Archive for the ‘Books just arrived’ Category

Last week, we took possession of a long-expected shipment from Cornell University Press and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Texts: a book on manuscript studies, three cooking-related titles, one on medieval smelting and fire, and one on Silkewormes [sic]. Check the Featured Products section on the store’s home page for this set.
We’ve received a shipment of 10 titles from Dover Books, mostly coloring and cut-and-assemble books on medieval subjects – heraldry, helms, armor, tournaments and jousts, castles – and a book on the history of sundials and the making thereof. Most of them have been put into a new category, Children’s Books, with the sundials book in Artifacts, Buildings, Archeology.
While we’re on the subject of categories, we have decided to shift the five or six titles in the Used Books – Facsimiles into the more general Used Books – C&I category, just in case anyone was curious as to where they disappeared to. (And, obviously, the Facsimiles category has been discontinued….)
We shall be signing up with an appropriate service to start accepting credit cards when we go on sales trips; we are unsure as to exactly when this will happen, but we are hopeful it shouldn’t be too long. If you order from the web site, please continue using PayPal or sending checks or money orders as before, until further notice.

Just received (FedEx delivers non-overnight packages on Saturdays?) today, three-volume sets of D.S. Richards’ translation of The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir for the Crusading Period from al-Kamil fi’l-Ta’rikh. Parts 1-3: The Years 491–629/1097–1231. The three-book set has been added to the website; we shall add the individual titles within the next day or two. This brings to a dozen or so the number of titles we carry of translations of period sources concerning the Crusades.

When we got back from vacation a week ago, we found in the held-mail containers copies of Corwin’s Chasing and Repousse: Methods Ancient and Modern.

…and the books keep rolling in:
Oxford University Press, two facsimiles of Books of Hours (Gualenghi d’Este and Simon de Varie), a children’s book on illumination (Marguerite Makes a Book), and one on understanding illuminated manuscripts – or, rather, four books from the Getty Museum via OUP.

University of Toronto Press delivered two books on Italian Renaissance comedies (with translations), a book on medieval bookbinding, and a massive translation of a massive Italian cookbook, the former being of Terence Scully and the latter, Bartolomeo Scappi.