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AGING AND THE AGED IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE. Selected Papers from the Annual Conference of the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, held 25-26 February and 11-12 November 1983. Papers in Mediaeval Studies 11.

Edited by: SHEEHAN, Michael M. · 1990

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1990. Tall 8vo., pp.xii,228, paperback; slight tone to edges, light shelfwear to wrappers, internally clean and otherwise very good.

THE CAMBRIDGE PLATONISTS.

Edited by: PATRIDES, C.A. · 1969

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

London: Edward Arnold, 1969. 8vo., pp.xxxii,343, grey cloth with pink title band to spine, gilt, b/w frontispiece; from the library of Gordon Leff, with author’s presentation inscription to front free endpaper, a very good, clean copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which i...

EXTRACTS FROM THE ACCOUNT ROLLS OF THE ABBEY OF DURHAM, FROM THE ORIGINAL MSS. [Set of Three Volumes] Publications of The Surtees Society, Volumes XCIX (for the year 1898), C (1898), and CIII (1900).

1898

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Durham/London/Edinburgh: Published for The Surtees Society byAndrews & Co./Whittaker & Co./Bernard Quaritch/Blackwood & Sons, 1898;1899;1901. Three volumes, 8vo., pp.ix,284;ix,285-576,19,(ii);ix,577-989,lxvii,19,(ii), uncut, green cloth, gilt; occasional pencil m...

RED FOX. The Story of His Adventurous Career in the Ringwaak Wilds and of His Final Triumph over the Enemies of His Kind.

ROBERTS, Charles G.D. Illustrated by: BULL, Charles Livingston. · 1945

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London: Duckworth and Company, 1945. First UK edition, 8vo., pp.xv,340, uncut, pictorial green cloth, pictorial spine, gilt, t.e.g., colour frontispiece with caption-sheet, pictorial half title and title, 48 b/w plates, 11 further vignettes, pictorial endpapers; light foxing...

SHEBA’S DAUGHTERS. Whitening and Demonizing the Saracen Women in Medieval French Epic.

DE WEEVER, Jacqueline. · 1998

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

New York/London: Garland Publishing, 1998. 8vo., pp.xxxvii,253, quarter grey cloth, gilt, pictorial paper-covered boards, b/w frontispiece; internally fresh, slight scoring to rear board, a very good copy indeed.

THE TREE OF BATTLES OF HONORE BONET. An English Version. With a Hitherto Unpublished Historical Interpolation.

Translated and introduced by: COOPLAND, G.W. · 1949

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Liverpool University Press, 1949. Small 4to., pp.316, black cloth, gilt, top edges red, b/w frontispiece; light toning to edges, slight bruising to corners of rear board, just slight marking to boards, a very good, internally clean copy. No dust-jacket.

WILLS AND WEALTH IN MEDIEVAL GENOA, 1150-1250. Harvard Historical Studies.

EPSTEIN, Steven. · 1984

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,063)

Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 1984. 8vo., pp.ix,269, pale green cloth lettered in green; fine, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine.

L’ENVERS DU TABLEAU. Marriage and Maternite en Flandre Medievale.

GREILSAMMER, Myriam. Preface e Jacques Le Goff. · 1990

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Paris: Armand Colin, 1990. 8vo., pp.368, paperback, b/w illustrations; light toning to wrappers, light creasing to spine, internally clean, a very good copy.

SEXUALITY AND MEDICINE IN THE MIDDLE AGES.

JACQUART, Danielle; THOMASSET, Claude. Translated by: ADAMSON, Matthew. · 1988

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

Oxford: Polity Press, in association with Basil Blackwell, 1988. 8vo., pp.vii,242, blue hardcover, gilt; occasional pencil marking and annotation (largely to Introduction and Chapter One), sellotape marking to free endpapers, else clean and very good indeed, in vg unclipped ...

UNIVERSITIES, MEDICINE AND SCIENCE IN THE MEDIEVAL WEST.

BULLOUGH, Vern L. · 2004

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. 8vo., pp.xiii,298, blue cloth, gilt; a fine, fresh copy.

CONTRACTING A CURE. Patients, Healers, and the Law in Early Modern Bologna.

POMATA, Gianna. Translated by the author, withe the assistance of Rosemarie Foy and Anna Taraboletti-Segre. · 1998

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Baltimore/London: The John Hopkins University Press, 1998. 8vo., pp.xvii,294, maroon cloth, gilt; a fine, fresh copy, in fine unclipped dust-jacket.

MEDICAL LICENSING AND LEARNING IN FOURTEENTH-CENTURY VALENCIA. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, Volume 79, Part 6, 1989.

GARCIA-BALLESTER, Luis; MCVAUGH, Michael R.; RUBIO-VELA, Agustin. · 1989

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1989. Tall 8vo., pp.(v),128, paperback (academic wrappers), b/w frontispiece, b/w map; slight creasing to corners of wrappers, a very good, clean copy.

A BUSHEL OF MERRY-THOUGHTS. Comprising: The Terrible Punishment of the Naughty Boys of Corinth; The Exciting Story of the Cat and the Mouse; The Disobedient Children Who Stole Sugar Bread; The Fearful Tragedy of Ice-Peter.

BUSCH, Wilhelm. Described and ornamented by: ROGERS, Harry. · 1868

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1868. Oblong 4to., pp.(iv),14,16,16,16, cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards, plates and vignettes hand-coloured by Busch; foxing to margins throughout, wear to extremities, with loss to paper covering of front board at lower mar...

GLADYS PETO’S HOLIDAY STORIES.

PETO, Gladys. · 1928

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London: John F. Shaw (1928) and Co. Ltd., n.d. 4to., pp.unpaginated, quarter brown cloth, lettered in black, with pictorial paper-covered front board, colour frontispiece, colour plates, b/w illustrations accompany text throughout; prize bookplate to front paste-down endpape...

THE CROCK OF GOLD.

STEPHENS, James. Illustrated by: MACKENZIE, Thomas. · 1926

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1926. First edition thus, large 8vo., pp.vii,228, bevelled red buckram, gilt, t.e.g., 12 colour plates and numerous b/w headpieces and tailpieces; ownership gift inscription to front free endpaper (dated 1928), foxing to edges and prelims/...

OTTO IN AFRICA.

DU BOIS, William Pene. · 1962

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1962. First UK edition, tall 8vo., pp.(xxxvii), textured yellow pictorial paper-covered boards, lettered and stamped in red, pictorial endpapers, double-page title in colour, double-page colour plates with accompanying text throughout; a couple...

ANGLO-NORMAN MEDICINE. [In Two Volumes:] Volume I. Roger Frugard’s Chirurgia and the Practica Brevis of Platearius; Volume II. Shorter Treatises.

HUNT, Tony. · 1997

£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)

Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1997. Two volumes, 8vo., pp.vii,328;vii,284, blue hardcover lettered in silver; small bump to lower edge of front board to Volume I, else fine and fresh, Volume I in price-clipped dust-jacket, very good but for small area of loss over bump at front lo...

EPIDEMICS AND IDEAS. Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence.

Edited by: RANGER, Terence; SLACK, Paul. · 1995

£17.99 (€21.56 | $23.77 | ¥3,795)

Cambridge University Press, 1995. 8vo., pp.ix,347, paperback; slight creasing to spine, internally fresh and fine, a very good copy indeed.

THE SEVEN LIBERAL ARTS IN THE MIDDLE AGES.

Edited by: WAGNER, David L. · 1983

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983. 8vo., pp.xiii,282, blue cloth lettered in black, b/w figures; pencilled annotations to margins, light sunning to margins of boards, else a very good, fresh copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which has 1cm closed tear to front upper m...

A SLENDER REPUTATION. An Autobiography.

HALE, Kathleen. · 1994

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London: Frederick Warne, 1994. First edition, 8vo., pp.288, black hardcover, gilt, 16pp. colour plates, numerous b/w illustrations; a very good copy indeed, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.