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
Hodgkin, Thomas: Italy and Her Invaders. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892-1899. Combination of 1st and 2nd editions. 8 vols in 9. 8vo., pp. xvi, 408 + 6 plates + colour frontispiece; xvi, 409-934 + 4 plates; xix, [v], 672, 8 + 6 plates + colour frontis; xxvi, [ii], 653, [I] + 7 plates + frontis; xxiii, [I], 711, [I], 8 +13 plates + frontis; xxi, [I], 484 + 6 plates + frontis; xvii, [iii], 635, [i], 8 + 3 plates + frontis; xvii, [iii], 397, [i], + 2 plates + frontis; xi, [i], 331, [i] + 2 plates + frontis (all plates as called for). A little foxing to vols. I and II, otherwise very clean. Many edges uncut. Brown publisher's cloth, gilt spines, black endpapers apart from vols. VII and VIII, purplish-brown cloth with cream endpapers. Very good. Ownership inscription of Arthur H. May(?), Aldershot 12th Sept. 1958 to ffep of vols. VII and VIII. The magnum opus of Thomas Hodgkin (1831-1913), Italy and Her Invaders provides a history of the wars in the Late Roman Empire. Hodgkin was a British historian, biographer, banker, and Quaker minister. Volumes here as follows: Vol. I. Parts I & II. The Visigothic Invasion (both 2nd ed., 1892); Vol. II. The Hunnish and Vandal Invasions (2nd ed., 1892); Vol. III. The Ostrogothic Invasion (2nd ed., 1896); Vol. IV. The Imperial Restoration (2nd ed., 1896); Vol. V. The Lombard Invasion (1st ed. 1895); Vol. VI. The Lombard Kingdom (1st ed., 1895); Vol. VII. The Frankish Invasions (2nd ed., 1899); Vol. VIII. The Frankish Empire (2nd ed., 1899). Ref: 54393show full image..
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
Krallis, Dimitris: Michael Attaleiates and the Politics of Imperial Decline in Eleventh-century Byzantium Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2012. 8vo., pp. 293. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Ref: 53399
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
Lieu, Samuel N. C.: Manichaeism in the Later Roman Empire and Medieval China: A Historical Survey. Manchester University Press, 1999. Sandpiper Books reprint. 8vo., pp. xviii, 360. Maps. Hardback: burgundy cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. With a Foreword by Mary Boyce. First published 1985. Ref: 54445
MacCoull, Leslie S. B. (trans.): Coptic Legal Documents: Law as Vernacular Text and Experience in Late Antique Egypt. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2010. 8vo., pp. 214. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Ref: 53404
