Lugduni Batavorum: Hackiana, 1671. Engraved frontispiece, [14], 1049p, [79], Engraved frontispiece, 866p, [74]. Contemporary calf with later marbelized endpapers. Boards a little rubbed, but otherwise fine. Ebert #9831 notes: "One of the more rare, but not one of the better editions". Some marginal browning and spots throughout. p63-80 with an.....
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.....
Trajecti Ad Rhenum: Franciscum Halmam et Guilielmum Vande Water, 1696. Engraved frontispiece. [42], 434p, [74], 168p, [26]. Includes numerous illustrations of coins in the text. Bound in a 18th century full tan French calf with a richly gilt spine. Moss p209 refers to this edition as being very good and.....
Paris: Saillant & Nyon, 1771. Hardcover. Frontispiece, v, 101p; 256p, 116p, [2]. Contemporary calf with richly gilt spine, gilt ruled boards and marbleized end papers as well as foredges. Nicely printed on quality paper with wide margins. The section on Aristotle in Greek with parallel translation into French. Hinges cracked.....
Lugduni Batavorum: S & J Luchtmans, 1767. Hardcover. [36], 448p, [29]. Contemporary calf with gilt coat of arms on the boards. Second edition. First printed in 1743. Includes two foldout diagrams. Ebert #3911. Modern bookplate of Dudley Eaton. Some rubbing along the hinges and lower front hinge cracked. Headband rubbed.....
Robert & Andrew Foulis. Soft cover. 20 volumes. A unique set entirely uncut in original binders wrappers and some volumes either completely or partially unopened. Regretably incomplete in some areas. An early owner of the set has removed the content section in vol I and attached the applicable content section.....
Amsterdam: Elzevier, 1650. Hardcover. Engraved title page, 256p. Mid-19th century calf with marbled end papers and gilt spine in compartments. Gilt foredge. FROM THE LIBRARY OF ELZEVIER BIBLIOGRAPHIER CHARLES PIETERS with his bookplate on the inside front board. Pieters p262 #127. There is a comment in pencil on the inside.....
Amsterdam: Georgium Gallet, 1702. Two engraved frontispieces, [56], 6 plates, [24], 177p, [76], [4], 54p, [18], 168p, [8]. Contemporary polished calf gilt ruled with a green morocco spine with designs in blind inside gilt ruled compartments as well as gilt foredge. A reprint of the 1680 edition. Some light foxing.....
Orebro: N. M. Lindh, 1828. [18], 429p. Contemporary half leather over marbelised boards. The sixth edition of Mårten Strömer's translation of Euclides to Swedish for the school system. First printed in 1744. It ran through twenty editions with the last being published in 1884. Illustrated with geometrical symbols in the.....
Jena: Johannes Bielke, 1697. Engraved frontispiece, [50], 331p, [29]. 19th century cloth over marbled boards. SIGNED DEDICATION BY THE EDITOR CHRISTOPHER CELLARIUS TO THE GERMAN LAWYER FRIEDRICH BENEDICT CARPZOV (1649-1699) DATED HALLE OCTOBER 1697. While the engraved frontispiece is dated 1698, the title page is dated 1697. However, since Cellarius.....
Amsterdam: Stephani Swart, 1683. Hardcover. Engraved frontispiece, [24], 405p, [95]. COntemporary stiff vellum over boards. One of many school texts with commentaries edited by Jan Minell (1625-1683). A few spots in the text with minor soiling to the boards. Contemporary ownership signatures and some later on the inside front board.....
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1959. Hardcover. xiv, 463p. Publishers hardback. A few small chips to the dust jacket. Price clipped. Internally clean. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
Biponti: Typographia Societatis, 1787. Hardcover. Four volumes, CLVI, 248p: 566p: 510p: Lexicon. Contemporary blue paper covered boards with untrimmed edges. The editor, Johan Matthias Genser (1691-1761) was a German classical scholar and a schoolmaster. The text follows the 1773 Leipzig edition which was supervised by Ernesti. See Ebert p1663. Some.....
Paris: Babuty, & Humblot, 1765. Hardcover. xii, 252p. Contemporary calf with a gilt spine and marbled end papers. Red fore-edge. FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE LAST PRIME MINISTER OF THE BOURBON DYNASTY, CHARLES AUGUSTE LE TONNELIER, BARON DE BRETEUIL (1730-1807) with his bookplate on the inside front board. Baron de.....
Lutetiae Parisiorum: Claudium Carolum Thibouet, 1739. 12mo. 500p. Contemporary calf with a richly gilt spine. A school edition of Horace. Not in Schweiger. Some rubbing to the extremities. Lacks front end paper otherwise internally clean.
Trajecti Batavorum: Guilielmum Vande Water, 1713. Full-Leather. Engraved title page, [10], 228p. Lacks front blank. Second edition. First published by Burmann in 1699. Moss p17 adds that these are useful and creditable editions. Burmann among things collated various MSS as well as Bentley's edition. Dibdin II. p101. Schweiger p407. Mills.....
Paris: Firmin Didot, 1834. Hardcover. 288p. Contemporary black calf with gilt ruled boards and flower designs on the spine. From the Library of Charles Mossman McLean with bookplate. A few marginal brown stains. Light rubbing to the headband otherwise a nice copy of a Didot stereotype edition. Not in Reidel.....
Leipzig: Hahnianae, 1815. Hardcover. xxxvi, 700p. 19th century green morocco with the gilt arms of Rev. Theodore Williams on the boards and title lettered in gilt on the spine. A brown frame design along the edges of boards which is different from many of the books bound by Clarke for.....
Lutetiae Parisiorum: Claudium-Carolum Thiboust, 1789. Hardcover. 500p. Contemporary calf with a richly gilt spine. An 18th century school text which includes the Satyres, Odes & Epodes as well as the life of Horace. There is also a chapter on Horatian poetic meter. A few neat contemporary notes in the margins.....
London: London: A. & J. Churchill, 1701, 1701. F. Quarter Calf. Good/No Jacket. 8vo. 496p. The first Baxter edition. Moss p18-19. prefers the second of 1725. Dibdin II. p101. Schweiger II. p405-506. Bound in a modern brown quarter calf over marbelized boards and with marbelized end papers. Interally stained along.....
Westeras: Westeras: Johan Laur. Horrn, 1791, 1791. Contemporary Quarter Calf. Contemporary Quarter Calf. Good. 8vo. xxviii, 713, 1. First edition of Stamberg's Horatius. Later reprinted in 1805 and 1817. Hammarskold p107. Not listed in Reidel, Mills College or Schweiger. No doubt a well read copy. Spine worn. Some shelf wear.....
Amsterdam: Wetstein, 1713. Contemporary Calf. Engraved frontispiece, title page, [20], 717p, 239p. Contemporary calf with a richly gilt spine and along the edges of the boards. Marbelised end papers. What was needed for Horace and which had never been done, as R.J. White writes p156, was to draw the reader's.....
Amsterdam: Wetstein, 1713. LARGE PAPER ISSUE. Engraved frontispiece, title page, [20], 717p, 239p. Contemporary burgundy morocco with the Golden Fleece monogram on the spine and boards frequently found on books from the Library of Baron Longpierre though a bookplate has been removed from the inside front board. A gilt ruled.....
London: F & C Rivington, 1810. Hardcover. [20], 336p; 337-742p. Contemporary quarter red calf with a gilt ruled spine over marbleized boards. AN ENTIRELY INTERLEAFED COPY with untrimmed edges. Richly annotated with marginal notes on the inserted leaves and occasional translations of the text into English. The watermark on the.....
Amsterdam: Wetstein, 1728. Frontispiece, [24],717p, [1], 239p, [1]. Contemporary vellum over boards with a gilt decorated spine. Foredge red stained. With Harvard University emblem on the front board and arms of Edward Hopkins Armig on the rear. What was needed for Horace and which had never been done, as R.J......