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

Cambridge University Press, 1969. 8vo., pp. x, p.307, [i] + portrait plate. Internally clean and bright. Grey cloth, printed blue label with gilt title to spine. Endcaps a little creased, near fine. Dust-jacket a bit tattered, 5cm closed tear to front repaired with tape to underside, price-clipped but with price sticker added, still good. 'Miss Dale's interests were mainly concerned with the technicalities and interpretation of Greek poetry. Some of the papers deal with metre and language; but most are about aspects of Greek drama - staging, choruses, and interpretations of particular plays.'

London: printed for C. Davis, 1730. First edition. 4to. pp. [4], [xxiv], 464 + 14 plates (some folding). Small ink mark to title touching two words, light waterstaining at upper and lower gutter, a bit heavier to first and last couple of gatherings, edges dusty, occasional mainly marginal foxing, last two leaves a bit spotted. Contemporary polished English calf, sympathetic modern reback, spine gilt-lettered, boards and extremities rubbed. Book plate of Henry Miller dated 1885; autographs Elizth G. Mason, H.P. Bowen 1861 and Buntwood(?) to ffep; partly erased library stamp with English note on withdrawal and sale in 1962 to verso of title and p.101; later pencilled marginalia to a few leaves. The scarce first edition of this beautifully illustrated history of the antiquities and natural landscape of Harwich and Dovercourt, in Essex. Based on the unpublished historical work of the antiquary and state official Silas Taylor (1624-78), it was enlarged and revised with a very long appendix by the… Read more

Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, 2003. 8vo., pp. 568. Hardback. Dust-jacket. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap.

London: Longman & Librairie du Liban, 1979. Second edition. 8vo., pp. xiv, 385 + plates. Hardback: green cloth, gilt-lettered, a hint of dusting to edges. Dust-jacket, sun-faded to spine, not affecting lettering. Otherwise a very good copy. First published in 1975. In the Arab Background Series jointly published by Longman and Librairie du Liban.

London: Little, Brown and Company, 1998. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 484 + plates. Hardback: dark blue cloth, gilt-titled to spine. Dust-jacket. Light shelf-wear: a very good copy.

University of Birmingham Centre for Russian and East European Studies, 2006. 8vo., pp. [xii], 132. Paperback, white covers printed in black and orange. A little light shelf wear, very good. Postcard from the author loosely inserted. Birmingham Slavonic Monographs No. 36.

Cambridge University Press, 1986. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiv, 208. Illustrations to text. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket, shelf-worn with fraying to corners and creasing to edges. Ownership inscription of W(illiam) Lamont, with a few of his annotations to text and more pen-scoring to outer margins against passages of particular interest.

Cambridge University Press, 1981. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 427. Hardback: orange cloth. Dust-jacket, spine sunned, shelf wear. Otherwise a very good copy.

Harvard University Press, 1995. Second printing. 8vo., pp. [x], 360 + illustrated plates. Black paper-covered boards backed in red paper, gilt title to spine. Bottom corners a little bumped, top edge slightly dusty but still very good indeed.

Utraiecti [Utrecht]: ex officina Ioannis a Doorn, 1642-43 First edition. Folio. 3 parts in 1. pp. [10], 191, [14], [1] + engraved frontispiece and double-page engraved map of Utrecht; pp. [4], 331, [1], 12, [32]; pp. [8], 180, [36], with occasional text engravings of ancient coins, or woodcuts of seals, woodcut initials. Edges dusty, very slight toning, small paper flaw to lower blank margin of [*]9, small tear to lower blank margin of K5. Contemporary polished vellum, title inked to spine, dust-soiled. Modern ex-libris of I.J.G. A generally clean copy of the first edition of these famous Dutch medieval chronicles, illustrated by a handsome, double-page engraved map of the provinces. Known as the 'Heda and Beka', they were first published by Suffridus Petri in 1612. Arnoldus Buchelius (1565-1641) worked painstakingly on editing the texts anew, leaving an unfinished manuscript upon his death; his work was finalised by L. van Waveren. The first part provides Johannes de Beka's… Read more

Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2012. 8vo., pp. 236. Hardback: laminated decorative boards. New, still in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 242 in the ACMRS Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series.

Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden] [i.e. Paris]: s.n. [Barbou] 1757. Small 8vo. (155 x 90mm), pp. [ii], iv, 124 + portrait frontispiece; x, 11-106 + portrait frontispiece; iv, [i], 4-156. No loss to the 3rd work, just unusual pagination, and no portrait called for. Woodcut printer's device (formerly used by the Elzevirs) to each title-page. Occasional very light foxing. Contemporary brown mottled calf, spine gilt with dark red morocco label, gilt borders and dentelles, a.e.g., marbled endpapers, pink ribbon bookmark bound in. Spine a little creased, very light wear to endcaps and corners, a very good, attractive copy. Three highlights of 16th-century Neo-Latin poetry, bound together as usual. All three title-pages bear a false imprint, 'Lugduni Batavorum'; according to Brunet this edition was actually published in Paris by Barbou, and it does indeed have the appearance of a Barbou book. The first work comprises the poems of the Calvinist theologian Théodore de Bèze (or Theodorus… Read more

Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2009. 8vo., pp. xvii, 128. Hardback: laminated decorative boards. New, still in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 356 in the ACMRS Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series.

Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, 2002. 8vo., pp. xlv, 558. Hardback: green cloth, gilt-lettered. Dust-jacket. A little shelf-wear to corners and edges but clean and unread: very good. With an Introduction and Glossary by the editor.

Lehre: Verlag von J. Cramer, 1968. Reprint. 3 vols. and 2 supplements bound as 2 vols., 8vo., pp. [viii], 825, [i]; [vi], 612; [ii], xxv, [i], 519; [v], 132; 105, [i]. Only very slightly toned, clean within. Dark blue cloth, gilt titles to spines. A little scuffed, some corners bumped, edges a bit dusty with a scatter of light foxing to endpapers but very good. Reprint of the editions originally published 1901, 1902 & 1904 (vols. I-III) and 1908 & 1912 (supplements I-II). Tome LXVIII, parts 1 and 2 in J.Cramer and H.K. Swann's Historiae Naturalis Classica series.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. First edition thus. 8vo., pp. xxv, 237. Illustrations to text. Hardback: cream cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unread, a hint only of shelf-wear: almost as new.

Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2014. 8vo., pp. 624. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 457 in the ACMRS Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series.

Cologne: Jacques le Jeune, 1685. 12mo. pp. [12], 565, [11], including engraved title from 1687 Brussels edition. Woodcut initials and ornaments. Slight browning or marginal foxing, engraved title and verso of last leaf little dust-soiled. Contemporary vellum over boards. Little rubbed, few ancient stains, traces of red wax to pastedown. Scarce pirated edition -- with the false imprint 'Cologne, Jacques le Jeune, 1685', but produced in The Hague probably a few years later (see Weller, 'Die falschen und fingierten Druckarte'). It is an exact reprint of L. Marchant's Brussels edition of 1687, of which it includes the engraved title. Vincent Voiture (1597-1648) was in the service of Cardinal Richelieu and Louis XIII, and one of the earliest members of the Académie française. Whilst he never published anything in his lifetime, a collection of his letters and verse published posthumously made him fashionable among the intellectual elites. Among his correspondents… Read more

Cranbrook: S. Reader, 1814. First edition. 4to. pp. [4], (vii), [1], (lvi), 277, [1], (vi). With 9 steel-engraved plates. Edges untrimmed and somewhat dust-soiled, offsetting from plates, slight foxing to first few leaves, occasionally elsewhere. Modern half calf over marbled boards, raised bands, spine gilt, gilt-lettered morocco label. Couple of small stains to rear cover. Bookplate of Ernest Bryan Gipps to front pastedown. Superbly-illustrated work on the history and topography of Kent. Each chapter is devoted to a locality, including Ashurst, Cranbrook, Leigh, High Halden, Tunbridge and the Ilse of Oxney. The section of Penshurst, immortalised by Ben Jonson, includes an account focusing on the 16th century, with mentions of Sir Philip Sidney. In addition to an engraved map of the Weald of Kent, 8 further steel-engraved plates - designed by the author and cut by M. Dubourg - illustrate city and country views of Cranbrook, Hemsted Benenden (its mansion and church), Bonnington Church and the… Read more

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2011. First Edition. 8vo., pp. [xii], 436. Red cloth, red metallic title to spine and 007 logo to upper board., fine. Waterstone's 'Signed by the Author' sticker and very minor smudges to white dustwrapper, near fine. Author's signature to title-page.