Search Results: Authors starting with B from Focloir

England bjlg Backhouse, Janet. The Lindisfarne Gospels. Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1986, 96 pages, bib, index.Beautiful full-colored plates. Fine in dust jacket. $12.50 Box 27

Ancient world 968 (Egypt). Badawy, Alexander. Architecture in Ancient Egypt and the Near East. Cambridge: Massachusets Institute of Technology (M.I.T.Press), 1972, x, 246p, index, illus. Second printing, first published in 1966. Very good in dust jacket. DJ has small blemish to front panel. $15.00

Ancient world 373 Bagatti, Bellarmino, O. F. M. The Church from the Gentiles in Palestine: History and archaeology. English translation by Eugene Hoade, O. F. M. Jerusalem: Franciscan Print. Press, 1984, x, 393p, bib, index, illus. Paperbound. Good, clean, tight copy. [From the back of the title page: "The present reprint reproduces the edition of 1971. The volume has an Italian edition. (Alle Origini della Chiesa. II: Le communitá gentilo-cristiane). Vatican: Libraria Editrice Vaticana, 1982 with up-to-date notes which do not alter the sense or character of the work]. $25.00

Ancient world 374 Baikie, James, 1866-1931. The glamour of Near East excavation; an account of the treasure hunt for the buried art, wisdom & history of the ancient East, from the Nile to Babylon, the adventures, disappointments & triumphs of the hunters & the knowledge thus acquired of the ancient world. London: Seeley Service & Co. ltd., 1927, 348p, index, frontis, plates. Good to very good copy of the London 1927 edition. Part of the dust jacket (King Tut image) is pasted on a flyleaf and on the title page a previous owner has written in ink: Presented to me by my friend, Aug 1928; Nice bright copy. $13.50

England 10bj94 Bailey, James Montgomery, 1841-1894. England from a back-window; with views of Scotland and Ireland. Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Charles T. Dillingham,1879, 475 pages, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, front endpaper torn. Originally published in 1878, also has a bookseller's sticker, N. Bangs Williams from Providence, R.I., on the bottom edge of the front lining paper. Shelf wear but in iverall good condition. Somewhat uncommon book. $20.00 Box 10
Bailey was a humorist from Danbury, Connecticut, a reporter for the The Danbury-News. The Irish leg of the journey is described in pages 353 to 475.

Ancient world 375 Bain, David. Masters, servants, and orders in Greek tragedy: a study of some aspects of dramatic technique and convention. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1981, 73p, bib, index. Very good. $7.50

Theatre 113brr Baine, Rodney M. Robert Munford: America's First Comic Dramatist. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1967, x, 132 pages, notes, bib, index. Good, solid copy, has bumps on cover corners. $6.50

Gaelic 013 Bairéad, Tomás, 1893-1973. Cruithneacht agus ceannabháin. (Series:
Téacsa Gaeilge le haghaidh na meánscol).Baile Átha Cliath/Corcaigh: Comhlucht Oideachais na hÉireann, 1940?, 142 pages. Signature of former owner on front free endpaper, some notes in text. Good. In old typeface. $25.00
Gaelic text for high schools; general editor An Seabhac [i.e., Padraig O'Siochfhradha].

Gaelic 014 Bairead, Tomas. An Geall a Briseadh. Dublin: Oifig an tSolathair, 1969, 162p, glossary. Short stories. Very good $35.00

Australia bsal Baker, Sidney J. The Australian Language: An examination of the English language and English speech as used in Australia, from convict days to the present, with special reference to the growth of indigenous idiom and its use by Australian writers. Second edition. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1966, xiv, 517 pages, illus. (The first edition had xii, 425 pages). This enlarged edition is in good to good plus condition, in dust jacket. Inscribed by Baker on front free endpaper. $25.00 Box 7171

Ancient world 376 Baladié, Raoul. Le Péloponnèse de Strabon: étude de géographie historique. Paris: Société d'édition "Les Belles Lettres", 1980, xxiii, 398 p., [44] p. of plates (1 folded) : ill. col. Map, paperback. Large format paperback, in fine condition. The second dust jacket, the one with the photographic illustrations, has a few tears but the permanent dust jacket is in fine condition. Name of classical scholar on front free endpaper. $70.00

Americana 169yd3 Baldwin, Leland D. The keelboat age on western waters. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1941, xiv, 268pp, index, bibliography, illustrated. Very good in dust jacket. $9.50 Box 399

Ireland bjbo Bale, John, 1495 –1563. Select works of John Bale, D.D. Bishop of Ossory: Containing the examinations of Lord Cobham, William Thorpe, and Anne Askewe, and the Image of both Churches. Edited for the Parker Society, by the Rev. Henry Christmas, M.A. F.R.S. F.S.A. Series: (Publications: Parker Society). Cambridge: Printed at the University Press, 1849, xii, 647, [1] pages; index. With facsimiles of original titlepages. Still in the original binding black cloth binding, gilt coat-of-arms of the Parker Society on front cover panel, gilt lettering on spine. The corners have bumping, exposing the cover, minor foxing on some pages. There is the stamp of a college on front lining paper, maybe English. On front free endpaper is the signature of a classics scholar. All in all a good, clean, tight copy, especially so for the age. $40.00 Box 8080
John Bale (21 November 1495 – November 1563) was an English churchman, historian and controversialist, and Bishop of Ossory in Ireland. He wrote the… Read More

Gaelic 015 Bannister, Garry.
Report on new 6-declension system of Irish nouns and adjectives. Dublin: Institiuid An Leinn Eireannaigh, 1984, 39p, paperback. Russian scholars at Moscow State University contributed greatly to the study. $15.00

Ireland bjbe Banville, John. The Book of Evidence. New York: Scribners, 1989, 220 pages. Fine in fine dust jacket. $4.50

FR 1345 Barante, Amable-Guillaume-Prosper Brugière, baron de, 1782-1866. Histoire des ducs de Bourgogne de la maison de Valois, 1364-1477. Nouvelle édition. Paris: Delloye, Libraire-Editeur, 1839, 420p, maps, engravings, illus; 430p, engravings, illus; 718p, engravings, illus; 434p, engravings, map, plan, illus; 432p, map, engravings, illus (small waterstain to bottom of side paper edge); 439p, engravings, illus; 413p, engravings, illus; 718p, map, engravings, illus; 448p, engravings, illus; 448p, maps, engravings, illus; 446p, engravings, illus; 465p, map, engravings, illus, index. (Volume XII inner hinges cracked and repaired). In twelve volumes. Maps, engravings, title vignettes; head and tail pieces; initials. Bound in brown cloth, volumes are in good, tight shape, intermittent foxing throughout the set, heavy in spots. The twelve volumes: $175.00 Front room (Will need extra postage)

With the bookplate of Edward Everett,… Read More

FR 1005 Barante, Amable-Guillaume-Prosper Brugière, baron de, 1782-1866. Histoire des ducs de Bourgogne de la maison de Valois, 1364-1477. Nouvelle édition. Paris: Delloye, Libraire-Editeur, 1839, 420p, maps, engravings, illus; 430p, engravings, illus; 718p, engravings, illus; 434p, engravings, map, plan, illus; 432p, map, engravings, illus (small waterstain to bottom of side paper edge); 439p, engravings, illus; 413p, engravings, illus; 718p, map, engravings, illus; 448p, engravings, illus; 448p, maps, engravings, illus; 446p, engravings, illus; 465p, map, engravings, illus, index. (Volume XII inner hinges cracked and repaired). In twelve volumes. Maps, engravings, title vignettes; head and tail pieces; initials. Bound in brown cloth, volumes are in good, tight shape, intermittent foxing throughout the set, heavy in spots.
With the bookplate of Edward Everett, 1794-1865. Famous American politician and statesman, president of Harvard University, and one the great American orators of… Read More

Ireland bhwc Barbara, Hayley. A Bibliography of the Writings of William Carleton. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1985, 241 pages, index. Fine in fine dust jacket. $13.50 Box 385

Ancient world 377 Bardenhewer, Otto, 1851-1935.Geschichte der altkirchlichen Literatur. Vierter Band: Das fünfte Jahrhundert mit Einschluss der syrischen Literatur des vierten Jahrhunderts.Darmstadt : Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1962, ix, 673p, notes, index. Reprint of Volume 4 of a 5 volume set, originally published from 1913-1932. On the title page there is stamp from the University of Tubingen Seminar on philology, few other marks on verso of title page. No other marks, very good overall $20.00

Cornwall 1010 Baring-Gould, Sabine,1834-1924. Cornish characters and strange events. With sixty-two full-page illustrations reproduced from old prints. London/New York: John Lane, 1909, 2 p. 1., [vii]-xviii p., 1 l., 774 p. 62 plates, index. Overall cover wear and the usual fading but a good, tight, clean copy else. A very substantial book. They made books well in those days. $25.00