Books on Renaissance
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The Utopia of Sir Thomas More. In Latin from the Edition of March 1518, and in English from the first Edition of Ralph Robynson's Translation in 1551. With Additional Translations, Introduction and Notes. With Facsimiles.
c 347p hardback, half calf binding solid, green boards a litte rubbed, old library markings ...
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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].
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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Divers Chimical Conclusions Concerning the Art of Distillation, with many rare Practises and Uses thereof, according to the Authors own Experience.
47p slim hardback in dark plain covers, introduction by Rosetta Clarkson, a fresh and tight copy, ...
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The Advancement of Learning.
xii 244p hardback in maroon cloth, sky-blue jacket, very good condition, a little wear to jacket, ...
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Song, Dance and Poetry of the Court of Scotland under King James VI.
xi 286p large format hardback, blue cloth with sky-blue jacket, good condition, light wear to ...
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Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance. Revised Edition.
xix 327p large paperback in excellent condition, glossy yellow cover with sunned spine, binding ...
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The Complete Poems of Michelangelo.
218p hardback, blue cloth with bright gilt jacket, very good condition, light wear to jacket edges, ...
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Shakespeare on Love. The Sonnets and Plays in Relation to Plato’s Symposium, Alchemy, Christianity and Renaissance Neo-Platonism.
xv 113p hardback, like new, free from wear, black cloth with glossy black jacket, strong binding ...
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Orthodoxie und Häresie im Alten Russland.
321p large paperback, glossy grey cover with tanning around edges, spine a bit creased, otherwise ...
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Sculture Barocche di Ritratto.
42p slim paperback in glossy brown cover, very good condition, free from markings and stamps, pages ...
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Fate and Guilt in Schiller's 'Die Braut von Messina', and Other Papers. (Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, Vol 17, No 1, 1902.)
124p paperback journal, staple binding, plain card covers with some wear, back cover detached but ...
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The Ecclesiastical and Political History of the Popes of Rome during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Translated from the German by Sarah Austin.
xxiv 528p, iv 596p, v 245p 416p three large volumes in full calf binding with spine related issues, ...
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The Public Speaking of Queen Elizabeth: Selections from Her Official Addresses.
x 142p burgundy cloth fresh, nice clean copy, material relating to a review of the book inserted, ...
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The Advancement of Learning. Edited by G W Kitchin.
xii 244p brown hardback, imitation leather with gilt ornament, nice copy, no names or stamps
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Memoirs of John Evelyn Comprising His Diary from 1641 to 1705-6, and a Selection of His Familiar Letters, to which is subjoined his private correspondence between King Charles 1 and Sir Edward Nicholas etc. In Five Volumes. Edited by William Bray.
Five volumes in half calf, marbled boards, all bindings firm but one spine missing, two spines with ...
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Galateo or the Book of Manners. A New Translation by R S Pine-Coffin.
131p neat paperback, blue frame, first printing, name to endpaper, square copy, spine not creased
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William Tyndale unto the Christen Reader: A Celebration of the Quincentenary of William Tyndale.
16p stapled booklet, yellow cover, well preserved exhibition listing
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Eros et Priapus. Erotisme et Obscénité dans la Littérature Néo-Latine.
xvi 188p large paperback, ivory cover, excellent copy, no names or stamps, essays by Charlet, ...
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Lorenzo de' Medici and Florence in the Fifteenth Century
xv 449p hardback, fresh burgundy cloth with gilt rule to cover, frontispiece, binding tight and ...
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Guilielmus Byrd Missa ad Quinque Voces Inaequales, Ediderunt G B Squire et R Terry.
57p original blue tinted cover, A4 format, spine strengthened with cloth, binding holding well, a ...
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Missa Papae Marcelli (Six Parts). Edited for the Use of the Bach Choir by Otto Goldschmidt.
iv 52p large format slim hardback, white cover with black lettering and ornament, cloth spine ...
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The Carafas of Maddaloni: Naples under Spanish Dominion.
xiv 430p hardback, dark green embossed cloth with gilt lettering to spine, cloth a little faded, a ...
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Les OEuvres de François Villon.
165p slim hardback, excellent condition, glassine jacket present, fine paper edition, titles ...
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L'Eredità Esterházy: Disegni Italiani del Seicento dal Museo di Belle Arti di Budapest.
large volume, paperback, illustrated throughout, no names or stamps, excellent, as new, heavy item, ...
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The School of Fontainbleau - Etchings and Engravings.
very large and heavy hardback volume, pink cloth with gilt lettering, 38p of text plus 350 plates, ...
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Old Master Drawings. Christie's, London, Tuesday 19 April 1988.
290p paperback in glossy white and pink cover, very good condition, spine a bit sunned, free from ...
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Hans Sebald Beham. The Collection of Prints Formed by Gordon Nowell-Usticke. Auction Catalogue for 28 June 1978.
110p hardback exhibition catalogue, pink card cover, very good condition, minimal wear, spine ...
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Old Master Drawings, Including Drawings from Corsham Court. Sotheby's, Wednesday 3 July 1996.
169p large paperback, glossy black cover with paintings, no significant wear, tight binding, pages ...
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Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth. A Loan Exhibition from the Devonshire Collection.
192p large paperback, grey cover with colour portrait, very good condition, no significant wear, a ...
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Homage to Senefelder. Artists' Lithographs from the Felix H. Man Collection. Exhibition Catalogue, V&A Museum, 1971.
104p paperback, blue and white covers with illustration, very good condition, minimal wear, title ...
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Moroni. 400th Anniversary Exhibition, National Gallery.
40p stapled booklet, very good condition, minimal wear, spine sunned, pages clean and neat, b&w ...
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Eight Concerts of Henry Purcell's Music. Commemorative Book of Programmes, Notes and Texts. (Festival of Britain, 1951.)
93p large format paperback, many plates, fresh copy, clean and tight, no names or stamps
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Michelangelo. The Complete Sculpture.
310p large format hardback, terracotta cloth with white jacket, very good condition, a little light ...
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Mannerism. The European Style of the Sixteenth Century.
246p very large hardback, maroon cloth, very good condition, minimal wear, pages clean and neat, ...
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Mentelin's Latin Bible. Gutenberg Bible Used as Printer's Copy. Two Needham Essays in Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society. Volume 9, Parts 1, 1986.
single issue, contains two Needham essays, blue card cover, well preserved, no names or stamps, ...
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Italian Renaissance Maiolica from the William Clark Collection.
192p large hardback, blue cloth with illustrated blue jacket, very good condition, little to no ...
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Michelangelo's Biblioteca Laurenziana.
123p - 218p (96 pages) large format journal offprint (The Art Bulletin, Volume 16, No. 2, Published ...
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Antonio Pellegrini. Il Maestro Veneto del Rococò alle Corti d'Europa.
242p large heavy papeerback, colourful cover, very good condition, minimal wear, tight binding, ...
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An Italian Grammar (1575). (An Italian Grammer Written in Latin by Scipio Lentulo, a Neopolitane, and Turned in Englishe by G H)
iv 154p hardback, two tone green cloth, small format, light library markings, a clean copy, very ...
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Latinae Grammaticae Pars Prior (1595).
xx 108p hardback, two tone green cloth, small format, light library markings, a clean copy, very ...
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R R: An English Grammar (1641). (An English Grammar: or, A Plain Exposition of Lilies Grammar in English, with easie and profitable Rules for parsing and making Latine)
vi 183p hardback, two tone green cloth, light library markings, a clean copy, very little use, nice ...
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Grammatical Commentaries (1706) (Grammatical Commentaries, Being an Apparatus to a New National Grammar...)
xxxiv 408p 27p hardback, two tone green cloth, light library markings, a clean copy, very little ...
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