Search Results: Titles starting with I from Focloir

Ancient world 745
(Etruscans) Cristofani, Mauro, 1941-1997. I Bronzi degli Etruschi. With contributions byEdilberto Formigli and Maria Elisa Micheli.Novara: Istituto Geografico De Agostini S.p.A., 1985, 311 pages, bib, index, 129 full page photographic plates, mostly in black and white, some in color. Hardcover, in fine shape and the dust jacket is also in fine condition, and protected by another clear plastic dust jacket. In the original slipcase. Large, heavy volume, measures 13" x 23" tall. Interesting photos. $30.00

Ancient world 877Manfredi, Valerio Massimo and Lorenzo Braccesi. I Greci d'Occidente. Milano: Arnaldo Mondadori Editore, 1996, 201p, notes, photographs. The book, in dust jacket, is in very good condition except that the paper edges have yellowed. Friendly inscription Manfredi to a well-known classics scholar and his wife on front flyleaf. $20.00

Scandinavia bftg Berry, Francis. I Tell of Greenland. An Edited Translation of the Saudarkrokur Manuscripts. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul:, 1977, xxi, 205 pages. Good to very good copy in dust jacket. Some roughness to top corner of front free endpaper where a pencil price has been erased. Blurb from dust jacket: "Francis Berry has travelled widely in Greenland, and has drawn on this experience to 'edit and translate' the supposed autobiography of Ingolf Brandsson. Largely attested by saga, historical document and archaeological find, it tells of Ingolf's emigration from Iceland to Greenland as a child and of his lifetime's experiences in that country. These experiences the conversion of Greenland to Christianity and his participation in the Norse expedition to VinlandThe narrative provides fascinating reading for all those interested in Old Icelandic Sagas and in medieval history, particularly the early Norse expeditions from Greenland to Canada and the United States." $8.50 Box 7171

Persia valle Pietro Della Valle, 1586-1652. I viaggi di Pietro Della Valle. Tomo 1, Lettere dalla Persia. A cura di Franco Gaeta e Laurence Lockhart. Roma: Istituto poligrafico dello Stato, Libreria dello Stato, 1972, xxxv, 511 pages, [3] carte di tav.: ill., notes. An impressively produced book, very heavy and large volume. This volume has the letters from Pietro Della Valle dealing with Persia. Limited to 1000 copies, this being Number 430. I'm not sure if this was the only volume in the projected edition but it could be. Originally issued in paperback but they have been bound in brown library buckram cloth with black lettering on spine. Original wrappers bound into the hardcover. Both the text and the binding like new. $75.00 Box B5 For sale in US only.
Pietro Della Valle (Latin: Petrus a Valle; 2 April 1586 – 21 April 1652), also written Pietro della Valle, was an Italian composer, musicologist, and author who travelled throughout Asia during the Renaissance period. His travels took him to the… Read More

Gaelic 155ibf Iain Beag Fhionnlaigh. Anns an Tighearna Iosa Criosd tha ar n-Earbsa. Glasgow: Alexander Maclaren, 1950, 35p, paperback. Poems in Scottish Gaelic by John Smith of Bragar, Lewis. $20.00

Ancient world 760 Iamblichus Chalcidensis. Pythagoras: Legende, Lehre, Lebensgestaltung; griechisch und deutsch. Herausgegeben, übersetzt. und eingeleitet von Michael von Albrecht. Zürich und Stuttgart: Artemis Verlag, 1963, 280p, notes, index, wrinkling to top of pages 10 to 35, affecting the first couple of lines, pages 21 to 22 have the worst wrinkling, few pages have some penciling in Greek text, good copy else in dust jacket, which has a couple of small tears. An attractively made little book. $18.50

Iceland 1001 (Icelandic sagas). Icelandic sagas and other historical documents relating to the settlements and descents of the Northmen in the British Isles: Volume I. Orkneyinga Saga and Magnus Saga, with appendices. Edited by Gudbrand Vigfusson. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1887, liii, 426p, errata, reproductions. Book lacks front fly, there is scotch tape residue on front and back lining papers and back endpaper, paper browning, few paper chips, else very good copy of this volume from the Rolls Series. The technical apparatus is in English but the text is in Icelandic. Books on the Orkney Islands are difficult to come across in general let alone such an important early source as this. Very scarce. $150.00 Hall closet

Ancient world 1114 Ripa, Cesare, 1560-1645. Iconologia overo descrittione di diverse imagini cavate dall'antichità, e di propria inventione. With an introduction by Erna Mandowsky (in English). Hildesheim/New York: Georg Olms, 1970, 523p. illus. Some light smudging to cover, some of the gilt lettering worn off. Good. Reprint of the edition published in Rome in 1603. $25.00

Ancient world 1422Zampaglione, Gerardo.
Idea of peace in antiquity. [Translation of L'idea della pace nel mondo antico.] Notre Dame [Ind.]: University of Notre Dame Press, 1973, x, 333p, bib, notes, index. Very good.
$9.50

Ancient world 1497 d'Anna, Giovanni. Il problema della composizione dell' Eneide. (Series: Nuovi Saggi 19). Roma: Edizioni dell'Ateneo, 1957, 133 pages, index. Paperback, glassine dust jacket. Very good condition. $20.00

Middle Ages gmgs Gaster, Moses. Ilchester lectures on Greeko-Slavonic literature and its relation to the folk-lore of Europe during the Middle Ages. With two appendices and plates. London: Trubner and Company, 1887, x, 229p. Very good. Signed by Gaster on the title page with a note saying "3.vi.87, 1st copy". Author's own copy? $50.00 Box 27

Ireland 7027 (Aran Islands) O'Donnell, E. E. (Edward Eugene), 1940- Images of Aran: Photographs by Father Browne, 1925 & 1938. Compiled by E. E. O'Donnell. Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1998, 80 pages, illus. Paperback. Very good. $12.50 Box A 57

Americana 45p98i Price, B. Byron. Imagining The Open Range: Erwin E. Smith, Cowboy Photographer. Fort Worth TX: Amon Carter Museum, 1998, xii, 187 pages, frontis, illus, bib, index. Fine copy in fine dust jacket which is further protected by a mylar dust jacket. Very interesting photos from Texas during the early 1900's. $27.50 Box A 92

Byzantium 105 Pelikan, Jaroslav Jan, 1923-. Imago Dei: the Byzantine apologia for icons. (Series: A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts; 36; Bollingen Series, XXXV, 1987). Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press/The National Gallery of Art, 1990, xii, 196 pages, illus, bib, index. Very good in very good dust jacket. Pelikan was a very prominent Yale professor who eventually converted to the Orthodox Church. $30.00
Contents: Introduction: The Idea in the Image; Chapter 1: The Context Religion and "Realpolitik" Byzantine Style; Chapter 2: Graven Images The Ambiguity of the Iconographic Tradition; Chapter 3: Divinity Made Human Aesthetic Implications of the Incarnation; Chapter 4: The Senses Sanctified The Rehabilitation of the Visual; Chapter 5: Humanity Made Divine Mary the Mother of God; Chapter 6: The Great Chain of Images A Cosmology of Icons.

Gaelic 379 O Flatharta, Antoine. Imeachtai na Saoirse. Beal an Daingin, Conamara: Clo Iar-Chonnachta, 1986, 82p, paperback. Fine condition. A play. $13.50

Ireland 3002 Immediate Man. Cuimhni ar Chearbhail O Dalaigh. Edited by Aidan Carl Mathews. Mountrath: Dolmen Press, 1983, 79p, paperbound. Good to very good copy. $12.50
Reminiscences of this former president of Ireland and literary figure by Kinsella, Montague, O Direain, O hEithir, O Fiannachta, Durcan et al. Some in Gaelic

Americana 108 Wolkovich-Valdavicius, William. Immigrants and Yankees in Nashoba Valley, Massachusetts. Interethnic an interreligious conflict and accomodation of Irish, French-Canadians, Poles, Lithuanians and Italians. Groton, Massachusetts: Author/St. James Church, 1981, 239 pages, illus, bib. Good copy in dust jacket. $8.50

Middle Ages 108wi William of Auvergne, 1180/90–1249. The Immortality of the Soul [De Immortalitate Animae]. Translated from the Latin. With an Introduction & Notes by Roland J. Teske, S. J.. (Series: Mediaeval Philosophical Texts in Translation, no. 30). Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1991, x, 72 pages, index. Paperbound, like new. $8.50 Box A 108
William of Auvergne (1180/90–1249) was a French theologian and philosopher who served as Bishop of Paris from 1228 until his death. He was one of the first western European philosophers to engage with and comment extensively upon Aristotelian and Islamic philosophy. He is also known as Guillaume d'Auvergne, Guilielmus Alvernus, or William of Paris.
William of Auvergne or Paris, (ca.1180/90–1249), Bishop of Paris from 1228 until his death in 1249, was one of the first wave of thinkers in the Latin West to engage with the writings on natural philosophy and metaphysics by Greek, Islamic and Jewish thinkers that had recently become… Read More

Ireland 9384 Kinnell, Galway. Imperfect Thirst. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1994, 81 pages. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Fine as new in fine dust jacket. First edition. $7.50

Ancient world 876 Mallory, J. P. In Search of the Irish Dreamtime: Archaeology & Early Irish Literature. New York: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2016, 320p, notes, bib, index. Like new in dust jacket. $15.00
Following his account of Irish origins as evidenced by archaeology, genetics and linguistics, J. P. Mallory returns to the subject to interrogate what he calls the `Irish Dreamtime': the native Irish retelling of their own origins, as related by medieval manuscripts. He attempts to explore the reality of this version of the earliest history of Ireland, which places apparently `mythological' events on a concrete timeline of invasions, colonizations and royal reigns that extends even further back in time than the history of Classical Greece. By comparing the world depicted in the earliest Irish literary tradition with the archaeological evidence available on the ground, Mallory explores Ireland's rich mythological tradition and tests its claims to represent reality