Late Medieval/Early Renaissance History from Setton Book Collection

In French. Corners slightly bunped, no foxing, very small tear at head of spine, sewn signatures tight, but somewhat loose in paper binding, all pages clear, intact and unmarked. Olfert Dapper's (1636 – 1689) copper engraving of Thessaloniki from 1688 appears on the cover. This very hard-to find book by Prof. Michael Laskaris (1903-1965), a distinguished Balkanologist at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, provides… Read more about this item

In Italian. Spine somewhat faded, pages slightly cocked, one front corner bumped. Some foxing. very slight fraying at head of spine. Illustrations in text and 46 full page sepia plates on heavy clay stock. In original plain cardboard slipcase, which has foxing and a torn corner. Bears signature of former owner, the distinguished medievalist K.M. Setton (1914 - 1995) of the… Read more about this item

Book is as new except for a lightly bumped corner. Dust jacket shows some wear at bottom front, light foxing on spine of dust jacket. Abbot Gabriel's thorough and meticulous work on the extraordinary corpus of Ambrosiana microfilm at The Mediaeval Institute of the University of Notre Dame. The works follow scientific progress from the 10th to the eighteenth centuries, including… Read more about this item

3 Parts in 5 volumes. In Italian. Not an ex-library copy. Bears written name of original owner. All bindings tight, pages completely unmarked, with a little age-browning. Vol.1, parts 1&2 have a couple of bumped corners, part 1 has a couple of light spots. Vol.2, part 1 has a loose rear hinge. Vol 3, part 1 has a… Read more about this item

Dr. Andrew Burghardt (1924 - 2020) of McMaster University was a renowned expert in political and historical geography, a councilor of the Canadian Association of Geographers, and was awarded an Austrian medal of honor for his writings on Burgenland. Burgenland ("Land of Castles") today forms the easternmost province of Austria, was the western edge of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary… Read more about this item

320 pages. In Modern Greek. A long monograph by the prominent Lefkadian and historian of the island Konstantinos Machairas (1882-1967) professionally bound by the former owner, eminent medieval historian Prof. K. M. Setton of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, whose bookplate it bears and whose initials appear on the heel of the spine. Two or three small spots… Read more about this item

124 pages. Italian edition; the Greek edition followed in 1994. From the Fondazione per la Cultura Greca. Venetian Collections of Greek Codices, from the Holdings of the National Library of St. Mark's (the Marciana), written by Mariano Zorzi, the director of the Marciana. From the series Venetiae Quasi Alterum Byzantium. This is the catalogue of the exhibition Collezioni Venziane… Read more about this item

391 pages. No marks or defects of any kind, The 1971 reprint of Shellabarger's compelling 1928 account of the life and career of French knight Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard (c. 1476 – 1524). Bayard lived toward the end of the age of chivalry and knighthood, in the transition period between the medieval and renaissance periods and was… Read more about this item