Search Results: Authors starting with A from Unsworth's Antiquarian Booksellers

Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2000. First edition. 8vo., pp. xviii, 398. Hardback: red cloth backed blue boards, gilt-lettered to spine, fine. Dust-jacket, price-sticker removed from lower corner of front cover leaving a faint trace of adhesive only, still very good. An unused copy. Foreword by Bobby Horton.

London: printed for T. Sawbridge, and M. Gillyflower […], 1690. Second edition. Folio, pp.[viii], 419, [I] (with usual mistakes in signatures and pagination). Lacks map, as is often the case. Small pencil note to p.363, repair to pi3 and small closed tear at head margin pi4.Occasional smudgy marks and very faint marginal dampstaining. Contemporary Cambridge style panelled calf, neat modern reback with red gilt label, corners repaired. A bit scratched, edges chipped but still good. Contemporary inscription to head of title: 'Bought of Wm. Robins 1690'. Previous owner's signature crossed through and illegible. Upcott mentions only the 3rd edition, of 1700 (p.x). The full title reads as follows: Index villaris, or, An exact register, alphabetically digested, of all the cities, market-towns, parishes, villages, the hundred, lath, rape, ward, wapentake, or other division of each county, the bishopricks, deaneries, churches, chappels, hospitals, with the rectories and vicarages in… Read More

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxvi, 338. Hardback: black cloth, blue-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. In the publisher's Rethinking Theory series.

University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2014. 8vo., pp. 232. Hardback. Dust-jacket. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2020. 8vo., pp. xi, 237 + plates. Maps and illustrations to text. Paperback. Unread, light shelf-wear, very good. First published in 2015.

Oxonii [Oxford]: E Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1715. Editio secunda. 8vo., pp.(xvi), 151, [i], 182, [xviii]. Greek letter with Latin translation at foot followed by editors' index. Three full-page engravings, of Cicero, Aeschines and Demosthenes. Pencilled annotations.Last few leaves slightly cockled. Contemporary calf, gilt label to spine, Cambridge panelled boards, edges sprinkled red. Endcaps and corners a little worn, ffep removed but a second leaf remaining, lightly rubbed but still very good. Second edition of the recension of Peter Foulkes and John Freind, scholars of Christ Church, first published in 1696 and particularly popular on account of its index of explanations of difficult terms. ESTC T143337; Dibdin (4th edn.) 1. p. 487.

Cambridge University Press, 2014. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 271. Hardback. Contents and binding mint. Dust-jacket, fine.

Yale University Press, 2016. Large 4to. (289 x 256 mm). Hardback. Dust-jacket. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Oxford: Clarendon Press (for Sandpiper Books), 2001. Reprint. 8vo., pp. xiii, 287. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered. Dust-jacket. Unread: other than a touch of creasing to dust-jacket, as new.

Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press 1996. First edition. 8vo., 186 + plates. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Light shelf-dusting, still very good.

Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2011. 8vo., pp. 204. Hardback: laminated decorative boards. New, still in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 365 in the ACMRS Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series.

Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2003. First edition thus. 8vo., pp. 722. Hardback: red cloth. Dust-jacket. New, still in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 247 in the ACMRS Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series, and Volume 2 of their Mediterranean Studies Monographs and Texts. Chiamenti's critical edition presents "for the first time the complete text of the most important third and final version of Pietro's Commentarium, a crucial text for the understanding of (his father) Dante, which has been unavailable in its complete form for more than six centuries".

London: Macmillan & Co., 1901 First English editions. 8vo, pp. xxxii, 286, [2, advertisements], with 48 (including frontispiece) wood-engraved plates. Frontispiece, title and last verso slightly foxed. Original publisher's cloth, richly gilt. The first English editions of these two interesting works by the American novelist James Lane Allen (1849-1925), here handsomely illustrated by Hugh Thomson. First published separately in 1894 and 1895 respectively, they are two parts of the same narrative, concerning Lane Allen's own childhood in Lexington, Kentucky, before and during the American Civil War, and in the Reconstruction period.

Manchester University Press, 2016. First edition. 8vo., pp. xx, 806. Hardback: laminated boards. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. In the series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture

Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2004. 8vo., pp. xix, 545. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 255 in the ACMRS Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series.

Argentorati [Strasbourg]: apud J.G. Treuttel, 1786. Third edition. 18mo., pp. [ii], 149, [i]. A little toned towards edges, some light patches of foxing. Green straight-grain morocco, raised bands and gilt title to spine, gilt borders, a.e.g.. Patchy colour fading, joints and corners worn, some scratches, still very good overall. Armorial bookplate of Thomas Sewell to front paste-down. "These are the most beautiful and accurate editions; the latter [i.e. this, of 1786] was twice published in the same year, and has the text of the Roman edition of Spalleti, but with corrections: it was a favourite edition" (Dibdin). Dibdin (4th edn.) I. 264.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. First edition. 8vo., pp. xi, 372. Illustrations to text. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy.

Cambridge University Press, 2014. First edition. Large 8vo., pp. xvii, 345. Illustrations, Tables and musical Examples to text. Hardback. Contents and binding mint. Dust-jacket, fine.

New York: Harpervia, 2021. First edition in English. 8vo., pp. xvi?, 382? + plates. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, small remainder mark to edge and a hint only of shelf-dust, otherwise a fine copy. Originally published in Italy in 2018 as Cleopatra: La Regina che sfido Roma e conquisto l'eternita.

Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2009. 8vo., pp. 256. Paperback. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. In the series,"Studies in Medieval Culture".