New York; (1930): Charles Scribner's Sons. Octavo. First Hurd illustrated edition. 347 (1) pages. Beautifully illustrated by Peter Hurd. A great medieval classic set in the Carolingian age. On the shelves of the Mark Hopkin's Hotel in San Francisco are the Scribner's classics with illustations of Peter Hurd's Story of..... More
London; (1930): P. Davies. Quarto. Printed in 1930 with the plan to issue this special edition of the 1493 volume was one of first printed books aimed at the limited nonprofessional public who were able to read. Most books were for students of theology or the Greek and Latin classics..... More
London; 1786 and 1789: Printed for S. Hooper. Quarto. Two books in one which contains an added supplement with a separate titlepage dated 1789. Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette title page [2]; (explanation to frontispiece and errata on the verso) vi, 118, [2]plates, xviii regular title page [2], [1-4]5-10p; 50 plates..... More
New York; (1967): Manchester University Press (distirbuted By Barnes & Noble). Octavo. . 800 pages in two volumes, index, bibliography. A masterful work that traces not only the earliest heresies accentuated by the challenges to papal authority but also the question of what the true church is. Those like Wyclif..... More
London: Printed for Robert Gosling, 1736. First Edition. Folio. Engraved vignette title page. Three books in one, each with illustrated headpieces and illustrated chapter initials, continuous pagination through 292 pages, [27]pp, alphbetical index of persons, places and matters. (2)pp. advertisement, [232]pp. index to The History of the Exchequer which Madox..... More
London: Printed for the Trustees By William Clowes, 1962. Octavo. In two volumes. The Wallace Collection which was initially formed by Richard, fourth Marques of Hertford (1800-1870) was vastly increased by his son Sir Richard Wallace (1818-1890). While some are traced to much earlier family members, it was the later..... More
Vienna: Universum, 1946. First American Edition. Orginal Wraps. 92 pp. Excellent bibliography. Geneological table, index. 2 slight tears half-way down and 2" inches from bottom of front edge. More
Norman, Oklahoma: Pilgrim Books, Inc. 1983. 312 pp. Bibliography. Index. and endnotes.Series of scholarly essays drawing the analogy between the give and take of love and the exhanges of an economic system in medieval poetry. Professor Shoaf teaches at Yale University. More
Madrid: I. Moreno, 1906. Quarto. 588p. 14p. supplement. Paetow #145. Original wrappers. These studies on medieval law deal mostly with the Visigothic Laws. These laws are evidenced in the rule of Recceswinth (649-672) and recognized as essential in the early study of medieva law. Edgewear else a very good copy..... More