Houellebecq, Michel: (Stein, Lorin, trans.:) Submission. London: William Heinemann, 2015. First edition, first printing. 8vo., pp.[iv], 251, [i]. White cloth, black title to spine, publisher's device blindstamped to upper board, fine. Dustjacket a little dusty, price intact, fine. Translated by Lorin Stein. Ref: 54680
Hourihane, Colum (ed.): Byzantine Art: Recent Studies. Essays in Honor of Lois Drewer. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2009. 8vo., pp. 197. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Ref: 53408
Howard, Robert: The History of the Reigns of Edward and Richard II. With reflections, and characters of their chief ministers and favourites. As also, a comparison between those Princes Edward and Richard the Second, with Edward the First, and Edward the Third. Written in the year 1685. London: printed by F. Collins, for Thomas Fox, at the Angel in Westminster-Hall, 1690. 8vo., pp.[vi], xvi, [i], 183, [i]. Occasional light spotting but very clean within. Contemporary dark brown speckled calf, gilt spine with title and raised bands, edges sprinkled blue and red. Old paper label to foot of spine, upper joint cracked but holding firmly, a little toning to endpapers, very good indeed. Later work by Sir Robert Howard (1626-1698), politician and playwright, published during a particularly consequential period in an already notoriously turbulent life. 'Under James II, Howard helped bring about the revolution that put William of Orange on the throne. He served in William's first parliament, contending in the Commons on 22nd January 1689 that James II had in effect 'abdicated the government' (Oliver, 256). Several years later Howard was to sign the 'association' of 1696, an agreement to defend William against the Jacobites. As in the past, Howard tried to strike a balance between his royalist sympathies and his belief in the rights of parliament. In February 1689 the king appointed him to the privy council, the crowning achievement of his political career. Howard's final years were taken up with both professional and literary concerns. Late in 1694 he helped Betterton and his actors to procure a licence for the new theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields; and in 1695 he renewed his friendship with [his brother-in-law] John Dryden. Meanwhile, he had published his History of the Reigns of Edward and Richard II (1690), involving him in the ongoing controversy concerning the divine right of kings, and The History of Religion (1694), an anti-Catholic tract.' (Vander Motten, ODNB) ESTC R2296. Ref: 55085show full image..
Howell, William: An Institution of General History, from the beginning of the World to the Monarchy of Constantine the Great. Composed in such Method and manner as never yet was extant. London: Henry Herringman, 1661. First edition. Folio, pp.viii, 881, [iii]. Woodcut initials and headpieces; at rear, errata and two-page publisher's catalogue. Very lightly toned, occasional small mark or light ink blot. 2E with small piece lost at top corner, 2S closed tear to top corner, 3F3 a little short at fore-edge margin, none of which affecting text. Tiny scorch hole to 3S affecting a couple of letters. Contemporary calf neatly rebacked. Gilt spine, raised bands title label, plain blind-tooled borders, edges red. Scuffed, a few marks, corners worn, structural vellum flap visible between board and ffep, a few tiny codes and sums in various hands to endpapers, top corner of rear free endpaper lost, very good. To front pastedown, armorial bookplate of Sir Lister Holte, 5th Baronet (1720-1770). A landowner in Warwickshire and MP for Lichfield from 1741 to 1747, Holte was also High Sheriff of Cheshire. To head of title-page, ownership inscription of Robert Holt in an old hand. First edition of the major work of historian and civil lawyer William Howell (1631/2-1683), it was reissued the following year with a different title-page and a table added at the end. 'Howell was a substantial but under-appreciated historical writer of the Restoration, in the tradition of world history writing that included Sir Walter Ralegh's History of the World (1614), then the most popular work of its kind in English, but which ended before the birth of Christ. Howell's most widely read work, which clearly borrows from Ralegh, was An institution of general history ? from the beginning of the world till the monarchy of Constantine the Great. This first appeared in 1661 and then in several subsequent editions. He abridged it into Latin as Gulielmi Hoeli, LL.D. Elementa historiae for the use of Mulgrave and other young men in 1671 [...]. Howell had always intended to publish a second part of the Institution, covering western and eastern Christendom after Constantine, and refers to this second part in his Elementa. It was unpublished at Howell's death in 1683, but in 1685 his widow, Mary, had it published, complete with her own dedicatory epistle to James II. [?] Borrowing from Reformation chronological writing, Howell organized his book according to the principle of synchronism, making it easy for a reader following his account of one kingdom or empire to grasp contemporary events that occurred elsewhere. Howell'sInstitution was perhaps the most readily accessible history of the world published in the Restoration, appealing to a growing readership for comprehensive histories that provided a straightforward summary of events since the creation. [?] (Woolf, ODNB) ESTC R14308; Wing H3136. Ref: 55083show full image..
Hudson, T. P. (ed.): The Victoria History of the County of Sussex. Volume VI Part 1: Bramber Rape (southern part). Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1980. First edition. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt, fine. Dust-jacket, price-clipped, faded in part with fraying edges but still good. Ref: 54076
Hudson, T. P. (ed.): The Victoria History of the County of Sussex. Volume VI Part 3: Bramber Rape (north-eastern part) including Crawley New Town. Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1987. First edition. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt, fine. Dust-jacket, price-clipped, a little creased and discoloured over spine with fading to lettering, otherwise very good. Ref: 54078
Hughes, Ian: Attila the Hun: Arch-Enemy of Rome. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2019. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxvi, 214. Maps and illustrations to text. Hardback: grey cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54451
Hughes, Jonathan: Dante's Divine Comedy in Early Renaissance England: The Collision of Two Worlds. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 8vo., pp. xiv, 426. Illustrations to text. Paperback. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54617
Hughes-Hallett, Lucy: Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions. London: Bloomsbury, 1990. First edition. 8vo., pp. 339 + plates. Hardback: green cloth, gilt-lettered to spine and upper board. Dust-jacket. Foxing to top edge, slight creasing along jacket edges, light signs of use, otherwise very good. Ref: 54249
Hurnard, Naomi D.: King's Pardon for Homicide Before AD 1307. Oxford University Press (Sandpiper reprint). 1997 8vo. pp. xiv, 394. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused: as new. First published 1969. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused: as new. Ref: 54934
