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1957210p. + Photographic illustrations. 8vo. DJ. Excellent survey of Greek classical culture. This Marboro book club edition apparently is the true first American edition. The text was previously publishe d in England. W121
1877Sm. 8vo. 508p. + 12 Engraved plates. Original cloth binding. Worn. W120
1854pp. viii, 278, (6) [Publisher's Advertisements) + Brilliantly colored chromolithographed illuminated title page [apparently here instead of the frontis map called for]. 12mo. l8 cm. Original red full cloth bindin g, decorated in blind. Gilt lettered. Scarce. SMALL BOX 8
1754pp. xlviij, 305 + Engraved Frontis. Fine headpieces and tail pieces engraved by Fessard, Sornique, and others. Foxed. 12mo. Disbound. All edges gold gilt. Brunet V/1788; Cohen 798. Gaius Julius Phadrus (1st century), was a Thracian slave who translated Aesop's fables into Latin verse. He was certainly more than a reproducer of Aesop, and can be credited with adding many fables of his own. 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. This copy is priced low enough to allow for a nice new binding. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SMALL BOX 5
1869344 p. Illustrated by numerous woodcuts. Foxed. 12mo. Worn original decorated full blue cloth binding. Very unusual illustrated mid-19th century American Aesop. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SMALL BOX 5
1800pp, 186 + Engraved title page. Damp stained. Original boards. Spine taped. "Platos praise of the poets Sappho and Anacreon (Phaedrus 235c) is a sincere tribute to their vivid presentations of the shock of love." Sappho's poetry centers on passion and love for various personages and genders. The word "lesbian" derives from the name of the island of her birth, Lesbos; her name is also the origin of its less common synonym sapphic. The narrators of many of her poems speak of infatuations and love (sometimes requited, sometimes not) for various women, but descriptions of physical acts between women are few. First edition of this influential German translation. SMALL BOX 8
1886pp. xxi, 512 + Plates. Small 8vo. 20 cm. XLib. Worn original cloth binding. A wonderful guide to the 'every-day' social life and customs of the Ancient Greeks. W121
1957224 p. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Dust Jacket. W118
1827pp. xiv, 169. 8vo. Original marbled boards. Spine taped. Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SMALL BOX 8
1821144 p. 12mo. Original leather backed paper boards. Very scarce American Imprint. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SMALL BOX 7
1635pp. [8], 587, [101]. Text in Greek and Latin on opposite pages. No extra engraved title as in some copies. Numerous typographic borders. Some pages set as typographic designs. Small 8vo. 158 mm. Early full leather binding; lacking 2" of leather at the tail of the spine. Text generally browned and loose, but not brittle, nor with any substantial loss. Numerous early manuscript notations and ownerships, including: Ambrose Lewis, 1657; Thomas Answorth, 1708; Jacob Dickinson, 1763; and Enoch Walker. An interesting copy of a very interesting book. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SMALL BOX 5
1969310p. Plus index and color frontis. Illustrated with numerous photographs. 4to. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. A great gift for wine lovers. Starting with a history of wine making and then going from country to country examining the history, varieties and techniques. Beautiful illustrations and photographs. Includes fifty international recipes for cooking with wine compiled by Madeleine Othenin-Girard. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! WHISKEY 1.
1880pp. xii, 345. Wood engraved plates and Illustrations. Some foxing. Folio. Absolutely remarkable decorated full red cloth binding. Huge gold central device surrounded by a complex series of rolls, stamps, and illustrations in gold and black. Rarely is this book found in such fresh condition. Oversized. SCARCE. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SE5
1795Two volumes in one. pp. 198 (2); 234 (4). Lacks second (redundant) title page. Lightly foxed. Small 12mo. Contemporary full leather binding, spine gold gilt. Slight loss at tail. This is extremely scarce edition. The work explores the manners, customs, religion, entertainments, laws, and philosophies of the ancient Greeks. It was meant as a sort of organized synopsis of 'Voyage du Jeune Anacharsis en Greece' by Abbe Jean Jacques Barthelemy (1716-1795). The first edition of this work was published in 1788 (Paris: De Bure). Due to its immediate and enormous success several editions and reprints followed in short order. There was obviously a need for a handy epitome, which this work supplied. RARE. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! FR3
195966 double-folded pages. Illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings by Marian Parry. Beautifully bound in parchment boards, backed in black calf, and preserved in a color designed solander case. Slipcase with a couple of minor stains. Inked ownership of Jefford F. Oller, the original subscriber, on front fly leaf. Number 420 of an edition limited to only 1500 copies, signed by the artist. A fine copy of this handsomely produced edition of the great classical Greek play. It would make a great gift. W42
1930469p. + Plus portrait frontis. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Faded. Original dust jacket, worn. Third printing. "The gruesome story of pillage and violence, bloodshed and frightfulness which have resulted from the Treaty of Versailles." Coldwar/Economics 7
1950pp. xv, 377. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, worn. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! Coldwar/Economics 2
1918pp. xii, 170. Illustrated with numerous maps. Penciled ownership of George A. Jessop. 8vo. Original full orange cloth binding, map vignette on front board. Spine faded. First edition. Scarce. "A very interesting and detailed analysis of Germantic conspiracies, intrigues, politics, propaganda, alliances, schemes, and conquests all aimed at global domination and why the war must be won. With Germanic plans, false prewar pacifist diplomacy, the trick of the Armistice, Prussian militarism, how to prevent other German wars of conquest, how the United States is directly threatened by this plan, and etc." WWI 4
1881318p. Profusely illustrated with many full page drawings. Paper beginning to brown but not brittle. Age stained. Slight dampstaining. 1881 Christmas gift to George H. Clippingler from his uncle. Color pictorial endpapers. 8vo. Original full color pictorial stiff paper binding. Loss at corners. Extremities rubbed with slight loss. Rear cover has slight dampstaining. Hardbound. One in a series of popular books for children designed to broaden their horizons. This one explores the past and present of Greece and Rome, Sicily, Southern France, Spain, Portugal, and Italy. TRAVEL/2.
1910xvi, 181 + Frontis and full page tipped in photograuvers. Top edge gold. Inked ownership. 12mo. Original three-quarters red leather over marbled boards. Spine gold lettered with raised bands. Hardbound. Nice copy. Revised and enlarged edition of the 1903 publication. TRAVEL/1
1840pp. xix, 549, (1)[Errata], (1)[Publisher's advertisement]. 8vo. 22 cm. Partially unopened. Original full cloth binding embossed in blind; rear joint repaired. Manuscript ownership of Richard Mansfield (1857-1907), who was considered the greatest actor of his era. Printed bookplate of J. Mortimer Lichtenauer (b. 1876), a famous art collector and painter of mural decorations in a Grecian style. The text includes "Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry" (Twining's translation); "Excerpta Critica" (Canons of Criticism from Various Sources); "Examination Papers"; Etc. This Irish classic in the history and criticism of Greek drama is quite scarce in the marketplace. John Richard Darley (1799-1884) was born in Fairfield, County Monaghan, Ireland, and was educated at Trinity College Dublin. He was appointed headmaster of Dundalk Grammar School in 1826, and of the Royal School Dungannon in 1831. In 1874 he was consecrated Bishop of Kilmore. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W121
1772pp. (4), 308. The edition without the cancellans at G2. 12mo. [176 x 105 mm.] Foxed. It is very unusual to find in a Baskerville that some leaves (in two gatherings of this copy) were smudged during printing, and permitted to pass. Contemporary full sprinkled calf binding. Gilt tulip roll on the boards. Spine ornamented with gold crossed arrows. Joints tender. Printed ExLibris of John Rayner. Gaskell 47. Terence (Ca. 190-159 B.C.), the great Latin comic poet, was born in Carthage. He came to Rome as the slave of a senator, Terentius Lucanus. In the house of Lucanus he was educated like a free man and soon emancipated. His successful first play, 'Andria' introduced him to Roman society, and the circle of Scipio, Philus, and Laelius. His surviving six comedies are drawn from Athenian sources, especially from lost plays by Menander. Terence has been read for over two thousand years, and his influence on European literature cannot be overestimated. He imparted to Latin the sense of artistic elegance, consistency and moderation which made it a model for all literary epochs. In him we find a meeting-point for three great civilizations - the decaying Greece; Carthage, soon to pass away into oblivion; and nascent Italy, poised to absorb the world. John Baskerville (1706-1775) was the greatest printer of his era. Born in Wolverley, Hereford - Worcester, England, he became a writing master in Birmingham. He also carried on a successful japanning (varnishing) business there. In about 1750 he began to make experiments in letter founding, and produced the wonderful series of types now named after him. His first book, the Virgil of 1757, was also the first to be printed upon wove paper (manufactured by a process that he invented). In 1758 he be came printer to Cambridge University. All of his books bear show fine craftsmanship and a refined sense of design. In the last few years before his death, Baskerville published a few Latin classics in quarto and duodecimo. "All these bear the marks of unabated genius even in his declining days: and suffice, had he printed nothing else, to distinguish him as the first typographer of his time" - T. B. Reed, in 'Old English Letter Foundries' "Quot homines tot sentensiae; suo quoiqu e mos " So many men, so many opinions; a law of his own to each -- Terence. ** PRICE JUST REDUCED!! W154
1715pp. (14), 182, (18). The very thin paper used to cancel a4 and b4 has deteriorated - completely on a4. Text in Greek with Latin notes. Three engraved portraits have apparently been removed. ** Extensive manuscript translations into English. 8vo. (in 4). [18 5 x 113 mm.] Contemporary full calf binding. Boards tooled in blind with several frames. Cracked at joints. Early ownerships, including: Jacob Nash, Oxford and E.G. Davis, 1847. Dibdin I:487. Aeschine s (Ca. 390?314 B.C.), Athenian orator and polititian, was a great rival of Demosthenes (384??322 B.C.). He rose from humble circumstances and became powerful in politics because of his oratorical gift s. At first he opposed Philip II of Macedon, then later changed sides, arguing that resistance to Macedonian power was useless. Both he and Demosthenes were members of the embassy to Philip in 348 B.C ., and afterward Demosthenes bitterly and baselessly accused Aeschines of accepting Macedonian bribes. He was to have been joined in his action by Timarchus, but Aeschines prevented this by his oratio n Against Timarchus (345 B.C.). Aeschines defended himself well in his oration On the False Legation (342 B.C.)?a title also used by Demosthenes in his accusatory oration. The trouble between the orat ors grew and culminated in a dispute over a gold crown that the orator Ctesiphon proposed should be given Demosthenes in 330 B.C. Aeschines brought suit with Against Ctesiphon. Demosthenes replied wit h his sturdy defense On the Crown. Aeschines lost and was fined, and retired to Asia Minor where, according to Plutarch, he lived as a professional Sophist. This is offered as much for its manuscript interest as for it being an early printing. W120
1521ff. [60], 320 numbered leaves. Woodcut Aldine anchor and dolphin printer's device on the title page and last leaf. Latin Italic type. Some age stain, especially on first and last leaves. In several places the name of Erasmus is obliterated in ink by a censor. An early ownership on the title has been washed out, and a small marginal chip has resulted. Small 8vo. 160 mm. Edges decorated red. Early nineteenth century full vellum binding. Lacks front fly leaf. This second and improved Aldine edition is essentially a reprint of the edition of 1516, edited by Giovanni Battista Cipelli, called Egnazio (1478-1553), with the addition of annotations by Erasmus, which were first published in the Froben edition of 1518. Both Aldine editions contain the relevant texts of Aurelius Victor and Eutropius with the continuation by Paulus Diaconus. The full work was once the common manual of almost everyone who wished to study Roman history, and because of this long and hard use, it is extremely difficult to obtain a clean and perfect example - Renouard. This second edition is considered the more valuable, as containing an 'Index Memorabilium' and the notes of Erasmus and the Venetian philologist Joannes Baptista Egnatius (ca. 1473-1553). Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly known as Suetonius (ca. 69/75-after 130). Suetonius was a close friend to Senator and letter-writer Pliny the Younger. Pliny describes him as 'quiet and studious, a man dedicated to writing'. Through Pliny, Suetonius came into favor with Trajan and Hadrian. Under Trajan he served as secretary of studies (precise functions are uncertain) and director of Imperial archives. Under Hadrian, he became the Emperor's secretary. In 122, Hadrian dismissed him for disrespectful behavior towards Empress Vibia Sabina. Suetonius may have later regained imperial favor under Hadrian and returned to his position. It was probably in Hadrian's time that he wrote his most important surviving work - this set of biographies on the Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Entitled 'De Vita Caesarum' it deals with successive Roman rulers, from Julius Caesar to Domitian. It also includes other texts on Roman history, notably Eutropius. This collection of ancient Roman historians is dedicated to the great book collector - Jean Grolier, and is followed by a letter from Erasmus commending the edition as well as Egnatius' scholarship. Renouard 91:7; Schweiger 974-975; Adams S-2035; UCLA A4S93; Graesse VI, 521; Ahmanson-Murphy 201 (incomplete); Bibliotheca Erasmiana Bruxellensis 499 (incomplete); Dibdin II, p. 439; STC Italian p. 651. Very good. Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! ALDINE BOX SAFE
1766Two volumes. I. [1], LXXIX, 304. II. [1], 415, [1](Errata), [4](Approbation) + Eleven (11) engraved plates. French text. 8vo. 200 mm. Edges decorated red. Some age stain and foxing. Original decoratively mottled full leather bindings. Spines worn, but some gilt remains. Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (39-65 CE), was an important Roman poet, born in Cordoba. One of the outstanding figures of the Imperial Latin period, his youth and speed of composition set him apart from others. The Pharsalia is an epic poem on the Roman Civil War. It is considered the greatest epic in Latin after the Aeneid. It depicts the Battle of Pharsalus (48 BC) where Julius Caesar defeated Pompey. Lucan's poetic talent apparently aroused the jealously of the Emperor Nero. After the publication of Pharsalia the Emperor forbade him to write, or even plead in the courts, and then later compelled him to commit suicide for alleged treason. The engraved plates in this edition are mostly by the famous French engraver and book illustrator, Hubert Francois Gravelot (1699-1733). The original art was by: Antoine-Jean Duclos; Emanuel Jean Nepomucene Ghendt; Noel Le Mire; Francois Denis Nee; Jean Francois Rousseau; and Jean-Baptiste Blaise Simonet. See: Schweiger II, 568; Cohen & DeRicci 662. Apparently not in Ray. Very good. CHEST 2/1.