Sarpi, Julie: Joanna of Flanders: Heroine and Exile. Stroud: Amberley Publishing, 2019. First edition. 8vo., pp.283 + plates. 4 maps to text. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54472
Sartre, Jean-Paul: Words. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1964. First UK edition, first printing. 8vo., pp.173, [i]. Dark brown cloth, gilt title to spine. Head-cap a little crumpled but still fine. Dust jacket tattered at top edge, price-clipped, rear flap creased, good. Translated by Irene Clephane and published in the same year as the first French edition (Mots). Ref: 54676
Sawyer, Birgit: Heimskringla: An Interpretation Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2015. 8vo., pp. 178. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 483 in the ACMRS Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series. Ref: 53716
Schleif, Corine & Schier, Volker: Katerina's Windows: Donation and Devotion, Art and Music, as Heard and Seen Through the Writings of a Birgittine Nun. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009 4to., pp. 624. Hardback: cloth. Dust-jacket. New, still in publisher's shrink-wrap. Ref: 54621
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..
Schmidt, Erich F.: Persepolis III. The Royal Tombs and Other Monuments. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970. Large folio (410 x 310mm), pp. xxiv, 174 + copious plates, a great many of which folding, and further illustrations in the text. Clean and bright within. Dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine. Slight scratch to rear board, crease to ffep, still near fine. Dust-jacket a little creased, scrape to rear panel, slightly tattered at edges but still very good overall. The University of Chicago Oriental Institute Publications, Volume LXX. Ref: 55097show full image..
[Scott, Sir Walter:] The Monastery. A Romance. London; Edinburgh: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London; and for Archibald Cons 1820. First edition. 3 vols., 12mo., pp. [iv], 331, [i]; [iv], 333, [i]; [iv], 351, [i]. Each volume with its half-title; the second and third volumes each with a second half-title bound after the title-page. The misspelling 'attentoin' appears in volume one, in the final line of p.226; volume two has "Chapter II" on both p. 26 and p. 63, and "Chapter III" on pp. 89 and 123. A few spots and smudges, but very good. Near contemporary half brown calf, spines gilt terracotta and blue marbled boards, edges and endpapers. Rubbed, joints and edges worn, a few chips, very good. Ownership inscription of Robert Taylor in an old hand to the head of each title-page, though barely visible in vol. I. The first edition of The Monastery, in three volumes. Published with a print run of 10,000 and a price ?1 4s (?1.20). Like all the other Waverley novels before 1827, it was published anonymously. Ref: 54924show full image..
[Scriptores Rei Rusticae:] (Gesner, Johannes Matthias, ed.:) Scriptores rei rusticae veteres latini ex recensione Jo. Matthiae Gesneri cum eiusdem Praef. et Lexico Rustico. Biponti [Zweibr?cken]: ex typographia Societatis, 1787-88. 4 vols. 8vo, pp. [ii], CLVI, 248; [ii], 566; [ii], 510; [vol.IV unpaginated]. Vols I-III with engraved vignettes to title-pages. Very lightly toned, internally clean. Slightly later dark brown half calf, spine blind and gilt-tooled with green title labels, brown marbled boards, edges sprinkled blue, brown marbled endpapers. Endcaps and joints a bit rubbed, corners fraying, very good. Round library ink stamp 'Bibliotheek Seminarie Ijpelaar' to blank front endpaper each vol.. To vol. I, folding prize certificate awarded by Hageveld Seminarium to Henrico van Beek, dated 11th August 1837. Oval gilt mark of Hageveld Seminarium to the tail of each spine. Bipont Classics edition. Contains: Vol. I. Praefatio. M. Porcii Catonis vita ex Plutarchi gr?co latine reddita. Notitia literaria de M. P. Catone ex J. A. Fabricii Bibliotheca lat. [?] Marci Terentii Varronis vita a Martino Hankio conscripta. Notitia literaria de M. Terrentio Varrone [?] de L. Columella [?] de Palladio [?] de Vegetio Renato ex J. A. Fabricii Bibliotheca lat. [?] Christiani Schoettgenii de Gargilio Martiale brevis dissertatio. Index editionum rei rustic? scriptorum [?] Index auctorum [?] laudatorum. M. Porcius Cato De re rustica. M. Terentii Varronis De re rustica libri III; Vol. II. L. Junii Moderati Columell? de re rustica, libri XII et Liber de arboribus, &c.; Vol. III. Palladi Ratilii Tauri ?miliani De re rustica, libri XIV. Vegetii Renati Artis veterinari? sive mulomedicin?, libri IV. Gargilii Martialis fragmentum. Ausoni Popm? Frisi De instrumento fundi liber; Vol. IV. Lexicon rusticum. Butters, Ueber die Bipontiner und die Editiones Bipontinae, p.43 Ref: 54312show full image..
Sedlar, Jean W.: East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994. First edition. Blue cloth, red title to spine, some rubbing to corners and endcaps, edges dusted, very good. Dust-jacket, four small closed tears to both covers by spine, a little sticker residue to back cover, shelf wear, still very good. A History of Central Europe, vol. III. Ref: 51936
Selden, John: Titles of Honour. London: Printed by William Stansby for Richard Whitakers [sic], and are to be sold at the Kings Arme 1631. Second edition. Folio in 4s, pp. [xxxvi], 941, [i]. State three, of three: p.354 numbered correctly (misnumbered as 356 in states one and two); p.592 misnumbered 992 and lists items XXI-XXXIX. Title-page in red and black, large woodcut initials, illustrations in the text including coins, crowns and six full-page engravings of ceremonial dress, with final errata leaf. Occasional marks to margins, eg. lines, crosses. Some library inkstamps, small paper repairs to title-page fore-edge, small faint dampstains here and there towards edges, occasional faint spotting, a little toned. Recent heavily-grained brown morocco, raised bands, gilt title to spine, blind-tooled diaper pattern within frame to each board, endpapers and endbands renewed, edges red, very good. Birmingham Law Society round inkstamps, 2 to title-page, 2 to dedication leaf, 2 to p.1 and others scattered throughout (approximately 1 every 30 pages). Work on this second edition (the first having appeared in 1614) was done by Selden (1584?1654) during his imprisonment in the Tower of London from late June 1629 until the summer of 1630, and the period immediately afterwards when he regained access to his books and was allowed to move in and out of the Tower. 'A monument to the wide-ranging mastery of medieval continental and English sources and studies, the weighty second edition of Titles of Honor (1631) drew its evidence widely. As well as providing a model for a true history based upon many primary sources, this edition also sought to establish a solid foundation for a new philosophy of politics that would emulate the revolution in astronomy brought about by 'Copernicus, Tycho, Galileus, Kepler' (sig. ?2r), although Selden's political advice remained more than a little obscured by the details of his analytical narrative. Attempting to chart the origin and development of the titles of monarchy, nobility, and gentility in western Europe from the end of the Roman empire to the present, this new edition dissolved the unitary feudal law interpretation espoused in the first edition into various national, provincial, or local feudal laws. Selden portrayed these jurisdictions as a series ofancient constitutions, each having its own 'state' or 'frame of government' and its own feudal customs. Only the titles of emperor and king received a fully comparative treatment, with those of duke, count, baron, and knight unfolding country by country as rulers carried out their own adaptation of northern European customs to Roman offices. [?]. Indeed, the second edition of Titles of Honor provided sophisticated historical support for Selden's interpretation of the mixed monarchy of England, not least by placing it in a plausible, equally well-supported context of European ancient constitutions. It portrayed the continual calling of parliaments as a necessary part of English governance.' (Christianson, ODNB) STC (2nd ed.) 22178 Ref: 54660show full image..
