Search Results: Authors starting with H from Unsworth's Antiquarian Booksellers

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.

New York: Octagon Books, 1977. Reprint. 8vo., pp. xv, 438 + frontispiece portrait of the author and two other illustrations. Hardback: brown cloth. No dust-jacket (as issued). Slight shelf-wear with a little dusting to edges: a very good copy. With an Introduction by the editor and Foreword by Felix E. Schelling. This edition first published in 1930 by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxi, 255. Illustrations to text. Hardback: orange cloth, black-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unread, a hint only of shelf-wear: almost as new.

London: Profile Books, 2018. First edition, second impression. 8vo., pp. x, 453 + b/w plates. Maps. Hardback: green cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused: a fine copy. Author's ink inscription "To Charlie..." to title-page.

Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1958. 8vo. pp. [10], 149, [1]. Blue cloth, title gilt to upper cover, a couple of pencilled annotations to first few pp., fine. Dust-jacked, margins and spine a little toned, head and foot of spine and corners a bit worn, else a very good copy. Second edition.

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… Read More

Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (with Brepols), 2010. 8vo., pp. 318. Hardback: laminated decorative boards. New, still in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 360 in the ACMRS Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series, and Volume 30 in the Brepols Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance series.

London: HarperCollins, 1993. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxii, 518. Illustrations to text. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Light signs of shelf-wear: edges dusty, jacket edges a little creased, but still very good overall.

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.

Berlin: Gerbrüder 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.

Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Ex officina Bonaventurae & Abrahami Elzevir, 1627. First edition. 8vo. pp. [116], 225, [39]; 551, [49]. Woodcut vignette to title. Title dusty, repaired to lower outer corner, small clean tear to lower outer blank corner of one leaf, scattered ink spots to couple of gatherings, verso of last leaf bit soiled. Marbled boards c.1800, spine gilt, gilt-lettered morocco label, all edges sprinkled green. Extremities little rubbed. Indistinct inscription and date 1832 to ffep; 17th-century (?) autograph H. Rodolphi to title. 'A learned edition' (Willems) of the verse paraphrase of St John's Gospel by the Hellenistic, Egypt-born poet Nonnus of Panopolis. Heinsius's commentary was based on the work of scholars like Scaliger. Willems 276.

Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1981. First edition. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt, a touch of dust to edges, fine. Dust-jacket, price-clipped, a little grubby, with creasing at folds and along top edge, but entirely intact. Overall. still a very good copy.

Londini [London]: Typis E. Horton & J. Grover, Impensis Johannis Dunmore, Richardi Chiswel, Benjamin Tooke, & Thomae Sawbridge, 1679. Folio, pp. [lxxii], 708, [44], 33, [37] + folding map. Nineteenth-century russia, boards bordered with gilt and blind rolls, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. Some minor spotting, dampmark to gutter of first two leaves, one text leaf with fore-margin trimmed, title-page dustsoiled and pulling loose. Rebacked amateurishly with lighter brown morocco, lettered in gilt, old leather a little scratched. Monogram booklabel of J.H.P., bookplate of the Syston Park library, and later bookplate of C.E. De M. K., all to front pastedown. The Syston Park copy of Herodotus as edited by Thomas Gale (1635-1709), largely based on the Estienne editions and including Henri Estienne's Apologia pro Herodoto. "An excellent edition..." according to Dibdin, who enlists De Bure (No. 4739) in asserting "... to be greatly preferred to that of Gronovius...". Dibdin… Read More

Oxonii [Oxford]: excudebant S. et J. Collingwood; G. et W.B. Whittaker, et C. Et J. Rivington, London; et J. Deighton et Filiorum, Cantabrigiae, 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… Read More

Princeton University Press, 2013. First edition. 8vo., pp. xix, 328. Illustrations to text. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy.

Oxoniæ [Oxford]: Theatro Sheldoniano. Typis Junianis, 1689. Small 4to., pp.[xxviii], 114, [vi], 182, [xxxviii]. With initial imprimatur leaf. Engraving of Sheldonian Theatre to title-page, woodcut initials. 'Recentissima antiquissimæ linguæ septentrionalis incunabula, id est, Grammaticæ Islandicæ rudimenta. Per Runolphum Jonam Islandum' has its own title-page dated 1688, separate pagination but continuous register. Half-title to 'Edwardi Bernardi Etymologicon Britannicum' after the errata on p.182. Final leaf blank. A little ink to bottom margin, pp.133-145, occasional light spotting, very good. Contemporary dark brown calf lightly speckled, raised bands, replacement title label, blind-tooled border with small corner tools to boards. Neat repairs to head and tail of spine and joints, lightly scuffed, corners a little bumped, very good. To front paste-down, armorial bookplate of 'Robert Shafto Esq. of Benwell'. Benwell Towers was bequeathed in… Read More

London: Virago Press, 2019. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 390 + plates. 4 maps to text. Hardback: red cloth, black-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Slight waviness to pages towards outer edge, otherwise a fine, unread copy.

London: Allen Lane, 1993. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiii, 466. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine, small dent to top board edge, two corners slightly bumped. Dust-jacket, sun-faded to spine, shelf-worn and creased with fraying to edges, otherwise complete. Still a good reading copy.

Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2015. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 246 inc. b/w plates. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-wear: a fine copy.

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.