Classics from Hugh Anson-Cartwright Fine Books, ABAC/ILAB

Venetiis [Venice]: apud Hieronymum Scotum, 1549. 31.5 cm x 22 cm in 8s, pp. [6 leaves], 159 leaves printed both sides but numbered consecutively on the rectos only (i.e. 318), woodcut engravings and diagrams throughout. Lacks covers, sewn text block only. remnants of vellum on the spine (possibly scrap used as a spine liner), top and bottom kettle-stitches coming undone,… Read more

London: John Murray, 1849. Pp. [vi], 194; [iv], 490, xiv. Richly illustrated throughout with vignette engravings primarily by George Scharf, 8 ornamental chromolithograph plates by Owen Jones including the coloured decorative borders surrounding the text. Full green morocco, bound by Remnant Edmonds & Remnants, with wide ornate gilt borders to upper and lower covers, five faux raised bands with ornate… Read more

Cambridge: W.P. Grant, 1838. Pp. xii, 320, [2] (Publ. adverts), original brown cloth with faint stamped flower and stem pattern, green gilt-stamped spine label. Spine a little sunned with uneven fading to the margins, bubble on front cover, very light foxing to endpapers, signature and date of Prof. George Story, the great Erasmus scholar to front pastedown, and contemporary signature… Read more

[Geneva]: Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, illustris viri Huldrici Fuggeri typographus, 1564. First Printing. 17.4 cm x 11 cm in octavo, pp. 433 (i.e. 430), gilt framed, red morocco binding, gilt-stamped spine title, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt and gauffered, ribbon bookmark, each page hand-ruled in red with text borders, frames, etc., woodcut printer's device to title-page. Syston Park armorial bookplate on… Read more

Wittenberg / Frankfort: Vitebergae excudebat Josephus Klug / Francforti ad Viadrum per Iohann. Eichorn, 1551. 14.5 cm. x 10 cm. in octavo. Part 1.) Title-page with Vitebergae Iosephus Klug, 1551 imprint. ARMINIUS DIALOGUS HUTTENICUS: illustrated initial, Signatures A-B (title-page + 30 pages); P. CORNELII TACITI: illustrated initial, printed side-notes, Signatures C-Dvii (46 pages); ILLUSTRI ET GENEROSO COMITI IN SUARCZBURG ALBERTO,… Read more

Oxford: New Bodleian Library, 1961, 1961. One of only 100 copies printed by hand. Tall octavo, pp. unnumbered [32]. Brown paper covered boards, printed paper cover label framed in gilt. Colophon reads: "Reprinted by permission of the Huntington Library from the unique copy of 'Dicta Sapientum', translated by Thomas Berthelet, 1525-6. One hundred copies have been printed by hand… Read more

Leiden & Rotterdam: Hackios, 1669 (v. 1), 1668 (v. 2-3), 1669. 3 volumes, pp. (1) [xiv], 80 (Introduction), 56 (Liber 1: Contents), 838, [118] (Index); (2) 917, [87] (Index); (3) 853, [83] (Index); extra engraved title-pages (all d/d 1669) by G. Wingendorp of Leiden, publisher's device of eagle in flight on title-pages, full calf, speckled edges. Book plates with lion… Read more

Halifax, N.S.: S. Selden, 1888. 16mo., pp. 168, English and Latin text, original brown cloth, gilt lettering on front cover. Edges scuffed, else very good. An interesting departune for the great Micmac scholar and translator (1810-89)..