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
Safran, Linda: The Medieval Salento: Art and Identity in Southern Italy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. Large 8vo. (262 x 185 mm), pp. 480 pages. 20 colour, 149 b/w illustrations. Hardback. Dust-jacket. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Ref: 53367
Sanok, Catherine: New Legends of England: Forms of Community in Late Medieval Saints' Lives. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. First edition. 8vo., pp. 349. Illustrations to text. Hardback: grey cloth, black-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, contents pristine but edges and light grey jacket mildly dust-discoloured in places: still a very good copy. Ref: 54296
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
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..
Scott, Anne M. & Barbezat, Michael David (eds.): Fluid Bodies and Bodily Fluids in Premodern Europe: Bodies, Blood, and Tears in Literature, Theology, and Art. Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2019. First edition. 8vo., pp. viii, 203. Illustrations to text. Hardback: laminated pictorial boards. Unused: as new. In the series: Borderlines. Ref: 54467
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
Skidmore, Chris: Richard III Brother, Protector, King. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxiii, 432 + plates. Maps and genealogies. Hardback: burgundy cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54335
