Caviness, Madeline Harrison: Sumptuous Arts at the Royal Abbeys in Reims and Braine. Ornatus Elegantiae, Varietate Stupendes. Princeton University Press, 1990. First edition. 4to. (312 x 239mm), pp. xxvi, 401. Hardback: black cloth, light dusting to edges. Dust-jacket, light shelf wear. A very good copy. Ref: 53219
Cedrenus, Georgius: (Scylitzes, John; Psellus, Michael; Migne, Jacques Paul:) [?] Compendium Historiarum. Cui subjiciuntur excerta ex breviario Joannis Scylitz? curopalat? [...] Tomus Prior; [...] Accedunt Michaelis Pselli opera qu? reperiri potuerunt omnia nunc primum in unum collecta, accurante et denuo recognoscente J.-P. Migne. Tomus posterior. Parisina [Paris]: Apud J.-P. Migne, 1864. 2 vols. Large 8vo., pp. [vii], cols. 11-1168; pp. [iv], cols. 9-1456. Parallel columns of Greek and Latin text. Foxed, some glue staining at gutters, edges dusty and many unopened, title-pages with traces of removed label, gathering 19 of vol. I very toned, still good. Modern bindings, plain tan calf spines with gilt titles, marbled boards, original paper covers bound in, endpapers made from printed waste, edges uncut, very good. Each volume with bookplate pasted to printed front endpaper, 'Bibliotheca Montis Calvariae Wadhurstii'. Two volumes (CXXI & CXXII) in the series Patrologi? Cursus Completus (Traditio Catholica. S?culum XI, annus 1058). Ref: 54391show full image..
Champion, Michael W.: Explaining the Cosmos: Creation and Cultural Interaction in Late-Antique Gaza. Oxford University Press, 2014. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 241. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unread, as new. In the series 'Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity'. Ref: 53381
Chin, Catherine M.: Grammar and Christianity in the Late Roman World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. First edition. 8vo., pp. 272. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unread, a hint only of shelf-wear: almost as new. In the Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Ref: 53628
Church, Stephen: King John and the Road to Magna Carta. New York: Basic Books, 2015. First American edition. 8vo., pp. xxii, 300. Maps, genealogy and illustration. Hardback: buff cloth-backed boards, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54471
Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Epistolae ad Familiares. Pauli Manutius Annotationes breves in margine adscriptae. Eiusdem scholar. Verba Greca Latinos expressa. Dionysii Lambini Monstroliensis viri doctiss emendationes, & earum rationes. Gulielmi Canteri locorum aliquot explications & emendationes, nunc p Amstelreodami (sic) [Amsterdam]: Henricum Laurentii, 1626. 8vo., pp.[xvi], 487, [i]. Printer's device to title-page, woodcut initials. A few tiny manicules etc to margins. Faint tidemark to first gathering, final two gatherings nibbled along edge of lower margin but no loss of text. Contemporary vellum, title inked to spine, fore-edges slightly overlapped, edges sprinkled red. Spine darkened, quite a few smudgy marks and stains, corners frayed especially at the bottom of the upper board, turn-ins lifting and endpapers grubby but still a very good, if well-used, copy. To title-page, ownership inscription of James Forbes in an old hand. To ffep also in an old hand, the name Cornelius Heijmenberg crossed through followed possibly by Gerardii (smudged), three lines of numbers, and the name Heijmenberg then repeated. To ffep verso a single line of ms, 'So have I seen a King on Chaff'. Seemingly a reprint of the 1577 Estienne with notes of Paulus Manutius, Lambinus, etc. and WIlliam Canter's explanations of place. (see Dibdin I. 423). This edition appears scarce, with Jisc Library Hub finding no copies and Worldcat only one. The Worldcat copy lists no publisher and, as the publisher's name is clearly visible on the title-page here, some room for doubt is left as to whether it is in fact the same edition. Ref: 54658show full image..
Cicero, Marcus Tullius: (Ernesti, Johann August, ed.:) Opera Omnia [...] cum Notis et Clave Ciceroniana. Halis Saxonum [Halle an der Saale]: In Orphano Tropheo, 1773-77. 5 vols bound as 8, 8vo., pp. LXXXVI; XVI, 734, [ii] + frontispiece + portrait of Ernesti opposite p.1; XXII, [ii], 847, [i]; [iii], 852-1696; XVI, 510, [ii]; VIII, 513-1166, [ii]; VIII, 736; [iii], 740-1200; XVI, 910, [ii]. Woodcut vignette to title-page, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Some foxing and toning though vol. 4 parts 1 and 2 are less affected, occasional spots and smudges, vol. 4 part one with a few paper flaws to fore-edges, final vol. with a small strip torn from the upper margin pp.III-IV but not affecting text. Contemporary half tan calf, raised bands gilt ruled, red and green title labels, brown sprinkled paper boards, edges sprinkled red. A bit rubbed, corners fraying, very good. Vol.1 [Rhetorica]; vol.2, pars 1-2 Orationes; vol.3, pars 1 Epistol? ad diversos - vol.3, pars 2 Epistol? ad Atticum, Q. fratrem et Brutum; vol.4, pars 1 Opera philosophica; vol4, pars 2 Opera philosophica. Accedunt fragmenta scriptorum deperditorum; [vol.5] Clavis Ciceroniana. The third and the 'more critical and profound' of Ernesti's editions of Cicero. '"No man, since the restoration of literature", says the Bibl. Crit. Amst., "has more contributed towards the illustration of Cicero than John Augustus Ernesti"....The third edition is more particularly valuable, as presenting us in each volume with some account of the editions of the various works of Cicero, and a few additional notes and emendations of the text' (Dibdin). Dibdin (4th edn.) I 403. Schweiger II 109. Dibdin (4th edn.) I 403. Schweiger II 109. Ref: 54723show full image..
Cicero, Marcus Tullius: (Mai, Angelo, ed.:) De Re Publica. 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 edition contains two of the plates Dibdin lists for the Rome edition (the group of figures and the facsimile palimpsest), but was issued without the bust of Pius VII found in the latter. Colophon reads 'T. White and Co. Printers, 14 Bear Alley, London.' Rev. Frederick Grueber Lugard (1808-1900), British Army chaplain at Madras, was the father of Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard (1853-1945), British soldier, mercenary and colonial administrator who served as Governor of Hong Kong and of Nigeria. Ref: 54127show full image..
Classen, Albrecht (ed.): Discourses on Love, Marriage, and Transgression in Medieval and Early Modern Literature. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, 2004. First edition. 8vo., pp. 374. Hardback: green cloth, gilt-lettered. Dust-jacket. Unread: edges slightly dusted, otherwise as new. With a Commentary by the translator. Ref: 53394
Cline, Ruth Harwood: The Congregation of Tiron: Monastic Contributions to Trade and Communication in Twelfth Century France and Britain. Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2019. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiv, 211. Maps and Tables. Hardback: laminated pictorial boards. Unused: as new. In the series: Spirituality and Monasticism, East and West. Ref: 54466
