Gaudet, John: The Pharaoh's Treasure: The Origin of Paper and the Rise of Western Civilization. New York: Pegasus Books, 2018. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxi, 356 + plates. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: quarter black cloth over cream boards, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a single black ink remainder line to bottom edge and a hint only of shelf-dust, otherwise a fine copy. Ref: 54302
Gellius, Aulus: Noctes Atticae. Editio nova et prioribus omnibus doctis hominis cura multo castigatior. Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1651. Editio Nova. 12mo. [48], 498, [124]. Small clean tear to lower blank margin of F10, another three on K12, V3-4 touching text. Contemporary vellum over boards, yapp edges, title inked to spine (modern), all edges sprinkled blue. Spine little rubbed. Ex-libris of Rudolph Apfelbeck 1883 to ffep. 'The first two editions from the Elzevir press [of which this is the first] were carefully published by J.F. Gronovius.' (Dibdin) 'Fort jolie et qui passe pour tres correcte' (Willems) Dibdin I, 340; Pokel, 101; Schweiger II, 378; Willems, 1127. Ref: 53177show full image..
Gentili, Bruno; Andreae, Bernard, et al: Studi Italiani di Filologia Classica Vol. I & II. LXXXV Annata; Terza Serie; Volume X, Fascicoli I-II. Firenze: Felice le Monnier, 1992. 2 vols. 8vo., pp. ix, 714; [iv], 718-1202. Pink paperbacks, spines slightly faded. Very minor shelf wear, a very good clean set. Ref: 50376
Glazebrook, Allison & Tsakirgis, Barbara (eds.): Houses of Ill Repute: The Archaeology of Brothels, Houses, and Taverns in the Greek World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. First edition. 8vo., pp. viii, 256. Illustrations to text. Hardback: white cloth, black-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54353
Grainger, John D.: Kings and Kingship in the Hellenistic World 350 - 30 BC. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2017. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 262. Hardback: brown cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused: as new. Ref: 54640
Gratius (or Grattius) Faliscus: (Wase, Christopher, trans.:) Cynegeticon. Or, A Poem of Hunting by Gratius the Faliscian. Englished and illustrated by Christopher Wase Gent [...]. (London:) Charles Adams, 1654. 12mo., pp. [xciv], 86. Latin text and English translation on facing pages, the latter verso. Some light dust soiling, heavier on title and verso of last leaf, browning mostly to margins and occasional spots. 19th century half calf over marbled boards, gilt-lettered morocco label. Joints and extremities rubbed, small repair at head and foot. 20th century inscription to front pastedown, later monogram RC inked to title. The first edition in English of this poem on hunting by a contemporary of Virgil and Ovid. The translator's commentary includes chapters on "the styles of hunting different from the English, both antique and forreigne" and "the modern authors who have written upon this subject." The first edition in Latin had been published in Lyon by Sebastian Gryphius in 1537. For an account of Wase's translation (which remained the only English-language translation of Gratius' poem for 280 years until the Loeb Library edition, with translation by J. W. Duff and A. M. Duff, in 1934,)see the chapter 'Hunting and the seventeenth-century English gentleman' by Michael Waters in Steven J. Green (ed.), Gratius. Hunting an Augustan Poet (Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 235-256. Wing G1581; ESTC R1966; Schwerdt I, p.217. Ref: 53093show full image..
Grmek, Mirko D. (ed.): Western Medical Thought from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. First edition. 8vo., pp. viii, 478. Hardback: beige cloth, boards slightly bowed. Dust-jacket, light shelf wear. Otherwise a very good copy. Co-ordinated by Bernadino Fantini and translated by Antony Shugaar. Ref: 53211
Gronovius, Johannes Fredericus: Observatorum in Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis, [...], Monobiblos. (with) Observationum Liber Nonus, [...] Notis ad T. Livium [...]. Daventriae [Deventer]: typis Johannis Columbii, 1651; 1652. Two works in one vol. 8vo., pp. [xxvi], 292, [xxviii]; [xxiv], 431, [lxiii]. Printer's device to both title-pages, woodcut initials and decorative headpieces. A few leaves unopened at fore-edge. Occasional small spots (wax?) and smudges, very good. Contemporary vellum, titles inked to spine, fore-edges slightly overlapped, all edges blue. Pencilled booksellers' notes to front pastedown. A few marks to boards, endpapers toned, an approx. 3cm piece cut out of ffep possibly to remove a name, still very good. Two ownership inscriptions to ffep: D. Wyttenbach, dated August 1765, and J.A. Jeremie(?) dated 1863. The former is quite likely to be the classical scholar Daniel Wyttenbach (1746-1820), student of Hemsterhuis, Valckenaer and Ruhnken who, along with them, laid the foundations for modern Greek scholarship. In 1765 he was just ending his studies at the university in Marburg. Johannes Fredericus Gronovius (1611-1671) was in 1643 appointed professor of rhetoric and history at Deventer, before moving in 1658 to the Greek chair at Leiden, where he spent the rest of his life. Gronovius was the 6th Librarian of the University of Leiden (1665?1671) and, in a nice link, Wyttenbach became the 13th Librarian in 1799 following the death of David Ruhken. Wyttenbach also wrote a highly-regarded Life of his predecessor, which was published in Leiden in the same year. Ref: 54418show full image..
Hall, Edith & Wrigley, Amanda: Aristophanes in Performance 412 BC-AD 2007: Peace, Birds and Frogs. London: Legenda: Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing, 2007. First edition. 8vo., pp. xix, 390. Illustrations. Hardback: laminated decorative boards. Mild shelf-wear with boards rubbed and lightly finger-marked, still a very good copy. Ref: 54263
Harwood, Edward: A View of the Various Editions of the Greek and Roman Classics, with Remarks [...] London: printed for T. Becket [...] 1775. First edition. 8vo., pp. [ii], xxiv, 229, [iii]. Includes three-page catalogue of Harwood's books sold by Becket at rear. Some reversed writing in light pencil to p.96, seemingly offset from something no longer present. A few lightly smudges to title-page but generally clean internally. Mid-twentieth century half tan calf, gilt spine with label, brown marbled boards, edges sprinkled red. A bit rubbed, joints slightly worn but firm, small dent to top edge of upper board, still a very good copy. Pencil note to front paste-down: 'Coll. Christopher Dobson c.1967'. 'Harwood (1729?1794) was a prolific writer and author of numerous religious and biblical treatises and classical works. He once claimed to have written more books than anyone then living with the exception of Joseph Priestley. Of these the one which contributed most to his reputation as a scholar was A View of the Various Editions of the Greek and Roman Classics (1775), which by 1790 had run to four editions and had been translated into German (1778) and Italian (1780 and 1793).' (ODNB) ESTC T118350 Ref: 51811show full image..
