Jones, Michael: Ducal Brittany 1364-1399. Relations with England and France during the reign on Duke John IV. Oxford University Press (Sandpiper reprint). 1997. Reprint. 8vo. pp. xxi, 250. Black cloth, fine. Dust-jacket, some surface shelf-wear, still very good. Ref: 54293
Justice, Steven: Adam Usk''s Secret. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. First edition. 8vo., pp. 211. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused: as new. Ref: 54295
Justinian: (Corvinus, Arnoldus:) Institutiones D. Justiniani ss. Princ.: typis variae, rubris nucleum exhibentibus : accesserunt ex Digestis tituli de verborum significatione et regul. juris. Pariis [Paris]: Apud Guillelmum de Luyne, 1676 16mo, pp. [8], 391, [103], [2], including added engraved title, text in red and black. Light water stain to first and last few leaves. Contemporary full speckled calf, raised bands, spine gilt and gilt-lettered, edges sprinkled red, corners a little bumped, extremities minimally rubbed. Contemporary autograph Ja[cques?] Maule to verso of title, 'Monsieur' to verso of last blank. A fresh copy, in an attractive contemporary binding, of this pocket-size pirated edition of Justinian's legal milestone - printed in red and black. It reprises an edition of the same text printed by Daniel Elzevier in Amsterdam in the same year (Willems 1519), including the design of the engraved title, with a revised imprint. Ref: 53556show full image..
Jutte, Daniel: The Age of Secrecy: Jews, Christians, and the Economy of Secrets, 1400-1800. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. First edition. 8vo., pp. ix, 431. Hardback: brown cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54616
Juvenalis, Decimus Junius: (Dryden, John, trans.:) The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. By Mr Dryden, And Several other Eminent Hands. Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus [...] London: Printed for Jacob Tonson [...] 1697. Second edition. 8vo. pp. [ii], xc, 501, [iii] + frontispiece and 17 further engraved plates. Trimmed a little close at head just touching letters of headline p.v, light dampstain to bottom edge and a little worming pp. 5-20 and pp.345-356, slightly foxed, small tear to head of pp.213-4, occasional small wax spots. Contemporary dark brown mottled calf, raised bands with gilt filets, red label, blind-tooled frame and corners to boards, edges sprinkled red. Roughly 1.5cm loss to head cap, spine creased, some scuffs and scrapes, small loss to bottom corner of upper board and top corner of lower board, good. Ownership inscriptions of Tom S. Gowland, Old Park House, Ripon dated Easter 1947 to front pastedown; Gerrard Thomas (Ferrand?) to frontispiece verso. The first edition in 8vo format, following first publication in folio in 1693. Translations by Dryden, Tate, W. Bowles, Charles Dryden, G Stepney, Stephen Harvey, Mr Congreve, Mr Power, Mr Creech, J, Dryden Jnr. The fourth, anonymous satire translated by R. Duke. ESTC R031548; Wing J1289. Ref: 54733show full image..
Kamen, Henry: The Spanish Inquisition: An Historical Revision. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1997. First edition. 8vo., pp. xii, 369 + plates. Hardback: burgundy cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Light signs of use, still very good. Ref: 53984
Karkov, Catherine E.: Conversion and Colonization in Anglo-Saxon England. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006. 8vo., pp. 267. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Ref: 53416
Keeble, N. H. The Literary Culture of Nonconformity in later Seventeenth-Century England. Leicester University Press, 1987. Hardback: green cloth, gilt-lettered to spine, fine. Dust-jacket, Very light shelf-wear with mild creasing towards edges, very good. Ownership signature of William Lamont to ffep. Ref: 53749
Kennedy, Gavin: Captain Bligh: The man and his mutinies. London: Duckworth, 1989. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiii, 321 + plates. Map to endpapers. Hardback: burgundy cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Tiny indent to outer edge of paper, all edges a little dust-marked, but binding fine. Dust-jacket, 2.5cm tear with loss to top corner of upper cover, creasing to edges, otherwise still good. Ref: 53570
Kerouac, Jack: On the Road. New York: The Viking Press, 1957. First edition, third printing. 8vo., pp.[iv], 310. Black cloth, white title to spine and upper board, top edge red. Endcaps a little dusty, tiny 2mm hole to upper joint, lower corners mildly bumped, very good. Dust jacket a little tattered at edges and upper joint with a few chips and creases, some repaired with tape on the inside, still very good. First edition, third impression of the seminal Beat Generation novel. Based on his travels around America in the late 1940s, Kerouac wrote several unsatisfactory versions of the novel before writing the first draft of what eventually became On the Road in three weeks in April 1951, a year after the publication of his first novel, The Town and the City. Kerouac continued to work on the manuscript for several years, deleting some contentious passages and adding more literary sections. Its eventual publication in 1957 caused tremendous debate about the novel's content, style and the whole generation it was assumed to represent, and thrust instant fame upon Kerouac. Ref: 54976show full image..
