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 Some of its volumes include previously unpublished essays by Fabricius on sundry topics, e.g., a grammar of Dionysius Thrax.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
Farrer, William & Brownbill, J. (eds.): The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster. Volume Three. Folkestone, Kent: Dawson for the University of London Institute of Historical Research, 1990. Reprint. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt. No dust-jacket. A touch of dust to edges otherwise fine. Reprinted photographically from the 1907 first edition published by Archibald Constable and Company. Ref: 54022
Farrer, William & Brownbill, J. (eds.): The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster. Volume VIII. Folkestone, Kent: Dawson for the University of London Institute of Historical Research, 1993. Reprint. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt. No dust-jacket. Rear bottom corner bumped, a touch of dust to edges, otherwise very good. Reprinted photographically from the 1914 first edition published by Archibald Constable and Company. Ref: 54027
Fassler, Margot E.: The Virgin of Chartres: Making History through Liturgy and the Arts. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. First edition. 4to., pp. xiii, 612 + plates. Illustrations to text. Hardback: blue cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused: as new. Ref: 54469
Ferris, Iain: Cave Canem: Animals and Roman Society. Stroud, Glos.: Amberley Publishing, 2018. First edition. 8vo., pp. 288 + colour plates. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-wear: a fine copy. Ref: 53863
Finley, M.I.: The Ancient Economy. London: Chatto & Windus, 1973. First edition. 8vo., pp. 222. Brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine, edges dusted, very good. Dust-jacket, 1.8cm closed tear to bottom edge of front cover, 0.5cm and 0.3cm closed tears to fore-edge of front cover, shelf wear, still good. Ref: 52129
Fleming, Ian: The Man With the Golden Gun. London: The Book Club, [1966.] Foyles Book Club edition. 8vo., pp.152. Only very lightly toned, nice and clean inside. Blue cloth, black title to spine,again very nice and clean, top corners only very lightly bumped, edges a bit foxed but still very good overall. Dust-jacket very lightly creased along top edge with one tiny nick. Altogether an unusually bright and crisp copy, very good indeed This early edition published in the summer of 1966 by the The Book Club (a Foyles company), having originally been published by Jonathan Cape the previous year. Ref: 55023
Fleming, Ian: Thunderball. New York: Viking Press, 1961 First American edition, first printing. 8vo., pp.[viii], 248. A few toned marks to margins, pp. 23-4, 73-4 and 119-20 all with a fragment of the top corner margin lost but text unaffected. Yellow cloth, red title to spine, top edge pink. Four small patches of toning to cloth and some toned marks to endpapers all seemingly from old tape, good. Dust jacket very slightly worn at top edge, to rear flap two small tape marks and a short ms note, but very good overall. To ffep, bookplate of Ben and Carole Palmer. Ink stamp of Ben Palmer to ffep, p.101 head margin and rear pastedown. Dust jacket design by S.A. Summit, Inc. First American edition of the ninth story in Fleming's James Bond series. The first (U.K.) edition appeared in March of the same year. Ref: 54702show full image..
Fletcher, Catherine: The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de'Medici. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. First American edition. 8vo., pp. xxiii, 308 + map and 10 colour plates. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Fine, almost as new. Ref: 53726
