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

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. 8vo., pp. xi, 376. Tables and Illustrations. Paperback. Unread: almost as new.

Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2013. 8vo., pp. 310. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 428 in the ACMRS Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series.

Bath: Printed by T. Boddely, for James Leake, and Wm. Frederick, and sold by Hitch, and Hawes, and M. Cooper, 1753. Second edition. 8vo., pp. [iv], 96, [viii]. With half title. Some small repairs and short marginal tears to half title, first and last leaves a little dusty. Late 19th c. Half dark brown morocco, gilt title to spine, green marbled paper boards, blue endpapers. Joints and corners a bit rubbed, very good. Bookplate (with crest) of John Kent Spender, M.D. to front pastedown. Though by all accounts an engaging and competent physician, and very much involved in establishing Bath General Hospital in 1742, Dr William Oliver published little apart from this treatise on the therapeutic use of spa waters in the treatment of gout. However his name lives on in the form of the Bath Oliver biscuit, which he invented as a digestive aid for his patients. John Kent Spender's obituary (BMJ, 22nd April 1916) described him as 'The last of the generation of physicians who laid the foundation of… Read More

Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2014. 8vo., pp. 266. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 445 in the ACMRS Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series.

Leeds: ARC Humanities Press, 2018. 8vo., pp. vii, 112. Hardback: laminated boards. Unused: as new. In the series: Beyond Medieval Europe.

Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2021. First edition. 8vo., pp. xvi?, 382? + plates. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy.

Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Typographia Blaviana, 1683. 3 vols., 8vo, pp. [xvi], 832, [14], [2, blank]; 805, [11]; 810, [10]. Each volume with an engraved titlepage (vol. 1 with a typographical title-page as well); vol. 2 with full-page engravings within the pagination. Contemporary vellum boards, spines lettered in ink. Some minor spotting, one or two edge-tears, a dampmark to fore-margin of first 30 leaves in vol. 2. Vellum somewhat dusty, front pastedown of vol. 1 partially torn. Bookplate of G.E. Larden to front pastedown of vols. 2 and 3 (possibly removed from vol. 1), vol. 3 with the ownership inscription of G.H. Larden to margin of title-page and flyleaf (the latter also giving the place as Macclesfield). 'I have classed all those impressions of Ovid, printed at the same place, and more or less partaking of the editorial labours of N. Heinsius, Schrevelius, and Cnippingius, under the same head... Schrevelius was the editor of the first edition; and and Cnippingius of the second; which… Read More