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; 1886 and 1789: Printed for S. Hooper. Quarto. Two books in one. 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 with the supplement which has 11 [1]p. [plates 50 9e.e., 51)-62..... 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 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
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1954. First Edition. Thick Large Quarto. 502 pages, index, illustrated. This work has a panoply of the greatest scholars of the mid-20th century. From Lawrence C. Wroth, Bernard Berenson, Millard Meiss, Edwin Panofsky, Geoffrey Keynes, E.P. Goldschmidt, to the tribute to the Morgan Library..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975. First Edition. Octavo. 453 pages includes major articles on Galileo; Medieval Logic and Nominalism with an important study of William of Ockham. This book has scholar Neal Gilbert's name penned on front endpaper. Gilbert was known for his work on Renaissance Concepts of Method..... More
Centre of Advanced Study, Aligarh Muslim University, 1974. First Edition. Octavo. 169 pp. Stamped "Provided by Library of Congress, Special Foreign Currency Programs" on endpapers. Cover soiled, sunned, lower corners bumped. Upper right corner text bumped. More
London: Longman, Green and Co, 1858. First Edition. Octavo. In two volumes. Volume I (Palestine-Rhodes) 518 pages, photographs, engravings; Volume II, (Malta) 522 pages, (6)pp. publisher's ads and a 16pp. catalog from Bicker's and Son's, index map of Malta (folding). Unlike many of the later edited versions, Major Porter conducted..... 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
London: Bibliographical Society, 1967. First Edition. Octavo. 400 pp. H. P. Kraus, the world famous rare book seller who specialized in medieval illuminated manuscripts, was convinced that the Constance missal was printed before the Gutenberg Bible. The author here compares the different states of wear in the watermarks in the..... 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
New York: Fordham University Press, 1992. Thick Octavo. phy. A marvelous translation of Weckman's work. When issued in Spanish in 1983, it established how extensive medieval thought dominated virtually every aspect of Spain's culture so that very little of the scholarship of the Renaissance was of influence. The forty short..... More