Elrington, C. R. (ed.): The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester. Volume VIII: Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1968. First edition. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt, a touch of dust to edges, fine. Dust-jacket, price-clipped, a touch grubby, with creasing along top edge, fraying at one corner and two small closed tears over base of spine otherwise intact. Overall. still a good to very good copy. Ref: 54085
Elton, C.I., Mackay, H.J.H.: Robinson on Gavelkind: The common law of Kent, or the customs of gavelkind. London: Butterworth & Co., 1897. 8vo, pp. [xxxv], 266. Slight browning, edges dusty, occasional very minor spotting, but still a good copy. Black cloth, boards and spine gilt, joints and extremities a little rubbed, hinges starting, but still a good copy. Fifth edition. Ref: 53507
Enders, Jody: Holy Deadlock and Further Ribaldries: Another Dozen Medieval French Plays in Modern English. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 536. Hardback: burgundy cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54304
Epictetus; Cebes of Thebes: (Berkel, Abraham van, ed.:) Enchiridium una cum Cebetis Thebani Tabula. Graec. & Lat. cum notis Wolfii, Casauboni, Caselii & aliorum: Abrahamus Berkelius textum recensuit, & suas quoque addidit. Accedit Graeca Enchiridii Paraphrasis, Iacunis omnibus, codicis Medicei ope, ? Jocobo Gronovio Delphis Batavorum [Delft]: Gerardi de Jager, 1683. Second edition. 8vo., pp. [xxxii], 280 + impressive engraved folding plate by R. De Hooghe. Additional engraved title-page, woodcut device to printed title-page, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. Two-column parallel text in Greek and Latin. Closed tear to title-page through printer's details, very faint toning towards outer edges of margins but generally very clean. Vellum prize binding with certificate intact, spine gilt with title in ink, gilt borders, gilt centrepiece and corner pieces with arms of Amsterdam, edges sprinkled blue. A few faint smudgy marks, boards slightly splayed, ties lost, but still a very good copy overall. To ffep verso, ownership inscription possibly with the name Greve dated 1782. Prize certificate inscribed with the names Abr[aham] Quina a Tongeren and Jos. Theod. Schalbruch, dated 1702. Recommended by Dibdin as reputedly 'the best of the octavo variorum editions', combining the work of Berkel, Wolf, Casaubon and Caselius along with the notes and corrections of Gronovius. Dibdin I, 515 (for the Leiden/Amst. edition of 1670); Schweiger I, 106; Spoelder, 5. Ref: 54634
Epplett, Christopher: Gladiators and Beast Hunts: Arena Sports of Ancient Rome. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2016. First edition. 8vo., pp. xii, 196 + plates. Hardback: blue cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54347
Eutropius: Breviarum Historiae Romanae. Accedunt Selectae lectiones dilucidando Auctori appositae. Parisiis [Paris]: Typis Josephi Barbou. 1754. 12mo., pp. [ii], xxviii, 221, [i]. Additional engraved frontispiece, engraved head- and tailpieces. Frontispiece and title a bit dusty, minimal foxing, margins of two leaves lightly waterstained, traces of small pasted paper slip on verso of last leaf. Contemporary crimson morocco, triple gilt ruled, spine triple gilt ruled, large gilt fleurons, gilt-lettered morocco label, small worm hole at foot, inner edges gilt, a.e.g. Joints expertly repaired, boards lightly rubbed. 18th century armorial bookplate of Louis des Champes des Tournelles to front pastedown, book label of Alfred Neild to ffep, bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to flyleaf. An attractively-printed pocket edition of the abridged Roman history written by the 4th century historian Eutropius. This copy belonged to Louis des Champes des Tournelles (1744-95), a staunch Jacobin appointed French Minister of Finance in 1793. After Robespierre's abolition of ministries, he was imprisoned for defending too ardently his brother, later executed on the guillotine. Louis died of poisoning in 1795. Brunet II 1116. Ref: 53163show full image..
Fabricius, J.A.: Bibliotheca Graeca, sive Notitia scriptorum veterum Graecorum. Hamburgi [Hamburg]: apud Christian Liebzeit & Theodor. Christoph. Felginer, 1714-1728 14 vols (I-II bound together, IV in two vols). 4to. I-II: pp. [2], [14], 940; III: pp. [2], [14], 830, including one full-page engraved illustration; IV/1: pp. [2], [14], 711, [1]; IV/2: pp. [2], [12], 618; V: pp. [2], [14], 338; [6], 111, [1]; [6], 186; [6], 250; VI: pp. [14], 840, including one full-page engraved illustration; VII: pp. [2], [6], 792; VIII: pp. [2], [18], 876; IX: pp. [2], [6], 808; X: pp. [2], [26], 824; XI: pp. [2], [14], 860, [2]; XII: pp. [2], [12], 911, [1]; XIII: pp. [2], [10], 860; XIV: pp. [2], [10], 740; all (except vol. VI) including engraved frontispieces. Varying degrees of browning or foxing as usual, upper edges a little dusty, the odd ink mark, I-II: 2 extreme lower outer corners torn, IV/1: light marginal water stain to last few leaves, small repair to 4N3 not affecting reading, VIII: small worm hole to lower blank margin, expanding into worm trail to one gathering; XIII: last verso a little soiled. Modern quarter crushed crimson morocco over cloth boards, raised bands, spine gilt-lettered, corners a little rubbed. Modern bookplate of Writers' Library, London, to front pastedowns. The full 14-volume set of this renowned bibliographical monument to Greek antiquity - a masterpiece of erudition by the German classicist J.A. Fabricius (1668-1736), professor of rhetoric at Hamburg. Originally published between 1705 and 1728, 'Bibliotheca Graeca' is one of his several works of historical bibliography, which reached down to medieval Latin writers. It covers works written between pre-Homeric times and the fall of Constantinople in 1453, including, for major figures like Homer, the tradition of scholia and the criticism of late antiquity. Some of its volumes include previously unpublished essays by Fabricius on sundry topics, e.g., a grammar of Dionysius Thrax. Chapters are organised in a variety of ways: some by subject (e.g., jurisprudence), others by literary or philosophical current (e.g., Peripatetics). The volumes of this set were published between 1714 and 1728. A handsome work, scarce as a full set. Ref: 53673show full image..
Fajardo-Acosta, Fidel: Courtly Seductions, Modern Subjections: Troubadour Literature and the Medieval Construction of the Modern World. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2010. 8vo., pp. 267. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Ref: 53409
Falk, Oren: The Bare-Sarked Warrior: A Brief Cultural History of Battlefield Exposure. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2015. 8vo., pp. 168. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 451 in the ACMRS Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series. Ref: 53719
Farmer, Sharon: The Silk Industries of Medieval Paris: Artisanal Migration, Technological Innovation, and Gendered Experience. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. First edition. 8vo., pp. ix, 354. Maps, charts and illustrations. Hardback: red cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54350
