Mansus–Contexts, Texts, Intertexts, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol . 112, Part 4)
Estelle Haan
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 9781606181300
Pub Date: January 2023
Format: Paperback
274 Pages
John Milton’s 100-line hexameter poem Mansus is, on first impression, merely a poem of praise for Giovanni Battista Manso, the old Neapolitan nobleman and patron of poets whom Milton met on his Italian...
Aspects of Religion, History, Art, and Archaeology in Hellenistic and Roman Nysa-Scythopolis, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 112, Part 2)
Edited by Irene Bald Romano and Kyle W. Mahoney
With Dimitris Tambakopoulo and Yannis Maniatis
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781606181249
Pub Date: January 2023
Format: Paperback
276 Pages
Scythopolis, or Nysa-Scythopolis, as Beth Shean was called during the Hellenistic and Roman periods, is located on the western bank of the Jordan River. Ancient historians Pliny and Solinus record that...
Rudolf Strothmann and His Correspondence with Carl Heinrich Becker, Ignaz Goldziher, Eugeneo Griffini, and Cornelis van Arendonk, 1910 through 1926, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 112, Part 1)
Sabine Schmidtke
Price: $90.00
ISBN: 9781606181218
Pub Date: January 2023
Format: Paperback
480 Pages
Rudolf Strothmann (1877–1960) played a pioneering role in the scholarly exploration of Shīʿī Islam in Western, especially German, scholarship. Between 1910 and 1923, he published many pathbreaking...
The Use and Misuse of Data, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 112, Part 3)
Edited by Robert M. Hauser and Adrianna Link
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 9781606181232
Pub Date: January 2023
Format: Paperback
254 Pages
Based on a symposium hosted by the American Philosophical Society, Evidence: The Use and Misuse of Data brings together essays from scholars representing a host of disciplines from statistics through...
Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol.111, Part 5)
Lola Ferre
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 9781606181157
Pub Date: January 2023
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
Isaac Israeli (ca. 855–932 CE, Kairouan) was part of the first generation of authors who began to build a legacy of medical and philosophical knowledge based on Arabic translations of Greek writings...
An Analysis of the Unpublished Manuscript, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 111, Part 3)
Norman Fiering
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 9781606181119
Pub Date: January 2022
Format: Paperback
96 Pages
James Logan (1674-1751) of Philadelphia was a luminary with few equals in British America in the first half of the 18th century. He amassed the largest scholar’s library in the colonies, wrote and...
The Creation and Circulation of Knowledge from Franklin to Facebook, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol.111, Part 4)
Edited by American Philosophical Society
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781606181140
Pub Date: January 2022
Format: Paperback
122 Pages
Inspired by the American Philosophical Society’s digitization of Benjamin Franklin’s postal records and by its involvement in “The Cybernetics Thought Collective: A History of Science and Technology...
Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 111, Part 2)
Vivian Endicott Barnett
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781606181126
Pub Date: January 2022
Format: Paperback
185 Pages
Arthur Jerome Eddy, the Chicago lawyer, author, and art collector, was a legend in his lifetime (1859-1920). He was the first person to buy radically modern paintings by Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia...
A History of Collections Care at the American Philosophical Society Library, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 111, Part 1)
Renee Wolcott
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 9781606181133
Pub Date: January 2022
Format: Paperback
108 Pages
This book traces the history of collections care at the American Philosophical Society (APS) as revealed through its minute books, treasurers’ receipts, and librarians’ correspondence. It also examines...
Retracing the Events That Led to the Conflagration of the Capitol and the Loss of the Pictures on 24-25 August 1814, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 110, Part 5)
T. Lawrence Larkin
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781606181058
Pub Date: January 2021
Format: Paperback
140 Pages
A great unsolved mystery in American political culture is what became of the U.S. Congress’s state portraits of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette during the British invasion of the Capitol, Wash., D.C.,...
