Nepos, Cornelius: Excellentium Imperatorum Vitae. Londini [London]: Jacobi Tonson & Johannis Watts, 1735. 12mo., pp. [xii], 114, [vi]. Engraved frontispiece by Du Gernier, title-page in red and black with woodcut device, ornamental headpieces and initials. Internally very clean, some pencil to endpapers. Contemporary tan calf with raised bands and spine label, spine and edges a bit rubbed, upper joint just starting at head but still very sound. Much like the 1715 edition (the title verso is printed with a licence dated 1714 which grants exclusive rights for printing and publishing for 14 years), though reset to be slightly larger, and with different ornaments used. ESTC T83008 Ref: 54212show full image..
Nepos, Cornelius: Vitae Excellentium Imperatorum, [observationibus & notis commentatorum omnium quotquot hactenus innotu?re illustratae. Accesserunt huic editioni praecipuorum Graeciae imperatorum icones aeri incisae; ut & index rerum & verborum auctior & emendatior.] [Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Prostant apud Jansonio-Waesbergios, Boom, & Goethals, 1705.] 1704 8vo., pp.[xxx], 439, [xli]. With the additional engraved title-page but lacking the typographical titlepage. Illustrations in the text. Slightly foxed, sporadic toning. Vellum prize binding with certificate dated 1708 bound in. Gilt spine, borders, cornerpieces, and large centrepiece to each board with the arms of Amsterdam, edges sprinkled brown and red. A few smudgy marks, upper board gilt a little worn, ties lost, very good. Prize certificate made out to Nicolao Doekscheer and signed by Johannes Theodorus Schalbruch, Professor of Logic, History and Oratory (1697-1722) (at Amsterdam). To the additional engraved title page: 'Cornelii Nepotis Vitae excellentium imperatorum cum quorundam iconibus', with imprint "Amstelodami. Ex sumptibus Societatis. MDCCIV". Spoelder 9. Ref: 54918show full image..
Nepos, Cornelius: (Pausanias:) (Fell, John, ed.:) Excellentium imperatorum vitae. Editio novissima; nunc denuo recognita. Accessit Aristomenis Messenii vita, ex Pausania. Oxonii [Oxford]. E Teatro Sheldoniano. 1708. 4to. pp. [xx], 230; [ii], 38, [xviii], [lvi]. Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette to title, engraved ornaments at start of each chapter. Little spotting to title and verso of last leaf. Early 19th century Russia leather, marbled endpapers, triple gilt ruled, raised bands, spine double gilt ruled and gilt-lettered, cross-hatched decoration in blind. Covers a bit faded, joints cracked but firm. Bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to front pastedown. Reprint of the 1678 Oxford edition of Cornelius Nepos's 'Lives of the Emperors', in a remarkably and unusually well-preserved Russia leather binding. ESTC T83009. Ref: 53167show full image..
Nepos, Cornelius: (Van Staveren, Augustinus, ed:) Vitae Excellentium Imperatorum, cum notis selectis Boecleri, Bosii, Buchneri, Ernstii, Gerhardi, Heidmanni, Lambini, Loccenii, Longolii, Magii, Ravii, Savaronis, Schefferi, Schotti, nec non excerptis P. Danielis. Hisce accedit locupletissimus omnium vocabulorum index studio & opera Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Apud Sam. et Joan. Luchtmans, 1773 [1774]. 2nd ed., expanded. 8vo., pp.[32], 832, [176]. Additional engraved title-page dated 1774, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, engraved illustrations in the text (portraits). A few pencil marks, eg. p.117. Contemporary vellum prize binding, gilt spine, borders, corner tools and centrepiece coat of arms of Utrecht to each board, edges sprinkled red and blue. A few light marks, ties lost, very good. Includes: C. Nepotis fragmenta [?] A. Schotti studio collecta, scholiisque illustrata [?] recensita [?] et [?] aucta a J.A. Bosio, cujus [?] animadversiones Schottisnis interseruntur, Curante A. van Staveren. With index at rear. Dibdin II, p246 for this, the better of two Staveren editions (1734 and 1773); Schweiger II pt.i, 302. Ref: 54555show full image..
Newcourt, Richard: Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense: An Ecclesiastical Parochial History of the Diocese of London: Containing an Account of the Bishops of that Sea, from the first Foundation thereof: also, of the deans, archdeacons, dignitaries and prebendaries, from the Conquest: and lastly, of the se London: printed by Benj. Motte, and are to be sold by Chr. Bateman, Benj. Tooke, Ric. Parker, 1708; 1710. 2 vols., folio, pp.[iv], vii, [I], 761, 764-5, 768-9, 772-3, 776-928, [ii] (i.e. usual mispagination) + 4 plates; [viii], 692, [lii] + 2 plates. Vol. I with portrait frontispiece and errata leaf, vol. II with half-title and list of subscribers, as called for. Sporadic toning, vol. II heavily toned from p.609 onwards and with a small worm trail near gutter for approx. first hundred pages. MS to ffep vol. I (a description in heraldic terminology of the arms of Richard Newport depicted on the frontispiece). Contemporary Cambridge panelled calf, raised bands and reddish title labels to spines, edges sprinkled red. A bit worn with some scrapes, but very good. Each volume with armorial bookplates of John Hoadly, LLD to front paste-down and Henry Carrington Bowles to rear paste-down (the latter being the Bowles arms with those of H.C.B.'s wife Ann Garnault inset). Historian and notary Richard Newport (d.1716) complied this history of the Diocese of London from sources including the London Registers (begun in 1306), registers kept by individual bishops and a return of 1636 from which he took information about the income of the parishes. His father (also Richard Newcourt, d. 1679) was a cartographer and draughtsman who, in addition to contributing drawings to Dugdale's Monasticon, was also responsible for the most important map made of London before the Great Fire, his Exact Delineation of the Cities of London and Westminster and the Suburbs Thereof (1658). John Hoadly (1711-1776) was a poet and dramatist, and a friend and correspondent of David Garrick. The appearance of 'LLD' on his bookplate dates it from sometime after 1747. Henry Carrington Bowles (1763-1830) was a successful publisher and seller of maps, prints and geographical games. His bookplate dates from sometime after his marriage in 1799. The ephemera found between the pages of vol. I appears to relate to his ownership of the book. Loosely inserted: two letterpress-printed sheets reproducing letters sent in January 1824 and February 1827 to The Gentleman's Magazine, concerning London churches destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666 (both from 'H.C.B.'); small hand-drawn and coloured arms of Sir John Philpot, Lord Mayor of London 1378, on a scrap of paper; a piece of tracing paper with a coat of arms and an inscription referring to Sarah Bolles; 4 scraps of paper with MS notes, one seemingly part of a letter addressed to H.C. Bowles Esq. and dated 1827; a long MS list of churches on a folded piece of paper watermarked 1821. ESTC T5439; Upcott 690; Lowndes 1665; Graesse IV 662. Ref: 54146show full image..
Newport, Kenneth G. C. Apocalypse & Millennium: Studies in Biblical Exegesis. Cambridge University Press, 2000. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 252. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused and, with just a hint of shelf-wear, almost as new. Ref: 53752
Nieupoort, G.H.: (Nagel, Carel Ferdinand, ed,:) Rituum, qui olim apud Romanos obtinuerunt, succincta explicatio; ad intelligentiam veterum auctorum facile methodo conscripta [...]. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: [s.n.], 1802. 8vo., pp. viii, 614, [ii] + additional engraved title + 11 plates, 10 of which folding. With half-title, a few pages unopened at fore-edge. Occasional very faint spotting, some light toning, light damp staining at fore-edge increasing towards rear and becoming pinkish. Contemporary vellum prize binding with certificate bound in, spine gilt, gilt arms of Utrecht centrepiece to each board surrounded by border and corner tools, edges sprinkled red and blue. Spine a little darkened, a few small marks, all ties bar one lost, very good indeed. An illustrated study of Roman rituals. Scarce in the British Isles, COPAC locates copies in the British Library and the Bodleian only. Spoelder 4. Ref: 54430show full image..
Norwich, John Julius: The Kingdom in the Sun (1130-1194). London: Longmans, Green & Co.; Longman Group, 1967; 1970. First edition. 8vo., pp. xv, [i] 426 + plates. Internally clean and bright. Black cloth, orange labels, gilt, to spine. One corner slightly bumped, top edge a little dusty, very good. A little light shelf-wear to dust-jackets, edges slightly frayed, front flap creased, otherwise very good. The second and final, but stand-alone, volume of the author's history of Norman Sicily. The first volume, The Normans in the South (1016-1130), had been published three years earlier in 1967. Ref: 54577
O'Callaghan, Joseph F.: The Gibraltar Crusade: Castile and the Battle for the Strait. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. 8vo., pp. xi, 376. Tables and Illustrations. Paperback. Unread: almost as new. Ref: 53629
Ogawa, Hiroshi: Language and Style in Old English Composite Homilies Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2010. 8vo., pp. 207. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Ref: 53403
