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THE HISTORY OF MERCHANT TAYLORS’ SCHOOL, FROM ITS FOUNDATION TO THE PRESENT TIME. In Two Parts: I. Of its Founders, Patrons, Benefactors, and Masters. II. Of its Principal Scholars.

WIILSON, Rev. H.B., Second Undermaster. · 1814

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London: Sold by F.C. and J. Rivington; J. Otridge; J. Hatchard; Lackington, Allen, and Co.; J. Asperne; and J. Cooke, Oxford, 1814. 4to., pp.xxx,1254,(i)Addenda et Corrigenda (pasted in), half reverse calf, with black morocco title band lettered in gilt, marbled boards, 6 b/...

KNOWLEDGE, AND THE SCHOLARLY MEDICAL TRADITIONS.

Edited by: BATES, Don. · 1995

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

Cambridge University Press, 1995. 8vo., pp.xiii,369, paperback; creasing to upper corner of front wrapper, light shelfwear, internally clean and fresh, a very good copy.

WESTERN MEDICAL THOUGHT FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE MIDDLE AGES.

Edited by: GRMEK, Mirko D. Coordinated by: FANTINI, Bernardino. Translated by: SHUGAAR, Antony. · 1998

£18.99 (€22.76 | $25.09 | ¥4,006)

Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 1998. 8vo., pp.vi,478, paperback; a fresh and near-fine copy.

TACITA DEAN: LANDSCAPE - PORTRAIT - STILL LIFE.

HARRIS, Alexandra; HOLLINGHURST, Alan; SMITH, Ali. · 2018

£17.00 (€20.38 | $22.46 | ¥3,586)

London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2018. Exhibition catalogue, 4to., pp.232, paperback, colour-illustrated throughout; light creasing to spine, a fresh and near-fine copy.

THE IMAGE OF ST FRANCIS. Responses to Sainthood in the Thirteenth Century.

BROOKE, Rosalind B. · 2009

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

Cambridge University Press, 2009. Reprint, small 4to., pp.xvi,524, maroon hardcover lettered in silver, colour frontispiece and 8 further colour plates,76 b/w plates; a fine, fresh copy, in fine unclipped dust-jacket.

TEACHING AND LEARNING IN NORTHERN EUROPE, 1000-1200.

Edited by: VAUGHN, Sally N.; RUBENSTEIN, Jay. · 2006

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Turnhout: Brepols, 2006. 8vo., pp.xx,360, pictorial hardcover, 30 b/w illustrations; a fresh and near-fine copy (slight bruise to front board, otherwise fine).

ROBERT THORNTON AND HIS BOOKS. Essays on the Lincoln and London Thornton Manuscripts.

Edited by: FEIN, Susanna; JOHNSTON, Michael. · 2014

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

York/Woodbridge: York Medieval Press, in association with The Boydell Press, 2014. 8vo., pp.xii,310, pictorial hardcover, 27 b/w figures; a fine, fresh copy.

CORRESPONDENCE OF LIEUT.-GENERAL THE HON. SIR GEORGE CATHCART, K.C.B., RELATIVE TO THE MILITARY OPERATIONS IN KAFFRARIA, Until the Termination of the Kafir War, and to his Measures for the Future Maintenance of Peace on that Frontier, and the Protection and Welfare of the People of South Africa.

CATHCART, Sir George. · 1857

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London: John Murray, 1857. Second edition, 8vo., pp.xiii,401, uncut, textured brown cloth, gilt, 2 folding colour maps, further b/w maps; a few leaves roughly cut, with closed tear to p.143/4, occasional fingermarking/surface soil, marking to cloth, rubbing to extremities, w...

THE HISTORY OF THE BALTIC CAMPAIGN OF 1854. From Documents and Other Materials Furnished by Vice-Admiral Sir C. Napier, K.C.B.

[NAPIER, C.] Edited by: EARP, G. Butler. · 1857

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

London: Richard Bentley, Publisher in ordinary to Her Majesty, 1857. 8vo., pp.xlvi,622,(i) uncut,, textured pictorial navy cloth, gilt; small ownership inscription to upper margin of front free endpaper, slight foxing to prelims, foxing to edges, light mustiness, a very good...

NEW DIRECTIONS IN LATER MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT STUDIES. Essays from the 1998 Harvard Conference.

Edited by: PEARSALL, Derek. · 2000

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

York/Woodbridge: York Medieval Press, in association with The Boydell Press, 2000. 8vo., pp.xv,213, red hardcover lettered in silver, with printed paper label to front board, b/w plates; a fresh and near-fine copy.

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JAMES KENNEDY, BISHOP OF ST. ANDREWS.

DUNLOP, Annie I. · 1950

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London/Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, for the University Court of the University of St Andrews, 1950. 8vo., pp.xiv,494,(iv)adverts, uncut, red cloth, gilt, with heraldic emblem to front board, b/w frontispiece, 15 further b/w plates; ownership inscription to front free endpaper...

ENGLISH BISHOPS’ CHANCERIES, 1100-1250.

CHENEY, C.R. · 1950

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

Manchester University Press, 1950. 8vo., pp.xii,176, blue cloth, gilt, 7 b/w folding plates to rear of volume; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, partial sunning and light marking to cloth, an internally clean and good+ copy. No dust-jacket.

HANDLING SIN: Confession in the Middle Ages. York Studies in Medieval Theology II.

Edited by: BILLER, Peter; MINNIS, A.J. [Editor’s copy]. · 1998

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Woodbridge: York Medieval Press, in association with The Boydell Press, 1998. 8vo., pp.x,219, navy hardcover, gilt, with printed paper title label to front board; from the library of Peter Biller, with ownership autograph to front free endpaper, just slight marking to boards...

THE BRITISH DISCOVERY OF BUDDHISM.

ALMOND, Philip C. · 1988

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Cambridge University Press, 1988. 8vo., pp.ix,186, black hardcover, gilt; small handwritten correction to p.7, otherwise a fine, fresh copy, in very good(+) unclipped dust-jacket.

BEING, IDENTITY, AND TRUTH.

WILLIAMS, C.J.F. · 1992

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. 8vo., pp.xxii,218, navy hardcover, gilt; a fine copy, in very good+ unclipped dust-jacket.

THE HOURS OF SIMON DE VARIE.

MARROW, James H. With a contribution by: AVRIL, Francois. · 1994

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London: Thames and Hudson, 1994. Small 8vo., pp.xi,255, claret cloth, gilt, colour facsimile pp.147-217, further b/w plates and one further colour plate; a fine copy, in fine matching claret cloth slipcase with inlaid colour plate.

PEERLESS IMAGES. Persian Painting and Its Sources.

SIMS, Eleanor. With: MARSHAK, Boris I.; GRUBE, Ernst J. · 2002

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2002. 4to., pp.xiii,349, black hardcover, gilt, colour-illustrated throughout; bumping to lower edge of rear board, otherwise fresh and fine, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, again with bumping to rear lower edge.

THE HUMAN EMBRYO. Aristotle and the Arabic and European Traditions.

Edited by: DUNSTAN, G.R. · 1990

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

University of Exeter Press, 1990. 8vo., pp.xi,235, blue hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece, 5 further b/w plates; a fine copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.

EQUALITY, LIBERTY, AND PERFECTIONISM. Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy.

HAKSAR, Vinit. · 1979

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Oxford University Press, 1979. 8vo., pp.viii,302, blue hardcover, gilt; from the library of Gordon Leff, with ownership inscription to front paste-down endpaper, slight spotting to top edges, a fresh and near-fine copy, in vg price-clipped dust-jacket.

THE MAN WITHOUT QUALITIES. A Novel. [Set of Three Volumes]. Volume I. A Sort of Introduction; The Like of It Now Happens (I). Volume II. The Like of It Now Happens (II). Volume III. Into the Millennium (The Criminals).

MUSIL, Robert. Translated from the German by: WILKINS, Eithne; KAISER, Ernst. · 1953

£695.00 (€833.07 | $918.19 | ¥146,623)

London: Secker and Warburg, 1953;1954;1960. First edition in English, three volumes, 8vo., pp.xxxv,365;vii,454;xii,445, green cloth with stamped brown title-bands, gilt; from the library of Gordon Leff, with small ownership inscription to front free endpaper of all volumes, ...