[Lucan] Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus: (Grotius, Hugo; Farnaby, Thomas; Schrevel, Cornelius, eds.:) De Bello Civili [...]. Londini [London]: Typis excudebat J.F. Dove;,prostant venales apud R. Priestley, 1818. 8vo., pp.[xviii], 599, [lxxxvii]. A little faint foxing. Contemporary diced tan calf, sturdily rebacked retaining original spine with raised bands and dark brown morocco label, gilt borders, blue marbled edges and endpapers. Retained spine worn and marked, reback a perhaps a little heavy, a few scuffs, very good. To ffep verso, ownership inscription of F. H. Sandbach, dated '25 ( being Francis Henry Sandbach (1903-1991), professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge). To a preliminary blank, the ownership inscription of Roland George Mayer, Peterhouse 1970. Also contains "Petronii Arbitri Specimen belli civilis" and "Supplementum Lucani, libri septem, authore Thoma Majo". Ref: 54907show full image..
Lucian of Samasota: (Mayne, Jasper, trans.:) Part of Lucian Made English from the Originall. In the Yeare 1638. Oxford: R. Davies, 1664. FIRST PART ONLY. 1st edition 2nd issue, folio, pp. [xvi], 398, [iv] + portrait frontispiece of Lucian signed: W: Faithhorne sculpsit.. As usual pp.162-167 and pp.316-317 are misnumbered as 182-187 and 306, 311 respectively. Woodcut device to title-page, woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces. Some old repairs to frontis at gutter, to title-page verso (particularly head and tail edges) plus a few other places e.g. head of first dedicatory leaf, M1, Z1, and some other smaller repairs; small worm trail to bottom corner of fore-edge margin roughly pp.202-281, repaired in some places; light browning and possible dampstaining to head and tail edges near front and rear; occasional wax spots and tiny scorch holes, final blank leaf laid down.. Contemporary speckled calf boards neatly rebacked in polished sheep, raised bands and morocco gilt label to spine, blind-tooled borders, edges sprinkled red, endpapers replaced. Endcaps, raised bands and joints rubbed, a little chipping to edges, corners worn, a few light scuffs and scrapes. A good copy, soundly repaired. To the front paste-down: small book label of Charles Whibley. To frontispiece verso: various pen trials and doodled faces, plus inscriptions of Thos. Hartopp and Elizabeth Mallory 'Her Booke, 1694'. To title-page recto: two more inscriptions of Tho. Hartopp, and one of Ralph Welles. To final blank: another inscription of Elizabeth Mallory dated 1694 and another (seemingly in the same handwriting) of Elizabeth Welles; in the same hand a quotation, 'One moment gives Invention to Destroy / What to Rebuild would A whole Age Imploy'. This comes from William Congreve's play The Double-Dealer, which was first produced at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in November or December of 1693 and first appeared in print the following year. There are also what appear to be faded signatures on the leather of the lower board, though these are illegible. This version, with its title-page dated 1664, seems to be a reissue of the original 1663 first (the title-page of the first issue is dated 1663 and there is no portrait). The second part of the work is not found here; titled "Certain select dialogues of Lucian: together with his true history, translated from the Greek into English. By Mr. Francis Hickes", it has separate pagination, register, and title page with the imprint "printed for Richard Davis,... 1663". It appears that it was also issued separately (Wing L3425). ESTC R23081; Wing L3435 Ref: 52318show full image..
Lucretius Carus, Titus: De Rerum Natura Libri Sex. Birminghamae [Birmingham]: Johannis Baskerville, 1772. First Baskerville edition. 4to., pp. [ii], 280. First and last leaves (and endpapers) toned at edges, occasional very faint foxing. Contemporary tree calf, spine gilt, red morocco label, edges pale yellow, marbled endpapers. A little loss to endcaps, upper joint split but cords firm, rear joint just starting, corners frayed with a little loss of leather to bottom corner of upper board, still very good overall. Strangely-deteriorated (has become dark reddish-brown) bookplate of William Downes to front paste-down. William Downes, 1st Baron Downes PC (1751-1826) was one of the most prominent Irish judges of his time. He was Lord Chief Justice of Ireland from 1803 to 1822. The first Baskerville edition of Lucretius (a duodecimo followed the next year). In a somewhat backhanded fashion, Dibdin comments that this edition is remarkable for its typographical beauty though nothing else. ESTC T50365; Dibdin II (4th edn.), 203; Gaskell 43; Gordon 20; Schweiger II, 577 Ref: 54592show full image..
Lucretius, Carus Titus: [Philippe, ?tienne Andr?:] De Rerum Natura libri sex. Accedunt selecta lectiones dilucidando Poemata apposita. Lutetiae Parisiorum [Paris]: Typis Josephi Barbou, 1754. 12mo., pp.xxxvi, 288 + 7 finely engraved plates, including frontispiece. Woodcut initials, typographic and engraved head- and tail-pieces, ample margins. A few small marks (possibly wax?), but clean and bright. Contemporary tan mottled calf, spine gilt with red morocco label, plain gilt ruled borders, a.e.g., gilt dentelles, turquoise marbled endpapers. Lightly rubbed, upper joint neatly repaired, upper corner of rear board slightly frayed, very good indeed. An attractively printed pocket edition from Barbou's series of classical texts. The frontispiece and six plates are reduced versions of those from Havercamp's 4to edition of 1725 (Gordon, 503), skillfully reproduced by Claude Duflos from van Mieris's originals. Each book also has an engraved headpiece above its first lines. Text from Philippe's Parisian edition of 1744. Gordon, 504B; Schweiger II, 576 Ref: 54921show full image..
MacCoull, Leslie S. B. (trans.): Coptic Legal Documents: Law as Vernacular Text and Experience in Late Antique Egypt. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2010. 8vo., pp. 214. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Ref: 53404
MacKenzie, Charlotte: Psychiatry for the Rich: A History of Ticehurst Private Asylum. London: Routledge, 1992. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 234, inc. plates, figures and tables. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Light signs of use with mild creasing to jacket edges: still very good. Brief neat pencil annotation to a rear blank. In the Wellcome Institute series in the History of Medicine. Ref: 53935
Madero, Marta: (Inciarte, Monique Dascha & Valayre, Roland David, trans.:) Tabula Picta: Painting and Writing in Medieval Law. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. First edition in English. 8vo., pp. xi, 141. Hardback: burgundy cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unread, a hint only of shelf-wear: almost as new. With a Foreword by Roger Chartier. First published 2004 in French. Ref: 53619
Madox, Thomas: Baronia Anglica. An History of Land-Honors and Baronies, and of Tenure in Capite. Verified by Records. (Bound before) A Compleat Index to Mr Madox's History of the Exchequer. London: Printed for Robert Gosling 1736; 1741. First editions. Folio, 2 works in 1, pp. [2], 292 [xxviii]; [216], title of second is a cancel (second issue), engraved vignette to first title, a few large engraved initials and engraved headpieces. First title and verso of last leaf a little dusty, slight toning, small clean tear at gutter of one leaf, occasional very slight marginal spotting. Modern half calf over marbled boards, modern endpapers. Modern ex-libris of Robert Smith, dated 2008 to ffep; early biographical annotation on author; occasional early marginalia. The first edition, posthumously published, of this study by the celebrated legal antiquary Thomas Madox (1666-1727), who was historiographer-royal from 1714, and who is singled out by David C. Douglas ('English Scholars 1660-1730') for special praise, with the assessment (p. 243) that "even to-day, he seems to move among the moderns as if, apart from the immensity of his productions, he were one of themselves". The 'Index' was prepared by the editor of 'Baronia Britannica', and first issued with that work in 1741. It is a detailed glossary of the uncommon words used in Madox's 'History of the Exchequer', with which it was reprinted in 1769. The 'Index' title reads at the top: 'This Day is Published, (Price Half a Guinea, Sewed,).' ESTC T97064. Lowndes 1448. Brunet III 1289. Graesse IV 332. Ref: 53550show full image..
Manca, Joseph: Subject Matter in Italian Renaissance Art: A Study of Early Sources. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2016. 8vo., pp. 236. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 460 in the ACMRS Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series. Ref: 53717
Marquez, Gabriel Garc?a: (Grossman, Edith, trans:) Love in the Time of Cholera. London: Jonathan Cape, 1988. First UK edition, first printing. 8vo., pp.352. Dark green cloth, gilt title to spine. Endcaps a little creased, a few tiny marks to front endpapers, very good. Dust jacket spine very slightly sunned, edges softened with a couple of small closed tears, small mark to upper perhaps from a label, price intact, still very good. First appearance in English, translated from Spanish by Edith Grossman. The novel was first published in 1985 as El amor en los tiempos del c?lera. This copy is the first of three printings from 1988, with another two following in 1989. Ref: 54664
