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CLOTH AND CLOTHING IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE. Essays in Memory of Professor F.M. Carus-Wilson. Pasold Studies in Textile History 2.

Edited by: HARTE, N.B.; PONTING, K.G. · 1983

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London: Heinemann Educational Books/The Pasold Research Fund Ltd., 1983. 8vo., pp.xiv,401, black cloth lettered in silver, b/w illustrations and figures; rubbing to extremities, internally clean and otherwise very good, in lightly worn unclipped dust-jacket, a good+ copy ove...

A L'EST DU SOLEIL ET L'OUEST DE LA LUNE. Contes Anciens du Nord.

PILON, Edmond. Illustrated by Kay Nielsen. · 1919

£1,200.00 (€1,438.39 | $1,585.37 | ¥253,163)

Paris: H. Piazza, 1919. First French edition, limited to 1,500 copies, of which this is no.181, 4to., pp.123, half dark green morocco, five raised bands, gilt, contrasting green cloth boards, t.e.g., marbled endpapers, original pictorial wrappers bound in, 24 tipped-in colou...

POEMS BY ARTHUR SYMONS. In Two Volumes.

SYMONS, Arthur. · 1921

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

London: Heinemann, 1921. Two volumes, 8vo., pp.x,219;vii,227, uncut, paper-covered boards with printed paper labels to spines, frontispiece portrait with tissue guard to first volume; toning to endpapers, with neat ownership nameplate to front paste-down endpaper of both vol...

THE LOCOMOTIVE AND THE TELEGRAPH; Or Steam and Electricity as Applied to Railway Travelling; with Illustrative Anecdotes and Diagrams.

1848

£185.00 (€221.75 | $244.41 | ¥39,029)

London, R. York Clarke and Co. 1848 Pocket 8vo., pp.(iv),84, blindstamped red cloth, gilt lettering and decoration to spine and front board, pictorial vignette to title, engraved frontispiece plate, further plates, pictorial headpieces, illuminated letters and figures; foxin...

THE NEW LEVIATHAN, Or: Man, Society, Civilization and Barbarism.

COLLINGWOOD, R.G. · 1942

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1942. First edition, 8vo., pp. viii,387, cloth, gilt; foxing to prelims, spine sunned, with light sunning to inner margins of boards, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.

THE PRELUDE. Or, Growth of a Poet’s Mind.

WORDSWORTH, William. Edited from the manuscripts with introduction, textual and critical notes by DE SELINCOURT, E., revised by DARBISHIRE, Helen. · 1959

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959. Second edition, 8vo., pp.lxxiv,650, navy cloth, gilt, 7 b/w illustrations, including frontispiece portrait, and MS. facsimiles; foxing to endpapers and edges, an otherwise very good copy, in a price-clipped dust-jacket, which is chipped to extr...

CAUSALITY AND MIND. Essays on Early Modern Philosophy.

JOLLEY, Nicholas. · 2013

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Oxford University Press, 2013. 8vo., pp.ix,279, navy hardcover, gilt; a fine copy, in very good+ unclipped dust-jacket.

PORTRAITS - A HISTORY.

BEYER, Andreas. Translated from the German by Steven Lindberg. · 2003

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2003. 4to., pp.413, wine red cloth lettered in blind, colour-illustrated throughout; slight roll to spine, very good indeed, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which has slight indentation marks.

AN ANTHOLOGY OF NINETIES VERSE.

Edited with an Introduction by: SYMONS, A.J.A. Contributors: BEARDSLEY, Aubrey; CUSTANCE, Olive; DAVIDSON, John; DOUGLAS, Lord Alfred; DOUGLAS, Evelyn (John Barlas); DOWSON, Ernest; FIELD, Michael; GRAY, John; HOUSMAN, Laurence; JOHNSON, Lionel; LE GALLIE · 1928

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, Ltd., 1928. First edition, 8vo., pp.176, uncut, pictorial yellow paper-covered boards backed in yellow cloth, design and lettering in black, b/w pictorial title; foxing to edges and margins of boards, occasional foxing within, splash-mark ...

THE MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT BOOK: Cultural Approaches.

Edited by, JOHNSTON, Michael; VAN DUSSEN, Michael. · 2016

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2016. 8vo.,pp. xii,302, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; ownership bookplate to front paste down endpaper, marked as ‘damaged’ with red ink stamp to front free endpaper, otherwise clean and very good, in a near-fine uncli...

ELECTRIC RAILWAYS 1880-1990. The IEE History of Technology Series 31.

DUFFY, Michael C. · 2003

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

Stevenage, The Institution of Electrical Engineers, 2003. 8vo.,pp. xxi,452, pictorial hardcover, b/w illustrations; light rubbing to head of spine, a very good, clean copy. No dust-jacket.

LOCKE’S TOUCHY SUBJECTS: Materialism and Immortality.

JOLLEY, Nicholas. · 2015

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2015. 8vo.,pp. ix,142, hardcover, gilt; a fine copy, in a fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.

LAND OF WOMEN: Tales of Sex and Gender from Early Ireland.

BITEL, Lisa M. · 1996

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996. 8vo., pp.xvi,307, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; a near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.

THE ZURAU APHORISMS.

KAFKA, Franz. With an Introduction and Afterword by, CALASSO, Roberto. Translated from the German by, HOFMANN, Michael. Roberto Calasso’s Commentary Translated from the Italian by, BROCK, Geoffrey. · 2006

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Harvill Secker, 2006. First edition, small 8vo.,pp. x,138, hardcover, gilt; a near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly soiled.

LUCRETIUS ON THE NATURE OF THINGS.

LUCRETIUS. Translated from the Latin into English verse by: ALLISON, Sir ROBERT. · 1919

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

London: Arthur Humphreys, 1919. 8vo., pp.xxxii,275, uncut, quarter cloth with printed paper label to spine, blue paper-covered boards, t.e.g.; slight partial sunning to boards, light rubbing to boards, with light creasing and wear to paper covering at corners, else a very go...

THE WAR THE INFANTRY KNEW 1914-1919: A Chronicle of Service in France and Belgium With the Second Battalion His Majesty’s Twenty-Third Foot, The Royal Welch Fusiliers: founded on personal records, recollections and reflections, assembled, edited and partly written by, One of their Medical Officers.

[Medical Officer to the Royal Welch Fusiliers] · 1938

£750.00 (€898.99 | $990.85 | ¥158,227)

London: P.S. King & Son Ltd., 1938. First edition, limited to 500 copies, 8vo., pp.xvi,613,(27), red cloth, gilt, b/w facsimiles of hand-drawn sketch-maps to rear of volume; foxing to prelims, light foxing to edges, some marking and light splash-marks to cloth, with foxi...

BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE LATE REVEREND JOSEPH WARTON, D.D. Master of St. Mary Winton College; prebendary of Winchester Cathedral; and Rector of the parishes of Wickham and Upham: to which are added, a selection from his works; and a literary correspondence between eminent persons reserved for publication by the Rev. John Wooll, A.M.

WARTON; JOSEPH; edited by WOOLL, John. · 1969

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

London, Gregg International Publishers Ltd. 1969. Facsimile republication of the 1806 edition, 8vo., pp. xix, 407, hardcover, b/w frontispiece; light foxing to prelims, endpapers and edges, margins only occasionally and slightly affected, otherwise internally clean, boards l...

SHAKESPEARE'S HEROINES.

Mrs JAMESON. Illustrated by R. Anning Bell. · 1901

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

London/New York: J.M. Dent/E.P. Dutton, 1901. First edition thus, 8vo., pp.xii,379, uncut, pictorial green cloth, gilt, pictorial spine in gilt, t.e.g., frontispiece with tissue guard, pictorial titles and decorative headpieces in red and black; school prize bookplate, dated...

POETRY AND PHILOSOPHY IN THE MIDDLE AGES. A Festschrift for Peter Dronke.

MARENBON, John, ed. [Signed by the editor] · 2001

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Leiden: Brill, 2001. 8vo., pp.392,(ii), blue cloth, gilt; from the library of D.E. Luscombe, with ownership autograph to front free endpaper, editor’s autograph to title, a fresh and near-fine copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.

CHRISTIANITY, ANTIQUITY, AND ENLIGHTENMENT. Interpretations of Locke.

NUOVO, Victor. · 2011

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Springer, 2011. 8vo., pp.xix,274, glazed hardcover; a fresh and near-fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.