Bryen, Ari Z.: Violence in Roman Egypt: A Study in Legal Interpretation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. First edition. 8vo., pp. 363. Hardback: red cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unread, a hint only of shelf-wear: almost as new. In the publisher's "Empire and After" series. Ref: 53618
Bubb, Alexander: Meeting Without Knowing It: Kipling and Yeats at the Fin de Siecle. Oxford University Press, 2016. First edition, first impression. 8vo., pp. xvi, 272. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Discolouration to spine corresponding with water damage to dust-jacket, boards otherwise unaffected and no damage to interior, otherwise very good. Oxford English Monographs. Ref: 54694
Buckler, Georgina: Anna Comnena: A Study. Oxford: Clarendon Press (for Sandpiper Books), 2000. First edition thus. 8vo., pp. ix, 558. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered. Dust-jacket. Unread: other than a hint of shelf-wear to edges of dust-jacket, as new. Ref: 53382
Bueno De Mesquita, Bruce: The Invention of Power: Popes, Kings and the Birth of the West. New York: Public Affairs (Hachette), 2022. First edition. 8vo., pp. viii, 337. Illustrations. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54619
Burke, Peter; Harrison, Brian; Slack, Paul (eds.): Civil Histories: Essays presented to Sir Keith Thomas. Oxford University Press, 2000. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiv, 399. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine, very slightly cocked spine to corners bumped. Dust-jacket, light shelf-wear with creasing towards top edge. Still a very good copy overall. Ref: 53750
Burton, John: Monasticon Eboracense: and the Ecclesiastical History of Yorkshire. Containing an Account of the first Introduction and Progress of Christianity in that Diocese [...]. York: Printed for the Author, by N. Nickson, 1758. Folio, pp.xii, 448, [xxxvi] + 3 folding plates (The Enclosure and Plan of the Abbey of Fountains; The Plan of the Abbey of St Mary at Kirkstall near Leeds; A Map of the Parish of Hemmingborough). Small piece torn from head of title-page, a few leaves slightly toned, some light foxing towards rear. Contemporary reverse calf boards, modern reback with raised bands, gilt, red morocco title label, board edges recovered, edges sprinkled red, endpapers renewed. Boards a bit rubbed, a soundly repaired, very good copy. Small armourial bookplate of G.W. Wentworth to front pastedown. Godfrey Wentworth Wentworth (1773-1834) came from a noble family. He was educated at Cambridge and became a wealthy landowner, residing at Woolley Hall near Leeds and holding a variety of political positions. The first and only volume, a second having been anticipated but never published. The binder's instructions on p.xii call for guards to be included between certain pages in anticipation of seven plates although, judging by library copies, three seems to be a common number to find present. ESTC T153577; Upcott 1351-3. Ref: 54912show full image..
Caesar, Gaius Julius: Opera Quae Exstant. [Heidelberg:] apud Hieronymum Commelinum, 1595. 24mo., pp. 504, [xlviii]. Woodcut border to title-page, head-pieces and initials, single-line borders around text. Some fore-edges unopened. Occasional pencil notes (numbers) to margins. Smudgy mark to title-page, old and yellowed tape repair to leaf D1, hole to bottom margin pp.461-472, smudged monogram(?) to p.477 obscuring some text, leaf G1 with small hole at head affecting two words, worming to final 5 leaves affecting text to the last two (index). Contemporary limp vellum, title inked to spine and faintly to upper board, and to bottom edge of text block. Ties lost, new endpapers stuck in with small loss to old ffep, bottom corner of old rear free endpaper torn away. A very scarce miniature edition by the great Flemish scholar-printer J?r?me Commelin (1550?-1597), which escapes the notice of both Dibdin and Schweiger. Scarce in the British Isles, with COPAC locating only two copies in the Bodleian and one at Eton College. VD16 ZV 5270 Ref: 54143show full image..
Caesar, Gaius Julius: (Clarke, S., ed.; Hirtius, A. ed.:) C. Julii Caesaris et A. Hirtii De Rebus a Caesare Gestis Commentarii cum Fragmentis. Accesserunt indices [?] Omnia ex recensione Samuelis Clarke fideliter expressa. Glasguae [Glasgow]: in Aedibus Academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, 1750. Folio, pp.[iv], 378, [xiv]. Large paper copy, wide margins. With half-title. Very faint sporadic foxing, faint dampstain to bottom fore-edge corner towards rear. Contemporary dark brown calf recently rebacked in a slightly lighter shade, raised bands, title tooled directly to 2nd compartment, edges sprinkled red, endpapers renewed. A bit rubbed, scrape to upper board, corners a bit worn, very good overall. The Foulis' 1750 edition of Caesar appeared in three forms: 8vo., 4to., and folio. The 8vo edition is in 3 vols. and is distinct from the others, which correspond line for line though the folio holds more lines per page. Described by Schweiger as very clean, and by Brunet as a beautiful edition. Gaskell 139; Brunet I, 314; Schweiger II pt.i, 47-8 Ref: 54559show full image..
Caesar, Gaius Julius: (O.Donnell, James J., trans.:) The War for Gaul: A New Translation. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019. First edition. 8vo., pp. xlv, 275. Map of Gaul to text. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54504
Calderwood, David: Altare Damascenum, seu Ecclesiae Anglicanae politia, Ecclesiae Scoticanae obtrusa [?]. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Apud Cornelium Boutesteyn, 1708. 4to., pp.[viii], 782, [x]. Title-page in red and black with woodcut printer's device. Woodcut initials and end-pieces. Divisional title page for 'De regimine Scotican? ecclesi?'. Inkstamps to preliminary blanks (edges tattered) and to p. 17. Occasional light spotting. A little faint dampstaining to gutter up to about p.50, a few tiny scorch marks. Contemporary vellum, title inked to spine, plain frames and borders, blind embossed centrepieces, edges sprinkled red. Spine a bit darkened, a few scratches, very good. To ffep, preliminary blank and margin of p.17 an inkstamp reading: From the Library of Rev. Owen Thomas, D.D., Liverpool. Purchased and Present by Mr William Thomas, Bootle, Liverpool. The Theological College, Bala. December 1891. First published in 1621 in Amsterdam as 'The altar of Damascus or the patern of the English hierarchie, and Church policie obtruded upon the Church of Scotland', the greatly expanded Latin edition 'Altare Damascenum' followed in 1623. Calderwood (1575-1650) wrote both whilst living in the Netherlands, having been banished for 'resolutely oppos[ing] to the attempts of James VI to reintroduce episcopacy into the Church of Scotland'. (ODNB) Ref: 54396show full image..
