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Sloan, Kim & Andrew Burnett (Eds. )
ENLIGHTENMENT Discovering the World in the Eighteenth Century
The Enlightenment was a period of intense activity devoted to discovery and learning about the natural world, the past and other civilizations. Classification, collecting and deciphering were all important stages on the way to understanding the world. The King's Library was built to house the books donated from the royal libraries of King George II and King George III and they epitomize the interest in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in scholarship and study. Aimed at the general reader and relevant to many academic disciplines, this book explores the ways people acquired new information, organized their ideas and reached their conclusions. ; 10.8 X 8.5 X 0.9 inches; 304 pages
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Redford, Bruce
DILETTANTI The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England
Minor shelfwear. ; 232 pages; With elegance and wit, Bruce Redford re-creates the vibrant culture of connoisseurship in Enlightenment England by investigating the multifaceted activities and achievements of the Society of Dilettanti. He dissects the British connoisseurs whose expeditions, collections, and publications laid the groundwork for the Neoclassical revival and for the scholarly study of Graeco-Roman antiquity. After the foundation of the society in 1732, portraits of the Dilettanti were painted by George Knapton, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Sir Thomas Lawrence. These include a striking group of mock-classical and mock-religious portraits, which Redford deconstructs deliciously. The society's support of expeditions to the Levant yielded pioneering architectural and archaeological folios, from The Antiquities of Athens (1762) to Specimens of Ancient Sculpture (1809). These monumental volumes aspired to empirical exactitude in text and image alike. As Redford shows, they combine the didactic (detailed investigations into technique, condition, restoration, and provenance) with the connoisseurial (plates that bring the illustration of ancient sculpture to new artistic heights).
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Boswell, James; Frederick A. Pottle (Ed. ) & Christopher Morley (Preface )
BOSWELL'S LONDON JOURNAL 1762-1763 Now First Published from the Original Manuscript Prepared for the Press, with Introduction and Notes by F. A. Pottle.
Small tears to head of spine. Lower corners a bit edgeworn. ; The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell; 370 pages
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Edwards, Richard
ANALYTICAL FOURTH READER Containing Practical Directions for Reading; Athorough Method of Thought-Analysis; a Critical Phonic Analysis of English Words
Inner hinges cracked. Some loss to spine cloth at base of spine. Spine cover cracked along 1 joint. Corners edgeworn. Former owner's name to ffep. Pages tanned. ; Analytical Series; 264 pages
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Steele, Richard; Joseph Addison Et Al.
THE SPECTATOR. VOLUME THE FOURTH. [Issues 252- 321. December 1711 - March 1712]
Full leather binding. 5 raised bands with red leather spine label. Corners and spine ends edgeworn. Gilt ruled boards. Former owner's name in faded ink to titlepage. Dampstaining to a few pages. Browning and foxing to endpapers. ; 303 pp + [9] pp ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall
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MacMullen, Ramsay
ROMAN SOCIAL RELATIONS 50 B.C. to A.D. 284
Scholars' bookplate to inner cover (Slater & Dunbabin). Light pencilling to a couple of pages. ; 212 pages; "In this interesting and suggestive book, Professor MacMullen views anew an important and rather neglected aspect of Roman social relations. A perceptive and sensitive interpreter, he has drawn widely upon the scattered and unorganized evidence about the poorer classes, rural and urban, in much of the Roman Empire, and presents a fresh picture of their conditions, attitudes, and aims." -T. Robert S. Broughton
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Sherk, Robert K. (Ed. & Trans. )
ROME AND THE GREEK EAST TO THE DEATH OF AUGUSTUS
Pages yellowed. ; Translated Documents of Greece and Rome 4; 200 pages; This is a collection in English translation of Greek and Latin sources for the study of Greek and Roman history, sources which are mainly inscriptions and papyri. They do not include the major authors such as Polybius and Livy. Where those authors have provided us with the broad outline of the Roman presence in the Greek world, this collection allows the student and reader to penetrate beneath what they have to tell us and to see details otherwise unreported. Much of this documentary material having never before been translated into English, it has been all too often neglected in colleges and universities at all levels. The theme of the present collection is the Roman presence in the Greek East, the nature of the Roman hegemony, the diplomatic moves on both sides, and the reaction of the Greeks, during the period from the last decades of the third century BC to the death of Augustus in AD 14. It includes such materials as treaties of alliance and friendship, honorary decrees, official letters of Roman governors, decrees of the Roman senate, dedications of statues, Roman laws, reports of embassies, religious cults, legal decisions, loyalty oaths to Rome, athletic contests, calendars, and minutes of an audience in Rome given by the emperor. Brief commentary and notes accompany the translations, making this book a collection to be welcomed by students and teachers of ancient history.
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Miller, Stephen G.
ARETE Greek Sports from Ancient Sources.
Small tear to upper corner of front wrap. Else Minor shelfwear. Former owner's name to ffep. ; From the informal games of Homer's time to the highly organized contests of the Roman world, Miller has compileda trove of ancient sources: Plutarch on boxing, Aristotle on the pentathlon, Philostratos on the buying and selling of victories, Vitruvius on literary competitions, and Xenophon on female body building. Arete offers readers an absorbing lesson in the culture of Greek athletics from the greatest of teachers, the ancients themselves, and demonstrates that the concepts of virtue, skill, pride, valor, and nobility embedded in the word arete are only part of the story from antiquity. ; 235 pages
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Rabelais, François & J. M. Cohen
GARGANTUA & PANTAGRUEL The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel
Pages tanned. Creasing to spine and ffep. A bit of colour loss along spine. ; Penguin Classics; 7.6 X 5.0 X 1.3 inches; 720 pages
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Le Patourel, John
THE NORMAN EMPIRE
Light rubbing and shelfwear. DJ spine slightly sunned. ; Political structures created by the Normans in Britain & France. ; 416 pages
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Hansen, Mogens Herman; (translated by J. A. Crook)
THE ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY IN THE AGE OF DEMOSTHENES Structure, Principles, and Ideology
Creasing to spine. Light creasing to wraps. Minor shelfwear. ; The Ancient World; 410 pages; When democratic rule was ended by the conquering Macedonians in 322, the Athenians had evolved principles and practice of democratic ideology that became the direct inspiration of those liberal ideas cherished by the Western world in the 19th and 20th centuries. Mogens Hansen examines Athenian democracy both as a political system and as an ideology. In describing the former he distinguished between the three major decision-making organs - the Assembly, the Legislators and the Peoples Courts, and the magistrates who were responsible both for preparing the agenda for the legislature and for carrying its decisions into effect. In discussing Athenian democratic ideology Dr Hansen also makes the important distinction between the ideals held by the democrats themselves and those imputed to them by the critics of democracy, principally (and ironically, given that they would barely have survived under any other system) the philosophers. The Athenians conceived liberty both as the ability to participate in the decision-making process, and as the right to live without oppression from the state or other citizens. Equality was conceived not as an equality of nature, but as an equality of opportunity. "The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes" is based on more than 30 years sustained research.
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Plutarch & Arthur Hugh Clough
PLUTARCH'S LIVES, VOLUME 2 The Dryden Translation, Edited with Notes and Preface
Modern Library Classics; 7.9 X 5.2 X 1.4 inches; 752 pages
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Gelling, Margaret
SIGNPOSTS TO THE PAST Place-Names and the History of England
Some foxing. Foxing to top of textblock. Dustjacket is protected in plastic sleeve. ; 8.9 X 6.1 X 1.2 inches; 281 pages
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Cameron, Kenneth
ENGLISH PLACE NAMES
Foxing to textblock. Spine a bit sunned. ; English Heritage; 8.3 X 5.4 X 0.9 inches; 256 pages
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Cheney, C. R. & Michael Jones
A HANDBOOK OF DATES For Students of British History
Foxing to textblock. ; Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks 4; 9.0 X 6.0 X 0.7 inches; 268 pages
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Dunbavin, Paul
PICTS AND ANCIENT BRITONS An Exploration of Pictish Origins
Dustjacket is protected in plastic sleeve. ; 8.6 X 5.1 X 0.7 inches
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Laing, Lloyd & Jennifer Laing
THE PICTS AND THE SCOTS
Dustjacket is protected in plastic sleeve. Very faint foxing. ; 9.8 X 7.0 X 0.9 inches; 172 pages
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Evison, Vera I.
THE FIFTH-CENTURY INVASIONS SOUTH OF THE THAMES
Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Dustjacket has tears - repaired with cellotape now yellowed. Minor shelfwear to book. ; Contents: Current Theories about the Invasion; Fourth and Fifth Century Frankish Graves on the Continent; Distribution of Frankish Fifth-Century Objects in England; Individual Graves of Franks of Fifth Century in England; The Quoit Brooch Style; Fifth-Century Franks in England and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. ; 142 pages; 143 pages and plates.
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Kenyon, Denise
THE ORIGINS OF LANCASHIRE
Foxing to textblock. Else very minor shelfwear. ; Origins Of The Shire; 8.4 X 5.9 X 0.7 inches; 202 pages
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Simpson, W. Douglas
SAINT NINIAN AND THE ORIGINS OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN SCOTLAND
Former owner's name on ffep and rear inner cover. Some pencil marginalia. A bit of colour loss along upper edge of boards. Minor bumping along lower edges of boards. ; 110 pages
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Welch, Martin
ENGLISH HERITAGE BOOK OF ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND
Foxing to textblock and endpapers. Minor shelfwear. ; 9.7 X 7.3 X 0.6 inches; 144 pages
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Yorke, Barbara
KINGS AND KINGDOMS OF EARLY ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND
Very faint shelfwear. ; 9.1 X 6.1 X 0.7 inches; 218 pages
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Horace; A. D. Godley (Trans. )
THE ODES OF HORACE
Endpapers browned. Former owner's name in ink to Inner cover. Some pencil notes to rear endpaper. A few ink notes. Copyright page shows 1898 but advertisements at end dated 1905 ; English translation only. ; 111 pages
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Plato; Davies & Vaughan [John Lllewelyn Davies and David James Vaughan]
THE REPUBLIC OF PLATO Translated and Edited
Rebound in attractive red leather boards with marbled boards. Gilt lettering and tooling to spine. 5 raised bands to spine. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Very attractive. A bit of chipping along edges of boards. ; Xxviii, 406 pp. English only. No date. Early 1900s? ; Philobiblion Edition; 406 pages
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Wheatley, Henry B. & William Edward Mead & D. W. Nash & J. S. Stuart Glennie
MERLIN OR THE EARLY HISTORY OF KING ARTHUR A Prose Romance (about 1450-1460 A.D.). Edited from the Unique MS. in the University Library, Cambridge.
Very light shelfwear. Glue Stains along inner hinges. Textblock has one small stain. ; With an Introduction containing Outlines of the History of the Legend of Merlin. Also Essays on Merlin the Enchanter and Merlin the Bard, & Arthurian Localities. O. S. 21 & 36. Pp 189-776; Early English Text Society; Vol. 2; 587 pages
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Owens, E. J.
THE CITY IN THE GREEK AND ROMAN WORLD
Scholar's name to inner cover (Jenifer Neils). Underlining in pen to some pages. Else VG. ; 224 pages; Drawing on archaeology, literary and epigraphic evidence, professional and technical literature, and descriptions of cities by travellers and geographers, the author traces the developments of town planning, revealing the importance of the city to political, religious, and social life in the Greek and Roman world.
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Hanson, Victor Davis (Ed. )
HOPLITES The Classical Greek Battle Experience
Minor shelfwear with creasing to spine. ; 304 pages; Incorporating research found in ancient literary, iconographic, epigraphic, and archaeological sources, this book explores the experiences of the soldiers who conducted battle on the small plains of ancient Greece. The volume, which draws on the accumulated expertise of nine American and British scholars, emphasizes the actual techniques of fighting and practical concerns as the use of commands, music in warfare, the use of "dog-tags", and ritual on the battlefield.
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Lucian; A. L. H. (Trans)
THE MIMES OF THE COURTESANS [Dialogues of the Courtesans]
Spine sunned. Light tanning to pages. Faint foxing to endpapers. ; English translation. ; 152 pages
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Plato; Hugh Tredennick & Harold Tarrant.
PLATO: THE LAST DAYS OF SOCRATES Euthyphro / Apology / Crito / Phaedo
Foxing to top of textblock and lightly to endpapers. ; 7.7 X 5.0 X 0.7 inches; 237 pages
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Plato; Robin Waterfield
PLATO: SYMPOSIUM
Foxing to top of textblock. Minor shelfwear. ; The World's Classics; 7.2 X 4.5 X 0.3 inches; 160 pages
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Brewer, Derek (Ed. )
STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL ENGLISH ROMANCES Some New Approaches
Foxing to textblock and endpapers. Else minor shelfwear. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; 9.3 X 6.4 X 1.0 inches; 205 pages
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Lapidge, Michael & John Blair & Simon Keynes & Donald Scragg (Eds. )
THE BLACKWELL ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND
Very faint shelfwear. 1 corner very lightly edgeworn. ; 9.6 X 6.8 X 1.3 inches; 556 pages
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Sweet, Henry; Norman Davis (Rev. by)
SWEET'S ANGLO-SAXON PRIMER Revised Throughout by Norman Davis
Many notes and underlining in pen. Endpapers browned. Former owner's name on ffep. Spine a bit duller; 129 pages
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Fry, Donald K. (Ed. )
THE BEOWULF POET A Collection of Critical Essays
Some chipping and colour loss to spine. Creasing to corner of wraps. ; Twentieth Century Views; 177 pages
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Hulbert, James R.
BRIGHT'S ANGLO-SAXON READER Revised and Enlarged
Many Pencil and pen notes. Reading copy only. ; 395 pages
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Hulbert, James R.
BRIGHT'S ANGLO-SAXON READER Revised and Enlarged
Former owner's name on inner cover - blacked out. Ffep excised. A few pages with inking ; 395 pages
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Gibbon, Edward & Diro A. Saunders (Preface by Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr. )
THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE An Abridged Version, Edited with an Introduction
Pages tanned. Spine sunned with creasing. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). ; Penguin Classics; 7.1 X 4.4 X 1.2 inches; 704 pages
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Myres, J. N. L.
THE ENGLISH SETTLEMENTS (English Political and Social Life from the Collapse of Roman Rule to the Emergence of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms)
Pages tanned. ; Oxford History of England; 7.6 X 5.0 X 0.9 inches; 290 pages
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MACLAGAN THOMAS T.
THE ROYAL ENGLISH DICTIONARY AND WORD TREASURY
Thomas NELSON ANS SONS. 1928. In-12 Carré. Relié. Etat d'usage. Couv. légèrement passée. Dos frotté. Intérieur bon état. 784 pages. New edition, revised by J. H. G. Grattan.
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ELWALL ALFRED
PETIT DICTIONNAIRE ANGLAIS-FRANCAIS ET FRANCAIS-ANGLAIS, A L'USAGE DES COURS ELEMENTAIRES
Delalain, Delagrave. 1926. In-12 Carré. Relié. Etat passable. 2ème plat abîmé. Dos abîmé. Pliures. 764 pages, puis 435 pages. 2e plat manquant. 1er plat se détachant. Quelques rousseurs. Extrait du Dictionnaire complet du même auteur. Avec appendice et mots nouveaux.
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WEBSTER
THE AMERICAN ILUSTRATED PRONOUNCING POCKET DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Hurst & Co.. 1914. In-18 Carré. Relié. Bon état. Couv. légèrement passée. Dos satisfaisant. Quelques rousseurs. 384 pages. Texte sur 3 colonnes. Illustré de nombreuses gravures en noir et blanc dans le texte. 1er plat très légèrement abîmé. New edition revised. Based on the labors and principles of Webster and other authorities. Containing fifty thousand words.
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NUGENT THOMAS
NOUVEAU DICTIONNAIRE DE POCHE FRANCOIS-ANGLOIS, ET ANGLOIS-FRANCOIS
Chez Tardieu-Denesle, Paris. 1818. In-16 Carré. Broché. Etat passable. Livré sans Couverture. Dos abîmé. Pliures. 247 + 303 pages. Texte sur 3 colonnes. 2 gravures en noir et blanc en frontispices. Dos et plats manquants. Pages de garde et de titre abîmées. Mouillures. Cahiers se détachant. A relier. 17e édition revue par L.-F. Fain. Augmentée par J. Ouiseau des nouveaux mots insérés dans le Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise, publié par Moutardier. Contenant: 1. Tous les mots généralement usités et autorisés par les meilleurs écrivains; 2. Les genres des noms françois; 3. Une liste alphabétique des noms de baptême, des noms propres historiques, ceux des villes et contrées les plus remarquables du monde. Frontispices de Couché Fils.
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WEBSTER DR.
Dr. WEBSTER'S COMPLETE DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Bell and Daldy, London. Non daté. In-4 Carré. Relié demi-cuir. Etat d'usage. Plats abîmés. Dos très frotté. Quelques rousseurs. 1768 pages. Gravure en noir et blanc (portrait) en frontispice. Illustré de très nombreuses gravures en noir et blanc dans le texte et sur planches hors texte en fin d'ouvrage. Titre et filets dorés sur le dos. Texte sur 3 colonnes. Bords des plats frottés, avec petits manques. Couverture se détachant. Pages de garde très abîmées et détachées. Légères mouillures en tout début d'ouvrage. Vers 1860-1870. Thoroughly revised and improved, bu Chauncey A. Goodrich, D.D., LL. D., and Noah Porter, D.D. With 3000 grouped and classified illustrations, a pronouncing vocabulary of the names of fictious persons and places, scripture proper names, etc.
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CONTANSEAU LEON
PRACTICAL DICTIONARY OF THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES
Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts. 1860. In-8 Carré. Relié demi-cuir. Etat d'usage. Plats abîmés. Dos abîmé. Rousseurs. 430 + 529 pages. Texte sur 2 colonnes. Auteur, titre et filets dorés sur le dos. Dos et plats très frottés. Annotation en page de garde. Taches d'encre en page de titre. Quelques feuillets abîmés et détachés. 4th edition. Composed from the French Dictionaries of the Academy, Boiste, Bescherelle, etc., from the English Dictionaries of Johnson, Webster, Richardson, etc.
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WITTY F. R.
NELSON'S DESK DICTIONARY
Nelson. 1964. In-8 Carré. Relié. Etat d'usage. Couv. convenable. Dos frotté. Intérieur bon état. 394 pages. Illustré de nombreux dessins edans et hors texte. Texte sur 2 colonnes. Revêtement plastifié des plats se détachant. Traces de scotch en pages de garde. Annotation en page de garde. Prefixes and suffixes. Countries, their people, language, capital, and money. Foreign words and phrases. Abbreviations. The Dictionary.
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FOWLER H. W., FOWLER F. G.
THE CONCISE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF CURRENT ENGLISH
The Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1965. In-12 Carré. Relié, Jaquette. Très bon état. Couv. fraîche. Dos impeccable. Intérieur frais. 1158 pages. Texte sur 2 colonnes. 5th edition. Edit. by H.W & F.G. Fowler. Based on the Oxford Dictionary. Revised by E. McIntosh. Etymologies revised bu G.W.S. Friedrichsen.
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ELWALL ALFRED
PETIT DICTIONNAIRE ANGLAIS-FRANCAIS ET FRANCAIS-ANGLAIS, A L'USAGE DES COURS ELEMENTAIRES
Delalain Frères - Ch. Delagrave. 1909. In-12 Carré. Relié. Etat d'usage. Couv. légèrement passée. Mors fendus. Intérieur acceptable. 758 + 429 pages. Couverture et quelques pages se détachant légèrement. 29e édition. Extrait du Dictionnaire complet du même auteur.
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WEINER E. S. C., DELAHUNTY ANDREW
THE OXFORD GUIDE TO ENGLISH LANGUAGE
BCA. 1993. In-8 Carré. Relié, Jaquette. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. 306 pages. Quelques passages surlignés. New edition. The essential guide to correct English.
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HORNBY A. S., GATENBY E. V., WAKEFIELD H.
THE ADVANCED LEARNER'S DICTIONARY OF CURRENT ENGLISH
Oxford University Press. 1958. In-8 Carré. Relié. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos frotté. Intérieur acceptable. 1527 pages. Illustré de nombreux dessins en noir et blanc dans le texte. Texte sur 2 colonnes. Annotations au feutrre noir en page de garde.
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ELWALL ALFRED
DICTIONNAIRE FRANCAIS-ANGLAIS A L'USAGE DES ETABLISSEMENTS D'INSTRUCTION PUBLIQUE ET DES GENS DU MONDE
Ch. Delagrave - Delalain Frères. 1897. In-8 Carré. Relié. Etat passable. Plats abîmés. Dos abîmé. Intérieur acceptable. 874 pages. Texte sur 2 colonnes. Dos manquant. 2e plat détaché. 1 feuillet et 1 page de garde détachés. 20e édition. Suivi d'un appendice de mots nouveaux et d'acceptions nouvelles.
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