Gale, Roger (ed.:) Registrum Honoris de Richmond exhibens terrarum & villarum quae quondam fuerunt Edwini comitis infra Richmundshire descriptionem: ex libro Domesday in thesauria domini regis: [...]. Londini [London: ] Impensis R. Gosling, 1722. Large paper copy. Folio, pp. [ii], xxxv, [i], 106, [xxvi], 286, [xxx] + folding engraved map and 15 other engraved plates (7 folding). Lacking the list of subscribers leaf. Title and many pages in red and black. Spotted and lightly browned. Early 19th century marbled boards, scuffed, with spine renewed in half reversed calf by John Henderson c.1980. The Bowyer ledgers show 50 large paper copies were printed, of this last significant publication by Roger Gale (1672-1744), the eldest son of the antiquary Thomas Gale. The text is "a twelfth-century register of the honour of Richmond from the Cotton Library, accompanied by a long appendix of important early charters. It was published in 1722 under the auspices of the Society of Antiquaries, of which he was the first vice-president" (ODNB). ESTC T150024. Ref: 53037show full image..
[Galen] Galenus, Claudius or Aelius: (Singer, Charles, trans. & ed.:) Galen on Anatomical Procedures. Translation of the Surviving Books with Introduction and Notes. London: Oxford University Press for The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 1956. 8vo., pp. xxvi, 289. Numerous b/w illustrations to text. towards rear. Hardback: green cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Without dust-jacket. Moderate signs of use, good. "This book belongs to the British Broadcasting Corporation Library" ink-stamped to front and rear pastedowns and free endpapers, "611" in white to spine, accession details stamped to verso of title-page. Ref: 53959
Gardiner, Juliet. The Thirties. An intimate history. London: HarperPress, 2010. First edition. 8vo, pp. [xv], 957, with illustrations. Slight toning, else very good. Hardback, blue cloth, spine lettered in light blue, dust-jacket, upper edge a little creased, but still very good. Ref: 53543
Gaudet, John: The Pharaoh's Treasure: The Origin of Paper and the Rise of Western Civilization. New York: Pegasus Books, 2018. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxi, 356 + plates. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: quarter black cloth over cream boards, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a single black ink remainder line to bottom edge and a hint only of shelf-dust, otherwise a fine copy. Ref: 54302
Gellius, Aulus: Noctes Atticae. Editio nova et prioribus omnibus doctis hominis cura multo castigatior. Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1651. Editio Nova. 12mo. [48], 498, [124]. Small clean tear to lower blank margin of F10, another three on K12, V3-4 touching text. Contemporary vellum over boards, yapp edges, title inked to spine (modern), all edges sprinkled blue. Spine little rubbed. Ex-libris of Rudolph Apfelbeck 1883 to ffep. 'The first two editions from the Elzevir press [of which this is the first] were carefully published by J.F. Gronovius.' (Dibdin) 'Fort jolie et qui passe pour tres correcte' (Willems) Dibdin I, 340; Pokel, 101; Schweiger II, 378; Willems, 1127. Ref: 53177show full image..
Gellius, Aulus: (Gronovius, Johannes Fredericus and Jacobus, eds.:) Noctium Atticarum, Libri XX prout supersunt quos ad libros MSStos novo & multo labore exegerunt, perpetuis notis & emendationibus illustraverunt Johannes Fredericus et Jacobus Gronovii. Accedunt Gasp. Scioppii integra MSStorum duorum codicum collatio, Petri Lambecii lu Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Cornelium Boutesteyn & Johannem du Vivie, 1706. 4to, pp. [xxxvi], 903, [lxv], including engraved frontispiece. Title-page in red and black with vignette, woodcut head-pieces and initials. Title a bit thumbed, intermittent slight mainly marginal browning or spotting, lower outer blank corner of 5Z2 and 5F4 (blank) torn, small paper flaw to same corner of 5Z4. Contemporary vellum, blind-stamped to a panel design, blind-stamped lozenge-shaped centrepiece to covers, raised bands, title inked to spine. A bit dust-soiled, upper joint minimally splitting at foot. Near contemporary annotations to a couple of leaves. One of the best quarto variorum editions of the classics, highly praised by Harwood: 'This edition has much literary merit [...] the notes of other critics are selected with judgement, and the explanatory remarks of Gronovius must give every scholar the most exalted idea in his singular erudition'. Dibdin specifies that it contains 'the entire collation of two MSS by Scioppius, and some excerpta from the corrections of Ludovicus Carrio'. 'Still very sought-after.' (Schweiger). 'As yet the best and most complete edition.' (Ebert) Schweiger I 379; Dibdin II, 341; Ebert 8291; Moss I, 204-5. Ref: 53356show full image..
Gentili, Bruno; Andreae, Bernard, et al: Studi Italiani di Filologia Classica Vol. I & II. LXXXV Annata; Terza Serie; Volume X, Fascicoli I-II. Firenze: Felice le Monnier, 1992. 2 vols. 8vo., pp. ix, 714; [iv], 718-1202. Pink paperbacks, spines slightly faded. Very minor shelf wear, a very good clean set. Ref: 50376
Gerhard, H. P.: (Gibbons, Irene R., trans.) The World of Icons. London: John Murray, 1971. 4to. (280 x 230 mm), pp. 232 + plates in colour and b/w. Colour frontispiece. Hardback: green cloth, gilt to spine and upper board, very good. Lacks dust-jacket. Originally published in German in 1957. Ref: 53582
Gittes, Tobias Foster: Boccaccio's Naked Muse: Eros, Culture, and the Mythopoeic Imagination. University of Toronto Press, 2008. First edition. 8vo., pp. xi, 369. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. A hint of use and dust, very good. In the series: 'Toronto Italian Studies'. Ref: 53338
Glazebrook, Allison & Tsakirgis, Barbara (eds.): Houses of Ill Repute: The Archaeology of Brothels, Houses, and Taverns in the Greek World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. First edition. 8vo., pp. viii, 256. Illustrations to text. Hardback: white cloth, black-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54353
