Hederich, B., Morell, T.: Graecum Lexicon Manuale, primum a Benjamine Hederico institutum... Londini [London]: Impensis C. et J. Rivington..., 1825. 2 parts in 1. 4to. pp. viii, [895], wanting final blank. Small repair to lower margin of one leaf, touching letter but not affecting reading, occasional foxing or ink splashes, title and verso of last a bit soiled, edges dusty. 19th-century half calf over marbled boards, rebacked, raised bands, gilt-lettered morocco label. Extremities a bit rubbed. Occasional 20th-century annotations. 19th-century edition of Benjamin Hederich's successful Greek-Latin dictionary for students, with revisions by the classicist Thomas Morell. Ref: 53306show full image..
Hehn, Victor: (Schrader, O., ed.; Englar, A. & Pax, F., contrib.:) Kulturpflanzen und Haustiere. In ihrem ?bergang aus Asien nach Griechenland und Italien sowie in das ?brige Europa. Berlin: Gerbr?der Borntraeger, 1911. 8th edition. Large 8vo., pp. xxviii, 665. Quarter leather-backed boards, gilt-lettered, spine label, very light staining to lower board, edges and corners lightly bumped and worn, edges dusted and slightly browned, very good. No dust-jacket, as issued. Library sticker to upper board, ownership inscription to front paste-down, two stamps and a library number to title page. With botanical contributions from Adolf Englar and Ferdinand Pax. Ref: 48786
Herodotus: (Gaisford, Thomas, ed.:) Herodoti Halicarnassei Historiarum Libri IX. Codicem Sancrofti Manuscriptum Denuo Contulit Reliquam Lectionis Varietatem Commodius Digessit Annotationes Variorum [?]. Oxonii [Oxford]: excudebant S. et J. Collingwood; G. et W.B. Whittaker, et C. Et J. Rivington, Londo 1824. First edition thus. 4 vols. 8vo., pp. [ii], xxxvii, [iii], 587, [i]; [ii], 589-1120, [lxxvi]; [ii], xl, 565, [I]; [iii], 568-1138, [lxx]. First and last few leaves of each volume foxed. Contemporary tan calf, gilt spines, borders and centrepieces, marbled edges and endpapers. Joints neatly repaired, slight split to upper joint vol. III, spines darkened with a few chips, very good. Armorial bookplate of J.K. Brooke with the motto 'Est Nec Astu' to each front pastedown. Inscription to preliminary blank, vol. I of John Atkinson, Catherine Hall, Cambridge, 'Classical Prize'. 'A neatly printed and justly popular edition. The text is adopted from that of Reitz and of Schaefer: the various readings, running at the foot, are taken from the impressions of Weaselling and Schweighaeuaer. The two last volumes contain an admirable selection of notes.' (Dibdin) Dibdin (4th edn.) II 28. Ref: 54283show full image..
Hingley, Richard & Unwin, Christina: Boudica: Iron Age Warrior Queen. London: Hambledon & London, 2005. First edition. 8vo., pp. xviii, 293 + b/w plates. Maps and illustrations to text. Hardback: blue cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-wear and a little dusting to edges: an almost fine copy. Ref: 53918
[Historiae Augustae] (Casaubon, Isaac, ed.:) Histori? August? Scriptores Sex. Aelius Spartianus, Julius Capitolinus, Aelius Lampridius, Vulcatius Gallicanus, Trebellius Pollio et Flavius Vopiscus [...]. Parisiis [Paris]: Apud Amberosium & Hieronymum Drouart, [...] cum privilegio Regis, 1603. First edition thus. 2 parts in 1 vol., 4to., pp. [xx], 375, [lvii]; 576, [xxxvi]. Illustrations in text. Title-page to first part in red and black, to second part in black only, woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces, with final errata leaf. Top corner of title-page a little frayed, first leaf of text with 2-line note in blue biro to head margin, head margins a bit dusty with very occasional light dampstains, occasional spots of foxing, a few paper flaws to fore-edge margins. Small scorch marks to pp.47-8 and pp.101-4 affecting a few letters, smudgy mark (ink or wax?) to fore-edge margin pp.115-22, ink spots to p.345. Contemporary semi-limp vellum, fore-edges slightly overlapped. Quite browned, covers somewhat creased, ties lost, turn-ins lifting, without ffep but still good and sound overall. Latin inscription in an old hand to title-page translates roughly as 'from the common library of the preachers of Dijon'. First appearance of Casaubon's edition of this collection of biographies of the emperors from Hadrian to Carinus, considered to be the first critical edition and also the first to use the title Histori? August?. (The title as recorded on the 9th-century Codex Palatinus manuscript of the Vatican Library is Vitae Diversorum Principum et Tyrannorum a Divo Hadriano usque ad Numerianum Diversis compositae, and it is generally thought that the work may have been originally known as de Vita Caesarum or Vitae Caesarum.) In early editions 'the emphasis had been laid on the Latin text, but in the seventeenth century the work of the editors included not only textual emendation, but comment and illustration. Of these editions the first was that of Casaubon, published in 1603. It was not unnatural that these biographies should have attracted the editor of Suetonius and Polybius and the scholar who wrote in the preface to his edition of the Historia Augusta that "political philosophy may be learned from history, and ethical from biography."' (from David Magie's introduction to his 1921 Loeb edition.) Though its authenticity was regarded with a little scepticism, Casaubon's edition was for hundreds of years used as a genuine source by historians (including Edward Gibbon in the first volume of his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire). Browning sums up the tricky position the work occupies: "in modern times most scholars read the work as a piece of deliberate mystification written much later than its purported date, however the fundamentalist view still has distinguished support. [?] The Historia Augusta is also, unfortunately, the principal Latin source for a century of Roman history. The historian must make use of it, but only with extreme circumspection and caution." ('Biography', in The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 2 (1983).) Graesse III, 303; Sandys II, 209; Schweiger II, 384. Ref: 54541show full image..
[Homer] Blackwell, Thomas: An Enquiry into the Life and Writings of Homer. London: Printed [for J. Oswald], 1736. Second edition. 8vo., pp.[iv], 346, [lxxxii] + portrait frontispiece and folding map. Single leaf catalogue at rear. Many illustrations and elaborate engraved head- and tail-pieces in the text. Very faint dampstaining to bottom corner, offsetting from some illustrations. Contemporary brown calf, gilt spine with raised bands and title label, plain gilt borders. Worn, endcaps lost, joints split but cords holding, corners frayed, endpapers toned at edges, a good sound copy. The second edition of this pioneering study. 'Blackwell considered why Homer had been the supreme epic poet and concluded that his achievement was explicable almost entirely in terms of natural forces. Homer was the outcome of a specific historical context, social organization, geography, and climate, which combined to shape the culture he represented and which provided an ethos uniquely favourable to epic poetry' (ODNB). ESTC T70409. Ref: 54906show full image..
[Horace] Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: (Opera) Birminghamiae [Birmingham]: Johannis Baskerville, 1770. 4to., pp. [iv], 344 + engraved frontispiece signed Henriquez, but without the other four plates found in about half of the copies Gaskell examined. Title-page setting without the damaged letter D. With margins neatly ruled in red to each page. Occasional spots of foxing, the odd light smudge, p.112 a bit toned, very good. Contemporary calf, gilt spine with raised bands and title, blind-tooled borders and gilt frames to boards, marbled edges and endpapers. Originally dark reddish-brown, the spine and joints are much sunned, patch of further fading to lower board. First compartment of spine and both joints neatly repaired, some scuffs, small stains and scrapes, corners frayed, still a very good, sound copy overall. To front paste-down, armourial bookplate of Octavian Blewitt (1810?1884), English writer and long-serving secretary of the Royal Literary Fund. "The 4to. edition of 1770 is a very beautiful and extremely scarce work, the rarest of all Baskerville's editions. It is frequently chosen by the curious as a repository for any modern or antique design relating to the poet." (Dibdin) ESTC T46243; Gaskell 39; Dibdin II (4th edn.), 111. Ref: 54665show full image..
[Horace] Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: Ad lectiones probatiores diligenter emendatus, et interpunctione nova saepius illustratus. Editio quarta. Glasguae [Glasgow]: in aedibus academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, 1760. 4to, pp. [ii], xii, 307, [i]. Half-title. Small hole to centre of A4 affecting a couple of words, paper flaw to Q4 resulting in shorter fore-edge margin. Deep red morocco, spine heavily gilt with black morocco label, ornate gilt border to boards, edges dark blue, marbled endpapers. A bit rubbed, joints and endcaps neatly repaired, corners worn, upper hinge repaired, but very good overall. Armorial bookplate of William Scott Kerr of Chatto to front paste-down, and gift inscription to blank endpaper: 'To William Kerr, from his friend James Hope, Edinb. 25th Oct 1823'. The luxurious 'large-paper' quarto imposition - using the same setting of text as the octavo, and therefore capaciously-margined - of the fourth Foulis edition of Horace, following on from the 1744 'Immaculate' edition and reprints of 1750 and 1756 (the latter a medal-winning printing). The process of rearranging the frames has not gone entirely smoothly, with pages 20 (C2v) and 24 (C4v) swapped. Gaskell 383; ESTC T46249. Ref: 54180show full image..
[Horace] Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: (Bentley, Richard, ed.:) [Opera] ex recensione et cum notis atque emendationibus Richardi Bentleii. Editio tertia. Amstelaedami [Amsterdam]: apud Rod. & Jacob. Wenstenios & Guil. Smith, 1728. 2 vols. in 1. 4to., pp. [xxiv], 356, [ii], 357-717, [i], 239, [i] + additional engraved title page. Title in red and black with engraved vignette, large engraved headpiece to first page of Dedication. Occasional smudgy marks, a little light dampstaining near gutter, a few leaves lightly toned. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with label, gilt frame and border, central gilt coat of arms of Dokkum. Spine a bit creased, joints rubbed, endcaps and corners slightly worn, still very good overall. The third full Bentley edition (an abridged third edition in 8vo. was produced in Cambridge, 1713), this is an almost exact reprint of the second (Amsterdam, 1713). The two Amsterdam editions are distinguished by having Bentley's editorial notes on the same page as the text, making them more useful to the scholar, and Dibdin and Brunet on this account preferred them to the Cambridge first. "Rash and tasteless in many of its conjectures, marvellously acute in some others (Bentley's Horace is) a signal proof of (his) learning, his ingenuity and his argumentative power" (R.C. Jebb in DNB). Bentley was thought for a long time the first Classical editor of the modern age. He was celebrated and reviled by his contemporaries, and the scholar Alexander Cunningham produced a whole edition of Horace specifically against Bentley's in 1721. Brunet III 818-819; Dibdin (4th edn.) II 101-105; Schweiger II 408; Spoelder 4. Ref: 54317show full image..
[Horace] Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: (Bentley, Richard, ed.:) [Opera] ex recensione & cum notis atque emendationibus Richardi Bentleii. Editio altera. Amstelaedami [Amsterdam]: Apud Rod. & Gerh. Wetstenios Hff. 1713. 4to., pp. [xxiv] 717, [i], 239, [i], including engraved additional title-page and divisional title for 'Pars altera' after p.442. Emendata after p.717 (i.e. 4Y1 verso). Index at rear. Title page in red and black with engraved device, woodcut initials. Gatherings 3M-3O and 3V-3X very toned, occasional light toning otherwise, a few tiny scorchmarks. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with red morocco label, gilt borders, lovely blue paste-patterned edges, very good. With letterpress and manuscript school-prize (to J.J. van Hees, dated 1822) bound at the front. The second edition of Bentley's (in)famous edition of Horace, first printed at Cambridge in 1711, notable for his rash but inspired conjectures and emendations. "The Amsterdam editions of 1713 and 1728 are preferable to the Cambridge one of 1711. The notes and text are in the same page, and they are accompanied by the index of Treter, corrected by Verburgius" (Dibdin 104). Dibdin (4th edn.) II 101; Schweiger II 406; Bijker Riedel A140; Lowndes 1113: "The best edition."; Graesse III 354 (note); Brunet III 319 (note). Ref: 54397show full image..
