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
Hersch, Karen Klaiber (ed.): A Cultural History of Marriage in Antiquity. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. First edition. Large 8vo., pp. xvi, 200. Illustrations. Hardback, laminated decorative boards. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Volume 1 in the series of A Cultural History of Marriage. Ref: 55281
Herzfeld, Ernst E.: Iran in the Ancient East. Archaeological Studies Presented in the Lowell Lectures at Boston. New York: Hacker Art Books, 1988. Folio, pp. [x], 363, [iii] + numerous leaves at rear containing 131 black and white plates showing artefacts, friezes, sculptures etc. Further illustrations in the text. Handsome olive green pictorial cloth, gilt title to spine. A few light scratches to rear board, near fine. First published in 1941. From Herzfeld's Preface: 'This book is a presentation, in somewhat modified form, of the Lowell Lectures delivered in Boston during October and November, 1936. In the original series of eight lectures, which gave an historical account of Iranian archaeology, the first two dealt with the prehistoric period of Iran, i.e., its stone, copper and bronze ages; the third, with the period of transition after the immigration of the Aryan tribes into the highlands; the fourth and fifth, with the architecture and sculpture of the Achaemenian Empire; the sixth, with the period of Hellenistic influence during the Seleucid and Arsacid ages; and the last two, with the rich flowering of Iranian art, especially sculpture, during the Sasanian era. [?] the publication of recent excavations has afforded material that better illustrates theories here advanced than that used in the lectures. These changes have chiefly affected the first two lectures on Iranian prehistory; and since this section has therefore required considerable reshaping, the author has seen no objection to widening the scope and introducing collateral material, particularly where the limitations of time during the lectures had permitted only an introductory discussion.' Ref: 55096show full image..
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
Hingst, Amanda Jane: The Written World: Past and Place in the Work of Orderic Vitalis. University of Notre Dame Press, 2009. 8vo. Paperback. Mint, still in publisher's shrink-wrap. Ref: 54939
