[Redding, Cyrus:] The Pictorial History of the County of Lancaster: with one hundred and seventy illustrations and a map. London: George Routledge, 1844. 4to., pp. [vi], 238 [i.e.338], xlii, (pp. [ii], 11, [i] + 5 lithographed plates), xliii-xlviii. Map of Lancashire at rear. Some plates a bit foxed, occasional neat pencil notes and marks. 20th-century half green morocco, gilt spine, raised bands, green cloth boards, green marbled endpapers. Pencilled notes to preliminary blank. Bands a little rubbed, some light wear to lower board edges, very good indeed. Recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to front pastedown. Exuberantly extra illustrated with 35 bound-in plates (one of which appears to be a small painting), including frontispiece, in addition to the in-text engravings listed at the front. One further plate pasted onto the final page. Additional images include portraits, views, grand houses etc, plus a separate work, 'Profiles of Warrington Worthies' by James Kendrick, 1853, found just before the index. Cyrus Redding (1785-1870) was a journalist who had, in 1842, published the same text with How & Parsons as part of a large series, which included a similar work on Cornwall also written by Redding. Remaining sheets and/or blocks were presumably bought by Routledge, who published this volume two years later. Ref: 55055show full image..
Reyerson, Kathryn L.: Mother and Sons, Inc. Martha de Cabanis in Medieval Montpellier. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. First edition. 8vo., pp. viii, 255. Illustrations to text. Hardback: beige cloth, blue-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54354
Rossellini. Ingrid: Know Thyself: Western Identity from Classical Greece to the Renaissance. New York: Doubleday, 2018. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxii, 469. Many illustrations to text. Hardback: green cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, small red felt-tip spot as remainder mark to bottom edge. Light shelf-wear only: very good indeed. Ref: 54476
Rounding, Virginia: The Burning Time: Henry VIII, Bloody Mary, and the Protestant Martyrs of London. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2017. First American edition. 8vo., pp. xvi, 459. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. A hint of shelf-wear only: still a fine, clean and unread copy. Ref: 53610
Runciman, Steven: The Last Byzantine Renaissance. Cambridge University Press, 1970. First edition, small 8vo., pp. ix, 112. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, binding sound although boards warping outwards and slightly faded to edges. Dust-jacket, not price-clipped, slightly worn to corners and edges, still very good. The Wiles Lectures, 1968. Ref: 55249
Sands, Tracey R.: The Company She Keeps: The Medieval Swedish Cult of Saint Katherine of Alexandria and Its Transformations Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2010. 8vo., pp. 276. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Ref: 53398
Sarpi, Julie: Joanna of Flanders: Heroine and Exile. Stroud: Amberley Publishing, 2019. First edition. 8vo., pp.283 + plates. 4 maps to text. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54472
Sawyer, Birgit: Heimskringla: An Interpretation Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2015. 8vo., pp. 178. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 483 in the ACMRS Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series. Ref: 53716
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..
