Search Results: Titles starting with M from Unsworth's Antiquarian Booksellers

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. First edition. 8vo., pp. ix, 290. Hardback: red cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unread, a touch only of shelf-wear, almost as new.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. First edition. 8vo., pp. ix, 290. Hardback: red cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unread, light bump to one top corner with 2cm closed tear to covering jacket and one other small closed tear, otherwise a touch only of shelf-wear.

Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: apud Johannem & Danielem Elsevier, 1653. Small 4to. (193 x 155mm), pp. [xii], 186, [viii], 11, [ix], including errata leaf usually lacking. Engraved portrait vignette to title-page, woodcut initials and head-pieces, small numismatic illustration in text. Sporadic light foxing a little heavier to a few leaves. Very neat modern binding, tan quarter calf, raised bands and red morocco gilt title label to spine, marbled boards, edges sprinkled red, endpapers renewed. Very slight shelf wear, a very good copy. An account of the early life of Gaius Cilnius Maecenas (68 BC–8 BC) the famous patron of letters (notably to the new generation of Augustan poets, including both Horace and Virgil), by the German physician and humanist Johann Heinrich Meibom (1590-1655). This copy includes the final errata leaf which, as Willems notes, appears to have been added afterwards and is missing in most examples. Schweiger II, 588; Willems 731

Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2015. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxi,192 + plates. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Fine, almost as new.

Warminster, Wilts: Aris & Phillips for the Gibb Memorial Trust, 1998. First edition thus. 8vo., pp. 27, [iii], 542, [ii]. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine, fine. Dust-jacket, slightly shelf-creased and, to back cover, lightly damp-crinkled with publisher's ISBN sticker loosening. Still a very good, unused copy. Facsimile Text with an Introduction by the editors.

London: lack Dog Publishing, 2008. First edition. 4to. (293 x 248 mm), pp. 272. Lavishly illustrated with maps in colour throughout. Hardback: laminated boards. Corners lightly bumped, otherwise a fine, clean copy.

New York & London: Overlook Duckworth, 2010. First edition. 8vo., pp. 304. Maps, Family Trees, and illustrations to text. Hardback: quarter red cloth-backed black cloth boards, black-lettered to spine. Outer edge uncut, as issued, remainder mark to bottom edge. Dust-jacket. Jacket creased along top edge, light signs of use, still very good.

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1966. First edition. Folio, 5 vols. pp. [xxiv], 726 + 1 folding plate; [x], [4], 727-1013, [7] + 11 folding plates; [x], [4], 1017-1526; [x], [5], 1528-2062; [x], [5], 2064-2475, all with illustrated frontispiece. First two leaves (acknowledgements) of vol. 1 loose, else very good copies. Blue cloth, the odd spot or scratch, spines a bit faded, modern library stamp to front free endpaper, small paper label to spine of vols. 2-5. 'Peerless among monographs in the history of science' ('BioScience', 1967).

Stroud, Glos.: Sutton Publishing, 2005. First edition. 8vo., pp. ix, 230 + plates. Map. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Light signs of use, a little creasing to jacket top edge, still very good.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. First edition. 8vo., pp. xviii, 321. Hardback: dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. A hint only of shelf-wear: very good. In the Oxford Historical Monographs series.

London: HarperCollins, 1993. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxii, 518. Illustrations to text. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Light signs of shelf-wear: edges dusty, jacket edges a little creased, but still very good overall.

Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1995. First edition. 8vo., pp. xi, 127. Hardback: red cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Spine only slightly cocked, very light shelf-wear, still a very good copy overall. A collection of essays, now revised with additions, from papers presented at the eponymous conference held at Pennsylvania State University in 1991.

Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2016. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxiv, 296 + b/w plates. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-wear: a fine copy.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. Second edition, reprinted. 8vo., pp. xlvi, 323. Illustrations. Paperback. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. First published by Scolar Press in 1984, with a second edition by UPP in 1988 now reissued with a new Preface by the author.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. Large 8vo. (262 x 185 mm), pp. 480 pages. 20 colour, 149 b/w illustrations. Hardback. Dust-jacket. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap.

New Haven and London: Yale Unniversity Press, 2015. First edition in English. 8vo., pp. xv, 321. Hardback: red cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Light shelf-wear, very good.

York: printed by Thomas Wilson and Son, for J. Mawman, Poultry, and T. Payne, Pall Mall, London; and for Wilson & Son, York, 1809. Second edition. Pp. viii, 9-400 + engraved portrait frontispiece. A little light foxing towards front and rear but generally very good indeed. Contemporary half tan calf, blind-tooled spine, discreet repair to headcap, replacement label, marbled boards, salmon pink endpapers with small repair at fore-edge. A bit rubbed, some scratches, small piece of marbling lost to upper board, good overall. Bookplate of Robert Mackenzie Marshall to front paste-down, along with tiny yellow paper label 'Folthorp Royal Library Brighton'. To blank endpaper, ms gift inscription, 'Catherine Mary Perceval, June 20 1849 from her affectionate Uncle, W.W. Drummond.' Zouch (1737-1815) was better known as an editor and biographer of Izaak Walton. The first edition of this work on Sidney was published in 1808.

New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2013. First edition. 8vo., pp. viii, 294, inc. illustrations. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a touch only of shelf-wear: a fine copy.

Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2016. First edition. 8vo., pp. xi, 251 + plates. 2 maps to text. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy.

Goudae [Gouda]: Typis Gulieli vander Hoeve, 1650. 2 parts in 1. 8vo., pp. [vi], 262, [ii], 758, [lxvi] + portait plate. Additional engraved title-page included in pagination. Latin text, with references and quotations in Greek. With index and final corrigenda leaf. Device to title-page, woodcut initials. A few very tiny marginal annotations. Slightly toned, ink spotting to some pages sometimes affecting a few letters, paper flaw to bottom margin leaf O2 (2nd part). Contemporary vellum, three black labels letters in gilt to spine, edges slightly overlapped, all edges red. Vellum quite yellowed, some darker staining to spine and rear board but sound. Price's variorum edition, described by Dibdin alongside the Leiden edition of 1614 as follows: "These are valuable editions and sell high: especially the latter [i.e. this 1650 edition]. They contain the excellent observations of Is. Casaubon, 'In Apologiam' [first published 1594] (whose remarks on the Editio princeps of Apuleius are… Read More