Gratius (or Grattius) Faliscus: (Wase, Christopher, trans.:) Cynegeticon. Or, A Poem of Hunting by Gratius the Faliscian. Englished and illustrated by Christopher Wase Gent [...]. (London:) Charles Adams, 1654. 12mo., pp. [xciv], 86. Latin text and English translation on facing pages, the latter verso. Some light dust soiling, heavier on title and verso of last leaf, browning mostly to margins and occasional spots. 19th century half calf over marbled boards, gilt-lettered morocco label. Joints and extremities rubbed, small repair at head and foot. 20th century inscription to front pastedown, later monogram RC inked to title. The first edition in English of this poem on hunting by a contemporary of Virgil and Ovid. The translator's commentary includes chapters on "the styles of hunting different from the English, both antique and forreigne" and "the modern authors who have written upon this subject." The first edition in Latin had been published in Lyon by Sebastian Gryphius in 1537. For an account of Wase's translation (which remained the only English-language translation of Gratius' poem for 280 years until the Loeb Library edition, with translation by J. W. Duff and A. M. Duff, in 1934,)see the chapter 'Hunting and the seventeenth-century English gentleman' by Michael Waters in Steven J. Green (ed.), Gratius. Hunting an Augustan Poet (Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 235-256. Wing G1581; ESTC R1966; Schwerdt I, p.217. Ref: 53093show full image..
Greatrex, Joan (ed.): Everyday Sermons from Worcester Cathedral Priory: An Early Fourteenth-Century Collection in Latin. Leeds: ARC Humanities Press, 2019. 8vo., pp. x, 171. Hardback: laminated boards. Unused: as new. In the series: Foundations. Ref: 54463
Green, Edward: Prophet John Wroe: Virgins, Scandals and Visions. Stroud, Glos.: Sutton Publishing, 2005. First edition. 8vo., pp. ix, 246 + plates. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. A touch of dust, jacket lightly creased to edges: still a very good copy. Ref: 53927
Greenslade, M. W. & Johnson, D. A. (eds.): The Victoria History of the County of Stafford. Volume VI. Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1979. First edition. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt, fine. Dust-jacket, lettering to spine faded, light shelf-wear, a little creased to edges with a couple of little nicks, otherwise very good. Bookplate of Robert Smith to half-title, with "January 2003" ink-inscribed above. Ref: 54011
Greenslade, M. W. (ed.): The Victoria History of the County of Stafford. Volume XIV: Lichfield. Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1990. First edition. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt. Dust-jacket. Light shelf-dusting, jacket price-clipped with lettering to spine faded, a little marked, otherwise a very good copy. Bookplate of Robert Smith to half-title, with "October 2000" ink-inscribed above. Ref: 54014
Greenslade, M. W. (ed.): The Victoria History of the County of Stafford. Volume XVII. Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1976. First edition. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt. Dust-jacket. Light shelf-dusting, jacket price-clipped, creased to edges with a couple of little nicks, otherwise a very good copy. Bookplate of Robert Smith to half-title, with "September 1999" ink-inscribed to the right. Ref: 54015
Greenslade, M. W. (ed.): The Victoria History of the County of Stafford. Volume XX: Seisdon Hundred (Part). Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1984. First edition. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt. Dust-jacket. Light shelf-dusting, jacket price-clipped, otherwise a very good copy. Bookplate of Robert Smith to half-title, with "January 2003" ink-inscribed above. Ref: 54016
[Gregorius (Gregory) XIII] Corpus iuris canonici emendatum et notis illustratum. Gregorii XIII. pont. max. jussu editum indicibus variis et novis, et appendice Pauli Lancellotti, Perusini adauctum [...] His postrema hac editione accesserunt constitutiones nou? PP. SS. qu? VII. Decretalium loco iure merit? esse possint: illustrati Lugduni [Leiden]: [s.n.], 1622. 6 vols. bound as 1. 4to., pp.[lxiv], cols.1272, pp.[xx], cols.754, pp.[xiii], cols.406, pp.[ix], cols. 158, pp.[lxxxiii], cols.278, pp.[xiii]. Title-page in red and black with large woodcut printer's device. Woodcut initials, ornamental head- and tail-pieces. A little toned, small spots and smudges, occasional paper flaws to bottom edge. A very small amount of marginalia in an old hand. Somewhat later vellum, neatly rebacked with old spine retained, very lightly blind embossed centrepiece, edges red, endpapers renewed. A few spine splits repaired, upper joint just starting at head but holding firm, a few smudgy marks but very good indeed. Contents: Vol.I. Decretum Gratiani; Vol.II. Decretales D. Gregorij Pap? IX; Vol.III. Liber sextus Decretalium D. Bonifacij Pap? IIX vn? cum Clementinis & extrauagantibus; Vol. IV. Index generalis pr?cedentium librorum; Vol.V. Institutiones iuris canonici, ? Paulo Lancellotto, Perusino conscript?; Vol.VI. Liber septimus Decretalium, cum indice. See Camus 2686, which lists the first edition as having been published in Rome (1582). Ref: 54923show full image..
Gregson, Matthew: Portfolio of Fragments relative to the History and Antiquities, Topography and Genealogies of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster. Liverpool: [s.n.] 1824. Second edition. Folio, pp. (preliminaries), 302, cviii + portrait frontispiece, 10 further portrait plates, 1 folding map, 1 folding plan, 4 genealogies, 11 other plates. Preliminaries erratically paginated, but consisting of half-title, title to 1817 edition, title to 1824 second edition, Dedication, Preface, List of Subscribers and Contents, as called for. Occasional smudgy marks but internally very good. Contemporary dark brown morocco, raised bands, gilt borders to spine compartments and boards, blind-tooled boards, gilt title to centre of upper board, a.e.g., marbled endpapers. Very light rubbing to joints, a few dusty marks, endpapers foxed but still very good indeed. To ffep verso, ownership inscription of J. Feilden, Mollington Hall. The Feildens were a family of Cheshire cotton merchants who occupied Mollington Hall, from 1796 to 1906. Twycross's Mansions of England and Wales (1850) depicts a grand country house with lakes, described as 'the seat of John Feilsen Esq.' Mollington Hall was demolished in 1938, though its lodges and ice house remain. Printed by C.A. Worrall of Slater Court, Liverpool. Lowndes IV, 942 Ref: 54141show full image..
Grmek, Mirko D. (ed.): Western Medical Thought from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. First edition. 8vo., pp. viii, 478. Hardback: beige cloth, boards slightly bowed. Dust-jacket, light shelf wear. Otherwise a very good copy. Co-ordinated by Bernadino Fantini and translated by Antony Shugaar. Ref: 53211
