Gabra, Gawdat & Takla, Hany N. (eds.): Christianity and Monasticism in Upper Egypt: Volume 2. Nag Hammadi - Esna. Cairo & New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2010. 8vo. Hardback. Dust-jacket. Unused and unblemished, still in publisher's shrink-wrap. Ref: 55265
Gaudet, John: The Pharaoh's Treasure: The Origin of Paper and the Rise of Western Civilization. New York: Pegasus Books, 2018. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxi, 356 + plates. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: quarter black cloth over cream boards, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a single black ink remainder line to bottom edge and a hint only of shelf-dust, otherwise a fine copy. Ref: 54302
Herrin, Judith: Unrivalled Influence: Women and Empire in Byzantium. 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. Ref: 54440
Hourihane, Colum (ed.): Byzantine Art: Recent Studies. Essays in Honor of Lois Drewer. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2009. 8vo., pp. 197. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Ref: 53408
Hughes, Ian: Attila the Hun: Arch-Enemy of Rome. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2019. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxvi, 214. Maps and illustrations to text. Hardback: grey cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54451
Justinian: (Corvinus, Arnoldus:) Institutiones D. Justiniani ss. Princ.: typis variae, rubris nucleum exhibentibus : accesserunt ex Digestis tituli de verborum significatione et regul. juris. Pariis [Paris]: Apud Guillelmum de Luyne, 1676 16mo, pp. [8], 391, [103], [2], including added engraved title, text in red and black. Light water stain to first and last few leaves. Contemporary full speckled calf, raised bands, spine gilt and gilt-lettered, edges sprinkled red, corners a little bumped, extremities minimally rubbed. Contemporary autograph Ja[cques?] Maule to verso of title, 'Monsieur' to verso of last blank. A fresh copy, in an attractive contemporary binding, of this pocket-size pirated edition of Justinian's legal milestone - printed in red and black. It reprises an edition of the same text printed by Daniel Elzevier in Amsterdam in the same year (Willems 1519), including the design of the engraved title, with a revised imprint. Ref: 53556show full image..
Kitzinger, Ernst: (Kleinbauer, W. Eugene, ed.:) The Art of Byzantium and the Medieval West: Selected Studies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976. First edition. 4to. (285 x 213mm), pp. xxii, 419. Hardback: blue cloth, edges lightly dusted, very good. Dust-jacket, two closed tears to cover of spine, one 3cm across middle and the other 0.8cm by endcap, shelf wear, otherwise very good. Ref: 53221
Lenski, Noel: Constantine and the Cities: Imperial Authority and Civic Politics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. Large 8vo., pp. ix, 404. Maps and illustrations. Paperback. White covers, and edges, dust-marked, but an unused copy: very good. Ref: 54358
Mastrangelo, Marc: The Roman Self in Late Antiquity: Prudentius and the Poetics of the Soul. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. First edition. 8vo., pp. viii, 259. Hardback: burgundy cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54301
Morison, Stanley: Politics and Script. Aspects of Authority and Freedom in the Development of Graeco-Latin Scripts from the Sixth Century B.C. to the twentieth century A.D. Oxford: Clarendon Press (Sandpiper edition), 2000. 8vo., pp. 361, [iii]. Copious illustrations to text. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused: as new. The Lyell Lectures 1956-7, were edited and compiled by Nicolas Barker and first published in 1972. Ref: 54931
