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Aquae Sulis, or Notices of Roman Bath
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Scarth H M
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ABE 200412
AQUAE SULIS, OR NOTICES OF ROMAN BATH.
Scarth (H.M)
Price: £ 48.00
Book Description: London: Simpkin Marshall, & Co. Bath: R.E. Peach. 1864. With Fifty-Two Illustrations by C.S. Beckett. Two folding plans, 137 + (iii)pp, 4to, original cloth, neatly recased, retainin the original endpapers.
Bookseller: AMBRA BOOKS (Bristol, ., United Kingdom)
Aquae Solis, Or Notices Of Roman Bath.
Scarth, Rev. H.M. & C.S. Beckett [illustrates].
Price: £ 90.00
Book Description: London: Simpkin Marshall 1864 1st [and only] edition. 6 Section Fold-out Map, Partially Coloured. 52 B & W Plates By C.S. Beckett. A Very Good copy. Cloth a little rubbed & marked. Inscription & small stamp toendpaper. Fold-out map slightly torn without loss. Faint foxing to some pages.140pp, Demy 4to. Cloth, gilt titles and bust, blind stamped decoration.
Bookseller: Internet Bookshop UK Ltd. (Gloucestershire, GLS, United Kingdom)
Aquae Solis or Notices of Roman Bath
SCARTH H M
Price: £ 90.00
Book Description: London: Simpkin Marshall and Co, 1864. Very Good. Quarto. xiii + 137pp + [3pp] , illustrated with 52 plates and 2 plans, bound in original brown cloth/gilt, sl chipped top/base spine, 3 chips on spine edge.
Bookseller: Castle Hill Books (Herefordshire, HWR, United Kingdom)
.
Aquae Solis, or Notices of Roman Bath.
Scarth, Rev. H.M.
Price: £ 133.74
Book Description: London; Simpkin, Marshall & Co.: 1864. While acknowledging in his Introduction that prior studies have focused on the Roman remains of Bath, the author points out their shortcomings and inaccuracies, especially when transcribing and illustrating inscriptions. He writes that "The author's great object has been to collect together into one volume every fragment of the Roman times which is known to have existed or is still preserved." and he has indeed collected tablets, metalwares, sculpture, architectural fragments, pottery, funeral inscriptions, and many more interesting pieces of the Roman puzzle. His descriptions are also quite painstaking, and the illustrations large and, if not overly elegant, very clean and clear. His chief aim seems to be to understand how the Romans and their occupation affected Britain- "The study is not a dry collation of meaningless relics, but the gathering together of speaking memorials, which tell indeed of luxury, pomp, and display, but of superstition and ignorance. If we view the Roman dominion under its most favorable aspect, as the civilizer as well as the subjugator. we can yet find deep traces of ignorance and barbarism. The Roman occupation of this island must ever have a peculiar interest for its inhabitants, when the effect it has had on our law and language is considered. Much more is due to the Roman dominion than is generally supposed, and it is only by studying the remains of art, the inscriptions, and the language of that people, that we can adequately estimate the effect of their rule." Hardcover. 9.5"x11.5", xiii + 137 pages, plus 52 lithographed plates by C.S. Beckett. Original gilt-stamped cloth covers, very minor cover soil, and some interiors foxing in several signatures.
Bookseller: Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA (Concord, MA, U.S.A.)
June 2005 Geoff Tyson, Honiton
Nice copy in orig brown cloth. Small ship to top left of spine.
£110
on ABE thus:
Aquae Solis, or Notices Of Roman Bath. WITH ORIGINAL SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF THE AUTHOR
Scarth (H.M), Rev. Beckett (C.S), illus.:
Bookseller: Island Books
(Devon, UK, United Kingdom) Price: £ 142.00
Book Description: Simpkin Marshall, 1864. 4to., First and Sole Edition, with 52 plates by Beckett and a large folding map, some moderate spotting; original cloth blocked in blind, gilt back, a good, firm copy. LOOSELY INSERTED IS AN ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH OF THE AUTHOR WITH HIS HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION AND SIGNATURE ON REVERSE. Anderson, p.254.
ABE 200412
AQUAE SULIS, OR NOTICES OF ROMAN BATH.
Scarth (H.M)
Price: £ 48.00
Book Description: London: Simpkin Marshall, & Co. Bath: R.E. Peach. 1864. With Fifty-Two Illustrations by C.S. Beckett. Two folding plans, 137 + (iii)pp, 4to, original cloth, neatly recased, retainin the original endpapers.
Bookseller: AMBRA BOOKS (Bristol, ., United Kingdom)
Aquae Solis, Or Notices Of Roman Bath.
Scarth, Rev. H.M. & C.S. Beckett [illustrates].
Price: £ 90.00
Book Description: London: Simpkin Marshall 1864 1st [and only] edition. 6 Section Fold-out Map, Partially Coloured. 52 B & W Plates By C.S. Beckett. A Very Good copy. Cloth a little rubbed & marked. Inscription & small stamp toendpaper. Fold-out map slightly torn without loss. Faint foxing to some pages.140pp, Demy 4to. Cloth, gilt titles and bust, blind stamped decoration.
Bookseller: Internet Bookshop UK Ltd. (Gloucestershire, GLS, United Kingdom)
Aquae Solis or Notices of Roman Bath
SCARTH H M
Price: £ 90.00
Book Description: London: Simpkin Marshall and Co, 1864. Very Good. Quarto. xiii + 137pp + [3pp] , illustrated with 52 plates and 2 plans, bound in original brown cloth/gilt, sl chipped top/base spine, 3 chips on spine edge.
Bookseller: Castle Hill Books (Herefordshire, HWR, United Kingdom)
.
Aquae Solis, or Notices of Roman Bath.
Scarth, Rev. H.M.
Price: £ 133.74
Book Description: London; Simpkin, Marshall & Co.: 1864. While acknowledging in his Introduction that prior studies have focused on the Roman remains of Bath, the author points out their shortcomings and inaccuracies, especially when transcribing and illustrating inscriptions. He writes that "The author's great object has been to collect together into one volume every fragment of the Roman times which is known to have existed or is still preserved." and he has indeed collected tablets, metalwares, sculpture, architectural fragments, pottery, funeral inscriptions, and many more interesting pieces of the Roman puzzle. His descriptions are also quite painstaking, and the illustrations large and, if not overly elegant, very clean and clear. His chief aim seems to be to understand how the Romans and their occupation affected Britain- "The study is not a dry collation of meaningless relics, but the gathering together of speaking memorials, which tell indeed of luxury, pomp, and display, but of superstition and ignorance. If we view the Roman dominion under its most favorable aspect, as the civilizer as well as the subjugator. we can yet find deep traces of ignorance and barbarism. The Roman occupation of this island must ever have a peculiar interest for its inhabitants, when the effect it has had on our law and language is considered. Much more is due to the Roman dominion than is generally supposed, and it is only by studying the remains of art, the inscriptions, and the language of that people, that we can adequately estimate the effect of their rule." Hardcover. 9.5"x11.5", xiii + 137 pages, plus 52 lithographed plates by C.S. Beckett. Original gilt-stamped cloth covers, very minor cover soil, and some interiors foxing in several signatures.
Bookseller: Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA (Concord, MA, U.S.A.)
June 2005 Geoff Tyson, Honiton
Nice copy in orig brown cloth. Small ship to top left of spine.
£110
on ABE thus:
Aquae Solis, or Notices Of Roman Bath. WITH ORIGINAL SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF THE AUTHOR
Scarth (H.M), Rev. Beckett (C.S), illus.:
Bookseller: Island Books
(Devon, UK, United Kingdom) Price: £ 142.00
Book Description: Simpkin Marshall, 1864. 4to., First and Sole Edition, with 52 plates by Beckett and a large folding map, some moderate spotting; original cloth blocked in blind, gilt back, a good, firm copy. LOOSELY INSERTED IS AN ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH OF THE AUTHOR WITH HIS HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION AND SIGNATURE ON REVERSE. Anderson, p.254.