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

Paris: Firmin-Didot et cie, 1890. 4to., pp. [viii], IV, 779, [iii] + 4 chromolithograph plates including frontis, with descriptive letterpress for each, + 3 maps, 1 of which folding. Half-title and title in red and black, many illustrations in the text, errata to final leaf. Foxed, very good. Half red sheep, spine gilt with raised bands, title tooled direct, marbled boards, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. A bit rubbed, closed tear to headcap, joints worn and repaired at ends, boards worn, corners repaired, hinges reinforced with red cloth, endpapers toned, still a good copy. A biography of the emperor Nikephoros II. Schlumberger (1844–1929) was a French historian, numismatist and specialist the era of the crusades and the Byzantine Empire. His first work Numismatique de l'Orient Latin (1878–82) is still considered definitive. His displeasure at failing to be elected a member of the Académie Française in 1908 led to Marcel Proust memorably describing him as a… Read More

Oxford University Press, 1992. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiii, 281 + plates. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine, fine. Dust-jacket, very good.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998. First edition. 8vo., pp. viii, 360. Hardback: green cloth, gilt-lettered to spine, a couple of light indents to boards, otherwise fine. Dust-jacket, a hint of shelf-wear, very good.

Princeton University Press, 2013. First edition. 8vo., pp. xix, 328. Illustrations to text. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy.

University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2011. 8vo., pp. 296. 22 b/w illustrations. 5 maps. Hardback. Dust-jacket. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap.