Valencia: Published by the author (En la Imprenta particular del Autor para sus Obras), 1769. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. [16], XX, [6], 522pp, XXVIIIpp. Original full vellum, with handwritten title in ink to spine. Engraved title vignette, and engraved frontispiece portrait of king Carlos III of Spain. Decorative head-, tailpieces..... More
Lisboa: Biblioteca Nacional de Lisboa, 1930-1978. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 577 pp. Original printed wrappers. Archive and study of 454 codices of Alcobaca. Documents of the medieval period dating back to the 12th century. Study on Old Portuguese language's formation and evolution and a look at it's characters and traits..... More
Paris: Furne et Cie. 1840. Nouvelle Edition (New Edition). Hardcover. Quarto. XXXI, [1], 423, [1], 541, [1], 512, 504, 498, 509, [1], 507, [1], 520, 519, [1], 431, [1]pp. Original half cloth over marbled paper covered boards with gold lettering and ruling on spines. Raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Ribbon marker..... More
[London?]: NP, 1647. Ex-library, first edition. Hardcover. Small square octavo. 33pp. 19th century, 3/4 brown calf over brown cloth binding. Gilt lettering, tooling and gilt-stamped motifs on the spine. The edges of the book block and the endpapers are marbled. The book which was the author's first published work, is..... More
Londini (London): Typis Jacobi Flesher, sumptibus Cornelii Bee, 1652. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (13 3/4 x 9 1/4"). [2] leaves (Half-title and title page), [8]pp (Introduction by Roger Twysden), XLVIII, [8]pp, 1284 columns (642pp). Modern tan linen, with original gilt-lettered leather label to spine. Title page in red and black..... More
Amsterdam: Isaak Tirion, 1760. First edition. Hardcover. Large Quarto. 4 leaves, xvi, foldout map, xvii-xviii, 40, xx, foldout map, 41-78pp. Three quarter pebbled cloth over decorative boards. Title page printed in red and black illustrated with Amsterdam coat of arms. History of Amsterdam by city recorder and historian Jan Wagenaar..... More
London: John Murray, 1818. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (10 3/4 x 8 3/4"). XVI, 530, [2]pp (Vol. 1); VII, [1], 654, [2]pp (Vol. 2). Original 3/4 calf over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering and tooling to spines. Published in 1818, "View of the State of Europe During..... More
Cambridge: W. Heifer & Sons, 1958. First edition Ex Library. Hardcover. Quarto. vii, 187, (1) 32pp. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. "In the present volume the author follows the events in eastern Transcaucasia in the 10-11th centuries, when the direct grip of the caliphate had weakened and..... More
Berlin: Officina Serpentis, 1926. First edition. Softcover. 1/300 unnumbered. Quarto. 16pp. unpaginated. Original sewn marbled wraps with black lettering on paper label of cover. Soncino Press. With an epilog by Hermann Meyer. Report on the conspiracy of Giovanni Luigi Fieschi against Andrea Doria in Genoa in 1547, an unsuccessful effort..... More
Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1890. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. iv, 779 (1)pp., 4 chromolithographs, incl. frontispiece, 3 maps, one of them in color and double-paged. Original three-quarter calf over marbled boards, with gilt ruling on covers, lettering, ruling and tooling on spine; raised bands, protected by modern mylar..... More
New Rochelle, New York: Caratzas Brothers, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. x, 206pp. Red cloth with yellow lettering and decoration. Tail of spine slightly bumped. Name and address of previous owner in ink to inside of front board. "....a verbal and graphic gallery of the Byzantine emperors. The book is..... More
London: John Murray, 1829. Fifth edition. Hardcover. Octavos. Vol.1: (xix) 549pp. Vol.2: (viii) 483pp. Vol.3: (vii) 634pp. 3/4 tan calf over marbled paper boards. Spine with gilt lettering over red and green labels, as well as gilt ruling, tooling and raised bands. All edges and endpapers marbled. The work is..... More
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 1/2"). xxiv, 1378pp. Original green cloth, with gold lettering to spine and front cover. Since WWII, scholars in south-east Europe have shown an increasing interest in the 'Turkish period' of their countries' history, an interest reflected in the..... More
NP, n/d. Softcover. Quarto. 29pp. Original printed wraps. Photographic frontispiece. Eben Norton Horsford (1818-1893) was an American scientist who is known for his interest in Viking settlements in America, and the monuments he built to Leif Erikson. He was determined to prove that North America had been discovered not by..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1849. Tenth edition. Hardcover. Quarto. CXXIV, [2], 411, [1], XVIII, 509, [1], XVI, 531, [1]pp. Modern blue cloth with gold lettering on spines. Engraved frontispiece in each volume. William Prescott's masterpiece has become a classic work in the field, and has had a great..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967. First edition. Two octavo volumes with continuous pagination. Vol. 1: xviii, 305pp. Vol. 2:, which consists of three appendixes, bibliography, list of abbreviations, notes and index: v, 307-561pp. Lovely gold stamped maroon with decorative medieval crest on front cover and gold lettering on spines..... More
London: John Murray, 1848. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2"). XV, [1], 418pp. Contemporary gilt-stamped full calf, with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Endpapers and paper edges marbled Exactly thirty years after the publication of Henry Hallam's "View of the State of Europe during the Middle..... More
New York: Fordham University Press, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XV, [1], 198pp. Uncut. Original half red cloth over green paper covered boards, with gold lettering and printer's device on spine. Pictorial endpapers. Frontispiece portrait of Cardinal Ximénez de Cisneros. Fascinating inquiry into Spanish institutions in the Middle Ages, profusely..... More
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 450pp. Illustrated glossy paper-covered boards. Volume 4 of the series "Terrarum Orbis," Histoire des reprèsentations de l'escape: textes, images (History of the Representation of Space in Text and Images). Interesting analysis of 198 Western European and Byzantine maps that date between the..... More
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. x, 394pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on spine in original dustjacket. Head and tail of spine and bottom corners slightly bumped. Minor discoloration, creasing and staining on dj. Little staining to fore-page edge. "This volume is an examination of..... More
New York: George Braziller, (1970). First edition. Hardcover. 4to. xii,380pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering on spine in original dj. Minor creasing, chipping and staining to dj. Frontispiece. Interesting work on Carolingian Renaissance architecture and its decoration, manuscript painting and sculpture and applied art. Illustrated with color and b/w photographs..... More
Wien: Wilhelm Braunmüller, 1873. Softcover. 8vo. xii,66pp. Original wrappers. Staining, discoloration, tearing and creasing to wrappers. Most of backstrip missing. Wrappers almost detached from binding. Closed tears along spine on front wrapper. Small bookplate of previous owner to inside of front wrapper. German translation of Biondo's "Della nobilissima pittura." Vol..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1957. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. XI, [1], 282pp. Original printed wrappers over black cloth with gold lettering and printer's device on spine. Printer's device on title page. Fascinating intellectual history of the Middle Ages through the leading thinkers of the 14th century. Spine and edges of..... More
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. XIV, 201, [1]pp. Original printed wrappers over purple cloth with silver lettering on spine. In his Birkbeck Lectures, Professor Ullmann throws new light on a familiar subject. He shows that the Carolingian renaissance had a wider and deeper meaning that..... More
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1949. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. XIV, 230pp. Original printed wrappers over red cloth with gold lettering on spine. Printer's device on title page. This book, which contains the Maitland Memorial Lectures of 1948, approaches the problem of State and Church in the Middle Ages from..... More