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1949pp. xii, 379 + Plus full page photographs. Bookplate of Mark Robinson. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, worn with loss. Hardbound. LATIN AMERICA BOX 1.
1920252p. + Full page photographs. 8vo. Original full green cloth binding, spotted. Hardbound. Interesting and somewhat humorous account of travel in South America. LATIN AMERICA BOX 1.
190151p. Title page printed in orange and black. Uncut. Some foxing. Presentation copy from the author to Robert Bridges, 1901. 8vo. Rebound. Very scarce. The owner of this book is often confused with the Poet Laureate of the same name. Robert Bridges was born at Shippensburg, PA, where he prepared for Princeton as a member of the State Teacher's College class of 1879. His best friend through life was his classmate, Woodrow Wilson. Bridges was successful as a newspaper reporter (1880-1887), the literary critic of Life (1883-1900), the assistant editor and editor of Scribner's Magazine (1887-1930), remaining with Scribner's until late in life as Director and Literary Advisor. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! LATIN AMERICA BOX 2.
1841280p. 24mo. Original quarter leather binding over marbled boards. Front board detached. Spine decorated in gold with leather label. Raised bands. Small loss at tail. Hardbound. Sabin 29312. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! LATIN AMERICA BOX 1.
1941pp. xi, 498 + folding map. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, worn. Hardbound. Second printing. LATIN AMERICA BOX 1.
186070p. 8vo. Modern wraps. According to the 'Dictionary of United States History' "A commercial treaty was concluded between the United States and Paraguay in 1853, but Paraguay failed to ratify it. Differences arose which led to the manifestation of force by the United States, and treaties of indemnity, commerce and navigation were concluded in 1859." The controversy involved the U.S.S. Water Witch, a sidewheel gunboat sloop built in 1853. Its first assignment was to undertake an extensive survey of the region around the River Plate, and in particular the Parana River in Argentina and Paraguay. The ship sailed under command of Lieutenant Thomas Jefferson Page on February 8, 1853, and after several stops, she arrived at Buenos Aires in May. After ensuring the safety of the Argentine Confederation's General Justo Urquiza following the siege of Buenos Aires, Page began his official assignment. Water Witch was the first steam vessel to ascend the Parana, Paraguay, and Salado Rivers, and her three years of surveys showed that these rivers were navigable by large, powered vessels, a fact that had great implications for the growth of Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil. Though the expedition was a success, on February 1, 1855, Page ignored a Paraguayan decree forbidding him to ascend the Parana River, and one sailor was killed when the fort at Itapiru fired on the ship. Water Witch returned to the United States in 1856, and in 1858 returned to the Plate as part of Flag Officer W. B. Shubrick's Paraguay Expedition, one aim of which was to negotiate a treaty and compensation for the dead man's family. Scarce. LATIN AMERICA BOX 2
1747pp. (12), 267 + Publisher's Advertisement. 12mo. Uncased. Latin text followed by the annotated English version. Written in a simple, concise style, Eutropius' history (especially in this edition) was probably originally intended for school use. SMALL BOX 1
1818108p. Woodcut devices, including that of the Regent's Classics. 24mo. Original full calf binding. Boards detached. Early American manuscript ownerships. Based on the edition edited by Johann Friedrich Fischer. Brunet II:1312. Regent's Classics Edition. SMALL BOX 4.
1824338p. + Frontis. 12mo. [160 x 101 mm.] Foxed. Nice straight grained English tan morocco binding. Marbled edges. Engraved Ex Libris. Mills 1071; Brunet III:324. . **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SMALL BOX 3
18158vo. pp. (16), 329, (94). Foxed. Damp stained. Worn contemporary full leather binding, boards almost detached. The First American edition, from the texts edited by Pierre Joseph Cantel (1645-1684) and Jacques Bongars (1554-1612). AI 35037. W121.
1683119p. + Engraved title page (which shows Baccus sitting on the globe). Light damp and age stain. Thin 32mo. [115 x 58 mm.] Contemporary full leather binding, varnished and cracked at joints. Juvenal was a great Roman satirical poet. His verse established a model for the satire of indignation, in contrast to the less harsh satire of ridicule of Horace. Little is known about his life except that during much of it he was desperately poor. A tradition tells that as a youth he was banished from court for satirizing an imperial favorite; later his work reveals a deep hatred for the Emperor Domitian. He is known chiefly for his 16 satires, which contain a vivid representation of life in Rome under the empire. They were probably written in the years between A.D. 100 and A.D. 128. The biting tone of his diatribes has seldom been equaled. From the stern point of view of the older Roman standards he powerfully denounces the lax and luxurious society, the brutal tyranny, the affectations and immora lity of women, and the criminal excesses of Romans as he saw them, especially in his earlier years. The rhetorical form of his verse is finished, exact, and epigrammatic, furnishing many sayings that have become familiar through quotation - Columbia Encyclopedia. Frequently joined with the satires of Juvenal are those of a fellow Roman satirist, Persius. Born in Etruria, a member of a distinguishe d family, he went to Rome in boyhood, was educated there, and came under the influence of the Stoic philosopher Lucius Annaeus Cornutus, to whom he became attached in lasting friendship. Gentle and mo dest by nature, Persius had high moral standards. His writings (only six short satires), influenced in manner by Horace and Lucilius, preach Stoic moral doctrine. He exposed to censure the corruption and folly of contemporary Roman life, contrasting it with the ideals of the Stoics and of earlier Rome - Columbia Encyclopedia. An unusual and scarce little edition. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SMALL BOX 3
179612mo. Original boards. Taped spine. German manuscript notations. Published at the press of the Orphan's House in Halle founded by Franke. **PRICE JUST REDUCED!
18608vo. 226p. Text in Latin, with German notes. Foxed. Worn contemporary leather backed marbled boards. Manuscript ownership of R. M . Bolenius, Bielfield, 1863/1864. Cornelius Nepos, Roman historian, wa s an intimate friend of Pomponius Atticus, Cicero, and Catullus. His only extant work is a collection of biographies, mostly from a lost larger work, De viris illustribus [On Illustrious Men]. The gen eral method was to compare the lives of great Roman and non-Roman leaders. Nepos wrote in a popular manner in clear and simple Latin. W121
1932231p. Interesting block illustrations by Samuel Nisenson. Small 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Bookplate of Arthur W. Shively. W121
1759Three volumes. 12mo. [157 x 89 mm.] Engraved frontis, illustrations, and vignettes by Eisen, engraved by Lempereur and Aliamet. Tasteful contemporary full red straight grained morocco leather binding in the Syston Park style. Marbled endpapers. All edges gold gilt. A clean and crisp copy of an eminent Barbou classic, probably from Sir John Hayford Thorold's Syston Park library. Plautus was a famed Roman writer of comedies, His plays, adapted from those of Greek New Comedy, are popular and vigorous representations of middle-class and lower-class life. Written with a mastery of idiomatic spoken Latin and governed by a genius for situation and coarse humor, Plautus' comedies achieved a great reputation. Characteristic of his plays are the stock comic figures: the knavish, resourceful slave, the young lover and his mistre ss, the courtesan, the parasite, and the braggart soldier. His plots and characters have had great influence upon later literature, with adaptations and imitations by many writers, e.g., Molière, Corneille, Jonson, and Shakespeare. Twenty-one plays survive, more or less complete: Amphitruo (Amphitryon), Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi, Casina, Cistellaria, Curculio, Epidicus, Menaechmi, Mercator, Miles gloriosus, Mostellaria, Persa, Poenulus, Pseudolus, Rudens, Stichus, Trinummus, Truculentus, and Vidularia (in fragments) - Columbia Encyclopedia. For some interesting tales and comments on Plautus see: Hadas, 'Ancilla'. A brief history of the Barbou Classics is given by Schweiger (II 1269). In 1742 Lenglet de Fresnoy persuaded Coustelier to start a series which was meant to be a French rival to the Elzeviers - even surpassing them in tersms of schoalrship and typography. Though this effort soon exhausted itself, it was revived by Jean Joseph Barbou in 1753. Seven of these attractive little books appeared in 1753-1755, and though there were more issued in the next decade, there was not enough market interest to support a sustained publishing program. They still stand as a monument to French scholarship and typography. An elegant and correct edition. Brunet IV:709; Harwood III:233; Cohen 373; Cohen-de Ricci 808. Very scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W154
184612mo. 84p. Foxed. Original cloth backed boards. Very scarce American school book edition of Plautus. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SMALL BOX 4
1972435p. Original full cloth binding. 8vo. In this English translation, these poems are remarkably modern in feeling, sense, and outlook. With the original Latin text as well. W118.
1723105p. 12mo. [133 x 79 mm]. Worn contemporary calf binding. Lengthy Latin poem, based on classical models, in praise of flowers and gardens. Very scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SMALL BOX 1
1754pp. 48, 392, (1) + Three plates engraved by Charles Nicolas Cochin (1715-1790) + Engraved headpiece. Woodcut printer's device. Small 8vo. [146 x 85 mm.] All edges gold gilt. Wide margins. Fine contemporary full French olive morocco gilt binding. Silk doublures. Manuscript Crozat (1813) ownership. Leather gold Ex Libris of Dudley C. Majoribanks. Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth, also known as the Laird of Guisachan and Glenaffric (18201894), was a Scottish businessman and a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1853 until 1880, when he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Tweedmouth. Beautifully printed and handsomely bound edition that appears to be essentially the sheets of the 1744 edition with a new title page. Includes a life of Sallust by Etienne Andre Philippe de Pretot (d. 1787). A brief history of the Barbou Classics is given by Schweiger (II 1269). In 1742 Lenglet de Fresnoy persuaded Coustelier to start a series which was meant to be a French rival to the Elzeviers - even surpassing them in terms of scholarship and typography. Though this effort soon exhausted itself, it was revived by Jean Joseph Barbou in 1753. Seven of these attractive little books appeared in 1753-1755, and though there were more issued in the next decade, there was not enough market interest to support a sustained publishing program. They still stand as a monument to French scholarship and typography. Brunet V:87. Very scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SMALL BOX 3
17588vo. pp. (18), 234, (99). Title page printed in red & black, but age soiled. Disbound. Sallust was a famed Roman historian and politician. He was tribune of the people (52 B.C.) and praetor (46). He was ejected (50) from the senate ostensibly for adultery, but more probably because of his partisanship for Caesar. He served with Caesar after his praetorship and was his governor in Numidia; he was s ubsequently accused of misusing his governorship for personal gain. His principal works are the Bellum Catilinae, on the conspiracy of Catiline and his account of the Jugurthine War, Bellum Jugurthinu m. His history of Rome is extant only in fragments; it probably covered the period 78 B.C. to 67 B.C. As a historian Sallust was important as one of the first to write historical monographs dealing wi th sharply limited events and periods. Although his style is consciously archaic, it is distinguished by its terseness and directness. His character sketches are particularly impressive and vivid, and his work has found as many imitators as critics - Columbia Encyclopedia. . **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W121 Rear L
1820pp. 236; 149 + Engraved frontis portrait. Two volumes in one. Large paper copy, printed on "Carta dei Classici" paper. Slightly foxed. Tall folio. [460 x 315 mm.] Bound in original vellum backed cloth boards. Sallust was a famed Roman historian and politician. He was tribune of the people (52 B.C.) and praetor (46). He was ejected (50) from the senate ostensibly for adultery, but more probably because of his partisanship for Caesar. He served with Caesar after his praetorship and was his governor in Numidia; he was subsequently accused of misusing his governorship for personal gain. His princi pal works are the Bellum Catilinae, on the conspiracy of Catiline and his account of the Jugurthine War, Bellum Jugurthinum. His history of Rome is extant only in fragments; it probably covered the pe riod 78 B.C. to 67 B.C. As a historian Sallust was important as one of the first to write historical monographs dealing with sharply limited events and periods. Although his style is consciously archa ic, it is distinguished by its terseness and directness. His character sketches are particularly impressive and vivid, and his work has found as many imitators as critics - Columbia Encyclopedia. In t his edition, the Latin text is followed by an Italian translation by Vittorio Alfieri da Asti. This beautifully printed Bodoni-like production is extremely scarce. We have been able to locate only three copies in the U.S. Brunet V:88. RARE. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W143
1697The second volume (of two?). Thick 8vo. pp. 501-862, (50), 224 + Engraved folding map, and engraved portrait plate. Edges colored brown. **Painted vellum binding and hidden lettered fore-edge** Early full vellum binding, decorated with small, bold pen drawings of ships sailing below a seven line motto in Latin (this text, no longer easily legible). On the rear board is an ink drawing of a Tudor rose. Painted under the brown fore-edge, and visible only when fanned, is the following text: "TULLIUM M. C. JULIUS CAESAR CICERONEM OB E GRECIAS EJUS / DOMITUM SALVUM ET INCOLUMEM / ESSE JOBEMUS C. JA BOIENUS / NOSTRIS ARMIS VIRTUTEQUE". Later manuscript vellum spine label: "INCERTA" (meaning uncertain or doubtful). Was this perhaps a critic's warning about the accuracy of the notes on Caesar that Scaliger gathered together? A UNIQUE AND ENTIRELY REMARKABLE ITEM. CHEST 2/2
1823Well preserved in the original publisher's cloth. Virtually uncut. Curiously, this copy was apparently issued without the engraved title an d frontis. Pickering was the first in England to use cloth in publisher's bindings. SMALL BOX 2
15818vo. [156 x 100 mm.] Five parts in one volume. pp. 143; 255, (76); 48; 129, (14); 77 + Blanks. Estienne printers device (12) on title. Damp stained. Remains of old leather binding. Engraved armorial bookplate of William Markham, Becca Lodge, Yorkshire. Varro was known as the most erudite man and the most prolific writer of his times. He is estimated to have written about 620 works. He served as Pompey's legate in Spain and fought at Pharsalus, but was reconciled with Caesar, who made him director of the proposed public library. At the time of the Second Triumvirate his villa was plundered, and he himself was proscribed. He fled, but was pardoned by Augustus. In his writing scarcely a field of contemporary learning was left untouched. Of his many works only this one remains intact, De re rustica libri III. Written when Varro was 80 years old, as an Aristotelian dialogue on farming, in three parts: Agriculture proper; husbandry and the larger animals; and smaller farm stock, such as birds, bees, and fish. This is one of the most important books of its kind extant from antiquity. This edition was edited by Joseph Juste Scaliger (1540-1609) and annotated by Adrien Turnhbe (1512-1565), Pietro Vettori (1499-1585) and Antonio Agustmn (1517-1586). It was printed by the great Henri Estienne. It is quite scarce. Adams V-283; Schreiber 207 ; Renouard 148:2; Schweiger II:1116. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SMALL BOX 2
1754pp. 24, 238 + Frontis, vignettes and culs-de-lampe, engraved by Fessard. Woodcut printer's device. All edges gold. Text and plates clean and bright. Small 8vo. [150 x 85 mm.] Worn original French full leather gold. Engraved Ex Libris of Theodore Martin. Edited by Stephano-Andraa Philippe. Includes a bibliography of Velleius Paterculus. Lovely edition of this "universal" Roman history. A brief history of the Barbou Classics is given by Schweiger (II 1269). In 1742 Lenglet de Fresnoy persuaded Coustelier to start a series which was meant to be a French rival to the Elzeviers - even surpassing th em in tersms of schoalrship and typography. Though this effort soon exhausted itself, it was revived by Jean Joseph Barbou in 1753. Seven of these attractive little books appeared in 1753-1755, and th ough there were more issued in the next decade, there was not enough market interest to support a sustained publishing program. They still stand as a monument to French scholarship and typography. Brunet IV:430. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SMALL BOX 4