Gale, Roger (ed.:)

Registrum Honoris de Richmond exhibens terrarum & villarum quae quondam fuerunt Edwini comitis infra Richmundshire descriptionem: ex libro Domesday in thesauria domini regis: [...].

Londini [London: ] Impensis R. Gosling, 1722. Large paper copy. Folio, pp. [ii], xxxv, [i], 106, [xxvi], 286, [xxx] + folding engraved map and 15 other engraved plates (7 folding). Lacking the list of subscribers leaf. Title and many pages in red and black. Spotted and lightly browned. Early 19th century marbled boards, scuffed, with spine renewed in half reversed calf by John Henderson c.1980. The Bowyer ledgers show 50 large paper copies were printed, of this last significant publication by Roger Gale (1672-1744), the eldest son of the antiquary Thomas Gale. The text is "a twelfth-century register of the honour of Richmond from the Cotton Library, accompanied by a long appendix of important early charters. It was published in 1722 under the auspices of the Society of Antiquaries, of which he was the first vice-president" (ODNB). ESTC T150024.

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Gellius, Aulus:

Noctes Atticae. Editio nova et prioribus omnibus doctis hominis cura multo castigatior.

Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1651. Editio Nova. 12mo. [48], 498, [124]. Small clean tear to lower blank margin of F10, another three on K12, V3-4 touching text. Contemporary vellum over boards, yapp edges, title inked to spine (modern), all edges sprinkled blue. Spine little rubbed. Ex-libris of Rudolph Apfelbeck 1883 to ffep. 'The first two editions from the Elzevir press [of which this is the first] were carefully published by J.F. Gronovius.' (Dibdin) 'Fort jolie et qui passe pour tres correcte' (Willems) Dibdin I, 340; Pokel, 101; Schweiger II, 378; Willems, 1127.

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Book number: 53177

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Gellius, Aulus: (Gronovius, Johannes Fredericus and Jacobus, eds.:)

Noctium Atticarum, Libri XX prout supersunt quos ad libros MSStos novo & multo labore exegerunt, perpetuis notis & emendationibus illustraverunt Johannes Fredericus et Jacobus Gronovii. Accedunt Gasp. Scioppii integra MSStorum duorum codicum collatio, Petri Lambecii lucubrationes Gellianae, & ex Lud. Carrionis castigationibus utilia excerpta, ut & selecta variaque commentaria ab Ant. Thysio & Jac. Oiselio congesta.

Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Cornelium Boutesteyn & Johannem du Vivie, 1706. 4to, pp. [xxxvi], 903, [lxv], including engraved frontispiece. Title-page in red and black with vignette, woodcut head-pieces and initials. Title a bit thumbed, intermittent slight mainly marginal browning or spotting, lower outer blank corner of 5Z2 and 5F4 (blank) torn, small paper flaw to same corner of 5Z4. Contemporary vellum, blind-stamped to a panel design, blind-stamped lozenge-shaped centrepiece to covers, raised bands, title inked to spine. A bit dust-soiled, upper joint minimally splitting at foot. Near contemporary annotations to a couple of leaves. One of the best quarto variorum editions of the classics, highly praised by Harwood: 'This edition has much literary merit [...] the notes of other critics are selected with judgement, and the explanatory remarks of Gronovius must give every scholar the most exalted idea in his singular erudition'. Dibdin specifies that it contains 'the entire collation of two MSS by Scioppius, and some excerpta from the corrections of Ludovicus Carrio'. 'Still very sought-after.' (Schweiger). 'As yet the best and most complete edition.' (Ebert) Schweiger I 379; Dibdin II, 341; Ebert 8291; Moss I, 204-5.

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Gronovius, Johannes Fredericus:

Observatorum in Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis, [...], Monobiblos. (with) Observationum Liber Nonus, [...] Notis ad T. Livium [...].

Daventriae [Deventer]: typis Johannis Columbii, 1651; 1652. Two works in one vol. 8vo., pp. [xxvi], 292, [xxviii]; [xxiv], 431, [lxiii]. Printer's device to both title-pages, woodcut initials and decorative headpieces. A few leaves unopened at fore-edge. Occasional small spots (wax?) and smudges, very good. Contemporary vellum, titles inked to spine, fore-edges slightly overlapped, all edges blue. Pencilled booksellers' notes to front pastedown. A few marks to boards, endpapers toned, an approx. 3cm piece cut out of ffep possibly to remove a name, still very good. Two ownership inscriptions to ffep: D. Wyttenbach, dated August 1765, and J.A. Jeremie(?) dated 1863. The former is quite likely to be the classical scholar Daniel Wyttenbach (1746-1820), student of Hemsterhuis, Valckenaer and Ruhnken who, along with them, laid the foundations for modern Greek scholarship. In 1765 he was just ending his studies at the university in Marburg. Johannes Fredericus Gronovius (1611-1671) was in 1643 appointed professor of rhetoric and history at Deventer, before moving in 1658 to the Greek chair at Leiden, where he spent the rest of his life. Gronovius was the 6th Librarian of the University of Leiden (1665–1671) and, in a nice link, Wyttenbach became the 13th Librarian in 1799 following the death of David Ruhken. Wyttenbach also wrote a highly-regarded Life of his predecessor, which was published in Leiden in the same year.

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Book number: 54418

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Harwood, Edward:

A View of the Various Editions of the Greek and Roman Classics, with Remarks [...]

London: printed for T. Becket [...] 1775. First edition. 8vo., pp. [ii], xxiv, 229, [iii]. Includes three-page catalogue of Harwood's books sold by Becket at rear. Some reversed writing in light pencil to p.96, seemingly offset from something no longer present. A few lightly smudges to title-page but generally clean internally. Mid-twentieth century half tan calf, gilt spine with label, brown marbled boards, edges sprinkled red. A bit rubbed, joints slightly worn but firm, small dent to top edge of upper board, still a very good copy. Pencil note to front paste-down: 'Coll. Christopher Dobson c.1967'. 'Harwood (1729–1794) was a prolific writer and author of numerous religious and biblical treatises and classical works. He once claimed to have written more books than anyone then living with the exception of Joseph Priestley. Of these the one which contributed most to his reputation as a scholar was A View of the Various Editions of the Greek and Roman Classics (1775), which by 1790 had run to four editions and had been translated into German (1778) and Italian (1780 and 1793).' (ODNB) ESTC T118350

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Book number: 51811

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Heinsius, Daniel; Nonnus of Panopolis:

Aristarchus sacer, sive Ad Nonni in Iohannem metaphrasin exercitationes.

Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Ex officina Bonaventurae & Abrahami Elzevir, 1627. First edition. 8vo. pp. [116], 225, [39]; 551, [49]. Woodcut vignette to title. Title dusty, repaired to lower outer corner, small clean tear to lower outer blank corner of one leaf, scattered ink spots to couple of gatherings, verso of last leaf bit soiled. Marbled boards c.1800, spine gilt, gilt-lettered morocco label, all edges sprinkled green. Extremities little rubbed. Indistinct inscription and date 1832 to ffep; 17th-century (?) autograph H. Rodolphi to title. 'A learned edition' (Willems) of the verse paraphrase of St John's Gospel by the Hellenistic, Egypt-born poet Nonnus of Panopolis. Heinsius's commentary was based on the work of scholars like Scaliger. Willems 276.

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Book number: 53286

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Hickes, George:

Institutiones Grammaticae Anglo-Saxonicae et Moeso-Gothicae […].

Oxoniæ [Oxford]: Theatro Sheldoniano. Typis Junianis, 1689. Small 4to., pp.[xxviii], 114, [vi], 182, [xxxviii]. With initial imprimatur leaf. Engraving of Sheldonian Theatre to title-page, woodcut initials. 'Recentissima antiquissimæ linguæ septentrionalis incunabula, id est, Grammaticæ Islandicæ rudimenta. Per Runolphum Jonam Islandum' has its own title-page dated 1688, separate pagination but continuous register. Half-title to 'Edwardi Bernardi Etymologicon Britannicum' after the errata on p.182. Final leaf blank. A little ink to bottom margin, pp.133-145, occasional light spotting, very good. Contemporary dark brown calf lightly speckled, raised bands, replacement title label, blind-tooled border with small corner tools to boards. Neat repairs to head and tail of spine and joints, lightly scuffed, corners a little bumped, very good. To front paste-down, armorial bookplate of 'Robert Shafto Esq. of Benwell'. Benwell Towers was bequeathed in 1607 by Robert Shafto, Sheriff of Newcastle, to his son Robert Shafto, High Sheriff of Northumberland. This Robert was succeeded by three further Roberts, all of whom also served as High Sheriff. The last of these outlived his son, the estate was sold and his daughter Camilla married William Adair, whose bookplate can be found on the rear paste-down. They are also related to the politician Robert Shafto (1732-1797), famously known as 'Bobby Shafto'. "For Hickes the affairs of English politics and religion came together with his historical and linguistic studies in the years leading up to the revolution of 1688–9. One of Fell's [John Fell, canon and dean of Christ Church, vice-chancellor of the Oxford University, and renovator of the university press] earlier cherished plans had been a publication of Junius's Old English–Latin dictionary, based on the Junius manuscripts which had come to the Bodleian in 1677 together with the Junius fount of type. The dictionary was to be accompanied by Marshall's Saxon grammar. After Marshall's death this task devolved upon William Nicolson, who had copied the Junius manuscripts with a view to publication but had left for Cumberland in 1681 (Nicolson's copy would come to the Bodleian in Fell's collection in 1686). According to Hickes's later friend, the Saxonist Edward Thwaites, Fell subsequently assigned the grammar to Hickes. At Worcester, where the cathedral library was rich in Saxon charters and where his association with William Hopkins was renewed, Hickes continued his philological studies and mastered Anglo-Saxon. Hickes now had access to the newly acquired Junius manuscripts at Oxford and was influenced by Junius's ideas about the history of the Germanic languages. With the encouragement and support of Arthur Charlett, delegate of Oxford University Press, and the scholar John Mill, Hickes's Old English grammar was printed (using Junius's type) and published at Oxford as Institutiones grammaticae Anglo-Saxonicae et Moeso-Goethicae (1689); yet not without Mill's drastic curtailment of Hickes's dedication to the by then suspended Archbishop Sancroft. In the following decade ecclesiastical and scholarly interests were combined and inextricably connected in Hickes's life in a manner characteristic both of antiquarian research in general and of Hickes's methods as one of its leading proponents. Hickes 'belonged in a sense to an age earlier than that in which he lived, since his mind, encyclopedic in its range, refused to specialize and so entangled his learning with his life, that it is difficult to regard him solely as an historian or philologist, or solely as a divine' (Douglas, 78)." (ODNB, Theodor Harmsen.) ESTC: R8123.

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Book number: 53845

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[Horace] Horatius Flaccus, Quintus:

Ad lectiones probatiores diligenter emendatus, et interpunctione nova saepius illustratus. Editio quarta.

Glasguae [Glasgow]: in aedibus academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, 1760. 4to, pp. [ii], xii, 307, [i]. Half-title. Small hole to centre of A4 affecting a couple of words, paper flaw to Q4 resulting in shorter fore-edge margin. Deep red morocco, spine heavily gilt with black morocco label, ornate gilt border to boards, edges dark blue, marbled endpapers. A bit rubbed, joints and endcaps neatly repaired, corners worn, upper hinge repaired, but very good overall. Armorial bookplate of William Scott Kerr of Chatto to front paste-down, and gift inscription to blank endpaper: 'To William Kerr, from his friend James Hope, Edinb. 25th Oct 1823'. The luxurious 'large-paper' quarto imposition - using the same setting of text as the octavo, and therefore capaciously-margined - of the fourth Foulis edition of Horace, following on from the 1744 'Immaculate' edition and reprints of 1750 and 1756 (the latter a medal-winning printing). The process of rearranging the frames has not gone entirely smoothly, with pages 20 (C2v) and 24 (C4v) swapped. Gaskell 383; ESTC T46249.

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Book number: 54180

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[Horace] Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: (Hurd, Richard, trans.:)

Epistolae ad Pisones et Augustum: With an English Commentary and Notes. To which are added, two dissertations: the one, on the provinces of the several species of dramatic poetry; the other, on poetical imitation [...] the second edition, corrected and enlarged.

London: Printed for W. Thurlbourne [...] and sold by R. Dodsley [...] J. Beecroft [...] and M. Cooper, 1753. 2 vols., 8vo, pp. [vi], xvi, 280, [2]; xv, [i], 231, [25]. Engraved headpiece at start of text in each vol. (one by C. Grignion after Hayman). Contemporary sprinkled calf, spines divided by raised bands between double gilt rules, red morocco labels, other compartments with central gilt tools. Marginal dampmark at rear of vol. 2, some minor marking elsewhere. Spines somewhat rubbed, a few scratches, small chip to head of vol. 2 spine and head of the rear board touched by damp. One of 750 copies of the second edition (first 1749, with a partial reprint in 1751). Richard Hurd (1720-1808) was a young priest moving in literary circles at the time of his classical work, and later rose to be bishop of Worcester. 'How many editions, translations, and imitations of Horace could the London public be expected to buy in any year? Hurd was the exception to such gloomy predictions, for his editions received critical acclaim and sold relatively well' (Eddy, 'Richard Hurd's Editions of Horace', Studies in Bibliography, vol. 48, p. 165). ESTC T46145.

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Book number: 53234

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[Horace] Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: (Bentley, Richard, ed.:)

[Opera] ex recensione et cum notis atque emendationibus Richardi Bentleii. Editio tertia.

Amstelaedami [Amsterdam]: apud Rod. & Jacob. Wenstenios & Guil. Smith, 1728. 2 vols. in 1. 4to., pp. [xxiv], 356, [ii], 357-717, [i], 239, [i] + additional engraved title page. Title in red and black with engraved vignette, large engraved headpiece to first page of Dedication. Occasional smudgy marks, a little light dampstaining near gutter, a few leaves lightly toned. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with label, gilt frame and border, central gilt coat of arms of Dokkum. Spine a bit creased, joints rubbed, endcaps and corners slightly worn, still very good overall. The third full Bentley edition (an abridged third edition in 8vo. was produced in Cambridge, 1713), this is an almost exact reprint of the second (Amsterdam, 1713). The two Amsterdam editions are distinguished by having Bentley's editorial notes on the same page as the text, making them more useful to the scholar, and Dibdin and Brunet on this account preferred them to the Cambridge first. "Rash and tasteless in many of its conjectures, marvellously acute in some others (Bentley's Horace is) a signal proof of (his) learning, his ingenuity and his argumentative power" (R.C. Jebb in DNB). Bentley was thought for a long time the first Classical editor of the modern age. He was celebrated and reviled by his contemporaries, and the scholar Alexander Cunningham produced a whole edition of Horace specifically against Bentley's in 1721. Brunet III 818-819; Dibdin (4th edn.) II 101-105; Schweiger II 408; Spoelder 4.

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Book number: 54317

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[Horace] Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: (Bentley, Richard, ed.:)

[Opera] ex recensione & cum notis atque emendationibus Richardi Bentleii. Editio altera.

Amstelaedami [Amsterdam]: Apud Rod. & Gerh. Wetstenios Hff. 1713. 4to., pp. [xxiv] 717, [i], 239, [i], including engraved additional title-page and divisional title for 'Pars altera' after p.442. Emendata after p.717 (i.e. 4Y1 verso). Index at rear. Title page in red and black with engraved device, woodcut initials. Gatherings 3M-3O and 3V-3X very toned, occasional light toning otherwise, a few tiny scorchmarks. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with red morocco label, gilt borders, lovely blue paste-patterned edges, very good. With letterpress and manuscript school-prize (to J.J. van Hees, dated 1822) bound at the front. The second edition of Bentley's (in)famous edition of Horace, first printed at Cambridge in 1711, notable for his rash but inspired conjectures and emendations. "The Amsterdam editions of 1713 and 1728 are preferable to the Cambridge one of 1711. The notes and text are in the same page, and they are accompanied by the index of Treter, corrected by Verburgius" (Dibdin 104). Dibdin (4th edn.) II 101; Schweiger II 406; Bijker Riedel A140; Lowndes 1113: "The best edition."; Graesse III 354 (note); Brunet III 319 (note).

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Book number: 54397

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Jackson, Richard:

Literatura Graeca. Containing, I. The geography of antient Greece and its Islands. II. The History of Greece [...]. III. Potter's Antiquities of Greece, abridged [...]. To which is prefixed, an essay on the study of the Greek language [...]. Designed for the Use of Schools.

London: Printed for F. Newbery, 1769. First edition. 8vo, pp. xxxix, [ix], 196. Contemporary marbled sheep, spine divided by gilt rules, edges yellow. Lightly toned, a few minor spots. Rubbed, a touch of wear to spine ends and corners. A scarce schoolbook: ESTC locates four copies in the UK (BL, Cambridge x2, Oxford), plus half a dozen locations in North America. ESTC T113167; Roscoe J190A.

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Book number: 54154

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Johnston, Robert:

Historia rerum Britannicarum: Ut et multarum Gallicarum, Belgicarum, & Germanicarum, tam Politicarum, quam Ecclesiasticarum, ab anno 1572, ad Annum 1628 [...] Adjectus est rerum ac Personarum, de quibus in hoc volumine, Index absolutissimus.

Amstelaedami [Amsterdam]: sumptibus Joannis Ravesteynii [colophon:Goudae [Gouda], typis Guilielmi van der Hoeve.] 1655. First edition. Folio, fols. [ii] 737 [xi]. Text in Latin. Printer's vignette to title-page, woodcut initials and head- and end-pieces. Ink spot to bottom edge encoaching very slightly onto bottom margin. Very light toning to edges, 2P4 with paper flaw causing ragged fore-edge, a few other very minor paper flaws. 18th-century vellum, title inked to spine in an old hand and partially obscured by a recent brown and gilt title label, edges sprinkled dark blue, an old catalogue entry pasted to ffep. Vellum a little darkened with some marks and scuffs, fore-edges worn with boards partly exposed, still very good overall. First complete edition, of Johnston's history of England and Scotland; parts of which had already been published in English. The work covers the period 1572-1628, during all of which time King James VI and I was reigning in Scotland or also England. Johnston (1567?-1639) was a member of the first class to graduate from the University of Edinburgh (M.A., 1587), and spent his working life as a clerk in London. "'A work of great merit, whether we consider the judicious structure of the narrative, the sagacity of the reflections, the acute discernment of characters, or the classical structure of the style' - Lord Woodhouselee" (Lowndes). Lowndes 1223:

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Book number: 54524

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Justinian: (Corvinus, Arnoldus:)

Institutiones D. Justiniani ss. Princ.: typis variae, rubris nucleum exhibentibus : accesserunt ex Digestis tituli de verborum significatione et regul. juris.

Pariis [Paris]: Apud Guillelmum de Luyne, 1676 16mo, pp. [8], 391, [103], [2], including added engraved title, text in red and black. Light water stain to first and last few leaves. Contemporary full speckled calf, raised bands, spine gilt and gilt-lettered, edges sprinkled red, corners a little bumped, extremities minimally rubbed. Contemporary autograph Ja[cques?] Maule to verso of title, 'Monsieur' to verso of last blank. A fresh copy, in an attractive contemporary binding, of this pocket-size pirated edition of Justinian's legal milestone - printed in red and black. It reprises an edition of the same text printed by Daniel Elzevier in Amsterdam in the same year (Willems 1519), including the design of the engraved title, with a revised imprint.

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Book number: 53556

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Justinian I, Emperor of the East:

Institutionum sive Elementorum, libri quatuor, Notis perpetuis multo, quam hucusque, diligentius illustrati, cura & studio Arnoldi Vinnii J.C.

Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1669. 12mo. [12], 643pp., [1], wanting two final blanks. Engraved title, decorated initials and ornaments. Title dusty, occasional spotting, small ink splash to fore-edge of one gathering. Contemporary vellum over boards, yapp edges, title inked to spine (modern). Covers rubbed. Ex-libris of J. Kirk inked to front pastedown and his stamp to lower margin of title; Latin motto and autograph T.(?) Young to flyleaf, [*]12 and A1. 'Fourth Elzevir edition' (Willems 1310). Willems 1310.

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Book number: 53178

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