Robert Stapylton (8 results)

Taschenbuch. Condition: Fine. leichte Gebrauchsspuren / minor wear---. nein.

Leather-bound. Condition: Binding Poor, Contents Good. Folio. Halfbound, contemporary, quite worn calf over marbled boards, which is itself over printer's waste (a list of first and surnames barely visible through the very scuffed boards.) Extremely worn boards, leather rubbed and worn away, after 375 years. Four raised bands to spine (five compartments, each ruled in gilt) Translated from Latin into English by Robert Stapylton. Two early leaves (pp.3-6) detached. Dropcaps, headpieces, and tailpieces. Boards detached. Text block age-tanned, but eminently readable. Pages quite supple. The book features a unique feature not heretofore encountered in thirty years by this cataloguer. After the conclusion of Book 10, commences a section entitled: "An Alphabeticall Table of the most remarkable Passages and Sentences" -- a 42 page section of author-chosen/author-created passages of note -- perhaps "most remarkable" in its presumptions of remarkability. At the ostensible conclusion of the alphabet, there is a brief bracketed Errata section. Famiano Strada (1572-1649) was an Italian Jesuit and historian of wars in the Belgium and Netherlands during the early part of the Eighty Years War, starting with the abdication of Charles V in 1556 to the capture of Rheinsberg in 1590." (Wikipedia). Highly detailed blow-by-blow accounts of the various/ skirmishes, desecrations, and sundry casual violence and sensationalized gore as well as all-out battles. Sr. Famianus seemed a rather sav(age)y 17th century marketer! NOTE: This copy LACKS the following engraved portraits, and they appear never to have been originally included with this particular copy: This copy/or edition lacks by W. Marshall, R. Vaughn and others) copper engravings: Frontis portrait of translator Robert Stapylton; "The Emperour Charles the 5th Prince of Ye Low=Countreys", (between pp.2 & 3 Book 1); "Philip the Second King of Spaine, Prince of the Low=countreys" (between pp.10 & 11 of Book 1) and "Margaret Dutchesse of Parma and Piacenza / Daughter to Charles the 5th / Governesse of the Lowcountreys" (between pp.24 & 25 Book 1); Anthony Perenott Cardinall Granvel / Counsellour of Estate to Margaret of Parma (between pp.38 & 39); William of Nassau / Prince of Orange (between pp. 42 & 43); Ferdinand of Toledo Duke of Alva / Governour of the Low=countreys" (between pp.24 & 25 of Book 6); John Lignius Count Aremberg / Governour of Frisland / Generall at Ye Battaile of Hilfiger. (between pp.46 & 47 of Book 7); Peter Ernest Count Mansfeldt / Governour of Lucembureg / Campe=master at y Battaile of Gemblac / Generall of the French Expedition (between pp.64 & 65 of Book 7); Lodovico Requesenes, Great Comendador / of Castile Governour of Ye Lowcountreys (between pp.24 & 25, Conclusion of Book 7); Sancho Avila Governour of the Fort / at Antwerp General at ye Battaile of Mooch (between pp.2 and 3 of Book 8); Chiapino Vitelli Marquess of Cetona / Campe=master generall (between pp.12 & 13, of Book 8); Don John of Austria / Son to Charls Ye 5th / Governour of the Low countreys (between pp.26 & 27, of Book 9); Alexander Farneze Prince of Parma / & Piacenza Governour of Ye Low countreys (between pp.42 & 43 Book 9); Lacks final two leaves of advertisements ("Courteous Reader, These Books following are printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his Shop at the Prices Armes in St. Pauls Church-yard." ".To their misfortune was added, that the reliques of the Army, scattered in places they knew not about Flanders, had their brains beaten out by the women, that came upon them with clubs and spits, and (which is a more dangerous weapon) armed with the furie of their sex; some almost railing them to death,; others pricking their bodkins into them, with exquisite barbarity pulled them to pieces with their nayles, as the Bacchanals tore Orpheus." "Just as we, after the clouds have fought, and are broken, the Sun breaks forth: nor ever shines a greater hope of Peace, then when a WARR is Seriously prosecuted, fury being as it were glutted and weary with.

First Edition. [Latin Satire in English] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[16] 287 [5]. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author by W. Marshall, and an engraved title page portrait of Juvenal by Thomas Rawlins. In nineteenth-century brown full suede, with gilt titles to a red label, and blind decoration. Edges closely trimmed. Black ink stamp of C. Ley to fly-leaf. Contemporary black ink ownerships to recto of frontispiece, and verso of the final leaf of text, possibly of Sir Edmund Morgan (c.1561-1655). Internally crisp and clean, but for a water stain to the lower corner of pp.17-48. Closely trimmed, with some loss to the fore-edge of the frontispiece. Binding shows moderate general wear, with some loss to the head of spine, and joints starting. Very good. The first complete edition of Juvenal's Satires in English, following 'The first six satyrs of Juvenal' (1644). A Catholic Yorkshireman appointed gentleman-in-ordinary to the future King Charles II, Stapylton produced a number of early translations of Classical works into English, having been educated at the Benedictine school of St Gregory at Douai. Following the Restoration he became a playwright. Though his play 'The Slighted Maid' was reviewed by Pepys in 1663, none of his work was ever reprinted following his death in 1669. Kelly, L.G. "Stapylton [Stapleton], Sir Robert (1607x9?-1669), translator and playwright." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. January 03, 2008.

Hardcover. Condition: Otherwise very good condition. Third edition. First published in 1644 (the first six satires only) and then complete in 1647, with another edition following in 1660. This is the vigorous and well-annotated translation of Juvenal by the royalist poet and dramatist Sir Robert Stapylton (1605?-69). Wing J1292. This is one of the earliest publications of Thomas Guy (d. 1724), founder of Guy's Hospital and benefactor of St Thomas's Hospital. He had become a bookseller in 1668, but his fortune was made through trading South Sea stock. 8vo, (xx) 246pp (last blank) 2 pp adverts, engraved portrait frontispiece and additional title page, all edges stained green. Original sheep boards quite rubbed at corners, nicely rebacked in brown calf with red & gilt title label, slt. rubbed. A very pleasant copy.

First Edition. The frontispiece illustrated with a classical image of Juvenal executed in copperplate, additional engraved portrait plate of Stapylton, and with finely engraved folio plates depicting classical images at the beginning of each of the Satyrs with an additional plate to the Figura Prima prior to the first Satyr, finely engraved head-pieces and large historiated initials throughout. The plates are by Wenceslaus Hollar after Robert Streeter; the engraved portrait of Stapylton by Pierre Lombart; the 16 etched plates are by Hollar after Streeter, Johan Dankers, and Francis Barlow. Each has an explanatory leaf. Large Folio, 15" x 10.5", contemporary calf over marbled paper covered boards, the spine with raised bands over cords gilt ruled, compartments of the spine with central gilt tooling, one compartment lettered in gilt. [24], 522, [2], [26] pp. A very well preserved copy, the plates and text-block crisp and clean and unpressed, the binding secure, tight and strong and in pleasing condition. FIRST EDITION OF THIS ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE WORKS OF JUVENAL. A fine scholarly first edition with significant notes and explanations of Juvenal's words and meanings. Decimus Junius Juvenalis, Englished as Juvenal (c. 55128), was a Roman poet and author of the Satires, a collection of satirical poems. The details of Juvenal's life are unclear, but references in his works to people from the late first and early second centuries AD suggest that he began writing no earlier than that time. Juvenal wrote at least 16 poems in the verse form dactylic hexameter. These poems cover a range of Roman topics. This follows Luciliusthe originator of the Roman satire genre, and it fits within a poetic tradition that also includes Horace and Persius. The Satires are a vital source for the study of ancient Rome from a number of perspectives. At first glance the Satires could be read as a critique of Rome. In his introduction Stapylton writes that 'Juvenal was born at Aquinum in Campania; his father a rich freedman of the town, bred him as a Scholar, and designed him for a Lawyer. At middle-age, he became heir to a fortune, therefore not necessitated to make Law his Profession, he wholly applied himself to the study of Moral Philosophy; and by that rule measuring the actions of his Countreymen the Romans, which then gave as well the Example, as the Law to all Nations, he found nothing so needfull for the corrupted World, as Reformation of Manners. This he resolved to make his business, not by inflicting a penalty like the Censor, but by showing the ugliness of Vice as a Sayrist, in Imitation of Lucilius: yet so far out-doing his pattern, that he read his Satyres publickly, not alone with the general applause of the people of Rome, but even Quintilian himself became his bearer and admirer.He was a judge of manners, so incorrupted, that his Enemy, though favourite to Caesar and the Court-Informer, could not find matter against him for a charge of defamation. In short, he was a Politician for the benefit of Mankind, disguising Morality under the vizzard of a Satyr; for which he had his warrant from Plato.His verse is far better that Horace.

[142]pp., 12mo. Additional engraved title by Marshall depicting Leander "swimming ore", a separate printed title-page at leaf C7 for "Leander s Letter to Hero, and her Ansvver: Taken out of Ovid. With Annotations", the final signature, F (I here quote the online Columbia University Library catalogue) "appears to consist of F1 and 2 conjugate, a wide blank stub and F3 conjugate, F4-9, and F10-11. No text is missing or out of order." Small and neat narrow reinforcement to the extreme outer blank margins of the verso of the first leaf and the engraved title by the early nineteenth-century binder. An attractive copy in full gilt-ruled tan calf, spine fully gilt, g.e.; small chip from head of spine. First complete edition of this verse translation from Musaeus Grammaticus, written in Greek in the early sixth century. Stapylton, as he says in his preface, "made triall how the Greek would go into English," publishing a 24-page pamphlet in 1645. In this much expanded edition, he has revised his translation and added annotations and "Leander s Letter to Hero, and her Ansvver: Taken out of Ovid." Wing, Short-Title Catalogue 1641-1700, M3134; Grolier, Wither to Prior, 817. This was John Brett-Smith s copy, sold in his sale at Sotheby s 27 May 2004, lot 544 (£1,080), afterwards in the collection of Christopher Rowe, with his bookplate.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Fine binding. Bound in full leather. Gilt ruled with 5 raised bands. Red leather spine label. Fine binding and cover. Hand made marbling paper end pages. Early signature of Daniel Harvey, 1651. (Presumed to be Sir Daniel Harvey, 1631-1672. MP, diplomat and English Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1668 to 1672.) 4to. [360] pages, [14] leaves of plates : portraits ; 29 cm. Hand written list of portraits on rear end page. Old damp stain to bottom margin of a few pages. Wing S5777. 1st English ed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 4to. First English edition. 143, 83, 58, 24 p. + Table. , 14 pl. including frontis; 29 cm. Rebound in full modern leather. Fine binding and cover. Contemporary owners name of David Harvey 1651 on FEP. Pencil signature of Col. Prideaux on FEP. Bookplate of Albert Fairfax, 12th Lord Fairfax of Cameron on front pastedown, with auction catalogue, 1917 from Prideaux estate. Prelims well tanned to title page. Clean, unmarked pages with tanning. Small worming hole affecting text and plates from title page to p 29. Contemporary list of protraits on last blank by first owner. A rare history of the early Dutch Wars illuminating the Catholic side of events. Wing S5777 Col. Prideaux was a commander and governor in India in the Bombay Army. In 1874 he was named a Fellow of Bombay University; selected Assistant Secretary in the Foreign Department of the Government of India in 1875; from March 1876 - August 1877 he became Acting Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; he hoped to then be appointed Consul-General in Baghdad where he had intended to resume archaeological investigations but this was not to happen and after a short interval he was appointed to become Political Agent in Bhopal in 1879. He was subsequently appointed Agent to the Governor-General to the ex-King of Oudh and Superintendent of Political Pensions (1880-82); Resident in Jaipur (1888-90, 1894-95); Resident in Mewar (1893); Acting Agent to the Governor-General in Rajputana (1893-94). He was promoted to Colonel in 1890, at which rank he retired in 1895 with the award of Companion of the Star of India [CSI] in recognition of his Services in the Political Department of the Indian Government.