Hehn, Victor: (Schrader, O., ed.; Englar, A. & Pax, F., contrib.:) Kulturpflanzen und Haustiere. In ihrem ?bergang aus Asien nach Griechenland und Italien sowie in das ?brige Europa. Berlin: Gerbr?der Borntraeger, 1911. 8th edition. Large 8vo., pp. xxviii, 665. Quarter leather-backed boards, gilt-lettered, spine label, very light staining to lower board, edges and corners lightly bumped and worn, edges dusted and slightly browned, very good. No dust-jacket, as issued. Library sticker to upper board, ownership inscription to front paste-down, two stamps and a library number to title page. With botanical contributions from Adolf Englar and Ferdinand Pax. Ref: 48786
Herbert, Edward (Lord Herbert of Cherbury): The Life and Reign of King Henry the Eighth. London: printed by M[ary] Clark, for Henry Herringman [?]. 1682. Folio, pp. [vi], 636, [xx] + portrait frontispiece. Title-page in red and black, woodcut initials, final leaf blank. 4G with short closed tear to lower margin not affecting text, a few light spots and smudges. Contemporary brown calf, spine label replaced, raised bands, blind-tooled borders and frames. Head- and tail-caps repaired, rubbed, joints creased and a bit worn, corners repaired, some spots and stains but still very good. Ownership inscription of Ja. Winstanley in an old hand to top of title-page. Third edition (the first published in 1649) of this apologetic Life of Henry VIII by the soldier, statesman and Deist philosopher Edward Herbert (1572-1648), elder brother of the poet George Herbert. ESTC R37413 Ref: 54896show full image..
Herbert, N. M. (ed.): The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester. Volume VII: Brightwells Barrow and Rapsgate Hundreds.. Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1981. First edition. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt, a touch of dust to edges, fine. Dust-jacket, price-clipped, a little grubby, with creasing at folds and along top edge, but entirely intact. Overall. still a very good copy. Ref: 54084
Herodotus: (Gaisford, Thomas, ed.:) Herodoti Halicarnassei Historiarum Libri IX. Codicem Sancrofti Manuscriptum Denuo Contulit Reliquam Lectionis Varietatem Commodius Digessit Annotationes Variorum [?]. Oxonii [Oxford]: excudebant S. et J. Collingwood; G. et W.B. Whittaker, et C. Et J. Rivington, Londo 1824. First edition thus. 4 vols. 8vo., pp. [ii], xxxvii, [iii], 587, [i]; [ii], 589-1120, [lxxvi]; [ii], xl, 565, [I]; [iii], 568-1138, [lxx]. First and last few leaves of each volume foxed. Contemporary tan calf, gilt spines, borders and centrepieces, marbled edges and endpapers. Joints neatly repaired, slight split to upper joint vol. III, spines darkened with a few chips, very good. Armorial bookplate of J.K. Brooke with the motto 'Est Nec Astu' to each front pastedown. Inscription to preliminary blank, vol. I of John Atkinson, Catherine Hall, Cambridge, 'Classical Prize'. 'A neatly printed and justly popular edition. The text is adopted from that of Reitz and of Schaefer: the various readings, running at the foot, are taken from the impressions of Weaselling and Schweighaeuaer. The two last volumes contain an admirable selection of notes.' (Dibdin) Dibdin (4th edn.) II 28. Ref: 54283show full image..
Herrin, Judith: Unrivalled Influence: Women and Empire in Byzantium. Princeton University Press, 2013. First edition. 8vo., pp. xix, 328. Illustrations to text. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54440
Hickman, Katie: She-Merchants, Buccaneers & Gentlewomen: British Women in India. London: Virago Press, 2019. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 390 + plates. 4 maps to text. Hardback: red cloth, black-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Slight waviness to pages towards outer edge, otherwise a fine, unread copy. Ref: 54061
Hill, Christopher: The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution. London: Allen Lane, 1993. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiii, 466. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine, small dent to top board edge, two corners slightly bumped. Dust-jacket, sun-faded to spine, shelf-worn and creased with fraying to edges, otherwise complete. Still a good reading copy. Ref: 53739
Hingley, Richard & Unwin, Christina: Boudica: Iron Age Warrior Queen. London: Hambledon & London, 2005. First edition. 8vo., pp. xviii, 293 + b/w plates. Maps and illustrations to text. Hardback: blue cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-wear and a little dusting to edges: an almost fine copy. Ref: 53918
Hislop, Malcolm: James of St George and the Castles of the Welsh Wars. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2020. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 302. Illustrations to text, many in colour. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused: as new. Ref: 54453
[Historiae Augustae] (Casaubon, Isaac, ed.:) Histori? August? Scriptores Sex. Aelius Spartianus, Julius Capitolinus, Aelius Lampridius, Vulcatius Gallicanus, Trebellius Pollio et Flavius Vopiscus [...]. Parisiis [Paris]: Apud Amberosium & Hieronymum Drouart, [...] cum privilegio Regis, 1603. First edition thus. 2 parts in 1 vol., 4to., pp. [xx], 375, [lvii]; 576, [xxxvi]. Illustrations in text. Title-page to first part in red and black, to second part in black only, woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces, with final errata leaf. Top corner of title-page a little frayed, first leaf of text with 2-line note in blue biro to head margin, head margins a bit dusty with very occasional light dampstains, occasional spots of foxing, a few paper flaws to fore-edge margins. Small scorch marks to pp.47-8 and pp.101-4 affecting a few letters, smudgy mark (ink or wax?) to fore-edge margin pp.115-22, ink spots to p.345. Contemporary semi-limp vellum, fore-edges slightly overlapped. Quite browned, covers somewhat creased, ties lost, turn-ins lifting, without ffep but still good and sound overall. Latin inscription in an old hand to title-page translates roughly as 'from the common library of the preachers of Dijon'. First appearance of Casaubon's edition of this collection of biographies of the emperors from Hadrian to Carinus, considered to be the first critical edition and also the first to use the title Histori? August?. (The title as recorded on the 9th-century Codex Palatinus manuscript of the Vatican Library is Vitae Diversorum Principum et Tyrannorum a Divo Hadriano usque ad Numerianum Diversis compositae, and it is generally thought that the work may have been originally known as de Vita Caesarum or Vitae Caesarum.) In early editions 'the emphasis had been laid on the Latin text, but in the seventeenth century the work of the editors included not only textual emendation, but comment and illustration. Of these editions the first was that of Casaubon, published in 1603. It was not unnatural that these biographies should have attracted the editor of Suetonius and Polybius and the scholar who wrote in the preface to his edition of the Historia Augusta that "political philosophy may be learned from history, and ethical from biography."' (from David Magie's introduction to his 1921 Loeb edition.) Though its authenticity was regarded with a little scepticism, Casaubon's edition was for hundreds of years used as a genuine source by historians (including Edward Gibbon in the first volume of his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire). Browning sums up the tricky position the work occupies: "in modern times most scholars read the work as a piece of deliberate mystification written much later than its purported date, however the fundamentalist view still has distinguished support. [?] The Historia Augusta is also, unfortunately, the principal Latin source for a century of Roman history. The historian must make use of it, but only with extreme circumspection and caution." ('Biography', in The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 2 (1983).) Graesse III, 303; Sandys II, 209; Schweiger II, 384. Ref: 54541show full image..
