Search Results: Authors starting with N from Unsworth's Antiquarian Booksellers

Oxford University Press, 2007. First edition, second impression. 8vo., pp. x, 218. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. A hint of shelf-dust only, almost fine.

New Haven and London: Yale Unniversity Press, 2017. 4to. (254 x 190 mm), pp. 288 + plates. 40 colour + 80 b/w. illus. Hardback, dust-jacket. New, still in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Apud Sam. et Joan. Luchtmans, 1773 [1774]. 2nd ed., expanded. 8vo., pp.[32], 832, [176]. Additional engraved title-page dated 1774, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, engraved illustrations in the text (portraits). A few pencil marks, eg. p.117. Contemporary vellum prize binding, gilt spine, borders, corner tools and centrepiece coat of arms of Utrecht to each board, edges sprinkled red and blue. A few light marks, ties lost, very good. Includes: C. Nepotis fragmenta […] A. Schotti studio collecta, scholiisque illustrata […] recensita […] et […] aucta a J.A. Bosio, cujus […] animadversiones Schottisnis interseruntur, Curante A. van Staveren. With index at rear. Dibdin II, p246 for this, the better of two Staveren editions (1734 and 1773); Schweiger II pt.i, 302.

Oxonii [Oxford]. E Teatro Sheldoniano. 1708. 4to. pp. [xx], 230; [ii], 38, [xviii], [lvi]. Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette to title, engraved ornaments at start of each chapter. Little spotting to title and verso of last leaf. Early 19th century Russia leather, marbled endpapers, triple gilt ruled, raised bands, spine double gilt ruled and gilt-lettered, cross-hatched decoration in blind. Covers a bit faded, joints cracked but firm. Bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to front pastedown. Reprint of the 1678 Oxford edition of Cornelius Nepos's 'Lives of the Emperors', in a remarkably and unusually well-preserved Russia leather binding. ESTC T83009.

Londini [London]: Jacobi Tonson & Johannis Watts, 1735. 12mo., pp. [xii], 114, [vi]. Engraved frontispiece by Du Gernier, title-page in red and black with woodcut device, ornamental headpieces and initials. Internally very clean, some pencil to endpapers. Contemporary tan calf with raised bands and spine label, spine and edges a bit rubbed, upper joint just starting at head but still very sound. Much like the 1715 edition (the title verso is printed with a licence dated 1714 which grants exclusive rights for printing and publishing for 14 years), though reset to be slightly larger, and with different ornaments used. ESTC T83008

London: printed by Benj. Motte, and are to be sold by Chr. Bateman, Benj. Tooke, Ric. Parker, 1708; 1710. 2 vols., folio, pp.[iv], vii, [I], 761, 764-5, 768-9, 772-3, 776-928, [ii] (i.e. usual mispagination) + 4 plates; [viii], 692, [lii] + 2 plates. Vol. I with portrait frontispiece and errata leaf, vol. II with half-title and list of subscribers, as called for. Sporadic toning, vol. II heavily toned from p.609 onwards and with a small worm trail near gutter for approx. first hundred pages. MS to ffep vol. I (a description in heraldic terminology of the arms of Richard Newport depicted on the frontispiece). Contemporary Cambridge panelled calf, raised bands and reddish title labels to spines, edges sprinkled red. A bit worn with some scrapes, but very good. Each volume with armorial bookplates of John Hoadly, LLD to front paste-down and Henry Carrington Bowles to rear paste-down (the latter being the Bowles arms with those of H.C.B.'s wife Ann Garnault inset). Historian and notary Richard… Read More

Chichester: Anthony Bird Publications, 1981. First edition. 8vo., pp. 156 + plates. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: brown cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. A touch only of shelf-wear: very good.

Cambridge University Press, 2000. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 252. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused and, with just a hint of shelf-wear, almost as new.

Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Military, 2013. First edition. 8vo., pp. xi, 212 + plates. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Very light shelf-wear only, very good.

Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: [s.n.], 1802. 8vo., pp. viii, 614, [ii] + additional engraved title + 11 plates, 10 of which folding. With half-title, a few pages unopened at fore-edge. Occasional very faint spotting, some light toning, light damp staining at fore-edge increasing towards rear and becoming pinkish. Contemporary vellum prize binding with certificate bound in, spine gilt, gilt arms of Utrecht centrepiece to each board surrounded by border and corner tools, edges sprinkled red and blue. Spine a little darkened, a few small marks, all ties bar one lost, very good indeed. An illustrated study of Roman rituals. Scarce in the British Isles, COPAC locates copies in the British Library and the Bodleian only. Spoelder 4.

Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2015. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxix, 190 + plates. Maps. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy.

London: Longmans, Green & Co.; Longman Group, 1967; 1970. First edition. 8vo., pp. xv, [i] 426 + plates. Internally clean and bright. Black cloth, orange labels, gilt, to spine. One corner slightly bumped, top edge a little dusty, very good. A little light shelf-wear to dust-jackets, edges slightly frayed, front flap creased, otherwise very good. The second and final, but stand-alone, volume of the author's history of Norman Sicily. The first volume, The Normans in the South (1016-1130), had been published three years earlier in 1967.