Boothroyd, A. E.: Fascinating Walking Sticks. Bracknell, Berks.: Salix Books, 1970. First edition. 8vo., pp. 206. Brown cloth, gilt title to spine. Boards and contents clean, slight shelf-wear to edges, very good. Dust-jacket sun-faded to spine and portion of upper cover, a little worn and creased to edges otherwise very good. With photographs by Edward Morgan. "Over 280 different sticks illustrated including gun and swordsticks (and) foreword by Sir Gerald Nabarro, M.P." Ref: 53004
Bornholdt, Claudia: Saintly Spouses: Chaste Marriage in Sacred and Secular Narrative from Medieval Germany (12th and 13th Centuries) Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2012. 8vo., pp. 239. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Ref: 53405
Boulton, Maureen B. M. (trans.): Piety and Persecution in the French Texts of England. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2013. 8vo., pp. 228. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 420 in the Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies and Volume 6 in The French of England Translation ACMRS series. Ref: 53718
Bowd, Stephen (ed. & intro.); Cullington, J. Donald (trans. & annot.): Vainglorious Death: A Funerary Fracas in Renaissance Brescia. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006. 8vo., pp. 232. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Ref: 53411
Bowd, Stephen (ed. & trans.); Cullington, J. Donald (Latin texts ed. & trans.): On Everyone's Lips: Humanists, Jews, and the Tale of Simon of Trent. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2012. 8vo., pp. 250. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Ref: 53407
Bowersock, G.E: Roman Arabia. America: Harvard, 1983. First edition, second impression. 8vo., pp. xiv, 224 + plates. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: red cloth, gilt-lettered to spine, dusty to edges otherwise very good. Dust-jacket, rather grubby and slightly stained but entirely intact, good. Ref: 54264
Bradley, Simon: The Railways: Nation, Network and People. London: Profile Books, 2015. First edition. 8vo., pp. 645 + colour plates. Hardback: blue cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. A little light shelf-wear to jacket edges, otherwise a fine, unread copy. Ref: 53579
Braun, Hugh: An Introduction to English Mediaeval Architecture. London: Faber and Faber, [1951]. First edition. pp. 293 + illustrated frontispiece and 214 illustrations. A very good copy. Brown cloth, title gilt to spine, upper margin a bit faded. Dust-jacket, a bit browned, small lost at head of spine, extremities generally a bit worn, but still good. Ref: 53485
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