Selden john ed (15 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Second Edition. 167pp. Still tightly bound and interior in very nice clean condition, no names nor inscriptions, no foxing, gilt titling to spine still bright.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. hardback, small 8vo, owner's bookplate of George Henry Wheatley, occasional pencilled marginal notes, foxing on title page, green cloth, gilt spine titles, rubbed, Good condition / no dustwrapper.

120pp. 16mo. Original stiffened wrappers, backstrip strengthened with cloth tape, lightly edgeworn. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good-VG. 1st thus. collective t.p.+Sydney t.p. (both with part- red lettering)+72+Webbe t.p. (as before)+40+Selden t.p. (as before)+120; front end-gutter cracked part-exposing netting, rear end-gutter paper split, extensive light foxing spots through to Sydney t.p. and (more lightly) to last 2 leaves, occ.spots elsewhere, otherwise clean tight & unmarked, Bright, clean minimally worn blind-stamped beveled-edge green cloth covers, v.sl.sp.end rubbing.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. A nice copy of John Selden's work, published posthumously, with two pages of publishers ads to the rear and copy of original title page. Part of the 'English Reprint' series. John Selden (December 16, 1584 November 30, 1654) was an English jurist, legal antiquary and oriental scholar. It was, however, as a scholar and writer that Selden won his reputation. His first work, an account of the civil administration of England before the Norman Conquest, is said to have been completed when he was only twenty-two or twenty-three. Several of Selden's minor works were published posthoumously, of which Tale Talk is perhaps his best known. Edited by the literary scholar Edward Arber, who is known for his contributions to the 'English Reprint' series. This series, created in the 19th century, aimed to produce accurate reprints of notable works, making them easily accessible to the general public. In a quarter cloth binding, with original paper boards. Externally, sound. Bumping to the head and tail of the spine and also to the extremities. The off mark to the front and rear boards. Previous owners bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally, generally firmly bound, though the title pages and the odd page loosening slightly. Pages are bright and clean, with no apparent marks. Good. None (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. NO. Undated believe to be 1900C Pocket Size. Temple Classics. Leather binding. Good condition, rubbing and wear to leather, prior owner's name to first blank page bright and clean copy. U5A26.

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 6 vols, 12°, half leather with marbled paper and leather corners, on 5 frets with gilt spine titles and gilt head edges. Marbled endpapers. Volumes I to VI of the "English Reprints" series, edited and annotated by Edward Arber. The volumes contain the following texts: Vol. I (1868): John Milton: Areopagitica, 80 p., Hugh Latimer: Sermon on the Ploughers, 40 p., Stephen Gosson: The School of Abuse, 80 p.; Philip Sidney: An Apologie for Poterie, 72 p.; Edward Webbe: His Trauailes, 40 p.; John Selden: Table-Talk, 120 p. Vol. II (1868): Roger Ascham: Toxophilus, 168 p.; Joseph Addison: Criticism on Milton's Paradise Lost, 152 p.; George Villiers: The Rehearsal, 136 p.; George Gascoigne: 1. Certayne Notes of Instruction in English Verse 2. The Steele Glas 3. The Complaynt of Philomene, 119 p. Vol. III (1868): John Lyly: Euphues - the Anatomy of Wit. Euphues and his England, 478 p.; John Earle: Micro-Cosmographie 104 p. Vol. IV (1869): Hugh Latimer: Seven Sermons befor Edward VI., 208 p.; George Puttenham: The Arte of English Poesie, 320 p.; James Howell: Instructions for Forreine Travell, 88 p. Vol. V (1869): Thomas More: Utopia, 168 p.; Nicholas Udall: Roister Doister, 88 p.; The Revelation to the Monk of Evesham, 112 p.; James VI: The Essayes of a Prentise, in the Divine Art of Poesie. A Counterblaste to Tobacco, 120 p.; Robert Naunton: Fragmenta Regalia, 64 p. Vol. VI (1870): Thomas Watson: Poems, 208 p.; William Habington: Castara, 144 p.; Roger Ascham: The Scholemaster, 160 p.; William Webbe: A Discoursen of English Poetrie, 96 p. --- Condition: Red owner's stamp in Chinese characters on endpapers, covers somewhat rubbed, pages slightly darkened, otherwise excellent copies. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Folio. Ex Manchester Law Library bindings very worn spines deteriorated and relaid. Foxing and dusty 1-757pp. Book.

Editiones principes. 2 vols., folio, pp.[xii], XLVIII, [viii], 8, cols. 9-1284; pp.[ii], 1289-2768, pp.[cci]. Leaf g1, 'Index Authorum et Tractatuum in hoc Volumine', usually found in the 1st paginated section of vol.I is found here instead at the end of vol. II, along with the errata leaf. Vol. I with half-title, title-page in red and black. Section titles, woodcut initials, small illustrations in text. Light foxing heavier in vol. I towards the rear, occasional tiny spots and scorches, volume two slightly toned with some leaves (eg. 4C3, S1) more so, small hole to 3K3 affecting a couple of words. Contemporary speckled brown calf. Both vols. rebacked some time ago with vol. I wearing better. Raised bands, gilt title labels to vol. I but lost to vol. II, gilt spines, triple-filet borders to boards with gilt armorial centrepieces, edges sprinkled brown, endpapers renewed. Vol. I: headcap a bit worn, some chips to spine, joints a little creased, Vol. II: Spine worn, endcaps and labels lost, joints split but cords holding firm. All board surfaces a bit crackled with some scuffing, corners worn, but still very good, sound copies overall. Armorial gilt centrepiece possibly of the McCulloch family, with unusual coronet. To front pastedown of each volume, modern bookplate of the eminent medieval historian Richard Barber, with a few pencilled bibliographical notes. 'Editiones principes' of English medieval chronicles, and church and royal histories (titles of individual works are listed on pp. XLIX-L of the edition. To summarise the authors: Simeon of Durham (fl. 1130); John of Hexham (fl. 1180); Richard of Hexham (d.1163-1178); Serlo Grammaticus (1109-?1207); Ailred of Rievaulx (1109?-1166); Ranulph Brito (d.1246); John Brompton (fl. 1436); Gervase of Canterbury (fl. 1188); Thomas Stubbs (fl. 1373); Ralph d'Escures (d. 1122); William Thorne (fl. 1397); (anon.); Henry Knighton (fl. 1363)). Includes a 48-page Life of the authors by the jurist John Selden (1584-1654). The 84-page glossary of terms by the Anglo-Saxon scholar William Somner (1598-1669) predates his important Saxon-Latin-English lexicon of 1659. There is a variant title-page which states that the edition was sold by Jan and Daniel Elzevier in Leiden. ESTC R005810; Wing H 2094.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. WITH ANGLO-SAXON EDITIO PRINCEPS. Folio. pp. [8], XVI, 218, lacking first and last blank. Roman letter, with Italic, some Anglo-Saxon. Title in red and black, one half-page and one small woodcut medieval seal, decorated initials and ornaments. Slight age browning to first two and last gatherings, very minor marginal foxing. A very good, clean copy in contemporary French polished calf, ancient reback, original spine remounted, double gilt ruled, gilt arms of Jean-Paul II de Montchal to covers, raised bands, spine gilt ruled and gilt-lettered, a.e.r., corners worn, few minor marks to covers. C19 autograph of John Brewer, Oxford, to pastedown, C20 inked ex-libris of N.H. MacMichael, keeper of muniments at Westminster Abbey, to ffep (detached), C19 'A.[ugustus] Jessopp D.D. Schol: Reg: (?)' and scattered C20 pencilled notes, two loose paper slips with C19 and later bibliographical ms annotations. Elegant copy of the editio princeps of this important medieval history of England, edited by the English antiquary and jurist John Selden - 'central to historians' accounts of the English state under the Norman kings and its relations to "the church"' (Maddicott, p.95). Together with those of Florence of Worcester and William of Malmesbury, Eadmer's work stands as one of the major medieval English histories. Eadmer (1060-1126) was an English monk based at the Benedictine Abbey of Christ Church, in Canterbury. There he met St Anselm, and became his secretary and closest companion, and composed influential theological (e.g., on the Immaculate Conception) and historical works. 'Historia' deals with the history of England in 1066-1122, from William the Conqueror to Henry I. The ms was unearthed by Selden (1584-1654) in Robert Cotton's library, and here provided with a long philological, historical and methodological preface (including Eadmer's biography and the sources consulted), copious glosses and commentaries. The 'Historia' begins from the last Anglo-Saxon kings - Edgar, Ethelred, Edward the Confessor, Harold. Interspersed with royal history is that of the English bishops; in particular, Eadmer upheld the pre-eminence of Canterbury over York, as episcopal seat. A long section on St Anselm during his years at Canterbury is also his first official public 'portrait' written by someone who knew him, together with Eadmer's separate, and more private, 'Vita Anselmi'. Selden's notes appear in a separate appendix, with a selection ('Spicilegium') of historical information and excerpts from documents. E.g., the beginning (pp.145-54) of a document addressed to King Edgar on behalf of English Benedictine monks and nuns, here printed in the Anglo-Saxon and Latin. The laws granted by William the Conqueror to the English are also reproduced, in Latin and Norman French. A most interesting and important work. Jean-Pierre II de Montchal (1652-98), 'seigneur de Noyen et Grisy', counsellor at the Parliament of Paris, was likely a discerning bibliophile, as several finely-bound books survive with his charming gilt supralibros. A. Jessopp was probably Augustus (1823-1914), English clergyman and schoolmaster in Norfolk, author of historical essays and friend to the writer M.R. James. ESTC S121437 (one of two variants, priority not established); STC 7438. J. Maddicott, Medieval State (2000). Not in Lowndes.…

First Edition. London 1683 1st ed. "The Pioneer of the Select Band of English Legal Historians" Selden, John [1584-1654]. Tracts Written by John Selden of the Inner-Temple, Esquire. The First Entituled, Jani Anglorum Facies Altera, Rendred into English, With Large Notes Thereupon, by Redman Westcot, Gent. The Second, England's Epinomis. The Third, Of the Original of Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions of Testaments. The Fourth, Of the Disposition or Administration of Intestates Goods. The Three Last Never Before Extant. London: Printed for Thomas Basset at the George in Fleet-Street, And Richard Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in S. Paul's Church-Yard, 1683. [xxxvi], 131; [9], 39; [5], 24 pp. Copperplate engraved portrait frontispiece. 4 parts in 1 volume. The first preceded by general title page; tracts preceded by divisional title pages (the third and fourth by a shared title page). Folio (12-1/2" x 7-3/4"; 30.5 x 19.7 cm). Contemporary sheep, blind rules to boards, raised bands to spine. Scuffing to boards, which are beginning to separate but are still secure, chipping to spine ends, corners bumped and moderately worn, later armorial bookplate of Wriothesly Digby to front pastedown, . General title page printed in red and black. Light toning to interior, light foxing in a few places, mostly confined to margins, offsetting and a few creases to endleaves, "R:B" in early hand to front free endpaper, "Charles Cotes/ M. Temple 1719" in tiny hand to head of title page. $650. * First edition, one of two issues from 1683. Holdsworth regards Selden "as the first scientific historian of English law" and goes on to say that "his great intellectual qualities justify us in regarding him both as the pioneer of the select band of English legal historians, and one of the most eminent of its representatives." Tracts is one of his principal works as a legal historian. The first two tracts, Jani Anglorum and England's Epinomis, discuss the development of the common law and the English constitution through Magna Carta. This copy belonged to two eighteenth-century barristers. Like Charles Cotes [d. 1744], Wriothesly Digby [bef. 1697-bef. 1767] was a barrister of the Middle Temple. Cotes was admitted in 1706, Digby in 1716/7. Digby, from a notable Anglo-Irish family, was the son and grandson of lawyers. Honourable Society of the Middle Te. London 1683 1st ed. (illustrator). …

Small 4to. (200 x 152 mm). pp. (i), XXXVIII, 184. Printed title in red and black, manuscript '1642' in blue ink beneath Roman numerals and the same date in blue ink in Arabic numerals at right, 13 leaves with Selden's 'Praefatio' with elaborate woodcut head-piece and four-line intital, 6 leaves with Eutychius' parallel text in Arabic and Latin with headline in red and black, decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces, decorative Arabic initial 'ya' with woodcut border and four-line initial to Latin text and Selden's detailed and extensive 'Commentarius' with elaborate woodcut head-piece and decorative 7-line initial, one woodcut of a Roman coin in the text, final leaves with 'Interserenda' with woodcut head-piece, errata to final leaf verso between type rules. Printed text in Latin and Arabic throughout with occasional Greek and Hebrew, using Roman, italic, Arabic, Greek and Hebrew types; manuscript correction in sepia ink, 'tum' for 'ac' in line 27 on pg. 183. Contemporary full vellum with Yapp edges, manuscript title in sepia ink to spine, later paper label with location details (?). The first edition of the first book printed in England to make extensive use of Arabic type. ' . it can be considered as the first Arabic book to be printed in England.' (Geoffrey Roper). Eutychius of Alexandria (877 - 940), i.e. Sa'id Ibn Batriq, was a doctor, appointed Melkite Patriarch of Alexandria in 932 and one of the first Christian Egyptian authors to write extensively in Arabic. His most important work was the 'Nazm al-Jawhar' (the Row of Jewels) and it is an excerpt from that work that is presented here. This critical edition, presented in the original Arabic and with a Latin translation together with extensive analytic commentary, was prepared by John Selden (1584 - 1654), the remarkable polyglot academic (he was competent in, or at least familiar with, Latin, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Chaldean, Samaritan, Aramaic, Farsi, Ge'ez, Old English, German, French, Spanish and Italian), antiquarian, historian, jurist and parliamentarian (he had long served as an MP and in different constituencies but at the time of publication was one of the two MPs representing Oxford University in the Long Parliament). Selden's selection from Eutychius' text treats of the ecclesiastical hierarchy of the early Christian church while his extensive commentary in Latin with additional extensive quotation from a variety of Arabic, Greek, Hebrew and Latin sources includes a list in Arabic of the first 307 Alexandrian Patriarchs. Selden's preface gives details of Eutychius and his life and medical practise, surveys Arabic manuscripts in Europe - he mentions scholars such as Erpenius - and relates how he purchased the manuscript he relied on for this edition from William Corderoy. Corderoy, like his fellow merchant Richard Hill, both merchants of the Levantine Company at Aleppo, were often the source of books for scholars; Edward Pococke, a friend and protegée of Selden's, procured the Gospels in Farsi for the English Polyglot through the pair. Pococke, the first Laudian Professor of Arabic at Oxford, was also responsible for another edition of Eutychius printed in 1656 by Henry Hall and paid for by Selden who did not live to see it published. Although Arabic type had been used prior to Selden's 'Eutychius' - and the earliest method had been via woodblocks inserted among metal type - it had been confined mainly to individual letters, short passages or quotations and had, at least until the mid-1630s been of very poor quality. William Stansby used Arabic metal type for the first time in England for Selden's 'Mare Clausum' (1635) and it was used again - this time by Bishop, the printer of Eutychius, who had bought Stansby's business - for the second edition of Selden's 'De Successionibus In Bona Defuncti' (1636) and his 'De Iure Naturali' (1640) but all three of these books used the type sparsely and irregularly with only the 1636 book including even a page. By the time o.…

London, 1631. 2nd ed. With a Eulogy for Selden by Ben Jonson Selden, John [1584-1654]. Titles of Honor. London: Printed by William Stansby for Richard Whitakers, 1631. [xxxvi], 67, 98-102, 101-941, [3] pp. Pagination irregular, text complete. Last leaf blank. Six large copperplate illustrations depicting men in court dress and several woodcut illustrations of coins, medals, insignia and maps in text. Folio (11-1/4" x 7"). Contemporary speckled calf, blind rules and gilt-stamped monogram to boards, raised bands and later handwritten label to spine, gilt fillets to board edges, edges rouged. Light rubbing and some small scuffs, nicks, scratches and stains to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, small chip to foot of spine, corners bumped and worn, hinges cracked, pastedowns loose and significantly edgeworn. Title page printed in red and black. Light toning to interior, light foxing and soiling in a few places, corners or edges of a few leaves untrimmed, occasional minor worming to gutter affecting text without loss to legibility, upper corners of leaves 4U3-4Y4 (pp. 729-748) lacking without loss to text. An appealing copy. $950. * Second edition, one of two issues from 1631. With a eulogy by Ben Jonson. Selden's great historical work on nobility begins with a general discussion of titles and nobility. The following chapters consider the nobility of ancient Greece and Rome, Europe, the British Isles, the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Churches, the Middle East and Asia. The final chapters survey various aspects of ceremony and precedence. First published in 1614, this work went through three editions, the last in 1672. English Short-Title Catalogue S117044. London, 1631. 2nd ed. (illustrator).…

First Edition. London 1647, 1st ed. Sowerby 1772. First Printing of Selden's Edition of Fleta and His Ad Fletam Dissertatio Selden, John [1584-1645], Editor. Fleta, Seu Commentarius Juris Anglicani Sic Nuncupatus, Sub Edwardo Rege Primo Seu Circa Annos ab Hinc CCCXL. Ab Anonymo Conscriptus, Atque e Codice Veteri, Autore Ipso Aliquantulum Recentiori, Nunc Primum Typis Editus. Accedit Tractatulus Vetus de Agendi Excipiendique; Formulis Gallicanus, Fet-Assavoir Dictus. Subjungitur Etiam Joan. Seldeni ad Fletam Dissertatio Historica. London: Typis M.F. Prostant Apud Guil. Lee, & Dan. Pakeman, 1647. [8], 64, 63-452, [2], 453-553, [3] pp. Pagination irregular. Complete. Quarto (8-1/2" x 6-1/2"). Handsome period-style quarter calf over cloth, lettering piece, blind ornaments and gilt-ruled raised bands to spine. Negligible light rubbing to boards, some fading to spine. Title page printed in red and black. Moderate toning to text, occasional faint dampspotting, faint dampstaining to margins in a few places, internally clean. A very nice copy. $750. * First edition. The work by an anonymous author describes the practice of the courts, the forms of writs and an explanation of law terms as they existed during the reign of Edward I. Selden brought this ancient treatise to the public's attention and was instrumental in its publication. While Bracton earns the highest praise as the father of legal learning, Fleta earns a share of it for the illustrations he offered to some of the obscurities found in Bracton. Selden's appended dissertation (pp.453-553) contains many interesting observations about Bracton, Britton, Fleta, and Thornton "and shows what use was made of the Imperial law in England whilst the Romans governed here, at what time it was introduced into this nation, what use was formerly made of it, how long it continued, and when the use of it totally ceased in the King's Courts at Westminster": Bridgman, A Short View of Legal Bibliography 87. Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson 1647. English Short-Title Catalogue R15006. London 1647, 1st ed. Sowerby 1772 (illustrator).…

London, 1739. 4th ed. Selden's Historical Discourse: An Important Study of the English Constitution, with Notable Imperial & Female Provenance Selden, John [1584-1654]. Bacon, Nathaniel [1593-1660], Editor (an Attributed Author). An Historical and Political Discourse of the Laws and Government of England, From the First Times to the End of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. With a Vindication of the Antient Way of Parliaments in England. Collected from Some Manuscript Notes of John Selden by Nathaniel Bacon of Grays Inn, Esquire. Corrected and improved by a gentleman of the Middle-Temple. London: Printed for Daniel Browne, At the Black Swan Without Temple-Bar; And Andrew Millar, At Buchanan's-Head, Over-Against St. Clement's-Church in the Strand, 1739. Fourth edition. Folio (12-1/2" x 8"; 31.8 x 20.3cm). [2], viii, [2], xiii-xix, [1], 203; [1], xii, 178, [8] pp. Two parts. Second part preceded by divisional title page. Contemporary paneled calf, raised bands, lettering piece to spine. Worn, rubbed and scuffed, corners bumped and chipped, head of spine loose. Front board nearly detached, held by cords. Contemporary previous owner's ink signature "Elizabeth Kelly" and bookplates of W.C.E. Napier and Graham Bower to front pastedown. Front endleaves loose. Title page printed in red and black. Moderate toning to text, light foxing to a few leaves, faint offsetting to margins of title page and following leaf, internally clean. $950. * First published in 1682, this work was formerly attributed to Nathaniel Bacon, who was actually the editor. It is "a sort of constitutional history of England, showing much knowledge of the development of the institutions, civil and ecclesiastical, and pervaded by a strong spirit of hostility to the claims of the royal prerogative and to hierarchical pretensions" (DNB). An instant classic among Parliamentarians, it went through later editions at the politically stressful moments: 1689, the time of the Glorious Revolution, 1739, the outbreak of the War of Jenkins' Ear, and 1760, the outbreak of the Seven Years' War. This monumental treatise stands as one of the foundational texts of Whig constitutional philosophy and a fierce defense of parliamentary supremacy over the royal prerogative. This copy possesses an exceptional, interconnected provenance tracing elite military and diplomatic ownership. It bears t. London, 1739. 4th ed. (illustrator).…