (2003)
Paper. .
$24

 
Monfasani, John,
Fernando of Cordova: A Biographical and Intellectual Profile
Transactions 82-6 (1992)
Cloth. 116 pp.
$18

 
Rasmussen, Charles and Rick Tilman,
Jacques Loeb: His Science and Social Activism and their Philosophical Foundation
GERMAN BORN, JACQUES LOEB was both a biologist (nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1901) and political activist. Drawing on his correspondence, the authors highlight Loeb's organizational actions and political opinions during the years of 1906 to 1924, the year of his death. As a social activist and scientist, Loeb influenced, Rasmussen and Tilman say, "the scientific community, the politically sensitive public, and ultimately the underlying population against conservative and reactionary attitudes toward race, ethnicity, poverty, criminality, war and religion." In chapters on Loeb's research agenda, position on World War I, social activism, his influence on the economist Thorstein Veblen and finally on his philosophy and politics, the authors sketch a man who was hailed early in his career for his work on spontaneous generation of marine embryos and recognized later for his active challenge to social intolerance.
Memoir 229 (1998)
Cloth. 176 pp.
$20

 
Stent, Gunther S.,
Paradoxes of Free Will
Driving human reason too far in the analysis of deep problems often leads to irresolvable inconsistencies and contradictions. In this 2002 J.F. Lewis Award-winning monograph, Gunther Stent traces the origins and development of the paradoxes of free will in this well-crafted introduction to philosophical debates regarding freedom of will. Free will poses one of the oldest and most vexatious philosophical problems, dating back to the beginnings of moral philosophy in ancient Greece. Pure theoretical reason implies that our actions are determined, while practical theoretical reason tells us that our will is free. Stent examines the arguments of moral responsibility versus determinism, from Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle to Immanuel Kant, Niels Bohr, and Max Planck.
Transactions 92-6 (2003)
Paper. 248pp.
$24
Physics--History

 
Fullmer, June Z.,
Young Humphry Davy
Memoir 237 (2000)
Cloth. 385pp.
$30

 
Kim, Young Suk,
The Natural Philosophy of Chu His
Memoir 235 (2000)
Cloth. 380pp.
$30

 
McCormmach, Russell K.,
Cavendish
Memoir 220 (1996)
Cloth. 414 pp., Illus..
$32

 
Smith, A. Mark,
Descartes's Theory of Light and Refraction: A Discourse on Method
Transactions 77-3 (1987)
Cloth. 92 pp., Illus..
$18

 
Smith, A. Mark,
Ptolemy's Theory of Visual Perception: An English Translation of the Optics. With Introduction and Commentary
Transactions 86-2 (1996)
Cloth. 300 pp.
$15

 
Sweetnam, George Kean,
The Command of Light: The Rowlands School of Physics and the Spectrum
Memoir 238 (2000)
Cloth. 233pp.
$25
Pigs

 
Donkin, R. A.,
The Peccary: With Observations on the Introduction of Pigs to the New World
Transactions 75-5 (1985)
Paper. 152pp.
$25
Poetry

 
Chambers, Frank M.,
Old Provencal Versification
Memoir 167 (1985)
. 299 pp.
$20

 
Clark, David R. and James B. McGuire,
W. B. Yeats The Writing of Sophocles King Oedipus
Memoir 175 (1989)
Cloth. 443 pp.
$20

 
Hann, Estelle,
From Academia to Amicitia: Milton's Latin Writings and the Italian Academies.
Transactions 88-6 (1998)
Cloth. 208 pp.
$20

 
Lind, L. R.,
Gabriele Zerbi, Gerontocomia; On the Care of the Aged and Maximianus, Elegies on Old Age and Love
Memoir 182 (1988)
Cloth. 346 pp.
$20

 
Rajam, V. S.,
A Reference Grammar of Classical Tamil Poetry
Memoir 199 (1992)
Cloth. 1081 pp. C.
$25

 
Schuler, Robert M.,
Francis Bacon and Scientific Poetry
Transactions 82-2 (1992)
Cloth. 65 pp.
$10

 
Wolfgang, Lenora D.,
Le Lai de l'Oiselet. An Old French Poem of the Thirteenth Century
Transactions 80-5 (1990)
Cloth. 129 pp.
$20
Psychology--Hsitory

 
Sweeney, Gerald,
"Fighting for the Good Cause": Reflections on Francis Galton's Legacy to American Hereditarian Psychology
Sir Francis Galton is well understood to have served as an influential mentor for the educational psychologists who supplied crucial doctrine to American eugenics in its classic period, 1903 to 1930. Yet the nature of his influence has never been specified. The psychologists' own claim as to the Galton's contribution-that he provided sufficient justification for their absolutist hereditarianism-was clearly disingenuous. Rather, the English polymath appears to have functioned in large part as a model for these figures, who appear to have been instrumentally informed by their perceptions of Galton's ulterior purposes in constructing eugenics as he did. Any of various features in the forty-five-year-long course of that development could have encouraged these particular legatees to appreciate both Galton and his product as surreptitious stanchers of democracy.
Transactions 91-2 (2001)
Paper. 136 pp.
$18
Religion and science

 
Livesey, Steven J.,
Antonius de Carlenis, O.P. Four Questions on the Subalternation of the Sciences
Transactions 84-4 (1994)
Cloth. 74 pp.
$15

 
Livingstone, David N.,
The Preadamite Theory and the Marriage of Science and Religion
Transactions 82-3 (1992)
Cloth. 81 pp.
$16
Religious history

 
Benedict, Philip,
The Huguenot Population of France, 1600-1685: The Demographic Fate and Customs of a Religious Minority
Transactions 81-5 (1994)
Cloth. 164 pp., reprint.
$25

 
Denton, J. H.,
Philip the Fair and the Ecclesiastical Assemblies of 1294-1295
Transactions 81-1 (1991)
Cloth. 82 pp.
$18

 
Fanning, Steven,
A Bishop and his World before the Gregorian Reform
Transactions 78-1 (1988)
Paper. 292pp.
$22

 
Fernandez-Santa Maria, J. A.,
The Theater of Man: J.L. Vives on Society
BORN IN SPAIN and long-time resident of Bruges, Juan Luis Vives is one of the keenest, and most neglected, minds of the northern Renaissance. A many-sided intellect and critical observer of the contemporary scene, Vives' contribution includes treatises on metaphysics, psychology, education, rhetoric, logic, religion, and social reform. And it is precisely the central premise of this monograph that what links these diverse works together and turns Vives literary production into a whole larger than the sum of its parts is the author's single-minded commitment to the Socratic dictum that an unexamined life is not worth living. But because man's Fall caused him to lose his pristine ability to accomplish that task as an individual, he must now do it in the context of a God-mandated, man-created institution: society, whose origins and evolution Vives explains in Stoic terms. Building on a foundation of Socratic/ Aristotelian optimism and Augustinian pessimism, he concludes that social man can indeed reach the bonitas which alone makes beatitude possible. But at a price, for Vives the Skeptic insists that man must forego the use of that ratio speculativa which seduces him into thinking that he can probe into nature's being and understand his own divine nature.
Transactions 88-2 (1998)
Cloth. 209 pp.
$18

 
Friedlander, Alan,
Processus Bernardi Delitiosi: The Trial of Fr. Bernard Delicieux
Transactions 86-1 (1996)
Cloth. 393 pp.
$30

 
Gorecki, Piotr,
Parishes, Tithes, and Society
Transactions 83-2 (1993)
Paper. 146 pp.
$15

 
Harris, M. Roy,
The Occitan Translations of John XII and XIII-XVII from a Fourteenth-Century Franciscan Codex
Transactions 75-4 (1985)
Paper. 149pp.
$20

 
Kennedy, Thomas L.,
Confucian Feminist. Memoirs of Zeng Baosun (1893-1978)
The autobiographical memoirs of Zeng Baosun, an extraordinary Chinese woman who was a pioneer in promoting education for girls and Christian values, are expertly translated and adapted by Thomas Kennedy. The commentary recounts Zeng Baosun's life and education, from her studies abroad, to her experiences through two world wars, to her exile in Taiwan. She emphasized the feminist commitment to leadership and improvement in the condition of women, but always within an established social and economic order.
Transactions 91-1 (2003)
Paper. .
$24

 
Lillich, Meredith Parsons,
The Queen of Sicily and Gothic Stained Glass in Mussy and Tonnerre
FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF ST LOUIS, a new court fashion of ostentatious display was introduced into French stained glass with the advent of Queen Marie de Brabant, who in 1274 became the second wife of St Louis's heir Philippe le hardi. Little stained glass in this new style survives, since the very motifs that made it different--large donor 'portraits,' elaborate heraldry, lavish name--inscriptions -- became the most attractive targets of vandalism during the Hundred Years War, the Franco -- Burgundian struggles of the fifteenth century, the Huguenot conflict thereafter, and finally the French Revolution. This study reconstructs two ensembles in the new court style, at Mussy--sur--Seine in southern Champagne and at the famous medieval hospital of Tonnerre in Burgundy. Both of them can be directly connected with the extraordinary figure of Marguerite de Bourgogne. Burgundian princess, second wife and then widow of Charles d'Anjou, St Louis' brother, and titled the Queen of Sicily, Marguerite was a great peacemaker and one of the most revered agents of Christian charity of the Gothic era. The Mussy windows can be reconstructed almost completely with evidence from the surviving images, archival data, early photographs and drawings, stylistic analysis, and careful identification of the heraldry and inscriptions. One bay was a gift of Gui de Genève, bishop of Langres; another window was donated by the mason Perrenet Barottier (here identified as the designer of Mussy and Tonnerre) and his wife Jacquette; yet another was a memorial to Gui de Mussy, soldier of Charles d'Anjou in Naples and undoubtedly killed in the Sicilian Vespers massacre of 1282. Finally, the Queen contributed the axial clerestory (the Crucifixion), the bay beneath it (the local St Vallier, patron of her parish at her residence in Tonnerre) and probably another window--totally destroyed but probably adorned with crowned images of Marguerite and Charles d'Anjou and their heraldry.
Transactions 88-3 (1998)
Cloth. 131 pp., Illus..
$20

 
Mayer, Thomas F.,
A Reluctant Author: Cardinal Pole and his Manuscripts
Transactions 89-4 (1999)
Paper. 115pp.
$15

 
Ocker, Christopher,
Johannes Klenkok: A Friar's Life, c. 1310-1374
Transactions 83-5 (1993)
Cloth. 116 pp.
$15

 
Olszewski, Edward,
Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1667-1740) and the Vatican Tomb of Pope Alexander II
Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1667-1740) and the Vatican Tomb of Pope Alexander VIII examines the commission of the Vatican tomb of Pope Alexander VIII Ottoboni by his great-nephew Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni. Although neglected for centuries, the Ottoboni monument occupies the most strategic liturgical position in the complex of tombs in the Vatican basilica. It is impressive in scale, and offers a commanding presence on the path from the papal entryway to the apse and main altar, with a majestic papal effigy, a visually compelling narrative relief carving, and symbolically important allegories.

Using unpublished archival documents in the Vatican and Lateran archives, this study discusses in detail the thirty-year campaign for the construction of the tomb and identifies the artists and artisans responsible for the project. The monograph is comprehensive in its stylistic analysis, exploration of iconography, discussion of liturgical practice, and consideration of studio procedures beginning with patron and artist, architect and sculptors, and sculptor and artisans. reveals why the project required three decades to complete.

Edward Olszewski received a Ph.D. in Renaissance-Baroque Art in 1874 from the University of Minnesota. His thesis topic was "Armenini's Treatise on Painting." He also has a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Illinois, received in 1964. Dr. Olszewski has worked at the University of South Florida as a Visiting Research Associate Professor, ADM Chemicals as a Research Chemist, and the University of Minnesota as a Teaching Associate. Currently he is a Professor of Art History at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Additional honors and leadership positions include nomination for the John S. Diekhoff Award for Distinguished Graduate Teaching at Case Western Reserve University in 2002 (he won the award in 1986), Program Coordinator of the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference in 2000, Fellow of Early Modern History, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, in 1998, and Program Chair of the Midwest Art History Society Annual Meeting in 1996. Dr. Olszewski was President of the Midwest Art History Society from 1981-1984, received a Grant-in-aid from the Butkin Foundation in 1990, was given a travel grant from the American Council of Learned Societies, Seventh International Congress on the Enlightenment (Budapest, Hungary) in 1987, and was named a Delmas Fellow by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation in 1986. Dr. Olszewski has written several books, including Drawings in Midwestern Collections, I: Early Drawings (1996) and Drawings in Midwestern Collections, II: 1500-1600 (2003). He also is the author of The Draftsman's Eye (1981), and Giovanni Battista Armenini: On the True Precepts of the Art of Painting (1977). Articles that Dr. Olszewski has written have appeared in art journals worldwide, including Römischen Jahrbuch der Bibliotheca Hertziana, Artibus et Historiae, and Cleveland Studies.

"Professor Olszewski has produced a well-written, informative, and important monograph. And, in the process, he has expanded our understanding of contemporary workshop practice and art making in the Rome of the later Baroque period.

There are sections where the author's meticulous care and insightful reconstruction of events gives the reader a sense of "being there" in the day-to-day process of work on the site. These parts make for especially exciting and engaging reading." -- Brian Curran, Department of Art History, Pennsylvania State University

"An absolutely wonderful piece of work." -- Helen North, Centennial Professor of Classics Emerita, Swarthmore College

Winner of the John Frederick Lewis Award for 2004, American Philosophical Society.

Memoir 252 (2004)
Cloth. .
$60

 
Parrow, Kathleen,
From Defense to Resistance: Justification of Violence during the French Wars of Religion
Transactions 83-6 (1993)
Cloth. 79 pp.
$15

 
Richards, Mary P.,
Texts and their Traditions in the Medieval Library of Rochester Cathedral Priory
Transactions 78-3 (1988)
Cloth. 129 pp.
$15

 
Setton, Kenneth M.,
The Papacy and the Levant, Vol. III: The Sixteenth Century
Memoir 161 (1984)
Cloth. 564 pp.
$25

 
Setton, Kenneth M.,
The Papacy and the Levant, Vol. IV: The Sixteenth Century
Memoir 162 (1984)
Cloth. 1179 pp., Note: Index for vol. 161 and 162 is in 1.
$25

 
Setton, Kenneth M.,
The Papacy and the Levant. Vol. I: The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
Memoir 114 (1976)
Cloth. 512 pp.
$20

 
Setton, Kenneth M.,
The Papacy and the Levant. Vol. II
Memoir 127 (1978)
Cloth. 580 pp.
$25

 
Stanton, Anne Rudloff,
The Queen Mary Psalter: A Study of Affect and Audience
Illuminated manuscripts are among the more intimate works of art surviving from the medieval period, for they usually were designed to edify and delight a specific owner. The Queen Mary Psalter (c. 1316?-21) has long been recognized as one of the most outstanding English Gothic manuscripts. Its straightforward devotional texts are framed by a richly encyclopedic series of narrative images painted in a delicate and courtly style. The psalms are introduced by an Old Testament preface in which lively tinted drawings are explained by chatty French captions. The psalm decoration incorporates a combination of framed illuminations of the life of Christ at the beginnings of important psalms, and tiny tinted drawings in the bottom margin of every page that tell stories ranging from the bestiary to the lives of the saints. Queen Mary Tudor owned the Psalter two centuries after it was made, but substantial contextual evidence suggests that its original owner was Isabelle of France, the queen of Edward II of England and mother of Edward III. For Isabelle and her household, the Psalter provided a richly layered experience in the reading of texts, and images, for the wide variety of viewers in the queen's household.

Winner of the 2000 Millennium Award.

Transactions 91-6 (2001)
Paper. 287 pp.
$25

 
Vecsey, Christopher,
Traditional Ojibwa Religion
Memoir 152 (1998)
Paper. 233 pp., reprinted 1998.
$15

 
Vitto, Cindy L.,
The Virtuous Pagan in Middle English Literature
Transactions 79-5 (1989)
Cloth. 100 pp.
$15

 
Williman, Daniel,
The Right of Spoil of the Popes of Avignon, 1316-1415
Transactions 78-6 (1988)
Paper. 270pp.
$20
Renaissance history

 
Fernandez-Santa Maria, J. A.,
The Theater of Man: J.L. Vives on Society
BORN IN SPAIN and long-time resident of Bruges, Juan Luis Vives is one of the keenest, and most neglected, minds of the northern Renaissance. A many-sided intellect and critical observer of the contemporary scene, Vives' contribution includes treatises on metaphysics, psychology, education, rhetoric, logic, religion, and social reform. And it is precisely the central premise of this monograph that what links these diverse works together and turns Vives literary production into a whole larger than the sum of its parts is the author's single-minded commitment to the Socratic dictum that an unexamined life is not worth living. But because man's Fall caused him to lose his pristine ability to accomplish that task as an individual, he must now do it in the context of a God-mandated, man-created institution: society, whose origins and evolution Vives explains in Stoic terms. Building on a foundation of Socratic/ Aristotelian optimism and Augustinian pessimism, he concludes that social man can indeed reach the bonitas which alone makes beatitude possible. But at a price, for Vives the Skeptic insists that man must forego the use of that ratio speculativa which seduces him into thinking that he can probe into nature's being and understand his own divine nature.
Transactions 88-2 (1998)
Cloth. 209 pp.
$18

 
Munman, Robert,
Sienese Renaissance Tomb Monuments
Memoir 205 (1993)
Cloth. 180 pp., Illus..
$20

 
Waldman, Louis A.,
Baccio Bandinelli and Art at the Medici Court: A Corpus of Early Modern Sources
More than five centuries after his birth, the contradictions embodied by the Florentine sculptor Baccio Bandinelli (1493-1560) remain as mysterious as ever. Revered by contemporaries as one of the most important sculptors of his time, he was reviled by his enemies as a truculent, foul-mouthed, avaricious, sycophantic, craven humbug. But the originality and power or Bandinelli's work, and the long shadow it cast over the arts in sixteenth-century Florence and Rome, are as clear today as they were to the artists Medici patrons, who recognized his art as a potent tool for constructing an image of dynastic legitimacy.

Based on a decade of research in archives all over Italy, Baccio Bandinelli and Art at the Medici Court: A Corpus of Early Modern Sources brings this great, but often neglected, Renaissance artist into sharper focus for modern scholarship. It comprises a comprehensive collection of the documentation on Bandinelli's life and work. The great majority of the texts included in this volume were discovered by the author and are published for the first time, and many come from the private archive of the Bandinelli family.

All the documents are furnished with historical commentary and textual apparatus discussing their broader historical context, problems of chronology and interpretation, and later interpolations -- including hundreds of forged passages inserted by the artist's grandson, genealogist Baccio Bandinelli the Younger (1578-1636), whose role as forger of the Bandinelli legacy is exposed here for the first time.

"An incomparable achievement of scholarship" -- William Wallace, Washington University in St. Louis

"A very sizable contribution to the entire range of the Renaissance art historical academic community" -- Patricia Emison, University of New Hampshire

Memoir 251 (2004)
Cloth. 935p.
$60
Russia--History

 
Hassell, James E.,
Russian Refugees in France and the United States Between the World Wars
Transactions 81-7 (1991)
Paper. 96pp.
$12.5

 
Jansson, Maija and Nikolai Rogozhin,
England and the North: The Russian Embassy of 1613-1614
Memoir 210 (1994)
Cloth. 236 pp.
$25

 
Kaplan, Herbert H.,
Russian Overseas Commerce with Great Britain During the Reign of Catherine II
Memoir 218 (1995)
Cloth. 309 pp., With charts and tables.
$30

 
Schmidt, Albert J.,
The Architecture and Planning of Classical Moscow: A Cultural History
Memoir 181 (1989)
Cloth. 218pp.
$38
Slavery

 
Papenfuse, Eric R.,
The Evils of Necessity: Robert Goodloe Harper and the Moral Dilemma of Slavery.
Transactions 87-1 (1997)
Cloth. 160 pp., Illus..
$18

 
Westermann, W. L.,
The Slave Systems of Greek and Roman Antiquity
Memoir 040 (1955)
Paper. 180 pp.
$15
Technology--History

 
Jeremy, David J.,
Technology and Power in the Early American Cotton Industry: James Montgomery, The Second Edition of his Cotton Manufacture
Memoir 189 (1990)
Cloth. 348pp.
$38

 
Seitz, Frederick,
The Cosmic Inventor: Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (1866-1932)
Transactions 89-6 (1999)
Paper. 77pp.
$15

 
Stapleton, Darwin H.,
The Transfer of Early Industrial Technologies to America
Memoir 177 (1987)
Cloth. 215 pp. Illus..
$10
United States--History--19th century

 
Contosta, David R. and Robert Muccigrosso, eds.,
Henry Adams and His World
Transactions 83-4 (1993)
Paper. 122 pp.
$15

 
Hogarty, Richard A.,
Leon Abbett's New Jersey: The Emergence of the Modern Governor
Following in the succession of his 25 predecessors, Leon Abbett twice served as governor of New Jersey in the late nineteenth century. A lifelong Democrat, he was a dynamic and visionary party leader who guided the citizens of New Jersey into a new urban industrial age. While he was a machine politician and party boss, he was also a notable reformer. That was a formidable combination for his time. Grappling with a series of hot political issues and braving the passions and divisions spawned by the Civil War, Abbett was one of the ablest and most intriguing men ever to be governor. Several new ideas were transformed into public policy during his tenure. Both in style and strategy, Abbett represented a sharp break from his predecessors. He was a prime example of a governor who both in crisis and in ordinary times broadened gubernatorial authority. He became both a policy and party leader. In this context, he was an important forerunner to a type of governor that had not yet appeared on the American political stage.
Memoir 243 (2001)
Cloth. 349 pp.
$40

 
Huang, Nian-Sheng,
Benjamin Franklin in American Thought and Culture, 1790-1990
Memoir 211 (1994)
Paper. 270 pp.
$20

 
McDaniel, Dennis K.,
John Ogden, Abolitionist and Leader in Southern Education
Transactions 87-6 (1997)
Paper. 138 pp., Illus. P.
$15

 
McElrath, Joseph R.,
The Apprenticeship Writings of Frank Norris 1896-1898
Memoir 219 (1996)
Cloth. 276 pp., Illus..
$20

 
McElrath, Joseph R.,
The Apprenticeship Writings of Frank Norris 1896-1898
Memoir 219 (1996)
Paper. 276 pp.
$15

 
Papenfuse, Eric R.,
The Evils of Necessity: Robert Goodloe Harper and the Moral Dilemma of Slavery.
Transactions 87-1 (1997)
Cloth. 160 pp., Illus..
$18

 
Simon, Roger D.,
The City-Building Process: Housing and Services in New Milwaukee Neighborhoods 1880-1910
Transactions 86-6 (1996)
Cloth. 163 pp.
$18
United States--History--20th century

 
Cornebise, Alfred E.,
Soldier-Scholars: Higher Education in the American Expeditionary Forces, 1917-1919
Memoir 221 (1997)
Cloth. 200 pp., Illus..
$25

 
Simon, Roger D.,
The City-Building Process: Housing and Services in New Milwaukee Neighborhoods 1880-1910
Transactions 86-6 (1996)
Cloth. 163 pp.
$18
United States--History--Colonial and Early Republic

 
Bedini, Silvio A.,
The Mace and the Gavel: Symbols of Government in America
Transactions 87-4 (1997)
Cloth. 84 pp.
$15

 
Corcoran, Irma,
Thomas Holme, Surveyor General of Pennsylvania
Memoir 200 (1992)
Cloth. 317 pp.
$10

 
Graham, Jenny,
Revolutionary in Exile: The Emigration of Joseph Priestley to America
Transactions 85-2 (1995)
Cloth. 213 pp.
$15

 
Greene, Jack P.; Charles F. Mullet, and Edward C. Papenfuse,
Magna Charta for America : James Abercromby's "An examination of the acts of Parliament relative to the trade and the government of our American colonies" (1752) and "De jure et gubernatione coloniarum"
Memoir 165 (1986)
Cloth. 346 pp.
$35

 
Hill, Peter,
French Perceptions of the Early American Republic, 1783-1793
Memoir 180 (1988)
Cloth. 196 pp.
$24

 
Huang, Nian-Sheng,
Benjamin Franklin in American Thought and Culture, 1790-1990
Memoir 211 (1994)
Paper. 270 pp.
$20

 
Jones, Robert F.,
"...King of the Alley" William Duer, Politician, Entrepreneur and Speculator, 1768-1799
Memoir 202 (1992)
Cloth. 236 pp.
$10

 
Pendergast, James F.,
The Massawomeck: Raiders and Traders into the Chesapeake Bay in the Seventeenth Century
Transactions 81-2 (1991)
Paper. 101pp.
$15

 
Roberts, Priscilla H. and James N. Tull,
Adam Hoops, Thomas Barclay, and the House in Morrisville known as Summerseat, 1764-1791
Transactions 90-5 (2000)
Paper. 106pp.
$15

 
Stapleton, Darwin H.,
The Transfer of Early Industrial Technologies to America
Memoir 177 (1987)
Cloth. 215 pp. Illus..
$10

 
Starna, William A.,
The Journals of Christian Daniel Claus and Conrad Weiser: A Journey to Onondaga, 1750
Transactions 84-2 (1994)
Cloth. 64 pp.
$10
Wilson, Alexander

 
Hunter, Clark,
The Life and Letters of Alexander Wilson
Memoir 154 (1983)
Cloth. 456pp.
$20
World War II

 
Liebersohn, Harry and Dorothee Schneider,
"My Life in Germany Before and after January 30, 1933": A Guide to a Manuscript Collection at Houghton Library
This collection of memoirs by refugees from Nazi Germany is a rich source of autobiographical information on the Nazi era. Housed at Houghton Library of Harvard University, it consists of 263 files containing the memoirs of approximately 230 people who lived in Germany or Austria during the 1930s. The stories of the memoirists encompass an almost bewildering range of human experience. The authors come from Danzig and Berlin, from central Germany and the Southwest, from Munich and from Vienna. They are Jews and Catholics and Protestants, and mixtures of these all-too-neat categories in their origins and marriages. They are peddlers and professors, machinists and lawyers, private housewives and public activists. They are conservatives and liberals and Communists. The strongest common bond was their exile.
Transactions 91-3 (2001)
Paper. 130 pp.
$20

 
Yoder, Hatton S., Jr.,
Planned Invasion of Japan, 1945: The Siberian Weather Advantage
Memoir 223 (1997)
Cloth. 161 pp.
$25
Zeng Baosun

 
Kennedy, Thomas L.,
Confucian Feminist. Memoirs of Zeng Baosun (1893-1978)
The autobiographical memoirs of Zeng Baosun, an extraordinary Chinese woman who was a pioneer in promoting education for girls and Christian values, are expertly translated and adapted by Thomas Kennedy. The commentary recounts Zeng Baosun's life and education, from her studies abroad, to her experiences through two world wars, to her exile in Taiwan. She emphasized the feminist commitment to leadership and improvement in the condition of women, but always within an established social and economic order.
Transactions 91-1 (2003)
Paper.
$24

 

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