Search Results: Authors starting with C from Motte & Bailey, Booksellers

London: ASLIB, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Thin octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Missing dust jacket. Some spotting and scuffing to boards, with slight browning to spine. A few early pages have rust stains from an old paperclip. 70 p. w/bibliography, index. An introduction to faceted classification, based on a systematic combination of characteristics of the materials (facets). An uncommon text. Section B

Paris: A l'Imprimerie Nationale, 1874-1879. Various . Three quarter brown cloth over marbeled boards. Very good. Thick octavos (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Spines slightly faded but Gilt titles still bright and legible. Name of former owner, Prof. James Bellamy,written in ink at half title of each volume. 4 volumes: v. 1 (2nd edition) xlv, 443 p. 1874 ; v. 2 (2nd edition) xiv, 465 p. 1877 ; v. 3 (2nd edition) xxvi, 476 p, 1877; v. 4 (2nd edition) 479p. 1879. Index in v. 4. In French and Arabic. Does not include the later index. The uncommon first complete translation of this travel narrative by the now famous 14th century Berber traveller and scholar from North Africa. He left on his first hajj in 1325 and for 24 years followed the trade routes, visiting the Crimea, Anatolia, all over the Near East, Eastern Africa, India, and Asia including China and Sumatra in 25 years of voyaging. On his brief return home duing the Black Death, he shortly after continued on to… Read More

New York, NY and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2000. First edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. A couple "check" marks in bibliography. xxii, 330 p. w/tables, appendices, glossary, abbreviations, index. section B

Brooklyn, NY: AMS Press, 20024. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket. xviii, 320 p. w/footnotes, b&w illus., bibliography, index. Imprese are personal devises combin ing a concise image with a short motto, seen in books, art, and architecture, but not exclusively.

New York, NY: The American Numismatic Society, 1955. First edition. Paperback. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. 104 p. w/ footnotes, tables. A detailed chemical study numerous Parthian coins over time, with comparisons to Roman coins.

Paris: Gallimard, 1995. First edition. Hardcover w/glossy pictorial boards. Very Good. Thin quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Slight scuffing to covers. 70 p. w/many color illustrations. An attractive book of numerous Mercier posters, with full page reproductions accompanied by smaller images of his own draft of the poster. Suprisingly uncommon.

Potomac. MD: Studia Humaitas, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges of boards. No dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by the author on flyleaf to another professor. Address of former owner (presumably) on pastedown. 174 p. w/footnotes, index, and list of Studia Humaitas titles at end.

New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1931. First edition. Hardcover in maroon colored cloth binding. Very Good without dust jacket. Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine and minor scuffing to covers with light black mark on front cover. Page edges are lightly browned with remainder spray on upper edges of pages. Name of previous owner on front free endpaper. 210 pages with footnotes, bibliography, and index. A study of the impact of the Black Death on intellectual activity during the fourteenth century.

Aldershot / Burlington VT: Ashgate Publishing / Variorum, 2007. First edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Very Good. No dust jacket issued. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Slight scuffing to covers. xiv + 348 p. 10 essays by Campbell collected from various sources, focusing on seigniorial lands.

Milan: Electa / Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto (slightly oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. ix, 293 p. w/ color and b&w illus., appendix, bibliogaphy, index. A detailed book of this important and focused Italian Renassance exhibition.

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of dust jacket and boards. Small closed tear at lower right corner of front cover of the dj. 306 p. w/ appendices on the planetary rooms, document catalogue, and catalogue of drawings for the decorations of te Pitti palace, selected bibliography, index, and additional pages having 201 illustrations. A study of the rooms Cortona (1596/7 - 1669) did for the Medici, covering Jupiter, Venus, Mars, Apollo, and Saturn.

London: V & A Publishing, 2009 (2013) . Second printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Thin quarto (slightly oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 112 p. w/selected reading, many color illus., index. A short well written and illustrated survey of middle to late medieval jewellery using these pieces from the Victoria and Alabrt Museum collection.

New York, NY: Continuum, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 139 p. w/endnotes. An entertaining examination of one the "humors" - blood - by showing how it was viewed and used as medicine magic, and more from the medieval era through the Enlightenment.

Toledo, OH: Vrooman, Anderson, Bateman Printers, 1893. First edition. hardcover in library binding. good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket. NOT ex-library but in library type binding. One photo portrait has been torn and repaired with tape. 192 p. w/ frontis, 19 photo portraits, and 47 p. roster of men in the regiment, noting promotion, discharge, capture or death. This volunteer regiment fought from the end of 1861 thru the end of the war. It fought at such battles as Stones River, Chickamauga, Kennesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Savannah, and more.

Salt Lake City: The Deseret News, 1911. 2nd enlarged ed, . Hardcover. Very good. Thin duodecimo (smaller size). Slight wear to edges and cornes of boards. No dust jacket. 147 p. w/illus. Fictionalized stories drawn from the Book ofMormon, all taking place in Pre-columbian America. . The author was born in hiding in Utah, as her suffragette monther was in an illegal polygampus marriage. She also traveled to Mexico to view ancient ruins as well for her stories. Uncommon Section B

Sibiu, Romania: Editura Meridiane, 1971. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. boards slightly soiled. Introduction and 8o loose colored plats in a clith covered case. the plates are a selection from the work of Cantemir, drawn from both an earlier 1939 larger volume of illustrations and others only in manuscript form. ext of the introduction in in Romanina, English, French, German and Russian. A lovely collection of images of Romanian folk clothing.

Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. xii, 240 p. w/map, endnotes, select bibliography, index. A discussion of the racial conflict over WWII worker's homes in Detroit in this federally built housing area, a far less violent precursor to the larger race riot in 1943

Aldershot: Ashgate Variorum, 1997. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size), Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 239 p. w/ footnotes, end of essay bibliographies, index. A collection of 14 essays written for this volume by various scholars in the field.

Aldershot: Ashgate / Variorum, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges of boards and dust jacket. xiv, 239 p. w/footnotes, index. A collection of some 14 scholarly essays on various topics, sorted by Social groupings and latent class antagonism, Images and symbols, Facets of modernization, and Undercurrents of change.

London: Macmillan Reference, 2000. First edition. Hardcover w/glossy pictorial boards. Good. Very thick octavo (standard size). Wear to edges and corners of boards. Taped tear to binding at heel. No dust jacket issued. xxiii, 1090 p. w/tables, bibliographies. Missing the cd-rom. Section B.