Books and Manuscripts

A very smart set of 7 volumes from the classic series 'The Oxford History of England', which have been attractively and uniformly rebound in navy b...

An interesting and well produced book from the Shell Transport and Trading Company, Limited, marking their Diamond Jubilee. Based on their famous s...

First published in Paris in 1719, this is David Humphrey's 1721 translation of this work by Father Bernard de Montfaucon. This folio size volume is...

An original typescript thesis for a Doctor of Divinity Degree at Durham University. Almost certainly a unique document of considerable depth in ter...

A very smart 2 volume set of professionally rebacked full leather volumes containing fine condition text. Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries...

A very smart copy of Brewer's Phrase and Fable, which is a rather wonderful publication which explains the origins of many famous phrases, includin...

Dictionnaire de la Fable ou Mythologie Greque, Latine, Egyptienne, Celtique, Persane, Syrienne, Indienne, Chinoise, Japonaise, Arabe, Mahometane, S...

Index Poeticus, Exhibens Compendio Nomina Propria, Genealogiam, Mythologiam, Astrologiam, Geographiam, Poeticam, et Alia ad Eruditionem, Copiam &am...

Polyhistor Literarius Philosophicus et Practicus. Maximam Partem Opus Posthumum. Accurate Revisum, Emendatum, ex Autoris Annotationibus... Morhofii...

Myths and Legends series: SOLD Classic Myth & Legend, by A.R. Hope Moncrieff. With Illustrations in Colour & Monochrome from famous Paintin...

Greeks and Persians; Being the Record of their Fights and follies done into Doggerel to Goad Reluctant Memory by Elizabeth H.C. Pagan, Aided by Div...

Four Thousand Years Ago; A Panorama of Life in the Second Millenium B.C., by Geoffrey Bibby. Published by Collins, London. 1962 first UK edition. A...

The Early Stuart Masque; Dance, Costume, and Music, by Barbara Ravelhofer. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021),...

The Cambridge Greek Lexicon, 2 Volume Boxed Set. Edited by J. Diggle (Editor-in Chief), B.L. Fraser, P. James, O.B. Simkin, A.A. Thompson, S.J. Wes...

Law, Ethics and the Visual Arts; Cases and Materials, by John Henry Merryman, Sweitzer Professor of Law, Stanford University & Albert E. Elsen,...

Myth; Myths and Legends of the World Explored, by Kenneth McLeish. Published by Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 1996, first edition. A very good sof...

The Masque of Ancient Learning and its Many Meanings; A Pageant of Education from Primitive to Celtic Times Devised and Interpreted by Patrick Gedd...

Short Studies on Great Subjects, by James Anthony Froude, M.A.. Published by Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1867. Second edition. A single volum...

Hellenistic Civilisation, by W.W. Tarn, revised by the author and G.T. Griffith. Published by Edward Arnold & Co., London, 1952 third edition. ...

Greek Coins; As Illustrating History and Art, by H. Virtue Tebbs. Reprinted from 'The Portfolio'. SOLD Published by Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, ...

Being Greek Under Rome; Cultural Identity, the Second Sophistic and the Development of Empire. Edited by Simon Goldhill, University of Cambridge. P...

Cambridge Classical Studies; The Invention of Art History in Ancient Greece; Religion, society and artistic rationalisation, by Jeremy Tanner. Prov...

Ioan Scapulae; Lexicon Graeco-Latinum, E probatis Auctoribus locupletatum, Cum Indicibus, Et Graceo & Latino, auctis, & Correctis. Additum ...

The Works of Lord Byron. A New, Revised and Enlarged edition with Illustrations. 13 Volumes Complete. 7 Volumes of Poetry edited by Ernest Hartley ...

Martial: Hic erit, ut perhibent doctorum corda vivorum, Primus Romana Crispus in historia. Cum Vetrum Historicorum Fragmentis, editio Novissima. By...

de quatuor summis imperiis, Libri tres, Postrema editione hac accurate recogniti. (The Four Greatest Empires, in three books combined, the...

Du Rebus Gestis Ludovici, eius nominus undecimi Galliarum Regis, & Caroli, Burgundiae, Ducis. (The history of Louis 11th and Charles, ...