Hollister, C. Warren.: Anglo-Saxon Military Institutions on the eve of the Norman conquest. Oxford University Press (Sandpiper reprint). 1998. 8vo. pp. ix, 170. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused: as new. First published 1962. Ref: 54890
Hopkins-James, Lemuel J: The Celtic Gospels: their Story and their Text. Oxford University Press (Sandpiper reprint). 2001. 8vo., pp.278. Cloth, dust-jacket. Very slight shelf-wear, almost as new. Ref: 53139
Hopkins-James, Lemuel J: The Celtic Gospels: their Story and their Text. Oxford University Press (Sandpiper reprint). 2001. 8vo., pp.278. Cloth, dust-jacket. Very slight shelf-wear, almost as new. Ref: 53141
Horsley, John: Britannia Romana: or the Roman Antiquities of Britain: In Three Books. The I. Contains... Roman Transactions... II.... the Roman Inscriptions and Sculptures... III. Contains the Roman Geography of Britain. London: Printed for John Osborn and Thomas Longman. 1732. Folio, pp. [viii], xxxii, 520, [xl] +105 plates, some folding. Half-title, engraved head-pieces. A few smudges and dust marks and generally very clean. Later diced tan calf, spine gilt and blind tooled, raised bands, gilt and blind-tooled borders, all edges gilt, gilt dentelles, drab endpapers. Joints cracked, the upper also chipped and repaired with dark cloth. Rubbed, endcaps worn some small surface losses, lower corners frayed, inner hinges repaired with tape, some pencilled bookseller's notes to ffep, externally a bit tired but still very good overall. 'Horsley had been collecting material on the history of Roman Britain when, about 1727, he began working on them with a view to publication. He was assisted in various aspects of his antiquarian research by his friend and correspondent Robert Cay, and by George Mark, who was probably Horsley's assistant at his school in Morpeth. Mark helped to prepare the plans and drawings for Horsley's history, undertook archaeological tours and explorations, and made surveys, including one of Watling Street. He was also assisted by John Ward, professor of rhetoric at Gresham College, who helped revise the manuscript 'and communicated to him many important remarks for its improvement' (Nichols, Lit. anecdotes, 5.521). Horsley's work on Hadrian's Wall utilized material from Alexander Gordon's Itinerarium septentrionale (1726), though his reliance on this book largely went unacknowledged. The Britannia Romana, or, The Roman Antiquities of Britain was divided into three 'books'. The first contained the history of the Romans in Britain, with accounts of the legions stationed there, the Roman stations, and a substantial description of the Roman walls; the second 'book' contained a complete collection of the Roman inscriptions and sculptures found in Britain, together with historical and critical notes; the third 'book' contained a 'Roman geography of Britain', including all the extant ancient Roman accounts of Britain. Horsley wrote that the first 'book' had cost him: 'much labour and time in my study, to draw out an history of transactions, through so many ages, and at such a distance from our own times ? But I need not inform the world, that the second book was the most expensive and tedious. Several thousand miles were travelled on this account, to visit antient monuments ? I omitted no care nor pains, that was necessary to copy these with the greatest exactness, which was the principal design of the work.' (Horsley, Britannia Romana, 1732, i). The book's prefatory dedication to Sir Richard Ellys was written on 2 January 1732, but Horsley did not live to see the publication in early April of this, his greatest achievement. On 12 January he was, according to his friend Ward, 'suddenly and unexpectedly taken off by an apoplexy' (Hinde, 178). His exertions on his Roman history were thought to have contributed to his early death at the age of only forty-six [...] Despite occasional inevitable errors and inaccuracies, Horsley's Britannia Romana was one of the major antiquarian achievements of his day. F. Haverfield in The Roman Occupation of Britain (1924) described it as 'till quite lately the best and most scholarly account of any Roman province that had been written anywhere in Europe' (Haverfield, 75).' (ODNB) ESTC T115200; Upcott xii. Ref: 55067show full image..
Howard, Robert: The History of the Reigns of Edward and Richard II. With reflections, and characters of their chief ministers and favourites. As also, a comparison between those Princes Edward and Richard the Second, with Edward the First, and Edward the Third. Written in the year 1685. London: printed by F. Collins, for Thomas Fox, at the Angel in Westminster-Hall, 1690. 8vo., pp.[vi], xvi, [i], 183, [i]. Occasional light spotting but very clean within. Contemporary dark brown speckled calf, gilt spine with title and raised bands, edges sprinkled blue and red. Old paper label to foot of spine, upper joint cracked but holding firmly, a little toning to endpapers, very good indeed. Later work by Sir Robert Howard (1626-1698), politician and playwright, published during a particularly consequential period in an already notoriously turbulent life. 'Under James II, Howard helped bring about the revolution that put William of Orange on the throne. He served in William's first parliament, contending in the Commons on 22nd January 1689 that James II had in effect 'abdicated the government' (Oliver, 256). Several years later Howard was to sign the 'association' of 1696, an agreement to defend William against the Jacobites. As in the past, Howard tried to strike a balance between his royalist sympathies and his belief in the rights of parliament. In February 1689 the king appointed him to the privy council, the crowning achievement of his political career. Howard's final years were taken up with both professional and literary concerns. Late in 1694 he helped Betterton and his actors to procure a licence for the new theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields; and in 1695 he renewed his friendship with [his brother-in-law] John Dryden. Meanwhile, he had published his History of the Reigns of Edward and Richard II (1690), involving him in the ongoing controversy concerning the divine right of kings, and The History of Religion (1694), an anti-Catholic tract.' (Vander Motten, ODNB) ESTC R2296. Ref: 55085show full image..
Hudson, T. P. (ed.): The Victoria History of the County of Sussex. Volume VI Part 1: Bramber Rape (southern part). Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1980. First edition. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt, fine. Dust-jacket, price-clipped, faded in part with fraying edges but still good. Ref: 54076
Hudson, T. P. (ed.): The Victoria History of the County of Sussex. Volume VI Part 3: Bramber Rape (north-eastern part) including Crawley New Town. Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1987. First edition. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt, fine. Dust-jacket, price-clipped, a little creased and discoloured over spine with fading to lettering, otherwise very good. Ref: 54078
Hughes, Jonathan: Dante's Divine Comedy in Early Renaissance England: The Collision of Two Worlds. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 8vo., pp. xiv, 426. Illustrations to text. Paperback. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54617
Hurnard, Naomi D.: King's Pardon for Homicide Before AD 1307. Oxford University Press (Sandpiper reprint). 1997 8vo. pp. xiv, 394. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused: as new. First published 1969. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused: as new. Ref: 54934
Hyde, Ralph: London Parish Maps to 1900: A Catalogue of Maps of London Parishes within the Original London County Council Area. London: London Topographical Society, 2020. First edition. Large format (307mm x 230mm)., pp. x, 470. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: green cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Light shelf-wear, very good. Augmented and Completed by Simon Morris and Members of the Society. Biographical Notes and Supplementary Material by Laurence Worms. Introduction by Peter Barber. LTS Publication No. 183. Ref: 54757
