Books on Renaissance
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Renaissance-Studien. Helmuth Osthoff zum 80. Geburtstag.
255p original burgundy cloth fresh and tight, gilt lettering to front, excellent copy
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Galileo Engineer.
xxii 320p hardback, blue laminated boards as new, no names, no stamps, no signs of use: new
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The English Galileo: Thomas Harriot's Work on Motion as an Example of Preclassical Mechanics. Volume 1: Interpretation, Volume 2: Sources.
xx 762p two hardback volumes with fresh dark blue dustjacket, excellent set, volume two with ...
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The Pirotechnia of Vannoccio Biringuccio.
xxvi 477p red paperback, fresh and clean copy, no names or stamps, no traces of use, spine solid ...
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Tycho Brahe: A Picture of Scientific Life and Work in the Sixteenth Century.
xvi 405p fresh paperback, with frontispiece, nice clean copy, no names or stamps, very good
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The Origins of Scientific Thought. From Anaximander to Proclus 600 BC to 300 AD.
320p hardback, green cloth fresh and clean, private bookplate, no names or stamps, no library ...
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The Copernican Achievement.
405p hardback, dark blue dustjacket fresh, this copy without library markings or stamps, excellent ...
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The Power of Images in Early Modern Science.
ix 308p large format paperback with bright blue cover, many illustrations throughout, also in ...
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Mechanics in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Selections from Tartaglia, Benedetti, Guido Ubaldo, and Galileo.
xii 428p large hardback, grey dustjacket with light soiling, a clean and solid copy, never used
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Marc Antoine Muret, un Humaniste Français en Italie.
659p large format tome, white card cover fresh and clean, portrait to front, excellent copy, as ...
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The Practical Harmonist at the Harpsichord. Translated by Frank Stillings, Edited by David Burrows.
xv 102p hardback, burgundy cloth fresh, dustjacket present, typescript of review inserted, this ...
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Guillaume Du Fay. Musik des 15. Jahrhunderts.
xxvi 504p large format hardback with white / red jacket, excellent copy, as new, no signs of use, ...
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Erinnerungen an Rubens. Zweite Auflage.
x 331p burgundy cloth very fresh, bevelled boards, top edge gilt, a square and fresh copy, no ...
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Johannes Parsimonius. Leben und Wirken des zweiten evangelischen Abts von Hirsau 1525 - 1588.
458p large format hardback, fresh dustjacket, excellent copy, no names or stamps, includes large ...
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The Classical Text: Aspects of Editing in the Age of the Printed Book.
xi 174p light blue cloth firm, text clean but light signs of use, occasional mark to margin, name ...
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Die Bedeutung der Rhetorik für Melanchthons Interpretation profaner und biblischer Texte.
40p offprint, fresh and clean copy, yellow cover, author signed, related paperwork inserted, very ...
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Die Vertreibung der triumphierenden Bestie. Ins Deutsche übertragen von Ludwig Kuhlenbeck. Zweite Auflage. (Werke Band 2)
xii 280p blue cloth hardback with vellum spine, top edge gilt, text clean, binding form, name ...
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Plays. With an Introduction and Notes by Roden Noel. Unexpurgated Edition.
l 392p brown cloth elaborately ornamented, binding very nice and fresh, name dated 1896, a very ...
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English Seamen: Hawkins, Greenville, Devereux, Raleigh. Edited by David Hannay.
xvii 450p original dark buckram cloth with gilt ornaments bright, binding firm, old name stamp, ...
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The Works. With some Account of the Author, and Notes by Alexander Dyce. New Edition.
xxix 383p full calf binding in reddish leather, spine labels lost, spine hinge opening, front and ...
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Old Master, English and Decorative Prints. Friday 27th June 1986.
132p paperback auction catalogue, glossy blue cover with colour art, pages clear and bright, b&w ...
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Important Old Master Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, Comprising the Property of the Collections of the Reigning Prince Liechtenstein. Friday 16th May 1980.
162p paperback auction catalogue, moss green cover, many b&w plates, clear and bright, binding ...
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Old Master and Modern Prints. Thursday 26th June 1980.
119p paperback auction catalogue, moss green cover, many b&w plates, clear and bright, light pencil ...
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Important Old Master Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts. Thursday 14th May 1981.
148p paperback auction catalogue, moss green cover, many b&w illustrations, clear and bright, very ...
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Important Old Master and English Prints. Wednesday 1st November 1978 and Thursday 2nd November 1978.
186p paperback auction catalogue, moss green cover, many b&w plates, clear and bright, a little ...
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Important Old Master Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, Including Property of the Prince Fürstenberg and Others. Friday 18th June 1982.
203p paperback auction catalogue, moss green cover, many b&w plates, clear and bright, a little ...
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Highly Important French Eighteenth Century Drawing and Paintings. Wednesday June 10th 1959.
150p paperback auction catalogue, moss green cover, many b&w plates, clear and bright, a little ...
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Important Old Master Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts. Thursday 4th February 1982.
160p paperback auction catalogue, moss green cover, many b&w illustrations, clear and bright, very ...
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Biblioteca di Rarita Musicali per Cura di Oscar Chilesotti. Volume 9: Madrigali, Villanelle ed Arie di Danza del Cinquecento (dalle Opere di J B Besard). Transcrizione per Pianoforte.
iv 35p large format paperback, booklet, grey illustrated cover, paper yellowing but holding, ...
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Important Old Master Engravings Etchings and Woodcuts. December 1, 1976.
58p large paperback, pink card cover, 176 items, many illustrations, very well preserved, clean ...
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Antiquities and Souvenirs of the Grand Tour. April 26, 1995.
108p large paperback in glossy illustrated cover, very good condition, 492 items, firmly bound, ...
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Old Master Drawings. December 10, 1991.
136p large paperback in glossy grey illustrated cover, very good condition, 251 items, firmly ...
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The Hatvany Collection. Highly Important Old Master Drawings. 24 June, 1980.
99p hardback, pink frame to cover, 81 items, many illustrations, some in colour, very well ...
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Important Old Master Prints. June 24, 1986.
133p large paperback, pink frame to cover, 329 items, very well preserved, clean copy, many ...
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The British Rail Pension Funds - The Collection of Old Master Prints. (June 29, 1987).
155p large format paperback auction catalogue dark blue cover, illustrated throughout, some ...
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The Invention of the Italian Renaissance Printmaker.
207p hardback, large format, square size, black cloth, many colour plates, excellent copy with ...
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The Invention of Printing. (Bound Photocopy of essay first published in The Library, 1940)
well produced bound photocopy of important essay (pace Lotte H)
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The Elizabethan Jesuits: Translation of 'Historia Misionis Anglicanae Societatis Jesu' (1660) of Henry More.
xii 400p hardback, very fresh dustjacket, as new copy except for oriental ink stamp to endpaper
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Journal of the Warburg Institute. Volume 1, Number 2, October 1937.
approx 120p, large format paperback, as issued, with its white card cover, includes Yates on ...
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Journal of the Warburg Institute. Volume 2, Number 2, October 1938.
approx 120p, large format paperback, as issued, with its white card cover, includes Edgar Wind on ...
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Celestina, or, the Tragi-Comedy of Calisto and Melibea.
xci 345p hardback in brown cloth, gilt title to spine, very good condition, a little light wear to ...
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Shakespeare and Machiavelli.
xiii 218p harbdack, black boards with title label to front, author inscription, nice clean copy, no ...
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The Shepherd's Calendar.
244p hardback, original burgundy cloth fresh with gilt lettering to spine a little dull, corners ...
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Index of English Literary Manuscripts: 1450 - 1625. Volume 1: Andrewes - Donne, Volume 2: Douglas - Wyatt.
two very large and very heavy cloth volumes in original blue buckram, gilt lettering to front and ...
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Bacon's Essays with Annotations. Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged.
xxiv 588p attractive full calf binding, marbled endpapers and edges, spine hinges solid, spine no ...
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The Kalendar and Compost of Shepherds, from the Original Edition Published by Guy Marchant in Paris in the Year 1493, and Translated into English c. 1518: Newly edited for the Year 1931. Introduction G C Heseltine.
xi 176p large format hardback, A4 size, light cloth binding firm, no names or stamps, with ...
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Englands Helicon. Edited from the Edition of 1600 with additional Poems from the Edition of 1614.
xxviii 260p paperback with brown illustrated cover, small format, hardly used, pages clean, very ...
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![A Letter [1575].](images/books/240936_small_90w_x_126h.jpg "A Letter [1575].")
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A Letter [1575].
87p slim paperback, small format, white cover, nice clean copy, name to endpaper: "Whearin, part of ...
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De Symmetria Partium Humanorum Corporum. Limited Facsimile Edition.
122p large format hardback, faux leather covers and card slipcase, light wear and marks to covers, ...
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Balli di Sfessania. Edited by Dr. Karl Kloss. English translation by Ada Rosenthal.
hardback, square format, vellum style spine (a little worn) with Japanese paper covers, gilt ...
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