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THE ROYAL FORESTS OF ENGLAND. The Antiquary’s Books Series.

COX, J. Charles. · 1905

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London: Methuen and Co., 1905. First edition, 8vo., pp.372,(4)adverts, uncut, red cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece and 24 further b/w plates and 23 in-text illustrations; small ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, toning to free endpapers, foxing to prelims and ult...

NONSENSE DROLLERIES: The Owl & The Pussy-Cat - The Duck & The Kangaroo.

LEAR, Edward. Illustrated by: FOSTER, William. · 1889

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1889. First edition thus, 8vo., pp.31,(i)advert, red cloth spine with pictorial boards, b/w illustrations; toning to endpapers, ink ownership autograph to upper margin of front free endpaper, fingermarking and light surface soiling throughout...

THE STORY OF BLUE BEARD.

From PERRAULT. Illustrated by: SOUTHALL, E. · 1895

£245.00 (€293.67 | $323.68 | ¥51,687)

London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1895. First edition, 8vo., pp.62, uncut, pictorial green cloth stamped in navy, and lettered in navy to spine, both boards fully decorated, pictorial headpiece to half title, pictorial title lettered in red, full pictorial and decorative Arts and...

ANTIGONE; ROXANA; ADRASTUS PARENTANS SIVE VINDICTA. Renaissance Latin Drama in England, Second Series: 4.

WATSON, Thomas; ALABASTER, William; MEASE, Peter. Prepared with Introduction by: COLDEWEY, John C.; COPENHAVER, Brian F. · 1987

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Hildesheim/New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1987. 8vo., pp.19 (Introduction),3-53,(xiv),62,(43) facsimiles, paperback (blue wrappers lettered in silver); slight crease to front wrapper, a very good, clean copy.

ANTIGONE; ROXANA; ADRASTUS PARENTANS SIVE VINDICTA. Renaissance Latin Drama in England, Second Series: 4.

WATSON, Thomas; ALABASTER, William; MEASE, Peter. Prepared with Introduction by: COLDEWEY, John C.; COPENHAVER, Brian F. · 1987

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Hildesheim/New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1987. 8vo., pp.19 (Introduction),3-53,(xiv),62,(43) facsimiles, paperback (blue wrappers lettered in silver); title page to Roxana loose but present, else clean and very good indeed.

PHILOSOPHASTER (1606). Renaissance Latin Drama in England, First Series: 8.

BURTON, Robert. Prepared with an Introduction by: SPEVACK, Marvin. · 1984

£17.00 (€20.38 | $22.46 | ¥3,586)

Hildesheim/New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1984. 8vo., pp.19 (Introduction),unpaginated Ms. facsimile, paperback (blue wrappers lettered in silver); a very good, clean copy.

IPHIS (? acted 1621-1633); CEPHALUS ET PROCRIS (acted 1626-1628). Renaissance Latin Drama in England, First Series: 10.

BELLAMY, Henry; CROWTHER, Joseph. Prepared with an Introduction by: NUGEL, Bernfried. · 1982

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Hildesheim/New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1982. 8vo., pp.23 (Introduction),unpaginated Ms. facsimiles, paperback (blue wrappers lettered in silver); sunning to spine, a very good, clean copy.

BELLUM GRAMMATICALE SIVE NOMINUM VERBORUMQUE DISCORDIA CIVILIS (printed 1635); THIBALDUS SIVE VINDICTAE INGENIUM (printed 1640). Renaissance Latin Drama in England, First Series: 12.

HUTTON, Leonard (?); SNELLING, Thomas. Prepared with Introduction by: CERNY, Lothar. · 1982

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Hildesheim/New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1982. 8vo., pp.19 (Introduction),(xii),66,(xvi),80(facsimiles), paperback (blue wrappers lettered in silver); sunning to spine, small underlinings to one page, else clean, a very good copy.

CANCER; FRAUS HONESTA. Renaissance Latin Drama in England, Second Series: 2.

STUBBE, Edmund. Prepared with an Introduction by: BEST, Thomas W. · 1987

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Hildesheim/New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1987. 8vo., pp.23 (Introduction),249-378,(iv),133 (facsimiles), paperback (blue wrappers lettered in silver); a very good copy indeed.

MERCURIUS RUSTICANS (written 1605-1618); ANTONINUS BASSIANUS CARACALLA (acted 1617-1619). Renaissance Latin Drama in England, First Series: 7.

Prepared with an Introduction by: BINNS, J.W. [Editor’s copy]. · 1983

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

Hildesheim/New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1983. 8vo., pp.11 (Introduction),(57),(50) Ms. facsimiles, paperback (blue wrappers lettered in silver); editor’s autograph to half title, sunning to spine, internally fresh, a very good+ copy.

VERTUMNUS SIVE ANNUS RECURRENS (printed 1607); TRES SIBYLLAE (printed 1607). Renaissance Latin Drama in England, First Series: 5.

GWINNE, Matthew. Prepared, with an Introduction, by: CIZEK, Alexander. · 1983

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Hildesheim/New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1983. 8vo., pp.23 (Introduction), unpaginated facsimile, paperback (blue wrappers lettered in silver); sunning to spine, light marking to wrappers, internally fresh, a very good copy.

MEDICAL PRACTICE IN MEDIEVAL YORK. Borthwick Paper No.90.

STELL, Philip. [Author’s presentation copy]. · 1996

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

York: Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, University of York, 1996. 8vo., pp.(iii),35, paperback (stapled wrappers); author’s inscription to title, a fresh and near-fine copy.

THE AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF CAPTAIN CASTAGNETTE, Nephew of the ‘Man With the Wooden Head’.

From the French of Manuel. Illustrated by: DORE, Gustave. · 1866

£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)

London: S.O. Beeton, (1866). First edition, 4to., pp.68, recased with new endpapers, spine professionally repaired, publisher’s brown leather, front board lettered in gilt, all edges red, 43 b/w illustrations, including full-page plates, by Gustave Dore, parchment tape...

PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF A PILGRIMAGE TO EL MEDINAH AND MECCAH. [In Two Volumes].

BURTON, Richard. Illustrated by the author. · 1857

£1,550.00 (€1,857.92 | $2,047.77 | ¥327,002)

Longman: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857. Second edition, two volumes, 8vo., pp.xv,418;v,422, uncut, decorative blue cloth, lettered in gilt and decorated in black, chromolithographic frontispieces and 3 further colour plates with tissue guards, 8 dichroma...

ANSELM KIEFER: Maria Durch Ein Dornwald Ging.

DERMUTZ, Klaus. · 2008

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

Salzburg: Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, 2008. Exhibition catalogue, 4to., bilingual German and English edition, pp.129, grey hardcover, colour and b/w plates; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, a fine copy, in fine unclipped dust-jacket.

ALAN DAVIE DRAWINGS.

[DAVIE, Alan]. Edited by: ELLIOTT, Patrick; TUCKER, Michael. · 1997

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

Edinburgh/Brighton/London: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art/University of Brighton/The Paragon Press, 1997. Exhibition catalogue, 4to., pp.155, paperback, colour plates; ownership autograph to half title, a fresh and near-fine copy.

LUCIAN FREUD PORTRAITS.

HOWGATE, Sarah. With: AUPING, Michael; RICHARDSON, John. · 2012

£42.00 (€50.34 | $55.49 | ¥8,861)

London: National Portrait Gallery, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, 4to., pp.256, grey hardcover lettered in silver, colour-illustrated throughout; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, a fine, fresh copy, in fine unclipped dust-jacket.

ADVENTURES OF THE BLACK SQUARE. Abstract Art and Society 1915-2015.

Edited by: BLAZWICK, Iwona. With: MCKINLAY, Sophie; AF PETERSENS, Magnus; STOBBS, Candy. · 2015

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

Munich/London: Prestel/Whitechapel Gallery, 2015. Exhibition catalogue, 4to., pp.287, pictorial hardcover, colour and b/w plates; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, a fine copy.

THE GREEK COMMENTARIES ON THE NICOMACHEAN ETHICS OF ARISTOTLE In the Latin Translation of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln (d.1253), Volume III. The Anonymous Commentator on Book VII, Aspasius on Book VIII, and Michael of Ephesus on Books IX and X.

Edited and Introduced by: MERCKEN, H. Paul. · 1991

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1991. Large 8vo., pp.478, uncut and unopened, paperback (academic wrappers); slight marking to pale wrappers, a fresh and otherwise fine copy - unused.

BOSO’S LIFE OF ALEXANDER III.

Translated by: ELLIS, G.M. Introduction by: MUNZ, Peter. · 1973

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1973. 8vo., pp.122, beige hardcover, gilt; a very good, fresh copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to edges, with 2 small closed tears, else very good.