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

Hamburgi [Hamburg]: apud Christian Liebzeit & Theodor. Christoph. Felginer, 1714-1728 14 vols (I-II bound together, IV in two vols). 4to. I-II: pp. [2], [14], 940; III: pp. [2], [14], 830, including one full-page engraved illustration; IV/1: pp. [2], [14], 711, [1]; IV/2: pp. [2], [12], 618; V: pp. [2], [14], 338; [6], 111, [1]; [6], 186; [6], 250; VI: pp. [14], 840, including one full-page engraved illustration; VII: pp. [2], [6], 792; VIII: pp. [2], [18], 876; IX: pp. [2], [6], 808; X: pp. [2], [26], 824; XI: pp. [2], [14], 860, [2]; XII: pp. [2], [12], 911, [1]; XIII: pp. [2], [10], 860; XIV: pp. [2], [10], 740; all (except vol. VI) including engraved frontispieces. Varying degrees of browning or foxing as usual, upper edges a little dusty, the odd ink mark, I-II: 2 extreme lower outer corners torn, IV/1: light marginal water stain to last few leaves, small repair to 4N3 not affecting reading, VIII: small worm hole to lower blank margin, expanding into worm trail to one gathering; XIII:… Read more

Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2010. 8vo., pp. 267. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2015. 8vo., pp. 168. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 451 in the ACMRS Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series.

London: Collins' Clear-Type Press, n.d. (c.1913). 8vo, pp. 266 + 6pp. of advertisement at rear, illustrated frontispiece and additional title. Slight browning, light foxing to last few leaves. Publisher's pictorial cloth and endpapers, spine gilt, upper hinge weakened, corners, head and foot of spine a bit bumped, upper board just fading. Inscription "To Martin with Christmas Greetings 1913 from Eric" to fly.

Stroud, Glos.: Amberley Publishing, 2018. First edition. 8vo., pp. 288 + colour plates. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-wear: a fine copy.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1973. First edition. 8vo., pp. 222. Brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine, edges dusted, very good. Dust-jacket, 1.8cm closed tear to bottom edge of front cover, 0.5cm and 0.3cm closed tears to fore-edge of front cover, shelf wear, still good.

London & Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 324. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, corners starting to wear, edges dusted, very good. Dust-jacket, spine lightly sunned, a bit grubby, shelf wear, very good. Ownership inscription of Averil Cameron to ffep. Past and Present Series.

New Haven and London: Yale Unniversity Press, 2015. First edition in English. 8vo., pp. xv, 321. Hardback: red cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unread, a hint only of shelf-wear: almost as new.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. First American edition. 8vo., pp. xxiii, 308 + map and 10 colour plates. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Fine, almost as new.

Lugd. Batav. [Leiden]: Apud Elzeviros, 1638. 12mo. pp. [viii], 290, [ii], [293-] 336, [xvi]. Engraved title, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Light red ink stain to upper outer blank corner of title and first two leaves, few leaves a trifle foxed. Near contemporary full calf, double gilt ruled, gilt fleurons to corners, spine gilt with fleurons and stars, gilt-lettered morocco label, inner edges gilt, a.e.g. Joints a bit cracked, lower with small worm hole. Bookplate of Faulque de Jonchieres to front pastedown, occasional annotations. Handsomely-bound copy of the better edition of the two printed by the Elzevirs in 1638. 'The preference is given to those copies where the two vignettes (one at the head of the dedicatory epistle, the other at that of the text of Florus) are different' (Dibdin II, 10). 'La plus jolie' (Willems 467), with the first headpiece in the shape of a mermaid. This copy belonged to Faulque de Jonquières (d.1873), librarian of the Ministère de la… Read more

Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2001. Reprint of second edition. 8vo., pp. lxviii, 319 + 11 plates. Errata slip loosely inserted. Hardback: black cloth. Dust-jacket, spine only slightly sunned. A very good copy. Reprint of the second edition of 1816, with corrected typographical errors, translations of quotations and other passages, two appendices, and an introduction by the editor.

London: lack Dog Publishing, 2008. First edition. 4to. (293 x 248 mm), pp. 272. Lavishly illustrated with maps in colour throughout. Hardback: laminated boards. Corners lightly bumped, otherwise a fine, clean copy.

New York: Harper, 2018. First American edition. 8vo., pp. xxx, [ii], 352 + colour plates. Maps and genealogical tables. Hardback: quarter black cloth-backed red boards, gilt-lettered to spine, fine. Dust-jacket, fine. Unobtrusive black ink remainder-mark to bottom paper-edge, otherwise as new.

Amsterdami [Amsterdam]: Apud Ioan. et Corn. Blaeu, 1640. 12mo. 2 works in 1. pp. 203, [i]; [ii], [207-] 670, [xlviii]. General engraved title, separate titles for each work. Small marginal ink burn on p.589, pp. 209-12 misbound, ink mark to title. Contemporary English calf, triple blind ruled, spine gilt to a floral design, gilt-lettered morocco label. Joints and spine a bit cracked. Bookplate of John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle, to front pastedown, his signature and monogram WW inked to flypaper. The two most famous accounts of 15th-century French history, by Jean Froissart and Philippe de Commines, in an exquisite, remarkably preserved, contemporary English binding. This copy was in the library of John Rolle (1750-1842), 1st Baron Rolle, a British MP supporting William Pitt the Younger. His attacks against Edmund Burke and Charles James Fox made him the target of the satire "The Rolliad". Not in Brunet.