[Thoroton, Robert:] Throsby, John: Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire: republished, with large additions, by John Throsby, and embellished with picturesque and select views of seats of the nobility and gentry, towns, village churches and ruins. Nottingham: published by J. Throsby [?] & sold [?] by Messrs. Burbage, Tupman, Wilson & Gray, bookse 1797 [i.e. 1790-7]. Second edition. 3 vols., 4to., pp.xx, 406, [ii] + 28 plates; 324, [vi] + 42 plates (lacks one plate, the three views of Sneyton opposite p.155); 453, [xxiii] + 33 plates. Portrait frontispiece and added engraved title page to each volume, copious plates and maps some still with tissue guards, a few hand coloured. Some foxing and dampstaining throughout, particularly near the start of each volume. Vol. I: some grey smudgy marks to first few pages, ffep loosening, a few page numbers have become tiny holes, closed horizontal tear about halfway across O1 (no loss). Vol. II: closed tear to 3O2 affecting a couple of words, plate for p.212 is opposite p.210, plate for p.302 is opposite p.301. Vol.III: yellow mark to pp.192-3. Second, expanded edition of Robert Thoroton's (1623?1678) History, edited by antiquary and artist John Throsby (1740-1803). Robert Thoroton (1623?1678) 'commenced his Antiquities of Nottinghamshire in 1667. He first worked on some transcript notes which his father-in-law Gilbert Boun had made from Domesday Book. He assisted Sir William Dugdale in his Visitation of Nottinghamshire, 1662?1664. For his researches he employed paid assistants at considerable expense to himself, delving into family archives, registers (some now lost), estate papers, church monuments, and epitaphs. Like a number of county antiquaries he was little concerned with his own times, or indeed with his own century, but tried to trace the manorial history of each parish back to Domesday. He showed little interest in Roman remains, while protesting at enclosure and destruction of woods. His notes, made on the back of letters from his patients in Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, and Derbyshire, are now in Nottingham Public Library. The folio volume of Thoroton's Antiquities was printed in London in 1677, illustrated with engravings by Hollar after Richard Hall and dedicated to Gilbert Sheldon, archbishop of Canterbury, and Dugdale, both personal friends. Dugdale wrote to the antiquary Sir Daniel Fleming, 'Dr Thoroton's book cost me 16s to 18s. I do esteem the book well worth your buying, though had he gone to the fountain of records it might have been better done' (1 Sept 1677, Le Fleming MSS, 139?40). John Throsby published a reprint of Antiquities with additions, in three volumes (published 1790?96 but dated 1797).' (ODNB). Throsby worked on his edition between 1790 and 1797. The section on Nottingham, containing 'all that is valuable in Deering', initially appeared alone in 1795 and in 1797 was reprinted as part of this three-volume series, illustrated again Throsby's own drawings. ESTC T99860; Upcott 1051. Ref: 54663show full image..
Thucydides: Historia. Oxonii [Oxford]: Apud Jacobum Parker et Socios; Johannes Henricus Parker, 1893; 1848. 2 vols. 16mo., pp. xviii, 331, [iii]; x, 312. Text in Greek. Occasional annotations in red ink and pencil. Recently rebound in maroon library buckram, black gilt labels to spines, sprinkled edges, endpapers renewed, very good. Vol. I with ownership inscriptions to title-page of A.J. Knapton, Jan. 15, 1896 and A.J. Morley, 1942, and also 'Book I, London B.A. 1896' in red ink. Vol. II with title-page inscription of Stephen G. Read dated Dec. 31st 1849. Follows the text of Francis Goeller's 1836 edition. Ref: 54284show full image..
Thurley, Simon: Men from the Ministry: How Britain Saved Its Heritage. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2013. First edition. 8vo., pp. viii, 294, inc. illustrations. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a touch only of shelf-wear: a fine copy. Ref: 53930
Tinniswood, Adrian: The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England. London: Jonathan Cape, 2007. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxii, 570 + plates. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine, Dust-jacket, lightly sun-faded and creased with moderate shelf-wear. From the library of Prof. William Lamont, without written evidence of ownership but with his pen-scoring to outer margins against passages of particular interest. Ref: 53729
Torr, Cecil: Ancient Ships. Cambridge University Press, 1895. First edition, (second impression?). 8vo, pp. xii, 139 + 8 plates at rear. Original blue publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered & stamped. Endcaps starting to fray, corners slightly bumped, boards a little marked, a bit of slackening between gatherings at gutters but binding still very sound, a little toning to pages but foxing mainly confined to endpapers. No dust-jacket. Still an excellent reading copy. There are copies, not discernably different, dated 1894. Ref: 54277
Toy, Barbara: The Way of the Chariots. Niger River - Sahara - Libya. London: John Murray, 1964. First edition. 8vo., pp.[xiv], 156, [ii] + 8 leaves of photographic plates. Light blue cloth, white title to spine and upper board. A few sunned patches including head and tail edges, top edge a little foxed, still very good. Dust jacket a slightly toned at edges and folds but mostly visible only on the reverse, a few slight marks, very good. Ownership inscription to ffep, Nicholas Stuart-Lee, Oxford October 17th 1974. Memoir of Toy's journey by Land Rover from Timbuktu to Tripoli, including the Tassili n'Ajjer mountains in southern Algeria where she investigated ancient rock drawings. The title refers to the apocryphal great highway supposed to have been driven by prehistoric chariots from the Mediterranean to the Niger. Ref: 54791show full image..
Trow, M.J.: Spartacus: The Myth and the Man. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton, 2006. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiii, 244 + plates. Maps. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Light shelf dusting, otherwise very good. Ref: 54224
Tulin, Alexander: Dike Phonou. The Right of Prosecution and Attic Homicide Procedure. Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1996. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 135. Grey cloth, red-lettered, light bumping to corners, small mark to fore-edge, very good. No dust-jacket. Illegible ownership inscription in pen to f.f.e.p., dated 1998. Ref: 50395
(Twysden, Sir Roger, ed.:) (Selden, John:) (Somner, William:) (Simeon of Durham, et al:) Historiae Anglicanae Scriptores X. [...] Ex vetustissimis manuscriptis, nunc primum in lucem editi. Londini [London]: Typis Jacobi Flesher, sumptibus Cornelii Bee [...] 1652. Editiones principes. 2 vols., folio, pp.[xii], XLVIII, [viii], 8, cols. 9-1284; pp.[ii], 1289-2768, pp.[cci]. Leaf g1, 'Index Authorum et Tractatuum in hoc Volumine', usually found in the 1st paginated section of vol.I is found here instead at the end of vol. II, along with the errata leaf. Vol. I with half-title, title-page in red and black. Section titles, woodcut initials, small illustrations in text. Light foxing heavier in vol. I towards the rear, occasional tiny spots and scorches, volume two slightly toned with some leaves (eg. 4C3, S1) more so, small hole to 3K3 affecting a couple of words. Contemporary speckled brown calf. Both vols. rebacked some time ago with vol. I wearing better. Raised bands, gilt title labels to vol. I but lost to vol. II, gilt spines, triple-filet borders to boards with gilt armorial centrepieces, edges sprinkled brown, endpapers renewed. Vol. I: headcap a bit worn, some chips to spine, joints a little creased, Vol. II: Spine worn, endcaps and labels lost, joints split but cords holding firm. All board surfaces a bit crackled with some scuffing, corners worn, but still very good, sound copies overall. Armorial gilt centrepiece possibly of the McCulloch family, with unusual coronet. To front pastedown of each volume, modern bookplate of the eminent medieval historian Richard Barber, with a few pencilled bibliographical notes. 'Editiones principes' of English medieval chronicles, and church and royal histories (titles of individual works are listed on pp. XLIX-L of the edition. To summarise the authors: Simeon of Durham (fl. 1130); John of Hexham (fl. 1180); Richard of Hexham (d.1163-1178); Serlo Grammaticus (1109-?1207); Ailred of Rievaulx (1109?-1166); Ranulph Brito (d.1246); John Brompton (fl. 1436); Gervase of Canterbury (fl. 1188); Thomas Stubbs (fl. 1373); Ralph d'Escures (d. 1122); William Thorne (fl. 1397); (anon.); Henry Knighton (fl. 1363)). Includes a 48-page Life of the authors by the jurist John Selden (1584-1654). The 84-page glossary of terms by the Anglo-Saxon scholar William Somner (1598-1669) predates his important Saxon-Latin-English lexicon of 1659. There is a variant title-page which states that the edition was sold by Jan and Daniel Elzevier in Leiden. ESTC R005810; Wing H 2094. Ref: 54537show full image..
Valerius Maximus: (Thysius, Antonius, ed.:) Valerius Maximus cum selectis Variorum Observat. et nova resensione a Thysii [...] Lugd. Batavorum [Leiden]: Apud Franciscum Hackium. 1660. 8vo. pp. [xvi], 844, [xxxii]. Engraved title, woodcut initials and endpieces. Occasional very faint spotting. Contemporary vellum, title inked to spine, fore-edges slightly overlapped, edges sprinkled blue. Vellum a little marked, endpapers a bit dusty, very good. Ownership inscription of W.G. Huygens in gold to ffep. Seven lines of notes in an old hand to rear free endpaper. Variorum edition superintended by Thysius the younger (1603-1665) and published during his time as Librarian of the University of Leiden, a post he held from 1655 until his death. Thysius's tenure fell between those of Daniel Heinsius (1607?1655) and Johannes Fredericus Gronovius (1665?1671). Dibdin II, 522; Schweiger II, 1110. Ref: 54656show full image..
