Philostratus, Lucius Flavius: (Blount, Charles, trans.:) The two first books of Philostratus concerning the life of Apollonius Tyaneus: written originally in Greek, and now published in English: together with philological notes upon each chapter. London: printed for Nathaniel Thompson, 1680. First edition of this translation. Small folio, pp. [viii] 243 [i]. Title in red and black, woodcut initials, tree of the intellectual genealogy of philosophers on p. 145. Small hole to the centre of leaves Z3- Z4 affecting a few words, some tiny spots and scorch marks, occasional light toning. Contemporary speckled calf boards neatly rebacked with older label preserved, corners repaired, endpapers replaced, very good. First edition of the first English translation of Philostratus, by Charles Blount (1654-1693), an important associate and admirer of Thomas Hobbes. Blount, a deist or religious freethinker, added detailed notes to his rendering of this 3rd century AD work of pagan hagiography, which attack witchcraft (a code for the established church), and suggest that the teachings of the pagan philosopher Apollonius were more valuable than Christ's. The notes reveal the influence of Thomas Hobbes and were thought by the encyclopaedist Pierre Bayle to have been based on nunpublished notes by England's first metaphysical philosopher, and original deist, Baron Herbert of Cherbury (1654-1709). The book was subsequently banned in England and only reprinted on the continent. ESTC R4123; Wing P 2132. Ref: 54327show full image..
Picard, Liza: Restoration London: From Poverty to Pets, Medicine to Magic, from Slang to Sex, from Wallpaper to Women's Rights. London: Weidenfield & Nicholson, 1997. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxi, 330+ plates. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Plates bound in lightly crinkled, light signs of use, otherwise very good. Ref: 54238
Pilling, David: Rebellion Against Henry III: The Disinherited Montfortians 1265-1274. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2020. First edition. 8vo., pp. viii, 209 + plates. Hardback: red cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54450
Pindar: Ta Tou Pindarou Sesosmena. Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia. Ex editione Oxoniensi. Glasguae [Glasgow]: excudebant R. & A. Foulis, 1754, 1754, 1757, 1758. 4 vols. 32mo. (75 x 47mm), pp. [ii], 158; 186, [iv]; 128; 79, [I] + the rest of the text block made up with a roughly equal number of binder's blank leaves. Title-page to each volume, additional series title to volume I. Vol. I without its final blank, vol. II with both final blanks. First words of title transliterated from Greek. Occasional spotting and light toning, a few faint stains, very good. Early c.20th dark blue crushed Morocco, gilt titles to spines, top edges gilt, ornate gilt dentelles. Spines a little sunned, lightly rubbed, very good indeed. First words of title transliterated from Greek. Though he doesn't comment directly on this edition, Dibdin notes Harwood's observation on the first Foulis edition of 1744, that he has 'read this edition twice through and affirm it to be one of the most accurate of the Glasgow editions of the Greek classics.' He also notes that the later edition of 1770 is less accurate, according to Harles. ESTC T134377; Gaskell 274; Dibdin II. 4th Edn. 290; Bondy 23-4; Mikrobiblion 192; Spielmann 413-5. Ref: 54285show full image..
Pindar: (Cookesley, William Gifford, ed.:) Carmina Etonae [Eton]: E.P. Williams, 1851; 1853. Second edition. 2 parts bound as 1, 8vo., pp. [vi], 218, [ii], xiii, [i], 265, [i]. Text in Greek, notes in English, useful preface to the second edition, some engraved illustrations in the text. A little light spotting but very good. Publisher's dark blue cloth, printed paper title label to spine. Rubbed, label toned and chipped, some scuffs, end caps and corners worn, endpapers a little foxed and spilt at hinges but boards holding firm, still very good overall. Ownership inscription of J.S. Lewis to ffep. To title-page a small ink stamp seemingly in the shape of a bishop's mitre. Published at Eton and dedicated to Edward Craven Hawtrey (1789 - 1862), master. Contains Pars 1. Odas Olympicas and Pars 2. Odas Pythias, with no more published in this edition. Ref: 54772show full image..
Pinter, Harold: The Dwarfs, A Novel. London: Faber and Faber, 1990. First, limited edition. Signed by the author. 8vo., pp.[x], 183, [i]. Lightly toned. Quarter pale terracotta cloth, gilt title to spine, marbled boards, near fine. With original glassine wrapper tattered at edges but whole. 'One of 150 numbered copies of the First Edition of The Dwarfs signed by the author and specially bound. No.49.' Signed beneath by Pinter. Ref: 54719show full image..
Pinter, Harold: [Fowles, John, foreword:] The Screenplay of The French Lieutenant's Woman. London: Jonathan Cape in association with Eyre Methuen, 1981. First UK edition, signed by John Fowles. 8vo., pp.xvi, 104. Black cloth, gilt title to spine. Endcaps a bit creased, endpapers lightly toned, very good indeed. Dust jacket a little creased at head and tail of spine, small bookseller's label stuck over price on inner flap, very good indeed. Signature of John Fowles to title-page. Two address ink stamps of a previous owner to front pastedown. Label of Serendip Books of Lyme Regis to front flap. Pinter wrote several screenplay adaptations of others' works, including The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1971), The Trail (1993) and Sleuth (2007). This adaptation of Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman was nominated for an Oscar in 1981. Ref: 54986show full image..
Pitts, Brent A. (trans.): The Anglo-Norman Gospel Harmony: A Translation of the Estoire de l'Evangile (Dublin, Christ Church Cathedral C6.1.1, Liber niger). Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2014. 8vo., pp. 156. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 453 in the Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies and Volume 7 in The French of England Translation ACMRS series. Ref: 53710
Plautus, Titus Maccius: (Gronovius, J.F., ed.:) Comoediae. Accedit commentarius [...] Lugd. Batavorum [Leiden]: Ex Officina Hackiana, 1669. First Edition. 2 vols. bound as 1. 8vo., pp. [xxiv], 624, [ii], 625-1220, [lii]. Engraved title-page to vol.I, title-page with printer's device to vol.II. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Some small annotations in an old hand to ffep (one dated 1729), occasional other pages (eg. p.528) and 2 small pages of notepaper loosely inserted. Very occasional light spotting towards fore-edge, a few tiny ink spots. Contemporary vellum, title inked to spine, fore-edges slightly overlapped, edges sprinkled red. Vertical split to vellum at spine neatly repaired, some marks and smudges, turn-in lifting at upper board, first few leaves a bit creased at fore-edge, very good. Ownership inscription of E. (Bersem?) in an old hand to title-page. The penultimate in a run of Gronovius' variorum edition of Plautus (the first in 1664, the final and optimal in 1684), with notes by him and others, and new readings from 6 MSS. Dibdin (4th edn.) II 312. Schweiger III 766. Graesse V 329. Ref: 54398show full image..
[Plautus] Plautus, Titus Maccius: (Pareus, Philippus, ed.:) Comoediae XX superstites et deperditarum fragmenta. Francof. [Frankfurt]: Philip Jacob Fisher, 1641. 8vo. 3 parts in 1, pp. [224], 826, [2], 31, [1], 85, [1], with engraved title. Title in red and black with engraved vignette, woodcut vignette to verso of last. Title dusty, some scattered foxing or dampstaining, small paper flaw and minor clean tear to outer blank margin of two leaves. Contemporary vellum over boards, yapp edges. 'The last edition of [Johannes Philippus] Par? in which were corrected several criticised passages of the previous editions' (Graesse V, 328-29). In addition to Plautus's twenty comedies, it features numerous fragments, 'Querolus' and 'Animadversionum ablegmina'. Graesse V, 328-29. Not in Dibdin. Ref: 53281show full image..
