Search Results: Renaissance & Reformation from Motte & Bailey, Booksellers

London: Hurst & Blackett, LTD., c.1921.. Hardcover. Very Good. Possible first edition. Two good octavo hardcovers in poor dust jackets. Wear and rubbing to the edges of both volumes' boards and bumping to the heads and heels of the spines. The djs of both volumes are worn and rubbed along the edges with many tears and chips missing and some soiling also. The front cover of the dj of volume I is just barley attached to the rest of the dj and has been heavily repaired with tape on its backside. The dj of volume II has large chip missing from the lower edge of the front cover (2 inches tall and about 4 inches wide) and has also been extensively repaired with tape on its underside. Both volume shave bookplates on their front pastedown endpapers. There is also some light browning to the pages. A little bit of loosness to the lower edge of the binding on volume I. 640 total pages with illustrations and footnotes.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Good without dust jacket. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, a bit heavier near head of spine. Tanning to edges and spine of boards. 261 p. w/ notes, bibliography, index. Latimer (1487? - 1555) was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge and Bishop of Worcester. he was a reformist, and later an Anglican who opposed the Six Articles proposed by Henry VIII. When Queen Mary I ascended the throne, he was burned for heresy with Nicholas Ridley and became of the three Oxford Martyrs.

London: Frank Cass, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with minor bumping to head and heel of spine. Slight twist to binding. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers. Few pages have pencil underlining and notes. 293 pages with footnotes and index. A collection of essays dealing with relations among the various faiths in the Mediterranean region following the expulsion of the Jews and Moors from Spain.

Mantua, Italy: Rossi Edizione, 2003. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. 132 p. w/ many color illustations. An attractive survey of the city of Mantua under the Gonzaga, highlighting the art and architecture of their rule.

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Spine of book has brown stains, as if coffee was dripped on it. 425 p. w/ endnotes, bibliogaphy, index. Focuses on the collecting interests and artistic support of Cardinal Leopoldo de' Medici and Cosimo III in the 17th century.

Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts, 1999. First edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. 277 p. w/ notes, bibliography, index, and appendices on lists, chonology of travels, and hosts. A study of the annual royal visits to towns and noble homes in southern England in the reign of Elizabeth I. and their importance to her rule and relations with her subjects.

Boston: Humanities Press, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good octavo hardcover in glossy blue illustrated boards without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with minor scuffing to covers. Slight bumping to head of spine. 449 pages with maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. A study of the German Protestant Reformation through the career of Jacob Sturm of Strasbourg=, including the upheavals of the Peasants War and the Smalkaldic War.

Aldershot: VARIORUM / Ashgate, 1992. First edition thus. Hardcover in full cloth. Very Good. No dust jacket issued. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Name and address of former owner on endpaper. xii, 353 p. A collection of 15 scholarly essays and articles on Spain from the mid 1500s thru 1700. Covers Lepanto, taxation, military organization, the Duke of Medina, the Armada, crime, nobility, and more.