Mastrangelo, Marc: The Roman Self in Late Antiquity: Prudentius and the Poetics of the Soul. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. First edition. 8vo., pp. viii, 259. Hardback: burgundy cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54301
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
Pickman, Edward Motley: The Mind of Latin Christendom. (Vol. I., 373-496). Oxford University Press. 1937. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiv, 738. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Without dust-jacket. Lightly dust-marked, still very good. Oval library ink-stamp of the Catholic Missionary Society, West Meath, to ffep. No further volume was published. Ref: 53944
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..
Sylvanne, Ilkka: Military History of Later Rome 284-361. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2021. Second edition. 8vo., pp. xiii, 435 + maps and plates. Illustrations to text. Paperback. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. First published in 2015, the first volume, covering the years 284-361, of a seven volume series continuing through late Antiquity to 641 AD. Ref: 54510
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..
