Chicago: The Great Books Foundation. Soft cover. 5" x 8.75" Eight paperback volumes in publisher's slipcase. 1966-1968. Volume 1: Henrik Ibsen - The Wild Duck, Epictetus - The Manual, Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales - xxii, 124, 24, 82 pp. Volume 2: Dante Alighieri - The Inferno - xxii..... More
Roslyn, N.Y. Walter J. Black, 1971. Hardcover. 18mo. Classics Club. Orig. grey cloth. xxxviii, 441 pp. Spine slightly sunned. Else fine. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. Soft cover. 8vo. Soft cover. xii, 370 pp. [8] pp. plates of B&W photos, plus B&W map in text. Sunning to spine, else fine. This book brings together a vast amount of information pertaining to the society, economy, and culture of a province important to..... More
Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press, 1996. Soft cover. 8vo. Third printing, and first paperback printing. [12], 210 p.p. Two B&W photos. Slight bumping and curling to corners, else a fine copy. This inquiry into the collective psychology of the ancient Romans speaks not about military conquest, sober law, and practical..... More
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973. Hardcover. 8vo. Greek and Latin Studies. Full green cloth. viii, 250 pp. Light rubbing to spine ends, else fine. Dust jacket sunned at spine, a few light bumps to spine ends and corners. Ovid, Rome's most cynical and worldly love poet, has not until..... More
Londini: In Aedibus Valpianis, 1810. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Apparent first edition. Latin and Greek. Contemporary paper over board. Unlettered spine. xi, 232 pp., vi. Spine cracked and heavily chipped. Boards worn and stained, bumping to corners. Visible binder's waste at spine and rear board. Browning and foxing commensurate to..... More
Oxonii: E Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1961. Hardcover. 12mo. Latin. Orig. blue cloth. Unpaged, approx. 296 pp. Small stain to fore edge of rear board, bumping to corners and spine head. Dust jacket is darkened to spine and edges, clipped to front flap, rubbed to extremities, small chips to spine ends and..... More
In Vinegia: Appresso Gabriele Giolito De Ferrari, 1547. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Italian translation of Cicero's De Oratore. Later half calf, marbled paper boards, burgundy title label with gilt lettering, raised bands. Marbled edges. 8, 8, 176 ff. Giolito De Ferrari's printer's device with a phoenix..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1996. Hardcover. 18mo. Loeb Classical Library No. 141. xli, 578 pp. Dust jacket is rubbed, edge worn, long tear to foot of front joint. More
Lugduni Batavorum: Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1650. Hardcover. 16mo. Orig. pasteboard binding. [24], 170 p., 276 pp. (Signatures: *¹², A-Y¹², Z¹°). Page 161 misnumbered as 163 (first sequence), light foxing, small shelf label on spine lettered along with small shelf label; boards lightly bruised with small bump to bottom corner of..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2007. Hardcover. 12mo. The I Tatti Renaissance Library No. 26. xxxix, 295 p.p. Includes notes on text and bibliography. Blue cloth boards with black spine label, gilt lettering. A near fine copy overall. The most important literary dispute of the Renaissance pitted those writers of..... More
Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, 1966. Hardcover. 8vo. Two volumes bound as one. Reprinted from the 1834 edition. xxi, 362 p.p. [1 blank], xiv, [1], 544 p.p. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Spine ends and corners are bumped. Spine is sunned. Bookseller sticker of Parkers of Oxford to front pastedown..... More
London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1961. Hardcover. 16mo. Everyman's Classical Library 515. Original purple cloth. xiii, 304 pp. Sunning to spine and edges. Dust jacket is faded, sunned to spine, rubbed to covers and extremities. More
London: Faber & Faber, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo (tall). Full burgundy paper boards. 83 pp. Fine condition. Alcestis is the story of a king, Admetus, who is able to escape death because his wife, Alcestis, has volunteered to die in his place. Ted Hughes began his translation of Euripedes'..... More
London: Faber & Faber, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo (tall). Full burgundy paper boards. 83 pp. Fine condition. Alcestis is the story of a king, Admetus, who is able to escape death because his wife, Alcestis, has volunteered to die in his place. Ted Hughes began his translation of Euripedes'..... More
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Glasguae: Andreas Foulis, 1797. Hardcover. 4to (4.5" x 7.25"). Volume I only. Greek and Latin, facing translations. Contemporary half calf, marbled paper boards. Marbled edges. 152 pp. Recently professionally rebacked, orig. spine laid down. Leather cracked, corners worn, rubbing to edges. Some damp staining to margins of front and end..... More
Oxonii: Oxford University Press, 1970. Hardcover. 8vo. In Greek. xxiv, 267 p.p. Cloth. Discolouration to spine of dust-jacket. Tearing to corners of dust-jacket. Inner flap clipped. Light bruising to corners and spine ends. A near fine copy of book. More
Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1956. Soft cover. 4.5" x 7" Penguin Classics. Paperback. 447 pp. Covers are toned with some light staining, spine creased, light rubbing to edges. Interior is age toned. More
Cambridge, MA: Journal Of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1975. Soft cover. 8vo. Issued as Vol. 104, No. 2 of the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Soft cover. 202 pp. Damp stained to tail edge. Front cover is curling. Spine sunned. More
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. Soft cover. 8vo. Soft cover. xiii, 347 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Lightly sunned to rear cover. A few small spots of staining to fore edge of text block. Pencil marginalia and underlining. More
New York: Philosophical Library, 1961. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Orig. blue cloth. 262 pp. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar. Dust jacket is sunned to spine and joints, else fine. This book presents a unique, non-Aristotelian theory of a tragedy as it occurs in both life and literature. It traces the roots..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Soft cover. 8vo. Soft cover. xvi, 408 pp. B&W illustrations. A few minor bumps, fine overall. More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1997. 2nd Edition. Soft cover. 8vo. Soft cover. xxii, 679 pp. Spine slightly faded, corners bumped, some staining to edges of text block. Harrington's Mediaeval Latin, the standard medieval Latin anthology used in the US since its initial publication in 1925, has now been..... More
Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Classics, 2002. Soft cover. 8vo. Soft cover. XXIII, 488 pp., very minor rubbing to spine with chip at bottom , else fine. More
