Paris: Nyon Fils, Bobustel, 1751. xxv, [3], 367p, [2]: xxvii, 407p. Contemporary tan calf with gilt spines and gilt ruled boards. Red stained foredges and marbled end papers. An educational tool on eloquence in 18th century France. A fresh clean set in an attractive binding printed on quality paper. Corners.....
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1866. Hardcover. xvi, 145p, [2]. Publishers brown cloth over boards with gilt spine. Includes over 100 illustrations designed by John Tenniel (1820-1914). Translated by the Rev. Thomas James (1809-1864) and reprinted in more than thirty editions. Tenniel's provided the illustrations to Alice Adventures in.....
Baltimore: Joseph Cushing, 1817. v, 161p. Contemporary sheep over boards. From the Library of Grafton Tyler Jr with signature on the inside front blank. Possibly the African American artist Grafton Tyler Brown (1841-1918). But I have not been able to verify the signature. Paper browned and foxed throughout. Worn at.....
London: G. G.J and J. Robinson, 1791. 51p. 31 plates many fold out. Modern half calf over marbled boards. untrimmed edges. Tears along the folds in the first plate on Greece and some offsetting from the plates. Otherwise complete as issued.
Lipsiae: Libraria Crullia, 1754. Contemporary Vellum. Engraved frontispiece, [16], 232p, [4]. A rather unique copy with the text portion entirely interleafed with some contemporary marginal annotations. Moss observes regarding this 'erudite and excellent edition greatly surpass all those editions which have preceded' it. It was reprinted in 1770 and 1793.....
Leipzig: Georgii Heinr. Frommanni, 1684. Hardcover. Engraved title page, [12], 406p, [26]. Contemporary vellum over boards with title lettered on the spine. A translation into Latin and edited by Jacobo Gauchio. Hoffmann p203. Lacks rear blank and small chip at the foot of the spine. A little soiled, but otherwise.....
Marcum Orry, 1610. Hardcover. [8], 296p. Contemporary vellum with marbled end papers. Parallel Greek and Latin text. Edited by Josiah Mercier (1560?-1626) and first printed in 1595 and reissued in 1600. This is the third edition and an additional followed later in 1639. The editio princeps had been published Plantin.....
Amsterdam: Thomas Fritsch, 1710. Hardcover. [10], xxviii, 580p, [58], 324p. Contemporary calf rebacked with a new spine and the edges on the front board repaired, but with some wear to the edges of the rear boards. Edited by Ludolf Kuster (1670-1716) and includes the whole of the Greek scholia with.....
New York: Odyssey Publications, 1967. vi, 61p. Publishers paper covered boards. A facsimile reprint limited to 500 copies of the 1896 edition. The text follows Samuel Smith's translation. Nicely illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. Some soiling to the boards and a small chip a the front hinge at the foot of.....
Leipzig: Caspar Fritsch, 1799. Hardcover. [lii], 448p. Edited by Gottfried Hermann [1772-1848]. Moss remarks on p99 that the text in this edition is extremely pure. particularly in regard to meter. Hoffman p261. See Sandys III. p89-95. A fresh clean copy bound in contemporary polished calf. Spine gilt ruled with a......
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.....
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1878. Hardcover. xl, 312p. Contemporary polished calf with a richly gilt spine, marbled end papers and foredge. Nicely illustrated. A school prize binding from Midhurst Grammar School dated 1884 in gilt text on the front board. Includes a handwritten dedication on the inside front blank.....
London: Sebley & Co., 1887. Hardcover. Frontispiece, iii, 257p. Contemporary polished calf with the arms on the front board with the text 'Schola Civitatis Londinensis' and a richly gilt spine on compartments. Marbled end papers and fore-edge. Contains twenty-four illustrations with designs by Flaxman and others. A fresh clean copy.....
Leipzig: Io. Avg. Gottl. Weigel, 1810. Hardcover. CCL, 172p, 180p, 164p, [1]. 19th century olive green morocco with the TW monograms on the boards. Gilt foredge. Large Paper. First published in Florence in 1809 and a thorough study of the fables. Includes the entire bibliographical section on Aesop from Fabricius.....
Cantabrigiae: Joannis Smith, 1829. Hardcover. 542p. Later quarter calf over marbleized boards. This is the second edition of Richard Porson's (1759-1808) work on the four plays of Euripides edited by his successor Professor James Scholefield (1789-1853). Clarke p75. Some spotting throughout, otherwise a rather fresh clean copy. Old signature on.....
Leipzig: Ioa. Aug. Gottl. Weigel. 1813-1821. xvi, (7), 8-452p; iv, (6), 420p; 416p, xxiv, 550p; xv, 551p, 600p. Contemporary olive morocco with the initials TW in a monogram on the boards. From the Library of Rev. Theodore Williams whose library sold in 1827. Six volumes of the original nine published.....
Petri Schovtenii, 1763. Hardcover. Full page engraving after the title page and one folding plate. [18], 868p, 177p, [68]. Contemporary calf with burgundy label on the spine. Parallel Greek and Latin text. Edited by Peter Wesseling (1692-1764. Moss p458 writes that the merits of all the precending editions are eclipsed.....
London: E. Horton & J. Grover, 1779. Hardcover. [72], 708p, [112], [1]. Contemporary calf. Edited by Thomas Gale (1635-1702), Scholar of Westminster and Fellow of Trinity College. He was Professor of Greek at Cambridge (1666-1672). Sandys II p354. Moss writes p456-457 that "the editor greatly enhanced the value of this.....
London: J. Johnson, W. J. And J. Ricardson, 1806. Hardcover. 393p; 419p; 350p; 366p, [22], [28]. Contemporary dark green crinkled morocco with richly gilt spines and gilt foredges. Boards decorated in blind and gilt ruled. Edited by Gilbert Wakefield (1756-1801). Does not include the five volumes of the Iliad. Moss.....
Padova: Typis Seminarii Apud Joannem Manfre, 1762. Hardcover. 2 volumes. xvi, 825p, [8]; xxiv, 765p, [7], [1]. Contemporary vellum over boards. Edited by Stephan Bergler (c1680-1746) and first printed in 1707. Sandys III p3 writes that Bergler was extremely competent in Greek and among things assisted Johann Albert Fabricius with.....
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1866. Hardcover. xx, 148p. Publishers brown cloth over boards with brown end papers. Richly illustrated edition with about 100 drawings engraved by Sir John Tenniel (1820 ¿ 1914) who is more famous as the political cartoonist for Punch Magazine for over fifty years and for.....
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1700. Hardcover. [22], 143p, 56p. Contemporary tan morocco with a richly gilt spine, gilt foredge and gilt ruled boards. Parallel Greek and Latin text printed on thick quality paper. The text, according to Ebert #11179, follows that of Stephens printed in 1551. Edited by John Ernest.....
London: Henry Bohn, 1855. Frontispiece, xxx, 584p: 585p-1133p. Original quarter calf over marbled boards with marbled end papers. A later edition published in two volumes of the very popular translation of Plutarch's Lives. Some light rubbing to the extremities and the boards otherwise internally clean. Small chip in the label.....
Oxford: E. Theatro Sheldoniano, 1718. LARGE PAPER COPY. (12), 163p, (35). 19th century orange morocco with the gilt monogram of Rev. Theodore Williams on the boards. Second edition in Greek edited by John Hudson (1662-1719) and enlarged with additional notes from Boivin's and Schurzfleisch's editions. Moss p224 writes that these.....
Oxford: E. Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1778. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. [10], 42p, 206p, 239-405p, [8]. Contemporary calf professionally rebacked with a new spine. Jonathan Toup (1713-1785) was an English philologist and classical scholar.A celebrated edition. Dibdin p180 writes 'Throughout the whole work there is much erudition and excellent criticism on the.....