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
Optatus; (Du Pin, Louis Ellies, ed.:) Sancti Optati Afri Milevitani episcopi De schismate Donatistarum, libri septem [?] [...] Lutetiae Parisiorum [Paris]: apud Andream Pralard, 1700. First edition thus. Folio, pp.[xxii], civ, 601, [I] + large folding map. Half-title, title-page in red and black with engraved device, finely engraved head- and tail-pieces, ornate initials, errata to final leaf verso. Remarkably the map appears never to have been bound in, and is loosely inserted opposite p.1. A few fragments of blue paper stuck to half-title near gutter, a few leaves lightly toned with faint foxing eg. pp.45-51, occasional light spotting, very faint damp staining to a few leaves near gutter, a few leaves with slight paper flaws to fore-edge margins, overall very good. Slightly later half sheep with brown paper-covered boards, red morocco label to spine, all edges red, marbled endpapers. Spine very worn, hinges split but cords holding firm, boards rubbed with some loss of colour, corners worn and frayed, a few pencilled bookseller's notes to ffep verso. Still a good, sound copy. Tiny paper label to top corner of front paste-down: J. Mosley Stark, 10 King William Street, London. Tiny paper label to top corner ffep verso: sold by C.J. Stewart, 11 King William Street, London. To the title-page, round blue ink stamp of St Hugh's, Parkminster. Celebrated edition of this contemporary history of the 4th-cent. north African Donatist heresy, the editor inserts other material relevant to north African and Donatist history and geography. His recension of the text was used later by Migne in his 'Patrologia Latina'. Graesse V 30: "C'est la meilleure ?d. faite sur 5 mss." Ref: 54563show full image..
Ostrowski, Donald: Europe, Byzantium, and the "Intellectual Silence" of Rus' Culture. Leeds: ARC Humanities Press, 2018. 8vo., pp. vii, 112. Hardback: laminated boards. Unused: as new. In the series: Beyond Medieval Europe. Ref: 54462
