Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. Hard Cover. 8vo. Revealing Antiquity Series, #16. vii, 146 p.p. Bugundy cloth boards with gilt titling and device to front board. Dust jacket has light bumping to extremities, else fine. Over the past century, exploration and serendipity have uncovered mosaic... More about Mosaics as History: The Near East from Late Antiquity to Islam
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854. Hard Cover. 8vo. xi, 500 p.p. Ex-library copy, library stamp to half title and library rules slip tipped in on rear pastedown. Endpapers have ads for Bohn's Standard Library volumes. Blue cloth boards with blind tooled border and elaborate publisher's device to boards, gilt titling... More about Erotica. The Elegies of Propertius, the Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, and the Kisses of...
Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, 1966. Hard Cover. 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... More about Apollonii Citiensis, Stephani, Palladii, Theophili, Meletii, Damascii, Ioannis, Alorium Scholia...
London: Oxford University Press, 1974. Hard Cover. 8vo. vi, 218 p.p. Black cloth boards with gilt titling and publisher's device to spine in red dust jacket. Some rubbing to dust jacket, tear to spine head, not affecting text, and sunning to spine. Text is bright and clean. This selection of... More about The Ancient Concept of Progress, and Other Essays on Greek Literature and Belief
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Soft Cover. 8vo (super). xxvii, 470 p.p., xxxvi, 277 p.p. Two volumes bound as one. First Thus. First puplished in 2 vols in 1945. Pictorial soft cover with Greek palm design. A few scuffs to tail edge, but otherwise a fine copy. Throughout... More about Asclepius: Collection and Interpretation of the Testimonies
Oxonii: Oxford University Press, 1970. Hard Cover. 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 about Apollonii Rhodii
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Hard Cover. 8vo. Everyman's Library Series. xxi, 594 p.p., [2 leaves]. Mauve cloth boards with black spine label and gilt lettering. Cropped front cover and flap of original dust jacket laid in at rear. Ribbon marker. Small spot of soiling to tail edge of... More about The Iliad
Amstelaedami: Typis Ioannis Blaeu, sumptibus Societatis, 1650. Hard Cover. 32mo. Marbled calf binding with title on red spine label. Decorated with gilt filets and flowers on spine. All edges in red with gilt inner edges. With a red silk bookmark and marbled endpapers. 285 p.p., [3]. Engraved title page. Text... More about Q. Horatius Flaccus, scholiis sive annotationibus, instar Commentarii, Illustratus a Joanne Bond
London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1932. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo. xi, 25 p.p., [64 full-page photographs with facing descriptions]. Red cloth boards with blind publisher's device to front board and gilt lettering to spine. Top edge red. Dust jacket has some light soiling, a few small damp stains... More about Greek Cities
Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, 1963. Hard Cover. 8vo. [Minor Greek Scientists and Physicians]. Two volumes bound as one. Reprint of 1841 and 1842 editions. vi, 440 p.p., viii, 464 p.p. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Light rubbing to extremities and joints. Title page and author's note are loose but remain... More about Physici et Medici Graeci Minores
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1943. Hard Cover. 18mo. Everyman's Library, No. 750. xvi, 301 p.p. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine. Rubbing to spine ends and corners. Dust jacket has sunning and damp staining to spine, sunning to edges of flaps, several large chips (especially to head of... More about Of the Nature of Things
Yonkers, New York: Platonist Press, 1925. Soft Cover. 8vo. Master-Key edition. Putting the Reader in Full Command of the Whole Subject, and Giving the Full Englished Text of All Relevant Inaccessible Minor Works. Bound in brown paper covers. Ads at front. Wraps issue. A very good copy of this delicate... More about Proclus's Biography, Hymns and Works. Master-Key Edition
Oxford: Oxford at the Claredon Press, 1969. Hard Cover. 8vo. The Institutes of Justinian, with Introductions, Commentary and Excursus by J.B. [John Baron] Moyle. Fifth edition. Four books bound as one volume. vi, 682 p.p. Original blue cloth boards with gilt titling to spine. Spine is a little creased and... More about Imperatoris Iustiniani Institutionum, Libri Quattuor
Oxford: Oxford at the Claredon Press, 1997. 2nd Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Special edition for Sandpiper Books Ltd. xii, 494 p.p. Black cloth boards with gilt titling to spine. Dust jacket has some light bumping to spine ends and edges of flaps, else fine. The first of Raby's two great... More about A History of Christian-Latin Poetry Fromt he Beginnings to the Close of The Middle Ages
Groningen: Bouma's Boekhuis N.V. Publishers, 1969. 2nd Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Unchanged reprint of the edition of 1927. xxiii, 324 p.p. With 50 illustrations, includes select bibliography. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Spine is sunned and lightly chafed at ends. Sticker of Parkers at... More about Latin Epigraphy: An Introduction to The Study of Latin Inscriptions
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1945. Hard Cover. 18mo. Everyman's Library, No. 455. xiii, 489 p.p., [8]. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering and blind device. Top edge brown. Spine heel bumped. Patterned endpapers. Dust jacket has sever chps and short teras, closed tear to front cover, a few small... More about The Peloponnesian War
Toronto: William Briggs. Hardcover. [19--?] 12mo. Green cloth binding with gilt title on spine and front board, with symbol of the Chi-Rho christogram, battle standard of Emporor Constantine the Great. 243 p.p., [6] p.p. plates including frontis, with b/w illustrations throughout. Ownership inscription on front free endpaper, and notes on..... More about Valeria, the Martyr of the Catacombs. A Tale of Early Christian Life in Rome
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1998. Soft Cover. Softcover. As new; a very good copy. More about Intimate Commerce: Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy