Search Results: Titles starting with B from Unsworth's Antiquarian Booksellers

New York: Columbia University Press, 1915. First edition. 8vo, pp. [xvii], 397. Slight toning, else a very good copy. Blue cloth, boards and spine gilt, upper hinge loosening, a bit faded in places, but still very good. Bookplate of Brenda M Cook to front pastedown.

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: Printed for Robert Gosling 1736; 1741. First editions. Folio, 2 works in 1, pp. [2], 292 [xxviii]; [216], title of second is a cancel (second issue), engraved vignette to first title, a few large engraved initials and engraved headpieces. First title and verso of last leaf a little dusty, slight toning, small clean tear at gutter of one leaf, occasional very slight marginal spotting. Modern half calf over marbled boards, modern endpapers. Modern ex-libris of Robert Smith, dated 2008 to ffep; early biographical annotation on author; occasional early marginalia. The first edition, posthumously published, of this study by the celebrated legal antiquary Thomas Madox (1666-1727), who was historiographer-royal from 1714, and who is singled out by David C. Douglas ('English Scholars 1660-1730') for special praise, with the assessment (p. 243) that "even to-day, he seems to move among the moderns as if, apart from the immensity of his productions, he were one of… Read More

Chichester: Anthony Bird Publications, 1981. First edition. 8vo., pp. 156 + plates. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: brown cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. A touch only of shelf-wear: very good.

New York: W. W. Norton, 2017. First American edition. 8vo., pp. xxii, 360. Hardback: cream cloth-backed beige boards, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a tiny black dot to top edge and a hint only of shelf-wear: a fine copy. Dust-jacket subtitled 'Machiavelli in His World'.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. First edition. 8vo., pp. viii, 253. Hardback: beige cloth, black-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy.

Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006. 8vo., pp. 545. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap.

London: Viking Penguin, 2002. First edition, sixth impression. 8vo., pp., xxxvii, 490 + plates. Section of maps to text. Toning, darkening to margins and edges, otherwise contents clean. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine, fine. Dust-jacket, creased at head of spine and along joints and all edges, white background now partly grubby, but still good.

University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2014. 4to., pp. 228. 18 colour and 34 b/w illustrations. Hardback. Dust-jacket. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2013. 8vo., pp. 128. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 417 in the ACMRS Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series.

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

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.

University of Toronto Press, 2008. First edition. 8vo., pp. xi, 369. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. A hint of use and dust, very good. In the series: 'Toronto Italian Studies'.

London: Hambledon & London, 2005. First edition. 8vo., pp. xviii, 293 + b/w plates. Maps and illustrations to text. Hardback: blue cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-wear and a little dusting to edges: an almost fine copy.

Manchester University Press, 2001. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 422. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine, fine. Dust-jacket, light shelf-wear with mild creasing to edges, very good.

Milano: Electa Editrice, for ERI - Edizioni RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, 1973. 2 vols. Large 4to. Copy n.250 of 910. pp. [4] + 110 colour facsimile plates; 134, [4], including illustrations. Paper boards, vol. 1 with handsome with decorated, round, brass profile portrait of Cardinal Grimani to upper cover. In publisher's slipcase, a trifle spotted. Excellent copies. The half title of this limited edition says: 'Questo volume è offerto dalla Radiotelevisione Italiana ai delegati degli organismi di radiodiffusione e di televisione aderenti al Premio Italia in occasione della XXV session.'

Parisiis [Paris]: Typis Josephi Barbou. 1754. 12mo., pp. [ii], xxviii, 221, [i]. Additional engraved frontispiece, engraved head- and tailpieces. Frontispiece and title a bit dusty, minimal foxing, margins of two leaves lightly waterstained, traces of small pasted paper slip on verso of last leaf. Contemporary crimson morocco, triple gilt ruled, spine triple gilt ruled, large gilt fleurons, gilt-lettered morocco label, small worm hole at foot, inner edges gilt, a.e.g. Joints expertly repaired, boards lightly rubbed. 18th century armorial bookplate of Louis des Champes des Tournelles to front pastedown, book label of Alfred Neild to ffep, bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to flyleaf. An attractively-printed pocket edition of the abridged Roman history written by the 4th century historian Eutropius. This copy belonged to Louis des Champes des Tournelles (1744-95), a staunch Jacobin appointed French Minister of Finance in 1793. After Robespierre's abolition of ministries, he was imprisoned for… Read More

London: Allen Lane, 2019. First edition, fourth printing. 8vo., pp. xxvii, 656 + plates. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: grey cloth, black-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. One corner lightly bumped, otherwise slight signs of use: still very good.

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.

Glasguae [Glasgow]: In aedibus academicis, excudebat Andreas Foulis, 1784. 8vo., pp. [iv], 240, 157, [3]. With new pagination and register after signature Gg4 at the end of Book VI of the Ænead. Publisher's catalogue to final leaf. Occasional light spotting, internally very good. Simple contemporary vellum, title inked to spine, very slim boards, edges lightly sprinkled brown. Pencil note, 'edition de Burmann' to front paste-down, illegible ownership inscription in blue pen to ffep. A little greyed but very good. Dibdin omits this 1784 8vo edition, citing only the 1758 12mo and the 1788 folio, which are described as 'very correct and beautiful' and 'printed in a correct and magnificent manner' respectively. ESTC T126176; Gaskell 673; Dibdin II, p.558 (1758 and 1788 eds.); Schweiger II, p.1179.