Gronovius, Johannes Fredericus: Observatorum in Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis, [...], Monobiblos. (with) Observationum Liber Nonus, [...] Notis ad T. Livium [...]. Daventriae [Deventer]: typis Johannis Columbii, 1651; 1652. Two works in one vol. 8vo., pp. [xxvi], 292, [xxviii]; [xxiv], 431, [lxiii]. Printer's device to both title-pages, woodcut initials and decorative headpieces. A few leaves unopened at fore-edge. Occasional small spots (wax?) and smudges, very good. Contemporary vellum, titles inked to spine, fore-edges slightly overlapped, all edges blue. Pencilled booksellers' notes to front pastedown. A few marks to boards, endpapers toned, an approx. 3cm piece cut out of ffep possibly to remove a name, still very good. Two ownership inscriptions to ffep: D. Wyttenbach, dated August 1765, and J.A. Jeremie(?) dated 1863. The former is quite likely to be the classical scholar Daniel Wyttenbach (1746-1820), student of Hemsterhuis, Valckenaer and Ruhnken who, along with them, laid the foundations for modern Greek scholarship. In 1765 he was just ending his studies at the university in Marburg. Johannes Fredericus Gronovius (1611-1671) was in 1643 appointed professor of rhetoric and history at Deventer, before moving in 1658 to the Greek chair at Leiden, where he spent the rest of his life. Gronovius was the 6th Librarian of the University of Leiden (1665?1671) and, in a nice link, Wyttenbach became the 13th Librarian in 1799 following the death of David Ruhken. Wyttenbach also wrote a highly-regarded Life of his predecessor, which was published in Leiden in the same year. Ref: 54418show full image..
Ha?ek, Jaroslav: (Lada, Josef, illus.:) The Good Soldier Svejk and his Fortunes in the World War. London: William Heinemann in association with Penguin Books, 1974. First UK edition, third printing. 8vo., pp.xxii, [x], 752. Maps and illustrations in the text. Bright yellow cloth, red title to spine and small illustration to upper board. Endpapers very slightly toned, top edge a little dusty, near fine. Dust jacket a little yellowed with a few tiny marks, price-clipped, very good. Illegible ownership inscription to ffep. Unabridged translation by Cecil Parrott. Ha?ek had originally envisioned a total of six volumes of ?vejk. By the time of his death in 1923 he had completed the first three and was partway through the fourth, which was later finished at the request of the publisher by the journalist Karel Vanek. The volumes are as follows: Behind the Lines (V z?zem?, 1921); At the Front (Na fronte, 1922); The Glorious Licking (Slavn? v?prask, Ref: 54675
Hall, Edith & Wrigley, Amanda: Aristophanes in Performance 412 BC-AD 2007: Peace, Birds and Frogs. London: Legenda: Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing, 2007. First edition. 8vo., pp. xix, 390. Illustrations. Hardback: laminated decorative boards. Mild shelf-wear with boards rubbed and lightly finger-marked, still a very good copy. Ref: 54263
Hanna, Ralph: Editing Medieval Texts An Introduction, using exemplary materials derived from Richard Rolle, 'Super Canticum' 4. Liverpool University Press, 2015. First edition. 8vo., pp. viii, 183. Hardback: laminated decorative boards. Unused: as new. In the series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies. Ref: 54611
Harris, A. Katie: From Muslim to Christian Granada: Inventing a City's Past in Early Modern Spain. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxi, 255. Illustrations to text. Hardback: orange cloth, black-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unread, a hint only of shelf-wear: almost as new. Ref: 53615
Hart, Peter: The Last Battle: Endgame on the Western Front, 1918. London: Profile Books, 2018. First edition, second impression. 8vo., pp. x, 453 + b/w plates. Maps. Hardback: green cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused: a fine copy. Author's ink inscription "To Charlie..." to title-page. Ref: 53920
Harwood, Edward: A View of the Various Editions of the Greek and Roman Classics, with Remarks [...] London: printed for T. Becket [...] 1775. First edition. 8vo., pp. [ii], xxiv, 229, [iii]. Includes three-page catalogue of Harwood's books sold by Becket at rear. Some reversed writing in light pencil to p.96, seemingly offset from something no longer present. A few lightly smudges to title-page but generally clean internally. Mid-twentieth century half tan calf, gilt spine with label, brown marbled boards, edges sprinkled red. A bit rubbed, joints slightly worn but firm, small dent to top edge of upper board, still a very good copy. Pencil note to front paste-down: 'Coll. Christopher Dobson c.1967'. 'Harwood (1729?1794) was a prolific writer and author of numerous religious and biblical treatises and classical works. He once claimed to have written more books than anyone then living with the exception of Joseph Priestley. Of these the one which contributed most to his reputation as a scholar was A View of the Various Editions of the Greek and Roman Classics (1775), which by 1790 had run to four editions and had been translated into German (1778) and Italian (1780 and 1793).' (ODNB) ESTC T118350 Ref: 51811show full image..
Haskell, Yasmin & Ruys, Juanita Feros (eds.): Latinity and Alterity in the Early Modern Period. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (with Brepols), 2010. 8vo., pp. 318. Hardback: laminated decorative boards. New, still in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 360 in the ACMRS Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series, and Volume 30 in the Brepols Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance series. Ref: 53640
Heaney, Seamus: Death of a Naturalist. London: Faber and Faber, 1966. First edition. 8vo., pp.57, [i]. MS annotations and underlining in both pen and pencil, including notes to pp.9-10, 14-16, 28, 31-33, 40, 56; a small tick or asterisk to the top corner of most pages. Green cloth, gilt title to spine, lightly faded strip across bottom edge of upper board, very good. Dust jacket lightly sunned at spine and narrow strip along bottom edge, inner corners trimmed with the loss of a few letters, a little underlining to author biography on flyleaf, still very good overall.. An array of newspaper clippings including both reviews of Heaney's work and appearances of the poems themselves, loosely inserted and pasted to the front endpapers. Poems include 'Twice Shy', 'Rookery', 'Orange drums, Tyrone 1966', 'Undine' and 'Night Drive' (with MS note, The Listener 11/4/68), 'Victorian Guitar', 'Corncrake' and 'Bogland' (The Listener, 2/11/67), 'Frogman', 'Strange Fruits'. Various annotations, plus a not-very-legible ownership inscription, possibly T. or D. Adams, to ffep. (Actually Tom Adams, a secondary school teacher in Southfields, London in the later part of the last century, devoted book collector and prolific annotator and attacher of related printed material to the books he collected.) Heaney's first commercial collection for a major publisher (following his Eleven Poems published in November 1965 for the Queen's University Festival). Ref: 54849show full image..
Hederich, B., Morell, T.: Graecum Lexicon Manuale, primum a Benjamine Hederico institutum... Londini [London]: Impensis C. et J. Rivington..., 1825. 2 parts in 1. 4to. pp. viii, [895], wanting final blank. Small repair to lower margin of one leaf, touching letter but not affecting reading, occasional foxing or ink splashes, title and verso of last a bit soiled, edges dusty. 19th-century half calf over marbled boards, rebacked, raised bands, gilt-lettered morocco label. Extremities a bit rubbed. Occasional 20th-century annotations. 19th-century edition of Benjamin Hederich's successful Greek-Latin dictionary for students, with revisions by the classicist Thomas Morell. Ref: 53306show full image..
