Medical Charlatanism in Early Modern Italy.

New acquisitions in our academic stock include:

David Gentilcore. Medical Charlatanism in Early Modern Italy. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006. Hardback, with dustwrapper. In as new condition. £39.95

Anna A. Grotans. Reading in Medieval St. Gall. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. Hardback, with dustwrapper. In almost as new condition. £59.95

Jonathan Woolfson. Padua and the Tudors. English Students in Italy, 1485-1603. Cambridge, James Clarke and Co. Ltd., 1998. Hardback, with dustwrapper. In almost as new condition. £39.95

Richard W. Schooch. [editor]. Victorian Theatrical Burlesques. Aldershot, Ashgate Publishing, 2003. Hardback, without dustwrapper. In Very Good condition. £34.95

Jonathan Barnes. Truth, etc. Six Lectures on Ancient Logic. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2007. Hardback, with dustwrapper. In Very Good condition. £21.95

D.R. Dicks. Early Greek Astronomy to Aristotle. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1985. Paperback. In as new condition. £14.95

C.J. Fordyce. Catullus. A Commentary. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1990. Paperback. In almost as new condition. £24.95

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Pratchett, Ballard and Tolkien First Editions, Just In!

Below are details of a few first editions that have just come into stock. Please contact us for availability and postage costs. [info@simonfrenchbooks.com]

Terry Pratchett. Guards! Guards! London, Victor Gollancz, 1989. First edition and the first printing. Very Near Fine with just a touch of page browning in a Very Near Fine dustwrapper. £79.95

Terry Pratchett. Witches Abroad. London, Victor Gollancz, 1991. First edition and the first printing. Very Near Fine in a Very Near Fine dustwrapper with just a little wrinkling to the head and tail of the spine. £34.95

J.G. Ballard. Myths of the Near Future. London, Jonathan Cape, 1982. First edition and the first printing. A Near Fine book with a bump to the head of the spne and a small one to the top front board tip, in a Near Fine dustwrapper. £34.95

J.R.R. Tolkien. Sauron Defeated. London, Harper Collins, 1992. Very Near Fine in a Very Near Fine dustwrapper (not price clipped and with £20 printed on the flap) just a touch wrinkled to the head and tail of the spine and with a small bump to the front board. £74.95

Oxford Book Fair

We will be exhibiting at the Oxford Book Fair again this year. It is a two-day fair taking place on Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd January at Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP. Opening times are from Noon until six pm on Saturday and 10am to 5pm on Sunday. Admission is £1.

We have recently purchased a collection of about two dozen incunabula and illuminated manuscript leaves which will be for sale at the fair. Below are images of the two illuminated manuscript leaves from that collection (the second picture is a detail).





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