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London: Viking, 2009. First edition, sixth impression. 8vo., pp. xv, 592 + 3 sections of plates. Maps. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine, fine. Dust-jacket, lightly creased to edges, still very good.
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D-Day: The Battle for Normandy.
by Beevor, Antony
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Dante
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Princeton University Press, 2020. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxiii, 581. Hardback: cream cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a touch only of shelf-dust: a fine copy.
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Dante and the Middle Ages: Literary and Historical Essays.
by Barnes, John & O'Cuilleanain (eds.)
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Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1995. First edition. 8vo., pp. 319. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine, fine. Dust-jacket, sun-faded to spine, not affecting lettering, light creasing to edges, otherwise very good. Author inscribed. In the series: Publications of the Foundation for Italian Studies, University College Dublin.
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The Darwin Reader.
by Darwin, Charles (Bates, Marston & Humphrey, Philip S., eds.)
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London: Macmillan & Co., 1957. 8vo., pp. ix, 481 + plates. Illustrations. Hardback: red cloth, gilt-lettered to spine, light crease along spine, edges a little dusty, still very good. Dust-jacket, price-clipped, top edge starting to fray at head of spine,darkened towards spine and edges, still good. Ink ownership inscription of "Thos. J. Adams... 1957" to ffep with his underlinings and marginal annotations, mostly in pencil but some in ink, here and there but mainly to one chapter and the Appendix, and his further customisation by neat but adhesive attachment of various relevant newspaper cuttings of articles and photographs, and a stamp, to front endpapers and blank spaces on first few printed pages. With a further newspaper cuttings and a postcard of Darwin loosely inserted.
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Dawn of the Horse Warriors: Chariot and Cavalry Warfare 3000-600 BC.
by Noble, Duncan
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Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2015. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxix, 190 + plates. Maps. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy.
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Day of Reckoning: Power and Accountability in Medieval France.
by Berkhofer, Robert F., III
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Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. First edition. 8vo., pp. vi, 270. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unread, a hint only of shelf-wear: almost as new.
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De Amazonibus Dissertatio.
by Petit, Pierre
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Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: apud Johannem Wolters et Ysbrandum Haringa, 1687 12mo. pp. [12], 398, [12] + 1 folding map of the Mediterranean. Engraved titlepage with portrait of amazon, numerous small engravings of amazons or ancient coins and medals portraying amazons or their weapons. Engraved title a little dusty at margins, small hole (paper flaw) to outer blank margin of title, slight yellowing. Contermpoary Netherlandish vellum, yapp edges, title inked to spine. Modern bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to front pastedown. A very good, clean copy of the second edition of this curious treatise on the existence of Amazons, first published in 1685 by the French physician Pierre Petit (b. 1617). The first scholarly work entirely devoted to a subject which had elicited the interest of the likes of Thévet and Mercuriale, it boasts a painstaking amount of information on all accessible evidence and observations from ancient and more recent sources. It discusses the nature of the Amazons'…
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De Episcopis Ultraiectinis, recogniti et notis historicis illustrati ab Arn. Buchelio [ ]: Accedunt Lamb. Hortensii [ ] Secessionum Ultrajectinarum libri, et Siffridi Petri [ ] Appendix ad historiam Ultrajectinam.
by De Beka, Johannes & Heda, Wilhelmus
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Utraiecti [Utrecht]: ex officina Ioannis a Doorn, 1643, 1642. First edition. Folio in 6s. 3 parts in 1. pp. [xx], 191, [xv]; [iv], 331, [i]; 12, [xxxii]; [iv], 180, [xxii] + engraved title-page and folding map of Utrecht. With half-title, each part with its own title-page. Additional illustrations in the text of coins and seals. Woodcut initials and endpieces. Occasional very light damp staining at fore-edge, small sporadic worm trail to gutter margin near head. Contemporary vellum, title inked to spine. Spine a bit darkened, a few smudgy marks, very good. A generally very clean copy of the first edition of these famous Dutch medieval chronicles, illustrated by a handsome, double-page engraved map of the provinces. Known as the 'Heda and Beka', they were first published by Suffridus Petri in 1612. Arnoldus Buchelius (1565-1641) worked painstakingly on editing the texts anew, leaving an unfinished manuscript upon his death; his work was finalised by L. van Waveren. The first part provides…
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De Re Publica.
by Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Mai, Angelo, ed.)
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Impressum Romae. Denvo Impressum Londini: impensis J. Mawman, 1823. 8vo., pp. LVI, 349, [i] + engraved frontispiece and 1 folding plate. Toned, heavy foxing to first few leaves, fore-edge of folding plate tattered. Presentation copy, contemporary brown calf heavily tooled in gilt and blind with gilt dedication to centre of upper board, marbled edges and endpapers. Recently and very sympathetically refurbished. To centre of upper board: 'St Paul's School / 1826 / Frederick Grueber Lugard / Quoesitum Meritis.' Pencilled inscription 'Lugard' to preliminary blank. Dibdin writes of the edition published in Rome the year before: 'A newly discovered work; which the Discoverer and Editor has published on paper of four sizes [
] The great strength, or most interesting portion, of this volume consists in the 2nd book: of which however much is yet wanting. The Somnium Scipionis forms the 6th book, of which fragments were known before.' (Dibdin I 4th ed, 463-4). This London…
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De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni, Regis Macedonum, Libri Superstites. Cum omnibus supplementis, variantibus lectionibus, commentariis ac notis perpetuis Fr. Modii, V. Acidallii, T. Popmae, Joh. Freinshemi, Joh. Schefferi, Christoph. Cellarii, Nic. Heinsii. Selectis & excerptis Ph. Rubenii, J. Rutgersii, C. Barthii, John. Loccenii, M. Raderi, Cl. Salmasii, J. Fr. Gronovii. M. Tellierii, Christoph. Aug. Heumanni, itemque Jac. Perizonii vindiciis, & aliorum observationibus, autionibusque indicibus. Curavit & digessit Henricus Snakenburg.
by Curtius Rufus, Quintus (Snakenburg, Hendrik, ed.)
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Delphis, & Lugd. Bat. [Delft & Leiden]: apud Adrianum Beman, Samuelem Luchtmans, 1724. First edition thus. 2 parts in 1. 4to., pp. [lxxiv], 472; [ii], 473-824, [ccxxiv] + 18 plates (3 of which folding) including additional engraved title-page. Title-page in red and black with woodcut printer's device, woodcut initials and tail-pieces. The catchword at the end of the dedication (T4) does not match the following leaf, as also found in other copies and seemingly due to the insertion of the Preface. Faintly foxed. Contemporary marbled calf, neatly rebacked with original spine retained, orange gilt title-label, gilt borders, gilt-stamped emblem of Haarlem to each board, edges coloured yellow, green cloth ties replaced, corners neatly repaired. Old spine piece worn but soundly rebacked, some scratches and scuffs to boards, a few whitish marks to top edge, endpapers a little toned at edges, very good overall. A few pencilled bookseller's notes to front paste-down. 'This is the…
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De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni, Regis Macedonum, Libri Superstites. Cum omnibus supplementis, variantibus lectionibus, commentariis ac notis perpetuis Fr. Modii, V. Acidallii, T. Popmae, Joh. Freinshemi, Joh. Schefferi, Christoph. Cellarii, Nic. Heinsii. Selectis & excerptis Ph. Rubenii, J. Rutgersii, C. Barthii, John. Loccenii, M. Raderi, Cl. Salmasii, J. Fr. Gronovii. M. Tellierii, Christoph. Aug. Heumanni, itemque Jac. Perizonii vindiciis, & aliorum observationibus, autionibusque indicibus. Curavit & digessit Henricus Snakenburg.
by Curtius Rufus, Quintus (Snakenburg, Hendrik, ed.)
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Delphis, & Lugd. Bat. [Delft & Leiden]: apud Adrianum Beman, Samuelem Luchtmans, 1724. First edition thus. 2 parts in 1. 4to., pp. [lxxiv], 472; [ii], 473-824, [ccxxiv] + 1 folding map and 17 further plates. Title-page in red and black with woodcut printer's device, woodcut initials and tailpieces. The plate opposite p.214 is printed on a smaller leaf. Sporadic light foxing, a few stains but very good overall. Contemporary tan calf neatly rebacked preserving gilt spine, corners repaired, edges red, marbled endpapers. A few stains and scrapes to boards, very good. Ownership inscription of John Taylor Coleridge of Park Crescent dated 1851 to preliminary blank. John Taylor Coleridge (1790-1876) was an English judge and the nephew of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). 'This is the celebrated quarto Variorum edition of Q. Curtius, by Snakenburg, which contains many valuable extracts from Bruno, Modius, Freinshem, and Cellarius. The text is formed according to the first edit.…
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De Republica Ebraeorum, recensitus commentarioque illustratus opera Constant. L'Empereur ab Oppijck.
by Bertramus, Bonaventura Cornelius
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Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Ex officina Ioannis Maire, 1641. 16mo., pp. [xlviii], 452, [xxiv]. Title-page in red and black with printer's device, woodcut initials. With final blank. Small ink smudge to title-page, internally very good. Contemporary vellum, title inked to spine, board edges slightly overlapped, all edges red. Vellum a little yellowed and spine darkened, but very good. 'Cornwell House' inkstamp to ffep. Originally published as 'De politia Iudaica, tam civili quam ecclesiastica' in Geneva in 1580, this popular work on Hebrew history and traditions was often reissued. The author, Bonaventure Corneille Bertram(1531-1594), originally from Thouars in France, was professor of Hebrew at Geneva and Lausanne.
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De Rerum Natura libri sex: Ex editione Thomae Creech.
by Lucretius Carus, Titus (Creech, Thomas, ed.)
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Glasguae [Glasgow]: in aedibus academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, 1759. 8vo, pp. xvi, 269, [1]. Contemporary calf. A touch of minor soiling. Plainly rebacked, old leather a bit darkened and scuffed, hinges neatly relined. Early ownership inscription to flyleaf. The octavo, 'small paper' imposition of the second Foulis edition of Lucretius. Gordon 18A; Gaskell 370; ESTC T50370.
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De Rerum Natura Libri Sex ad postremam Oberti Gifanii Ic. emendationem accuratissimè restituti, quae praetereà in hoc opere sint praestita, pagina post dedicationem indicabit.
by Lucretius Carus, Titus (Giffen, Hubert van, ed.)
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Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: ex officina Plantiniana apud Franciscum Raphelegium, 1595. 8vo., pp.[xlviii], 486, [ii]. Final leaf blank. Woodcut printer's mark "Labori et Constantia" to title, woodcut initials. A few tiny annotations, numbering and underlining, some MS notes to rear endpapers. Printed on thin paper, quite toned and foxed, occasional small inkspots. Contemporary vellum, a little yellowed, slightly dust soiled, still very good. Lots of provenance: 'Samuelis di Salle'(?) in MS to front pastedown, along with some codes; notes in an old hand to both sides of ffep; to another endpaper, 20th-century bookplate of WJF Meiners; notes about Montaigne in French; to another endpaper, 'Roberti Konigsmanni, 1625'; to title-page recto, Joh. Jacobus Saltzmann ('Argent', possibly Strasbourg?), 4th September 1677; to title-page verso, two inscriptions with the surname Hertzoogenrath but illegible first initials, one dated 1756 and the other 1779. Contains: Epicuri…
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De Situ Orbis Libri III.
by Pomponius Mela (Gronovius, Abraham, ed.)
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Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Ex Officina Samuelis Luchtmans, 1722. First edition thus. 8vo., pp. [lxxx], 811, [xxxvii] + additional engraved title and 1 folding map, further engraved illustrations in text. Title page in red and black, woodcut initials. Inkstamp to title, rear blank has large piece torn away at fore-edge. Internally very clean. Contemporary vellum, spine gilt with inked title, gilt borders, central gilt coat of arms of Gouda to each board, edges sprinkled red. Spine a bit darkened, a few smudgy marks, ties lost. Very good. Round ink stamp reading 'academia rueno traectina' (Utrecht) to title-page. The first of Abraham Gronovius's (1695-1775) editions of Pomponius Mela, "the earliest Roman geographer" (Ency. Brit. 11th edn.), incorporating the work of his father, Jakob Gronovius, who had himself published two editions of the work. "Pomponius is unique among ancient geographers in that [...] he asserts the existence of antichthones, inhabiting the southern…
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De Veteri Ritu Nuptiarum & Jure Connubiorum.
by Brisson, Barnabe Hotman, Antoine and François
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Leiden: Hack, 1641. 12mo. pp. 566, (xxii), including engraved titlepage, woodcut initials and ornaments. Tiny worm trail to lower blank margin of first gathering, minor offsetting on last blank, verso of last blank a bit soiled. Full calf c.1800, blind ruled, raised bands, gilt-lettered morocco label. Minor repair to extremities, joints a bit cracked, later endpapers. Label of J.L. Weir to front pastedown, his autograph dated 1945 to ffep; pencilled autograph of James Fowler Kellas Johnstone to verso of engraved titlepage. Contains chapters on wedding ceremonies and on matrimonial law. French jurist and politician Barnabé Brisson's (1531-1591; latinised as Brissonius) public career included holding various positions by appointment of Charles IX and Henry III, among them the sixth president of Parlement. When the Seize took over Paris in 1589, Brisson was sufficiently diplomatic for them to also appoint him first president of the new Parlament, but before long he lost their trust and…
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De pileo cæterisque capitis tegminibus tam sacris, quàm profanis. Editio novissima aucta, emendata & figuris æneis exornata; [bound with] De toga romana commentarivs, Accedit ex Philippo Rvbenio iconismus statuae togatae, et praeter indicem geminum, quem adjecimus, De modo gestandi togam ex Ferrario dissertatio.
by Solerius Cemeliensis, Anselmus, pseud. [Raynaud, Théophile]; (Frisius, Andreas Wilhelmus, ed.) Bosso, Girolamo
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Amstelodami [Amseterdam]: sumptibus Andreæ Frisii, 1671; 1671. 2 works bound as 1, often found together. 12mo., pp. [xii], 379, [xli] + 4 plates, including 3 folding; 84, [xii] + 1 folding plate. De Pileo with engraved title-page and second title-page with vignette (both part of first gathering), many engraved illustrations several of which occupy a full page, with final blank leaf. Very slightly toned but clean, short repaired tear to De Toga Romana's folding plate at gutter. Contemporary vellum, title inked to spine, edges sprinkled red. A few marks and smudges, corners very mildly rubbed, a very good copy indeed. Solerius' De Pileo is a curious work on hats and headgear, pseudonymously published by the French Jesuit theologian Théophile Raynaud (1583-1663). Amongst the numerous illustrations, the engraved title-page is signed by Romeyn de Hooghe; one folded plate is signed by Cornelis Galle. This 'new edition' of 1671 followed its original publication in Leiden in…
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De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni: cum supplementis Freinshemii, interpretatione et notis illustravit Michael Le Tellier è Societate Jesu. Jussu Christianissimi Regis, in usum serenissimi Delphini.
by Curtius Rufus, Quintus (Freinsheim, Johann; Letellier, M., eds.)
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Parisiis [Paris]: apud Fredericum Leonard [...], 1678. First edition thus. 4to., pp. [xxxvi] 417 [cxxxv]. Additional engraved title-page, winged lion device to title, engraved end pieces and initials. Occasional light dampstaining particularly near bottom edge and top corner towards the rear, some very light spotting, leaf V1 tip of bottom corner lost not affecting text. Contemporary semi-limp vellum, later dark green morocco label to spine, date inked at tail, blind panelled boards. Vellum slightly yellowed with some smudgy marks, corners a little bumped, small hole to ffep. Armorial bookplate of Charles Vere Dashwood Esq. (1745-1821). The tenth 'Delphin' edition issued (a classical library for Louis XIV's son, the Dauphin). This history of Alexander the Great is the only known work of the (probably) first-century historian Quintus Curtius Rufus. Schweiger II 321.
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De vero usu Verborum Mediorum eorumque Differentia a Verbis Activis & Passivis.
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Londini [London]: Prostant apud J. & J. Rivington, 1750. First British edition. 12mo, pp. viii, 148. Contemporary sprinkled calf, spine divided by raised bands between double gilt rules, red morocco label. Rubbed at extremities, joints cracked but sound, head of spine worn. The first printing in the UK of this study of Greek verb voices by Ludolf Kuster (1670-1716), German scholar of Greek and a friend of Richard Bentley. First published in Paris in 1714. ESTC T115330.
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Degrees of Excellence: A Fatimid Treatise on Leadership in Islam. A new Arabic edition and English translation of Ahmad b. Ibrahim al-Naysaburi's "Kitab ithbat al-imama".
by Lalani, Arzina R.
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London: I. B. Tauris, 2010. First edition thus. 8vo., pp. xvi, 111 + text in Arabic (from rear). Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unread, a hint only of shelf-wear only: almost as new. No. 8 in the Ismaili Texts and Translations Series of the Institute of Ismaili Studies.
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