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Odes of Anacreon : Translated into English Verse with Notes by Thomas Moore. Two volumes in one

By: Anacreon and translated by Thomas Moore

Price: £95.00

Publisher: London, Printed for Carpenter and Son 1815: 1815

Seller ID: 63216

Binding: Half Calf

Condition: Near Fine

Two volumes in one. 175, 148 pp. Contemporary half dark brown calf over marbled boards. Gilt & blind-stamped decoration to spine with gilt lettering. Gilt bright. Boards clean. Bookplate of Trelissick Library in Cornwall to front pastedown. Cornish binder's ticket of 'J. Gill, Binder, Penryn'. Frontis portrait to each volume. Internally clean. A nice copy.
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The Works of Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, Moschus and Musaeus

By: Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, Moschus and Musaeus and translated into English by A Gentleman of Cambridge [FAWKES, Francis - translator]

Price: £300.00

Publisher: London, Printed for J. Newbery and L. Davis and C. Reymers 1760: 1760

Seller ID: 62039

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Very Good

x, 321, (3) pp. Contemporary stained calf over modern calf spine with black leather title label. Corners renewed. Internally clean. Binding firm. The translator, Fawkes, is unnamed in this issue which is likely the earlier of the two published in 1760, the title page stating 'By a gentleman of Cambridge'.
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The Birds

By: Aristophanes

Price: £45.00

Publisher: New York, The Limited Editions Club 1959: 1959

Seller ID: 41585

Binding: Slipcase

Condition: Very Good

4to., xii., 53, [1] colophon pp., very pretty calf spined binding with decorative boards, held in a folder, which is finally protected by a slipcase. The slipcase is slightly battered, tanned and split. Illustrated with two tone line drawings, printed for the Limited Editions Club, numbered 1475 of 1500 copies. Folder spine slightly darkened.
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Epistolarum B. Pauli Apostoli Triplex Expositio. In three volumes

By: Bernardino a Piconio, R. P.

Price: £125.00

Publisher: Paris, Jouby et Roger, Bibliopole / Gaume Fratr. et J. Duprey 1869: 1869

Seller ID: 59835

Binding: Full Vellum

Condition: Near Fine

In 3 volumes. xxiv, 474; 521; 507 pp. Contemporary full vellum with brown leather title labels to spines. Bevelled edges. All edges red. Marbled endpapers. Occasional light pencil underlining. Vellum fresh and clean. Text in Latin. Charles Coleridge Mackarness' copy. He was Archdeacon of the East Riding 1898-1916. He was a great-nephew of the poet S. T. Coleridge, and his father was the Bishop of Oxford. He was also a founding member of the Oxford University Assoc. Football Club, and played twice in the F. A. Cup, finally winning in 1874.
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Savage Energies : Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece

By: Burkert, Walter

Price: £22.50

Publisher: Chicago, University of Chicago Press 9780226080857: 9780

Seller ID: 58972

Binding: Cloth

Condition: As New

Cloth in dust jacket. In As New condition. Still in shrinkwrap.
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Greek Philosophy Thales To Plato

By: Burnet, John

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, MacMillan 1932: 1932

Seller ID: 62950

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

x, 360 pp, marks to board edges, wear to dustwrapper with part of spine edges missing, price clipped, university stamp on front endpaper.
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C. Cornelii Taciti Opera quae exstant : integris Beati Rhenani, Fulvii Ursini, M. Antonii Mureti, Josiae Merceri, Justi Lipsii, Valentis Acidalii, Curtii Pichenae, Jani Gruteri, Hugonis Grotii, Joannis Freinshemii, Joannis Frederici Gronovii & selectis aliorum Commentariis illustrata ... [Annals]

By: C. Cornelii Taciti [Cornelius Tacitus]

Price: £300.00

Publisher: Trajecti Batavorum, Jacobum a Poolsum et Johannem Visch 1721: 1721

Seller ID: 58945

Binding: Parchment Paper Covered Boards

Condition: Very Good

(32), 756 pp. Contemporary blind-stamped parchment-paper over boards. Ink title to spine. Front joint renewed. Boards clean. Internally clean. Frontis engraving. Title-page vignette. Early ink owners' names to title-page. Tail-pieces. Binding firm. Text in Latin.
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Caii Plinii Caecilii Secundi. Epistolarum Libri Decem. Opera Quae Supersunt, Omnia. Consulis Panegyricus Nervae Trajano Augusto Dictus. Three volumes

By: Caii Plinii [Pliny]

Price: £200.00

Publisher: Glasgow, Foulis Press 1751: 1751

Seller ID: 49068

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Very Good

In three volumes. 275; 276-501; 502-633, (23) pp. Tan full calf. Spines elaborately gilt panelled with leather title labels. All edges red. Marbled endpapers. Damage to leather of volume one. Damage to spine joints at tail of 2 volumes. All volumes firm and tight. A nice set.
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Euripidies - Aristophanes Ancient Classics For English Readers Series

By: Collins, Reverend W. Lucas (editor) and Donne, William B.

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London, William Blackwood and Sons 1872: 1872

Seller ID: 56815

Binding: Half Vellum

Condition: Very Good

376 pp, 2 books in 1 Euripides by William B. Donne and Aristophanes by Rev.W. Lucas Collins , gilt designed spine with green title label, foxed endpapers, some wear to boards.
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Juvenal - Plautus and Terence - Ancient Classics For English Readers Series

By: Collins, Reverend W. Lucas (editor) and Walford, Edward.

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London, William Blackwood and Sons 1872: 1872

Seller ID: 56812

Binding: Half Vellum

Condition: Very Good

324 pp, 2 books in 1, Juvenal by Edward Walford and Plautus and Terence by Rev.W. Lucas Collins, gilt designed spine with green title label, heavily foxed endpapers, some wear to boards.
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Demosthenis Selectae Orationes. Ad Codices MSS. Recensuit, Textum, Scholiasten, et Versionem Plurimis in Locis Castigavit Notis Insuper Illustravit Ricardus Mounteney

By: Demosthenis [Demosthenes] and Ricardus Mounteney

Price: £250.00

Publisher: Eton, T. Pote 1791: 1791

Seller ID: 52354

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Very Good

xlviii, 418 pp. Bound in contemporary full polished leather (sheepskin?). Raised bands to spine with plain gilt ruling but lacks any lettering. Minor marks to boards and slight wear to joint. Lacks rear free endpaper. Frontis engraved folding map. No ownership names. Text in Latin and Greek. Published at Eton as a school text and bound in a basic plain leather binding for the use of students. No ownership names. Binding firm. VG
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Urbs Roma : A Source Book of Classical Texts on the City and Its Monuments

By: Dudley, Donald R.

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Phaidon Press 1967: 1967

Seller ID: 60918

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

339 pp. Publisher's cloth in dust wrapper. Jacket slightly rubbed & edgeworn. Internally clean. B&w illustrations.
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A Collection of English Exercises: Translated From the Writings of Cicero, For School-Boys to Re-Translate Into Latin; and Adapted to the Principal Rules in the Eton Syntax; With Occasional References to Other Grammars

By: Ellis, William

Price: £75.00

Publisher: London, Longman, Rees, and Co.; J. Richardson; Baldwin and Craddock; et al. 1834: 1834

Seller ID: 52381

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Very Good

xxviii, 269, (2) pp. Bound in contemporary tan polished full leather. Blindstamped lines to spine but lacks any lettering. Slight wear to spine ends. Internally clean. Two page publisher's adverts at rear. A school text bound in a basic plain leather binding for the use of students. Binding firm. VG condition.
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A Collection of English Exercises: Translated From the Writings of Cicero, For School-Boys to Re-Translate Into Latin; and Adapted to the Principal Rules in the Eton Syntax; With Occasional References to Other Grammars

By: Ellis, William

Price: £75.00

Publisher: London, Longman & Co.; John Richardson; et al 1839: 1834

Seller ID: 56692

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Very Good

xxviii, 269, (3) pp. Bound in contemporary brown full leather with blindstamped lines to boards. Lacks spine lettering. Slight wear to spine ends. Early ink owner's name to front endpaper. One section proud. Internally clean. Three page publisher's adverts at rear. A school text bound in a basic plain leather binding for the use of students. Binding firm. VG condition.
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Graecae Grammatices Rudimenta. In Usum Regiae Scholae Etonensis

By: Eton

Price: £200.00

Publisher: Eton and York, T. Wilson and R. Spence 1802: 1802

Seller ID: 52352

Binding: Full Tree Calf

Condition: Very Good

238 pp. Bound in contemporary plain full tree calf. No spine lettering. Reprinted 1802 from the original edition published at Eton in 1793. A school text bound in a basic plain calf binding for the use of students at Eton. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown. No other markings. Internally very clean. In VG to Near Fine condition.
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Graecae Grammatices Rudimenta. In Usum Regiae Scholae Etonensis

By: Eton

Price: £150.00

Publisher: Eton and York, T. Wilson and R. Spence 1802: 1802

Seller ID: 52353

Binding: Full Tree Calf

Condition: Very Good

238 pp. Bound in contemporary plain full tree calf. Blind-stamped ruling to spine. Slight wear to extremities. Spotting to endpapers. Reprinted 1802 from the original edtion published at Eton in 1793. A school text bound in a basic plain calf binding for the use of students at Eton. No ownership names. VG
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The Works of Flavius Josephus : The Learned and Authentic Jewish Historian, and Celebrated Warrior, To Which are Added, Three Dissertations, Concerning Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, James the Just, God's Command to Abraham, &c.

By: Flavius Josephus and translated by William Whiston

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Thomas Nelson 1839: 1839

Seller ID: 54244

Binding: Half Morocco

Condition: Good

856, 23 pp. Contemporary dark green half morocco over cloth. Raised bands to spine with gilt lettering. All edges marbled and marbled endpapers. Wear to spine ends & joints and boards marked. Early owners' names to verso of ffep and first blank. Leaves slightly age-darkened. Printed in double columns. Binding firm.
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Petrarch the poet: an introduction to the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta

By: HAINSWORTH, Peter

Price: £125.00

Publisher: London, Routledge 1988: 1988

Seller ID: 48396

ISBN: 0415002702

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

ix, 239 p. Nice clean copy. 0415002702
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Herodoti Halicarnassei Historiarum Libri IX 3 Volumes in 2

By: Herodoti [ Herodotus ]

Price: £175.00

Publisher: London, W. Baxter 1820: 1820

Seller ID: 40347

Binding: Full Vellum

Condition: Very Good

GREEK-LATIN TEXT 3 vols in 2. 1300 pp, some marks to vellum and foxing to pages dated 1820-1822
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Image for Homeri Carmina : Cum brevi annotatione. Accedunt variae lectiones et observationes veterum grammaticorum cum nostrae aetatis critica. Curante C. G. Heyne. In eight volumes

Homeri Carmina : Cum brevi annotatione. Accedunt variae lectiones et observationes veterum grammaticorum cum nostrae aetatis critica. Curante C. G. Heyne. In eight volumes

By: Homer and C. G. Heyne

Price: £480.00

Publisher: Leipzig and London, Weidmann and Payne and Mackinlay 1802: 1802

Seller ID: 57646

Binding: 1/4 Vellum

Condition: Good

In 8 volumes. Quarter vellum over boards with vellum tips to corners. Lettered volume numbers to spines. Edges uncut. Boards clean. Text clean. With five folding tables at rear of volume one. All bindings firm. An index was published in 1822. Christian Gottlob Heyne was a long-time director of the Gottingen Library. Text in Greek and Latin.
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