Search Results: Titles starting with L from Setton Book Collection

Near fine: a couple of very minor scratches on spine, a little fraying at head of spine, slipcase shows a little shelf wear. Interior of volume and front and back boards are pristine.This volume was a personal gift from Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (1923 - 2005) to the eminent medievalist Kenneth M. Setton (1914 – 1995) on the occasion of a visit by Prince Rainier and Princess Grace to her hometown of Philadelphia in the 1960's. (Professor Setton was at the time Director of Libraries at the University of Pennsylvania.) Bound into the volume is the prince's card, with a note in his handwriting to professor Setton.This is a deluxe binding on heavy hand-laid paper with deckled edges and gilt page tops. It is one of a limited number of copies; this copy however is not numbered, apparently because it came from the royal family. It appears to be similar to the 400 Papeteries du Marais exemplars as the pages do not bear the watermarked arms of the Grimaldi family. This edition was published on 11… Read More

Text is first edition, one of 500 copies on laid rag paper ("papier d'Hollande" - copy # not filled in), binding probably not contemporary, Very good condition, with a little foxing, particularly in first part of volume. Includes all eight of the chansons.The famous chanson de geste in 9000 lines, known in a version of a lost original composed about 1180 and attributed to Richard le Pèlerin, a pilgrim who was on the spot and began composition during the siege of Antioch, inspired by the events of 1097–99. The climax of the First Crusade, the conquest of Antioch and Jerusalem, laid the foundations of the Crusader states. The Chanson was elaborated and to a degree mythologized and became part of the Crusader cycle of romances popular in the 14th century.
The Chanson was pretty much forgotten until it was printed and published in 1848 (during the Gothic Revival) by the French scholar and medievalist Alexis Paulin Paris (1800-1881), the first holder of the chair of Medieval literature at the Collège… Read More

Minor fraying on head and heel of spine of volume, some small tears in dust jacket (see photographs). Deckled pages; a little age-soiling of page tops. Name of owner in pencil, copy of poem "Love's Lantern" pasted inside front pastedown. Some age-darkening of pastedowns.The 44th Large Printing of Streeter Aldrich's much-reprinted 1928 classic story of a pioneer woman and her courageous and optimistic struggle to build a home and a life in the wilderness of mid-19-century Nebraska.Still widely read today, this a classic tale of American optimism, courage and success in building a new life.

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 famed for his unparalleled skill in military leadership as well as his honor, loyalty, chivalry and honesty; he was everything the ideal knight should be, known as "the knight without fear and beyond reproach".Bound into the volume is a letter from Vivian Shellabarger presenting this copy to the former owner, eminent medievalist Prof K.M. Setton of the Princeton Institute of Advanced Study.

163 pages. In French. Good +; binding is sound and tight. All pages are clean, tight and intact but age-darkened, with occasional light pencil underlining and one or two very small tears due to fragility of the paper. Binding is somewhat age-darkened, spine a little tanned. From the library of Medievalist John La Monte, whose signature it bears, then the library of medievalist Kenneth M. Setton of the Princeton Institute of Advanced Study, whose bookplate it bears.The Christian Lebanese Doctor of Legal Sciences Dimitri Hayek's very hard-to-find-work on the creation, structure, enforcement, administration and comparison with Muslim law of Frankish feudal law in Syria after the conquest in 1098.

In Italian. Edges of paper cover a little tattered, spine faded, front cover hinge a little fragile. Some age-darkening, but all pages are tight, intact and unmarked. Addenda page slightly torn.Inscribed by Prof. La Piana to Josephine Setton, (wife of the distinguished medieval historian K.M. Setton of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study) who helped him with his writing in English.Giorgio La Piana was an Italian-born American theologian, priest, philosopher, humanist and medieval scholar. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1900, came to the United States in 1913, began teaching at Harvard in 1916, obtained American citizenship in 1918 and was Morison Professor of Church History at Harvard Divinity School from 1926 to 1948.La Piana was one of the leading personalities in the modernist religious movement and controversy in Italy at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.
He and acted as a liaison between American and Italian scholars and intellectuals during World War ll.… Read More

710 pages. In French. Binding tight, all pages bright and clean, no marks of any kind; very slight fraying of head of spine, bump at rear top back cover. Comprehensive and unique study of the historical, cultural, geographical and social aspects of Catalan nationalism, with suggestions for a way forward to preserve the ancient history, culture and identity of Catalonia.

The classic work on Latins in the Levant, Christian colonies and Crusader States by the eminent philologist and Medieval historian Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange (1610-1688), corrected and completed by the distinguished archaeologist, topographer, orientalist and collector Baron Emmanuel Guillaume-Rey (1837-1916), "the father of the archaeology of the Crusades" and first published in 1869.Part of the first series of Collection de documents inédits sur l'histoire de FranceSome age-darkening, but all pages are complete and tight with virtually no foxing.Although unauthenticated, this copy may bear, in addition to the name of the owner, the signature of Baron Guillaume-Rey.998 pages.

578 pages, marbled end-papers. A number of scuff marks, corners bumped and a little foxing here and there, but otherwise a tight clean copy with no tears or damage; interior of book in very good condition, with a few pencil marks, including owner's name. First edition of Lepsius's (1810-1884) famous and (very readable in translation by the Horner sisters) account of the 1842-45 expedition which arguably laid the foundation for virtually all serious subsequent Egyptological study. Lepsius, a highly accomplished Prussian, was the first professional, serious scholar to study the antiquities of Egypt, travelling from Thebes to Khartoum, discovering the Decree of Canopus, adding significantly to the understanding of hieroglyphics, and producing a compendium of Egyptian antiquities which is still valuable today. These letters were written to give a more general audience access to the excitement and adventure of discovery and a sense of what it meant to travel the Nile.

Very solidly bound by the Pembroke College (Cambridge) Debating Society ("PCDS"), some foxing on early pages, otherwise tight, bright and clean, with a little age-darkening, no marks, tears. Has PCDS sticker on front board, Pembroke College bookplate (cancelled), signature of former owner Glenn R. Morrow, the eminent Plato scholar and philosopher, and his inscription to the subsequent owner. Spine somewhat cracked and abraded, front hinge starting.James Stephen (1829-1894) was a jurist, lawyer, distinguished judge and writer, particularly influential in Indian jurisprudence, and the uncle of Virginia Woolf. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873–1874) was written principally as an attack against John Stuart Mill's essay On Liberty, and in opposition to Mill's neo-utilitarianism. Stephen argued for an ordered freedom through some forms of compulsion or restraint, and that without these, civilized society would be impossible.This is the second edition, with Stephen's long Preface, occasioned, as he… Read More

1080 pages in two volumes. No tears, no foxing, no stains, all pages tight and clean; slight wear on heels and heads of spines. 13 photographic illustrations, all tissue-protected; some darkening of tissues from photographs.First American edition. Also includes preface to English edition. Covers Huxley's life (1825-1895) through the recollections of his son Leonard and others and through his letters, dealing with his personal life and his wide range of interests, scientific research and activities."Darwin's Bulldog," a brilliant biologist, anthropologist, comparative anatomist, debater and highly influential promoter of scientific thought and education, Thomas Henry Huxley should need no introduction here.

Not ex-library, no markings of any kind, completely clean.
Marchese Roberto Ridolfi (1899-1991) from an ancient and prominent Florentine family, was a brilliant self-taught biographer and writer (the "…one great Italian analytical bibliographer of the 20th century" according to Prof. Conor Fahy of Birkbeck College). He wrote highly esteemed biographies of, among others, Savonarola and Guicciardini and avoids abstract philosophizing and concentrates on biography, the life of the real person in his real environment, and the interplay between his private and public life.
This is the Marchese's last revision of the English edition, where he updated some errors iincluded in the original Italian edition.

A little fading and age-darkening, but binding completely tight, all pages bright and readable.Knut Hamsun's famous mature work, written toward the end of his prolific 50-year writing career, a more philosophical treatment of many of the themes he dealt with in his work, as well as his contemplation of modernism. It was written just before he rather tragically became involved with the Nazi party. Hamsun (1859-1952) was an adventurer-writer born into poverty in Lom, Norway, whose complex, subjective, psychological and stream-of-consciousness style and innovative technique profoundly influenced virtually all of 20th century fiction. He won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1920 for Growth of the Soil.

214 pages. Volume in Near Fine condition, no corner bumping, staining, etc. All pages intact, tight, bright and clean.Prof. Gist's landmark study analyzing the difference between the history, economic, political and social conditions and the literary, romantic and idealized versions of them prevalent in two key areas of Medieval English life. The differences highlight the Weltanschauung of Medieval England and help to understand what was convention, what was reality and what was contemporary understanding of the difference.Bears signature of former owner, K.M. Setton (1914-1995) of The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Very Good. A little tanning of spine and a tanned spot on front board, name of former owner. Part of the Everyman's Library, ed. Ernest Rhys.

Very Good: Some fading of, and slight abrasions on, spine; 121 pages.A centenary publication of NYU, detailing the contents of the James Arthur (1842-1912) horological collection which was donated in 1925 to New York University.Daniel W. Hering, Professor Emeritus of Physics, was appointed Curator, and is the author of this book. In 1932 the collection consisted of about 1,464 items: 224 clocks, 1,190 watches, and 50 books.A hard to find first edition of a important, detailed, technical, historical and scholarly horological work. Illustrated with a great many black and white photographs and drawings. Hering devotes time to the aesthetic and artistic value as well as to the mechanical ingenuity of these pieces.