Search Results: Titles starting with C from Unsworth's Antiquarian Booksellers

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

Venetiis [Venice]: Apud Nicolaum Pezzana, 1716. 12mo. pp. 261 [3], last blank, including engraved titlepage. Woodcut initials and ornaments. Title a trifle dusty. 18th-century vellum over boards, author's name inked to spine, raised bands, edges sprinkled red. Very minor loss at head and foot of spine. Bookplate of Ashmolean Library Oxford - Bequathed by Sir John Beazley 1970; early 18th-century inscription 'Libro di Lorenzo Pananti costo 3-5' to ffep; small stamp of Ashmolean Library to I4 and verso of last. Excellent, clean copy - in well-preserved vellum and clearly intended for use in schools - with the uncommented text of Claudianus's works, based on the Heinsius variorum first published in Leiden in 1650. The copy of Sir John Beazley (1885-1970), a major historian of ancient art at Oxford. Dibdin I, 211.

Staplehurst, Kent: Spellmount Ltd, 1996. First edition. 8vo., pp. xv, 284, (iii). Maps and illustrations. Hardback: burgundy cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. A little foxing to edges only, otherwise fine. Dust-jacket, light signs of use, still very good.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiv, 372. Quarter red cloth with red paper boards, gilt. Dust-jacket. Almost fine.

Barnsley: Frontline Books (Pen & Sword), 2020. First edition. 8vo., pp. viii, 154 + plates. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy.

Parisiis [Paris]: Typis J. Barbou, 1761. 12mo. pp. (xxxvi) 348. Added engraved frontispiece, 3 engraved plates, woodcut and engraved ornaments. Plates bit dusty or slightly browned. Contemporary marbled calf, marbled endpapers, gilt ruled, spine gilt and lettered, marbled edges. Joints a trifle rubbed. Elegantly bound small-format Parisian edition, first published in 1754 by Jean Barbou. A fresh, clean copy. Brunet V, 87. Not in Dibdin.

The Society for Medieval Archaeology, 2009. First edition. Folio (280 x 212 mm), pp. xi, 267. Illustrations to text. Paperback. Light shelf-wear, very good. The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph 28.

London: Duckworth, 1989. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiii, 321 + plates. Map to endpapers. Hardback: burgundy cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Tiny indent to outer edge of paper, all edges a little dust-marked, but binding fine. Dust-jacket, 2.5cm tear with loss to top corner of upper cover, creasing to edges, otherwise still good.

Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Apud A. et J. Honkoop, 1810. 8vo., pp. [xvi], 567, [i]. Text in Greek and Latin. Small ink stamp to title-page. A few tiny marginal notes. Contemporary vellum, gilt spine, gilt borders, central gilt coat of arms of Utrecht to boards. Some light smudgy marks, ties lost, very good indeed MS notes in an old hand to ffep. With prize certificate made out to Jacobus Adolphus Carolus Rovers, dated '6 Septemb. 1816', with several Masters' signatures. Round inkstamp to title-page, 'Academia Rheno-Traiectina'. Edition by Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer (1715-1785), Dutch classical scholar at Leiden. A follower of Tiberius Hemsterhuis, he succeeded him in 1766 in the chair of Greek at Leiden. Hoffman III 483; Spoelder 7.

Argentorati [Strasbourg]: apud J.G. Treuttel, 1786. Third edition. 18mo., pp. [ii], 149, [i]. A little toned towards edges, some light patches of foxing. Green straight-grain morocco, raised bands and gilt title to spine, gilt borders, a.e.g.. Patchy colour fading, joints and corners worn, some scratches, still very good overall. Armorial bookplate of Thomas Sewell to front paste-down. "These are the most beautiful and accurate editions; the latter [i.e. this, of 1786] was twice published in the same year, and has the text of the Roman edition of Spalleti, but with corrections: it was a favourite edition" (Dibdin). Dibdin (4th edn.) I. 264.

Parisiis [Paris]: Ex Typographia Firminorum Didot, 1858. 12mo, pp. [iv], xvi, 470, [2]. Title-page with engraved border, text printed within red ruled borders, 24 albumen photographic prints mounted as headpieces. Contemporary red morocco, boards bordered with a triple gilt rule enclosing a frame of a triple gilt rule with gilt cornerpieces, within this a decorative gilt lozenge tool, spine elaborately gilt in compartments, second compartment gilt-lettered direct, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Paper lightly toned and foxed. Extremities a little rubbed, a tiny chip to foot of spine and a bump to head of front board. A companion volume to the 1855 Didot Horace, one of the first books to be illustrated with photographs. Like the Horace, this Virgil contains headpieces that photographically reproduce paintings; an alternate issue was also produced with engravings instead reproducing the same images.

London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1899. 8vo, pp. xiii, 435 + 83 illustrations. Slightly toned, but still a very good copy. Red cloth, gilt with gilt design to upper board, hinges weakening, head and foot of spine bumped, library plate and stamps to front pastedown and occasionally throughout, else good. The Cathedral Builders 'shows much original observation and research and, if its arguments are not always conclusive, the international scope of the work and its wealth of illustration render it a storehouse of information' (ODNB).

London: Faber and Faber, 2010. First edition. 8vo., pp. xv, 458 + plates. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Light shelfwear, still very good.

London: Head of Zeus Ltd, 2012. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiii, 625 + plates. Maps. Hardback: cream cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. A little foxing towards edges, more to endpapers, light signs of use, otherwise very good.

London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1966. 8vo., pp. 93, [i]. Faux-vellum boards, gilt titles to spine and upper. Spine and board edges lightly toned, still very good. Dust-jacket toned, edges tattered with approx. 4cm tear to top edge, good only. First edition of this translation.

Stroud, Glos.: Amberley Publishing, 2018. First edition. 8vo., pp. 288 + colour plates. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-wear: a fine copy.

Oxford University Press (Sandpiper reprint). 2001. 8vo., pp.278. Cloth, dust-jacket. Very slight shelf-wear, almost as new.

Oxford University Press (Sandpiper reprint). 2001. 8vo., pp.278. Cloth, dust-jacket. Very slight shelf-wear, almost as new.

Glasguae [Glasgow]: Excudebat Robertus Foulis, 1748. 12mo, pp. 52, 34. Modern dark brown calf, dark red label. Paper toned, with some leaves dustsoiled, a small wormhole to margin of first few leaves. Spine sunned, final gathering pulling free and nearly loose. Substantial pencil notes (filling almost all space including interlinear) to 7 leaves. Perhaps due to its small size, this seems to have had a lower survival rate than most Foulis productions of this period: ESTC finds 6 locations in the UK and 7 outside. Gaskell 120, ESTC T85454.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiv, 390. Black cloth, gilt title to spine, edges dusted. Dust-jacket, only a little superficial shelf wear. Very good. Cambridge History of Medicine.