Kilburne, Richard:

A Topographie or Survey of the County of Kent. With Some Chronological, Historicall, and Other Matters Touching the Same: and the Several Parishes and Places therein.

London: Thomas Mabb for Henry Atkinson [...], 1659. First edition. Small 4to. (177 x 135mm), pp. [viii], 422, [xii] + portrait frontispiece. Numerous errors in pagination as usual, list of Contents incorrectly bound before the dedication rather than after. Woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces. Occasional light smudges and spots of foxing, a little toning along head of title-page, a smudge of red pigment to tail edge of final leaf perhaps indicating the original edge colour. Late 19th- or early 20th-century brown polished sheep neatly rebacked with original spine retained, gilt title and blind tooling to spine, blind-tooled borders to boards, edges marbled, grey endpapers. A little rubbed but a very good copy overall. Recent armorial bookplate of Robert Edmund Lloyd-Roberts to front paste-down. Two MS pencil notes to the ffep verso, the first concerning the placement of the list of Contents, the second recording that this book was 'acquired at the sale at Godmersham Park, the home of Mrs Robert Tritton. 8th June 1983.' Built in 1732 by Thomas May (later Knight), Godmersham Park was inherited by Edward Austen (brother of Jane Austen) in 1794. He was a cousin of the Knight family, who had adopted him in the early 1780s; when his adoptive mother died in 1812 he changed his name to Knight. Jane was a regular visitor to Godmersham Park and is said to have used the house as a model for Mansfield Park. The house passed through several more hands before being bought in 1935 by Robert Tritton and his wife Elsie, whose death in 1983 prompted the Christie's auction mentioned above. In his 'Epistle Dedicatory', Kilburne writes of his intention to present 'the Kent of his own day', and to depict 'the county as it was before the Civil War'. Hasted, in his 1797 History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, dismisses Kilburne's work as being 'little more than a Directory'. However, 'Kent was not well served by early topographers, and Kilburne's small survey was extensively quoted on sixteen occasions by Robert Furley and, over the years in Archaeologia Cantiana, as a first source of reference, and not without some praise. The Topographie devoted disproportionate attention to Hawkhurst: 10 pages out of 422, or, in the words of one writer, 'as much space to it as to twenty other average parishes' (Archaeologia Cantiana, 5, 1863, 59). Kilburne justified this, however: "In respect I finde not any description of this Parish … it having been the place of my habitation for above twenty eight years last past (God's Providence having also there lent me an inheritance), I thought fit to enlarge my selfe upon this place. (Kilburne, 126)"'. (ODNB) Wing K434

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Libanius: (Wolfius, J.C., ed.:)

Epistolae. Quas nunc primum maximam partem e variis codicibus, manu exaratis, edidit, Latine convertit & notis illustravit.

Amstelaedami [Amsterdam]: Apud Janssonio-Waesbergios. 1738. Editio princeps. Large folio, pp. [20], 865, [1], lacking final blank. With half-title, title page in red and black, engraved printer's device to title, double column in Greek and Latin. Half-title, title and a handful of other leaves slightly foxed, occasional toning. Contemporary Dutch vellum, traces of ties, gilt ruled to a panel design, gilt centrepieces with arms of Amsterdam, small gilt arms of Amsterdam to corners, raised bands, small gilt arms of Amsterdam to spine, title inked to spine, modern shelfmark label to upper cover. Corners a bit bumped. Modern stamp of Maastricht library to ffep. A sumptuously bound, large folio prize book - a clean and well-margined copy. The first collected printing of the letters of Libanius, the 4th-century AD rhetorician. More than 1500 of his letters survive, the largest extant collection from antiquity, and only brief selections had been previously edited. Wolf's magisterial volume not only prints as many as were known but also includes Latin translations for each letter; Smith called it 'the best edition' (Dict. Gr. & Rom. Bio.), and it is still cited in modern editions. Brunet III, 1050; Graesse IV, 195; Hoffman II; Spoelder, 493 (Amst. 12).

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Lipsius, Justus:

Admiranda, sive, de Magnitudine Romana Libri Quattro (3rd ed.); De Militia Romana Libri Quinque, Commentarius ad Polybium (3rd ed.); Analecta sive Observations Reliquae ad Militiam et Hosce Libros; Poliorceticon sive de Machinis. Tormentis. Telis. Libri Quinque. Ad Historiarum Lucem. (3rd ed.); De Amphitheatro Liber (2 parts, but with continuous pagination); Saturnalium Sermonum Libri Duo, qui de Gladiatoribus (2nd ed.).

Antverpiæ [Antwerp]: Ex Officina Plantiniana, apud Ioannem Moretum, 1605; 1602; 1602; 1605; 1604; 1604. 6 parts in 1 vol. 4to., pp.223, [ix]; 366, [ii] + 1 folding plate; xxix, [vii]; [ii], 219, [iv]; 55, [i], [ii], 59-77, [vii] + 2 folding plates; 136, [iv] + 4 double-page plates. Many further illustrations in the text, engraved printer's devices. Occasional toning, some faint staining, tiny burn hole to leaf d4 Amiranda. Contemporary vellum, title inked to spine, overlapping fore-edges, edges sprinkled red. Vellum a little grubby, a few spots, but very good. Lipsius's (1547-1606) Opera Militaria, comprising six essays on Roman military power with plates depicting armaments, machinery, fortresses, gladiators and amphitheatres. First published in 1595 (Antwerp: Plantijn-Moretus).

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[Livy] Livius, Titus: (Holland, Philemon, trans.:)

The Romane Historie Wrtten by T. Livius of Padua: Also, the Breviaries of L. Florus: with a chronologie to the whole historie: and the Topographie of Rome in old time. Translated out of Latine into English, by Philemon Holland, Doctor in Physicke.

London: Printed by Adam Islip, 1600. First edition in English. Folio, pp. [x], 1-804, 809-1351, 1354-1403, [xliii]. Usual errors in pagination, some with old MS corrections. Bound without the initial blank leaf A1, but with the final blank leaf 6F6. Large printer's device to title-page with engraved portrait of Elizabeth I to verso, ornate headpieces and initials, errata at rear. Marginalia in an old hand including some rudimentary manicules, some symbols and underlining in pencil (more profusely annotated towards the front), p.928 margin has 'Chapter Sixteen' in fairly modern blue ink. Title-page very dusty, repaired at fore- and bottom edges and reattached at gutter, with small, round library ink stamp very faintly to recto and second library stamp with pencilled details to verso. Round library ink stamp of Campion Hall to p.3. First 7 leaves after title-page slightly short at fore-edge (apparently due to being repaired and reinserted at gutter margin, as the red edge decoration is still visible at the edges of these leaves). 6C3 (pp.1403-4) torn horizontally with approx. one quarter of leaf lost at bottom edge but with no loss of of text, only parts of two woodcut embellishments lost. M6 with tiny hole to centre affecting a few letters, horizontal crease to 2E4, occasional light dampstaining, a few tiny scorch holes and ink spots. Dark brown reverse calf, modern reback with gilt 'Livy' tooled directly to 2nd compartment, initials W.D. with ornate centrepiece in between to each board, edges sprinkled red. Some spots and stains, small hole to leather on rear board, endbands renewed, corners repaired, dampstaining to edges of endpapers. A very good, sound copy overall. Three library ink stamps: to title-page recto, round stamp of Ipswich Mechanics Institute; to title-page verso, very faded stamp with codes and 'Ipswich Institute Gift' added in pencil; to p.3, round stamp of Campion Hall. Small slip of paper reading 'Rev. H. Campbell' loosely inserted. First edition of the first published work of translation of Philemon Holland (1552-1637). The Romane Historie was the first time Livy's Latin history of Rome, Ab Urbe Condita, had been fully rendered into English. It was considered 'a work of great importance, presented in a grand folio volume of 1458 pages, and dedicated to the Queen. The translation set out to be lucid and unpretentious, and achieved its aim with marked success. It is accurate, and often lively, and although it does not attempt to imitate the terseness of Latin, it avoids prolixity. As part of his book Holland translated two other substantial works – an ancient epitome of Roman history which provides an outline of the lost books of Livy, and Bartolomeo Marliani's guide to the topography of Rome – as well as some smaller texts. These were taken from the edition of Livy published in Paris in 1573; by translating them, Holland was making available in English a great learned compendium of historical knowledge, not simply a single ancient author.' (Considine, ODNB) The revised translation of Marliani's Topographia Antiquae Romae is here titled 'The Topographie of Rome' and is found at pp. 1348-1403. The 'Breviaries' are translated from Lucius Annaeus Florus' 'Epitomae Rerum Romanarum', which is itself an epitome of books 46-140 of Ab Urbe Condita. ESTC S114001

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Madox, Thomas:

Baronia Anglica. An History of Land-Honors and Baronies, and of Tenure in Capite. Verified by Records. (Bound before) A Compleat Index to Mr Madox's History of the Exchequer.

London: Printed for Robert Gosling 1736; 1741. First editions. Folio, 2 works in 1, pp. [2], 292 [xxviii]; [216], title of second is a cancel (second issue), engraved vignette to first title, a few large engraved initials and engraved headpieces. First title and verso of last leaf a little dusty, slight toning, small clean tear at gutter of one leaf, occasional very slight marginal spotting. Modern half calf over marbled boards, modern endpapers. Modern ex-libris of Robert Smith, dated 2008 to ffep; early biographical annotation on author; occasional early marginalia. The first edition, posthumously published, of this study by the celebrated legal antiquary Thomas Madox (1666-1727), who was historiographer-royal from 1714, and who is singled out by David C. Douglas ('English Scholars 1660-1730') for special praise, with the assessment (p. 243) that "even to-day, he seems to move among the moderns as if, apart from the immensity of his productions, he were one of themselves". The 'Index' was prepared by the editor of 'Baronia Britannica', and first issued with that work in 1741. It is a detailed glossary of the uncommon words used in Madox's 'History of the Exchequer', with which it was reprinted in 1769. The 'Index' title reads at the top: 'This Day is Published, (Price Half a Guinea, Sewed,).' ESTC T97064. Lowndes 1448. Brunet III 1289. Graesse IV 332.

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[Virgil] Maro, Publius Vergilius; [Heyne, C.G. (ed.)]:

Opera, varietate lectionis et perpetua adnotatione illustrata...accedit index uberrimus editio tertia emendatior et auctior.

Londini [London]: Typis T. Rickaby, impensis T. Payne, B. & J. White, R. Faulder & J. Edwards, 1793 Royal 8vo. 4 vols. pp. [vi], CCLV, [1], 566 + engraved frontispiece and engraved plate; pp. [2], XCIV, 820; pp. [2], 760; pp. [2], 259, [1], 704. Engraved title and text vignettes. Minimal toning or offsetting from engravings, occasional light spotting, I: engraved frontispiece, title and first leaf somewhat foxed, III: slight spotting to a couple of gatherings,. Contemporary polished calf, marbled endpapers, double gilt ruled, blind-tooled decorative roll, raised bands, spine gilt and gilt-lettered, inner edges gilt, all edges marbled, joints, head and foot of spine a trifle rubbed with occasional very minor loss. Remarkably fresh and clean, uniformly bound set of this much celebrated, deluxe, student edition of Virgil, by C.G. Heyne. He issued four 'incomparable editions' (Dibdin), this being the London reprint of the Leipzig edition of 1788. In addition to the received Vergilian canon, it includes indexes and an incredibly thorough chronological list of all Virgil editions ever printed. This is probably one of the copies on large paper, in royal octavo, ornamented with beautiful vignettes, mentioned by Dibdin. Dibdin (4th ed.) II, p.559; Schweiger II, 1181.

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[Martial] Martialis, Marcus Valerius: (Hay, William, ed.:)

Epigrammata Selecta […] Select epigrams of Martial. Translated and imitated by William Hay, Esq; with an appendix of some by Cowley, and other hands.

London: printed for R. And J. Dodsley in Pall-mall, 1755. 1755. 12mo., pp. [xii], 139 (i.e. 239), [xxv]. Parallel Latin and English texts. Two final leaves of advertisements. A little toned, very good. Contemporary brown calf, gilt spine with label, gilt borders to boards edges sprinkled red. Bookplate to front pastedown, initials S and B twined together by a rope ampersand, beneath the coronet of an earl. William Hay (1695–1755) was a writer and Whig politician, sitting in the Commons from 1734 to 1755. The 'Advertisement' preceding the text notes that his edition was also available in an English-only 8vo. volume, 'that they may not be encumbered with the Latin, who do not understand it.' ESTC T94257

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[Martial] Martialis, Marcus Valerius: (Farnaby, Thomas, ed.:)

Epigrammata.

Amsterdami [Amsterdam]: Ex officina Janssonio-Waesbergiana, 1670. 12mo., pp.456. Illustrated title page, engraved initials and end-pieces. Internally very clean. Contemporary vellum school prize binding, title inked to spine, plain gilt borders, gilt centrepiece with arms of Amersfoot. Vellum a little greyed with some small spots and stains, ties lost, slight separation at gutter between ffep and title-page but sewing all intact, very good. Thomas Farnaby (1574/5–1647) was a celebrated schoolteacher and grammarian. 'The success of his establishment allowed Farnaby to devote himself to a long-held obsession: the systemization of the grammatical principles of classical Latin and Greek in print. Commencing with the satires of Juvenal and Persius (1612), he annotated many of the classical authors—Seneca, Martial, Lucan, Ovid, Virgil, and Terence—in a manner intended to render their works intelligible to schoolboys [...] He also corresponded with the Dutch intellectuals Gerardus Johannes Vossius and Daniel Heinsius, both of whom acknowledged their own debts to his learning.' (ODNB) His edition of Martial first appeared in London in 1615. Schweiger 598; Spoelder 4.

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Meibom, Johann Heinrich:

Maecenas, sive de C. Cilnii Maecenatis vita, moribus & rebus gestis: liber singularis. Accessit C. Pedonis Albinovani Maecenati scriptum epicedium, notis illustratum.

Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: apud Johannem & Danielem Elsevier, 1653. Small 4to. (193 x 155mm), pp. [xii], 186, [viii], 11, [ix], including errata leaf usually lacking. Engraved portrait vignette to title-page, woodcut initials and head-pieces, small numismatic illustration in text. Sporadic light foxing a little heavier to a few leaves. Very neat modern binding, tan quarter calf, raised bands and red morocco gilt title label to spine, marbled boards, edges sprinkled red, endpapers renewed. Very slight shelf wear, a very good copy. An account of the early life of Gaius Cilnius Maecenas (68 BC–8 BC) the famous patron of letters (notably to the new generation of Augustan poets, including both Horace and Virgil), by the German physician and humanist Johann Heinrich Meibom (1590-1655). This copy includes the final errata leaf which, as Willems notes, appears to have been added afterwards and is missing in most examples. Schweiger II, 588; Willems 731

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Pomponius Mela: (Gronovius, Abraham, ed.:)

De Situ Orbis Libri III.

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 temperate zone inaccessible to the folk of the northern temperate regions from the unbearable heat of the intervening torrid belt" (Ency. Brit. 11th edn.). Brunet IV 801 (note). Dibdin II 356. Graesse V 402-3. Schweiger 611; Spoelder 2.

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Theocritus; Bion; Moschus: (Valckenaer, L. C., ed.; Hessus, H.E., and Hightius, E.G., trans.:)

Carmina Bucolica Graece et Latine. Latino carmine pleraque reddita ab Eobano Hesso, nonnulla ab E.G. Higtio subiecit, Graeca ex edd. primis, codd. & aliunde emendavit, variisque lectionibus instruxit L.C. Valckenaer.

Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Apud A. et J. Honkoop, 1810. 8vo., pp. [xvi], 567, [i]. Text in Greek and Latin. Small ink stamp to title-page. A few tiny marginal notes. Contemporary vellum, gilt spine, gilt borders, central gilt coat of arms of Utrecht to boards. Some light smudgy marks, ties lost, very good indeed MS notes in an old hand to ffep. With prize certificate made out to Jacobus Adolphus Carolus Rovers, dated '6 Septemb. 1816', with several Masters' signatures. Round inkstamp to title-page, 'Academia Rheno-Traiectina'. Edition by Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer (1715-1785), Dutch classical scholar at Leiden. A follower of Tiberius Hemsterhuis, he succeeded him in 1766 in the chair of Greek at Leiden. Hoffman III 483; Spoelder 7.

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Nepos, Cornelius: (Pausanias:) (Fell, John, ed.:)

Excellentium imperatorum vitae. Editio novissima; nunc denuo recognita. Accessit Aristomenis Messenii vita, ex Pausania.

Oxonii [Oxford]. E Teatro Sheldoniano. 1708. 4to. pp. [xx], 230; [ii], 38, [xviii], [lvi]. Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette to title, engraved ornaments at start of each chapter. Little spotting to title and verso of last leaf. Early 19th century Russia leather, marbled endpapers, triple gilt ruled, raised bands, spine double gilt ruled and gilt-lettered, cross-hatched decoration in blind. Covers a bit faded, joints cracked but firm. Bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to front pastedown. Reprint of the 1678 Oxford edition of Cornelius Nepos's 'Lives of the Emperors', in a remarkably and unusually well-preserved Russia leather binding. ESTC T83009.

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Nepos, Cornelius:

Excellentium Imperatorum Vitae.

Londini [London]: Jacobi Tonson & Johannis Watts, 1735. 12mo., pp. [xii], 114, [vi]. Engraved frontispiece by Du Gernier, title-page in red and black with woodcut device, ornamental headpieces and initials. Internally very clean, some pencil to endpapers. Contemporary tan calf with raised bands and spine label, spine and edges a bit rubbed, upper joint just starting at head but still very sound. Much like the 1715 edition (the title verso is printed with a licence dated 1714 which grants exclusive rights for printing and publishing for 14 years), though reset to be slightly larger, and with different ornaments used. ESTC T83008

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Nepos, Cornelius: (Van Staveren, Augustinus, ed:)

Vitae Excellentium Imperatorum, cum notis selectis Boecleri, Bosii, Buchneri, Ernstii, Gerhardi, Heidmanni, Lambini, Loccenii, Longolii, Magii, Ravii, Savaronis, Schefferi, Schotti, nec non excerptis P. Danielis. Hisce accedit locupletissimus omnium vocabulorum index studio & opera J.A. Bosii. Suas notas addidit Augustinus van Staveren.

Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Apud Sam. et Joan. Luchtmans, 1773 [1774]. 2nd ed., expanded. 8vo., pp.[32], 832, [176]. Additional engraved title-page dated 1774, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, engraved illustrations in the text (portraits). A few pencil marks, eg. p.117. Contemporary vellum prize binding, gilt spine, borders, corner tools and centrepiece coat of arms of Utrecht to each board, edges sprinkled red and blue. A few light marks, ties lost, very good. Includes: C. Nepotis fragmenta […] A. Schotti studio collecta, scholiisque illustrata […] recensita […] et […] aucta a J.A. Bosio, cujus […] animadversiones Schottisnis interseruntur, Curante A. van Staveren. With index at rear. Dibdin II, p246 for this, the better of two Staveren editions (1734 and 1773); Schweiger II pt.i, 302.

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Newcourt, Richard:

Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense: An Ecclesiastical Parochial History of the Diocese of London: Containing an Account of the Bishops of that Sea, from the first Foundation thereof: also, of the deans, archdeacons, dignitaries and prebendaries, from the Conquest: and lastly, of the several parish-churches, as well exempt as not exempt, within the limits of that Diocese, and of their patrons and incumbents: and also the endowments of several vicarages: and likewise of the several religious houses that were within the same; continu'd to the year of our Lord MDCC. In an Alphabetical Order.

London: printed by Benj. Motte, and are to be sold by Chr. Bateman, Benj. Tooke, Ric. Parker, 1708; 1710. 2 vols., folio, pp.[iv], vii, [I], 761, 764-5, 768-9, 772-3, 776-928, [ii] (i.e. usual mispagination) + 4 plates; [viii], 692, [lii] + 2 plates. Vol. I with portrait frontispiece and errata leaf, vol. II with half-title and list of subscribers, as called for. Sporadic toning, vol. II heavily toned from p.609 onwards and with a small worm trail near gutter for approx. first hundred pages. MS to ffep vol. I (a description in heraldic terminology of the arms of Richard Newport depicted on the frontispiece). Contemporary Cambridge panelled calf, raised bands and reddish title labels to spines, edges sprinkled red. A bit worn with some scrapes, but very good. Each volume with armorial bookplates of John Hoadly, LLD to front paste-down and Henry Carrington Bowles to rear paste-down (the latter being the Bowles arms with those of H.C.B.'s wife Ann Garnault inset). Historian and notary Richard Newport (d.1716) complied this history of the Diocese of London from sources including the London Registers (begun in 1306), registers kept by individual bishops and a return of 1636 from which he took information about the income of the parishes. His father (also Richard Newcourt, d. 1679) was a cartographer and draughtsman who, in addition to contributing drawings to Dugdale's Monasticon, was also responsible for the most important map made of London before the Great Fire, his Exact Delineation of the Cities of London and Westminster and the Suburbs Thereof (1658). John Hoadly (1711-1776) was a poet and dramatist, and a friend and correspondent of David Garrick. The appearance of 'LLD' on his bookplate dates it from sometime after 1747. Henry Carrington Bowles (1763-1830) was a successful publisher and seller of maps, prints and geographical games. His bookplate dates from sometime after his marriage in 1799. The ephemera found between the pages of vol. I appears to relate to his ownership of the book. Loosely inserted: two letterpress-printed sheets reproducing letters sent in January 1824 and February 1827 to The Gentleman's Magazine, concerning London churches destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666 (both from 'H.C.B.'); small hand-drawn and coloured arms of Sir John Philpot, Lord Mayor of London 1378, on a scrap of paper; a piece of tracing paper with a coat of arms and an inscription referring to Sarah Bolles; 4 scraps of paper with MS notes, one seemingly part of a letter addressed to H.C. Bowles Esq. and dated 1827; a long MS list of churches on a folded piece of paper watermarked 1821. ESTC T5439; Upcott 690; Lowndes 1665; Graesse IV 662.

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