Kraemer, Joel L. (ed.): Perspectives on Maimonides: Philosophical and Historical Studies. Oxford University Press, for the Littman Library, 1991. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 332. Hardback: burgundy cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Top edge red. Dust-jacket. Unused: other than very light creasing only to jacket edges and a touch of shelf-dust, a fine copy. In The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization. Ref: 53903
Kuehn, Thomas: Heirs, Kin, and Creditors in Renaissance Florence. Cambridge University Press, 2008. First edition. 8vo., pp. xvii, 237. Cloth, silver-lettered, dust-jacket. Felt-tip remainder mark to bottom edge, otherwise near fine. Ref: 52387
[La Calpren?de, Gaultier de Coste seigneur de]; (Phillips, J., trans.:) Pharamond: or The History of France. A Fam'd Romance in Twelve Parts. The Whole Work Never Before Englished. London: T. Bassett, T. Dring and W. Caderman, 1677. Second edition. Folio, pp. [iv], 415, [i]; 758. Title page in red and black, woodcut initials. Very slightly foxed, faintly toned toward rear. Title a little grubby, some tiny scorch marks and a small scorched hole to 3O4 affecting a few letters, tiny marginal worm trails to gatherings 2Q-2V, 2I-2K and 3C-3E, small hole (paper flaw?) To 4Z4 affecting a few words to verso. Plain, modern dark brown calf, raised bands, green Morocco title label to spine, blind-tooled borders, endpapers renewed, edges faintly marbled. Spine and board edges a little rubbed, joints slightly creased, some bookseller's pencil notes to ffep. A very good, soundly rebound copy. La Calpren?de's (1610-1663) Merovingian historical romance, begun in 1661. It remained incomplete (in seven volumes) at his death two years later and was continued by Pierre d'Ortigue de Vaumori?re (1610-1693), with the 12th and final volume appearing in 1670. The first edition of the then-extant text in English was published in 1662 by Samuel Speed. ESTC R19768; Wing (2nd ed.) L126. Ref: 54593show full image..
Lake, Peter: The Boxmaker's Revenge. 'Orthodoxy', 'Heterodoxy' and the Politics of the Parish in Early Stuart London. Manchester University Press, 2001. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 422. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine, fine. Dust-jacket, light shelf-wear with mild creasing to edges, very good. Ref: 53738
Lamont, Linda (ed.): Willie Lamont History Man Lewes, East Sussex: Linda Lamont, 2016. First edition. 8vo., pp. [x], 1-100, xxviii (photo section, in colour) 101-176. Paperback, minor shelf-wear, very good. With contributions by many colleagues and friends of William Lamont. Ref: 53755
Langland, William: (Skeat, Rev. Walter W., ed.:) The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman in Three Parallel Texts Together with Richard the Redeless. Vol. I: The Text; Vol. II: Introduction, Notes, and Glossary. Oxford University Press (special edition for Sandpiper Books), 2001. 2 vols., pp. 628, (3); cii, 484, (3). Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. New, still in publisher's shrink-wrap. Facsimile of the 1886 edition. Ref: 54942
Lapidge, Michael (ed.): Anglo Saxon England 33 Cambridge University Press, 2002. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 393. Cloth, gilt-lettered and decorated, corners slightly bumped, edges lightly dusted, small remainder mark to top edge. Dust-jacket, spine slightly faded, some shelf wear. Overall, very good. Ref: 30477
Lawrence, Susan C.: Charitable Knowledge. Hospital Pupils and Practitioners in Eighteenth-Century London. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiv, 390. Black cloth, gilt title to spine, edges dusted. Dust-jacket, only a little superficial shelf wear. Very good. Cambridge History of Medicine. Ref: 51935
[Le Ma?tre de Claville:] Trait? du vrai m?rite de l'homme [?]. A Paris: chez Saugrain, Grande Salle du Palais, a la Providence. 1737. Third edition. 2 vols., 12mo., pp.[viii], 359, [v]; [viii], 380, [vi]. With half-title to each vol., woodcut initials and headpieces. Vol.I leaf Q1 is errata, Q2 is blank, errata and privilege at end of vol.II. Vol.II with tiny scorch mark to pp.23-4 affecting a couple of letters, marginal closed tears neatly repaired to pp.209-12. Attractive contemporary calf, spines gilt with red morocco labels, all edges red, marbled endpapers. Spines a bit rubbed but very good. To each volume, armorial bookplate of F. Routy D.M. and modern bookplate of Peter Stewart Young of Tillingham to front paste-downs. Illegible name to vol. I, p.1, lower margin. A stylishly-written treatise on 18th-century moral philosophy, widely read in its time. Ref: 54410show full image..
Lee, Jeffrey: God's Wolf: The Life of the Most Notorious of all Crusaders, Scourge of Saladin. New York: Norton, 2017. First American edition. 8vo., pp. 332 + colour plates. 5 maps. Hardback: dark blue cloth-backed light blue boards, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Fine, almost as new. A "swashbuckling yet scholarly" Life of Reynald de Chatillon. Ref: 53725
