Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Antiquariaat FORUM BV

Large collection of photographs and negatives of surgeries at several hospitals during the Second World War, taken by the medical student Andrew Quilliam (d. 2008), who would become lecturer in anatomy and embryology at University College London. Among the photographs are several showing three prominent female obstetricians and gynaecologists performing surgical operations: Josephine Barnes (1912-1999), Dr. Gertrude Dearnley (1884-1982), who founded the Fertility Clinic at the Royal Free Hospital in London (the first in London), and Gladys Dodds (1898-1982), who wrote the book Gynaecology for nurses (1946) and later worked in Hong Kong for the Family Planning Association. In one album all the photographs are captioned, mentioning the wide variety of operations that take place, often also mentioning the performing doctor. The negatives are inserted in two small albums, which open with a few pages mentioning briefly the content of the majority of the negatives.One album with most of its photographs… Read More

[4], "269" [= 367], [1] ll.The first and only Giunta edition (one of the first in small format), in the original Latin, of the standard classical textbook on oratory and rhetoric by Quintilian (ca. 35-ca. 95/100 AD), in many respects the greatest orator between Cicero and Quintilian's own student Pliny the younger. It is refreshing today for its emphasis on the importance of the speaker's integrity, arguing that to speak well for a good cause requires character and morality. The Cicero-Quintilian-Pliny school was critical of orators they saw as promoting causes using clever tricks or florid language, or by appealing to the listener's worst qualities. Quintilian's Institutiones oratoriae, his only surviving work, also serves as one of our most important sources of information about education and culture in Roman antiquity. It not only teaches the theory and practice of rhetoric in speaking and writing, but also discusses the education and life-long development that an orator needs. Quintilian also… Read More

[4], 230 ll.Second Aldine edition, describing itself as revised, but almost a page-for-page reprint of Aldus's 1515 edition, of the complete text of Quintilian's De oratoria, on the teaching of speaking and writing. Quintilian (Spain ca. 35 - 95 AD) gave up teaching and presenting pleas in 88 AD and spent his retirement writing his Institutiones Oratoriae, his only extant work. It covers not only the theory and practice of rhetoric, but also the foundational education and development of the orator himself. For Quintilian, the ideal orator or rhetorician was skilled in speaking and also a moral man. The Institutiones can therefore be described as a treatise on education, a manual of rhetoric, a reader's guide to the best authors and a handbook of the moral duties of the orator.After a brief revival in 12th century France, Humanists at the end of the 14th century renewed interest in Quintilian, especially after 1416, when Poggio found a complete manuscript in the monastery at St. Gall. The present book… Read More

[16], 228, [3], [1 blank] pp.First edition of the Italian translation of a work on the cultivation of fruit trees by the French gardener and agronomist Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie (1626-1688), known for creating the Potager du roi, a fruit and vegetable garden for King Louis XIV, located near Versailles. The text describes in great length how and when to prune fruit trees of different size and age, indicating when and where to cut the branches, how to recognize healthy branches and how to influence or alter the tree's growth and shape. Most of the engraved plates show several figures of trees with different branches, two plates depict knives.With the owner's inscription of Domenico Mavini on title-page. Some marginal water stains and a few spots. Binding slightly damaged around the edge of front board. Overall in good condition.l Bradley III, p. 171.

[8], 16, XVII-XLVIII, [12], 592; [8], 588, [28] pp.The last authorized edition of the most famous manual on gardening and the cultivation of vegetables and fruits, first printed (posthumously) in 1690 and here finally for the Compagnie des Libraires Associés. Apart from many pirated editions, printed in Amsterdam (1692, 1697), Geneva (1695, etc.) and Paris (1715, 1716), authorized editions, following the imposing large 4to format, integral text and illustrations of the 1690 edition, were published in Paris in 1697, 1700, 1725, 1730, 1739, 1740 and the present 1756. This immensely popular and influential manual - translated into English by John Evelin (The compleat Gard’ner, 1693) and Italian, with adaptations in German and Portuguese - was a great European success and remained the symbol of the French classical arboriculture and horticulture throughout the 18th century. It contains detailed instructions for planting, pruning and espaliering fruit trees and cultivating vegetables, and was probably… Read More

[5], [1 blank], 45, [2], [1 blank], 46, [2], 81, [3], 94, [10], 126, [3] [1 blank] [13], [1 blank]; [8], 17, [3], “838” [= 836], [11], [1 blank] pp.The first scholarly printed Quran, prepared by the anti-Islamic Catholic Ludovico Marracci, with a much more accurate Arabic text than any previously printed and the first accurate Latin translation, also including extensive notes based on the Islamic commentaries, as well as the editor's extensive "refutations" of each sutra. Each sura is given first in Arabic, then in Latin translation, followed by notes and then the refutation. The entire first volume of about 430 pages is taken up with preliminary matter, including a 24-page life of Muhammad (one of the first detailed biographies ever printed and again more accurate than its predecessors), an 8-page profession of faith with the Arabic and Latin in parallel columns, and additional commentaries and introductory matter. The fact that this edition was produced explicitly as an attempt to refute the views… Read More

Fourth edition of the First translation of the Koran into English.a landmark not only in efforts to bring an accurate version of the Quran to the English-speaking world, but also in Western Quranic studies in general. Holt notes his "enlightened and objective attitude" in sharp contrast with most Western Arabists of his day or earlier: "His freedom from religious prejudice …, his obvious conviction that Arabic writers were the best source of Arab history, and Muslim commentators the fittest to expound the Quran, marks an enormous advance …". In addition to Arabic sources, Sale consulted the best Latin translation of the Quran, by Ludovico Marracci, published in 1698.Rebacked, some tears in the folding map repaired.l ESTC T146975; Fück, Die Arabischen studien, p. 104; P.M. Holt, Studies in the history of the Near East (1973), pp. 57-60; McKenzie & Ross, eds., A ledger of Charles Ackers, p. 41; Schnurrer, p. 429.

[1], 26, [1 blank] pp.An unrecorded and thus extremely rare trilingual publication of the 36th surah, known as the Ya Sin (sometimes called "the heart of the Qur'an", though the meaning of the name, two characters in the Chinese alphabet, remains uncertain). The 83 verses of text are presented in a naskh Arabic script with a transliteration in the Latin alphabet for phonetic reading, together with the English and Mandarin Chinese translations. It was compiled by a Hong Kong imam and printed and published "with the compliments of the Mission of Hong Kong Muslims" in 1385 AH (= 1965 CE) by the Hong Kong Muslim Press for the local Muslim community. The presence of both a Chinese and an English translation is due to Hong Kong still being a colony and dependent territory of the British Empire (1841-1997) at the time of publication. This pamphlet, containing the so-called "heart (or core) of the Qur'an", was most likely intended for distribution among and consumption by the region's small Muslim… Read More