Nicolaidis, Etfthymios (Emanuel, Susan, trans.): Science and Eastern Orthodoxy: From the Greek Fathers to the Age of Globalization. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. First edition. 8vo., pp. xx, 252 + plates. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 55268
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
Ramsay, William M. & Bell, Gertrude L.: The Thousand and One Churches. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2008. 8vo., pp. 580. Hardback: cloth, dust-jacket. New, still in publisher's shrink-wrap. First published in 1909, long out of print until this issue with a new Foreword by Robert G. Ousterhout and Mark P. C. Jackson, Ramsay and Bell's book remains "a standard work on early Byzantine architecture in Anatolia" (W. Eugene Kleinbauer). Ref: 53851
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
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..
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
Tertullian: (Novatian) (Le Prieur, Philippe; Pam?le, Jacques de Joigny de; Haverkamp, Siwart, eds.:) Opera, ad vetustissimorum exemplarium fidem sedul? emendata, diligentia Nicolai Rigaltii J.C. Cum ejusdem annotationibus integris, & variorum commentariis seorsim antea editis. Argumenta et notas in libros omnes Philippus Priorius de novo adjecit, & dissert Venetiis [Venice]: Typis Gasparis Girardi, 1744. 2 vols. bound as 1. Folio, pp.[viii], LXXXVIII, 748, x, [x], 166, [xxiv], 21, [I] + 1 plate. Usual small errors in pagination. Both title-pages in red and black with engraved portrait vignette, ornate head-and tail-pieces and initials, a few illustrations in the text. Without final blank. Vol. I title-page a little crumpled and dusty, a couple of small paper flaws to edges, generally very clean internally. Later plain vellum (perhaps late 19th century), spine label possibly from an earlier binding, edges slightly overlapped, all edges red, endpapers renewed. Spine darkened, label chipped, vellum a little grubby, corners a bit worn, very good. To ffep, ownership inscription of J.D. Coleridge, 1 Sussex Square, dated 1890 (or possibly 1870). This is John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge (1820-1894). A lawyer, judge and Liberal politician, he held the posts of Solicitor-General, Attorney-General, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and Lord Chief Justice. He was the eldest son of Sir John Taylor Coleridge, judge, and the great-nephew of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Dibdin rather bluntly says: "A reprint of the Parisian edition of 1675, with the notes of Havercamp in the Apology. A splendid, but most inaccurately printed book. It must be shunned." Dibdin 4th ed. I, 209 Ref: 54564show full image..
Vivian, Tim and Mikhail, Maged S.A. (eds.): The Life of Bishoi: The Greek, Arabic, Syriac, and Ethiopic Lives. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press. 2022. First edition. 8vo., pp. xvii, 371. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Light shelf-wear, very good. Foreword by Mark N. Swanson. Contributors: Apostolos N. Athanassakis, Rowan A. Greer, Robert Kitchen, Maged S.A. Mikhail, and Tim Vivian. Saint Athanasius and Saint Cyril Theological School Press. Ref: 55266
