Kilburne, Richard: A Topographie or Survey of the County of Kent. With Some Chronological, Historicall, and Other Matters Touching the Same: and the Several Parishes and Places therein. London: Thomas Mabb for Henry Atkinson [...], 1659. First edition. Small 4to. (177 x 135mm), pp. [viii], 422, [xii] + portrait frontispiece. Numerous errors in pagination as usual, list of Contents incorrectly bound before the dedication rather than after. Woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces. Occasional light smudges and spots of foxing, a little toning along head of title-page, a smudge of red pigment to tail edge of final leaf perhaps indicating the original edge colour. Late 19th- or early 20th-century brown polished sheep neatly rebacked with original spine retained, gilt title and blind tooling to spine, blind-tooled borders to boards, edges marbled, grey endpapers. A little rubbed but a very good copy overall. Recent armorial bookplate of Robert Edmund Lloyd-Roberts to front paste-down. Two MS pencil notes to the ffep verso, the first concerning the placement of the list of Contents, the second recording that this book was 'acquired at the sale at Godmersham Park, the home of Mrs Robert Tritton. 8th June 1983.' Built in 1732 by Thomas May (later Knight), Godmersham Park was inherited by Edward Austen (brother of Jane Austen) in 1794. He was a cousin of the Knight family, who had adopted him in the early 1780s; when his adoptive mother died in 1812 he changed his name to Knight. Jane was a regular visitor to Godmersham Park and is said to have used the house as a model for Mansfield Park. The house passed through several more hands before being bought in 1935 by Robert Tritton and his wife Elsie, whose death in 1983 prompted the Christie's auction mentioned above. In his 'Epistle Dedicatory', Kilburne writes of his intention to present 'the Kent of his own day', and to depict 'the county as it was before the Civil War'. Hasted, in his 1797 History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, dismisses Kilburne's work as being 'little more than a Directory'. However, 'Kent was not well served by early topographers, and Kilburne's small survey was extensively quoted on sixteen occasions by Robert Furley and, over the years in Archaeologia Cantiana, as a first source of reference, and not without some praise. The Topographie devoted disproportionate attention to Hawkhurst: 10 pages out of 422, or, in the words of one writer, 'as much space to it as to twenty other average parishes' (Archaeologia Cantiana, 5, 1863, 59). Kilburne justified this, however: "In respect I finde not any description of this Parish ? it having been the place of my habitation for above twenty eight years last past (God's Providence having also there lent me an inheritance), I thought fit to enlarge my selfe upon this place. (Kilburne, 126)"'. (ODNB) Wing K434 Ref: 50494show full image..
Kiley, Mark, et al.: Prayer from Alexander to Constantine: A Critical Anthology. London: Routledge, 1997. 8vo., pp. xx, 332. Paperback. Light signs of use, with light pencil underlining to just a few pages, still very good. Ref: 54247
Kingsley. Jennifer P.: The Bernward Gospels: Art, Memory, and the Episcopate in Medieval Germany. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2014. 4to., pp. 228. 18 colour and 34 b/w illustrations. Hardback. Dust-jacket. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Ref: 53372
Kitzinger, Ernst: (Kleinbauer, W. Eugene, ed.:) The Art of Byzantium and the Medieval West: Selected Studies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976. First edition. 4to. (285 x 213mm), pp. xxii, 419. Hardback: blue cloth, edges lightly dusted, very good. Dust-jacket, two closed tears to cover of spine, one 3cm across middle and the other 0.8cm by endcap, shelf wear, otherwise very good. Ref: 53221
Knight, Dayanna: Viking Nations: The Development of Medieval North Atlantic Identities. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2016. First edition. 8vo., pp. xi, 271. Illustrations to text. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54435
Kokkinos, Nikos: Antonio Augusta. Portrait of a great Roman lady. London: Routledge, 1992. First edition. 8vo, pp. [xviii], 254, with illustrations. Hardback: black cloth, spine gilt-lettered, very good. Dust-jacket, small tear to fold of upper flap, upper edge rather frayed, generally a little creased. but still good. Ref: 53541
Koortbojian, Michael: Crossing the Pomerium: The Boundaries of Political, Religious, and Military Institutions from Caesar to Constantine. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2020. First edition. Large 8vo., pp. xix, 228. Illustrations to text. Hardback: Buff cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54503
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..
