list 51: greek & latin classics

List 51: Greek & Latin Classics

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McNaughtan’s Bookshop & Gallery List 51: Greek & Latin Classics

1. Aeschines Socraticus. Dialogi Tres Graeci et Latine, ad quos accessit quarti Latinum fragmentum. Vertit et notis illustravit Joannes Clericus. Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Apud Petrum de Coup, 1711.

first edition, 8vo, pp. [xvi], 40, 275, [13]. Title-page in red and black. Contemporary red morocco, boards bordered with a triple gilt rule, spine divided by raised bands, second compart-ment gilt-lettered direct, the others with central and corner tools, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. A touch of light spotting. Front joint just cracking slightly, some old marks to rear board. Modern bookplate to front pastedown. £350

A finely-bound copy of the first separate printing of these three dia-logues printed under the name of to Aeschines of Sphettus, or Aeschines Socraticus (to distinguish him from the Attic orator). Aeschines was a follower of Socrates, reportedly present at his execution, and known to have written Socratic dialogues, though the three edited here do not correspond with the works attributed to him in ancient sources.

2. Anacreon. Anacreontica Graece. Ex recensione Friderici Henr. Bothe. Oxonii [Oxford]: Impensis Bliss et Baxter, 1812.

16mo, pp. [ii], 106. Extra-illustrated with an engraved portrait of Anacreon bound following title-page. Contem-porary green textured roan, boards bordered with a gilt rule

enclosing a blind rule, spine lettered vertically in gilt within a decorative frame, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. A few tiny spots. Spine ends just a touch rubbed. Ownership inscription of John Bullock (1831), bookplate of Maurice Baring. £120

An attractively bound Oxford schoolbook printing of a selection of Anacreontic lyric poems, edited by Friedrich Heinrich Bothe (1771-1855) and originally published in Leip-zig earlier in the century. It must have been a popular textbook as this is one of several Bliss & Baxter reprints from the 1810s. The copy of the writer Maurice Baring (1874-1945).

3. Apuleius. Psyche et Cupido. Cura Ludovici C. Purser. Londini [London]: [Riccardi Press for the Medici Society], 1913.

no. 310 of 525 copies, 8vo, pp. [viii], 41, [3]. Title-page print-ed in blue and black, initial capital in blue. Untrimmed in original quarter buckram and blue paper boards, printed paper labels to spine and front board. Spine label browned, some toning to boards. Ownership inscription of J.P. Gould of Jesus College to front flyleaf. £50

4. Aristotle. A New Translation of the Nicomachean Ethics. Second edition. Oxford: Printed by W. Baxter, for J. and C. Vincent, 1826.

8vo, pp. [ii], 339, [1]. Near-contemporary half vellum, marbled boards, spine lettered in red paint. Lightly foxed. Binding rubbed, corners worn, vellum entirely lost from one corner. Ownership inscription of Franc[is] Rolfe Crockford of St Al-ban Hall, Oxford (matric. 1844) to initial blank, intermittent marginal annotations in ink and pencil. £120

The substantially revised and scarcer second edition of this early transla-tion of the Nicomachean Ethics into English. The first translation was a paraphrastic version by John Gillies in 1789, followed by Thomas Taylor's complete works some twenty years later, with this anonymous version first appearing in 1819. The preface to the first edition indicates that the text is the work of two translators, one providing the first six books, the other the last four and the notes, both aiming for faithful adherence to the Greek. This second edition, which omits the preface, has been substantially revised - presumably by the translator of the last four books, since the text of the first six has seen much more alteration.

5. Callimachus. Hymni et Epigrammata: Quibus accesserunt Theognidis Carmina: nec non epigrammata centum septuaginta sex ex Anthologia Graeca… Notas addidit, at queomnia emendate imprimenda curavit editor. Londini [London]: Impensis Gul. Thurlbourne… veneunt apud J. Nourse, P. Vaillant, J. Beecroft., 1741.

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first bentley edition, 8vo, pp. xviii, 243, [1], 53, [1]. Con-temporary red turkey, boards and spine compartments bordered with a triple gilt rule, green morocco label, board edges and turn-ins gilt, edges sprinkled green and red, marbled end-papers. A few light spots but generally very fresh. Spine just slightly sunned, extremities the merest touch rubbed. Modern bookplate to front pastedown. £500

estc T145198; Dibdin I 369.

A particularly beautiful - in a very restrained style - copy of the 'hand-some edition' (odnb) of Callimachus by Thomas Bentley (1690/91-1742), nephew of Richard Bentley. Thomas had begun his classical career with an edition of Horace based on his uncle's notes and also travelled to help him with collations of manuscripts. This may have contributed to Thomas's own works often being attributed to the more famous scholar, including this one - which credits simply 'the editor' instead of giving a name on the title-page.

6. Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius. Carmina quae extant omnia. Cura Robinson Ellis, Joannis P. Postgate, Joannis Phillimore. Londini [London]: [Riccardi Press for the Medici Society], 1911.

no. 374 of 1,000 copies, 8vo, pp. [viii], 318, [2]. Title-page printed in blue and black, initial capitals in blue through-out. Untrimmed in original quarter buckram and blue paper boards, printed paper labels to spine and front board (with spares tipped in at rear). Binding soiled and marked, some wear to front joint. Bookplate of Edward Lynam to front pastedown. £30

7. Cicero. De Oratore ad Q. Fratrem Dialogi, seu Libri Tres, cum Interpretatione ac notis quas in usum serenissimi Delphini. Edidit Jacobus Proust. Oxonii [Oxford]: E Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1714.

8vo, pp. [iv], 315, [9] + frontispiece. Contemporary panelled calf, spine divided by raised bands between blind rules. A little light toning and spotting. Leather lightly pitted, spine rather rubbed and label lost, extremities a bit worn, joints cracking but sound. Armorial bookplate of Sir John Williams of Bodlewyddan to front pastedown, earlier gift inscription (in Latin) to John Edmunds from Henry Edmunds of Oriel Col-lege (this last part and some additional illegible words struck through). £150

estc T111290.

The first British printing of these Ciceronian dialogues on oratory in the Delphin edition, originally published in Paris in 1682 and edited by the Jesuit scholar Jacques Proust (1649-1694). The initial owner, Henry Edmunds lld, seems likely to have been the fellow of Oriel from 1721 to 1746 who brought a lawsuit on behalf of the fellows against the Bishop of Lincoln, whose representative was rejecting elected fellows; ill feeling may have contributed to the crossing out of his college in the gift inscription.

8. Dionysius of Halicarnas-sus. De Structura Orationis liber: Ex recensione Jacobi Upton. Londini [Lon-don]: Impensis Sam. Smith, Benj. Walford, & Tho. Newborough, 1702.

8vo, pp. [xvi], 257, [5], 40, [26] + fron-tispiece. Contem-porary panelled calf, spine divided by raised bands, red morocco label, other compartments diagonally divided by gilt rules with floral and dot tools. Some spotting and light soiling, a short wormtrail to headline of Index and inside of rear board. Extremities a little rubbed, some light scratches and marks. Various initials and short inscriptions to endpapers and elsewhere, a longer inscription rubbed out from title-page, modern bookplate to front pastedown. £300

estc T136667/T136664.

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James Upton (1671-1749) was schoolmaster at Taunton but also a notable scholar, producing editions of Ascham's Scholemaster, the Faerie Queene, and several classical texts, among them this Greek & Latin text of Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Likely used as a textbook, it saw multiple printings in the first half of the 18th century. estc contains two entries with slightly different imprints - the small paper version containing an extra line for an Eton bookseller, and the large paper printing omitting it. This copy is the size of the smaller (and scarcer) version but has the imprint of the larger.

9. Eutropius. Historiae Romanae Breviarium notis et emendationibus illustratavit Anna Tanaquilli Fabri Filia. In usum Delphini. Oxonii [Oxford]: E Theatro Sheldoni-ano, 1696.

8vo, pp. [xiv], 161, [1, ads]. Eighteenth-century French crushed red morocco, boards bordered with a triple gilt rule, spine divided by triple gilt rules, tall olive morocco label, other com-partments with central flower tools gilt, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. Some spotting, a few paper flaws, thin dampmark to fore-edge at beginning. Binding just lightly marked and scratched. Modern bookplate to front pastedown. £450

estc R21530.

The first British printing of the Delphin edition of Eutropius, edited by the significant female classical scholar Anne Dacier (c.1650-1720), here credited as the daughter of Tanneguy Le Fevre, whose friendship with the general editor of the Delphin series helped her obtain the work. The edition was first published in Paris in 1683 and this is the first Oxford reprinting of any of the series, following about a dozen of the more popular titles issued in London over the previous decade. It is scarcer than most of those as well, with estc locating 5 copies in the uk outside of Oxford (plus 5 in), and half a dozen more between Ireland, Germany, and the usa. Sometime after publication this copy found its way back to France where it acquired its attractive and nicely preserved binding.

10. (Greek Lit-erature). Selecta ex Homeri Odyss., Hesiodo, Theocrito, Callimacho [et al.]… cum vulgata versione emendata… in usum Regiae Scholae Eton-ensis. Etonae [Eton]: Typis J. Pote, 1762.

8vo, pp. vi, [ii], 231, [1], 172, [2, ads]. Contempo-rary vellum boards, spine lettered in ink. Lightly toned and spotted. Vellum somewhat soiled. £300

estc T205268.

The scarce first edition of this selection of Greek texts (with a following section of Latin translations) for the use of Eton students. A rather smaller selection had appeared from Pote's Eton press in 1755 but this expanded version became the standard, seeing half a dozen reprints before the end of the century. estc locates only four copies: bl, Oxford, Rylands, and Madrid.

11. [Gurney, Hudson]. Heads of Ancient History, from the Deluge to the Partition of Alexander's Empire. London: Printed by B. Howlett, 1814.

sole edition, 18mo, pp. [ii], 33, [1]. Contemporary straight-grained black roan, boards bordered with a double gilt rule, spine lettered vertically in gilt, pink endpapers, edges gilt. Rubbed, a few small scratches. Bookplate of Walter Flinn to pastedown, earlier gift inscription 'Mandeville from E. Mon-tagu' to flyleaf, two errors corrected in manuscript. £120

A scarce verse chronicle covering in its short length the 24th century to c. 315 bce, with the dates of events and people helpfully indicated intralinearly in the text. The author, Hudson Gurney (1775-1864), owned a notable library and several of his verse publications had a historical bent. Firstsearch and Library Hub locate half a dozen copies in the uk (bl, Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol, Birmingham, East Anglia) and four in the usa (nypl, suny, Cal State, and Missouri).

12. Juvenal & Persius. Satyrae ex doct. viror. emen-datione. Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Apud Iudocum Hondium, 1625.

16mo, pp. 116. Title-page engraved. Red crushed morocco c. 1900 by Riviere, spine lettered in gilt direct, turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. A little toning and staining. Gift inscription to binder's blank dated 1935 (to Maurice Bar-ing from Ronald Storrs, 'not to be lent'), bookplate of Maurice Baring to front pastedown, earlier ownership inscription to foot of title-page: 'Ex libris Catherine'. £250

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An Elzevir-imitating pocket edition of the satirists Juvenal and Persius, published by Jodocus Hondius II (or Joost de Hondt Jr), son of an important Flemish mapmaker. This copy was given by the British official Ronald Storrs (1881-1955), known for his erudition and refined taste, to the writer Maurice Baring (1874-1945).

13. Juvenal & Persius. Satyrae. Tabulis Aeneis Illus-travit, et notas variorum selectas, suasque addidit G.S. Cantabrigiae [Cambridge]: Prostant venales Londini, apud Gul. Sandby, 1763.

12mo, pp. [xii], 207, [1] + 15 plates. Contemporary mottled calf, boards bordered with a gilt roll, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label. A touch of minor spotting. Extremities rubbed, front joint just cracking but strong. £150

estc N8180.

The last of William Sandby’s attractively-printed editions of Latin authors - his Horace was compared favourably to Pine’s - all produced with engraved illustrations and in two settings usually in different for-mats (octavo and duodecimo), sometimes also with different engravings between the versions. This is the smaller setting of the Juvenal, described as a duodecimo but signed in eights.

14. Longinus. Peri hypsous hypomnēma [Greek]. Ex editione tertia Zachariae Pearce. Glasguae [Glasgow]: In aedibus academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, 1763.

8vo, pp. [viii], 237, [1]. Final advertisement leaf discarded. Late 19th-century calf, spine divided by raised bands, red mo-rocco label. Some light toning and spotting. Rubbed, extremi-ties worn, joints cracked and hinges neatly reinforced. £150

estc T87477; Gaskell 419.

The text in Greek and Latin on alternate leaves.

15. (Lyric Poetry). Amatory Poems, with Translations and Imitations from Ancient Ama-tory Authors. London: Printed for J. Bell, 1805.

first edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [i], 64. Modern half morocco in perfect period style, marbled boards, spine divided by triple gilt rules, second compartment gilt-lettered direct, others with small central gilt tool. Some minor spotting, a few leaves creased. Gift inscription to half-ti-tle: 'J. Ahern, the gift of his friend Wm. H. Sidell, 1827'. £250

A scarce volume of love lyrics including translations from Catullus and Ovid and imitations of epigrams from the Greek Anthology. The editor signs the preface 'I.I.M.' and describes the author as 'a native of another hemisphere' raised 'under the genial influence of a more southern sun', who was 16 on his first visit to Britain, and 19 at the time of publication - the same age as the editor. This has more than a whiff of literary invention, and in fact the Trinity College Dublin copy contains a manuscript note attributing the work to Eaton Stannard Barrett (1785-1820). This seems plausible: the year of birth agrees with the preface and Barrett - born and raised in County Cork - was also a precocious poet and satirist (and his comic gothic novel of 1813, The Heroine, was highly praised by Jane Austen and Edgar Allan Poe), the sort who might invent the personalities in this preface to frame his teenage love poetry. Library Hub and oclc between them locate half a dozen copies: bl, Oxford, tcd, Kentucky, nypl, and Library of Congress.

an infamous text, with its dismemberment

16. Menander & Philemon. Reliquae, quotquot reperiri potuerunt; Graece et Latine, cum notis Hugo-nis Grotii et Joannis Clerici, qui etiam novam omnium versionem adornavit, indicesque adjecit. Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Apud Thomam Lombrail, 1709.

8vo, pp. [xvi], 375, [23] + frontispiece and 1 other plate.

[Bound with:] Emendationes in Menadri et Philemonis Reliquias ex nupera editione Joannis Clerici... auctore Phileleuthero Lipsiensi [i.e. Richard Bentley]. Trajecti ad Rhenum [Utrecht]: Ex Officina Gulielmi vande Water, 1710.

8vo, pp. [xl], 136. The two works together in contemporary vellum boards, onlaid with a black morocco spine gilt in com-partments with false raised bands. Some toning and spotting. Vellum dusty, extremities of the spine onlay a little chipped. Modern bookplate to front flyleaf verso, the other endpapers with annotations and lists in the hand of John Mitford (1781-1859) with his (mostly short) marginal annotations through-out. £650

Dibdin II 234-6.

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The widely reviled - but often reprinted - first attempt at a critical edition of the surviving fragments of Menander and Philemon, by the Genevan theologian Jean Leclerc (1657-1736), bound together with its remarkable flaying via the critical attentions of Richard Bentley. Leclerc's work was based on the more celebrated edition of Grotius which had first appeared almost a century earlier, but 'in an evil hour, as it should seem from the result, did the famous Le Clerc sit down to the task of editing the fragments of Menander and Philemon... he had not sufficient acumen or knowledge in Greek for the task which he undertook: and a more furious and bitter controversy scarcely ever agitated the literary world... Bentley and Burman... rushed forward to the attack of the editor with all the energy and determination which their collected forces could supply' (Dibdin). The blow they struck was the second work bound in this volume, critical emendations on Leclerc's edition: 'a splendid instance of the characteristic daring and profound knowledge of Bentley. It astonished the classical world both abroad and at home' (Dibdin).

This copy belonged to the literary scholar John Mitford (1781-1859), probably acquired while he was at Oriel College where he was a close friend of Reginald Heber (half-brother of the noted collector Richard, among other accomplishments). Mitford mainly published on English authors - especially Gray - but he was also 'an indefatigable student of the Greek and Roman classics' with 'an extensive library' (odnb). This volume attests to this; frequent annotations provide corrections, emenda-tions, cross-references, etc., and the endpapers contain diagrams of metre and reference lists. Mitford's books (along with his objets d'art) were auctioned by Sotheby's following his death.

17. Persius. The Satirs of Aulus Persius Flaccus, translated into English Prose; together with the Original Latin, and illustrated with Annotations... by Mr John Senhouse. London: Printed by E. Cave, for the Author, 1730.

8vo, pp. xxx, [ii], 177, [39]. Several woodcut illustrations within the text. Contemporary sprinkled sheep, boards bordered with a double gilt rule. A few spots, one small wormtrack in lower gutter at beginning. Neatly rebacked, some pitting to boards and tidy restoration to edges. Purchase inscription to flyleaf: 'Bot at Mr Caves Sale Apr. 1819'. £250

estc T115959.

A rare translation of the satires of Persius (somewhat unusual to find without Juvenal's works), in facing pages of Latin verse and Eng-lish prose. Little seems to be recorded of John Senhouse, though the title-page indicates that he moved from Seascale in Cumbria to Penzance sometime before 1730. The purchase note is intriguing: Edward Cave, who printed the volume the year before he founded the Gentleman's Magazine, died in 1754; his nephew Richard continued to be involved in his business but died in 1766; it is not clear which Cave's could have taken place in 1819. In any case, few copies of this volume survive: estc locates seven (bl, Edinburgh, Oxford, tcd, Leeds, Harvard, and UPenn).

entirely engraved like pine’s horace

18. Persius. Satyras Sex ad fidem optimarum editio-num una cum variis lectionibus codicis Ebneriani edidit Georgius Fridericus Sebaldus. Tabulisque aeneis incidit Ioannes Mich. Schmidius. Norimbergiae [Nuremberg]: Sumtibus b.Balth: Schmidii haeredum, 1765.

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Small 4to, pp. [xvi], 64. Each page entirely engraved includ-ing the lettering, plus decorative head- and tail-pieces. Nine-teenth-century marbled paper wrappers, paper label to spine. Edges toned and a bit spotted, one leaf with a small abrasion to blank margin. Wrappers worn at extremities, spine chipped and front wrapper loosening, no flyleaves. £900

A scarce German imitation of Pine’s Horace, produced entirely without type - each page engraved, text and illustration alike. Only a handful of copies are located by Library Hub, with a similar number in Worldcat. It even has some textual interest as the first edition to use a collation from a manuscript in the collection of H. W. Ebner von Eschenbach. The publisher was the widow of Balthasar Schmid (1705-1749), a print-er-bookseller-engraver-musician who may have studied under Bach; the engravings are by his son, Johann Michael (1741-1793) who then took on the publishing business in the 1770s.

19. Petronius. Satyricon; et diversorum poetarum lusus in Priapum, cum selectis variorum commentariis. Accedunt Pervigilium Veneris, Ausonii Cento Nuptialis, Cupido Cruci-affixus, atque alia nonnulla, notis docto-rum virorum inlustrata, accurante Simone Abbes Gabbe-ma. Trajecti ad Rhenum [Utrecht]: Typis Gisb. à Zyll, & Theod. Ab Ackersdyck, 1654.

8vo, pp. [xiv], 56, [viii], 252, [20], 130, [6] + engraved half-ti-tle. Several wood engravings within the text. Eighteenth-cen-tury red turkey (perhaps Irish), boards bordered with a double gilt rule enclosing a dashed gilt rule, spine elaborately gilt in compartments with a sunburst pattern made up of smaller tools, green morocco label, marbled endpapers, edges mottled

red and blue. A little minor spotting. Spine slightly sunned, a touch of rubbing to extremities, a few marks. Early purchase inscription to half-title: 'G.S. 1-0', modern bookplate to front pastedown. £350

Dibin II 276.

A lovely copy of this edition of the Satyricon and other texts with erotic connections, edited by the Frisian scholar Simon Abbes Gabbema (1628-1668). The binding is certainly either Irish or British and the style is suggestive of the former.

20. Plato. Socrates. Plato's Apology of Socrates and Crito with a part of his Phaedo, Translated from the Greek by Benjamin Jowett Portland, Maine: Printed for Thomas B Mosher, 1910.

4to, pp. xxix, [i], 123, [7, mostly blank]. Untrimmed and par-tially unopened in original blue paper boards, printed paper label to spine. Faintly foxed throughout. Spine darkened, extremities a little rubbed, a few marks. Bookplate of Gilbert Askew and ownership inscription of Shelah K. White. £50

The first Mosher edition of these dialogues relating to Socrates's trial and execution.

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21. Pliny the Younger. Panegyricus liber Trajano Dictus, cum annotationibus antehac ineditis Dominici Baudii. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Ex Officina Hack-iana, 1675.

8vo, pp. [xxxviii], 427, [43] + engraved half-title. Eight-eenth-century English green morocco, boards bordered with a triple gilt fillet, flat spine divided by gilt rules, red morocco la-bel, other compartments with central urn tools inside wreathes and dashed diamonds with corner sprays all gilt, pink mottled endpapers, edges gilt. Occasional spotting. A few marks, spine slightly darkened. Bookseller's stamp of James Toovey to flyleaf, modern bookplate to front pastedown. £350

Dibdin II 335.

Called the best octavo variorum of the Panegyricus, featuring previously unpublished notes by the Leiden professor Dominicus Baudius (15610-1613).

rare and possibly pirated

22. Plutarch. Select Lives by Plutarch. Viz. Pericles, Pelopidas, Aristides, Philopoemen, Lysander, Cimon, Nicias, Agesilaus, Alexander the Great. London: Sold by A. Manson, R. Williams [and 6 others], [c.1774].

2 vols., 12mo, pp. 240; 204 + frontispiece in each vol. Contem-porary sprinkled sheep, spines divided by raised bands between gilt rules, red and black morocco labels, other compartments with central gilt tool. Lightly foxed, a few stains. Rubbed, spine ends a bit worn, moreso to vol. 1 and its joints also cracked, one spine label lost, flyleaf excised from vol. 2. Owner-ship inscription of William Clemesha (a Quaker, 1810-1878) of Preston, dated 1847 to endpapers. £250

estc T503974.

A rare printing of these selected lives from Plutarch in English translation, probably a piracy - at least this printing and possibly the entire text. The abridgement is known in three editions, all rare: a 1758 London printing for Mary Cooper (bl only in estc), an Edinburgh printing in one volume of 1764 (bl, Harvard, Toronto), and this one, dated to between 1770 and 1778 by estc. The text being abridged is a 1758 re-editing of the 1727 amendments (based on Dacier's French) of the 1680s 'Dryden' (team) translation - though the opening paragraph has been altered, perhaps to conceal the source from casual inspection since the abridge-ment appeared in the same year as the full text but from an unrelated publisher.

This printing shares its imprint (apart from 'B. White') with a handful of other printings of popular texts (e.g. Pope's Homer, Thomson's Seasons), all rare and suspected piracies, and the names in the imprint are mostly noted 'possibly fictitious' in bbti. (One, H. Newton, is 'probably ficti-tious; should be Edinburgh'.) estc locates this edition in the bl only; Library Hub and oclc add Cambridge, Oxford, and Dundee.

23. Plutarch. Plutarch's Romane Questions. Trans-lated A.D. 1603 by Philemon Holland... Now Again Edited by Frank Byron Jeavons, M.A., Classical Tutor to the University of Durham With Dissertations on Italian Cults, Myths, Taboos, Man-Worship, Aryan Marriage, Sympathetic Magic and the Eating of Beans. London: Published by David Nutt, 1892.

one of 550 copies, 8vo, pp. cxxviii, 170, 3, [1]. Original white card wrappers backed in cream paper, edges untrimmed, cream dustjacket printed in black. A little light spotting. Wrappers lightly spotted, soiling and toning to dustjacket particularly to spine, spine ends bumped. Bookplate of Edmund Bulkley to flyleaf. £30

Volume seven in the Bibliotheque de Carabas series, reprinting classical and folkloric texts, under the general editorship of Andrew Lang.

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24. Sallust. Opera quae supersunt, omnia. Ex recen-sione Gottleib Cortii. Glasguae [Glasgow]: Excudebat Andreas Foulis, 1777.

8vo, pp. [iv], 324. Contemporary tree calf, boards bordered with a gilt roll, spine divided by gilt Greek key rolls, red morocco label, other compartments with floral and leaf tools, marbled endpapers, edges yellow. Extremities rubbed and a touch worn, front joint cracked but sound. Early bookplate of William Cavendish to front pastedown, modern bookplate to flyleaf. £150

estc T133038; Gaskell 627.

The second Foulis edition of Sallust, in an attractive binding showing some French influence, though undoubtedly English work.

25. Sophocles. Tragoediae. Ad optimorum librorum fidem emendatae cum brevi nota-tione emendationum. Curavit Godofredus Henricus Schaefer. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Sumtibus et typis Caroli Tauchnitzii, 1810.

first schaefer edition, 2 vols. bound as 1, 24mo, pp. xxiv, 226, [ii], 298. Slightly later green tex-tured roan, spine divided by raised bands between gilt and blind rules, second compartment gilt-lettered direct, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. Lightly spotted. Spine just slightly rubbed and sunned. Early ownership inscription of John Bullock to initial blank, along with that of Maurice Baring (1925), the latter's bookplate to front pastedown. £120

A small-format edition of Sophocles edited by Gottfried Heinrich Schaefer (1764-1840), a translator and sometime professor and librarian at Leipzig. It was published by Carl Tauchnitz (1761-1836), the first German publisher to use stereotyping, and this edition was kept in print through the following decades as a 'stereotype edition'. The copy of the writer Maurice Baring (1874-1945).

26. Tacitus. Quae extant. Marcus Zuerius Boxhornius recensuit, et animadversionibus illustravit. Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Apud Casparum Commelinum, 1664.

12mo, pp. [xii], 767, [45] + folding table. Half-title engraved. Eighteenth-century vellum boards, fore-edge cover extensions, black morocco label, edges red. Lightly toned and spotted. Vellum a little marked and label stained. Cypher bookplate of 'W.W.W.' further inscribed 'W.W.W. from his father April 1880. Set of 12 -- 3'. £100

A later printing in Elzevirian style of the text of Tacitus as edited by Marcus Zuerius von Boxhorn (1612-1653).

oxford-printed, paris-sold

27. Theocritus. Quae extant cum Graecis Scholiis. Oxoniae [Oxford]: E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1699.

8vo, pp. [viii], 294, [38] + engraved frontispiece. Eight-eenth-century French red morocco, boards bordered with a triple gilt rule, flat spine divided by triple gilt rules, tall brown morocco label, other compartments with central floral tools, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. A few spots and stains, several paper flaws with old repairs. Just minor marking to binding. Purchase inscription to initial blank ('12 liv... Paris 1803, Durkin') plus Parisian bookseller's ticket of Lebour in the Galeries de Bois, modern bookplate to front pastedown. £500

estc R33917; Dibdin II 487.

A 'very valuable edition' (Harwood), though primarily reprinting the text from Winterton's Cambridge edition of four years earlier. This copy made its way to Paris where it received its elegant binding and passed through the hands of one of the booksellers in the prototypical shopping arcade attached to the Palais Royal, first opened in 1786.

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28. Vegetius Renatus. Veteres de re Militari Scrip-tores quotquot extant, nunc prima vice in unum redacti corpus. Vesaliae Cliuorum [Wesel]: Ex officina Andreae ab Hoogenhuysen, 1670.

2 vols., 8vo, pp. [xlviii], 510 + folding table; [xvi], 604, [50], 78. Half-titles engraved, vol. 1 with numerous typographical diagrams, vol. 2 with engravings within the text. Late eight-eenth-century polished mid-brown calf, smooth spines divided by gilt rolls, red morocco labels, other compatrments with elaborate urn tools gilt, red edges, marbled endpapers. Lightly toned and spotted, one leaf with a corner torn away affecting side-note. Bindings a little marked and rubbed. Ownership inscription washed from title-pages. £350

An attractive copy of this compilation of ancient writers on military matters - Vegetius Renatus, Frontinus, Aelian, Modestus, Polybius, Aeneas Poliorceticus, and various others, plus notes from several scholars. The commentary to Vegetius by Godeschalc Steewich (1557-86), original-ly printed by Plantin and here filling most of the second volume, features the first appearance of the engravings.

29. Virgil. Opera. Londini [London]: Typis J. Brindley, 1744.

12mo, pp. [ii], 324. Black crushed morocco c. 1910 by Gruel, spine lettered in gilt, turn-ins gilt, mar-bled endpapers, edges gilt. A few small stains and marks. Binding just a touch rubbed at extremities. Purchase inscription of Maurice Baring (Paris, October 19 1918) to initial blank, with his bookplate to front pastedown. £150

estc T139210.

One of the first entries in John Brindley’s series of Latin classics, begun in 1744 with the intention to rival the Elzevirs for small format and fineness of type. The editor was Usher Gagahan, an Irish classical scholar known for his competence in Latin and his questionable morals - he was executed for filing gold coins in 1749. Brindley was bookseller and binder to Frederick, Prince of Wales, entitling him to use the ‘Feathers’ on the title-pages here. The copy of the writer Maurice Baring (1874-1945).

30. Virgil. La Buccolica di P. Virgilio Marone. In rime Italiane del Marchese Pros-pero Manara fra gli arcadi Tamarisco Alagonio. Parma: Co'tipi Bodoniani, 1801.

12mo, pp. [ii], viii, [ii], 86. Half-title bound after prefa-tory verses. Contemporary tree sheep, boards bordered with a gilt rope roll inside a single rule, flat spine divided by gilt rules, pink leather label, other com-partments alternating styles of sunburst tools gilt, blue endpa-pers sprinkled in black, edges yellow sprinkled in red. A touch of minor spotting. Extremities a little rubbed. £200

Brooks 808.

A pretty copy of the Eclogues of Virgil translated into Italian by Pros-pero Manara (1714-1800), first published 1764 to general acclaim; it was further reprinted until the 1830s. This particular edition is produced with the typical care and elegance of the Bodoni press, which also published Manara's translation of the Georgics in the same year.

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