[Chapman, J.B.W; Dawes, M.C.B., eds.] Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and other Analogous Documents Preserved in the Public Record Office [...] Vol. XIV, Edward III. Prepared under the superintendence of the Deputy Keeper of the Records. London: Published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1952. Large 8vo. (260 x 170mm), pp. xxiv, 554. Bright and clean within. Black cloth, gilt title to spine. A little very light shelf wear, near fine. No dust-jacket. Covers the years 1374-1377. Ref: 52167
Chatwin, Bruce: The Viceroy of Ouidah. London: Jonathan Cape, 1980. First edition. 8vo., pp.[iv], 155, [I]. Internally clean. Slight gap between half-title and title, due to backing. Brown cloth, gilt title to spine. Top edge a little dusty, near fine. First edition copy of Chatwin's second published work. Ref: 50437
Chatzidakis, Nano: Icons: The Velimezis Collection. Athens: The Benaki Museum, 1998. Folio, pp.494, [iv]. Paperback, many colour illustrations. Scratch to front cover, a little shelf wear, very good. Catalogue raisonné. Ref: 51684
Chaucer, Geoffrey; (Skeat, Walter W., ed.:) The Canterbury Tales. Volume I, Text; Volume II, Notes. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924 2nd edition. 2 vols., 8vo., pp. xxxii, 667. [i]; xxvi, [ii], 515, [i]. Very faintly toned. Black cloth, gilt titles to spine. Endcaps slightly creased, light shelf wear, top edges dusty. Ownership inscription of D. Bruce dated 1966 to front paste-down of Notes volume. A few pencilled bookseller's notes to endpapers of each volume. A 1924 impression of the 1900 second edition (first edition published 1894). Vols. IV & V of the Complete Works. Ref: 52161
Chillingworth, William: The Religion of Protestants 1638. A Safe Way to Salvation. Menston: Scolar Press, 1972. Facsimile (Original Size). Folio. Small smudgy mark to title-page, otherwise very clean within. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine, small gilt centrepiece to upper board. Spine very faded with fading extending a little onto boards, no dust-jacket, very good overall. Ref: 37560
Chrysostom, John, Saint: (Hoeschel, David, ed.:) De Sacerdotio libri vi. Graeci & Latine. [Bound with:] Contra Iudaeos Homiliae vi. Augustae V. [Augsburg: ] E typographeo M. Mangeri; Joannis Praetorij. 1599; 1602. 2 works bound as 1, the second the Editio Princeps of the Greek text. 8vo., pp. [xvi], 215, [ii], 216-539, [i]; [xvi], 256, [ii], 257-542 (i.e. 541), [iii]. Some light dampstaining at the beginning of first work, a little minor spotting elsewhere. Contemporary vellum, long edges overlapping, spine titled in ink, hinges cracking but strong, a little dustsoiled. Two attractive editions by David Hoeschel (1556-1617), librarian at Augsburg; the second is the Editio Princeps of the Greek text of Chrysostom's sermons against the Jews. Both works are accompanied by Latin translations, the first by that of Ceratinus and Brixius, and the second by Hoeschel's own. Ref: 39528
Cicero, Marcus Tullius: (Cockman, Thomas, trans:) Tully's Offices. In English. London: printed by T. Wood, for Owen Lloyd and J. Bateman, 1722. 4th edition, corrected. 12mo., pp. [ii], viii, 265, [xxv]. Title-page in red and black, a few woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces. Pencilled manicules to margins. Small stain to top fore-edge corner of ffep and following 5 leaves. Contemporary brown Cambridge-style panelled calf, raised bands, red gilt title label to spine, edges lightly sprinkled red. Endcaps rubbed, joints worn but firm, corners fraying a little, very good. Faint remains of a signature to top corner of title-page, the removal of which has possibly caused the stain mentioned earlier. Originally appearing in 1619, this translation had passed through 10 editions by 1792. It was still in print as late as 1819. Cockman writes in his Preface that he has 'made some use of Sir R. L'Estrange's English, and especially Mr du B.'s French translation.' ESTC T145003; Lowndes II 460 Ref: 52029
Cicero, Marcus Tullius: (Dougan, Thomas Wilson, intro., rev.:) Tusculanarum Diputationum Libri Quinque. A revised text with introduction and commentary and a collation of numerous MSS [...] Volume I, containing books 1 and 2. Cambridge: at the University Press, 1905. Volume I only. 8vo., pp. lxiv, 252. Latin text, preface and notes in English. Clean and bright within. Red cloth, gilt title to spine. Endcaps a little scuffed, some small bubbles under cloth to upper board, endpapers very faintly foxed but still very good. Gift inscription, William S. Wilkie to C.D.N. Costa dated i. viii, '75, to ffep. Ref: 52073
Cicero, Marcus Tullius: (Nobbe, C.F.A., ed.:) Opera Omnia. Uno Volumine Comprehensa Curis Secundis Emendatiora et Adnotationibus Indicibusque Auctiora [...] Lipsiae [Leipzig]: sumptibus et typis Caroli Tauchnitii; Londini [London]: prostat apud David Nutt, 1850. Small folio (300 x 195mm), pp.vii, [i], 1460 + portrait frontispiece with tissue. Generally clean and bright within, but with the tissue heavily foxed and causing some transfer to frontispiece and title-page. Recent tan arbelave buckram, gilt title to spine, edges uncut. Slight crease at tail of spine. A very good copy, in a modern but sturdy binding. Ownership inscription of C.D.N. Costa dated 9.ii.'65 to ffep. Unobtrusive code in red ink near head of title-page. Karl Christoph Traugott Tauchnitz (1761–1836) founded his publishing house in Leipzig in 1798, having begun a printing business there two years earlier. Dictionaries, Bibles, and stereotyped editions of Greek and Roman classics were Tauchnitz specialities. Ref: 51694
Cicero, Marcus Tullius; (Gruter, Jan; Gulielmus, Jan, eds.:) Opera Omnia Quae Exstant, ex sola fere` codd mss. fide emendata studio atq[ue] industria Jani Gulielmii & Jani Gruteri additis notis & indd: accuratiss: confectis. Hamburgi [Hamburg]: Ex bibliopolio Frobeniano, 1618. 4 vols. in 2. Folio bound in 8s, pp. [xx], 34, [ii], 255, [i], 590; 417, [i], 461, [i]. Engraved title-page with vignette; woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. Printed on notoriously poor paper, hence toning and foxing of varying severity. To first vol., a closed tear to 2G6 affecting a few letters; second vol. title-page detached but wholly present, gathering 2Z misbound. Occasional light dampstaining; some spots of wax and ink, closed marginal tears and tiny instances of worming. Contemporary speckled calf, raised bands, gilt spines, edges sprinkled red. Much rubbed and scuffed, endcaps rubbed with loss to first vol., corners worn, turn-ins peeling, endpapers rumpled. A tired copy, but of a work with an interesting scholarly history. Ownership inscriptions of Henri van der Lijndin dated 1659 to each title-page. A fifth volume followed in 1619. 'This edition was formerly of some authority, and followed by a great number of succeeding editors; but with the disadvantage of bad paper and bad type, it unites many errors and absurdities; adopting the palpable incorrectness of MSS. in lieu of the emendations of learned men, who had restored the text of Cicero in a manner unexceptionable to every other critic but to the blind obstinacy of Gruter. Consult Ernesti's preface to his own edit. p.xlii; Harles, Introd. Lit. Rom. t.ii. 56; Bipont. Edit. xcii-iii.; and Beck's preface, p. xxxvi-vii; all of which authorities unite in bestowing a severe chastisement on Gruter.' (Dibdin) A good deal of scholarly work has been done on this edition, including attempts to explain where Gruter (1560-1627) went so wrong. His work was based on the edition of Gulielmus (Jan Wilhelms, 1555-84), whose project had been to use a large number of French and German manuscripts to compile an edition of Cicero's works based on manuscript readings only, without editorial conjectures. In the late 1980's, P.L. Schmidt identified Gulielmus's own copy of Cicero, 'containing all his collations and conjectures, a remarkable discovery.' The edition was Lambinus's (1577-8). Close examination by D.H. Berry throws light on Gruter's methods: '[it] was this copy which Gulielmius used to collate the Erfurtensis, and thus the readings he recorded need no longer be taken at second hand from Gruter, but may now be had direct from Gulielmius himself. The authorities at Leiden have with great generosity supplied me with photographs of the relevant pages of Lambinus' edition, with the result that I have been able to compare against one another Gulielmius' collation, Gruter's version of it and the readings given by Zinzerling. This examination has revealed various deficiencies in Gruter's reports which have, naturally, permeated all subsequent editions. In particular, Gruter recorded only a selection of the reports noted by Gulielmius, while his manner of recording has been found to have been imprecise and consequently misleading: where Gulielmius reported only one word from E, Gruter's method was to cite the whole clause without indicating which word had occurred in E and which had simply been taken from the deteriores on which his edition was predominantly based.' (The Classical Quarterly, Vol. 39, No. 2 (1989), pp. 400-407). Dibdin I (4th edn.) 400 Ref: 49893
