Attractively rebound in 1/4 leather binding with marbled boards and marbled endpapers. Light edgewear with small chip to head of spine. Attractive illustrations. ; 296 pages View More...
Early English Text Society No. 295; 68 pages; This is a new critical edition of A Famylyer Dyaloge of the Freende and the Felaw, a late 15th-century translation of the Latin work Dialogus familiaris amici et sodalis (c. 1425) by Alain Chartier. The prose work forcefully laments the ruinous conditions in France brought about by the corruption and vices of the rulers, army, and common people in the early 15th century. View More...
Spine is torn and chipped and has been crudely reinforced with cellotape. Wraps are browned. Binding is cracked but internally is still intact. Pages are browned and mostly unopened. Former owner's name to titlepage in pen. ; En français. ; 306 pages View More...
Former owner's name on ffep. Minor discoloration to spine. Minor shelfwear. ; En Francais et Latin. Texte et traduction. Budé edition. ; Collection Des Universités De France. Association Guillaume Budé; 196 pages View More...
Former owner's name on ffep. Minor discoloration to spine. ; En Francais et Latin. Texte et traduction. Budé edition. ; Collection Des Universités De France. Association Guillaume Budé; 272 pages View More...
Former owner's name on ffep (Christian Habicht). Pages slightly tanned. ; En Francais et Latin. Texte et traduction. Budé edition. ISBN: 2251013229; Collection Des Universités De France. Association Guillaume Budé; 358 pages View More...
Very light shelfwear else Fine. ; Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies; 184 pages; Rome in the Pyrenees is a unique treatment in English of the archaeological and historical evidence for an important Roman town in Gaul, Lugdunum in the French Pyrenees, and for its surrounding people the Convenae. The book opens with the creation of the Convenae by Pompey the Great in the first century B. C. And runs down to the great Frankish siege in A. D. 585 and its aftermath. Now the town of Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges, Lugdunum is one of the best-known Roman towns in Gaul, with a rich selection of mo... View More...
Light wear to corners. One corner is creased. Scholars' bookplate to inner cover. ; Du règne de Louis XIII à la Révolution, la société française a élaboré un art de vivre dont la conversation fut l'ingrédient essentiel. Née comme un simple passe-temps, comme un jeu destiné au délassement et au plaisir, bientôt élevée au rang de rite cardinal de la société mondaine, elle s'ouvrit peu à peu à l'introspection, à l'histoire, à la réflexion philosophique et scientifique, au débat d'idées. Son théâtre privilégié était les " ruelles ", puis les salons où la noblesse, ayant déposé les armes et exclue ... View More...
Text browning, still quite supple. Small tears at spine ends. Faint dampstaining to wraps. ; 206pp, illustrated. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 206 pages View More...
Light creasing through upper corners of pages, Some light stains on front cover, else VG. ; Pp 47-349, illustrated. Medieval and early modern inscriptions. ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 302 pages View More...
Foxing to textblock and DJ. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). DJ is price-clipped. DJ spine sunned. Some rubbing to DJ. ; 311 pages View More...
Clothing, jewelry, animal remains, ceramics, coins, and weaponry are among the artifacts that have been discovered in graves in Gaul dating from the fifth to eighth century. Those who have unearthed them, from the middle ages to the present, have speculated widely on their meaning. This authoritative book makes a major contribution to the study of death and burial in late antique and early medieval society with its long overdue systematic discussion of this mortuary evidence. Tracing the history of Merovingian archaeology within its cultural and intellectual context for the first time, Effros ... View More...
Gift inscription on front pastedown, else unmarked. DJ has chipping with a couple of tears. DJ has some edgewear. ; 126pp, mostly photographs by G. Maurois. ; Les Ablums Des Guides Bleus; 126 pages View More...
Book appears to have been rebound in 1/4 leather spine with dark brown decorative boards. Some edgewear to boards. Rubbing and wear to spine and corners of leather (some gilt lettering has effaced from spine). Institution plate to front inner cover (Cornell University Library) indicating gift of Thomas Frederick Crane with his name in pencil to titlepage. Pencilling to a couple of pages. Else VG. ; 285 pages View More...
Rubbing and light browning to wraps. Spine ends mildly bumped. Small chip to head of spine. ; Notes Et Documents Des Musées De France 9; 427 pages View More...
Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. One small chip at head of spine DJ. Very light bump to head of spine. ; The Franks first come to light in historical sources in the third century AD as a group of barbarians living in the marshy lowlands north and east of the Rhine frontier of the Roman Empire. Within three centuries they had become the most powerful of all the barbarian kingdoms, the effective heirs of the Roman Empire, and the founders of France. ; The Peoples of Europe; 256 pages View More...
Bound in full leather boards with marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Corners and spine ends a bit edgeworn. Small Cracks starting along 1 joint. Leather flecking off spine ends. Gilt designs to boards. Gilt lettering on red spine label. Some scattered light foxing and browning. Still a pretty volume. ; 264pp, + 12 plates. ; Volume 4 Only. ; Vol. 4; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 264 pages View More...
Book has been rebound in black buckram with gilt lettering to spine. Some damage to last 2 pages in gutters with some loss to last page of text. Library stamp to half-title. No other exlibrary markings. Else minor shelfwear. ; No date- around 1870s - 1880s. ; Bibliothèque Latine-Française; Vol. 2; 350 pages View More...
1 corner slightly bumped else book is fine. DJ in mylar. ; 240pp, nicely illustrated. ; Exploring the Roman World; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 240 pages View More...
Former classics scholar's name on ffeps (T. D. Barnes). 2 volume Set. Browning to spines. Pages uncut. Tanning to pages. Minor shelfwear to wraps. ; Texte En Francais. ; 2 Volume Set. Les Belles Lettres. Collection D'Etudes Anciennes View More...
Browning to spines. Pages uncut. Tanning to pages. Minor shelfwear to wraps. Faint crease to front wrap. A couple of tiny chips to wraps. Post-war paper. ; Texte En Francais. [465]-884 pp; Les Belles Lettres. Collection D'Etudes Anciennes; Vol. 2; 419 pages View More...
Book is fine. Short tear (cm) to rear panel of DJ. ; 12 papers include: Oscar Haac "A 'Philosophe' & Antiquity: Voltaire's Changing View of Plato"; Mark J. Temner "Rousseau's 'Idylle des Cerises'. A Metamorphosis of the Pastoral Idyll" ; Frank P. Bowman "A Romantic View of the Hellenist Past: Vigny's 'Daphne' " ; Philip Walker " Zola's Hellenism"; Robert Greer Cohn "Mallarme & the Greeks"; Basil Guy "Peguy & Antiquity"; Wolfgang Holdheim "Gide & the Assimilation ot Tragedy"; Konrad Bieber " Jean Giono's Greece: A Kinship between Distant Ages"; Rosette C. Lamont " Giradoux's Hector: A Hero's St... View More...
Paperclip indent to front wrap and first 2 pages of V1. V2 has light edgewear to 1 corner. Else books are fine. ; Complete in 2 volumes. 463pp; 375pp.; 2 Volume Set. Wissenschaft Und Religion Band 10; Vol. 1/2/2023 View More...
Ex-library copy with blindstamps, call numbers. Book has been rebound in tan brown buckram. Cellotape applied to a few pages now yellowed. ; 147 pages View More...
DJ is price-clipped. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. DJ has light edgewear. Book has very minor shelfwear. ; pieces together a political, social and religious history of France in Roman times. Also demonstrates the influence of Roman culture on France centuries after the fall of the Empire, and assesses the relationship of Roman Gaul to the beauty of present-day Paris. ; 275 pages View More...
Minor edgewear. Scholar's name to titlepage (Robert Brown). ; This comprehensive reader utilizes a step-by-step approach to help students of Latin read and understand the longest and most dramatic book of Caesar's Gallic War. Book 7 is the culmination of the conflict between Gaul, led by the young Arvernian Vercingetorix and fighting for its freedom and political survival, and the Romans, led by Julius Caesar and fighting for hegemony and political mastery. The final battle at Alesia, pitting the united might of Gaul at 339,000 men against a Roman army of 40,000, changed the course of Western ... View More...
A small puncture mark at the lower back joint. Ex-library copy with usual stamps, and pocket though I believe this was never in circulation. ; The Library of Medieval Women; 0.94 x 8.43 x 5.59 Inches; 199 pages; Christine de Pizan (also seen as de Pisan) (1364?1430) was a writer and analyst of the medieval era who strongly challenged the clerical misogyny and stereotypes that were prevalent in the male-dominated realm of the arts. De Pizan completed forty-one pieces during her thirty-year career (1399?1429). She earned her accolade as Europe?s first professional woman writer (Redfern 74). Her ... View More...
Corners are bumped. Former owner's name in pen to ffep with small stamp. ; Papers arising from the international conference at the Titelberg (Luxembourg) 12-13 November 1993. ; Dossiers D'Archéologie Du Musée National D'Histoire Et D'Art IV; 198 pages View More...
Light shelfwear. ; 107pp, profusely illustrated. ; Bulletin Special of the Musee Du Bastion St. Andre, 1983-1984.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 107 pages View More...
Back endpaper browned. Scholar's name to ffep (M. F. Fresco). Spine slightly sunned. ; Six Latin epigrams by Naugerio, five with a French version or imitation by Du Bellay, one with a French imitation by Ronsard, 'Les dons de laquet à Isabeau'. ; 23 pages View More...
