C. Crispi Sallustii Bellum Catilinarium et Jugurthinum; Cum Versione Libera. . . . The History of the Wars of Catiline and Jugurtha.
by Sallustius, Gaius Crispus. [ONLY KNOWN BOOKPLATE ENGRAVED BY PROTHERO]
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About This Item
London: Printed for W. Clarke (Son to the Author) under the Piazza, at the Back of the Royal-Exchange; and sold by J. Mace and G. Ferraby, at Hull; et. al., 1755.. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. xli, [i], 239, [i]pp. Fourth edition. Title-page in red-and-black. Contemporary calf, repaired. With the festoon armorial bookplate of John Lloyd, Clerk, e Coll. Jesu Oxon., engraved by F. Prothero. ESTC N26124. Translated by John Clarke, with the corresponding text in Latin and English on two columns. It also contains a study by Clarke; "A large dissertation upon the usefulness of translations of Classick Authors, . . ." According to Ellis's Catalogue of British and American Book-Plates (ex libris) collected by the late Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, London, 1905, Part I, p. 112, item no. 3340, this is the only plate known by this engraver.
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- Sam Gatteno Books
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- C. Crispi Sallustii Bellum Catilinarium et Jugurthinum; Cum Versione Libera. . . . The History of the Wars of Catiline and Jugurtha.
- Author
- Sallustius, Gaius Crispus. [ONLY KNOWN BOOKPLATE ENGRAVED BY PROTHERO]
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- Hardcover
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- Used - Good
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- London: Printed for W. Clarke (Son to the Author) under the Piazza, at the Back of the Royal-Exchange; and sold by J. Mace and G
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