Donatus, Alexander: Roma vetus ac recens utriusque ?dificiis illustrata. In multis locis aucta [?] Editio ultima. Amstelaedami [Amsterdam]: prostant apud Janssonio-Waesbergios & Joannem Wolters (Campis typis Caspar 1695. 4to., pp.[xvi], 356, [xx] + 92 plates, 4 of which folding. Title-page in red and black with engraved vignettes, woodcut initials and endpieces, some illustrations in the text. Page of polyglot instructions to the binder. Ink stamps etc to title, further stamp to margin p.35. A few light stains, short closed tear to folding plates opposite p.87 and p.251, plate opposite p.117 loose, 2H4 creased with ragged fore-edge and long horizontal tear affecting a line of text each side but with no loss, bit of worming to head margin pp.257-65, ink or soot smudge to final page affecting but not obscuring text. Contemporary tan speckled calf, spine heavily gilt, raised bands, gilt borders and cornerpieces, centrepiece with arms of Amersfoot to each board, edges red. Spine label lost, chip to headcap, joints a bit worn, tow paper library labels to upper board, rubbed, edges a bit worn, very good indeed. To title-page, a paper label and two library ink stamps, all crossed through in blue pen. A small illegible ownership inscription in the same blue ink. Alexander Donatus (Alessandro Donati, 1584-1640) was a Jesuit, antiquarian, poet, and Latin orator. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1600 and taught rhetoric at the Roman College in Rome from 1619 to 1624. His study of the buildings of ancient and modern Rome was first published in Rome in 1633 (8vo.) and 1639 (4to.), with Amsterdam editions following in 1664 (8vo) and 1694 in this 4to printing (the statement of printing is taken from colophon, which is dated 1694). LibraryHub finds few copies in the UK: British Library; National Library of Scotland; Fitzwilliam Museum; Cambridge University Library and Norwich Cathedral. Spoelder 480 (Amersf. 6) Ref: 55233show full image..
Doubleday, H. Arthur & Page, William (eds.): The Victoria History of the (County of) Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Volume Two. Folkestone & London: Dawsons of Pall Mall for the University of London Institute of Historical Resea 1973. Reprint. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt. No dust-jacket. Headcap a little worn, a little dusting to edges. Still very good. Reprinted from the 1903 first edition published by Archibald Constable and Company. Ref: 54068
[Drainage] The Laws of Sewers; or the Office and Authority of Commissioners of Sewers. Containing, I. Their Power of Enquiry into Annoyances and Defects of Repairs of Sea-Banks and Walls, publick Streams and Rivers, Ditches and Marsh-Grounds. II. The Authority of the Commissioners [London] In the Savoy: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (Assigns of Edw. Sayer, Esq.) for 1726. First edition. 8vo. [8], 199pp., [1]. Ink splash to F5-F8, small paper flaw to lower outer blank corner of N and outer edge of B, minor tear with no loss to upper blank margin of N8, occasional very slight marginal spotting. Contemporary polished calf, double blind ruled, gilt-lettered morocco label to spine. Rebacked. First edition of the first comprehensive reference work on the English laws on sewers, encompassing sea banks, public streams and rivers, ditches and marsh grounds, and the authority of the Commissioners of Sewers as established by the Commissions of Sewers Act 1708. With a final section ( 64pp.) on ordinances relating to Romney Marsh and others marshes and fens. ESTC T130363; Goldsmiths 6437. Ref: 53089show full image..
Drexel, Jeremias: Orbis Pha?thon hoc est de uniuersis vitiis lingu? pars prima (altera). Monachii [Munich]: Formis Cornelii Leysserii Electoralis Typographi, 1630. 24mo., pp. [xxx], 544, [ii]. Engraved title-page, illustrations in the text, final leaf blank. Occasional light offsetting from illustrations, a little light foxing, a few tiny ink spots, some closed tears neatly repaired, old tape marks to pp.185-6. Contemporary vellum, inked title to spine, blind-tooled boards. Vellum a bit greyed, edges of text block darkened, very good. To front paste-down, bookplate with blue printed border and indecipherable inscription. Part one (the second following in 1636) of this small-format dictionary of vices and sins, with engravings by Philippe Sadeler. Drexel's (1581-1638) works virtue, eternal truth and recognition of the divine were popular and much-read in his lifetime. Aware of the power of visual symbols to convey his teachings, it is not uncommon for his books to be heavily illustrated. COPAC finds copies only in the British Library and the Bodleian. Ref: 54167show full image..
Dryden, John: Original Poems. Glasgow: printed by Robert & Andrew Foulis, printers to the University, 1775. 2 vols. bound as 1. 12mo., pp.viii, 251, [ix]; viii, 255, [iii]. Variant on the better, medium-quality paper. Vol.I with half-title, and 4-page printer's catalogue at rear. Occasional light foxing. Contemporary calf, gilt spine, raised bands, red morocco label, marbled endpapers. Spine dry and a little creased, a bit rubbed, very good. Inscription of J.H. (possibly John Hamilton) to title-page, dated 1780. Vol. I contains: Verses in Praise of Mr Dryden; Poems on Several Occasions. Vol. II contains: Poems on Several Occasions; Epistles; Prologues and Epilogues; Elegies and Epitaphs; Songs. ESTC T124935; Gaskell 582. Ref: 54580show full image..
Dryden, John: Original Poems. Glasgow: Printed and sold by Rob. & And. Foulis, 1756. 2 vols. 8vo., pp.[vii], 237, [iii]; vii, [i], 240. Vol. I with half-title, each section with divisional title-page. Some codes in various hands to each paste-down. Vol. II with some faint foxing, tiny holes where the page number should be to I8, O8 and P8. Contemporary tan calf, spines gilt, labels lost leaving on impression of titles, edges sprinkled red. Spines dry and rubbed, vol. I head cap a little worn, very good. Ownership inscription of John Hamilton in an old hand to title-page of each volume. Vol. I contains: Verses in Praise of Mr Dryden; Poems on Several Occasions. Vol. II contains: Poems on Several Occasions; Epistles; Prologues and Epilogues; Elegies and Epitaphs; Songs. ESTC T124934; Gaskell 312. Ref: 54579show full image..
Du Cange, Charles du Fresne: Glossarium ad Scriptores Mediae et Infimae Latinatis, [...] Venetiis [Venice]: apud Sebastianum Coleti, 1736; 1737; 1738; 1739; 1739; 1740. 6 vols. folio, pp. xii, [iv], xlviii, col. 1312 + 2 plates (additional engraved title-page + engraved portrait); pp. [iv], col. 1606, [i]; [iv], col.1596, [i]; [iv], col.1344 + 10 numismatic plates; [iv], col.1488; [iv], col.1736. Each vol. with its own half-title and title-page. Faint dampstaining at head to vols. III, V and VI, a few spots of light foxing. Contemporary vellum, gilt spines with tan title labels. Small wormholes to spines, occasional marks to boards, vol. VI repaired at upper joint. Very good overall. Small paper label of the publisher Leo S. Olschki (1861-1940) to front pastedown. Reprint of the second (and best) edition (Paris, 1733-6), with differences in pagination and without the errata leaves found in the earlier production. Originally published in three volumes, Du Cange's glossary of medieval and post-classical Latin words was posthumously doubled in size for the Parisian edition by scholars from the great Benedictine congregation of St Maur. "[Du Cange] is one of the greatest lexicographers of France, and his work in this department still remains unsurpassed" (Sandys). Brunet II 851. Graesse II 439. Ref: 54270
Duckett, Eleanor Shipley: Anglo-Saxon Saints and Scholars. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1967. 8vo, pp. x, 484. A very good copy. Blue cloth, title gilt to spine. Dust-jacket, head and foot of spine a bit worn, flap folds repaired, a bit faded, modern ownership label to front pastedown, but still good. Second edition; first published in 1947. Ref: 53448
Dugdale, William: The Antiquities of Warwickshire illustrated; from records, leiger-books, manuscripts, charters, evidences, tombes, and armes: beautified with maps, prospects and portraitures. London: Thomas Warren, 1656. First edition, folio, pp[xvi], 826, [xvi] + all 16 plates including portrait frontispiece by Hollar as called for by Upcott, plus two additional single-page plates opposite p.58 (showing arms of Basil Filding and Elizabeth Aston, and stained glass 'In the parlour window at Newnham'). With all usual;l mispaginations. Title-page in red and black with printer's device printed over with a red diamond shape, woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces, copious further illustrations of arms, church windows, tombs etc in the text, some of which are full page. Final leaf blank, penultimate leaf errata and Notarum Explicatio. Two plates with pencil annotations noting that they should, according to Upcott, have been bound elsewhere in the book. Map of Knightlow Hundred trimmed too close at top edge with a little loss to title etc but not the map itself, county map of Warwickshire with tiny loss at each lower corner not affecting image, small loss to D1 near gutter affecting a couple of words, occasional very light toning, a few tiny spots of wax but generally very clean within. Later tan calf skilfully rebacked, spine heavily gilt with raised bands and green title label, gilt border and frames with crown cornerpieces, gilt dentelles, edges bright yellow, marbled endpapers. A few tiny white marks to spine, joints and edges a little rubbed, corners of upper board slightly frayed, very good. 19th-century escutcheon-shaped bookplate of Charles Tennant of The Glen to front pastedown, with the motto 'Deus dabit vela'. Sir Charles Clow Tennant, 1st Baronet (1823-1906) was a highly successful Scottish businessman, industrialist and Liberal politician. He purchased The Glen, an estate in Traquair in the Scottish Borders, in 1852. He is connected, via the marriages of his several children, to an extraordinary array of interesting people including Prime Minister Herbert Asquith (his son-in-law), Bright Young Thing Stephen Tennant (his grandson), and actor Helena Bonham-Carter (his great great granddaughter). Dugdale (1605-1686) was born in Warwickshire at Shustoke, near Coleshill. Though he had published (in collaboration with Roger Dodsworth) the first volume of his Monasticon Anglicanum the previous year, Antiquities of Warwickshire was his first complete published work (in fact the figures of monks are from the same plates as Monasticon Anglicanum). The high quality of its scholarship meant that it swiftly became a model for county histories. It notably contains a very early consideration of the significance of stone tools, Dugdale stating that they were 'weapons used by the Britons before the art of making arms of brass or iron was known'. In his chapter on Warwickshire in A Guide to English County Histories, Christopher Day writes: "Rarely has a work dominated a county's historiography to the extent of William Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire Illustrated, published in 1656. Dugdale's achievement was hailed by contemporaries, it inspired or overawed his successors, and it commands respect today" (p.396, 1997 edn..). ESTC R4379; Upcott 1247; Wing D2479 Ref: 54732show full image..
Dugdale, William: The Baronage of England, or An Historical Account of the Lives and Most Memorable Actions of Our English Nobility [...] London: Printed by Tho. Newcomb, for Abel Roper, John Martin, and Henry Herringman, 1675-6. First edition. 2 vols., folio. pp. [xii], 476, 497-790, [ii] + 5 folding plates; [viii], 312, 361-488, [iv] Text continuous despite pagination, as usual. Title pages in red and black, woodcut initials. Each plate is a pedigree (Percy, Talbot, Clifford, Berkley and D'Arcie). Vol. I: neatly-repaired closed tears to title-page, dedication, 1st leaf of Preface and final (Index) leaf; a few leaves with unobtrusively repaired corners; very few tiny scorch marks, including any hole to 3S4 not affecting text; some faint toning and light foxing. Vol. II: neatly-repaired closed tears to title-page, 2nd leaf and 3S1, ie. 1st leaf of Index. Contemporary brown calf boards neatly rebacked, spines gilt, red morocco title-labels, neat repairs to corners and some edges, endpapers renewed. Endcaps a bit worn with small tear to tail of vol.I, boards mottled and scratched, still very good, well-repaired copies. To each front paste-down bookplate of Sir Henry Bedingfeld of Oxburgh. Given the relative modernity of the bookplate this seems likely to be Sir Henry Edward Paston-Bedingfeld, 8th Baronet or possibly his father, also called Henry. "A history of the aristocracy and its deeds since Anglo-Saxon times, an immense work of genealogical scholarship derived from sound sources that retains its value to the present day [...] Editions of Dugdale's work continued to appear after his death as scholars polished and quarried his researches. His place in the annals of historical scholarship is an honourable one. His speciality was the retrieval of factual information relating to the great institutions of the middle ages: the monasteries, the legal system, and the aristocracy. The scale of his operations was greater than any previous endeavour, and its achievements were astonishing, especially in view of the disorder of the records from which he worked. " (ODNB). ESTC R16723, R225614; Wing D 2480; Brunet II 868; Lowndes 691; Moule CCLXXIV. Ref: 54651show full image..
