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

London: Profile Books, 2015. First edition. 8vo., pp. 645 + colour plates. Hardback: blue cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. A little light shelf-wear to jacket edges, otherwise a fine, unread copy.

Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2016. First edition. 8vo., pp. 236. Hardback: laminated decorative boards. Unused, a hint of shelf-wear only otherwise as new.

Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2021. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 269 + plates. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy.

Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2020. First edition. 8vo., pp. viii, 209 + plates. Hardback: red cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy.

Paris: Chez Germain Mathiot, 1814. 8vo., pp. [ii], 249, [i], 94. Text in French and Latin. Toned, light stain radiating from top fore-edge corner through most of text-block but not obscuring text. Later olive green paper, brown cloth gilt label to spine, endpapers replaced, edges sprinkled. Spine a little darkened, end-caps slightly creased, top edge dusted. Liber de Mensura Orbis Terrae was originally published by Walckenaer in 1807. This edition is based on two mss. in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, with additional readings obtained from the collation of the Venice and Florence mss.

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.

Londini [London: ] Impensis R. Gosling, 1722. Large paper copy. Folio, pp. [ii], xxxv, [i], 106, [xxvi], 286, [xxx] + folding engraved map and 15 other engraved plates (7 folding). Lacking the list of subscribers leaf. Title and many pages in red and black. Spotted and lightly browned. Early 19th century marbled boards, scuffed, with spine renewed in half reversed calf by John Henderson c.1980. The Bowyer ledgers show 50 large paper copies were printed, of this last significant publication by Roger Gale (1672-1744), the eldest son of the antiquary Thomas Gale. The text is "a twelfth-century register of the honour of Richmond from the Cotton Library, accompanied by a long appendix of important early charters. It was published in 1722 under the auspices of the Society of Antiquaries, of which he was the first vice-president" (ODNB). ESTC T150024.

New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2017. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxi, 177. Hardback: ochre cloth, black-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy.

Menston: Scolar Press, 1972. Facsimile (Original Size). Folio. Small smudgy mark to title-page, otherwise very clean within. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine, small gilt centrepiece to upper board. Fading to spine and to boards towards edges, no dust-jacket, very good overall.

Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2002. 8vo., pp. 590. Hardback. Dust-jacket. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Cambridge University Press, 1961. Third impression. 8vo, pp. [xii], 407. Slightly toned, else very good. Blue cloth, spine gilt, covers a little spotted, but still very good. First published in 1955.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. First edition. 8vo., pp. xviii, 190. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused: as new.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. First edition. 8vo., pp. 331 + maps. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unread, a hint only of shelf-wear: almost as new. In the publisher's "Jewish Culture and Contexts" series.

London: printed by Benj. Motte, and are to be sold by Chr. Bateman, Benj. Tooke, Ric. Parker, 1708; 1710. 2 vols., folio, pp.[iv], vii, [I], 761, 764-5, 768-9, 772-3, 776-928, [ii] (i.e. usual mispagination) + 4 plates; [viii], 692, [lii] + 2 plates. Vol. I with portrait frontispiece and errata leaf, vol. II with half-title and list of subscribers, as called for. Sporadic toning, vol. II heavily toned from p.609 onwards and with a small worm trail near gutter for approx. first hundred pages. MS to ffep vol. I (a description in heraldic terminology of the arms of Richard Newport depicted on the frontispiece). Contemporary Cambridge panelled calf, raised bands and reddish title labels to spines, edges sprinkled red. A bit worn with some scrapes, but very good. Each volume with armorial bookplates of John Hoadly, LLD to front paste-down and Henry Carrington Bowles to rear paste-down (the latter being the Bowles arms with those of H.C.B.'s wife Ann Garnault inset). Historian and notary Richard… Read More

London: printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, deceas'd; Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1695. First edition. 8vo., pp. 159, [i]. Woodcut initials. Slight dampstain along bottom margin occasionally affecting (though not obscuring) text, title-page a little grubby but otherwise only occasional light spots and smudges. Modern tan half calf, red morocco gilt title label to spine, marbled boards, endpapers renewed. A very good copy in a sound modern binding. The Essay is divided into five distinct points: 'First, Concerning the Standard of the Gold and Silver Coins, and the Establishment of a Just and Reasonable Foot for the Course of the same'; 'Second, Concerning the Present State and Condition of the Gold and Silver Coins'; 'Third, Whether it be or be not Absolutely necessary at this Time to Re-establish the same'; 'Fourth, The Proposing of Means that must be Obtained, and the Proper Methods to be used in and for the… Read More

Londini [London]: Excudebant G. Bishop, R. Nuberie & R. Barker 1596. First edition. Folio, ff. [ii], 520, [xxx]. Numerous errors in foliation as usual. Tables at rear. Printer's divide to title-page, architectural border to general title (McKerrow 300) and section title-pages, ornate head- and tail-pieces, historiated initials, woodcut illustration to f.316 recto. Occasional annotations in an old, neat hand. Title- and next page a little creased and repaired with paper strip at fore-edge, small round wormhole to fore-edge margin from about half way through, a bit dusty, sporadic light dampstaining, some leaves slightly toned, a few wax spots, tiny scorch hole to f.39 affecting a couple of letters. Contemporary very dark brown calf recently neatly rebacked with brown gilt spine label, boards chipped and worn, small area of calf lost at fore-edge, corners frayed, very good. To front pastedown, large armorial bookplate with the motto 'Je Veux de Bonne Guerre', likely that of Paul… Read More

London: John Bill, printer to the King's most Excellent Majestie, 1628. Second edition, first printed in England. 4to., pp.[xxiv], 338, [xii]. Title-page in red and black with large engraved vignette, woodcut initials head- and tail-pieces, many handsome illustrations in the text. Neatly pencilled bibliographical notes to ffep, few marginal notes in an older hand. Title-page a little foxed, occasional light ink blots and some spotting, a few pages with some light smudgy marks, eg. p.99. Trimmed a little close at head edge but never touching text. Later pale tan calf (probably late 19th c.), red and green labels to spine with date at foot wrongly put as 1828, blind tooled borders, edges coloured yellow, endpapers renewed. Headcap worn with small loss, some scuffs, joints worn with upper beginning to split at head, corners worn, frame of toning around free endpapers, still very good. To front paste-down the armorial bookplate of Hugh Robert Hughes of Kinmel, H.M. Lieutenant of Flintshire,… Read More

London: Weidenfield & Nicholson, 1997. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxi, 330+ plates. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Plates bound in lightly crinkled, light signs of use, otherwise very good.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxiii, 432 + plates. Maps and genealogies. Hardback: burgundy cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy.

Harvard University Press, 1994. First edition. 8vo., 223 + plates. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: blue cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Light shelf-dusting only: very good.