The Knights of St John in Jerusalem and Cyprus 1050-1310. Macmillan 1967

The Knights of St John in Jerusalem and Cyprus 1050-1310\nby Jonathan Riley-Smith\nPublished by Macmillan 1967\nISBN: 9781403906151\nCondition: Good\nDescription:\nHardcover, first edition, with dust jacket, price clipped and in cellophane cover. Black boards, spine with gold imprinted title and publisher which also has institutional shelf mark sticker. White Cross of Knights of St John on cover on black background. Endpapers cream but slightly marked.and also with stamp, on front endpaper and rear pastedown, from the Institute of Genealogical and Heraldic Studies (also stamped similarly, on page after title-page). Good clean edition, with some ageing to textblock. \nEpigraph, in old French, from Usances. It is Volume One of 'A History of the Order of The Hospital of St. John' [sic] edited by Lionel Butler. The author, described as a 'brilliant young scholar', makes use of Arabic documents and the [then] latest archaeological discoveries (1967), to tell the 'serious hi.