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

Londini [London]: Gulielmus Pickering, 1831. First edition thus. 2 vols. 48mo. (87 x 51 mm), pp. [2] 351 [1]; [2] 272, with engraved frontispiece, bound without half-title in vol.1. Anchor and dolphin vignette to titles. Greek letter. Imternally clean, rear gatherings in both volumes unopened. Original publisher's red cloth, original paper labels with title and '2 vol. 12s', spines and covers a little faded, corners bumped. Edges a little dusty, First edition of Homer's 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey', the last published of Pickering's 'Diamond Classics' series, and possibly still the smallest ever printed Homer, exquisitely printed in Greek diamond type by C. Whittingham. Keynes records a price of 12s for large paper copies, else 9s. Keynes, p.72.

Londini [London]: Gulielmus Pickering, 1831 First edition thus. 2 vols., 48mo. (81 x 48 mm), pp. [2] 351 [1]; [2] 272, with engraved frontispiece, lacking half-title in vol.1. Anchor and dolphin vignette to titles. Greek letter. Slight yellowing, frontispiece and title of vol.1 weakening. I: contemporary crushed black morocco, raised bands, a.e.g., extremities and joints a little rubbed, II: contemporary crushed brown morocco, raised bands, inner edges gilt, a.e.g., spine and joints a little rubbed. I: inscription 'J.G. Bert Rev. P. Bowden-Smith Rugby Oct 1832' to ffep. A made-up set of Homer's 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey', the last published of Pickering's 'Diamond Classics' series, and possibly still the smallest ever printed Homer, exquisitely printed in Greek diamond type by C. Whittingham. Keynes records a price of 12s for large paper copies, else 9s. Keynes, p.72.

London: C. Kegan Paul & Co, 1880. 8vo, pp. 281, with illustrated frontispiece. Edges uncut and dusty, slight yellowing, title just toned. Contemporary publisher's vellum, title and device stamped to upper board, title, author and publisher stamped to spine, a little dust-soiling to edges and spine. Ownership inscription of C. F(?). Bradberry to ffep. On last leaf: 'Chiswick Press: C. Whittingham, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane.'

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. First edition. 8vo., pp. ix, 303. Illustrations to text. Hardback: dark-green cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Light beige dust-jacket dust-marked in places, otherwise a fine, unused, copy.

London: printed for T. Sawbridge, and M. Gillyflower […], 1690. Second edition. Folio, pp.[viii], 419, [I] (with usual mistakes in signatures and pagination). Lacks map, as is often the case. Small pencil note to p.363, repair to pi3 and small closed tear at head margin pi4.Occasional smudgy marks and very faint marginal dampstaining. Contemporary Cambridge style panelled calf, neat modern reback with red gilt label, corners repaired. A bit scratched, edges chipped but still good. Contemporary inscription to head of title: 'Bought of Wm. Robins 1690'. Previous owner's signature crossed through and illegible. Upcott mentions only the 3rd edition, of 1700 (p.x). The full title reads as follows: Index villaris, or, An exact register, alphabetically digested, of all the cities, market-towns, parishes, villages, the hundred, lath, rape, ward, wapentake, or other division of each county, the bishopricks, deaneries, churches, chappels, hospitals, with the rectories and vicarages in… Read More

Folkestone & London: Dawsons of Pall Mall for the University of London Institute of Historical Research, 1972. Reprint. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt. No dust-jacket. Corners lightly bumped, a little shelf-wear, otherwise very good. Bookplate of Robert Smith to ffep. Reprinted from the 1927 first edition published by the St. Catherine Press.

Pariis [Paris]: Apud Guillelmum de Luyne, 1676 16mo, pp. [8], 391, [103], [2], including added engraved title, text in red and black. Light water stain to first and last few leaves. Contemporary full speckled calf, raised bands, spine gilt and gilt-lettered, edges sprinkled red, corners a little bumped, extremities minimally rubbed. Contemporary autograph Ja[cques?] Maule to verso of title, 'Monsieur' to verso of last blank. A fresh copy, in an attractive contemporary binding, of this pocket-size pirated edition of Justinian's legal milestone - printed in red and black. It reprises an edition of the same text printed by Daniel Elzevier in Amsterdam in the same year (Willems 1519), including the design of the engraved title, with a revised imprint.

Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1669. 12mo. [12], 643pp., [1], wanting two final blanks. Engraved title, decorated initials and ornaments. Title dusty, occasional spotting, small ink splash to fore-edge of one gathering. Contemporary vellum over boards, yapp edges, title inked to spine (modern). Covers rubbed. Ex-libris of J. Kirk inked to front pastedown and his stamp to lower margin of title; Latin motto and autograph T.(?) Young to flyleaf, [*]12 and A1. 'Fourth Elzevir edition' (Willems 1310). Willems 1310.

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

Stroud, Glos.: The History Press, 2016. First edition. 8vo., pp. 224 + colour plates. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-wear: a fine copy.

Cambridge University Press, 1963. First edition. 8vo, pp. xviii, 202 + one chart. A very good copy. Red cloth, title gilt to spine, minimally spotted. Dust-jacket, slightly browned and dusty, but still very good.

London: Faber and Faber, [1951]. First edition. pp. 293 + illustrated frontispiece and 214 illustrations. A very good copy. Brown cloth, title gilt to spine, upper margin a bit faded. Dust-jacket, a bit browned, small lost at head of spine, extremities generally a bit worn, but still good.

Malabar, Florida: Robert E. Krieger Publishing Co., 1975. Reprint. Three volumes in five, 8vo., pp. xi, 839; xiii, 480; xvi, 481-1251; xxxv, 1018; x, [iv], 1019-2155. Hardback, bound in brown cloth, black-lettered to spines and front boards. Unread, as new. Copyrighted by the Carnegie Institution of Washington and first published by The Williams and Wilkins Company, between the years 1927-1948.

The Suffolk Records Society, Ipswich, 1973. 8vo., pp. 151. Green cloth gilt, foxing to upper edge of text-block, otherwise very good. Dust-jacket, corners of worn with minor loss, still good.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892-1899. Combination of 1st and 2nd editions. 8 vols in 9. 8vo., pp. xvi, 408 + 6 plates + colour frontispiece; xvi, 409-934 + 4 plates; xix, [v], 672, 8 + 6 plates + colour frontis; xxvi, [ii], 653, [I] + 7 plates + frontis; xxiii, [I], 711, [I], 8 +13 plates + frontis; xxi, [I], 484 + 6 plates + frontis; xvii, [iii], 635, [i], 8 + 3 plates + frontis; xvii, [iii], 397, [i], + 2 plates + frontis; xi, [i], 331, [i] + 2 plates + frontis (all plates as called for). A little foxing to vols. I and II, otherwise very clean. Many edges uncut. Brown publisher's cloth, gilt spines, black endpapers apart from vols. VII and VIII, purplish-brown cloth with cream endpapers. Very good. Ownership inscription of Arthur H. May(?), Aldershot 12th Sept. 1958 to ffep of vols. VII and VIII. The magnum opus of Thomas Hodgkin (1831-1913), Italy and Her Invaders provides a history of the wars in the Late Roman Empire. Hodgkin was a British historian, biographer, banker, and Quaker… Read More