History: Europe from The Owl at the Bridge

Gothic European cathedrals, sculpture, painting, stained glass, manuscript illumination, metalwork, tapestries. 287 pages, 206 illus. (32 color); 21 cm. Paper; ink owner name, pencil underlining, yellow highlighting; a working copy. Stock#ofc0003.

Oxford, Clarendon, 1949. Hard Cover. The Greek edition of Henry Stuart Jones, first published 1901. Series: Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis. Pagination by book; has pencil student's textual notes of Albert Cook, poet, critic, translator of Homer. Good + no dj. (14710)

Sedan, De l'imprimerie de Joseph Richard, 1791. Soft Cover. 24 p., 21 cm. Caption title; imprint at end. Printed signature (p. 23) of "Blodell". One of a collection of 40 Royalist and counter-revolutionary tracts of the French Revolution. Stock#OB1041-10. In marbled paper wrappers.

New York, St. Martin's Press 1973. Soft Cover. xv, 229 pages, maps; 21.5 cm. Series: New Studies in Medieval History. From the emergence of the communes to the age of Dante. Bibliography: pages [200]-216. Softcover; ink price on front cover; Good+. Stock#37881/house.

Paris, Chez Perlet, 1792. Du Dimanche 3 Juin 1792. Séance de Vendredi soir. The contemporary French collector of the volume into which this piece was bound was interested in the full account of the fête for Jacques Guillaume Simonneau, "né 1740 à Étampes et mort assassin lors d'une émeute frumentaire le 3 mars 1792." "Simonneau est un industriel marchand-tanneur et… Ler mais sobre este item

Milano: Società  tipografica de' classici italiani, 1803. Hard Cover. Volume 6 ONLY (of 10): 330 p., index; 21.5 cm. Series: Classici italiani (Milan, Italy), vol. 104. Guicciardini treated the era 1490-1534, during which Italy went from being a political force in Europe to a pawn of powerful national kingdoms. This volume covers 1512-1516. Bound in contemporary half leather, lacks… Ler mais sobre este item

Paris, Chez la vevfe Edm Pepingué ... M.DC. LIX [1659]. First Edition. Hard Cover. Two volumes: [20], 662; [22], 623 p.; 15 cm. The French Royal Historiographer wrote a number of works, beginning with "Abrégé". This history of Spain traces the origins of the country in Volume 1. In Volume 2 Ferdinand marries Isabella, the Jews are expelled from… Ler mais sobre este item

London, Dent, 1898. First Edition. Hard Cover. xv, 326 p., fold map; 18 cm. First edition. Series: Medieval Towns. Illustrated by M. Helen James. Stock#32476. Very good copy, spine somewhat darkened but the gold is still there.

Hard Cover. 294 pages; 24 cm. 207 letters written by three adolescent / young men of three generations of the Nuremberg Behaim family, spanning the years (1) 1523-1534, (2) 1578-1582, and (3) 1628-1638. New in publisher's shrinkwrap. Stock#100423x/h.

Paris : Langlois et Lelercq, 1845. Hard Cover. The 4th volume of 6; 449 p., 1 leaf, 30 plates, 27.5 cm.: Siècle de Louis XIV. Arranged chronologically by date of birth. Biographies of: Pierre Corneille; Mlle de Scudéry; Duquesne; Turenne; Claude Perrault; La Rochefoucauld; le cardinal de Retz; Eustache Lesueur; Colbert; Charles Lebrun; Molière; le grand Condé; La Fontaine;… Ler mais sobre este item

Firenze: per Niccolò Conti, 1821. Hard Cover. Volume 9 (of 10): 382, [1] p.; 21.5 cm. This ninth volume consists of 16 diplomatic missions on behalf of the Florentine Republic, 1505-1512; cf. Bertelli 19: 59. Bound in full tree calf; bottom of spine chipped; good+. Stock#OB690.

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1971.. Hard Cover. xxxvi, 411 p. 23 cm. "Against a work by Samuel Parker polemicizing against Dissenters, Marvell responded in The Rehearsal Transpos'd (in an anonymous Part in 1672 and a second Part under his own name in 1673), his best-known work during his lifetime. In both Parts he argued, not without polemics and burlesque but… Ler mais sobre este item

Harvard University Press, 1996. Hard Cover. ”Nestled in the Apennines, cradle of the Renaissance, home of Dante, Michaelangelo, and the Medici, Florence is unlike any other city in the world with its mingling of great art and literature.” xxix, 498 p. Fine/fine.

London, Law & Gilbert, 1812; reprint 1965, Gregg Press Ltd., London. Hard Cover. Folio; 3 leaves, xi, [3], 270, [1], [66] p., indexes, color facsimile plate; 42 cm. Title continues: ...With an Account of the Archiepiscopal Registers and Other Records There Preserved. Codices Manuscripti Lambethani, Whartoniani, Carewani, Tenisoniani, Gibsoniani, Miscellanei, Manners-Suttoniani; Account of the Records. Maroon cloth; VG+. Stock#21575x… Ler mais sobre este item

Paris, Librarie Chapelot, 1920. Soft Cover. Two volumes: xxxii, 405; 391 pages, portrait frontispieces by A. Danse. The author was born in Paris of Irish-French parentage, niece of Arthur Richard Dillon (1721-1806; archbishop of Nabonne), daughter of Arthur Richard Dillon (1750-1794; Jacobin general) and a woman of the French court. In 1797 she married Frederic-Seraphin, comte de Gouvernet; this work… Ler mais sobre este item

NY, Facts on File, 1986. Hard Cover. 279 p., illus. (some color); 29 cm. Translation of Le corti italiane del Rinascimento. "Between the late Middle Ages and early modern times, the seignorial court emerged as a new entity on the Italian scene." ISBN(10) 0816015406. Stock#L089. Vg / dj vg.

London, Macmillan, 1893. Hard Cover. lx, 256 p., front.; 19 cm. With 100 illustrations by Hugh Thomson, 1860-1920. First published in 1832, "Our Village" describes English village life several decades before that. Vg, decorated boards/no dj. Stock#101854x (dr).

London : B.T. Batsford, [1954]. Hard Cover. 111 p : illus ; 26 cm. Color frontispiece of The Castle of Macleod of Dunvegan, Isle of Skye. Stock# 42,352. Vg / dj vg, protected in plastic.

New York, Italica Press, 1986. Soft Cover. xxviii, 132 p., index, maps; 21.5 cm. Introduction, gazetteer, bibliography by Eileen Gardiner. Stock#37568x. As new/ paper.

Roma: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Libreria dello Stato [1993]. Hard Cover. Two volumes: color illus., maps; 32 cm. Translated into English by Anne Goodrich Heck; revised by Luciano F. Farina. Volume III of Nuova Raccolta Colombiana (English). At head of title: Ministry of Cultural and Environmental Assets, National Commission for the Celebration of the Quincentennial of… Ler mais sobre este item