Rossellini. Ingrid: Know Thyself: Western Identity from Classical Greece to the Renaissance. New York: Doubleday, 2018. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxii, 469. Many illustrations to text. Hardback: green cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, small red felt-tip spot as remainder mark to bottom edge. Light shelf-wear only: very good indeed. Ref: 54476
Rounding, Virginia: The Burning Time: Henry VIII, Bloody Mary, and the Protestant Martyrs of London. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2017. First American edition. 8vo., pp. xvi, 459. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. A hint of shelf-wear only: still a fine, clean and unread copy. Ref: 53610
Rowlands, Henry: [Owen, Henry, ed.:] Mona Antiqua Restaurata. An Archaeological Discourse on the Antiquities, Natural and Historical, of the Isle of Anglesey, the Antient Seat of the British Druids. In two essays. With an appendix, containing a Comparative Table of Primitive Words, and the Derivatives of them in several of the Tongues of Europe; with Remarks upon them.Together with some Letters, and three Catalogues, added thereunto. I. Of the M London: printed for J.[ohn] Knox, near Southampton-Street in the Strand, 1766. Second edition, corrected and improved. 4to., pp. xi, [v], 357, [iii] + 12 plates + 1 map frontispiece. With errata leaf and publisher's catalogue at rear. The plate of a king is here numbered XI, as found in some copies. Occasional annotations to margins in an old hand, corrections neatly inserted by hand. Occasional light foxing, some very slight transfer from plates to facing pages. Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked with original gilt spine and label retained, corners and fore-edge neatly repaired, marbled endpapers, very good. Recent bookplate of David W. Phillipson to front paste-down. To initial blank, inscription of C.H. Cooper F.S.A. (1808-1866), Town Clark of Cambridge from 1849 until his death. The second edition of Rowland's (1655-1723) work, in which he hypothesises that Anglesey was an ancient Druidic centre and that Britain was initially established by the Phoenicians. The first edition was published in Dublin in 1723. Rowland had died in the year of first publication, and so it was left to Henry Owen (1716-1795) to correct and revise this second edition (London, 1766). An edition of supplementary topographical details overseen by Nicholas Owen (1752-1811) appeared in 1775. ESTC T139796 Ref: 54388show full image..
Rowlands, Henry: [Owen, Henry, ed.:] Mona Antiqua Restaurata. An Archaeological Discourse on the Antiquities, Natural and Historical, of the Isle of Anglesey, the Antient Seat of the British Druids. In two essays. With an appendix, containing a Comparative Table of Primitive Words, and the Derivatives of them in several of the Tongues of Europe; with Remarks upon them.Together with some Letters, and three Catalogues, added thereunto. I. Of the M London: printed for J.[ohn] Knox, near Southampton-Street in the Strand, 1766. Second edition. 4to., pp. xi, [v], 357, [iii] + map frontispiece + 12 plates. Final leaf has a publisher's advert and errata. A few slight smudges and some faint pencil marks to margins but generally very clean. Contemporary tan speckled calf. Spine gilt with raised bands and red title label, small gilt crest to centre of each board. Joints worn with some areas of cords exposed, chip at tail of spine, corners frayed, very good. The second edition of Rowland's (1655-1723) work, in which he hypothesises that Anglesey was an ancient Druidic centre and that Britain was initially established by the Phoenicians. The first edition was published in Dublin in 1723. Rowland had died in the year of first publication, and so it was left to Henry Owen (1716-1795) to correct and revise this second edition (London, 1766). An edition of supplementary topographical details overseen by Nicholas Owen (1752-1811) appeared in 1775. From the ESTC: 'In some copies the plates are numbered I-IX and XI-XIII but they are the same 12 plates. Thus in some copies the plate of a king is numbered X and in others it is numbered XI. This may be an error in plate numbering which was later corrected or possibly there was an intention to insert an extra plate "X".' In this copy, the plate of a king is numbered XI. ESTC T139796 Ref: 55048show full image..
[Rowlands, Richard, pseud:] Verstegan, Richard: Restitution of Decayed Intelligence in Antiquities, Concerning the most Noble and Renowned English Nation. By the Study and Travel of R.V. London: John Bill, printer to the King's most Excellent Majestie, 1628. Second edition, first printed in England. 4to., pp.[xxiv], 338, [xii]. Title-page in red and black with large engraved vignette, woodcut initials head- and tail-pieces, many handsome illustrations in the text. Neatly pencilled bibliographical notes to ffep, few marginal notes in an older hand. Title-page a little foxed, occasional light ink blots and some spotting, a few pages with some light smudgy marks, eg. p.99. Trimmed a little close at head edge but never touching text. Later pale tan calf (probably late 19th c.), red and green labels to spine with date at foot wrongly put as 1828, blind tooled borders, edges coloured yellow, endpapers renewed. Headcap worn with small loss, some scuffs, joints worn with upper beginning to split at head, corners worn, frame of toning around free endpapers, still very good. To front paste-down the armorial bookplate of Hugh Robert Hughes of Kinmel, H.M. Lieutenant of Flintshire, obscuring a second bookplate beneath. Hughes (1827-1911), an avid collector of books and manuscripts on welsh history, topography and genealogy, purchased the collections of John Williams (1833-1872) of Beaumaris and Angharad Llwyd (1780-1866) of Caerwys (and later of Tyn-y-Rhyl), so the concealed bookplate may belong to one of these earlier collectors. Also to the paste-down is a small library label with shelf mark, and an ownership inscription of Brent Grafton-Maxfield dated 1972. An important work of early Anglo-Saxon scholarship originally published in Antwerp in 1605. Richard Rowlands (1548/50 ? 1640), English-born Anglo-Dutch writer and intelligence informant, was forced to flee England in 1581 having secretly printed Thomas Alfield's account of the execution of Edmund Campion. It was during this time that he revived his ancestral surname of Verstegan. 'From March 1587 Verstegan lived in Antwerp. From 1590 until 1603 he worked as a publishing and intelligence agent for the superiors of the English mission, William Allen in Rome and Robert Persons in Spain. He maintained communications between them and the missionaries in England, arranged passports and the smuggling of books, bought books in Flanders for the seminaries in Spain, and oversaw the printing of numerous English Catholic works in Antwerp. He continued to write polemical and martyrological works, including, most importantly, answers to the 1591 proclamation against Jesuits and seminary priests. He also produced devotional translations (among them the first English translation of the Tridentine primer), religious verse, and a seminal work of Anglo-Saxon scholarship, the Restitution of Decayed Intelligence in Antiquities (1605), about which he corresponded with Sir Robert Cotton. He edited or contributed to several of the political works generally attributed to Robert Persons. His writings in these years were a cause of great concern to the authorities in England, and did much to shape the perception of Queen Elizabeth's policies on the continent.' (Arblaster, ODNB). ESTC S116256 Ref: 54568show full image..
Rowling, J. K.: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. London: Bloomsbury, Bloomsbury, First edition, third printing. 8vo., pp.317, [i]. Light toning, very slight separation between half-title and title. Pictorial boards. Top edge a little foxed, very good indeed. Dust jacket very mildly creased at ends of spine, near fine. Third instalment in the Harry Potter series. Ref: 54861show full image..
Roy, William: The Military Antiquities of the Romans in the North of Britain. [...]. Published by the Order, and at the Expense, of the Society of Antiquaries of London. London: printed by W. Bulmer and Co. and sold at the apartments of the Society, in Somerset-Place; a 1793. Large folio (540 x 365mm), pp. [x]xvi, 206, [ii] + 51, plates as called for. The three final leaves contain a list of plates and a list of members of the Society of Antiquaries. Occasional spots of foxing. Contemporary chestnut brown diced calf, rebacked with gilt title and rules, gilt borders, edges yellow, blue marbled endpapers. Spine scuffed, a few chips to edges, corners repaired, inner hinges repaired with cloth. A very good, sound copy Bookplate to front pastedown of Charles Abbott (1761-1817), a lawyer and botanist whose name appears in the list of Society of Antiquaries members found within. To preliminary blank, 'Fred. Swan, Trin. Coll. Cambridge, 1907'. Loosely inserted, a single printed leaf advertising Sir David Wilkie's 'Sketches in Turkey, Syria and Egypt'. Secondary title-page: [...] Particularly Their Ancient System of Castramentation, Illustrated From Vestiges of the Camps of Agricola Existing There: Hence His March From South Into North Is In Some Degree Traced. Roy's systematic studies yielded the first accurate maps of Roman archeological sites in Scotland. In the case of sites where the Roman remains were later destroyed by human development, these drawings are now the only reliable record of their former existence. Roy's innovation and leadership led to the creation of the Ordnance Survey in 1791, one year after his death, and two years later the Society of Antiquaries published this, 'a fine work which precisely described sites that in many cases are no longer visible; its map was finally superseded only with the Ordnance Survey's map of Roman Britain of 1924' (ODNB). ESTC T105077 Ref: 55034show full image..
Rudich, Vasily: Dissidence and Literature Under Nero. The Price of Rhetoricization. London: Routledge, 1997. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiv, 391. Some light pencil lining to introduction, not affecting legibility, otherwise internally fine. Hardback: black cloth. Dust-jacket. Light shelf wear, with a little dust and a couple of marks to page edges. A very good copy. Ref: 53200
Sabry, M: L'Empire Egyptien sous Mohamed-Ali et La Question D'Orient Paris: Librairie Orientaliste, Paul Geuthner, 1930. Large 8vo., pp. 605, [iii]. Internally clean. Half blue sheep, raised bands, gilt title direct to spine, blue cloth boards, edges sprinkled red, dark green endpapers, original red and black wrappers bound in at rear. A bit rubbed, some peeling to spine and corners but still very good. Tiny stamp, 'Bramhall and Menzies' to ffep verso. Number 556 in an edition of 2000 copies. Ref: 54403show full image..
Safran, Linda: The Medieval Salento: Art and Identity in Southern Italy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. Large 8vo. (262 x 185 mm), pp. 480 pages. 20 colour, 149 b/w illustrations. Hardback. Dust-jacket. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Ref: 53367
