Brisson, Barnabe: Hotman, Antoine and Fran?ois: De Veteri Ritu Nuptiarum & Jure Connubiorum. Leiden: Hack, 1641. 12mo. pp. 566, (xxii), including engraved titlepage, woodcut initials and ornaments. Tiny worm trail to lower blank margin of first gathering, minor offsetting on last blank, verso of last blank a bit soiled. Full calf c.1800, blind ruled, raised bands, gilt-lettered morocco label. Minor repair to extremities, joints a bit cracked, later endpapers. Label of J.L. Weir to front pastedown, his autograph dated 1945 to ffep; pencilled autograph of James Fowler Kellas Johnstone to verso of engraved titlepage. Contains chapters on wedding ceremonies and on matrimonial law. French jurist and politician Barnab? Brisson's (1531-1591; latinised as Brissonius) public career included holding various positions by appointment of Charles IX and Henry III, among them the sixth president of Parlement. When the Seize took over Paris in 1589, Brisson was sufficiently diplomatic for them to also appoint him first president of the new Parlament, but before long he lost their trust and was executed in 1591. James Fowler Kellas Johnstone (1846-1928) was a specialist in bibliographies of Aberdeen and North East Scotland, and the author, with A.W. Robertson, of 'Bibliotheca Aberdonensis' (1928). J.L. Weir was probably the Scottish historian, author of 'Excerpta Scotica' (1939). Willems, 1615. Ref: 53154show full image..
Brown, Paul: Mercenaries to Conquerors: Norman Warfare in the Eleventh & Twelfth Century Mediterranean. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2016. First edition. 8vo., pp. xi, 251 + plates. 2 maps to text. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54437
Bryson, Sarah: La Reine Blanche. Mary Tudor: A Life in Letters. Stroud: Amberley Publishing, 2018. First edition. 8vo., pp. 288 + plates. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54348
Buckler, Georgina: Anna Comnena: A Study. Oxford: Clarendon Press (for Sandpiper Books), 2000. First edition thus. 8vo., pp. ix, 558. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered. Dust-jacket. Unread: other than a hint of shelf-wear to edges of dust-jacket, as new. Ref: 53382
Bueno De Mesquita, Bruce: The Invention of Power: Popes, Kings and the Birth of the West. New York: Public Affairs (Hachette), 2022. First edition. 8vo., pp. viii, 337. Illustrations. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54619
Burrows, Daron (trans.): The Life of Saint Clement: A Translation of La Vie de Seint Clement. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2016. 8vo., pp.. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 488 in the Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies and Volume 10 in The French of England Translation ACMRS series. Ref: 53720
Carr, John: The Komnene Dynasty: Byzantium's Struggle for Survival 1057-1185. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2018. First edition. 8vo., pp. ix, 230 + plates. Hardback: green cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54448
[Castiglione, Baldassarre] Lokaj, Rodney, (trans.): Two Renaissance Friends: Baldassarre Castiglione, Domizio Falcone, and Their Neo-Latin Poetry. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2015. 8vo., pp. 372. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 466 in the ACMRS Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series. Ref: 53707
Caviness, Madeline Harrison: Sumptuous Arts at the Royal Abbeys in Reims and Braine. Ornatus Elegantiae, Varietate Stupendes. Princeton University Press, 1990. First edition. 4to. (312 x 239mm), pp. xxvi, 401. Hardback: black cloth, light dusting to edges. Dust-jacket, light shelf wear. A very good copy. Ref: 53219
Cedrenus, Georgius: (Scylitzes, John; Psellus, Michael; Migne, Jacques Paul:) [?] Compendium Historiarum. Cui subjiciuntur excerta ex breviario Joannis Scylitz? curopalat? [...] Tomus Prior; [...] Accedunt Michaelis Pselli opera qu? reperiri potuerunt omnia nunc primum in unum collecta, accurante et denuo recognoscente J.-P. Migne. Tomus posterior. Parisina [Paris]: Apud J.-P. Migne, 1864. 2 vols. Large 8vo., pp. [vii], cols. 11-1168; pp. [iv], cols. 9-1456. Parallel columns of Greek and Latin text. Foxed, some glue staining at gutters, edges dusty and many unopened, title-pages with traces of removed label, gathering 19 of vol. I very toned, still good. Modern bindings, plain tan calf spines with gilt titles, marbled boards, original paper covers bound in, endpapers made from printed waste, edges uncut, very good. Each volume with bookplate pasted to printed front endpaper, 'Bibliotheca Montis Calvariae Wadhurstii'. Two volumes (CXXI & CXXII) in the series Patrologi? Cursus Completus (Traditio Catholica. S?culum XI, annus 1058). Ref: 54391show full image..
