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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"First editions"”.
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Birth of the First: Authenticity and the Collecting of Modern First Editions, 1890-1930
… contemporary critics dubbed a “mania” for modern first editions as book collectors trained their sights on authors who were contemporaries and, in some cases, still living. Prices for modern authors reached unmatched heights in the collectors’ market, and both bibliophilic publications and general …
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The mathematical works of Bernard Bolzano published between 1804 and 1817
… there have been two principal considerations. Firstly, any judgement of the significance of Bolzano's work should be made in the light of the historical context, so considerable space is devoted to the relevant 18th century sources. Secondly, as a general framework to the thesis there is the …
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LE RIME DI VITTORIO ALFIERI
… further discoveries of unknown poems after its first publication in 1933 and prepared by collating together only a few of the surviving manuscripts and the editiones principes. The chronological method of analysis, allowed by the constant presence in the autographs of date and time of …
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The Art of Fingerprint Spoofing
… characteristics of each user: biometrics. The first identification using fingerprints, in fact, dates back to the last years of the 1800s and was used by the police station for the criminal identification. From that moment on, the various biometric authentication systems based on fingerprints …
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The historical editing of Mozart’s keyboard sonatas: History, Context and Practice
… between his autograph manuscripts and the first editions of the sonatas in the eighteenth-century Case Study. The nineteenth-century context within which Mozart’s works were reproduced is analyzed in Chapter Four, through a discussion of the rise of musical literacy and of the evolution of …
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Das Freispiel : onderzoek naar de viooltechniek in de negentiende, toegepast op het Duitse repertoire
… early 20th-century recordings, and annotated editions of scores are tested against performance practice. These scores, as annotated by violinists, are valuable historical resources that contain a wealth of information regarding performance practice of the period. Also investigated is the …