Stronach, David: Pasargadae. A report on the excavations conducted by the British Institute of Persian Studies from 1961 to 1963. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. Folio., pp. xii, [ii], 326, [ii] + folding plates and 192 pages of photographic plates. Further illustrations in the text. Clean and bright within. Black cloth, gilt title to spine, fine. Dust-jacket very slightly tattered at edges, rear panel very lightly scuffed, very good indeed. Scottish archaeologist David Stronach was Director of the British Institute of Persian Studies and directed the excavations at Pasargadae from 1961 to 1963. He was joined there by the Iranian archaeologist Pravin Barzin, official representative of Iran's Archaeological Department. Ref: 55099show full image..
Suetonius, Caius Tranquillus: [van Oudendorp, Frans, ed.:] [XII Caesares] Ad Optimorum Exemplarium Fidem Castigatus. Leyden [Leiden], S. and J. Luchtmans, 1767. 12mo., pp. [iv], 408 + additional engraved title-page. Publisher's device to title-page, woodcut head- and tail-pieces. A few faint in lines to margins, occasional light ink smudges. Contemporary vellum prize binding, gilt spine, large gilt centrepiece of Middelburg to each board, edges sprinkled red. Vellum greyed with some smudgy marks, ties lost, very good. Scarce in UK institutions. Edited, according to Engelmann in his Bibliotheca Scriptorum Classicorum, by Frans van Oudendorp (1696-1761) professor of Eloquence and History at Leiden and 'the last of the great Latinists of the third age of scholarship in the Netherlands' (Sandys). Schweiger, 980; Spoelder 5. Ref: 54730show full image..
[Suicer] Suicerus, Johann Caspar: Thesaurus Ecclesiasticus, e Patribus Graecis ordine alphabetico [...] Editio secunda, priori emendatior, elegantior & longe auctior [?] Amstelaedami [Amsterdam]: Apud J. Henricum Wetstenium & Gul. Smith, 1728. 2 vols., folio, pp. [8], cols. 1476; pp. [iv], cols. 1654, pp. [68]. Main text printed in double columns. Vol. I has engraved frontispiece ('G.F.L. Debrie inv. Cl. Duflos fecit 1728'), title-page in red and black (vol.I) with engraved printer's device with motto: 'Terar dum prosim' (both vols.). Engraved head-piece to Dedication ('G.F.L. Debrie inv. et del. F. Morellon La Care sculpsit 1728') incorporating coat of arms of Sir Richard Ellys (1688-1742), the dedicatee, with motto: 'Aperto vivere voto'. Woodcut initials. With half-titles (in vol. I, bound after the title-page). Occasional light toning, a few ink smudges to vol.II. Contemporary blind-stamped Dutch vellum, title inked to spine, sprinkled edges. Vellum a little grubby, small area of turn-in lifting inside the upper board of vol.II, very good. Ink inscription to ffep of vol.I: 'John Duke Coleridge, from his loving Father & Mother, for his birthday, Dec. 3, 1860, with their prayers for his health & happiness'. Inscription 'J.D. Coleridge' to vol. II. Small leather label with 'D.C.D.' and a cockerel crest in gilt to each front paste down, with some transfer to the ffep. Small bookseller's label to front pastedown vol. I, 'Sold by C.J. Stewart, 11 King William Street, W. Strand, London.' The second edition of this important resource for the study of Greek patristics, first printed in 1682 (and with a further edition following in 1746). Johann Kaspar Suicer (1620-84) was a Swiss reformed theologian and a philologist. John Duke Coleridge (1820-1894) English lawyer, judge and politician, was great-nephew of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who had owned a copy (now in the British Library) and said of it: "Unfortunately I have none of the Greek Fathers?neither have I the Septuagint?but I have found much that I want, in Suicerus's Thesaurus Patrum, which I was lucky enough to buy for it's [sic] weight at a Druggist's?" (letter to John Prior Estlin, 26 July 1802). Graesse VI (pt.I) 525; Brunet V 586. Ref: 54206show full image..
Sweetinburgh, Sheila (ed.): Negotiating the Political in Northern European Urban Society, c.1400-c.1600. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2013. 8vo., pp. 222. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 434 in the ACMRS Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series. Ref: 53721
Switzer, Stephen: A compendious method for the raising of the Italian brocoli, Spanish cardoon, celeriac, fenochi, and other foreign kitchen vegetables; as also an account of the La Lucerne, St. Foyne, Clover, and other grass seeds. With the method of burning clay, for the improving of land. London: printed for Thomas Astley, at the Rose in St Paul's Church-Yard, [1728]. Second edition. 8vo., pp. [ii], xvi, 53, [i]. Woodcut headpieces and initials. Head of title-page trimmed very close, losing top half of 'A Compendious', pp.xiii-xvi a little short at fore-edge not affecting text, partially untrimmed. Occasional light smudgy marks, some faint dampstaining to margins. A few pencil marks to title-page, including an incorrect date. 20th-century quarter calf, gilt title to spine, marbled boards, endpapers renewed, Spine sunned and a little rubbed, headcap very slightly frayed, very good. Rare in UK institutions, with LibraryHub finding only a single copy of this second edition, at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The undated and and even rarer first edition appears in two forms, the second adding an Appendix (gathering G) and a new title-page. Switzer explains: 'As I am daily, and even hourly, receiving fresh Accounts of the Propagating and Improving the valuable La Lucerne, and other Grass-Seeds, I think it proper to add this half Sheet by Way of Appendix, before this pamphlet has spread itself too far; and those Gentlemen who may have bought it before this Appendix comes out, may, by sending to the Places where it is publish'd, have it chang'd: the Whole to cost One Shilling.' In this second edition the earlier Appendix has been replaced by a new one, signed F and dated May 18th 1728. Switzer: 'A Second Edition of this small Treatise being required, I thought it not improper to take a Review of the former, so that I might regulate whatsoever upon due Observation I found amiss, and might add such other Observations as in this Interval I have met with.' ESTC N48413. Ref: 55071show full image..
Syros, Vasileios (ed.): Well Begun Is Only Half Done: Tracing Aristotle's Political Ideas in Medieval Arabic, Syriac, Byzantine, and Jewish Sources. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2011. 8vo., pp. 226. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Ref: 53402
Tacitus, Caius(?) Cornelius: (Lipsius, Justus, ed.:) Historiarum et annalium libri qui exstant, Iusti Lipsii studio emendati & illustrati: [?] eiusdem Taciti liber de moribus Germanorum. Iulii Agricol? vita. Incerti scriptoris dialogus de oratoribus sui temporis. [?]. Antuerpi? [Antwerp]: ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1574. First Lipsius edition. 8vo., pp. 762, [xxi]. Title-page with woodcut Plantin device, woodcut initals, rear blank Bb8 and final gathering *8 ('Index Alphabeticus in Cornelium Tacitum') both present, two colophons (one dated 1574 and the other 1575). Very faint toning, some small darker patches to title and final leaf near gutters, trimmed a little close to printed marginalia but only just touching a few letters. Much later plain paper-covered boards recently rebacked in brown calf with gilt Morocco title label, edges sprinkled red. Without free endpapers, a few scuffs and marks, corners lightly bumped, still very good. To front paste-down: modern blue ink ownership inscription of D.L. Cumming; printed booklabel (perhaps early 20th century) of William Reynolds of Streatham. 'Tacitus is the outstanding historian and the principal prose writer of the Silver Age of Latin letters? Relatively unknown during the Middle Ages, Tacitus, whose works were first printed in Venice about 1473 and several times reprinted before the end of the century, exercised great influence on Renaissance historians. Justus Lipsius (1547-1606), the Netherlands scholar, knew the whole of Tactitus by heart, and his great edition (here cited), nineteen times reprinted, is one of the monuments of sixteenth century scholarship. In a life much vexed by the violence of governments, he found much, as his notes declare, in common with Tacitus's ironic and cynical records of first-century Rome.' (PMM) Adams T31; BM STC Dutch Books S. 195; Dibdin II, 450; PMM 93; Schweiger II, pt.ii, 999; Voet 2276. Ref: 54137show full image..
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius: [...] Opera, Quae Extant. Integris J. Lipsii, Rhenani, Ursini, Mureti, Pichenae, Merceri, Gruteri, Acidalii, Grotii, Freinshemii, & selectis aliorum commentariis illustrata. Joh. Fred. Gronovius recensuit, & suas notas passim adjecit. Accedunt Jacobi Gronovii exc Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Daniel Elzevir, 1672. 2 vols. 8vo, pp. [xxxii], 1224; [ii], 899, [xi], [ccxxiii]. Additional engraved title-page to first vol., woodcut device to title-page, woodcut head & tail pieces & initials. Occasional light foxing, small loss to fore-edge margin of engraved title-page, vol. II with one front endpaper excised and a marginal scorch-hole to Y7. Late 19th-century red straight-grain morocco, spines and boards blind tooled, gilt titles, a.e.g, green endpapers. Joints, endcaps and corners a bit rubbed, a few faint spots and smudges but very good overall. To front paste-down of each volume a 20th-century bookplate of James Elwin Millard. To front paste-down of vol. I, small bookseller's ticket of Edward Rainford of 12 Red Lion Passage. To preliminary blank, MS extract from Dibdin. Described by Dibdin as more 'beautiful and valuable' than the 1685 Bleau edition, though he observes that the Bipont editors consider that 'its accuracy is not equal to its beauty'. Contains the notes of various commentators including J.F. Gronovius, who unfortunately died before the work was completed. Willems 1479; Dibdin II (4th ed.) 453 Ref: 52212show full image..
Taylor, Jane H. M.: The Poetry of Francois Villon: Text and Context. Cambridge University Press, 2001. First edition. 8vo., pp. xii, 234. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine, fine. Dust-jacket, light shelf-wear, very good. In the series: Cambridge Studies in French. Ref: 53590
[Terence] Terentius Afer, Publius (Schrevel, Cornelius, ed.; Donatus, Aelius, comm.): Comoediae Sex. Post optimas editiones emendatae accedunt, Aelii Donati, commentarius integer cum selectis Guiti & variorum notis multo auctoribus, quan antehac indices tertia sere parte locupletiores Accurante cor. Schrevelio. Lugd. Batavorum [Leiden]: Franciscum Hackium, 1657 8vo, pp.[xlviii], 864, [lxiv]. Engraved title-page, woodcut initials and endpieces, final leaf blank. Occasional light spots but generally clean. Contemporary vellum, double-line filets to spine, gilt frame, gilt oval centrepiece of Justitia to each board, edges slightly overlapped. A few slight marks, ties lost, some short notes to ffep, very good indeed. Third edition of Schrevel's 'variorum', which gives as much attention to the playwright's earlier commentators (the fourth century A.D. grammarian, Aelius Donatus and the sixth century commentator Eugraphius) as to more recent commentators. The playwright Terence (d. 159 B.C.) was born into slavery at Carthage and brought to Rome, where he was freed, taking his old master's name. His six comedies, which stand out for their particular naturalistic style, were admired right through the Middle Ages for their moral arguments, and were still on school curricula in the nineteenth century. Dibdin II, 473; Schweiger, 1065. Ref: 55137show full image..
