Schleif, Corine & Schier, Volker: Katerina's Windows: Donation and Devotion, Art and Music, as Heard and Seen Through the Writings of a Birgittine Nun. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009 4to., pp. 624. Hardback: cloth. Dust-jacket. New, still in publisher's shrink-wrap. Ref: 54621
Schlumberger, L?on Gustave: L'?pop?e Byzantine ? la Fin du Dixi?me Si?cle: Jean Tzimisc?s. Les jeunes ann?es de Basile II, le tueur de Bulgares (969-989). [Paris]: Hachette & cie, 1896. 4to, pp. vi, 799, [I] + coloured frontispiece map + large folding map opposite p.202 + 9 further plates. Additional title-page on translucent paper, with similar leaf at rear. Many illustrations in the text, some of which are full page. Half brown sheep, spine gilt with raised bands, title tooled directly, brown marbled boards, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. A bit rubbed, endcaps and bands worn, some peeling at corners, light scratching and chipping to marbled paper, still very good. Illegible ownership inscription dated 1943 to endpaper. First, stand-alone volume in a sequence of three volumes on Byzantine epic poetry with the Series title: L'?pop?e Byzantine ? la Fin du Dixi?me Si?cle. The final volume was published in 1905. Ref: 54402show full image..
Sedlar, Jean W.: East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994. First edition. Blue cloth, red title to spine, some rubbing to corners and endcaps, edges dusted, very good. Dust-jacket, four small closed tears to both covers by spine, a little sticker residue to back cover, shelf wear, still very good. A History of Central Europe, vol. III. Ref: 51936
Singer, Charles & Sigerist, Henry E. (eds.): Essays on the History of Medicine presented to Karl Sudhoff on the occasion of his seventieth birthday November 26th 1923. Z?rich: Verlag Seldwyla, 1924. First edition. 8vo., pp. 418 + plates. Trivial ink stain to bottom margin at edge only of 4pp. and edges a little dust-marked, otherwise internally unblemished. Hardback: buff cloth, gilt-lettered to spine and upper board. Cloth covering spine detached in one piece but present (loosely inserted), split along gutter between title-page and Contents but binding holding well, corners and top edge a little bumped, cloth discoloured. No dust-jacket. Currently a useful reading copy; rare and eminently reparable. Bookplate of the Bibliotheca Cariana to front pastedown. "3d" in ink to top corner of ffep. Eighteen essays in English, German or Italian covering a range of medical topics from Antiquity to Modern Times. Ref: 53953
Sponsler, Claire: The Queen's Dumbshows: John Lydgate and the Making of Early Theater. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. First edition. 8vo., pp. vii, 308. Hardback: dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unread, a hint only of shelf-wear: almost as new. Ref: 53622
Stephens, W. B. (ed.): The Victoria History of the County of Warwick. Volume VII: The City of Birmingham. London: Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1965. First edition, second impression. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt. Edges uncut. Dust-jacket, price-clipped. Light shelf-wear, a little fraying along jacket edges, but still very good. First published 1964. Ref: 54099
Stevenson, William Henry (ed.): Asser's Life Of King Alfred Together With The Annals Of Saint Neots Erroneously Ascribed To Asser. Edited by William Henry Stevenson with an Introductory article by Dorothy Whitelock. Oxford University Press (Sandpiper reprint). 1998. 8vo. pp.386. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused: as new. OUP edition first published 1959. Ref: 54932
Sweetinburgh, Sheila (ed.): Negotiating the Political in Northern European Urban Society, c.1400-c.1600. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2013. 8vo., pp. 222. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 434 in the ACMRS Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series. Ref: 53721
Syros, Vasileios (ed.): Well Begun Is Only Half Done: Tracing Aristotle's Political Ideas in Medieval Arabic, Syriac, Byzantine, and Jewish Sources. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2011. 8vo., pp. 226. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Ref: 53402
Taylor, Jane H. M.: The Poetry of Francois Villon: Text and Context. Cambridge University Press, 2001. First edition. 8vo., pp. xii, 234. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine, fine. Dust-jacket, light shelf-wear, very good. In the series: Cambridge Studies in French. Ref: 53590
