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‎True and Pure Sculpture. Frank Dobson 1886-1963‎

‎True and Pure Sculpture. Frank Dobson 1886-1963. Exhibition: Birmingham, City Museum and Art Gallery; Cambridge, Kettle's Yard; Hull, Ferens Art Gallery and Preston, Harris Museum, 1981. Paperback. 30 x 21cms.‎

‎Sur un problème d'economie pure. - [FOUNDING PAPER ON ECONOMETRICS.]‎

‎Oslo, Grøndahl & Søns, 1926. 8vo. In the original modest boards with cloth to spine. Red library stamp to front board and top of first page. Otherwise fine and clean. 40 pp.‎

‎First printing of Frisch's scarce landmark paper which not only coined the term ""econometrics"" but also introduced it as an entirely new economic discipline thereby holding a seminal position in 20th century economics. The paper was a powerful demonstration of the meaning of econometrics: mathematical precision in the formulation of theoretical concepts and relationships so as to make them quantifiable, and erudition and ingenuity in the application of statistical methods to available data. The paper drew up further perspectives for the development of the newly coined discipline. Frisch was in 1969 awarded the Nobel Prize in economics ""for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes"". ""The Sur un problème essay made a forceful impression on the small number of mathematically inclined economists who - like Irving Fisher - happened to be introduced to it. It was not translated and published in English until 1972 at the very end of Frisch's life. The paper would deserve a place in the history of economics, even for no other reason than the opening sentences, which coined the first of Frisch's many - and by far the most important - contributions to the international terminology of the discipline"" (Regnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research): 'Intermédiaire entre les mathématiques, la statistique et l'économie politique, nous trouvons une discipline nouvelle que l'on peut, faute de mieux, désigner sous le nom de l'économétrie. L'économétrie se pose le but de soumettre les lois abstraites de l'economie politique théorique ou l'économie 'pure' à une vérification expérimentale et numeriques, et ainsi de constituer, autant que cela est possible, l'economie pure en une science dans le sens restreint de ce mot' (i.e.'Intermediate between mathematics, statistics, and economics, we find a new discipline which for lack of a better name, may be called econometrics. Econometrics has as its aim to subject abstract laws of theoretical political economy or 'pure' economics to experimental and numerical verification, and thus to turn pure economics, as far as possible, into a science in the strict sense of the word'.).Frisch's paper on economics had been prepared largely during his stay in Paris in the preceding years. Since 1923 Frisch had published some papers in theoretical statistics, but he was on a course to become - for lack of a better term - a mathematical economist, firmly determined to give his scientific contribution within economics. He had prepared himself for the task by far-reaching studies in mathematics and statistics in addition to his readings of economic literature. The two professors of economics in Norway at this time belonged to the Faculty of Law, and there was no research institution or separate university department in economics. Hence, colleagues with related scientific interests had by and large to be found abroad, and Frisch had established connections, mostly within Europe, by travels and correspondence.Frisch was one of the founders of economics in general as a modern science. He coined a number of new words including econometrics and macroeconomics. He helped set up Neo-Walrasian research. He formalized production theory. In econometrics he worked on time series and linear regression analysis. With Frederick Waugh, he introduced the celebrated Frisch-Waugh theorem (Econometrica1933) (sometimes referred to as the Frisch-Waugh-Lovell theorem). His 1933 work on impulse-propagation business cycles became one of the principles of modern New Classical business cycle theory. He also helped introduce econometric modeling to government economic planning and accounting. He was one of the founders of the Econometric Society and editor of Econometrica for over twenty years. The Frisch Medal, so named in his honor, is given every two years for the best paper published in the Econometrica in the previous five years. (The New Palgrave).‎

‎Freund Nick. Pure Lust. In English (ask us if in doubt)/Freund Nick. Pure Lust.‎

‎Freund Nick. Pure Lust. In English (ask us if in doubt)/Freund Nick. Pure Lust. Switzerland Edition Skylight 2013 126 p. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalbd6d5029ef231880b‎

‎Anthologia magna, Sive Florilegium novum & absolutum, variorum maximeque rariorum Germinum, Florum ac Plantarum, quas pulchritudo… Edition originale complète conservée dans sa pure reliure en vélin ivoire de l’époque à recouvrement.‎

‎Les exemplaires complets, tel celui-ci, des œuvres florales de Jean-Theodrore de Bry conservés dans leur pure reliure de l’époque sont très rares. Francofurti, in off. Brÿana, 1626. In-folio de (6) ff., titre finement gravé (avec une fontaine au centre, des pots de lys et de cyclamens et des guirlandes de fruits ornent la structure), illustré de 142 planches gravées (dont 5 dépliantes), numérotées de 1 à 23 et de 1 à 116. Les numéros 37 et 50 ont été utilisés deux fois, la dernière planche n'a pas de numéro. De nombreuses plantes non-européennes apparaissent dans le Florilegium novum... D'autres planches montrent des exemples de "monstruosités" qui étaient cultivées dans les jardins baroques. Reliure en vélin de l'époque, taches sur le plat inférieur, titre à l'encre sur le dos. 313 x 195 mm.‎

‎Edition originale. Pritzel 1299 ; Nissen BBI, 273 ; De Belder 92. Cet ouvrage est largement basé sur le Florilegium novum de l'auteur, 1612, qui comporte 87 planches qui réapparaissent ici. Exemplaire complet de l'un des plus célèbres et influents des premiers florilèges, publié pour la première fois en 1612 avec seulement 87 planches. « L'art inégalé pour lequel de Bry était renommé dans toute l'Europe apparaît clairement dans les planches de ce florilège. Chacune d'entre elles a été composée avec soin, et le trait assuré de la gravure, avec ses fines nuances, dénote la main d'un véritable maître. » « De nombreuses figures sur les planches sont des copies (à l'envers) du Jardin du Roy de Pierre Vallet, 1608, avec la suppression de certains des insectes montrés dans le Vallet, et avec l'ajout de bulbes pour certaines des plantes. Nissen... mentionne l'Hortus Eystettensis de Besler, 1613, et l'Hortus Floridus de Van de Pas, 1614, comme autres sources de l'œuvre ultérieure de De Bry » (Hunt). Jean-Théodore de Bry, né à Liège en 1561, mort à Francfort en 1623 fut un graveur habile, lequel, suivant Heinecken, surpassa son frère et même son père. Il a dessiné et gravé des fleurs pour le Florilegium novum, Francfort, 1612-18, 3 vol. in-folio. ; réimprimé en 1641, à Francfort, chez Merian, sous le titre de Florilegii renovati et aucti ; et pour l’Anthologia magna, 1626, ou 1692, in-folio : ces figures ont été utiles aux brodeurs et aux fabricants de papiers peints ainsi qu’aux botanistes. Les exemplaires complets, tel celui-ci, des œuvres florales de Jean-Theodore de Bry conservés dans leur pure reliure de l’époque sont très rares. L’exemplaire de Belder du Florilegium Renovatum de 1641 en coloris ancien « engraved title, B1-3 and the double-page garden plate skilfully remargined, a little worming in lower margins of last few plates ; recently expertly rebacked preserving original spine (extremitites very lightly rubbed) » fut adjugé GBP 181 250 le 23 octobre 2010. Superbe exemplaire complet de l’édition originale de 1626 conservé dans sa pure reliure de l’époque en vélin ivoire à recouvrement.‎

‎Critik der reinen Vernunft. - [PMM 226 - PURE REASON - CHANGING THE FACE OF PHILOSOPHY]‎

‎Riga, Hartknoch, 1781. 8vo. Comtemporary - possibly the original! - beige cardboard-binding with contemporary handwritten paper title-label to spine. Spine relaid, preserving the paper-label, with front hinge neatly reastored, perfectly matching the original paper. Smaller, hardly noticeable, restorations to back hinge and upper capital. All edges coloured in red. Front free end-paper with restorations to upper outer corner. Library-stamp (Stadt-Bibliothek Homburg) to recto and verso of title-page as well as blank part of f. a2r, all with deaccession-stamps over. Internally exceptionally nice, clean, and fresh, with hardly any spotting of any kind. Overall an excellent copy. (24), 856 pp.‎

‎Rare first edition of Kant's monumental main work, arguably the most important work in the history of philosophy since Aristotle.The ""Critique of Pure Reason"" took Kant about a decade to write, and the work is of the utmost scarcity. It is due to this work that Kant became world famous as one of the three or four greatest philosophers of all times, and the work fundamentally changed the face of philosophy. With this work philosophy is finally provided with a new and comprehensive way of dealing systematically with the problems of philosophy. ""In 1770 Kant became professor of logic and metaphysics, and at this point there is a sudden falling off in number of his publications. The cause of this became clear eleven years later when ""The Critique of Pure Reason"" appeared"" and with it Kant became famous. Kant's great achievement was to conclude finally the lines on which philosophical speculation had proceeded in the eighteenth century, and to open up a new and more comprehensive system of dealing with the problems of philosophy... The influence of Kant is paramount to the critical method of modern philosophy. No other thinker has been able to hold with such firmness the balance between speculative and empirical ideas. His penetrating analysis of the elements involved in synthesis, and the subjective process by which these elements are realized in the individual consciousness, demonstrated the operation of ""pure reason"", and the simplicity and cogency of his arguments achieved immediate fame."" (PMM 226). Hook & Norman 1197.PMM 226.Warda 59.‎