Search Results: Authors starting with T from Eastleach Books

Penguin, 1938. 2nd impression.. Paperback. Paperback, dj, VG/G. 246pp+8pp publsihers adverts, dustjacket worn along the edges with a few small chips along the top edge, book itself bright. Penguin S3. A Penguin Special in which the author makes a study of European dictators & their methods.

Lugd. Batavorum : ex officina Elzviriana [sic] [ Elzevir - Elzeviriana ], 1621. 1st thus.. Hardback. Later half calf over marbled boards, G. engraved tp+789+[29]pp, includes the following errors in pagination - pp161-162 omitted, pp472, 538 mis-numbered 272, 438 respectively with the signatures running A-3E8 ( the text is complete & continuous ), lacks the initial blanks, leather cracked at the rear hinge & upper hinge cracked at the gutter - both boards are attached but are fragile & require careful handling, occasional yellowing of the pages due to lesser quality paper stock being used, a good copy of an uncommon Elzevir. Early ownership signature at the base of the engraved title. Some copies have a printed title instead - it is supposed that the engraved title was not finished in time for the press on ealy copies. The works of the Roman historian & orator Publius Cornelius Tacitus [ 56 - 117 ] as edited by Justus Lipsius [ 1547- 1606 ]. Lipsius oversaw several editions through… Read More

Penguin, 1986. revised reprint.. Paperback. Paperback, VG. 455pp, 10 b/w maps, index, a nice copy. Penguin L60. The surviving fragment of Tacitus' history of Imperial Rome - the chapters which have come down to us dealing with the reign of the Emperors Tiberius, Gaius [ Calligula ] Claudius & Nero.

Penguin, 1964. 1st edition.. Paperback. Paperback, F. 316pp, 11 b/w maps, index, a fine copy. Penguin L150. Account of the year AD69 which saw the rule of 4 Roman Emperors - Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian, and the years following Vespasian's rise to power. Publius Cornelius Tacitus [ 56 - 117 ], Roman historian, famed for his Histories ( this work ) and the Annals.

Verlag C H Beck'sche, München, 1970. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/VG+. x+243pp+2pp publishers averts, index, a fine copy in a spine sunned dustjacket. Münchener Texte und Untersuchungen zur Deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters, volume 30. A study number symbolism in the early Middle Ages.

Kurt Vowinckel, Heidelberg, 1944. 1st edition.. Paperback. Paperback, G+. [viii]+160pp, 6 b/w maps, covers & page margins tanned, small split at the base of the spine, a fair copy. A general history of the Middle East, with most of the book concentrating on the pre Ottoman era.

Zavod Za Izdavanje Udzbenika, Sarajevo, 1970. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, VG/VG. unpaginated [ 16pp text, 136pp b/w illustrations, 8pp text ] 8 colour plates, edges of the dustjacket rubbed & worn, the book itself in nice condition, the bookcontains a later inscription to the Archibishop of Canterbury. A collection of well captioned photographic images, some old & some taken for the book of Sarajevo which capture the history & historic importance of the city. It includes a series of images on the assassination of Crown Prince Ferdinand.

Librairie Hachette, Paris, 1905 - 1908. mixed editions.. Paperback. Paperback, G. 4 volumes, vi+372pp, iv+400pp, 364pp, 370pp, publishers adverts at the rear of two volumes, index to each, sopine & raer cover missing to volume III, upper cover missing to volume IV, binding in general rather weak with spines chipped & cocked, a delicate set in need of some TLC. The letters of the French Historian & Critic Hippolyte Adolphe Taine [ 1828 - 1983 ]. He was the leading French influence upon Naturalism & for his attempt to scientifically analyse literature. His study of what he called race, milieu, and moment now commonplace in literary crticism. His work had a profound influence on French Literature.

Hamlyn, 1972. reprint.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/VG+. 96pp, colour & b/w illustrations throughout, a nice copy. General history of porcelain, with good illustrations.

Manchester University Press - Sandpiper Books, 1999. 3rd impression of 2nd edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/F. xx+371pp, index, a fine copy in a fine dustjacket. Facsimile reprint of the 1936 edition. Standard history of the Early English borough. The book shows the rise of the Town in Anglo Saxon England and continues by studying the importance of the Town Guilds & Free Boroughs of the Early Medieval period.

Manchester University Press - Sandpiper Books, 1999. 3rd impression of 2nd edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/F. xx+371pp, index, a fine copy in a fine dustjacket. Facsimile reprint of the 1936 edition. Standard history of the Early English borough. The book shows the rise of the Town in Anglo Saxon England and continues by studying the importance of the Town Guilds and Free Boroughs of the Early Medieval period.

Manchester University Press, 1968. reprint.. Hardback. Cloth, VG. xx+371pp, index, a near fine copy save for a little foxing to the fore edge. Standard history of the Early English borough. The book shows the rise of the Town in Anglo Saxon England and continues by studying the importance of the Town Guilds & Free Boroughs of the Early Medieval period.

Egypt Exploration Society / Bernard Quarich, 1975. 1st edition thus.. Hardback. Cloth, F. x+181pp, a nice fine copy, facsimile reprint of the original edition. A listing of the Greek papyri fragments held in UK institutions, mainly from the Ptolomaic period.

Offices Of The Royal Historical Society - Camden Society, 1967. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, VG. iv+282pp, index, a near fine copy, cloth a little sunned. A collection of the scant surviving letters from various English Monasteries to Cîteaux. The letters are transcribed into Latin.

Printed for Jonah Bowyer, at the Rose In Ludgate Street, near St Pauls Church, 1707. 1st edition.. Disbound. Disbound, VG. 16pp, paper browned a little, a nice copy. Talbot was Lord Bishop of Oxford from 1699 - 1715. The Sermon is on Psalm XVI , 8. The last page of the pamphlet contains an advert of a newly published edition of The Imitation of Christ.

E J Brill, Leiden - The Magnes Press, Jerusalem, 1989. 1st edition.. Hardback. Boards, dj, VG/VG. 324pp, index, a slightly bumped copy in a likewise slightly edge worn dustjacket. a collection of 13 essays in which the author attempts to elicidate the conceptual universe of the Qumran Covenantors by extracting from their literature information on their theology & conceptual universe, the structure of their community in history and their vision of an ideal future age.

Shire Publications, 2007. 1st edition.. Paperback. Card wrappers, F. 40pp, b/w illustrations throughout, a fine copy. Shire album 460. A short monograph on the playing of & participation in sports, covering all manner of sports & the transition to 'sporting' sport.

Windrush Press, Morton in Marsh, 2002. 4th edition.. Paperback. Paperback, F. xii+308pp, b/w illustrations, index, a fine copy. A concise history of London from the Roman period onwards.

Shire Publications, 2007. 1st edition.. Paperback. Card wrappers, F. 40pp, b/w illustrations throughout, a fine copy. Shire album 460. A short monograph on the playing of & participation in sports, covering all manner of sports and the transition to 'sporting' sport.

Chastleton Travel - Arris Publishing, Morton in Marsh, 2009. 1st edition.. Paperback. Paperback, F. x+291pp, b/w illustrations, index, a fine copy. A concise history of Bath from the Roman period onwards.