Contemporary calf with a gilt ruled spine. Robert Ainsworth (1660-1743) which was the end result of about twenty years work. This later edition was enlarged and improved by the classical scholar Thomas Morell (1703-1784) and is referred to in Dibdin 1808; II p413, as the "edit. opt of this very.....
Cambridge: Deighton Bell and Co, 1871. Frontispiece, lxxxiii, 483p. Original burgundy goat skin with gilt ruled boards and spine. Marbled end papers. Signed binding by J. W. Hawes Cambridge with their stamp on the lower part of the inside front board. Includes 25 maps and plans as well as 85.....
Leipzig: Gleditsch, 1701. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 1701-1706. Frontispiece portrait, [18], 1332p, [62]; [16], 889p, 254p, [60]. Contemporary full polished vellum over boards. Includes 21 fold out plates in volume one and 35 in volume two. First edition of Christoph Cellarius (1638-1707) atlas of ancient geography. Sandys I p369, Brunet vol.....
Paris: H. Fournier Jeune, 1832. 306p. Four foldout engraved plates, whereof one showing the color of the papyrus plant. Contemporary half leather over marbleized boards. Spine gilt ruled with marbleized endpapers. Hinges cracked, but holding and spine is rubbed. Some light foxing in areas, otherwise internally a fresh clean copy.....
A Caen: Chez Jean Cavelier, 1681. (3), 4-225p, (37). 8vo, Contemporary calf with a gilt spine. Published by the Jesuit Pierre Gautruche, (1602-1681) and was frequently reprinted as late as the second half of the 18th century. Baecker I, p331 & VII, p249. Not in Brunet or Ebert. Boards rubbed.....
Hamden, CT: Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1972, 1972. Hardcover. Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket. 8vo. 224p. Chapman's Odyssey stands as an example of great english epic poetry. This work is a twofold inquiry into the ethical nature of Chapman's Odyssey and its value as an english epic poem. A very.....
London: J. Richardson, 1762. 148p. Later quarter calf over marbled endpapers with a gilt ruled spine. John Gordon (1726-1793) was Archdeacon of Lincoln. A fresh clean copy.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1994. Hardcover. ix, 421p.Publishers hardcover. Volume 28 in the Studies in Language Series. Includes selected papers from the 6th international colloquium on Latin linguistics. (Budapest, 23-27 March 1991). A fresh clean copy. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall.
New York: Phaidon Publishers, 1952. x, 253p. Publishers yellow cloth over boards. After Allen's Age of Erasmus, probably one of the best studies of Erasmus and his work. Includes selections from his letters. John Huizinga (1872-1945) was a Dutch historian. Internally clean.
Stockholm: Stockholm: Albert Bonnier, 1881, 1881. Hardcover. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 60p. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Munchen: Munchen: C.H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1911, 1911. F. Hardcover. Hard Cover. Very Good. Large 8vo. xiii, 766p. 873p, xiii, 1164p. The original first edition of Max Manitius monumental work. Clearly a standard reference work as well as a useful bibliography. From the reference Library of H.P. Kraus with pencilled shelfmark.....
Lubeck: Alberti Hakelmanni, 1643. [10], 522p, [xiv], 295p, 206p. Contemporary vellum over boards. 3 works bound in one. Muretus (1625-1585) was a French humanist neo-Latin prose writer during the renaissance. Mark Pattison commented in his essay on Muretus "But of all the imitative classicists of the Renaissance, Muretus is the.....
Firenze: Firenze: Leo S. Olschiki, 2002, 2002. Hardcover. Hard Cover. As New. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. XLIV, 310 illustrations. Photographic illustrations of ancient manuscripts on papyrus. A crisp clean copy in protective mylar cover. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1889. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 494p; 447p. Publishers cloth. The collected essays by one of the most prominent of 19th century English classical scholars. Articles includes among on the Estienne family of printers, the Humanist movement during the Reformation, Peter Daniel Huet and his thoroughly interesting.....
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978, 1978. Hardcover. Hard Cover. As New/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. xiv, 69p, 207plates. Four plates in the text as well. Includes bibliographical information on a number of editions printed at the press, as well as a chapter on the Fell types.....
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970. Hardcover. xii, 243p. Publishers cloth. Includes a very detailed introduction about Erasmus covering about 100 pages. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
New York: Hafner Publishing Company, 1967. Hardcover. xxiii, 701p; xxviii, 498; xiii, 523p. Publishers blue cloth. The third edition of this reprint. Still the standard work in its field. The author had at one time been rather unfairly accused of using Conrad Bursian's edition of 1883 on German Philology, but.....
Privately printed, 1985. 82p, Publishers cloth over boards. All text printed on the recto. LIMITED TO 100 COPIES. A very scarce biographical study of Rabbis and Jewish scholars in Poland using, among things original source records. Some discoloration to lower corners on the front and rear boards. Internally clean.
Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co, 1882. Hardcover. xvi, 549p. Contemporary quarter leather over paper covered boards with marbled end papers and a gilt ruled spine. Includes a contemporary inscription to the President of Q C Galway with the Professor Davies Compliments on the title page. (This is NUI Galway in.....
Paris: Payot, 1936. Hardcover. 282p. Full brown calf with marbled end papers. Includes a lengthy handwritten inscription on the inside half title by the author to the Hungarian financier Dr. Arpad Plesch (1889 - 1974) and with his book plate on the inside front board. His large book collection was.....
George Bell & Sons, 1883. Hardcover. xviii, 624p, errata, Contemporary cloth. The Bohn edition of Richard Bentley's Phalaris and contains the Dissertations of 1699, discrepancies of the first edition in Wotton's Reflections, 1697, the dissertations upon the Epistles of Themistocles as well as a useful index. Bartholomew & Clark #114.....
New York: Burt Franklin, 1966. [6], CCXXV[40]; [16], [XXVIII. Two volumes bound in one. Publisher burgundy cloth over boards. A reprint of the original edition first printed in 1745. A comprehensive reference work regarding abbreviations used in diplomas and codices from the 8th to the 16th centuries. A fresh clean.....