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Daphnis and Chloe
by Longus ; Thornley, George (translator)
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Slipcase
- Edition
- Limited Numbered Edition
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- 1937
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- Full Vellum
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A$3,408.48
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London: A. Zwemmer 1937. Small 8vo. 212 pp. Publisher's stiff vellum binding with gilt lettering to spine. No. 218 of 250 copies, with a note on blue letter paper of presentation from the artist, Aristide Malliol. Uncut, 52 woodcut illustrations and 4 initial letters. A few spots to the edges of the pages, otherwise internally clean. Slipcase is tanned around… Read more about this item Item Price
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War Music: An Account of Books 16 to 19 of Homer's Illiad
by Logue, Christopher
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1981
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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A$68.17
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London: Jonathan Cape 1981. Tall 8vo. First edition. 83 pp. Black hardback in illustrated dust jacket. Slight foxing and discolouration to top edge of book, light marks to top edge of jacket. Internally clean. An attractive copy of this translation of Books 16 to 19 of Homer's Illiad, by actor and playwright, Christopher Logue, which has been praised for its… Read more about this item Item Price
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Translations into Latin and Greek Verse
by [Munro, H. A. J.]
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- Used - Good
- Published
- 1884
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- Full Calf
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A$126.60
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1884. 8vo. Unpaginated. Brown calf with double gilt ruling and devices to front board. Raised bands, gilt devices, lettering and ruling to spine. Stone marbled endpapers. Gilt dentelles to edges. Scuffs to boards; minor shelf wear to joints, bands and extremities. Very occasional light spotting. A good copy. . Good. Full Calf. 1884. Item Price
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Les Comedies de Terence. Traduction Nouvelle, avec le Texte Latin a Cote, et des Notes.
by Terence ; Le Monnier, M. l'Abbe [Guillaume-Antoine] [trans.]
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- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1771
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- Full Sheep
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A$1,168.62
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Paris: fils, libraire 1771. 8vo. Latin and French dual language. 3 volumes. xxiv, [i], 591, [1]; [iii], 512, [1]; [iii], 485, [3] pp. Full sheep with gilt stamped cardinal arms to boards, gilt decoration and lettering to spine, raised bands, gilt-decorated turn-ins and a.e.g. Some wear and rubbing to extremities, including small areas of loss to spine ends. Internally clean.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Publii Virgilii Maronis Opera
by Virgil ; Heyne, C. G. [ed.]
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1824
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- Half Morocco
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A$146.08
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London: Harding, Mayor and Lepard 1824. Small 8vo. Latin language. [2], 476 pp. Red half morocco binding with raised bands and gilt lettering to spine; darkened top edge; marbled endpapers. Rubbing and bumping to extremities, with minimal wear to board corners. Foxing to prelims, but cases to text are very occasional and light. The works of Virgil, including the Eclogues,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Nine Essays
by Platt, Arthur
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1927
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- Hardcover
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A$48.69
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London: Cambridge University Press 1927. 8vo. First edition. xviii, 220 pp. Red hardback with gilt lettering and detail to spine. Minor wear to spine ends and corners; a few spots to front board and discolouration to spine. Internally a bright and clean copy with deckle edged pages. Two bookplates to endpapers and a preface by A. E. Housman. An elegant… Read more about this item Item Price
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Poggii Florentini Facetiarum. Libellus Unicus, Notulis Imitatores indicantibus & nonnullis sive Latinis, sive Gallicis Imitationibus illustratus, simul ad fidem optimarum Editionum emendatus.
by [Bracciolini, Poggio]
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1798
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- Full Morocco
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A$340.85
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London: Mileti [?] 1798. 16mo. Latin language. 2 volumes in 1. xxii, iv, 5-283; xii, 300 pp. Full maroon morocco with raised bands and gilt lettering to spine; marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Marks to boards, rubbing to edges, joints and corners, and dents to spine. Minor offsetting but generally internally clean. Poggio Bracciolini was a fifteenth century humanist; this… Read more about this item Item Price
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Pinnock's Catechisms of Grammar: A Catechism of Latin Grammar. A First Catechism of the French Grammar; Designed as an Easy Introduction to the Knowledge of that Language. A Catechism of German Grammar, Containing the Principal Rules, arranged in a Series of Questions and Answers as a more familiar way of attaining that Language. A Catechism of Italian Grammar; Designed as an Easy Introduction to the Knowledge of that Language. A Catechism of the Spanish Grammar; containing the Elements, or First Principles of the Spanish Language; and designed as an Easy Introduction to the knowledge of that language. A Catechism of Greek Accidence, adapted to the Approved Grammars. [six volumes in one]
by [Pinnock, William]
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- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1831
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- Half Calf
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A$243.46
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London: Whittaker, Treacher, & Co. 1831. 16mo. 6 volumes in 1. 72, 72, 72, 71, 66, 72 pp. Half dark green morocco over marbled boards with red title label, gilt borders and lettering to spine; all edges speckled red. A few minor marks to boards and spine, a few dents to edges. Occasional light spotting and offsetting throughout. A collected… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Now first Englished into Verse and Prose
by Catullus; Burton, Sir Richard F. [trans.]; Smithers, Leonard C. [ed.]
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- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1894
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- Marbled Boards
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London: Privately Printed 1894. 8vo.Limited Edition. Limited Edition. xxiii, 313 pp. Half brown cloth over marbled boards, with purple title label and gilt lettering to spine. Externally clean. Some offsetting and spots to prelims but generally internally clean. Pages uncut; printed on handmade paper. Subscriber's edition, limited to 1000 copies. Frontispiece portrait of Catullus. Sir Richard Burton's translation of Catullus'… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Odyssey
by Homer ; Fagles, Robert (translated by)
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- Used - Fine
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- Slipcase
- Edition
- Reprint
- Published
- 2015
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- Decorative Cloth
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A$132.44
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London: Folio Society 2015. Large 8vo.Illustrated. lxxxviii, (viii), 493 pp., Decorative cloth boards with a cloth spine and slipcase. Illustrated endpapers. Internally clean and bright colour illustrations by the artist Grahame Baker-Smith and with 3 maps of the Homeric world. A fine copy. . Fine. Decorative Cloth. Reprint. 2015. Item Price
A$132.44
Greek Political Theory: Plato and His Predecessors
by Barker, Ernest
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
- Published
- 1970
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- Hardcover
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A$58.43
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London: Methuen & Co Ltd 1970. 8vo. xii, 468 pp. Hardback with gilt lettering in a price clipped jacket. Slight fading, marks and chipping to jacket. Minor marks to boards. Ink name to ffep., occasional pencil annotations, otherwise internally clean. An analysis of the political theory of Plato, arguing against his identification with the Right or Left. . Very Good.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Alicia in Terra Mirabili
by Carroll, Ludovici [Carroll, Lewis] ; Carruthers, Clive Harcourt [trans.]
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
- Published
- 1964
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- Cloth
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London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd. 1967. 8vo. 117 pp. Publisher's cloth in illustrated jacket, price clipped; decorated endpapers. Minor spotting to jacket, boards clean. Ink mark to ffep., otherwise internally clean. Illustrations. A Latin translation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. . Very Good. Cloth. 1964. Item Price
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The Medici Aesop: Spencer MS 50 From the Spencer Collection of The New York Public Library
by McTigue, Bernard [trans.]The Medici Aesop: Spencer MS 50 From the Spencer Collection of The New York Public Library
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Published
- 1989
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- Gilt Decorated Cloth
- ISBN
- 9780810915428
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New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1989. 4to.Illustrated. 175 pp. Cloth with gilt decoration and lettering to board and spine in a pictorial dustjacket. With an introduction by Everett Fahy, Chairman of the Department of European Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. A very nice clean copy. 0810915421 . Near Fine. Gilt Decorated Cloth. 1989. Item Price
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The Oxford Classical Dictionary
by Cary, M. ; J. D. Denniston ; J. Wright Duff ; A. D. Nock ; W. D. Ross ; H. H. Scullard
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- Used - Very Good
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- Reprint
- Published
- 1957
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- Hardcover
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Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1957. 4to. xx, 972 pp. Blue boards with gilt lettering to spine. Fading to spine and sections of boards; minor scratches and marks to boards. Internally clean. This is a heavy item and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. . Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 1957. Item Price
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The Works of the Emperor Julian, and some pieces of the Sophist Libanius, translated from the Greek. With Notes from Petau, La Bleterie, Gibbon, &c. To which is added, the History of the Emperor Jovian, From the French of the Abbe de la Bleterie [Two Volumes]
by Duncombe, John
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- Used - Good
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- Third Edition, Corrected
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- 1798
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- Hardcover
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A$292.16
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London: T. Cadell 1798. 8vo. 2 volumes. xl, iii, 343; iii, 398 pp. Blue card covers. Marks to boards. Significant wear to spines (especially of volume I); split to front hinge of volume II. Bindings still all together. Pages uncut and yellowed, with edges curled and chipped. Ink names to prelims. . Good. Hardcover. Third Edition, Corrected. 1798. Item Price
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Ovid's Elegies [...] together with the Epigrams of Sir John Davies
by Ovid; Marlowe, Christopher [trans.]; Davies, John
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- Used - Very Good
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- Limited Edition
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- 1925
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- Decorated Boards
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A$97.38
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London: Frederick Etchells & Hugh 1925. 8vo. Limited Edition. [vi], 103, [5] pp. Cream boards over a purple spine with purple lyre device to front board. Marks to boards, slight wear to edges and a little loss to spine title label. Page uncut, internally clean. With wood engravings by John Nash. Numbered 544 of 625 copies. Marlowe's translations of Ovid's… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Odyssey. A Modern Sequel
by Kazantzakis, Nikos; Friar, Kimon (translation, Introduction, synopsis and notes)
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Very Good
- Edition
- First U.K. Edition
- Published
- 1958
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- Cloth
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A$116.86
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London: Secker & Warburg 1958. Large 8vo. First UK Edition. xxxviii, 826 pp. Green hardback with gilt lettering to spine in illustrated jacket, not price clipped. Jacket spine ends are very slightly worn and a few minor marks. Minor marks to boards. Internally clean and bright. An English translation of the modern Greek epic poem, written as a sequel to… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1910
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- Decorative Cloth
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A$243.46
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London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1910. 8vo. xi, 364 pp. Light blue cloth with elaborate decoration in gilt, green and orange and gilt lettering to boards and spine; top edge gilt. Fading to spine, wear to spine ends, slight marks to rear board and minor warping. Minimal sporadic spots but generally internally clean. Frontispiece and 23 colour plates… Read more about this item Item Price
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Roman Antiquities: or An Account of The Manners and Customs of the Romans; designed to illustrate the Latin Classics, by explaining words and phrases, from the rites and customs to which they refer.
by Adam, Alexander; Boyd, James
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- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1835
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- Full Calf
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A$185.03
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London: Blackie and Son 1857. Small 8vo. xii, 528 pp. Full tan calf with raised bands, red title label, gilt decoration and lettering to boards and spine; all edges marbled. Bound by Seton & Mackenzie. Minor wear to joints, with a few small nicks to boards. Minor spots to prelims and endpapers, otherwise internally clean. With steel and wood engravings… Read more about this item Item Price
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Mythologie Grecque et Romaine
by Commelin, P.
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- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1920
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- Leather Spine
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Paris: Editions Garnier Freres ca. 1920. 8vo.Illustrated. x, 516 pp. Brown leather spines with gilt decoration over marbled boards. Marbled top edge and endpapers. Illustrations throughout. Binding firm and internally clean and bright. . Very Good. Leather Spine. 1920. Item Price
A$58.43