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
Harben, Henry D[evenish].: The Rural Problem. London: Constable & Company, 1913. First edition. 8vo., pp.viii, 169, [iii]. With half-title and, at rear, three pages about Fabian Research Department Publications. Very faintly toned. Terracotta-coloured cloth, gilt title to spine and upper board. Spine a little darkened with a couple of tiny marks, endcaps creased and a bit rubbed, top edge dusty with a faint stain, very good. Author inscription to ffep, 'To H. Berger from Henry D. Harben'. Report of the Fabian Society's Committee on Land Problems and Rural Development, formed in the autumn of 1912, of which Harben (1874-1967) was Chairman. Ref: 55053show full image..
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
Harris, C.R.S.: The Heart and the Vascular System in Ancient Greek Medicine. From Alcmaeon to Galen. Oxford: Clarendon Press (Special edition for Sandpiper Books), 2001. 8vo., pp. (xii), 474 + Publisher's notes. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused: jacket lightly marked otherwise as new. First published by Oxford University Press in 1973. Ref: 55174
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
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..
Hearne, Thomas: A Collection of Curious Discourses Written by Eminent Antiquaries Upon Several Heads in our English Antiquities. Together with Mr Thomas Hearne's Preface and Appendix to the Former Edition, to which are added a great number of Antiquary Discourses written by the same authors, most of them now First Published from the Original Manuscripts. London: printed for Benjamin White, 1775. 2 vols., pp.[xiv], LXXI, [i], 354; [vi], 449, [xv] + folding plate, bound opposite p.XLV rather than as a frontispiece as often found. Full page illustration at h4. Gathering A accidentally repeated. A little foxed, some small patches of toning and light dusty marks, 2Q1 and 2Q2 a little short at fore-edge built not affecting text, Index a bit toned. Contemporary tan calf, raised bands gilt ruled, green morocco title labels, edges sprinkled red. Joints creased and just starting at ends, rubbed, corner frayed, vol.II with small losses to endcaps, endpapers foxed, very good overall. A reissue of the edition of 1771 with cancel title-pages. Originally published in 1720, one of a flurry of publications that came after Hearne's attempted prosecution by the University of Oxford over his preface to Camden's Annals which 'appeared to damage the University, and seemed to imply Catholic inclinations' (ONDB). ESTC T132033 Ref: 55144show 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..
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
