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

[Heidelberg:] apud Hieronymum Commelinum, 1595. 24mo., pp. 504, [xlviii]. Woodcut border to title-page, head-pieces and initials, single-line borders around text. Some fore-edges unopened. Occasional pencil notes (numbers) to margins. Smudgy mark to title-page, old and yellowed tape repair to leaf D1, hole to bottom margin pp.461-472, smudged monogram(?) to p.477 obscuring some text, leaf G1 with small hole at head affecting two words, worming to final 5 leaves affecting text to the last two (index). Contemporary limp vellum, title inked to spine and faintly to upper board, and to bottom edge of text block. Ties lost, new endpapers stuck in with small loss to old ffep, bottom corner of old rear free endpaper torn away. A very scarce miniature edition by the great Flemish scholar-printer Jérôme Commelin (1550?-1597), which escapes the notice of both Dibdin and Schweiger. Scarce in the British Isles, with COPAC locating only two copies in the Bodleian and one at Eton College. VD16 ZV 5270

Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019. First edition. 8vo., pp. xlv, 275. Map of Gaul to text. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy.

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

Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Apud Cornelium Boutesteyn, 1708. 4to., pp.[viii], 782, [x]. Title-page in red and black with woodcut printer's device. Woodcut initials and end-pieces. Divisional title page for 'De regimine Scoticanæ ecclesiæ'. Inkstamps to preliminary blanks (edges tattered) and to p. 17. Occasional light spotting. A little faint dampstaining to gutter up to about p.50, a few tiny scorch marks. Contemporary vellum, title inked to spine, plain frames and borders, blind embossed centrepieces, edges sprinkled red. Spine a bit darkened, a few scratches, very good. To ffep, preliminary blank and margin of p.17 an inkstamp reading: From the Library of Rev. Owen Thomas, D.D., Liverpool. Purchased and Present by Mr William Thomas, Bootle, Liverpool. The Theological College, Bala. December 1891. First published in 1621 in Amsterdam as 'The altar of Damascus or the patern of the English hierarchie, and Church policie obtruded upon the Church of Scotland', the… Read More

Londini [London]: Londini : impensis Gul. Thurlbourne Bibliopolae Cantab. Veneunt apud J. Nourse, P. Vaillant, J. Beecroft, Lond., 1741. 8vo., pp. xviii, 243, [i], 52, [i]. Parallel Greek and Latin texts. Some woodcut ornaments. Very clean internally. Contemporary brown calf, gilt spine with title label, edges sprinkled red. Boards a little scuffed, very good indeed. Thomas Bentley (1693-1742) was a nephew of the much more celebrated Richard Bentley (1662-1742), and this edition is sometimes erroneously attributed to the latter. It seems that the editors of Museum Criticum, referred to by Dibdin, were particularly alive to this ambiguity and gave the following scathing assessment: 'An edition of the Hymns and a few epigrams, with notes for the use of schools, was printed in 1741 and reprinted in 1751 by Thomas Bentley, the nephew of the Doctor, in the same volume with parts of Theognis, and the Aóyos IpoTpeus of Galen. Of this publication Mr. Blomfield, as far as we have observed, takes… Read More

Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 2004. First edition. 8vo., pp. vi, 454+ plates. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine, very good. Dust-jacket, spine sunned to a uniform lighter blue without affecting lettering, slight creasing on top edge, otherwise very good.

Florentiae [Florence]: Apud Philippum Iunctam, 1590. 4to., pp. [viii], 206, [4]. Later limp vellum (binder's waste containing 17th century printed matter), spine lettered in ink, lower edge of text-block also lettered in ink. Small stain to upper forecorner at beginning and end, a little spotting elsewhere. Binding somewhat soiled, ties lost. Old paper shelfmark label to spine, old inscription to final page of text ('C. de ? Torrepalma?'). The Eclogues of Calpurnius Siculus, Roman poet of uncertain date (though certainly post-Virgil) and Marcus Aurelius Olympius Nemesianus of the 3rd-century AD, as edited by Roberto Titi (1551-1609), professor at Bologna. Eleven bucolic poems survive in the manuscript tradition attributed to Calpurnius, though four were obviously of different authorship and are now firmly placed under Nemesianus's name The editio princeps was printed by Sweynheym and Pannartz and numerous editions followed, with this one having some of the most substantial… Read More

Sydney, Australia: Pan Macmillan: 2002. 8vo., pp. vii, 600 + plates. Maps and illustrations. Paperback. Light signs of use, very good. Neat ink gift inscription to a previous owner on half-title.

Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2018. First edition. 8vo., pp. ix, 230 + plates. Hardback: green cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy.

Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2015. 8vo., pp. 372. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 466 in the ACMRS Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series.

London: Pen & Sword, 2006. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 165 + plates. Illustrations to text. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. A hint only of shelf-dust, fine.

Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2010. First edition. 4to., pp. xxxiv, 681. Laminated boards, corners bumped, one slightly fraying, edges lightly dusted with small smudge to bottom, some shelf wear, 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.

Birminghamiae [Birmingham]: Johannis Baskerville, 1772. 12mo., pp. [ii], 276. Internally very clean. Later dark green morocco, gilt spine, borders and dentelles, a.e.g., marbled endpapers. Spine faded, very good indeed. Small, blue-bordered label with MS letter V to front pastedown. The title-page is the variant in which the 'T' of 'CATULLUS' is slightly oversized. Page 209 is misnumbered 109 as usual. Leaf A2 is a cancel. According to Gaskell, 800 copies remained in Baskerville's stock in 1775. Dibdin describes this edition, based on Coustelier's 1743 production, as 'very beautiful', though 'not esteemed for accuracy'. ESTC T4788; Gaskell 45; Dibdin I (4th ed) 377.

[Leiden]: Prostant apud Isaacum Littleburii Bibliopolam Londinensem, 1684. 4to., pp.[iv], 327[i.e. 343], [xxxi]. Title-page in red and black, woodcut initials. Leaf 2V4 is cancelled, p.343 is mispaginated as p.327. With errata leaf. Occasional toning, a few light stains. Sympathetically rebound in dark brown calf, red morocco label to spine, blind tooled fillets to spine and borders, edges sprinkled red. Very good. Small inscription to preliminary blank, neat but (to us) indecipherable, and one marginal note to text. A reissue of the Leiden edition of the same year, sold in England with a new title-page giving the London bookseller's name. Vossius' commentary is described by Dibdin as 'elegant and erudite, though not free from occasional indelicacies of thought and illustration.' He observes that some copies have a title-page reading 'Lug. Bat 1684, 1691' and that whilst the later edition has extra indices, the London one is rarer. ESTC R34796; Dibdin I (4th ed.) 379.

Princeton University Press, 1990. First edition. 4to. (312 x 239mm), pp. xxvi, 401. Hardback: black cloth, light dusting to edges. Dust-jacket, light shelf wear. A very good copy.

Parisina [Paris]: Apud J.-P. Migne, 1864. 2 vols. Large 8vo., pp. [vii], cols. 11-1168; pp. [iv], cols. 9-1456. Parallel columns of Greek and Latin text. Foxed, some glue staining at gutters, edges dusty and many unopened, title-pages with traces of removed label, gathering 19 of vol. I very toned, still good. Modern bindings, plain tan calf spines with gilt titles, marbled boards, original paper covers bound in, endpapers made from printed waste, edges uncut, very good. Each volume with bookplate pasted to printed front endpaper, 'Bibliotheca Montis Calvariae Wadhurstii'. Two volumes (CXXI & CXXII) in the series Patrologiæ Cursus Completus (Traditio Catholica. Sæculum XI, annus 1058).

Menston: Scolar Press, 1972. Facsimile (Original Size). Folio. Small smudgy mark to title-page, otherwise very clean within. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine, small gilt centrepiece to upper board. Fading to spine and to boards towards edges, no dust-jacket, very good overall.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. First edition. 8vo., pp. 272. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unread, a hint only of shelf-wear: almost as new. In the Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion.

Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2017. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxi, 249 + plates. Hardback: black cloth, red gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused: as new.