Search Results: Authors starting with N from Setton Book Collection

Very Good; a little soiling of edge of front board, very small amount of foxing on endpapers.One of the original 2000 copies privately printed for collectors of erotica; describes sexual practices, sodomy, pederasty, Ottoman prostitution, adultery, aphrodisiacs, polygamy, "perversions", etc. (See photo of contents page.) Its availability in Turkey in the 1970's provoked riots resulting in considerable damage to US offices in Ankara.

In German. 2 Vols. in slipcase. First printing. Slipcase shows some wear, with a bit of fraying at head and heel, some spine fading, some curling of label, a small tear on bottom of left of rear board and a little foxing on the front board of slipcase.239-page paperbound volume on clay paper (Textband) shows no wear, but perhaps the slightest age-darkening. The cloth-backed folding case containing 80 plates (Tafelband) shows no age or wear, nor do the plates or enclosed contents pamphlet. The slipcase has kept the contents in Fine condition.Inscribed by the author to former owner, Prof. K.M. Setton (1914-1995) of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, where Prof. Nordenfalk was a Visiting Professor.Carl Nordenfalk (1907-1992) was a Swedish art historian, director of Sweden's Nationalmuseum and a renowned expert in manuscript and book painting and illumination, including Late Antique and Celtic and Anglo-Saxon paintings and illuminations. He also contributed to the study of modern painters.He… Read More

No stamps, no marks, slight folds on dust jacket flaps, very slight fraying on head of spine of dustjacket, very slight bump on head of volume spine, otherwise as new. Jacket price-clipped.
When on Christmas Day 1130 Roger de Hauteville (Roger II) was crowned the first King of Sicily, a period of peace, prosperity and artistic flourishing began which lasted until 1194.
Popular historian Viscount Norwich describes in this second volume of his readable and engaging history of the "Second Norman Conquest" the coming to power and the rule of Roger II in the tolerant and relatively harmonious Kingdom of Sicily.
Fending off rebellions, invasions and Pope Innocent II, who was concerned by the Normans' increasing power, Roger died in 1154. He was succeeded by his son William I (the "Bad" [who really wasn't]), who in turn was succeeded by his son William II, and the Kingdom of Sicily continued to flourish until around 1194, when William III was deposed and the Kingdom fell in 1194 to the House of Hohenstaufen.

2024 pages. No dust jacket. book is in Near Fine condition, no tears, stains or damage of any kind, binding solid and tight, one corner very minimally bumped, pages tight and bright, Pelham and Holles pullout genealogical table intact and untorn. BUT frontispiece portrait of the duke has become detached.Still one of the few accounts of the early life of one of the most significant figures in the political history of the 18th century in England.