Search Results: Authors starting with L from Unsworth's Antiquarian Booksellers

Manchester University Press, 2001. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 422. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine, fine. Dust-jacket, light shelf-wear with mild creasing to edges, very good.

London: I. B. Tauris, 2010. First edition thus. 8vo., pp. xvi, 111 + text in Arabic (from rear). Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unread, a hint only of shelf-wear only: almost as new. No. 8 in the Ismaili Texts and Translations Series of the Institute of Ismaili Studies.

Lewes, East Sussex: Linda Lamont, 2016. First edition. 8vo., pp. [x], 1-100, xxviii (photo section, in colour) 101-176. Paperback, minor shelf-wear, very good. With contributions by many colleagues and friends of William Lamont.

London: Cornell University Press, 2008. First edition. 8vo., pp. xi, 244. Hardback: quarter blue cloth-backed cream boards, spine gilt-lettered. Dust-jacket. Unread: minor bump to one corner, page-edges slightly dusted, otherwise as new.

Cambridge University Press, 2002. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 393. Cloth, gilt-lettered and decorated, corners slightly bumped, edges lightly dusted, small remainder mark to top edge. Dust-jacket, spine slightly faded, some shelf wear. Overall, very good.

Stroud, Glos.: Tempus, 2002. Large 8vo., pp. 160 + colour plates. Maps and illustrations to text. Paperback, front cover illustrated. Light shelf-wear, corners only slightly creased, still very good. In the publisher's series: The Kings & Queens of Medieval England.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiv, 390. Black cloth, gilt title to spine, edges dusted. Dust-jacket, only a little superficial shelf wear. Very good. Cambridge History of Medicine.

Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2013. 8vo., pp. 128. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 417 in the ACMRS Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series.

New York: Norton, 2017. First American edition. 8vo., pp. 332 + colour plates. 5 maps. Hardback: dark blue cloth-backed light blue boards, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Fine, almost as new. A "swashbuckling yet scholarly" Life of Reynald de Chatillon.

Coimbra, 1955; 1958. 2 vols. 255 x 193mm, pp. lvi, 395 + plates; lxxii, 371 + plates. Cloth, gilt-lettered, spine of vol. I slightly cocked, shelf wear, some corners bumped, otherwise very good. No dust-jackets. Author- signed limited editions, vol. I number 380/1250, vol. II number 998/1000.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. Large 8vo., pp. ix, 404. Maps and illustrations. Paperback. White covers, and edges, dust-marked, but an unused copy: very good.

London: Hutchinson &Co., 1971. First edition. 4to. (304 x 219mm), pp. 306. Hardback: black cloth, top edge red, edges lightly dusted. Dust-jacket, front flap price clipped, light shelf wear. A very good copy.

Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2021. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 269 + plates. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy.

London: S. Lewis and Co., 1844; 1844; 1845. 4to., 7 vols., unpaginated + 57 maps in total: 55 county maps (some folding, all with hand-coloured outlines), 1 general map of England and Wales (hand-coloured outlines), 1 plan of London. Occasional light foxing and spotting. Uniformly bound in brown polished half sheep, marbled boards, edges and endpapers, raised bands, blind tooling and red title labels to spines. Spines sunned and scuffed, a few scrapes and a couple of bands lost, endcaps and corners worn, some joints just starting, endpapers very foxed. Still good, sound copies. Tiny binder's stamp to front pastedown: Proudfoot Binder, 75 George St., Euston. Topographical Dictionary of England […], 4 vols., 5th ed.; Topographical Dictionary of Wales […], 2 vols., 3rd ed.; Atlas to the Topographical Dictionaries of England and Wales […] 1 vol., 1st ed.. A further two volumes on Scotland and two on Ireland followed in 1846. Beresiner, 144; Howgego, 330.

Amstelaedami [Amsterdam]: Apud Janssonio-Waesbergios. 1738. Editio princeps. Large folio, pp. [20], 865, [1], lacking final blank. With half-title, title page in red and black, engraved printer's device to title, double column in Greek and Latin. Half-title, title and a handful of other leaves slightly foxed, occasional toning. Contemporary Dutch vellum, traces of ties, gilt ruled to a panel design, gilt centrepieces with arms of Amsterdam, small gilt arms of Amsterdam to corners, raised bands, small gilt arms of Amsterdam to spine, title inked to spine, modern shelfmark label to upper cover. Corners a bit bumped. Modern stamp of Maastricht library to ffep. A sumptuously bound, large folio prize book - a clean and well-margined copy. The first collected printing of the letters of Libanius, the 4th-century AD rhetorician. More than 1500 of his letters survive, the largest extant collection from antiquity, and only brief selections had been previously edited. Wolf's magisterial… Read More

Antverpiæ [Antwerp]: Ex Officina Plantiniana, apud Ioannem Moretum, 1605; 1602; 1602; 1605; 1604; 1604. 6 parts in 1 vol. 4to., pp.223, [ix]; 366, [ii] + 1 folding plate; xxix, [vii]; [ii], 219, [iv]; 55, [i], [ii], 59-77, [vii] + 2 folding plates; 136, [iv] + 4 double-page plates. Many further illustrations in the text, engraved printer's devices. Occasional toning, some faint staining, tiny burn hole to leaf d4 Amiranda. Contemporary vellum, title inked to spine, overlapping fore-edges, edges sprinkled red. Vellum a little grubby, a few spots, but very good. Lipsius's (1547-1606) Opera Militaria, comprising six essays on Roman military power with plates depicting armaments, machinery, fortresses, gladiators and amphitheatres. First published in 1595 (Antwerp: Plantijn-Moretus).

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1932. First edition. 8vo, pp. [viii], 182. Slight browning, but still a very good copy. Blue cloth, spine gilt, head and foot of spine bumped, dust-jacket, a little browned, edges a bit chipped.

London: Printed by Adam Islip, 1600. First edition in English. Folio, pp. [x], 1-804, 809-1351, 1354-1403, [xliii]. Usual errors in pagination, some with old MS corrections. Bound without the initial blank leaf A1, but with the final blank leaf 6F6. Large printer's device to title-page with engraved portrait of Elizabeth I to verso, ornate headpieces and initials, errata at rear. Marginalia in an old hand including some rudimentary manicules, some symbols and underlining in pencil (more profusely annotated towards the front), p.928 margin has 'Chapter Sixteen' in fairly modern blue ink. Title-page very dusty, repaired at fore- and bottom edges and reattached at gutter, with small, round library ink stamp very faintly to recto and second library stamp with pencilled details to verso. Round library ink stamp of Campion Hall to p.3. First 7 leaves after title-page slightly short at fore-edge (apparently due to being repaired and reinserted at gutter margin, as the red edge decoration is… Read More

UK Viking, 2017. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxi, 140 + plates. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: blue cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Light signs of use, still very good.

London: Lovat Dickson Ltd, 1932. First edition. 8vo, pp. 221. Slight toning, fore-edge uncut and a little dusty, last gathering loosening, else very good. Brown cloth, spine gilt, a little faded around spine, a couple of light stains, but still good. Autograph of M.G. Clark dated 1935 to front free endpaper.