Books on Renaissance
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Micro-Cosmographie (1628), with additional Characters from the Fifth Edition of 1629, and the Sixth Edition of 1633.
104p slim hardback, tan paper covered boards, clean and tight copy, famous Arber production, very ...
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The English Garner. Ingatherings from our History and Literature. Incomplete Set: Vol 1-3 and Vol 6-8.
6 volumes bound in light green cloth, most volumes with gilt front board, appearance of spines not ...
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The English Garner. Ingatherings from our History and Literature. Vol 5 only.
656p single vol in bright blue cloth very gilt, spine still quite bright, Arber printed in the ...
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The John Rylands Library Manchester: An Analytical Catalogue of the Contents of the Two Editions of "An English Garner," Compiled By Edward Arber (1877-97) and Rearranged Under the Editorship of Thomas Seccombe (1903-04)
221p brown cloth, library binding, from a Cambridge college library, very good
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The Scholemaster.
160p small green cloth, gilt titles to front and spine, excellent condition, name in ink
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Utopia; transl R Robinson, Ed. E Arber.
168p large paperback format, binding poor, text clean, this copy inscribed by Edward Arber to ...
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A St Andrews Diarist. James Melville, 1556 - 1614. Being the Dow Lecture delivered University of St Andrews at Dundee 14th October 1963.
30p sewn booklet, grey card cover, fresh clean copy
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Lettere scritte a Pietro Aretino. Tomo 1. Libro 1. (Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Pietro Aretino, Vol 9)
488p cloth, dustjacket, firm strong copy, almost as new, but with "reading room" stamp to edges, ...
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Sur la Poétique, l'Art et les Artistes (Michel-Ange et Titien)
lxxv 95p paperback, grey card cover, printed on faint tinted paper, excellent copy, as new, French ...
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La Prima Redazione Inedita di Due Satire dell'Ariosto.
30p offprint, author inscription, very good
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L'Orlando Furioso, Vols 1 -2.
599p 643p brown leather with gilt borders, dentelles, all edges gilt, 2 volumes bound in one, worn ...
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Orlando Furioso di Ludovico Ariosto. Raccontato da Italo Calvino.
404p paperback, lilac covers, like new condition, binding firm, pages very clean and neat, no ...
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Orlando Furioso. In Two Volumes.
li 749p 738p set of two paperbacks in card slipcase, very good condition, white covers with blue ...
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Per l'Ariosto.
200p large paperback with red card cover, minor library marks, bookplate, very good: with papers by ...
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The Emperor Charles V. 1st ed.
2 volumes: xxxi 341p, ix 413p blue cloth, index, cover a little rubbed, college library set, good ...
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Ronsard and the Age of Gold.
213p hardback, dustjacket in good condition, slight fraying to edges, from a Cambridge college ...
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Racan - II: Les Bergeries.
xxxvi 293p paperback in grey cover with rough-cut pages, light wear commensurate with age, pages ...
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Racan - Poésies Lyriques.
xxxii 300p paperback in grey cover, binding flaw as spine is splitting down in the middle, pages ...
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Old Master Drawings Form Chatsworth.
32p blue card cover, stapled, pages unmarked, very good
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Old Master Drawings form Chatsworth.
46p plus 116 plates, illustrated card cover, stapled, pages unmarked, a fresh and clean copy
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The English Civil War. Conservatism and Revolution 1603 - 1649.
x 453p card cover, index, some pencil notes to text
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English Literary Criticism: The Renascence.
xi 370p large cloth, index, very good, first edition
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Literary Criticism in Antiquity. A Sketch of its Development. Volume 1: Greek.
xi 199p original blue cloth, index, nice fresh copy of the first edition, with a few faint pencil ...
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Literary Criticism in Antiquity. A Sketch of its Development. Volume 2: Graeco-Roman.
xi 363p original blue cloth, index, nice fresh copy of the first edition, from a Cambridge college ...
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Aubrey's Brief Lives. Edited From the Original Manuscripts and With an Introduction by Oliver Lawson Dick.
341p hardback, scarlet cloth without jacket, good condition, light wear to cover edges, some marks ...
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George Gascoigne.
xviii 236p hardback, black cloth with yellow jacket, very good condition, light wear to jacket ...
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Rubens and his Time. Transl C Trollope.
218p hardback, white illustrated dustjacket (incompl), plates, index, very good
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English Drama: Forms and Development. Essays in Honour of M C Bradbrook.
x 263p hardback, dustjacket, index, nice and clean copy from a Cambridge library
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'Triumphs of English'. Henry Parker, Lord Morley, Translator to the Tudor Court. New Essays in Interpretation.
xi 276p large hardback, ebony cloth with pale turquoise jacket, very good condition, minimal wear ...
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Cervantes: Pioneer and Plagiarist.
96p thin paperback with wrapper, some pencil underlining and a few faint marginal pencil notes, ...
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The Works of John Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury. The First Portion: Containing A Sermon Preached at Paul's Cross; Correspondence with Dr. Cole; The Reply to Harding's Answer of Private Mass.
552p black cloth with gilt lettering, private brown paper wrapper, top 1/3 of spine missing, ...
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Canone infinito: Lineamenti di Teoria della Musica.
xv 540p thick and large paperback, orange card cover fresh and clean copy, excellent, hard to find ...
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Relation of the Conquest of Tercera in an. 1583. (London 1583?)
64?p small format hardback, red cloth with dark title label to front, light library markings, a ...
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Oswaldus Crollius und Daniel Sennert im frühneuzeitlichen Istanbul.
489p paperback, a fresh copy, clean pages, firm, includes fold out chart, in excellent condition, ...
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A Changing Perspective: Attitudes Toward Creole Society in New Spain (1521 - 1610)
159p hardback with white illustrated dustjacket, sunned to spine and top edge, small smudge to ...
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Bacon's Essays including his Moral and Historical Works, with Memoir, Notes and glossary.
xiv 533p burgundy cloth with blindstamped floral thistle design to boards, spine lettered gilt, ...
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Essays by Francis Bacon.
169p green cloth with gilt lettering (bright) on spine, edges dusty, pages clean and unmarked, ...
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Essays or Counsels Civil & Moral. Edited Frederic Harrison.
xvii 357p small format, green cloth with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, floral design to spine, ...
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Francis Bacon: Lawyer, Philosopher, Essayist. Ed. Catherine Gunn.
very small stapled booklet, name in ink, a fresh and clean copy
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Nuova Atlantide. Nuova Atlantis. New Atlantis.
liii 339p large hardback, bright white vellum binding, bevelled boards, gilt lettering to front and ...
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Sylva Sylvarum, sive Historia Naturalis, in decem centurias distribute, Anglice olim conscripta, a Francisco Bacono Barone Verulamio, nunc Lati[n]o transscripta a Jacobo Grutero P.F. Medicina Candidato.
12mo., [1]ff, [34], 612pp [pp 454-5 misnumbered 654-5], [47]; 87pp. Bound in contemporary sheepskin ...
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The Advancement of Learning. Ed. William Aldis Wright. Fifth Edition.
xlviii 376p, 2 folding maps, original green cloth, notes, glossary, some faint pencil marking only
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The Advancement of Learning. Edited with an Introduction by G W Kitchin.
xiii 246p brown imitation leather with silver and gilt lettering, bright copy, pages unmarked, with ...
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The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, of Francis Bacon Lord Verulam.
xxiv 199p olive green cloth, "EL" monogram to spine, light library markings to endpaper, spine a ...
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The Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral and the New Atlantis of Francis Lord Verulam. (The English Works of Francis Bacon, Vol 1)
xiv 176p 40p red cloth, faint foxing to a few pages, gilt lettering to spine, very good
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The Essays. Colours of Good and Evil. Advancement of Learning.
xxvii 422p blue cloth, index, library bookplate, fresh nice copy
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