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Image for The Loves of Clitophon and Leucippe. Translated from the Greek by William Burton. Reprinted for the first time from a copy now unique printed by Thomas Creede in 1597.

The Loves of Clitophon and Leucippe. Translated from the Greek by William Burton. Reprinted for the first time from a copy now unique printed by Thomas Creede in 1597.

By: Achilles Tatius. (Edited by Stephen Gaselee and H.F.B. Brett-Smith).

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Oxford, Basil Blackwell Publisher to The Shakespeare Head Press: 1923

Seller ID: 6779

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good condition

No. 72 of 394 copies; 4to; linen back with paper spine label and brown paper over boards; cover label printe in black & red; 4 preliminary leaves, [xiii]-xxxi pages, 4 leaves, 152, [2], 151-152 pages, 1 leaf. Top edges unopened. Publisher's announcement for Ovyde, Methamorphose by Shakespeare Head, laid in. Leading corners bumped & rubbed; a few marks of soil to covers; perliminary leaf with offset tanning from announcement with faint foxing,

"Achilles Tatius was a Greek from Alexandria in Egypt; he is now believed to have flourished in the second century CE. Of his life nothing is ...
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Image for Thesaurus conscribendarum epistolarum novus et utilissimus, ex variis optimisque auctoribus desumptus exemplis vero plurimis e M.Tullii Ciceronis libris illustratus et nunc CLIX elegantiarum regulis locupletatus. Opera Ioannis Buchleri a Gladbach editio novissima.

Thesaurus conscribendarum epistolarum novus et utilissimus, ex variis optimisque auctoribus desumptus exemplis vero plurimis e M.Tullii Ciceronis libris illustratus et nunc CLIX elegantiarum regulis locupletatus. Opera Ioannis Buchleri a Gladbach editio novissima.

By: Bvchleri, Ioannis (Joannes Buchler).

Price: $400.00

Publisher: Antwerp, Hendrick Aertssens: (1646)

Seller ID: 7768

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine condition

430 pp., (i)-(v), index; plus 125 Elegantiarum Centum; 32mo; full pollished brown calf; lettered & tooled in gilt; red leather spine label; raised bands forming 5 compartments with floral decoration in gilt; dentelle, marbled pastedowns & endpapers; all edges marbled; green ribbon marker. Lower edge of title a bit cropped so only the top of imprint and date show. Date, 1646 stamped on lower spine also.

Self help via Cicero?
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Image for Tusculanarum Disputationum, Libri Quinque; a revised text with introduction and commentary and collation of numerous MSS, by Thomas Wilson Dougan. Volumes I & II [in one volume].

Tusculanarum Disputationum, Libri Quinque; a revised text with introduction and commentary and collation of numerous MSS, by Thomas Wilson Dougan. Volumes I & II [in one volume].

By: M. TULLI CICERONIS (CICERO); THOMAS WILSON DOUGAN; ROBERT MITCHELL HENRY.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Salem, NH, Ayer Company: 1988

Seller ID: 8921

ISBN: 040511599-7

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine condition

Reprinting the 1905 & 1934 Cambridge Editions. 252 & 308 pp., containing books I-V of the disputations.

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The Letters of Pliny the Consul: With occasional remarks by William Melmoth, Esq. [Two Volumes] The Ninth Edition, Revised and Corrected.

By: PLINY; WILLIAM MELMOTH, ESQ.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, J. Dodsley: 1796

Seller ID: 8928

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Condition

Ex- Mechanic's Institute Library with the usual treatments including bookplate; hand or perforation stamps on title page. 2 vols; 368 & 322 pp, (i-vii) index, errata; 8vo; full tan calf; spine lettered & decorated in gilt; leather spine labels; edges stained yellow with librar stamps top and bottom edges; covers with moderate wear to joints and corners, some spotting, and a vertical surface abrasion front cover vol. 2; tape removal scuffs and remnants bottom of spines. Prelims and text quite clean overall with light to moderate foxing to a few pages.

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Poemata, Scholis sive Annotationibus, Commentarii Ioanne Bond.

By: QUINTI HORATII FLACCI (HORACIO, HORACE).

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, Damielem Elzevirium: 1676

Seller ID: 9314

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair condition

235 pp., engraved title page; 24mo; full red calf, borders and spine decorated in gilt; leather spine label lettered in gilt; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Joints cracked but cords holding. Vertical four inch ink stain front cover; ink stains to leading top corners throughout sometimes obscuring text; ownership signatures on second and third front endpapers with dates from 1829, 1830, 1832 Midhurst School, 1864. (Passed down at school?). Occasional margin notes.

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California Studies in Classical Antiquity, Volume 6.

By: RONALD STROUD, NORMAN AUSTIN, SENIOR EDITORS.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University Of California Press: 1974

Seller ID: 8461

ISBN: 0520094980

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine condition

306 pp.; 8vo; blue cloth, spine gilt.

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California Studies in Classical Antiquity, Volume 5.

By: THOMAS G ROSENMEYER, ALBERT H. TRAVIS, SENIOR EDITORS.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University Of California Press: 1972

Seller ID: 8462

ISBN: 0520094522

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine condition

vi, 257 pp.; 8vo; blue cloth, spine gilt; in publisher's glassine jacket.

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California Studies in Classical Antiquity, Volume 7.

By: THOMAS G ROSENMEYER, NORMAN AUSTIN, SENIOR EDITORS.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University Of California Press: 1975

Seller ID: 8460

ISBN: 0520095189

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine condition

vi, 298 pp.; 8vo; blue cloth, spine gilt; in publisher's glassine jacket.

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Tibulli et Propertii Opera. Ex Editione J. Broukshusii Fideliter Expressa.

By: TIBULLUS, AULIUS AND SEXTUS PROPERTIUS.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Glasguae, Robertus & Andreas Foulis: 1758

Seller ID: 9311

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good condition

(i)-xvii,126 pp., (2 p.) publisher's list; 16mo; bound by F. Bedford for Pickering & Co. in sprinkled brown calf extra, gilt top; five raised bands forming six panels, five decorated in gilt; red leather spine label lettered in gilt; inside dentelles; marbled pastedowns & endpapers. Light foxing to prelims and title page; page iii trimmed a half inch bottom edge. Short, clipped catalogue entry pasted down on first blank, with a note in pencil below: "Bot of Pickering & Chatto, Sept. 05." An attractive copy, beautifully printed.

Text in Latin.
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Category: Classical Literature