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

Leipzig, Germany: B. G. Teubner, 1971. 4th edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavos (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket. Pars I - xii, 365 p. w/ footnotes. Pars II - xi, 458 p w/ footnotes. In Latin. 2 vols. Blue cloth.

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xv, 592 p. w/ footnotes, bibliography, index. A study of the major political decisions of Elizabeth and her ministers in the last years of her reign.

London & Mechanicsburg: Chatham / Stackpole, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 224 p. w/ appendices, b&w illus., glossary, notes, bibliography, index. A discussion of food and the victualling system in regards to the officers and men of the lat 18th early 19th c. British Royal Navy.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. A couple scratches to the dj on back cover. ix, 289 p. w/endnotes, bibliography, index. A study of Franciscan martyrdom by Islamic hands and how the Franciscans viewed it, which unlike other hagiographic accounts elsewhere did not lead to widespread conversions or miracles.

Minneapolis, MN. : Lutheran Orient Mission, 1920.. 1st edition. Good w/o dust jacket. Cover board is three quarters spotted and darkened (it appears another book was resting on it and partially protected it). Edges and corners have some wear, with some spotting on endpapers. 52 p. A brief biography of the life and work of the 13th & 14th century medieval Spanish missionary to the Moslems. He preached in North Africa, Spain, and the Baleric island of Majorca. He also wrote on eof the most famous works on Chivalry, the Book on the Order of Chivalry (Libre del Orde de Cauayleria). A very scarce work from a minor religous small press.

Boulder, CO.: Eastern European Monographs, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges of boards. No dust jacket issued. Sname of former owner stamped on title page. 8 pages have brief highlighting, all before page 17. xi, 453 p. w/illus., map, end of chapter notes, pronunciation guide for Serbian names, bibliography, index. A detailed study and biography of Garasanin, the leading statesman of 19th c. Serbia

Detroit: Gale Research, 1981.. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st edition. Oversized. Very good in cloth. Edges and corners have slight wear. Stamped by the publisher in red on endpapers and title page. 345 p. w/illustrations, selected bibliography of works, brief bibliography of works about the dramatists.

Leiden: Brill , 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xi, 134 p. w/ additional approx 130 pages in Arabic, footnotes, bibliography, index. A chapter on Satan from a "long unrecognized" Ismaili work from the fourth/tenth century Khurasani da'i, Abu Tamman, Includes a critical edition and an English translation.

Los Olivos, CA: Olive Press Publications, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Thin quarto (over size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 184 p. w/ many b&w illus., bibliography, index, map on endpapers. A look back at the various railroads of this California valley - history, equipment, people, and important events.

Salem, MA: Ayer Company, Publishers Inc., 1988. Reprint. Hardcover. Very good. 2 volumes. Thick octavos (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and pages. No dust jackets. 1661 p. Vol. 1 has the text, with notes, appendices and indexes in v. 2. An important work on Asia Minor from late Republic to mid Empire. Sadly, this copy does not include the map at the end of v. 2.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xii, 371 p. w/ footnotes, bibliography, index, and a few b&w illus. This work "explores the complex relationship between women, Protestantism, and nationhood" in Britain, looking at the national emblem of Britannia and other female personifications of English culture.

Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation at the Taylor Institution, 1982. First edition. Hardcover in blue cloth binding. Good without dust jacket. Octavos. Both volumes have light wear and rubbing along edges of boards with minor bumping to heads and heels of spines and some light scuffing to covers. Volume I has heavy bumping on front cover's upper corner and light brown scufff mark on back cover with extensive pencil notes on front free endpaper. Volume II has light brown scuff marks on front and back covers with bumping to upper and lower corners of back cover and sme penciled in numbers on front and back of half-title page. Pencil notes and marks in margins and text of volume I and less so in volume II. 791 total pages with notes, documents, bibliographies, and indices. Text is in French.

Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Whaling Museum Society, 1993. First Trade paperback printing. . Paperback Original. Very Good. Octavo in landscape format (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers 79 p. w/ b&w ilustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index, and appendices on Srimshanders, people, places, and ships in the collection. An attractive survey of scrimshaw and the collection of same in this important whaling museum.

Prescott, AZ: Wolfe Publishing, 1980. Reprint of 1909 edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Very good. Small quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, missing dust jacket. xxv, 391 p. w/illus. Reproduces notes from 1950 by Pope's son.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. First thus. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. lxiii, 545 p. w/ intrpduction, appendix, concordance, footnotes, and quotation & allusion, and general indexes. Latin on the verso, English on the recto. The best translation of this satire of late 12th c. court, religious orders, Welshmen, marriage and more by the Welsh/English ecclesiastic who was a roayl clerk under King Henry II. Includes notable bits of folklore and history as well. Uncommon.

New York, NY: Arena Editions, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto (over size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Approx. 220 p. w/b&w photographic illus. Mapplethorpe's record of his vision of of homosexuality and fetishism.

New York, NY: Arno Press, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. No dust jacket as Issued. Octavo in blue cloth with white lettering to spine and cover. SIGNED and inscribed by the author on the title page. Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. 262 p. w/bibliographical essay. A volume on Arno's Disserations in American Biography series.

Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies/University of Michigan Press, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size) Slight wear to edges of boards and dust jacket 369 pages with illustrations, plates, footnotes, 2 appendices, bibliography, and index. A detailed look at society in Japan during the life of the noted artist and poet Takebe Ayatari (1719-74).

Paris: Èditions Alban Michel, 1989. First edition. Hardcover w/glossy pictorial boards. Very Good. Octavo (oversized). Slight wear to edges of boards. Heel of spine noticably bumped. 173 p. w/ color and b&w, notes, bibliogaphy, index. A survey, in French, the the Parisian transportation system.

Leiden: Brill, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Thick Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. more so to dust jacket.xxix, 727 p. w/ indexes. In German. A major study of this work, a tragedy about Hercules, Thebes, and his madness.