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..
[Dugdale, William:] A Short View of the Late Troubles in England; Briefly setting forth, Their Rise, Growth, and Tragical Conclusion. As also, some Parallel thereof with the Barons-Wars in the time of King Henry III. But chiefly with that in France, called the Holy League, in the Reign of Henry III. and Henry IV. l Oxford: Printed at the Theater for Moses Pitt 1681. Folio, pp. [vi], 136, 185-294, 361-439, [i], 449-488, 553-650, [iv], 737-959, [xiii] + portrait frontispiece. Irregular pagination as usual, includes catalogue at rear. Engraved printer's device to title-page, woodcut initials, engraved headpiece. Some pages heavily foxed but others not at all, light dampstaining to head edge from the middle on, some faint blotchy marks and scorches including one hole to 6D1 affecting a few letters, occasional pencil lines to margins. Contemporary speckled dark brown calf boards neatly rebacked in a slightly lighter shade, raised bands gilt ruled, title and date tooled directly, corners repaired. Boards scuffed with some scrapes and small repaired areas of loss, ffep foxed and repaired at top corner, without rfep, still good overall. The ESTC differs from Wing in listing a separate 1671 edition on the evidence of one imperfect copy showing a different imprint; assuming that imprint is correct, this issue would be the second edition. The "last major production", initially published anonymously, of the antiquary Sir William Dugdale (1605-1686), "it is useful for its copiousness and the precision of its dates" (ODNB). Included as an appendix with its own divisional title page is a short work on "the Treaty for a Peace, Begun at Uxbridge, January 30. 1644," which is a reprint of a pamphlet originally published in 1645. After the index is a 5-page "Catalogue of Books Printed at the Theater in Oxford" for the year 1681. ESTC R18097; Brunet II 868; Graesse II 443; Lowndes 692; Wing D 2492. Ref: 55042show full image..
Dugdale, William; Stevens, John: Monasticon Anglicanum, or the History of the Ancient Abbies, Monasteries, Hospitals, Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, [...]. [with] The History of the Antient Abbeys, Monasteries, [etc.,] Being two additional volumes to Sir William Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum: [...] London: Printed by R. Harbin, for D. Browne and J. Smith; Printed for Tho. Taylor, [etc.], 1718; 1722; 1723. 3 vols., pp. [ii] xvi 120 *117-*120, 121-124, *121-*124, [i],126-244, [i], 242-375 [ix] + 103 plates, including engraved title-page; [ii], vii, [v], 76, ff. 77-84, pp. 85-264, cols. 265-272, 273-538 [ii] + 19 plates; [iv], 279, [i], 152, cols. 153-184, pp. 185-223, 242-388, [vi] + 31 plates. Second volume bound with 19 plates rather than the more usual 20, the absent plate being 'The Famous Church of St. Alban with a View of Verulam'. Title pages in red and black, woodcut initials and head- & tail-pieces, 153 plates in total of which 13 are folding, publisher's list to final leaf (verso) of vol.I. Vols. II & III with a little occasional foxing to bottom fore-edge corner, vol.II with a small paper repair to bottom margin of 6H. Generally very clean and bright. 19th-century brown calf, lightly diced, neatly rebacked, spines ornately gilt and each with dark and mid-brown labels, gilt borders and dentelles, edges coloured bright yellow, marbled endpapers. A little rubbed with a few light marks, joints worn with vol. I upper joint split from tail to approx. halfway up and vol. II just starting at tail, vol. II and III spine labels transposed, most corners worn but still good overall. The antiquary John Stevens' abridgement and translation of William Dugdale's monumental Monasticon Anglicanum, complete with his two supplementary volumes. Called by Lowndes 'an excellent epitome'. The additional volumes add hundreds of additional monastic charters, also translated into English. "For the first time it treated pre- and post-Reformation monastic history as a continuum" (ODNB). When the Monasticon was re-edited into six enormous volumes in the 19th century, Stevens' two supplements were incorporated. This was the second English translation/abridgement of the Monasticon, following a much shorter and less successful version in 1693 by James Wright. ESTC T149944, T147338; Lowndes I 686-7; Upcott p. xviii. Ref: 54528show full image..
Dunlop, John: History of Roman Literature, from its Earlist Period to the Augustan Age. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823. First edition. 2 vols., 8vo., pp. xxiii, [i], 598; [ii], 627, [i] + errata slip at rear of each volume. A few illustrations in the text. A few patches of faint toning but generally good. Both volumes rebacked with raised bands: vol. I with a plain spine, green gilt title and vol. labels; vol. II with previous spine retained, gilt with brown title and vol. labels. Contemporary calf boards, plain gilt borders. Edges sprinkled red, drab endpapers. Rubbed, some scrapes, vol II hinges repaired and volume label chipped with some loss. Good, sound copies overall. Traces of a bookplate removed from front pastedown. Noted as being most useful for its 'abstracts of the works under consideration and illustrations drawn from modern European literatures' (Tedder, ODNB). Ref: 54773show full image..
Dych, Ludwig Heinrich: The Roman Barbarian Wars: The Era of Roman Conquest. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2015 First edition. 8vo., pp. xviii, 238 + plates. Maps. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused: as new. Ref: 54639
Eaton, Jonathan: Leading the Roman Army: Soldiers and Emperors 31 BC - AD 235 Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2020. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiv, 205 + plates. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54509
Edwards, Robert R. & Ziegler, Vickie: Matrons and Marginal Women in Medieval Society. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1995. First edition. 8vo., pp. xi, 127. Hardback: red cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Spine only slightly cocked, very light shelf-wear, still a very good copy overall. A collection of essays, now revised with additions, from papers presented at the eponymous conference held at Pennsylvania State University in 1991. Ref: 53328
