Category: Classics

He Kaine Diathek. Novum Testamentum [Greek New Testament]

Price: $199.83

Publisher: Patavii [Padova], Ex Typographia Seminarii : 1820

Seller ID: Books011184

Condition: Very Good

516 pages. Contemporary binding is sound. Scattered light foxing throughout; dampstain to portion of 25 leaves. 6.25 x 4 inches
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Key to the Second and Third Parts of Ellis's Collection of Exercises from the Writings of Cicero. With references to the passages in the original.

Price: $130.92

Publisher: London, Longman & Co.. Gilbert & Rivington printers : 1840

Seller ID: Books006796

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

iv, 101 pages. Binding sturdy and hinges secure with rubbing to extremities; a split along upper hinge at head has evidently been fixed some time ago leaving a white discolouration. Ghost of sticker to front board and the number 5 in white to front and spine. Mild soiling to endpapers, else clean and neat. Adverts for volumes of Whittaker & Co. Ave Maria Lane, London, to front and rear pastedown.
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Aesop's Fables in Irish - Parts I to V

By: Aesop; Peter Canon O'Leary

Price: $71.50

Publisher: Dublin, Belfast, Cork, Waterford, Brún agus Ó Nóláin / Browne and Nolan

Seller ID: Books015035

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Good

37, xxv, [1] pages. No stated date of issue. Cover detached and chipped; interior sound and unmarked. 8.5 x 5.3 inches.
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Vindiciae Christianae: A Comparative Estimate of the Genius and Temper of the Greek, the Roman, the Hindu, the Mahometan, and the Christian Religions.

By: Alley, Jerome

Price: $241.17

Publisher: London, T. Cadell : 1826

Seller ID: Books005887

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

[xvi], 682 pages. Comprehensive and relatively early volume of comparative religion (from a Christian angle) with chapter headings: Prefatory view / The being and atributes of God / Providence / Consolation / Devotion / Religious rites and institutions / Morrals and motives / Instruction of the poor / Domestic and female manners / Future state / Expiation - Atonement / Founders and teachers of religion / Conclusion. The volume has been professionally rebound in brown buckram wuth gilt titles to spine and new endpapers. Two library stamps on title page, no other x-lib. markings. foxing to first...
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Xenophon's Memorabilia of Socrates with English Notes, Critical and Explanatory, The Prolegomena of Kuhner, Wiggers' Lofe of Socrates, Etc.

By: Anthon, Charles

Price: $130.92

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers : 1848

Seller ID: Books014388

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

xxxiii, [2], 458 pages, and 10 page catalogue at rear. Leather rubbed but sound. Former owner's signature to first leaf; else unmarked. Greek text, with notes in English. 7.75 x 4.9 inches.
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The Clouds of Aristophanes, with Notes

By: Aristophanes; C.C. Felton trs.

Price: $75.80

Publisher: Cambridge, MA, J. Owen : 1841

Seller ID: Books013219

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

xii, 194 pages. First edition thus, with Preface dated June 1841: "It is hoped, that this little book may be of some service in promoting the study of the literature of Greece in the Unites States." Text in Greek; notes in English. Cloth and paper spine label worn; pencil notation to endpapers and occasionally within. Heavy foxing to first few and final few leaves, and occasionally throughout. Tideline to lower inch of most leaves. An acceptable working copy in sound binding.
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Ancient Sermons for Modern Times

By: Asterius, Bishop of Amasia. Galusha Anderson and Edgar Johnson Goodspeed (trs., ed.)

Price: $172.26

Publisher: New York, The Pilgrim Press : 1904

Seller ID: Books014297

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

157. A clean and unmarked example of this English translation of five sermons. 6.75 x 4.6 inches.
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Hermes The Thief: The Evolution of a Myth

By: Brown, Norman O.

Price: $55.13

Publisher: New York, Vintage Books : 1969

Seller ID: Books013980

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

175 pages. An clean, unmarked example of the first Vintage printing, with no spine crease. Original price ticket, and light crease, to front panel. 7.2 x 4.25 inches.
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An Atlas of Ancient Geography

By: Butler, Samuel

Price: $268.74

Publisher: London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown : 1822

Seller ID: Books012243

Binding: half leather

Condition: Very Good

19 double-page maps with hand-coloured borders, and plate XX with four maps on two pages: complete. 20th century half leather over marbled boards, with two blanks at front and at rear (this rebind sufficiently old to have attracted offsettinng to pastedowns and first free endpaper front and rear). Original paper label retained on front board, and front pastedown retains the advert for other works by Butler. Binding is sound; ink spill to outer edge, not affecting maps. Inscription of Owen Lloyd, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1823, to title page.
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De Bello Gallico Commentariorum; Libri Quinque, accessit Index Geographicus. [Gallic War 1-5]

By: C. Julii Caesaris [Julius Caesar]

Price: $103.36

Publisher: London, Andreae Wilson : 1811

Seller ID: Books006784

Binding: Full leather

Condition: Good

164 pages. Stereotype Edition. Leather rubbed at extremities with loss at foot of spine; upper hinge beginning to split. Both boards well attached; offsetting to endpapers but interior generally clean with two blank endpapers at front and at rear. Uncommon.
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The Early Bronze Age Citadel and Lower City at Ai (Et-Tell), A Report of the Joint Archaeological Expedition to Ai (Et-Tell): No. 2

By: Callaway, Joseph A.

Price: $117.14

Publisher: Cambridge, MA, American Schools of Oriental Research : 1980

Seller ID: Books011119

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xiv, 295 pages. Light foxing to first few and final few leaves. Binding is sound. For overseas shipping please inquire.
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The Looms of the Gods. A Drama of Reincarnation

By: Carroll, John S.

Price: $68.91

Publisher: London, Constable and Company Ltd. : 1914

Seller ID: Books012236

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xii, 88 pages, page edges untrimmed
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Of the Nature of the Gods. Translated, with notes critical, philosophical, and explanatory, by Thomas Franklin, D. D. To which is added, An Inquiry Into the Astronomy and Anatomy of the Ancients. With a chronological table and remarks on the theology...

By: Cicero, M. Tullius

Price: $447.89

Publisher: London, T. Davies : 1775

Seller ID: Books013038

Binding: leather

Condition: Good

[4], 320, [9] pages. Upper board and first free endpaper detached, rear board almost off; else very good.
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The Sacred Officials of the Eleusinian Mysteries. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series Vol. 64, Part 3, 1974]

By: Clinton, Kevin

Price: $172.26

Publisher: Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society : 1974

Seller ID: Books010122

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

143 pages. Privately bound hardcover in burgundy faux leather with titles in gilt to front and collector's name lower right front; light wear. Light foxing to endpapers and title page. No inscriptions.
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The Origins of Mycenaean Civilisation.

By: Dickinson, O.T.P.K.:

Price: $55.13

Publisher: Gteborg, Paul Astrm : 1977

Seller ID: Books008981

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

134 pages, with advert leaf at rear and map tipped in at front. Privately bound hardcover in burgundy faux leather with titles in gilt to spine and collector's name lower right front; light wear. Original front card cover retained, lightly soiled. Foxing to endpapers and to map.
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The Babylonian Laws. Volume I: Legal Commentary

By: Driver, G. R. and John C. Miles

Price: $97.50

Publisher: Oxford, Oxford; Clarendon Press : 1952

Seller ID: Books015016

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xxxi, 517 pages. Volume 1 of 2 only. Jacket toned, rubbed, and price clipped; now in a removable archival sleeve. Closed tear / dog-eared corner to a few consecutive leaves; else very good, with no inscriptions. 8.75 x 6 inches.
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Fables Ancient & Modern; Translated into Verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer: with Original Poems. AND: Original Poems [4 volumes].

By: Dryden, John

Price: $406.55

Publisher: Glasgow, Robert & Andrew Foulis : 1756

Seller ID: Books013533

Binding: leather

Condition: Good

xxxvi, 188; 213, [2]; viii, 237; vii, 240 pages; with half title to vol. I of Original Poems. Uniformly bound, with numbers 1 through 4 on spines. The Fables: Foulis, 1752; Original Poems, Foulis 1756. 6 x 3.5 inches. Extremities rubbed; spines dry; personal bookplate to front pastedown of each; upper board and free endpaper of Fables I detached.
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Euripides : Alcestis, Hecuba, Medea, Orestes, Phoenissae Edited, with Original Explanatory English Notes, &c., &c.

By: Euripides; Rev. J. R. Major

Price: $357.50

Publisher: London, Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman : 1838

Seller ID: Books007322

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

xvi, 116; lii, [2], 165; xv, 176; vi, [2], 158; xii, 168 pages. A pleasing volume of nearly 900 pages, very well printed, with the "&c., &c." being substantial: background, earlier criticism, appendicies, indicies, questions and so forth for each play. The plays are in Greek; notes &c in English primarily with classical testimonials in Greek and Latin. I have not found this edition listed in library holdings. Binding sound and supple with hinges fully secure. Contents clean and unmarked. Rubbing to head and foot of spine. Curl to top corner of pp. xix-12 of Hecuba.
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Inscriptiones Pedemontanae Infimi Aevi Romae Exstantes [Marquis de Morante binding]

By: Galletti, Pierluigi

Price: $1,240.31

Publisher: Romae, Generosi Salomoni : 1766

Seller ID: Books011112

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

[8], 1-206 pages; two blanks at rear. Full green morocco with the arms of the Marquis de Morante stamped in gold to front and rear, and his small bookplate to front pastedown. Leather scuffed, with peeled loss on rear; darkened to brown along spine. More recent bookplate to first front free endpaper; faint old signature of one P. McIntyre to second front endpaper. Title page and following leaf foxed; occasional unobtrusive spotting. Binding is sound. On the bindings of the Marquis's books see Richard Copley Christie's The Marquis de Morante: His Library and Its Catalogue, pp. 8ff. Please inqui...
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Pompeiana. The Topography, Edifices, and Ornaments of Pompeii. Two Volumes [1824, 1832. Marguerite Blessington's copy in Zaehnsdorf binding]

By: Gell, William, and John P. Gandy

Price: $3,031.88

Publisher: London, Rodwell and Martin; Jennings and Chaplin : 1824

Seller ID: Books011113

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

Mixed set [Vol. 1: Rodwell and Martin, 1824: xxxi, 138 pages ; Vol. 2: Jennings and Chaplin, 1832: 207 pages; numerous plates in each] bound by Zaehnsdorf, with Marguerite Blessington's silk & gilt plate to front pastedown of each, and her signature to title page of volume 1. Two more recent bookplates in each. Scattered light foxing; offsetting from plates. Bindings sound; with moderate wear including a bump to top right front corner of volume 1. Please inquire for overseas shipping rates.
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Category: Classics