SCARTHIN BOOKS

5352 The Waltham Chronicle : An Account of the Discovery of Our Holy Cross at Montacute and Its Conveyance to Waltham - Anon.Ed. and Trans. Leslie Watkis andChibnall, Marjorie.
Price : £50.00 Publisher : Oxford: Clarendon OMT Published : 1994 Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Hard Condition : As New Jacket : J
pp liii + 99. A mint copy in mint dustjacket, includes the parallel texts in Latin and in English.
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5389 The Chronicle of Bury St Edmunds 1212-1301 - Antonia Gransden (Ed.)
Price : £22.00 Publisher : Nelson Published : 1964 Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Hard Condition : Very Good Jacket : J
pp187. Maroon cloth binding. DW worn at corners. Ex lib - label removed from FEP, stamps on title page etc, on top edge of pages.
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4446 Bewick's Select Fables of Aesop and Others in Three Parts - Bewick, Thomas; Edwin Pearson
Price : £35.00 Publisher : London: Bickers and Son Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Hard Condition : Very Good Jacket : No Jacket
pp xl, 312, 4 (publisher's announcements). 8vo. Illustrated cloth cover in green, brown and gold, showing a lion and an ass(?) on front. Spine title in gilt lettering. Brown endpapers are cracked at hinge, and fading about edges. Three parts are: I. Fables extracted from Dodsley's II. Fables with Reflections in Prose and Verse III. Fables in Verse. To which are prefixed The Life of Aesop, and an essay upon fable by Oliver Goldsmith. "Faithfully reprinted from the Rare Newcastle Edition published by T. Saint in 1784. With the original wood engravings by Thomas Bewick and an Illustrated Preface by Edwin Pearson". Pearson's preface dates from 1871.
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4200 Epitvlae Vol II Epistvlae ad Atticvm Pars Posterior Libri IX-XVI [Epistulae Epistles Letters] - Cicero - M. Tvlli Ciceronis(Ed D R Shackleton Bailey)
Price : £15.00 Publisher : Oxford: Clarendon Press (although in Latin on the title page, wr Published : 1961 Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Hard Condition : Very Good
pp348. Blue cloth binding. Latin text.
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4670 Entretiens de ciceron sur La Nature des Dieux - Ciceron (Cicero) (L'Abbe D'Olivet , transl)
Price : £60.00 Publisher : Paris: Gandouin Published : 1732 Edition : 2nd Edition Binding : Hard Condition : Very Good
Two volumes, small 8vo.456,462+(18)pp.bound (with double free endpapers) in contemporary vellum-covered boards with ink hand-lettered titles on spines. Page edges speckled. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this set has survived in very good condition.That the vellum could be lightened with a milk wash (or otherwise) is indicated by small paler areas at spine heads where some later labels have been removed. No other signs of any librification. Ex. Lib. Prof. Arthur Cain.
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ABE-1161852793 The Historia Vie Hierosolimitane of Gilo of Paris and a Second, Anonymous Author - Gilo of Paris. Ed & Trans
Price : £60.00 Publisher : Oxford. Clarendon OMT Published : 1997 Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Hard Condition : As New Jacket : J
pp lxiv + 266. A mint copy in mint dustjacket, includes the parallel texts in Latin and in English.
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5351 The Historia Vie Hierosolimitane of Gilo of Paris and a Second, Anonymous Author - Gilo of Paris. Ed. & Trans. C W Grocock and J E Siberry
Price : £60.00 Publisher : Oxford: Clarendon OMT Published : 1997 Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Hard Condition : As New Jacket : J
pp lxiv + 266. A mint copy in mint dustjacket, includes the parallel texts in Latin and in English.
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ABE-1238561711 Annales Gandenses : Annals of Ghent - Hilda Johnstone (Ed and Trans)
Price : £80.00 Publisher : Oxford Medieval Texts Published : 1985 Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Hard Condition : Fine Jacket : J
pp105. 8vo. 1st published by Thomas Nelson in 1951, this is Oxford's republication in their standard series. A very nice copy.
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5430 Pearl, An English Poem of the Fourteenth Century, Edited with a Modern Rendering - Israel Gollancz
Price : £35.00 Publisher : London: David Nutt Published : 1891 Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Hard Condition : Very Good
pp142. 8vo. Cream boards with gilt lettering to front and spine. Cracked down edges of spine revealing threads. Spotting to endpapers. Top of pages gilt blocked, but sides and bottom still roughcut.
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5386 The Book of Aneirin: Revised and Translated - J Gwenogbryn Evans
Price : £50.00 Published : 1934 Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Hard Condition : Very Good
pp192. 8vo. Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine. Endpapers are printed, but have appearance of full marbling. Rough cut pages.
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5392 Caithreim Thoirdhealbhaigh: The Triumphs of Turlough - John Mac Rory MacGrath (Trans: Standish Hayes O'Grady)
Price : £40.00 Publisher : London: Simpkin Marshall for the Irish Texts Society Published : 1988 Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Hard Condition : Fine
pp252. 8vo. Green cloth binding with gilt illustration to front and gilt lettering and illustration to spine. This is a 1988 reprint of the 1929 original (said to be complete in this volume).
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3718 Ossian's Fingal: An Ancient Epic Poem in Six Books, Rendered into English Verse - Ossian; Trans: George Harvey
Price : £50.00 Publisher : London: Cadell and Davies Published : 1814 Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Hard Condition : Very Good Jacket : No Jacket
pp246. 8vo. Half bound in black leather with marbled boards. Top and bottom 1/2" of spine are torn, boards rubbed. Inside front cover is bookplate of John Stokes MD, and on FEP is Sheffield University bookplate recording acquisition, bequeathed by John Stokes. Endpaper cracked over hinge. First and last pages show library stamp. Foxing on most pages, apart from which pages are in VG condition, no dog-earing. Last 15 pages are notes, which are based on MacPherson's, suggesting that Harvey's translation is actually a rendering into verse of MacPherson's original prose-poems.
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3578 On the Beautiful, being the sixth treatise of the first Ennead literally translated (On the Sublime?) - Plotinus (Trans. Stephen MacKenna)
Price : £25.00 Publisher : Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press Published : 1919 Binding : Hard Condition : Very Good
pp22. Grey board cover with grey ribbon spine. Rough cut pages. Slight wear to corners. This is number 68 of 400 copies printed. PO inscription inside front cover.
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2958 Oxford Readings in Greek Tragedy - Segal, Erich
Price : £40.00 Publisher : Oxford University Press Published : 1983 Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Soft Condition : Very Good Jacket : No Jacket
Softcover book in very good condition, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions, binding tight. 453 pages.
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5098 Seneca's Morals by way of abstract. To which is added, A Discourse under the Title of an After-Thought - Seneca, Sir Roger L'Estrange
Price : £150.00 Publisher : London: Jacob Tonson Published : 1711 Edition : 5th or later Edition Binding : Hard Condition : Very Good
pp (I) + (xxviii) + 524 + (12). Octavo. Full calf - original front and back, new spine with five bands, with "Seneca's Morals" in gilt on red background, and "Sir Roger L'Estrange 1711" in gilt on red background lower. New endpapers. The letters E, H, C and C are written on the title page, there appear to be no other inscriptions throughout. Text block clean and tight with almost no corners turned and only light browning. Overall VG+.
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1650 Greek Mathematical Works Vol 1: Thales to Euclid; Vol II Aristarchus to Pappus of Alexandria - Thomas, Iwan (Trans)
Price : £30.00 Publisher : Loeb Classical Library Harvard Heinemann Published : 1980 Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Hard Condition : Very Good Jacket : J
pp509, 683. 2 volumes in the common Loeb Edition size. Green cloth binding in green cloth DW. DWs show wear at corners, light staining. Priceclipped by publisher.
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4787 Gudrun: A Story of the North Sea: From the Medieval German - Trans. Emma Letherbrow
Price : £35.00 Publisher : Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas Published : 1864 Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Hard Condition : Very Good
pp214. 12vo. Green cloth binding with gilt decoration and lettering to spine. Tissue protected frontispiece. Peter Riley has given us the following bibliographic information on this rare volume: "It's one of the 'Nieberlunglieder'. This might be the first English translation . I didn't at a quick run-through locate an earlier one (in the BM Catalogue)."
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7916 A Companion to Homer - Wave, Alan J B and Frank H Stubbings
Price : £28.00 Publisher : London: Macmillan Published : 1962 Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Hard Condition : Very Good Jacket : No Jacket
pp595. Large 8vo. Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering now faded on spine. PO name inscribed on fep.
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