London: Quiller Press, 1992. Hardcover. Octavo. xvi + 224pp. Textured papered boards. Index. B/w plates. Signed by the author on half-title. History of the Acclimatisation Society of the United Kingdom and its sister societies. The acclimatisation movement was established at the heights of European Colonialism, which sought to establish familiar..... More
Newton Abbot: Readers Union, 1972. Book Club. Hardcover. Octavo. 288pp. Original boards gilt-lettered on spine. B/w plates. Index. Top-edge foxed, else a tight, clean VG+ copy in VG+ dust jacket. More
Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1994. Hardcover. Large thick octavo. 464pp. Black textured papered boards lettered in silver on spine. B/w plates. Index. Hint of spotting to top-edge, else a clean near-Fine copy in near-Fine dust jacket. More
Boston, MA: Eastern Book Co., 1881. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo 416 pp., Original pictorial green cloth stamped in black and gilt, beveled edges, frontis portrait with tissue guard, 29 wood-engraved plates, Very light damp mark to fore-edge of final blank, one signature sprung at bottom. Still an unusually bright and..... More
Melbourne: William Heinemann, 1987. Hardcover. Octavo. xiv + 242pp. Textured papered boards. Maps. B/w plates. The authors' account of their Antarctic expedition in 1982. Small bumps at spine ends, else a clean VG+ copy in VG dust jacket (dust jacket faintly discolored on rear panel). More
London: The Macmillan Press, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Slim octavo. x + 136pp. Index. 'New Studies in Medieval History' series. A serious academic study of the shaping of the eremitical tradition in the Dark Ages, and the changes that came to it in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, with the..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Hardcover. Octavo. xiv + 250pp. Glossy pictorial boards. B/w frontis. & illustrations. Bibliography & index. A clean, tight near-Fine copy (no dust jacket issued). More
Manchester, England: University Press, 1917. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. x + 248pp. Original navy cloth, gilt title, etc. to spine. A series of six lectures on English Franciscan History delivered in 1916 at Oxford: "The Observance of the Vow of Poverty"; "Failure of Mendicancy"; "Privilege: Relation of the Friars to..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Hardcover. Octavo. x + 288pp. Red textured papered boards gilt-lettered on spine. 2 maps. Tables. Bibliography & index. Slight bump to top of spine, bottom of spine slightly rubbed, top-edge a little dusty, otherwise a clean VG copy in near-VG dust jacket (dust jacket spine..... More
London: The Blue Peter Publishing Company, 1927. Second impression. Hardcover. Large quarto. xii + 154pp. Original cloth boards gilt-lettered on spine, gold-stamped sailing ship motif on front board. Fold-out map at rear. Pictorial endpapers. Sepia frontis. 30 color plates. Index. Each color plate is accompanied by a brief history of..... More
UK: Carnegie Publishing, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 212pp. B/w illustrations. Bibliography & index. By placing events in 1612 Lancashire in their wider European context, the author offers new insights that point toward a broad and disturbing pattern of religious persecution. Upper corner bumped, otherwise a tight, clean VG+ copy..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Hardcover. Octavo. xiv + 210pp. Gray textured papered boards gilt-lettered on spine. Map, tables, glossary, appendix, bibliography, index. A clean VG+ copy in VG+ dust jacket. More
New York, NY: Paragon House, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xvi + 184pp. Black cloth spine lettered in gilt, red papered boards. Index. A biography of Wolf Grigorevich Messing ( 1899 — 1974) a world renowned psychic and telepathist who escaped the Nazis by fleeing to Russia after predicting..... More
Canberra: Australian National University, 1989. Softcover. Octavo. x + 356pp. Index. Various essays on aspects of Irish-Australian history, politics, etc. Slightest crease to spine, else a tight, clean VG+ copy. More
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xxii + 334pp. Black cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Fold-out map. Tables, diagrams & b/w plates. Appendices, bibliography, index. The author examines some of the least explored regions of post-Reformation society, investigates the circumstances of those who were..... More
London: Richard Bentley, 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. Three Volumes. Octavos. viii + 400pp; iv + 406pp, iv + 404pp. Contemporary full leather bindings, with leather title labels, raised bands, and gilt rules to spine. Decorative borders in blind and gilt to boards. Marbled endpapers and edges. Each volume with its..... More
London: The Lutterworth Press, 1935. First edition. HardcoverLarge octavo. 238pp. Blue cloth gilt-lettered on spine, lettered in blind on front board. Index. B/w frontis. & plates. Spine faded & chafed at ends, boards slightly rubbed & discolored & bumped on corners, page-edges foxed, previous owner's name on front free endpaper..... More
London: Maggs Bros. 1938. First edition. Softcover. Small quarto. 264pp + xvipp index. Original wrappers, cover illustrations of the bookplate of Hilprand Brandenburg of Biberach. A significant reference work. Covers a little worn and foxed, owner's name to upper cover and first leaf, spine quite darkened and creased with some..... More
Boston: Shambala, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xii + 410pp. Gilt titled black cloth spine with grey papered boards, Appendixes, references. A collection of essays which examine Jung's alleged Anti-Semitism. Authors include: Ernest Harms, James Kirsch, Jay Sherry, Arthur Williamson, Geoffrey Cock, Hans Dieckmann, Andrew Samuels, Paul Roazen, Ann..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Softcover. Octavo. x + 386pp. Appendices, bibliography, index. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth series. A tight, clean Fine copy. More
St. Petersburg: Joint-Stock Co. "Kinocentre" / Limbus press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 104pp. Decorated cloth boards lettered in gilt on front board. Color & b/w illustrations. A detailed catalogue of an exhibition of superb Russian icons of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries tha was held at the Yaroslavsky..... More
London: Basil Blackwell, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. viii + 345pp. Original green cloth with gilt lettering to spine, bibliography, index. Light shelf dust otherwise Fine in lightly rubbed near Fine dust jacket. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. x + 248pp. Green boards gilt-lettered on spine. Maps & graphs. Bibliography & index. A clean, sharp near-Fine copy (no dust jacket). More
Suffolk: Terence Dalton, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover, 8vo, 240pp. Original textured papered boards. Index & sources. B/w illustrations and maps. VG+ in VG+ dustjacket (very slightly rubbed, price clipped.). More
Northern France: circa 1470. A beautifully illuminated vellum leaf from a Medieval Illuminated Manuscript. 6 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches (163 x 122 mm). A single leaf with hand-written text on both side. The text is in Latin, and is a religious work, prepared in a scriptorium in Northern France..... More
