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; 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
Eutropius: Breviarum Historiae Romanae. Accedunt Selectae lectiones dilucidando Auctori appositae. Parisiis [Paris]: Typis Josephi Barbou. 1754. 12mo., pp. [ii], xxviii, 221, [i]. Additional engraved frontispiece, engraved head- and tailpieces. Frontispiece and title a bit dusty, minimal foxing, margins of two leaves lightly waterstained, traces of small pasted paper slip on verso of last leaf. Contemporary crimson morocco, triple gilt ruled, spine triple gilt ruled, large gilt fleurons, gilt-lettered morocco label, small worm hole at foot, inner edges gilt, a.e.g. Joints expertly repaired, boards lightly rubbed. 18th century armorial bookplate of Louis des Champes des Tournelles to front pastedown, book label of Alfred Neild to ffep, bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to flyleaf. An attractively-printed pocket edition of the abridged Roman history written by the 4th century historian Eutropius. This copy belonged to Louis des Champes des Tournelles (1744-95), a staunch Jacobin appointed French Minister of Finance in 1793. After Robespierre's abolition of ministries, he was imprisoned for defending too ardently his brother, later executed on the guillotine. Louis died of poisoning in 1795. Brunet II 1116. Ref: 53163show full image..
Fabricius, J.A.: Bibliotheca Graeca, sive Notitia scriptorum veterum Graecorum. Hamburgi [Hamburg]: apud Christian Liebzeit & Theodor. Christoph. Felginer, 1714-1728 14 vols (I-II bound together, IV in two vols). 4to. I-II: pp. [2], [14], 940; III: pp. [2], [14], 830, including one full-page engraved illustration; IV/1: pp. [2], [14], 711, [1]; IV/2: pp. [2], [12], 618; V: pp. [2], [14], 338; [6], 111, [1]; [6], 186; [6], 250; VI: pp. [14], 840, including one full-page engraved illustration; VII: pp. [2], [6], 792; VIII: pp. [2], [18], 876; IX: pp. [2], [6], 808; X: pp. [2], [26], 824; XI: pp. [2], [14], 860, [2]; XII: pp. [2], [12], 911, [1]; XIII: pp. [2], [10], 860; XIV: pp. [2], [10], 740; all (except vol. VI) including engraved frontispieces. Varying degrees of browning or foxing as usual, upper edges a little dusty, the odd ink mark, I-II: 2 extreme lower outer corners torn, IV/1: light marginal water stain to last few leaves, small repair to 4N3 not affecting reading, VIII: small worm hole to lower blank margin, expanding into worm trail to one gathering; XIII: last verso a little soiled. Modern quarter crushed crimson morocco over cloth boards, raised bands, spine gilt-lettered, corners a little rubbed. Modern bookplate of Writers' Library, London, to front pastedowns. The full 14-volume set of this renowned bibliographical monument to Greek antiquity - a masterpiece of erudition by the German classicist J.A. Fabricius (1668-1736), professor of rhetoric at Hamburg. Originally published between 1705 and 1728, 'Bibliotheca Graeca' is one of his several works of historical bibliography, which reached down to medieval Latin writers. It covers works written between pre-Homeric times and the fall of Constantinople in 1453, including, for major figures like Homer, the tradition of scholia and the criticism of late antiquity. Some of its volumes include previously unpublished essays by Fabricius on sundry topics, e.g., a grammar of Dionysius Thrax. Chapters are organised in a variety of ways: some by subject (e.g., jurisprudence), others by literary or philosophical current (e.g., Peripatetics). The volumes of this set were published between 1714 and 1728. A handsome work, scarce as a full set. Ref: 53673show full image..
Florus, Lucius Annaeus L. Annaeus Florus. CL. Salmasius, addidit Lucium Ampelium, & cod. M.S. nunquam antehac editum. Lugd. Batav. [Leiden]: Apud Elzeviros, 1638. 12mo. pp. [viii], 290, [ii], [293-] 336, [xvi]. Engraved title, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Light red ink stain to upper outer blank corner of title and first two leaves, few leaves a trifle foxed. Near contemporary full calf, double gilt ruled, gilt fleurons to corners, spine gilt with fleurons and stars, gilt-lettered morocco label, inner edges gilt, a.e.g. Joints a bit cracked, lower with small worm hole. Bookplate of Faulque de Jonchieres to front pastedown, occasional annotations. Handsomely-bound copy of the better edition of the two printed by the Elzevirs in 1638. 'The preference is given to those copies where the two vignettes (one at the head of the dedicatory epistle, the other at that of the text of Florus) are different' (Dibdin II, 10). 'La plus jolie' (Willems 467), with the first headpiece in the shape of a mermaid. This copy belonged to Faulque de Jonqui?res (d.1873), librarian of the Minist?re de la Marine. Dibdin II, 10; Willems 467. Ref: 53175show full image..
Florus, Lucius Annaeus: L. Annaeus Florus. CL. Salmasius, addidit Lucium Ampelium, & cod. M.S. nunquam antehac editum. Lugd. Batav. [Leiden]: Apud Elzeviros, 1638. 12mo., pp. [viii], 336, [xvi]. Engraved title-page, woodcut head-pieces and initials. Occasional pencilled underlining, very tiny scorch hole through pp.261-266 affecting a couple of letters in total. Lovely 19th-century full red morocco binding by J Canap? with raised bands and gilt titles, a.e.g, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers and ribbon bookmark. Bands and upper joint a little rubbed, very good indeed. Monogrammed bookplate to front pastedown, 'Biblioth?que du Docteur Ant. Danyau'. Handsomely-bound copy of the better edition of the two printed by the Elzevirs in 1638. 'The preference is given to those copies where the two vignettes (one at the head of the dedicatory epistle, the other at that of the text of Florus) are different' (Dibdin II, 10). 'La plus jolie' (Willems 467), with the first headpiece in the shape of a mermaid. Dibdin II, 10; Willems 467. Ref: 54724show full image..
Frontinus, Sextus Julius: (Oudendorp, Frans van, ed.:) Libri Quatuor Strategematicon, cum notis integris Francisci Modii, Godescalci Stewechii, Petri Scriverii, & Samuelis Tennulii. His accedunt, cum P. Scriverii, tum aliorum doctorum ineditae observationes. Curante Francisco Oudendorpio, qui & suas adnotationes, variasque MStorum lec Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Apud Sam. et Joann. Luchtmans, 1779. 8vo. pp. [lxxviii], 570, [cxxxiv]. Engraved frontispiece, woodcut initials and end-pieces. Sporadic very light spotting, very light toning, closed tear to bottom corner 2L6 not affecting text. Contemporary prize binding with certificate bound in, spine gilt, blind-tooled borders and frame with gilt corner-tools and gilt centrepiece with the arms of Leiden to each board, edges sprinkled red. Spine a bit lifted and creased at tail-end, boards a little bowed and very slightly greyed with a few smudgy marks, ties lost, front paste-down lifting a little at fore-edge. Handwritten prize certificate with four signatures awarded to Daniel van Haltern by the 'Quatuorviri' (Board of Trustees) of the Latin School on 4 March 1782. To front paste-down, 20th-century bookplate with coat of arms of Marie Gr?fin von Der Goltz (1873-1941), wife of Count R?diger von der Goltz (1865-1946), army general during WWI, commander of the German Baltic Sea Division' during the civil war in Finland and prominent coordinator of right-wing veterans' organizations in the Weimar Republic. Her son, Gustav Adolf Karl Joachim R?diger Graf[a] von der Goltz (1894-1976) was a lawyer and Nazi Party member who defended many prominent Nazis in the years before they took power, including Joseph Goebbels in 1931-2. He was a member of the Reichstag until his resignation in 1943, when he defended his cousin Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) and Hans von Dohnanyi (1902-1945) before the Reichskriegsgericht. After 1945 he worked as a lawyer at the D?sseldorf Higher Regional Court. Sextus Julius Frontinus (c. 40 ? 103 AD) was a prominent Roman civil engineer, author, soldier and senator of the late 1st century AD. He was a successful general under Domitian, commanding forces in Roman Britain, and on the Rhine and Danube frontiers. This collection of examples of military stratagems from Greek and Roman history edited by Frans van Oudendorp (1696-1761), professor of Eloquence and History at Leiden University from 1740 to 1761. Spoelder 5; Graesse II, 639; Schweiger II, 369; Brunet II, 1409 on the ed. Leyden, 1731: "Cette ?dition est bonne, mais elle a ?t? effac?e par la r?impression faite par les soins de Corn. Oudendorp, qui y a ajout? de nouvelles notes, Lugd.-Batavor., 1779" Ref: 54553show full image..
