Sentence examples for surviving books from inspiring English sources

Juan Manuel's seven surviving books treat such subjects as hunting, chivalry, heraldry, genealogy, education, and Christianity.

In spite of the Greek proficiency in decorative arts, few surviving books are illustrated.

This is not quite true: for example, most of the surviving books of hours (lavish private devotional manuscript books) date from the period after the introduction of printing.

The surviving books give a clear, comprehensive account of events by a writer of soldierly qualities, independent judgment, and wide reading.

The press was nothing remarkable, and the crude materials and nascent talents of its operators are reflected in the blurred type and typographical inconsistencies in its surviving books, of which the Bay Psalm Book is no exception.

Little is known about what happened to Chinese mathematics after Zhu Shijie, but surviving books from the following centuries attest to a progressive loss of the great achievements of the Song-Yuan period.

In his second surviving book, Siyuan yujian ("Precious Mirror of the Four Elements"), Zhu made use of four unknowns.

868 The world's oldest surviving book, a woodblock-printed version of The Diamond Sutra, is made in China.

But as surviving book publishers found with eBay and Amazon.com, you can still turn a profit selling a traditional product provided your marketing isn't retro, too.

The only surviving book of early lyric poetry, the Songs of Dzitbalche by Ah Bam, comes from this same period.

In many libraries that have survived, book stocks are depleted, opening hours reduced and, in some cases, swipe card access used to save on staff costs.