Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2005. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); navy blue cloth with spine stamped in silver; illustrated dust jacket; 397pp. Black and white illustrations. Boards lightly shelfworn and dust soiled; spine cocked. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Dust jacket shows light edgewear; a Very Good copy. More
New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1987. Octavo. 349 pp + advertisements. Frontispiece. Green cloth with spine stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Light rubbing to extremities, binding is sound, and pages unmarkd. A Near Fine copy of Volume 25 Series A of the Garland Library of Medieval Literature. More
![Item #45234 The Comedy of Dante Alighieri the Florentine [Three Volume Set] [Slipcase title: The...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/45234.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1758734187)
New York: Basic Books, 1962. First American Edition of the Dorothy L. Sayers translation. Three volumes; octavos; publisher's black cloth, spines titled in black, red, and gilt, housed in original paper-covered slipcase with printed paper paste-on to upper panel; black and white plates by William Blake throughout. Spines quite sunned..... More
Livorno, Italia: Presso Tommaso Masi e Comp. Co' Tipi Bodoniani, 1807 - 1813. First Edition. Four octavo volumes; bound in uniform contemporary speckled calf; five raised bands and red leather labels to spine; decorated in gilt; all edges gilt; brown endpapers; 359; 416; 453; 474pp., frontis portrait of Dante and..... More
New York: Henry G. Bohn, 1854. Third Edition. Octavo; later half brown morocco over cloth; five raised bands and gilt tooling to spine; edges stained red; new marbled endpapers; xxiv, 460pp., thirty four engravings including extra title and frontispiece, complete. Rubbing and some scuffing to boards; binding sound and pages..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press / Bollingen Series, 1978-1986. First Editions. Three volumes; thick quartos (27cm); publisher's cloth in red and white photo-illustrated dust jackets. Moderate shelf wear to jacket margins, the first volume jacket spine significantly sunned and textblock foxed, else a Very Good to Near Fine set. Bollingen..... More
University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015. First Edition. Octavo. 199 pp. Color and b&w illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket. Dark gray boards stamped in gilt. Dust jackets shows very light rubbing to corners. Touch of shelfwear to boards, and binding is sound and pages unmarked. More
New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. First Thus, Wrapper Issue. Octavo; publisher's glossy grey decorative card wrappers; xxxiv,406pp. The whole somewhat warped from exposure to damp, ownership signature to half title, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Forms part of the series The Records of Western Civilization. More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth in blue dust jacket; xii,[2],238pp. Light shelf wear to jacket margins, spine panel a bit sunned, else Near Fine.Posthumously published study of the medieval Islamic philosophy system Kalam on Jewish thinkers like Abrahan ibn Ezra and Maimonides. More
![Item #49547 View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages [Two Volume Set]. Henry Hallam](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/49547.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1789065603)
London: John Murray, 1841. Eighth Edition. Two octavo volumes (22.5cm); full contemporary bespoke roan with gilt-tooled coat of arms within decorative gilt ruling, gilt spines in six compartments, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; xv,[1],556; vii,[1],560pp. (collated complete). Leather a bit dried and spine gilt starting to flake, else a Very..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. First Edition, cloth issue. Black and white reproductions. Photo-illustrated dust jacket; black cloth boards stamped in gilt. Very light rubbing to edges of dust jacket; white discoloration to bottom edge of boards; binding sound and pages unmarked; Near Fine. More
Karachi: Pakistan Historical Society, 1961. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed printed paper-covered boards; [4],iv,201pp. Discoloration and bubbling to boards from exposure to damp, more heavily so to rear cover, textblock a bit toned, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Good to Very Good overall. More
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1929. Fourth (1957) Impression. Octavo (22cm); publisher's cloth in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; vii,[1],398pp.; frontispiece, seven leaves of halftone plates and maps. Dust jacket rather worn with chipping and closed tears at spine edge, rather long strip of biopredation along top half of rear..... More
Alger: Editions Carbonel / Imprimerie La Typo-Litho et J. Carbonel, 1948. 3e Édition. Slim 12mo; publisher's grey printed card wrappers; mixed pagination. Wrapper a bit toned along margins, textblock significantly browned due to inferior paper quality, later ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound.Bilingual (Arabic and..... More
New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1982. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's tan cloth, black titling; xi,[3],151,[1],155pp. Boards very slightly bowed, ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good or better. Bilingual edition in English and Hebrew. More
Stockholm: Norstedts, 1947. First Edition. Octavo (21.5x15x3cm); 497pp, including index. Nearly 100 photographic and documentary illustrations. Pictorial dustjacket; volume in oat-colored true linen, with maroon, black and gilt spine titling. Gray topstain to textblock. Entirely in Swedish.Dustjacket shows minimal corner- and edgewear, with one small (1cm) closed tear on front..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, [1995]. First Edition. Large quarto (28.5cm); publisher's cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; [2],xxx,672pp.; sixteen leaves of color photographic plates, halftone text illus. throughout. Light shelf wear to cloth and jacket margins, corners bumped, ownership inscription to front free endpaper; Very Good and sound overall. More
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1971. First Edition. Signed by Gardner without inscription on full title. Octavo; [xi], 298pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $12.50 price intact; book in patterned reddish-purple boards and navy cloth spine with gilt lettering and red decoration. Jacket lightly rubbed at corners and spine ends with..... More
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2001. First Edition. Octavo; illustrated dust jacket; green cloth boards stamped in black; 395pp. Light edgewear to dust jacket; sticker to rear. Boards shelfworn and corners slightly bumped; binding sound and pages unmarked; Very Good or better. More
London: The British Library and University of Toronto Press, 2012. First Edition. Octavo; illustrated dust jacket; black cloth stamped in gilt; 369pp. Illustrations, come color; DVD to rear pocket. Mild rubbing to edges of dust jacket and boards; binding sound; pages unmarked; Near Fine. More
![Item #32736 La Louiseide, ou, Le héros chrétien; poeme épique [Two Volumes in One]. Louis IX,...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32736.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1746569092)
Paris: Chez Merlin, Libraire, rue de la Harpe, à Saint-Joseph, 1773. First Edition. Two volumes in one; octavo (20.5cm); contemporary calf over paper-covered boards, tan gilt spine label; [4],xxiv,318; [4],247,[1]pp. (collated complete); woodcut head- and tail-pieces throughout. Moderate wear to margins, front joint starting to crack but holding, brief leather..... More
Rouen: Chez Robert Machuel, derriere la Choeur de S. Martin-sur-Renelle, 1724. First Edition. Quarto; full contemporary speckled calf, elaborately gilt spine in six compartments, all edges speckled red; [10],564pp. (collated presumed complete); engraved portrait frontispiece and two leaves of plates, one folding, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. Leather a bit..... More
![Item #49344 Histoire et Regne de Charles VI [Nine Volume Set]. Marguerite de Lussan, Nicolas...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/49344.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1787607465)
Paris: Chez Pissot, Libraire, Quai de Conti, a la descente du Pont-neuf, 1753. First Edition. Nine 12mo volumes (17cm); full contemporary calf, elaborate gilt spines in six compartments, red and black spine pieces; collated, presumed complete with double portrait frontispieces at head of Vol. I. Moderate wear and a bit..... More
Paris: Éditions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1987. First Edition. Large folio; publisher's cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket; xiv,316pp. + CCLIV photographic plates, mostly full color. Moderate wear to jacket margins with chipping at top fore-edge corner and closed tear to rear panel, corners bumped, else a...... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1951, 1956. First Editions. Two volumes; octavos; uniformly bound in publisher's dark blue-green blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spines, black topstains; xvi,342; xciv,450pp. Moderate shelf wear, textblocks a bit shaken in bindings, contemporary partly-redacted ownership signature to front free endpapers and rather extensive marginalia to first fifty..... More