Drexel, Jeremias: Orbis Pha?thon hoc est de uniuersis vitiis lingu? pars prima (altera). Monachii [Munich]: Formis Cornelii Leysserii Electoralis Typographi, 1630. 24mo., pp. [xxx], 544, [ii]. Engraved title-page, illustrations in the text, final leaf blank. Occasional light offsetting from illustrations, a little light foxing, a few tiny ink spots, some closed tears neatly repaired, old tape marks to pp.185-6. Contemporary vellum, inked title to spine, blind-tooled boards. Vellum a bit greyed, edges of text block darkened, very good. To front paste-down, bookplate with blue printed border and indecipherable inscription. Part one (the second following in 1636) of this small-format dictionary of vices and sins, with engravings by Philippe Sadeler. Drexel's (1581-1638) works virtue, eternal truth and recognition of the divine were popular and much-read in his lifetime. Aware of the power of visual symbols to convey his teachings, it is not uncommon for his books to be heavily illustrated. COPAC finds copies only in the British Library and the Bodleian. Ref: 54167show full image..
Dryden, John: Original Poems. Glasgow: printed by Robert & Andrew Foulis, printers to the University, 1775. 2 vols. bound as 1. 12mo., pp.viii, 251, [ix]; viii, 255, [iii]. Variant on the better, medium-quality paper. Vol.I with half-title, and 4-page printer's catalogue at rear. Occasional light foxing. Contemporary calf, gilt spine, raised bands, red morocco label, marbled endpapers. Spine dry and a little creased, a bit rubbed, very good. Inscription of J.H. (possibly John Hamilton) to title-page, dated 1780. Vol. I contains: Verses in Praise of Mr Dryden; Poems on Several Occasions. Vol. II contains: Poems on Several Occasions; Epistles; Prologues and Epilogues; Elegies and Epitaphs; Songs. ESTC T124935; Gaskell 582. Ref: 54580show full image..
Dryden, John: Original Poems. Glasgow: Printed and sold by Rob. & And. Foulis, 1756. 2 vols. 8vo., pp.[vii], 237, [iii]; vii, [i], 240. Vol. I with half-title, each section with divisional title-page. Some codes in various hands to each paste-down. Vol. II with some faint foxing, tiny holes where the page number should be to I8, O8 and P8. Contemporary tan calf, spines gilt, labels lost leaving on impression of titles, edges sprinkled red. Spines dry and rubbed, vol. I head cap a little worn, very good. Ownership inscription of John Hamilton in an old hand to title-page of each volume. Vol. I contains: Verses in Praise of Mr Dryden; Poems on Several Occasions. Vol. II contains: Poems on Several Occasions; Epistles; Prologues and Epilogues; Elegies and Epitaphs; Songs. ESTC T124934; Gaskell 312. Ref: 54579show full image..
Du Cange, Charles du Fresne: Glossarium ad Scriptores Mediae et Infimae Latinatis, [...] Venetiis [Venice]: apud Sebastianum Coleti, 1736; 1737; 1738; 1739; 1739; 1740. 6 vols. folio, pp. xii, [iv], xlviii, col. 1312 + 2 plates (additional engraved title-page + engraved portrait); pp. [iv], col. 1606, [i]; [iv], col.1596, [i]; [iv], col.1344 + 10 numismatic plates; [iv], col.1488; [iv], col.1736. Each vol. with its own half-title and title-page. Faint dampstaining at head to vols. III, V and VI, a few spots of light foxing. Contemporary vellum, gilt spines with tan title labels. Small wormholes to spines, occasional marks to boards, vol. VI repaired at upper joint. Very good overall. Small paper label of the publisher Leo S. Olschki (1861-1940) to front pastedown. Reprint of the second (and best) edition (Paris, 1733-6), with differences in pagination and without the errata leaves found in the earlier production. Originally published in three volumes, Du Cange's glossary of medieval and post-classical Latin words was posthumously doubled in size for the Parisian edition by scholars from the great Benedictine congregation of St Maur. "[Du Cange] is one of the greatest lexicographers of France, and his work in this department still remains unsurpassed" (Sandys). Brunet II 851. Graesse II 439. Ref: 54270
Dugdale, William: The Antiquities of Warwickshire illustrated; from records, leiger-books, manuscripts, charters, evidences, tombes, and armes: beautified with maps, prospects and portraitures. London: Thomas Warren, 1656. First edition, folio, pp[xvi], 826, [xvi] + all 16 plates including portrait frontispiece by Hollar as called for by Upcott, plus two additional single-page plates opposite p.58 (showing arms of Basil Filding and Elizabeth Aston, and stained glass 'In the parlour window at Newnham'). With all usual;l mispaginations. Title-page in red and black with printer's device printed over with a red diamond shape, woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces, copious further illustrations of arms, church windows, tombs etc in the text, some of which are full page. Final leaf blank, penultimate leaf errata and Notarum Explicatio. Two plates with pencil annotations noting that they should, according to Upcott, have been bound elsewhere in the book. Map of Knightlow Hundred trimmed too close at top edge with a little loss to title etc but not the map itself, county map of Warwickshire with tiny loss at each lower corner not affecting image, small loss to D1 near gutter affecting a couple of words, occasional very light toning, a few tiny spots of wax but generally very clean within. Later tan calf skilfully rebacked, spine heavily gilt with raised bands and green title label, gilt border and frames with crown cornerpieces, gilt dentelles, edges bright yellow, marbled endpapers. A few tiny white marks to spine, joints and edges a little rubbed, corners of upper board slightly frayed, very good. 19th-century escutcheon-shaped bookplate of Charles Tennant of The Glen to front pastedown, with the motto 'Deus dabit vela'. Sir Charles Clow Tennant, 1st Baronet (1823-1906) was a highly successful Scottish businessman, industrialist and Liberal politician. He purchased The Glen, an estate in Traquair in the Scottish Borders, in 1852. He is connected, via the marriages of his several children, to an extraordinary array of interesting people including Prime Minister Herbert Asquith (his son-in-law), Bright Young Thing Stephen Tennant (his grandson), and actor Helena Bonham-Carter (his great great granddaughter). Dugdale (1605-1686) was born in Warwickshire at Shustoke, near Coleshill. Though he had published (in collaboration with Roger Dodsworth) the first volume of his Monasticon Anglicanum the previous year, Antiquities of Warwickshire was his first complete published work (in fact the figures of monks are from the same plates as Monasticon Anglicanum). The high quality of its scholarship meant that it swiftly became a model for county histories. It notably contains a very early consideration of the significance of stone tools, Dugdale stating that they were 'weapons used by the Britons before the art of making arms of brass or iron was known'. In his chapter on Warwickshire in A Guide to English County Histories, Christopher Day writes: "Rarely has a work dominated a county's historiography to the extent of William Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire Illustrated, published in 1656. Dugdale's achievement was hailed by contemporaries, it inspired or overawed his successors, and it commands respect today" (p.396, 1997 edn..). ESTC R4379; Upcott 1247; Wing D2479 Ref: 54732show full image..
Dugdale, William: The Baronage of England, or An Historical Account of the Lives and Most Memorable Actions of Our English Nobility [...] London: Printed by Tho. Newcomb, for Abel Roper, John Martin, and Henry Herringman, 1675-6. First edition. 2 vols., folio. pp. [xii], 476, 497-790, [ii] + 5 folding plates; [viii], 312, 361-488, [iv] Text continuous despite pagination, as usual. Title pages in red and black, woodcut initials. Each plate is a pedigree (Percy, Talbot, Clifford, Berkley and D'Arcie). Vol. I: neatly-repaired closed tears to title-page, dedication, 1st leaf of Preface and final (Index) leaf; a few leaves with unobtrusively repaired corners; very few tiny scorch marks, including any hole to 3S4 not affecting text; some faint toning and light foxing. Vol. II: neatly-repaired closed tears to title-page, 2nd leaf and 3S1, ie. 1st leaf of Index. Contemporary brown calf boards neatly rebacked, spines gilt, red morocco title-labels, neat repairs to corners and some edges, endpapers renewed. Endcaps a bit worn with small tear to tail of vol.I, boards mottled and scratched, still very good, well-repaired copies. To each front paste-down bookplate of Sir Henry Bedingfeld of Oxburgh. Given the relative modernity of the bookplate this seems likely to be Sir Henry Edward Paston-Bedingfeld, 8th Baronet or possibly his father, also called Henry. "A history of the aristocracy and its deeds since Anglo-Saxon times, an immense work of genealogical scholarship derived from sound sources that retains its value to the present day [...] Editions of Dugdale's work continued to appear after his death as scholars polished and quarried his researches. His place in the annals of historical scholarship is an honourable one. His speciality was the retrieval of factual information relating to the great institutions of the middle ages: the monasteries, the legal system, and the aristocracy. The scale of his operations was greater than any previous endeavour, and its achievements were astonishing, especially in view of the disorder of the records from which he worked. " (ODNB). ESTC R16723, R225614; Wing D 2480; Brunet II 868; Lowndes 691; Moule CCLXXIV. Ref: 54651show full image..
[Dugdale, William:] A Short View of the Late Troubles in England; Briefly setting forth, Their Rise, Growth, and Tragical Conclusion. As also, some Parallel thereof with the Barons-Wars in the time of King Henry III. But chiefly with that in France, called the Holy League, in the Reign of Henry III. and Henry IV. l Oxford: Printed at the Theater for Moses Pitt 1681. Folio, pp. [vi], 136, 185-294, 361-439, [i], 449-488, 553-650, [iv], 737-959, [xiii] + portrait frontispiece. Irregular pagination as usual, includes catalogue at rear. Engraved printer's device to title-page, woodcut initials, engraved headpiece. Some pages heavily foxed but others not at all, light dampstaining to head edge from the middle on, some faint blotchy marks and scorches including one hole to 6D1 affecting a few letters, occasional pencil lines to margins. Contemporary speckled dark brown calf boards neatly rebacked in a slightly lighter shade, raised bands gilt ruled, title and date tooled directly, corners repaired. Boards scuffed with some scrapes and small repaired areas of loss, ffep foxed and repaired at top corner, without rfep, still good overall. The ESTC differs from Wing in listing a separate 1671 edition on the evidence of one imperfect copy showing a different imprint; assuming that imprint is correct, this issue would be the second edition. The "last major production", initially published anonymously, of the antiquary Sir William Dugdale (1605-1686), "it is useful for its copiousness and the precision of its dates" (ODNB). Included as an appendix with its own divisional title page is a short work on "the Treaty for a Peace, Begun at Uxbridge, January 30. 1644," which is a reprint of a pamphlet originally published in 1645. After the index is a 5-page "Catalogue of Books Printed at the Theater in Oxford" for the year 1681. ESTC R18097; Brunet II 868; Graesse II 443; Lowndes 692; Wing D 2492. Ref: 55042show full image..
Dugdale, William; Stevens, John: Monasticon Anglicanum, or the History of the Ancient Abbies, Monasteries, Hospitals, Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, [...]. [with] The History of the Antient Abbeys, Monasteries, [etc.,] Being two additional volumes to Sir William Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum: [...] London: Printed by R. Harbin, for D. Browne and J. Smith; Printed for Tho. Taylor, [etc.], 1718; 1722; 1723. 3 vols., pp. [ii] xvi 120 *117-*120, 121-124, *121-*124, [i],126-244, [i], 242-375 [ix] + 103 plates, including engraved title-page; [ii], vii, [v], 76, ff. 77-84, pp. 85-264, cols. 265-272, 273-538 [ii] + 19 plates; [iv], 279, [i], 152, cols. 153-184, pp. 185-223, 242-388, [vi] + 31 plates. Second volume bound with 19 plates rather than the more usual 20, the absent plate being 'The Famous Church of St. Alban with a View of Verulam'. Title pages in red and black, woodcut initials and head- & tail-pieces, 153 plates in total of which 13 are folding, publisher's list to final leaf (verso) of vol.I. Vols. II & III with a little occasional foxing to bottom fore-edge corner, vol.II with a small paper repair to bottom margin of 6H. Generally very clean and bright. 19th-century brown calf, lightly diced, neatly rebacked, spines ornately gilt and each with dark and mid-brown labels, gilt borders and dentelles, edges coloured bright yellow, marbled endpapers. A little rubbed with a few light marks, joints worn with vol. I upper joint split from tail to approx. halfway up and vol. II just starting at tail, vol. II and III spine labels transposed, most corners worn but still good overall. The antiquary John Stevens' abridgement and translation of William Dugdale's monumental Monasticon Anglicanum, complete with his two supplementary volumes. Called by Lowndes 'an excellent epitome'. The additional volumes add hundreds of additional monastic charters, also translated into English. "For the first time it treated pre- and post-Reformation monastic history as a continuum" (ODNB). When the Monasticon was re-edited into six enormous volumes in the 19th century, Stevens' two supplements were incorporated. This was the second English translation/abridgement of the Monasticon, following a much shorter and less successful version in 1693 by James Wright. ESTC T149944, T147338; Lowndes I 686-7; Upcott p. xviii. Ref: 54528show full image..
Epictetus: (Schweighauser, J., ed.:) Dissertationum ab Arriano Digestarum Libri IV. Eiusdem Enchiridion, et ex deperditis sermonibus fragmenta. Post Io. Uptoni aliorumque curas [...] Lipsiae [Leipzig]: in libraria Weidmannia 1799 (vols.I-III), 1800 (vols.IV-V), 1798 (vol.VI) 6 vols. bound as 7. 8vo., pp.XXXII, 684; [iv], 465, [v]; [v], 466-969, [vii]; [iv], 504; [iv], 540; [iv], 500; CLX, 412. Very occasional light foxing but generally remarkably bright and clean within. Uniformly bound in slightly later brown straight-grain morocco, raised bands, gilt-lettered spines, gilt centrepiece to each board, a.e.g., wide gilt dentelles. Bands and edges rubbed, spines a little scuffed, a few marks, bookplates attached to each ffep causing the paper to cockle slightly, very good. To the upper board of each volume a gilt centrepiece cartouche with the initials T.W., a bird crest and the motto Deus Alit Me; to each rear board a small gilt coat of arms. Together with a small clipping from an auction catalogue pasted to the ffep in vol.I these identify as a previous owner Rev. Theodore Williams (his library sold by in London by Stewart, Wheatley and Adlard, April 1827). To each front pastedown a small oval gilt bookplate of John, Earl of Clare. Below this in volume I only, a paper label reading 'From the collection of Charles Butler of Warren Wood, Hatfield' (his extensive library sold by Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, 1911-14). To each ffep, armourial bookplate of the Earl of Cromer. The bookplate is signed J.F. Badeley and dated 1912, suggesting as the owner Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer (1841-1917). The Discourses, or oral teachings, of the Stoic philosopher Epictetus, compiled by his famous student Arrian and here edited by Johann Caspar Schweighauser (1742-1830), professor of Greek and Oriental Languages at Strassburg from 1778-1824. 'The celebrity of all preceding editions is eclipsed by the sagacity, erudition, and research displayed in this most excellent work by Professor Schweighauser.' (Dibdin). Contains: vol.I: Epicteti Dissertationes; vol.II. pt.i-ii: Notae in Epicteti Dissertationes; vol.III: Enchiridion, fragmenta, indices; vol.IV: Simplicii commentarius in Epicteti Enchiridion ex versione Latina Hieronymi Wolfii; vol.V: Enchiridii paraphrasis Christiana, cum Mer. Casauboni Latina versione. Nili Ascetae Manuale Epicteti, ad usum juvenum Christianorum adcommodatum. Epicteti Enchiridion Angelo Politiano interprete. Notae ad Simplicii comment; vol.VI: Epicteti Manuale et Cebetis Tabula. Bound as volume VI is the standalone, Epicteti Manvale et Cebetis tabvla Graece et Latine (1798). Dibdin I (4th edn.) 518. Ref: 54752show full image..
Epictetus; Cebes of Thebes: (Berkel, Abraham van, ed.:) Enchiridium una cum Cebetis Thebani Tabula. Graec. & Lat. cum notis Wolfii, Casauboni, Caselii & aliorum: Abrahamus Berkelius textum recensuit, & suas quoque addidit. Accedit Graeca Enchiridii Paraphrasis, Iacunis omnibus, codicis Medicei ope, ? Jocobo Gronovio Delphis Batavorum [Delft]: Gerardi de Jager, 1683. Second edition. 8vo., pp. [xxxii], 280 + impressive engraved folding plate by R. De Hooghe. Additional engraved title-page, woodcut device to printed title-page, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. Two-column parallel text in Greek and Latin. Closed tear to title-page through printer's details, very faint toning towards outer edges of margins but generally very clean. Vellum prize binding with certificate intact, spine gilt with title in ink, gilt borders, gilt centrepiece and corner pieces with arms of Amsterdam, edges sprinkled blue. A few faint smudgy marks, boards slightly splayed, ties lost, but still a very good copy overall. To ffep verso, ownership inscription possibly with the name Greve dated 1782. Prize certificate inscribed with the names Abr[aham] Quina a Tongeren and Jos. Theod. Schalbruch, dated 1702. Recommended by Dibdin as reputedly 'the best of the octavo variorum editions', combining the work of Berkel, Wolf, Casaubon and Caselius along with the notes and corrections of Gronovius. Dibdin I, 515 (for the Leiden/Amst. edition of 1670); Schweiger I, 106; Spoelder, 5. Ref: 54634
