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NATURE, JUSTICE, AND RIGHTS IN ARISTOTLE’S POLITICS.

(Aristotle). Miller, Fred D. · 1995

£25.00 (€29.94 | $33.63 | ¥5,313)

Clarendon Press, Oxford 1995. 1st Ed. [xviii] + 424pp. 8 figures, 4 tables. Top edge of leaves lightly spotted, good in d/w.

MANUAL OF CLASSICAL EROTOLOGY (De Figuris Veneris). Latin Text and Literal English Version.

Forberg, Fred Chas. · 1884

£450.00 (€538.98 | $605.28 | ¥95,634)

Manchester ... Julian Smithson M.A. and Friends 1884. 2 vols. xviii + 261pp. + [iv]. + 250pp. Title pages in red and black and with devices. Unopened, original wrapps., minor soiling and signs of wear, sl. loss to tail of spines. One of One Hundred Copies Privately Printed.‘...

THE SIXTEEN SATIRES. Translated with notes by Peter Green. Introduced by Simon Callow.

Juvenal. · 2014

£30.00 (€35.93 | $40.35 | ¥6,376)

Folio Society 2014. xxviii + 268pp. Colour plates by David Hughes. Very good in original gilt & red lettered black cloth backed dec. boards, in black slipcase as issued.

SCARRONNIDES: OR VIRGILE TRAVESTIE A mock-poem, on the first and fourth books of Virgils Ænæis in English; burle´sque.

[Cotton, Charles]. · 1667

£40.00 (€47.91 | $53.80 | ¥8,501)

London : printed by E. Cotes for Henry Brome in Little Britain, 1667. 12mo. [iv] + pp.(5-150) + [iv]. [Lacking imprimatur leaf, A4 and A5]. Light browning, old sheep? some wear, sympathetically rebacked in modern calf. ESTC R14379.

THE ANNALS OF TACITUS. The Translation of Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb.

Tacitus. · 1982

£25.00 (€29.94 | $33.63 | ¥5,313)

Franklin Library, Pennsylvania 1982. 375pp. + [i]. Etchings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Marbled e.ps., very good in modern blue leather back blue cloth boards, raised bands gilt title and motifs to spine, gilt decoration to boards, sl. wear to upper leading corners, a.e.g. ...

THE ODES OF HORACE. Translated by James Michie.

Horace. · 1988

£25.00 (€29.94 | $33.63 | ¥5,313)

Folio Society 1988. 2nd Folio Imp. Tall Slim 8vo. 288pp. Numerous ills. by Elisabeth Frink. Very good in gilt lettered black modern leather backed fawn hessian style cloth, t.e.brown with some fading, in lightly faded and very sl. soiled green slipcase.

SELECT EPIGRAMS FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY. Edited with Revised Text Translation Introduction and Notes by ...

Mackail, J.W. · 1911

£35.00 (€41.92 | $47.08 | ¥7,438)

Longmans, Green, and Co. 1911. 3rd Ed. Revised. xiii + 433pp. Title page ills. ‘Lady Picking Flowers’ by Edward Burne-Jones. Light browning, marbled e.ps., gilt rule edged green half morocco prize binding with gilt lettering to spine and gilt stamps to upper board, spine very ...

P. VERGILI MARONIS OPERA

(Virgil). · 1912

£50.00 (€59.89 | $67.25 | ¥10,626)

Impensis Mediceae Societatis, Librario Philoppo H Lee Warner 1912. Large 8vo. 415pp. + [i]. With the signature of Stanley W. Scott, gilt lettered green cloth, minor marking, spine sl. faded and bumped. With the signature of Denis J.B. Hawkins.Denis John Bernard Hawkins (190...

LETTRES ATHÉNIENNES, ou Correspondance d’un Agent du Roi de Perse, a Athènes, Pendant la Guerre du Péloponèse; Traduites de l’anglais by Alexandre-Louis Villeterque.

Yorke, Philip and Charles. · 1803

£125.00 (€149.72 | $168.13 | ¥26,565)

Paris, Dentu, Imprimeur-Libraire ... 1803. 4 vols. in 2. Half titles present. Folding map, 12 engraved plates. Stain to prelims and text upto pp.20. Several index leaves and half title to vol. 2. with marginal loss, light browning, tightly rebound in modern half calf with marb...

POPULAR RECEPTIONS OF CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY. The Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity Conference 2021.

Djurslev, Christian Thrue; Krasilnikoff, Jens A and Norskov, Vinnie. (Editors). · 2024

£25.00 (€29.94 | $33.63 | ¥5,313)

Aarhus University Press 2024. 1st Ed. Large 8vo. 226pp. Many colour ills. Very good in white lettered grey coloured pictorial boards. Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity XVI.

THE STRANGENESS OF GODS. Historical perspectives on the interpretation of Athenian religion.

Humphreys, S.C. · 2004

£60.00 (€71.86 | $80.70 | ¥12,751)

OUP 2004. 2nd Imp. [x] + 399pp. + [vii]. Good in d/w. sl. creased to inner flap.

COMIC BUSINESS. Theatricality, Dramatic Technique, and Performance Contexts of Aristophanic Comedy.

Revermann, Martin. · 2006

£50.00 (€59.89 | $67.25 | ¥10,626)

OUP 2006. 1st Ed. xiv + 396pp. 15 plates, 3 figures, 5 tables. Very good in d/w.

AUGUSTAN POETRY AND THE IRRATIONAL.

Hardie, Philip. (Editor). · 2016

£75.00 (€89.83 | $100.88 | ¥15,939)

OUP 2016. 2nd Imp. xiv + 327pp. + [ix] blank. Very good in d/w.

BRILL’S COMPANION TO GEORGE GROTE AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION.

(Grote). Demetriou, Kyriakos N. (Editor). · 2014

£75.00 (€89.83 | $100.88 | ¥15,939)

Koninklijke Brill, Leiden 2014. 1st Ed. Large 8vo. [xii] + 418pp. Port. frontis. Very good in black lettered light green coloured pictorial boards. Brill’s Companions to Classical Reception, Volume I.

VISUALIZING THE TRAGIC. Drama, Myth, and Ritual in Greek Art and Literature. Essays in Honour of Froma Zeitlin.

Kraus, Chris; Goldhill, Simon; Foley, Helene P. and Elsner, Jas. (Editors). · 2007

£50.00 (€59.89 | $67.25 | ¥10,626)

OUP 2007. 1st Ed. xxii + 457pp. + [i]. 36 figures mainly from photos. Good in d/w.

A COMPANION TO CLASSICAL RECEPTIONS.

Hardwick, Lorna and Stray, Christopher. (Editor). · 2008

£35.00 (€41.92 | $47.08 | ¥7,438)

Blackwell Publishing 2008. 1st Ed. Royal 8vo. [xviii] + 538pp. 2 colour plate, 18 b/w. figures mainly from photos. Good in sl. baggy d/w. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World.

PROSODIA. Rub. F. A Leda, Alostani Flandri, Medicinæ Doctoris, promptissima, Quæ syllabarum positione & diphthongis carentium, quantitates sol â veterum Poetarum autoritate, adductis exemplis, demonstrat. Ab autore reformata, Iocisque innumeria emendata, & quartâ sui parte adaucta.

Smetii, Henr. [Smet, Henrich]. · 1668

£135.00 (€161.69 | $181.58 | ¥28,690)

Londini, Typis T.R. pro Societate Stationariorum 1668. Editio prioribus multo correctior, atque ab innumeris mendis, ac erroribus repurgata. Cum appendice aliquot vocum ab ecclesiasticis poetis aliter usurpatarum. [32], 544pp. Latin text. Inscription to tail of last leaf, lack...

TIBÉRE, DISCOURS POLITIQUES Sur ... [Edited by] Sieur De La Mothe-Josseval D’Aronsel.

Tacitus, (Cornelius). · 1683

£200.00 (€239.55 | $269.01 | ¥42,504)

Amsterdam Chez les Heritiers de Daniel Elzevier 1683. Sm. 4to. [xlviii] + 432pp. + [x]. Title page device, decorative head and tail pieces and initial letters. French text. Some browning, contemporary velluem, usual wear and soiling, chipped label to spine, minor warping of up...

A REVIEW OF THE GOVERNMENT OF SPARTA AND ATHENS.

Drummond, William. · 1794

£100.00 (€119.77 | $134.51 | ¥21,252)

London: Printed by W. Blumer and Co. ... 1794. 1st Ed. vi + [ii] + 282pp. Some browning and spotting, pencil inscription of ‘H. Berger’, marbled e.ps. and edges, contemporary half roan with marbled boards, some wear to edges and boards, gilt lettering to sl. rubbed spine. EST...

THE FIVE BOOKS OF THE ÆSOPIAN FABLES OF PHÆDRUS, Augustus Cæsar's freedman, with A numerical key adjoining to each line, directing to take the words in construing in a proper order: and also the notes of Peter Danet, for the use of the Dauphin, translated into English. To which are added, a copious parsing index, containing every word in the fables, with their proper English; and a grammatical praxis on them, referring to the rules of grammar. By the assistance of which, young scholars, of but a very slender acquaintance with the rules of grammar, may be enabled of themselves, with ease and pleasure, and without interruption to the teacher, to learn their lessons in Phædrus. For the use of schools.

(Aesop). Bailey, N. · 1785

£100.00 (€119.77 | $134.51 | ¥21,252)

London : printed for J. Buckland, J. F. and C. Rivington; T. Longman, B. Law, G. Robinson, and R. Baldwin 1785. 15th Ed. Corrected and Improved. xvi + 69pp. + Title page + 152pp. Waterstained in part upto pp.66., some subsequent minor wrinkling, ex.-libris E. Boustead with the...