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

Harmondsworth: Viking, 1986. First edition. 8vo., pp. 799 + plates. Maps. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. A little spotting to top edge. Dust-jacket, light creasing on top edge. Otherwise a very good copy.

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

Amstelodami [Amsterdam] & Trajecti ad Rhenum [Utrecht]: Schouten & J.J.A. Poolsum, 1777. 10th ed. thus. Small 8vo., pp. [xvi],298, [xiv] + 27 plates, and engraved frontispiece. Title in red and black, woodcut initials and headpieces. Inkstamp and ms code to title-page, but internally very clean. Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt with red Morocco label, gilt borders, gilt coat of arms of Arnhem to each board, edges red. Spine and corners lightly rubbed, very good. With presentation certificate with signatures, made out to to G. A. La Borde and dated 1795. Tenth edition of a Jesuit handbook to pagan gods, first published 1658, re-edited by Samuel Pitiscus. Graesse IV 793 (earlier editions). Spoelder 7.

Oxford University Press (Sandpiper reprint). 1997. 8vo. pp, xxv, 398. Hardback: cloth, edges slightly dusted, otherwise as new. Dust-jacket, a little shelf-worn, still very good. Originally published in 1971.

Oxford: R. Davies, 1664. FIRST PART ONLY. 1st edition 2nd issue, folio, pp. [xvi], 398, [iv] + portrait frontispiece of Lucian signed: W: Faithhorne sculpsit.. As usual pp.162-167 and pp.316-317 are misnumbered as 182-187 and 306, 311 respectively. Woodcut device to title-page, woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces. Some old repairs to frontis at gutter, to title-page verso (particularly head and tail edges) plus a few other places e.g. head of first dedicatory leaf, M1, Z1, and some other smaller repairs; small worm trail to bottom corner of fore-edge margin roughly pp.202-281, repaired in some places; light browning and possible dampstaining to head and tail edges near front and rear; occasional wax spots and tiny scorch holes, final blank leaf laid down.. Contemporary speckled calf boards neatly rebacked in polished sheep, raised bands and morocco gilt label to spine, blind-tooled borders, edges sprinkled red, endpapers replaced. Endcaps, raised bands and joints rubbed, a little chipping to… Read More

UK Viking, 2017. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxi, 140 + plates. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: blue cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Light signs of use, still very good.

London: Cornell University Press, 2008. First edition. 8vo., pp. xi, 244. Hardback: quarter blue cloth-backed cream boards, spine gilt-lettered. Dust-jacket. Unread: minor bump to one corner, page-edges slightly dusted, otherwise as new.

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.

London: Harper Collins, 2003. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxvii, 511. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: brown cloth, silver-lettered, spine slightly cocked. Dust-jacket, light creasing to edges. Otherwise a very good copy.

London: Gay and Bird, 1902 First illustrated edition. 8vo, pp. xiv, 335, [1], [16, advertisements], with wood-engraved frontispiece and 32 full-page or smaller wood-engraved illustrations. Occasional light yellowing, first and last few leaves slightly foxed. Original publisher's cloth, richly gilt. Dedication to Miss Charrington Wood by R. Thomson dated 1909 to fly. The first illustrated edition of this novel on a journey in Ireland of the fictional Penelope, with wood-engravings by C.E. Brock. Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923), a pioneering American educator and author of numerous children's novels. The Mrs Charrington Wood to whom this copy was donated is probably the same portrayed much later, in a photograph of 1951, protesting in London with other ladies against poor quality coal.

Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2019. First edition. 8vo., pp. 511 + plates. Maps. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Light shelf-wear, very good indeed.

Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2012. 8vo., pp. 182. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Oxford University Press, for the Littman Library, 1991. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 332. Hardback: burgundy cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Top edge red. Dust-jacket. Unused: other than very light creasing only to jacket edges and a touch of shelf-dust, a fine copy. In The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization.

Cambridge University Press, 1932. First edition. pp. xvi, [2], 282. Slight toning, else very good. Blue cloth, title gilt to spine, spine a bit faded, but still very good.

New York: Pegasus Books, 2018. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxi, 356 + plates. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: quarter black cloth over cream boards, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a single black ink remainder line to bottom edge and a hint only of shelf-dust, otherwise a fine copy.

Romae [Rome]: Apud Venantium Monaldini Bibliopolam in Via Cursus, 1782. 4to., pp. 31, [I] + 127 engraved plates including frontispiece, title-page and dedication. Some library stamps, pencil notes to front endpapers and title-page verso, light foxing, some plates slightly toned. Recent library binding, half deep red morocco with red cloth boards, gilt title and shelf mark to spine, cloth hinges. A little rubbed at edges but very sound, very good. Bookplate of Warrington Municipal Library to front pastedown, library ink stamps to frontispiece verso, p.1, p.7 and plate V verso. Pietro Santi Bartoli (1635-1700) was an Italian engraver, draughtsman and painter best known for his depictions of antique subjects. During his lifetime he was famous for producing volumes of such prints, many of which ran into several editions. This volume includes six miniatures from the Codex Romanus (Cod. Vat. 3867).

New Haven and London: Yale Unniversity Press, 2017. 4to. (254 x 190 mm), pp. 288 + plates. 40 colour + 80 b/w. illus. Hardback, dust-jacket. New, still in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2013. 8vo., pp. 228. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 420 in the Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies and Volume 6 in The French of England Translation ACMRS series.

Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden] [i.e. Paris]: s.n. [Barbou] 1757. Small 8vo. (155 x 90mm), pp. [ii], iv, 124 + portrait frontispiece; x, 11-106 + portrait frontispiece; iv, [i], 4-156. No loss to the 3rd work, just unusual pagination, and no portrait called for. Woodcut printer's device (formerly used by the Elzevirs) to each title-page. Occasional very light foxing. Contemporary brown mottled calf, spine gilt with dark red morocco label, gilt borders and dentelles, a.e.g., marbled endpapers, pink ribbon bookmark bound in. Spine a little creased, very light wear to endcaps and corners, a very good, attractive copy. Three highlights of 16th-century Neo-Latin poetry, bound together as usual. All three title-pages bear a false imprint, 'Lugduni Batavorum'; according to Brunet this edition was actually published in Paris by Barbou, and it does indeed have the appearance of a Barbou book. The first work comprises the poems of the Calvinist theologian Théodore de Bèze (or Theodorus… Read More

Oxford: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1920. 8vo, pp. [viii], 696, with illustrated frontispiece. Slight toning. Contemporary tree calf, gilt border, spine gilt, gilt-lettered morocco label, a.e.g., marbled endpapers, corners, head and foot of spine minimally rubbed. Inscription dated 1921 to front free endpaper.